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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: BrAiN]
#5440659 - 03/25/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think the Doors is the greatest band of all time. They're not my favorite, but I think they work together better than any other group. They don't seem to have any ego problems, any member could contribute to a song.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: PinballWizard]
#5440692 - 03/25/06 11:13 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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In my humble opinion, The Smashing Pumpkins are the greatest rock band ever. Seriously! I mean, check out this song, is that not rock! Tool would be the best, but they are beyond rock. Oh and Zeppelin is a strong number three.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: remediator]
#5441111 - 03/25/06 01:43 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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remediator said: I think I must have forgotten how to READ.
This thread has made me feel as if i the air in my room was suddenly filled with the smoke of DiMethylTriptamine.
I can't believe we are all allowed to use the same words to describe things.
There ought to be fucking rules.
I seriously don't want to disagree, so I'm going to leave, but I really can't get over this thread.
It makes me sad and angry and stabby and dead inside all at the same time.
People should listen to more music...
I don't get what the fuck this post means..you're upset because people in this thread have the same favorite bands?
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BrAiN
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: LuciferSam]
#5441232 - 03/25/06 02:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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LuciferSam said: All totally wrong. The Who were (are) the greatest live rock band ever, they were like a well oiled telepathic machine. Check out Live at Leeds for an object lesson in how to use volume, improvise, play off each other, come back from the brink just on the verge of the tune collapsing in on itself, perfectly in tune with each other, playing to make one another sound good (a true art in itself)...
No one else even comes close to their sheer power and energy on stage.
I don't care for the who
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: BrAiN]
#5441274 - 03/25/06 02:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm on a huge Pink Floyd kick right now because I've overlooked some of their earlier stuff but a couple months ago I would have said Tool. Black Sabbath is really good music too but it never really inspired me in any way.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: BrAiN]
#5441392 - 03/25/06 03:37 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't believe no one said nirvana.
get a job you stupid hippies!
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: DoctorJ]
#5441416 - 03/25/06 03:52 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I honestly don't think I could pick a "best band ever"...it's just impossible, so many bands have contributed in so many different but otherwise important ways. I mean, it's great if you have a favorite band, but I couldn't have The Who without Floyd or Nirvana without Pearl Jam. I need it all. Maybe I'm just indecisive, but I can't pick one band as "the greatest", too many different measures that don't add up.
Speaking of which, ever see high fidelity? "Top five songs on a monday morning"...great movie. -Dan
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: danamine]
#5441458 - 03/25/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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greatest ROCK band ever?
Led Zeppelin
To me they define rock and roll
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: day_tripper]
#5441472 - 03/25/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, in my mind it's easily Led Zepplin.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5441964 - 03/25/06 07:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just mean that words are just words, and rock and roll is an experience.
and we all define words differently. this discussion i found funny and disturbing in an alienating sort of way. I'm just always stunned at how different my perceptions are.
The beatles are not, were not, and never will be rock and roll. Robert Plant just isn't rock and roll. To me. Everything is relative.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: BrAiN]
#5442015 - 03/25/06 07:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Greatest ROCK band? Depends how you define rock. While I love Pink Floyd, they're not what I define as Rock.
When it comes to actual Rock bands, there are only three real contenders --
-- The Rolling Stones
-- The Who
-- Led Zeppelin
Tough choice for sure, but I'm gonna have to say The Who. Led Zeppelin gets eliminated because while their first three albums or so were definitely Rock (albeit with a LOT of bluesy numbers thrown in -- especially Led Zep I) their later albums were too experimental to be classified as pure rock. So when judging their entire body of work that must be taken into consideration.
That leaves the Stones and The Who. In my opinion, The Who wins that matchup.
Don't get me wrong -- I prefer Led Zep to either The Who or the Stones. I listen to Led Zep far more than the other two combined. But if the question regards ROCK bands, the answer is The Who.
Phred
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: Phred]
#5442019 - 03/25/06 07:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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What do you call Pink Floyd?
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: Wysefool]
#5442024 - 03/25/06 07:40 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Pink Floyd is sui generis. They're in a category all their own.
Phred
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: Phred]
#5442035 - 03/25/06 07:43 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hard to disagree with that
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: Wysefool] 1
#5443064 - 03/26/06 02:25 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rush. Yeah Geddy sings like a castrated elf, but you'd be hard pressed to find a band as instrumentally talented.
Pearl Jam Tool
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: remediator]
#5444121 - 03/26/06 02:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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remediator said: I just mean that words are just words, and rock and roll is an experience.
and we all define words differently. this discussion i found funny and disturbing in an alienating sort of way. I'm just always stunned at how different my perceptions are.
The beatles are not, were not, and never will be rock and roll. Robert Plant just isn't rock and roll. To me. Everything is relative.
Now you're basically just trying to define art which is impossible. It's so many things.
There aren't any boundries. An artist is an artist before he is anything else; a painter, a photographer, etc. Everyone has a little bit of something in them. If they've done anything rock or contributed to it, I'd say bring it all. I consider blues, floyd and the dead and phish type jam shit, oldies (beatles and zepplin included), and all crap to be rock music.
What do you find so funny about it? The fact that we're trying to define the best rock band (which wasn't the point... I'm not starting an argument over who's definitievely the best, I just want to know who people THINK is the best, in their own eyes)... or are you just some pretentious schmuck who thinks only his awesome new exclusive style if indie is the only true rock out there?
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: BrAiN]
#5444282 - 03/26/06 03:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Skynard.
everything else is elevator music.
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: deryl]
#5445281 - 03/26/06 09:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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These aren't necessarily the greatest rock bands ever, but they're my favorites of all the rock bands I've heard:
Incubus Bikini Kill Sublime Modest Mouse Queen Led Zeppelin Nirvana Steve Miller Band Eagles Pink Floyd Sleater-Kinney The Doors Radiohead Tool System of a Down Pixies Rage Against the Machine
I can't pick just one, I'm sorry.
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#5445294 - 03/26/06 09:13 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (Your Pick) [Re: kwikness]
#5445335 - 03/26/06 09:29 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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mmmmm Radiohead
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