Greatest rock band ever

[superstar_88]

King Crimson is my vote although there will be no movie made about them

Who? Not Who the rock band but who are the King Crimson? Never heard of them.

 

[K Douglas]

You can make an argument for the likes of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Metallica etc.
You cannot make an argument for King Crimson.
Simple as that.

 

[superstar_88]

what is rock? Is back street boys rock?

 

[Insidious Von]

what is rock? Is back street boys rock?

Of course!

 

[Meddller]

The best band is Led Zepplin.

1. Their caliber of songs is unmatched.
2. They make everyone's top 5 list.
3. Zepplin's songs have riffs, hooks, drumming, and vocals that are like no other.
4. They're masters of Rock, Folk, Acoustic, Melodic, and Blues.
5. Each member has mad talent. (Shout out to The Who and Cream)

To elaborate on the 1st point. Most of the rock bands we like have good songs we'd give a 7-8 out of 10, with the odd song 9/10 (along with plenty of mediocre songs). Most Zepplin songs are 9/10.
Sure, maybe you're sick of hearing Stairway. That's because it's an amazing song that's been overplayed. Do you remember that time of your life when you first discovered Stairway and played it on repeat? I bet it brings you back to a great time of your life or memory. That outro..."And as we wind on down the road" guitars, drums, vocals all build. Phenomenal. Every Zepplin songs stands alone, the riff on Whole Lotta Love, the vocals on Immigrant Song, the drumming (and outro) on Levee Breaks. And that's just scratching the surface, I could go on about most of their songs. To summarize, Zepplin is not my favourite band and they might not be yours, but they are the best.

 

[bazokajoe]

My list in no particular order.
Rush
Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks(I know not really a band)

 

[james t kirk]

Do you remember that time of your life when you first discovered Stairway and played it on repeat? I bet it brings you back to a great time of your life or memory. That outro..."And as we wind on down the road" guitars, drums, vocals all build. Phenomenal. .

The grade 8 ass-grab.

Yep, remember it well. That song wasn't long enough.

 

[Don Draper]

Its all subjective of course but top 3 are beatles, led zeppelin, rolling stones according to most polls.

Beatles and Stones, yes. In particular, certain eras. "Abbey Road" & "Sticky Fingers" are in a class all of their own.

Not Zeppelin. Plagiarism and hypocrisy has followed them around like a bad smell and it won't go away any time soon.

Pink Floyd was always more influential.

I put Roxy Music in this pantheon. Fully deserving.

 

[lomotil]

Beatles and Stones, yes. In particular, certain eras. "Abbey Road" & "Sticky Fingers" are in a class all of their own.

Not Zeppelin. Plagiarism and hypocrisy has followed them around like a bad smell and it won't go away any time soon.

Pink Floyd was always more influential.

I put Roxy Music in this pantheon. Fully deserving.

This......I would also add cream, produced a few great masterpieces during get their short career. Led Zeppelin the greatest plagiarism band ever, would be the greatest cover band ever if they had acknowledged the original artists. Among rock artist, Zeppelin is thought of as scum.

 

[unassuming]

Not Zeppelin. Plagiarism and hypocrisy has followed them around like a bad smell and it won't go away any time soon.

Exactly!

 

[Big Rig]

Who? Not Who the rock band but who are the King Crimson? Never heard of them.

That is why they were great as they were not interested in airplay but only great music.

Another is Mahavishnu Orchestra with John Mclaughlin at the helm and Santana as guest. Listen to sheer talent and revel.

 

[Big Rig]

 

[Robert Mugabe]

as of last night, not one mention of Van Halen. Best rock band ever.Others mentioned fit into various sub genres somewhat. I can't really call King Crimson rock. Van Halen has a catalogue of killer songs with great hooks and virtuoso instrumental attack. They are basically, musical. Nothing against Zepp. Bring it on home and Ramble on are keepers. Stones suck ass. Beatles went from pretty damn good, to serious musicians. My three faves are Jimi Hendrix. ZZ Top and Van Halen.

 

[K Douglas]

as of last night, not one mention of Van Halen. Best rock band ever.Others mentioned fit into various sub genres somewhat. I can't really call King Crimson rock. Van Halen has a catalogue of killer songs with great hooks and virtuoso instrumental attack. They are basically, musical. Nothing against Zepp. Bring it on home and Ramble on are keepers. Stones suck ass. Beatles went from pretty damn good, to serious musicians. My three faves are Jimi Hendrix. ZZ Top and Van Halen.

The Stones suck ass - can one make a more ignorant comment I wonder.

Rolling Stones top 10 singles (US) - 22
Van Halen top 10 singles (US) - 3

Van Halen has sold 75M albums worldwide. The Stones have sold 240M albums worldwide.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

The Stones suck ass - can one make a more ignorant comment I wonder.

Rolling Stones top 10 singles (US) - 22
Van Halen top 10 singles (US) - 3

Van Halen has sold 75M albums worldwide. The Stones have sold 240M albums worldwide.

And for the most part their music is crap.

 

[Insidious Von]

And for the most part their music is crap.

King Crimson is like Frank Zappa, an acquired taste. Some music of my youth I can no longer listen to, not KC and FZ.

Having said that Van Halen isn't crap. Given, the later albums of Sammy Hagar's run were McRock. Pound Cake had me rolling my eyes but most of what they produced is very memorable.

