If you had to pick only ONE great band or musical group of the past 50 years who would it be?

[Bigtigermike]

I love all kinds of music and I know everyone’s taste of music is different but if forced to pick only one group since 1970 that was awesome, encompassed uniqueness and range and just fun music overall it would be Earth Wind & Fire. I just loved how they mixed R&B, Jazz, Soul, Pop, Latin and Disco and had lyrics to many of their songs that had meaning and message. Maurice White was a genius and his instrumental arrangements for the bands top hits was bar none. Great Car music

‘That’s the Way of the World’ ‘

Fantasy’

‘Reasons’

Getaway’

‘After the Love is Gone’

‘Serpentine Fire’

‘Shining Star’

‘Can’t hide Love’

Boogie Wonderland’

‘Gratitude’....etc

[Major Matt Mason]

Yes, good tune to be sure. I think the one XTC song that I never want to hear again is Dear God. Skylarking was a better album without including that atheist drivel, but they added it into the running order after it became a surprise hit on its own (thankfully, I have the original release that doesn't include Dear God). Not one of Andy's finer moments, but I can forgive him given all the other great songs he created.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Image a top 12 of R&R albums:

* Bread
* Grassroots
* ELO
* Fleetwood Mac (Saw them)
* Beach Boys (saw them)
* Early Elvis
* Buddy Holly
* George Benson
* The Platters - awesome
* Jackie Wilson
* Chuck Berry (saw him twice)

[MarvinStinson]

The Philadelphia Orchestra?

The Berlin Philharmonic?

La Scala opera?

[FranklinsTower]

"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones who do what they do"~ Bill Graham

“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right” -“Scarlet Begonias,” The Grateful Dead

[AFreeBird]

Well, he did list etc. so September is covered, although it should have been spelled out on the list.

[Vendome]

Journey

Earth Wind and Fire

The Stones

The Beatles

[thoughtomator]

There’s only one reasonable answer for the musically-educated, which is “Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention”; and all serious discussion would be who the second choice was to be.

[carcraft]

“If you could pick only one great band ind the last 40; years who would it be?”
“Who”
“Yes who?”
“Yes who”
“No who?”

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Depeche Mode

[AlaskaErik]

No Doubt.

[jmacusa]

“Rock your baby to and fro/not too fast and not too slow/ And I say row, Jimmy row/ gonna get there/I don’t know/ seems a common way to go/get out and row, row, row, Jimmy row...’’ :-)

[nfldgirl]

The Moody Blues!

[nfldgirl]

+1

[nfldgirl]

+1

[nfldgirl]

+1

[bigcat32]

Nice post, that was 50 years ago almost to the day.

[af_vet_1981]

For secular music, the Grateful Dead
“ They ' re not the best at what they do . They ' re the only ones that do what they do . ”

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Cream

My music promoter cousin hooked me up as Ginger Baker's videographer for his jazz band in the 90's. I had ZERO clue who he or Cream was and couldn't name a single song. I got to know him and his (then) wife Karen over a couple years. I look back at that and just shake my head at how ignorant I was of his legendary status. Maybe that's why he liked me. To me, it's now like being buddies with Mick Jagger only to find out who he really was, decades later. Such a waste.

[Wu]

Finally, someone with sense.

[nonliberal]

AC/DC