5 Greatest Rock Bands Ever

Skynut · June 2006

Drumingman wrote:

The Cowsils
The Partridge Family
The Electric Prunes
Strawberry Alarm Clock

The Brady Bunch did an album also and no one has mentioned the Monkees.:)

heiney9 · June 2006

Tiny Tim rocked it pretty good....for a ukelele player. Didn't he use a violin bow once on his ukelele? Maybe I'm confused

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H9

Skynut · June 2006

If you could stand his voice.

heiney9 · June 2006

If you couid stand to look at him!!! A little Botox would have helped and maybe $5-10 grand worth of teeth.

reeltrouble1 · June 2006

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........................Tiny Tim.

Shirley Jones was so hot in the Day, She was Definetely Stacy's Mom material.

Monkees--Steppin Stone is still one of my favorites

RT1

reeltrouble1 · June 2006

It was inevitable that the Beatles the first and greatest rock band would take over a greatest rock thread. They invented Rock n Roll. They made sounds to make ol'e folks cringe and young girls jump out of their panties screaming at the top of their lungs in chiffon sweaters. Like TTT they were GREAT!!!!

They even had the first Rock bubble gum cards, I mean come on, it does not get any bigger!!!!!

Twist and Shout on a transistor radio, Dick Clark counting down the top ten....memories from the corner of my mind, oh, wait that's not the Beatles...

RT1

BottomFeeder · November 2006

Late to the party, again...but here's my list (although it's tough because I like so many bands!).

INPO
CCR
Eagles
Doobies (older, Tom Johnston era)
Jackson Browne
James Taylor
...Cat Stevens, Dan Fogerlber etc., etc.

markmarc · November 2006

1. Beatles- Enough said
2. The Who- Time Magazine said it best: "Rock's Outer Edge"
3. Led Zeppelin- Heavy Metal
4. Rolling Stones- mainstreamed R&B
5. U2- Issue Awareness
6. Eagles- Mixture of American sound
7. Beach Boys- harmonic fun
8. Doors- the genesis of punk
9. Lynard Skynard- Southern fried
10. Clash- British anger management

bert26 · November 2006

Firstly - it is Lynyrd Skynyrd.

My opinion INPO:

The Clash
The Jam
AC DC
Guns and Roses
Social Distortion

Of course this is based on what I like and what I consider a Rock band to be.

The Beatles certainly were earthshaking - but I would only consider them in a ground breaking/changing the face of music sense. Just not my bag. And YES - I have listened to them plenty; I own Rubber Soul, The White Album, Sgt. Peppers and a couple of others (on VINYL).

I never understood the whole Nirvana thing - I thought (and still think) that the Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam were better.

FLAME ON!

Cheers!

Chris

zombie boy 2000 · November 2006

The Clash
The Ramones
The Pogues
The Talking Heads
The Flaming Lips

bert26 · November 2006

I should be keel hauled! How did I forget the POGUES AND THE RAMONES? :eek:

Nice list Zombie!

C-

zombie boy 2000 · November 2006

You may have forgot The Ramones, but they didn't forget you.

One, two, three, four.......

markmarc · November 2006

bert26:
Thanks for the correction.

Maybe it's my age, but I have a tendency to view greatness in terms of shaping music industry as much as the quality of thesongs they produced. I chose The Clash over The Ramones because I feel they had more influence, but I personally rather listen to The Ramones.

bert26 · November 2006

Gabba Gabba Hey!

I favor The Clash by a great deal as far as who I prefer to listen to - as for which band had the most impact - that one is too close to call for me.

Didn't mean to be a jerk on the spelling thing - I grew up in a poor neighborhood of a very affluent town. Listening to Southern Rock (and being familiar with the bands) was one thing we wore as a badge of honor to separatw ourselves from the kids that had all the coin. Seemed important then, but now, not so much!

C-

zombie boy 2000 · November 2006

I think The Clash had more of an influence on other bands and musicians, but The Ramones had a greater influence among kids buying albums and going to shows...

just my experience