[Closed] best rock band.... ever?

Bananarama

AC-DC

Spinal tap?

Guns n Roses?
Motley Crue?

Rise Against 🙂

ELO

The pink looking one (IMO)
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Whoops my post wasn't a proper rock band..

GnR. Proper rock band, proper songs, proper debauchery and proper talent on many different forms. Often forgotten that they were 5 early 20's talented musicians that made it on the circuit.

Appetite for Destruction era GnR

AC DC

Ha! Fat chance of any kind of agreement on this one. Where do you start? And what do you define as a 'rock' band?
Do the Beatles count? Certainly they started as a rock'n'roll band. I couldn't really make a case for one band over any other; U2, on the Joshua Tree Tour, were magnificent, Metallica, Soundgarden, Sisters Of Mercy, Elbow...
Seen all of them, and I couldn't possibly pick any one as best ever. Death Cab For Cutie are outstanding live, but best ever? Or Metric, who blow me away every time I see them...
It'll be interesting to see who gets listed.

Cream

Foo Fighters. Thread closed 🙂

GnR? Only one good album.

Pink Floyd about the worst band I've ever heard.

Personally it'd have to be between Nirvana, ACDC & Metallica...

What about Led Zeppelin ?

Led Zepplin +1

Nine Inch Nails.

Not really a band as Trent does it all himself other than when touring.

Stones?

Oh FFS!!!

There can be only one.

It's Led Zep. How could it be anyone else?

Definitely Led Zeppelin IMO.

Bit Harsh Prince John the Use your Illusions have enough brilliant tracks to be considered pretty good.

Its a shame Mr Rose was such a twunt.

Simply Red or UB40.

The Wildhearts.

Led Zeppelin etc? Oh do me a flavour. Crusty old has-beens, the lot of 'em. Grandad music.

Led Zeppelin.

By a country mile.

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin - nah.

AC/DC but Metallica close.

Foo Fighters +1
Also, New Model Army have been doing it for me for 32 years now.

Velvet Underground.

Led Zeppelin for me

Led Zeppelin. No one else even comes close! [/thread]

Led Zeppelin? God no, pretentious tedious crap loved by musos. Awful, awful rubbish, only outdone by Pink Floyd.

GnR, ACDC. Or early Stones.

Either Little Feat:
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Televison:
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The mighty Biscuit:
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The Beta Band:
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The Clash:
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Or, just possibly, The Band:
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or Motorhead, Funkadelic, The Beatles, Magazine, The Meters, Floyd, The Smiths, Steely Dan, Hawkwind, Blyth Power, Here & Now, Stone Roses, The Mob, Culture Shock etc etc..........

There are no wrong answers, it's all good. 😀

The Hendrix Experience?

Shirehorses

The Wildhearts +1

Some good replies so far, going to add the Rolling Stones to the list

Shirehorses

the cult

or

hanoi rocks

Ah, the Shirehorses.

'If you tolerate piss, then your bitter will be next'.
Wise words.

guns n roses

Guns n Roses.

AC/DC might be the most overrated band of all time. Few good tunes but nothing original or interesting and a singer that sounds massively constipated.

Totally agreed with the AC/DC, Foo Fighters and Metallica, I'm loving Iron Maiden and Rammstein at the moment.

grum - Member

AC/DC might be the most overrated band of all time. Few good tunes but nothing original or interesting and a singer that sounds massively constipated.

😀

Yeah, but they rock.

Unlike Metallica, who sound like a bunch of bankers singing about their bonus.

MC5
Husker Du
The Stooges
The KLF 😉

Who can say?

Sabbath for starting it all
AC/DC for doing it properly
Motorhead for keeping it real
Iron Maiden for sheer panache
Metallica - for keeping it going after 30 years
GnR - for style if not consistency

Oh and slight wild card, Queen's early stuff was pretty heavy but they dominated 80's chart rock and Freddie is irreplaceable

Led Zep.

If this threads indicative of the STW average age ...then we're all old farts 🙂

A great number already mentioned deserve a share of the crown.
( Led Zep or perhaps even Deep Purple ... Both magnificent in their prime)

Chris

Hmm, difficult, but I'll lob in...

Sabbath
Aerosmith
Metallica
Rammstein
Tigertailz

I'll also be back later to change my mind loads of times!

Having a more alternative definition of Rock I’d have to say -

Sisters of Mercy

The Mission

The Cult.

Not mentioned yet, but what about Queen?

Guns n Roses for me-I'm not a huge fan, but they seem to have done the whole Rock Band/ Rock Star thing as well as anyone, and their first albumn is a top 10 of all time for me.

Metalica or ACDC...

Not been mentioned, maybe for a reason but, The Who?

Actually I can kind of see why...

G'n'R were a great band, but ruined by that nightmare of a singer.
Like listening to a goat being strangled by a bungee.

Wrong drugs too - only Dylan, Lou Reed, Charlie Watts and Miles Davis made decent music on heroin.

scratch - Member

Not been mentioned, maybe for a reason but, The Who?

Actually I can kind of see why...

Brilliant band - how could we leave them out?
Small Faces too.
And Roxy - amazing band.

And don't forget ABBA - superb band, no snobbery here.

Humble Pie, Zep, The Who, Little Feat

Rainbow from the Rising and Onstage era

The Georgia Satellites. Three chords 'n' the truth... 8)

Led Zep, AC\DC, Jimi Hendrix and early Kings of Leon

slayer

Whilst there are some truly great rock bands I think it has to be Led Zep and by some margin - about 100 million albums - then again both Elton john and the Beatles outsell them so read in to that what you want 😉
Very few rock bands are liked by anyone who is not into mainly rock - yes I mean Metallica, and AC DC in particular- and Zep are the best in this respect.

Without them we would not be having this chat either 😛

DP

Can I add Dead Kennedys and New Model Army (alternative rock).

only Dylan, Lou Reed, Charlie Watts and Miles Davis made decent music on heroin.

I think it has to be Led Zep and by some margin

nah jethro tull were better musicians by a country mile. Led zep was rock for those who didn't actually like rock music but wanted the image.

Jethro Tull are also a superb band but you would be in the minority with that view but i would not diss them one bit.

Everyone liked Zep like everyone likes* marley [ you can argue he was not proper reggae as well and others were better]

* ok not everyone but you get the point.

Free.

AC/DC Led Zep were great but not an out and out rock band.

nah jethro tull were better musicians by a country mile.

Being a decent musician has cock all to do with rock'n'roll. 😀

Lesley Garrett can hit notes more accurately than Janis Joplin, doesn't mean she's a 'better' singer.

Define "rock"

I agreed with some of the above. My tastes vary but for me they are some of the following:

A Perfect Circle (awesome band).
Cranes
Hootie and the Blowfish
Sisters of Mercy (seen them 3 times live, amazing)
Yo La Tengo
New Radicals
Queens of the Stone Age
Rammstein
Soundgarden
Screaming Trees
Pearl Jam

and so on ......

One of the best live bands i've seen several times, Big Country. Gave it all

AC/DC Led Zep were great but not an out and out rock band.

Yes that mass appeal and being liked by non rockers really lets them down 😕

Define "rock"

graham of redmarley - Member

One of the best live bands i've seen several times, Big Country. Gave it all

They're on stage right now in Dunfermline I think!

I'll go with Dinosaur Jr. for my kind of rock.

Probably The Stooges imo.

I also like Lynard Skynard, The Pixies, Motorhead and Husker Du (sorry cannot do umlauts) but would not try to argue they were the greatest).