The Doors
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Aerosmith
Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band
Grateful Dead
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Metallica
Nirvana
Allman Brothers Band
The Eagles
That would be my list, if we're going by most influential. My personal top 5 would be PJ/Dead/Phish/Petty/Bruce.
If you're including single artists, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan....
Bruce and EStreet need to be dominating this.....They ARE America
I'm actually in favor of a law saying if you are American and don't like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, you should have your citizenship revoked. More importantly Bruce, though.
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Bruce and EStreet need to be dominating this.....They ARE America
I'm actually in favor of a law saying if you are American and don't like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, you should have your citizenship revoked. More importantly Bruce, though.
Maybe in your music world but this is shear nonsense and like them both, just NOT that much.
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Bruce and EStreet need to be dominating this.....They ARE America
I'm actually in favor of a law saying if you are American and don't like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, you should have your citizenship revoked. More importantly Bruce, though.
I like Bruce for the most part, but if anyone's citizenship is revoked, it should be his after the farce of a halftime show during the Super Bowl. I felt embarrassed to be watching it and I was embarrassed for him too.
I'm going to go with...
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Doors
Nirvana
The Ramones
Pearl Jam
this is the first list i can agree with a little. All time top 5 American Rock Bands...
Sorry for all you folks but who the f. is Wilco :?: Nobody in the rest of the world nows them...
For me as a European from the Netherlands and worked in Amsterdam in a Coffeeshop.. :ugeek:
this is my top 5...
1) The Doors.. no doubt about that...
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience... no doubt about that again.
3) Guns 'n Roses .... but only the early work that made my youth fun
4) Nirvana... made my youth getting stronger.... :twisted:
5) Pearl Jam .... made it all better... and still the keep on rocking in a free world....
But there are so many great American Rock Bands... CCR is also in between 1 and 3... make it 2.5
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Pearl Jam
My Morning Jacket
Black Crowes
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
after that, I don't know... Talking Heads, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Allmans, Skynyrd, The Band... hard to choose.
I personally don't consider the Jimi Hendrix Experience an American band, otherwise, I'd definitely put them up there.
10 years ago I'm sure I would have had Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in there. Probably Tool too. Fuck, I'm such a pussy now.
I'm going to go with...
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Doors
Nirvana
The Ramones
Pearl Jam
this is the first list i can agree with a little. All time top 5 American Rock Bands...
Sorry for all you folks but who the f. is Wilco :?: Nobody in the rest of the world nows them...
For me as a European from the Netherlands and worked in Amsterdam in a Coffeeshop.. :ugeek:
this is my top 5...
1) The Doors.. no doubt about that...
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience... no doubt about that again.
3) Guns 'n Roses .... but only the early work that made my youth fun
4) Nirvana... made my youth getting stronger.... :twisted:
5) Pearl Jam .... made it all better... and still the keep on rocking in a free world....
But there are so many great American Rock Bands... CCR is also in between 1 and 3... make it 2.5
first of all, no offense, but if you were from the states you would know who wilco is. if you were a rock music junkie, even though you're not from the states, although i could be wrong, i would think you would know who wilco is. either way, maybe a list of the best american rock bands is something that would be better determined by americans. not that i mind your input or anything, just sayin....and the jimi hendrix experience was from england excluding hendrix himself. i guess throwing hendrix on there is like me throwing dylan on the list, so i can't really argue too much, but that's not exactly an american rock band.
i see guns n roses on a lot of lists, to me they had their time in the late 80's and early 90's, but were unable to keep it together. obviously they had some hits, wrote some great songs, but most of their music sounds dated to me. i find it hard to justify putting them on a top 5 list.
People always say that Hendrix didn't make it big til he when to England......Who cares? Who cares he made a name for himself in the states enough for somebody in England to be interested.
Led Zeppelin was big in the states before they were big in the UK. Are they American?
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Not true. They are in several here.
Tool
Hendrix
Miles Davis - not rock but deserves to be on the list anyway
Elvis
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Aerosmith
Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band
Grateful Dead
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Metallica
Nirvana
Allman Brothers Band
The Eagles
That would be my list, if we're going by most influential. My personal top 5 would be PJ/Dead/Phish/Petty/Bruce.
If you're including single artists, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan....
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Pavement
Pixies
Bob Dylan
Beach Boys
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
Pearl Jam
Big Star
The Stooges
The Ramones
I'm actually in favor of a law saying if you are American and don't like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, you should have your citizenship revoked. More importantly Bruce, though.
Madison Square Garden 6/25/08
Maybe in your music world but this is shear nonsense and like them both, just NOT that much.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Bruce Springsteen (and the E Street Band)
Nirvana
Van Halen
The Doors
CCR
The Jackson 5
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Green Day
Creed
NIckelback
Three Days Grace
Lifehouse
Good Charlotte
Backstreet Boys
NSYNC
LFO
98 Degrees
New Kids on the Block
:? Best 10 and worst 10? I don't think that was the question.
I like Bruce for the most part, but if anyone's citizenship is revoked, it should be his after the farce of a halftime show during the Super Bowl. I felt embarrassed to be watching it and I was embarrassed for him too.
Pearl Jam
and ill count Canada too with Neil Young and Crazy Horse
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this is the first list i can agree with a little. All time top 5 American Rock Bands...
Sorry for all you folks but who the f. is Wilco :?: Nobody in the rest of the world nows them...
For me as a European from the Netherlands and worked in Amsterdam in a Coffeeshop.. :ugeek:
this is my top 5...
1) The Doors.. no doubt about that...
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience... no doubt about that again.
3) Guns 'n Roses .... but only the early work that made my youth fun
4) Nirvana... made my youth getting stronger.... :twisted:
5) Pearl Jam .... made it all better...
But there are so many great American Rock Bands... CCR is also in between 1 and 3... make it 2.5
Wilco is actually HUGE in Europe and play there regularly. Sorry you don't get out more.
My Morning Jacket
Black Crowes
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
after that, I don't know... Talking Heads, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Allmans, Skynyrd, The Band... hard to choose.
I personally don't consider the Jimi Hendrix Experience an American band, otherwise, I'd definitely put them up there.
10 years ago I'm sure I would have had Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in there. Probably Tool too. Fuck, I'm such a pussy now.
No see, I can't do this list either.
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first of all, no offense, but if you were from the states you would know who wilco is. if you were a rock music junkie, even though you're not from the states, although i could be wrong, i would think you would know who wilco is. either way, maybe a list of the best american rock bands is something that would be better determined by americans. not that i mind your input or anything, just sayin....and the jimi hendrix experience was from england excluding hendrix himself. i guess throwing hendrix on there is like me throwing dylan on the list, so i can't really argue too much, but that's not exactly an american rock band.
i see guns n roses on a lot of lists, to me they had their time in the late 80's and early 90's, but were unable to keep it together. obviously they had some hits, wrote some great songs, but most of their music sounds dated to me. i find it hard to justify putting them on a top 5 list.
Allman Brothers
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
R.E.M
People always say that Hendrix didn't make it big til he when to England......Who cares? Who cares he made a name for himself in the states enough for somebody in England to be interested.
Led Zeppelin was big in the states before they were big in the UK. Are they American?