RUSH, c'mon!
How the sum of parts that is Dave Grohl isn't mentioned in any capacity is telling.
Chicago
Pearl Jam
Stones
Earth Wind and Fire
Metallica
RUSH, c'mon!
How the sum of parts that is Dave Grohl isn't mentioned in any capacity is telling.
Chicago
Pearl Jam
Stones
Earth Wind and Fire
Metallica
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
The Kinks
Talking Heads
The Pixies
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
Queen
U2
Pull List: Barbaric,DC Black Label,Dept. of Truth,Fire Power,Hellboy,Saga,Something is Killing the Children,Terryverse,Usagi Yojimbo.
1. Nightwish - lead singer Floor Jansen is in my opinion the greatest female vocalist of all time. She can literally sing anything from Opera to Death Metal growls and do it well.
2. Within Temptation
3. Angels and Airwaves
4. Duran Duran
5. The Cure
6. Radiohead
7. Evanescence
Bands that almost made my list: New Order, Paramore, Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Nine Inch Nails, and Slowdive.
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Wasn't Bob Dylan's band The Band? Which started out as Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks (also the Canadian Squires), then toured with Dylan, before emerging as The Band and releasing a number of hits on their own--with their "final" concert being recorded as a Martin Scorsese film, THE LAST WALTZ. Seems a disservice to subsume them as "Bob Dylan." That would be like referencing the Beatles only as "Tony Sheridan."
This is so hard for me lol. I think some of the most enduring and talented bands are Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, U2, Queen and obviously the Beatles.
Are all of them the very best? It depends who you ask, but those are some of my faves ever. I like others too, but not as much.
The order is pretty solid.
1. The Beatles. Mom was a huge fan. I was born in 1965. The Beatles were basically my nursery songs; the first rock group I even heard of.
2. Bowie. I still tear up a bit.
3. Sting/Police
4. Queen
5. Stevie Wonder
6. Prince. More tears.
7. Madness for turning me onto Ska.
Just a lot of competition. Most of my list was formed right about the time Grohl was learning to play. Oddly enough, I cannot stand Nirvana, but I enjoy him/Foo.
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I have this inner debate a lot with my "Top 100" film list; and there is (for me) a difference between 'best' and 'greatest' and 'important'. I think we could easily create a "Top 7 MOST IMPORTANT" bands list, but best is like favourite. My favourite band (so "greatest" for me) is Linkin' Park. The "greatest" (as in important) band is probably the Beatles, followed by Queen, and I'd chuck the Jackson 5 in third.
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The main reason I used that reference is because all of his albums were credited to Bob Dylan. Wouldn't it be a disservice to subsume Bob Dylan to simply refer to his body of work as that of "The Band"? Santana is kind of thought of as a band, but its really the same thing as Dylan did. As Hendrix pretty much did.
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Although the Band found fame performing as Dylan's backing band from the mid-60's, they actually recorded very little music with him that saw an official release. There's The Basement Tapes of course, an abridged version of which finally saw the light of day in 1975. Apart from that Dylan and the Band only collaborated together in 1974 on the Planet Waves album. I think there have been a couple of live albums as well. I've actually got one of the Bootleg Series of albums that is a live recording of the infamous 'Judas!' concert. It was called the Royal Albert Hall concert for a long time as it was erroneously believed that the heckling took place there, as opposed to where the incident happened in reality which was at the Free Trade Hall in my native city of Manchester.
The Band's 'solo' discography and career is certainly large and influential enough for them to be put forward on a thread like this on their own merits, as opposed to just being joined at the hip to Dylan, in my opinion.
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So is this supposed to be your favorite seven bands or the most important bands to rock history. I see some are basing their choices on one or the other. I listed my seven favorite bands whereas if I listed most important probably none would get mentioned by the rest of you as every one of my bands was 80's or later. Only one I mentioned made my list but thats because of their influence not their music as the music itself, much as I love it, isn't that influential and it was other things about them that mattered. Also I'm sticking with bands else I'd have Elvis, Michael Jackson, and Madonna on here.
If I was going to list most important bands to rock history I suppose it would be:
1. Led Zeppelin - I put them here because they brought hard rock / metal to the mainstream. They would be one of my top 15 bands if I went that deep.
2. Black Sabbath - basically invented heavy metal
3. The Beatles - I really don't like the Beatles music. Their best song IMO (Hey Jude) is to me just a "meh, better than rap." But they were popular and kickstarted the first British Invasion. I put them below the other two because I think pop music would have been much the same without or without them.
4. Run DMC - I despise rap music. I really hate it. But I realize that its popular and I give Run DMC the credit for it. Their cover of Walk This Way is basically the song that made rap popular to white people and broke barriers. Without it rap may never have gone mainstream.
5. Nirvana - The MTV era introduced some great bands but it also introduced a lot of crap where appearance mattered more than the music and as the 80's went on this got worse and worse with music stagnating with overproduced schlock and lack of depth. Nirvana blew that to pieces and utterly changed the direction of music for the next decade. Without them the 90's alternative explosion and the various sub rock genres like Nu-metal probably don't happen.
6. Duran Duran - hear me out. They were the first 80's band to take videos seriously. Before them most music videos were either live concert videos or the band playing to empty room as if in concert. Duran Duran changed videos forever by increasing the video quality and making their videos into mini movies. Its what fueled their early success and helped make the MTV era explode and soon other artists doing the same.
7. Bill Haley and the Comets - they popularized what became known as the rock and roll sound.
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