Post your top 5 rock bands of all time

[Buck]

I'm interested in seeing what era most people's favorites come from and if there are more US bands or UK bands (or Scandinavian if you're Reaper16)

Clean sweep for the Brits for me.

1. The Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Led Zep
4. Pink Floyd
5. The Who

Define band however you want. If you want to throw Elvis on your list, do it.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

This is the whitest collection of bands since the 1943 Lollapalooza in Berlin.

racist.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

Turn the radio to a station other than 101.1 The Fox.

Trust me, I havent listened to main stream shit stations in years. I have sirius in my truck and Xm in the car.

We avoid radio all together.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

at what?

forcing people to beat their radios with hammers?

Don't listen to the radio. It's pretty simple.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

This is the whitest collection of bands since the 1943 Lollapalooza in Berlin.

Are there any black rock bands?

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

at what?

forcing people to beat their radios with hammers?

great at not sounding like other bands or like themselves all the time.

That is, if you've actually heard the albums and not just the songs on the radio.

[the_spatula]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

My god there's some terrible taste in here.

Korn?
Foreigner?
yes???

How about you all go into your Itunes and look up your most played bands. See what actually comes up.

I have seen some dog shit bands in this thread; but YES, my friend, is not one of them.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Are there any black rock bands?

remember Living Colour??

Band Of Gypsys, I think one counts, too.

So, yes - there are 2.

[the_spatula]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

remember Living Colour??

Band Of Gypsys, I think one counts, too.

So, yes - there are 2.

Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Earth, Wind, and Fire is my shit, dawg.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by the_spatula

I have seen some dog shit bands in this thread; but YES, my friend, is not one of them.

Yes was AWESOME, say 1970-1985.

I have that 0u890210 LIVE - The Solos album; Trevor Rabin was actually a badass on guitar, and anything with Steve Howe is ****ing amazing.

Chris Squire and Alan White are one of rock's most pre-eminent rhythm sections EVER.

Anyone who talks shit on them doesn't know what they're talking about.

Korn and Foreigner, on the other hand, are ****ing God-awful, and anyone who listens to them...I feel sorry for. You should like yourself more.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by the_spatula

I have seen some dog shit bands in this thread; but YES, my friend, is not one of them.

But they're TOP FIVE?

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by the_spatula

Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Earth, Wind, and Fire is my shit, dawg.

true, but they became more of a funk/soul band.

See, if we're gonna go there, I'll bring out Funkadelic, ya know??

Just for Maggot Brain and Mommy, What's a Funkadelic ALONE.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

But they're TOP FIVE?

for some people, sure.

The prog rock crowd, for People who are down with Rush, King Crimson and especially early Genesis, Yes is absolutely a top 5 band.

Yes was everything that was good about prog rock...

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

Except every band you listed is actually great.

see, if you just don't listen to classic rock radio and listen to the ALBUMS by Sabbath, Zep, Floyd, the Who, Skynyrd, et al, you get past the BS songs that the radio format shoves down a person's throat, and you get the whole picture and can truly appreciate their greatness.

On the flip side, as a kid I was exposed to repeated spins of Journey Escape and Captured and Departure, REO's Can't Tune A Piano,Cheap Trick's Dream Police & Budokan, foreinger's 4 (**** Mutt Lange, btw), Styx Kilroy and Grand Illusion, etc.

I've heard ALL that shit. Styx SUCKS. Dennis DeYoung is ****ing ANNOYING. His voice is nails on a chalkboard, personafied. Plus, all the Foreigners, REOs, Journeys, Bostons, etc sonically SOUND the same - cut from the same 70s AOR cookie-cutter cloth. Not only can you really not tell the difference from album to album, even band to band.

Conversely, Pink Floyd's Animals sounds NOTHING like Meddle. At all. Led Zeppelin III and Presence sound like different ****ing BANDS. The Who Sell Out and Who's Next both sound radically different from Who Are You or It's Hard. Sabbath's Never Say Die is a far cry from their first record...and the raw, rocking Queen II is a far cry from the productions of Jazz or News Of the World.

Ahem...

Post your top 5 rock bands of all time

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Don't listen to the radio. It's pretty simple.

yep.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Are there any black rock bands?

Ha! For some reason I thought it was just top 5 bands.

Sure, there are black rock bands, though I doubt anyone would put them top 5, because none of them happen to be as good as a lot of others.

TV on the Radio comes to mind.

You COULD argue for Otis Redding.

My top five, to allow for ridicule:

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Rolling Stones
3. Pearl Jam
4. Alice in Chains
5. Radiohead