Posted on 07/27/2008 3:26:41 PM PDT by Bobarian
Okay, FRiends. It's a lazy Sunday afternoon and I need a distraction from Obamamania. Anybody care to debate the top ten rock & roll bands?
Not necessarily personal favorites, but in terms of influence, endurance and popularity.
I think the top four, in no particular order, would have to include:
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
Metallica
Van Halen
Lynrd Skynrd
The Who
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Aerosmith
I'm sorry. Led Zep, ELP, and Yes are not rock and roll, they are musical masturbation.
Those bands, and so many like them, are the REASONS why the Ramones and others came into being to begin with.....as a response to the overproduced, corporate coliseum-rock that choked the airwaves in the early 1970's.
This one is easy. Go to Billboards Rock charts, and go back every week for 40 years or so. For the #1 album, you assign 40 points to that group. Then 39 points to the #2 group. And continue so on and so forth.
The group with the most points—being the most “successful” group by an objective standard, wins.
Without even looking, it is Pink Floyd. Isn’t Dark Side of the Moon still on the charts?
After Terrapin Station I came to hate the Dead. Loved Feat, but I think Lowell George is arguably the worst thing that ever happened to the Dead. Shakedown Street and Go to Heaven are just brutally awful. [Yes, I know Lowell did not produce the latter.]
One of my roommates in grad school who was a huge Deadhead and Feat fan was actually working at the desk of the Marriott in Arlington, VA at a summer job on the day when Lowell George died. It was my brother's 26th birthday.
Feat is a top ten for their influences if nothing else. I like the Doors as much as anybody (saw them once before Morrison died at the Philadelphia Spectrum, 1970). Liked them so much I even bought the two post Morrison albums and the two albums Krieger and Densmoore did with Butts Band. But I don't think anybody can argue the Doors were musically influential. All the music they're famous for was top 40's stuff, and all the music Morrison actually liked was very old time Blues covers. Doors can't be top ten, especially if Little Feat aren't.
In order(I've seen mosty of them live eat least once):
My wife and I just saw The Who a few years ago. We actually went to see Robert Plant, who was the support act. Did I mention that Zeppelin is the greatest rock band of all time? Can't be said often enough. The Who still rocked quite well for people just barely older than us, I have to admit.
That's right, I did, because they SUCK.
“But when I think of YES, I think of the earlier years.”
Absolutely agree.
Mountain !!! wow I had completely forgotten them.
Yikes!!!!!!
Pink Floyd, The Who, and Southern Rock Bands.
nothing else matters after that......
I didn’t think I was in a pissing contest! ha
I was just joking around. Everyone has their favorites. Some because it is just really good music to that person, some because it brings back really good memories of a good period of time in that person’s life.
RIP Lonesome Dave & Rod Price.
The Angry Samoans.
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