best band ever???Follow

Rage Against the Machine

Closely followed by Sevendust and Stone Temple Pilots. Not the best bands ever, just my favorite bands at the moment.

An argument could be made for The Rolling Stones on the same basis, Death. Not only that, but they have the added weight of having performed up until just recently and --AND --they didn't have Ringo Starr tagging along.

Any discussion on this has to reasonably include Led Zepp, Areosmith (despite their cocaine years), The Kinks, and Boy George.

And maybe the Monkees.

Totem

I'll say the Beatles over the Stones. At least they had the good sense to break up before they became fodder for comedy.

Also the various Clapton bands, and the Traveling Wilburys. Love me some Roy Orbison!

And the Beatles didn't have Bill Wyman becoming his own father-in-law (or whatever he turned out to be).

The Stones also stopped being musically and socially significant about 1979. Ever since then they've just been Rolling Stones Inc., a subsidiary of Musicorp Unlimited - that is to say, a purely business venture with zero artistic merit. Give them their due, but take points away for never having the good sense to bow out gracefully. IMHO The Who were always two steps ahead of the Stones anwyay.

I'm a huge Kinks fan (really, I am!), and Ray Davies has written tons of great songs - he never really gets the credit he deserves, but even I can't argue them as being the best ever.

And Boy George! Well... suffice it to say that nobody else is even on the same plane as he (and I'm not sure anyone wants to be).

Queen, Bon Jovi, Faith no more, Megadeath, Bangles (well I liked one song and the singer SCHWING) Simon and Garfunkel, Police, ZZtop sheesh guess I like more music then I realized but ya #1 all time prolly the Beatles or Stones, with edge going to the Beatles despite Yoko, although am still blaming the Stones for Keith Richards =P.

Captain & Tenille.

What? If Hippo can say Alice Cooper is...

Bon Jovi?!?

Excuse me whilst I beat my head against a wall...

The Beatles were fun. They had some catchy tunes and decent lyrical story telling from John & Paul. George was a damn decent guitar player (TRIVIA: Who is Le'angelo Mysterioso? Damn, I spelled it wrong). Ringo was definitely the weak link.

The Stones are always, or rather, were, good for a listen. No slouches there, and most of the music pre-1970 was great.

Rage is the ****. 4 albums and only half of the last one sucked.

Nirvanna? Please. Cobain was no Jim Morrison, no matter how much some of you whiney Xers want to make him out to be one.

Hippo lives on a plane of existence where there is no music other than Alice Cooper, so that explains his homosexual interest in the mad man.

Where's the vote for the Dead? Do they just not count because they couldn't keep a keyboard player alive? Hmm.

"Clapton Bands" got a nod, but really, how can one put the whole group up there? Cream was the only one of true note, and even though the discography is a short one, true genius really only needed so much canvas to be displayed.

But when we talk about the best band ever, the total package really has to include a group that can thunder to the heights of heaven and rattle St. Peter in his boots, while in the same breath, sink a hand to the bowels of hell and stick a bird in the devils beak.

With a guitar riff that could shuffle loose the mortal coil anyone foolish enough to stand in front of his stacks, Jimmy Page is truly a man touched by the finger of God. The deal he made with the devil just finished the job.

A thundrous assault on the aural senses, Bonzo created a rhythem that attacked your body and soul, leaving you nothing more than a quivering pile of goo at the end of a night.

The strongest substances on the planet, out side of pure hardened carbon, all need a cohesion agent. John Paul Jones was the glue. His musicality brought the back end together so smoothly that even the roughest, most ramshackle riffs flowed from the speakers like a fine wine.

The man in front, with his rock and roll pants, his rock and roll wail and his rock and roll attack on life, Robert Plant, brought in on home. He was the exclamation point on the emphatic sentence that was...

Led Zeppelin, the greatest band of all time.

On that note, where is the vote for the Eagles? I'm sure that I'm not the only kid in my generation who has felt the nystalgia towards classic music like that. Damn that's good stuff.

I'm also surprised that nobody has mentioned Guns N' Roses. C'mon all you 80's rockers! Stand up and be counted!

I cannot beleive that not a single one of you said Pink Floyd.

And Haggan. You forgot The Clash.

EDIT: Flea beat me to it.



Edited, Thu Mar 18 08:00:01 2004 by SelfishMan

Was it Lennon or Mcartney who replied when asked by an interviewer:

"Isn't Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world?"

"He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles."

Maybe because once you stop getting stoned regularly Pink Floyd loses about 97% of its appeal.

Meh. The only reason I even mentioned other bands was to point out their inadequacies. All the others are cool, and all. But when you get right down to it, there can be only one. Led Zep, baby.