 

[Insidious Von]

My list, for what it's worth, bands I haven't gotten sick of.

The Beatles
Black Sabbath
The Who
CCR
Rush
Steely Dan
The Smashing Pumpkins
Frank Zappa and with The Mother's of Invention
Metallica
Yes

 

[simba_one]

It's all very subjective isn't it.

But for me, in order:

1. Beatles
2. U2
3. Pink Floyd
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Rolling Stones
6. Queen
7. The Who
8. David Bowie
9. REM
10. The Clash

A lot depends on my mood who I will choose to listen to though.

Can't go wrong with any of those ten.

 

[GameBoy27]

Beatles, Zep, AC/DC, Stones, The Who, Aerosmith (they killed it in the 70s, 80s, and 90s).

AC/DC is rumored to be working on a new album. Incredible.

And so is The Who! Townshend guitar playing is still as good as ever, although he's changed his style a bit after Entwistle died. Roger's voice is better than it was 20 years ago and with Ringo's son Zak Starkey on drums and Pino Palladino on bass, they're still a fantastic live band.

When Pete Townshend’s management team came to him with a lucrative offer from Live Nation to spend much of 2019 on the road with the Who, he said he’d only agree to it under a single condition. “I said I was not going to sign any contracts unless we have new material,” says Townshend. “This has nothing to do with wanting a hit album. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Who need a new album. It’s purely personal. It’s about my pride, my sense of self-worth and self-dignity as a writer.”

The new album – which will be their first release since 2006’s Endless Wire – exists now only as 15 painstakingly constructed demos that Townshend crafted last year at five studios around England, but he hopes Roger Daltrey will record vocals later this year for a 2019 release. In the meantime, however, they are gearing up for a 29-date North American tour where a local symphony orchestra will join the band nightly. Daltrey got the idea after spending the summer of 2018 playing Tommy with symphonies and loving the experience. “I’ll be 75 years old in March and this feels like a dignified way to go and do music,” he says. “That’s all we’re really left with. We’re old men now. We’ve lost the looks. We’ve lost the glamour. What we’re left with is the music and we’re going to present it in a way which is as fresh and powerful as ever.”

The group has yet to release tour dates, but Townshend says it will begin in Michigan in May and hit cities all over the East Coast, including New York and Chicago. That initial leg is just 12 shows, but they’ll return in September and October to hit Canada and the western United States. There will be 29 total concerts in North America. (Most of the shows are at arenas, though he mentioned the possibility of a stadium or two.) Townshend says that the European tour plans are less clear at the moment, but that they’ll have something to announce soon.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-who-plot-symphonic-u-s-arena-tour-new-studio-album-for-2019-777375/

 

[james t kirk]

When Pete Townshend’s management team came to him with a lucrative offer from Live Nation to spend much of 2019 on the road with the Who, he said he’d only agree to it under a single condition. “I said I was not going to sign any contracts unless we have new material,” says Townshend. “This has nothing to do with wanting a hit album. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Who need a new album. It’s purely personal. It’s about my pride, my sense of self-worth and self-dignity as a writer.”

The new album – which will be their first release since 2006’s Endless Wire – exists now only as 15 painstakingly constructed demos that Townshend crafted last year at five studios around England, but he hopes Roger Daltrey will record vocals later this year for a 2019 release. In the meantime, however, they are gearing up for a 29-date North American tour where a local symphony orchestra will join the band nightly. Daltrey got the idea after spending the summer of 2018 playing Tommy with symphonies and loving the experience. “I’ll be 75 years old in March and this feels like a dignified way to go and do music,” he says. “That’s all we’re really left with. We’re old men now. We’ve lost the looks. We’ve lost the glamour. What we’re left with is the music and we’re going to present it in a way which is as fresh and powerful as ever.”

The group has yet to release tour dates, but Townshend says it will begin in Michigan in May and hit cities all over the East Coast, including New York and Chicago. That initial leg is just 12 shows, but they’ll return in September and October to hit Canada and the western United States. There will be 29 total concerts in North America. (Most of the shows are at arenas, though he mentioned the possibility of a stadium or two.) Townshend says that the European tour plans are less clear at the moment, but that they’ll have something to announce soon.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...r-2019-777375/]

That's interesting. I hope they put out a good album.

For what it's worth, pretty much every band in my list, in fact, all of them, are well past their prime when it comes to putting out respectable new albums.

U2's last 2 albums sucked LARGE, and I'm a huge U2 fan.

Roger Waters, I love Floyd and Rogers in particular. Absolutely incredible musician and I will see him play live in concert every time I can, but his last album a couple of years ago wasn't that great. (To put it politely.) But God bless him, he's still going strong and puts on THEE best live show ever of any band I've ever seen.

The Stones, I don't think they've done anything of really great since "Some Girls" in 1978. (But they have put out a lot of work over the years I will admit with some flashes of brilliance along the way.)

But all of them (if they are still alive) can still put on fucking amazing live shows with piles of content to draw from. But new content? Not so much. Creativity in rock and roll (and many things) is a young man's game. As you get older, you gain experience, but you lose that "devil may care" attitude that brings with it the ability to take risks. Besides, it's hard to be pissed off at the man when you have shit loads of money in the bank. (You basically have become "the man".)