POLL - The WEAKEST LINK of AMERICAN BANDS - (Championship) ROUND 4

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,840
    Soundgarden
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    mrussel1 said:


    Don't disappoint this guy.  

    As much criticism as I have for the bands that were eliminated early, TP deserves to be here.  He's top 3 US all time.  Who can say something bad about Tom?  

    For sure!  I remember the first time I heard Damn the Torpedoes shortly after it was released (which, surprisingly, was also the first T.P. I had ever remembered hearing).  I was stunned.  What a record!

    I'm also stunned that Soundgarden is beating Petty.  How is this possible???

    guess it takes all kinds to be wrong....

    Wrong? Right?  It's all music, it's all personal, it's all good.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Soundgarden
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Metallica
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    If anyone takes this too seriously they are fucking idiots…. Just sayin. 
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    Badmotorfinger is considerably better than any Petty album.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 31,064
    Metallica
    DewieCox said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    Badmotorfinger is considerably better than any Petty album.
    That's crazy talk.  Wildflowers is a masterpiece. 
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Metallica
    mrussel1 said:
    DewieCox said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    Badmotorfinger is considerably better than any Petty album.
    That's crazy talk.  Wildflowers is a masterpiece. 
    Some people will like SG more than TP and I am cool with that, but I would agree with you here. Wildflowers is magic. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,840
    Soundgarden
    In which the thread becomes just slightly unhinged...
    Unhinged - Imgflip

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    -Roberto Benigni

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,871
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    Nothing bad to say about TP, I’ve just never been a fan. 
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,008
    edited December 2021
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    DewieCox said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    Badmotorfinger is considerably better than any Petty album.
    True.
    But, that record is better than almost any record, imo.
    No way I consider Soundgarden the best American band ever, but I am a rocker and head to head I gotta rock.

    To add, I have nothing bad to say about Tom Petty.  Some great music.  Not my bag, but I still love many of the songs.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Soundgarden being the Greatest American Band seems kinda crazy.
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,361
    Metallica
    mrussel1 said:
    DewieCox said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    If soundgarden wins this you all are fucking idiots.  Just sayin.
    Badmotorfinger is considerably better than any Petty album.
    That's crazy talk.  Wildflowers is a masterpiece. 
    Agreed. Just listened to the 3 record set in its entirety over the last two days. Brilliant. 
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    edited December 2021
    Metallica
    My interest in Metallica has been fading since their inception.

    Kidding - but I still voted them down. They're just not my wheelhouse. A stellar career and catalogue nonetheless.
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Metallica
    MedozK said:
    Soundgarden being the Greatest American Band seems kinda crazy.
    Definitely surprising, but when CC passed away a lot of musicians/singers commented that he was one of, if not the best singer in rock music ever. In the pantheon of hard rock singers, CC is an icon…. No one sang like he did.  The band itself was very influential,  in a way they were a “musicians band” that got very popular because of their iconic lead singer. The antithesis of this would be King’s X, the “musicians band” which is probably the most underrated band in rock history.  
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,248
    Soundgarden
    as I said before, SG is one of my faves, and I easily listen to them way more than Metallica or TP, but the influence of the latter two just can't be overstated. 
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Metallica
    Bye-bye, Metallica! Still love you though! 

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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Metallica
    I hope TP emerges as the top. That's been my angle all along. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,840
    Soundgarden
    MedozK said:
    Soundgarden being the Greatest American Band seems kinda crazy.

    For sure!  Who'd have guessed the would go this far here?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,840
    Soundgarden
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    I hope TP emerges as the top. That's been my angle all along. 

    They are worthy, for sure!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    I think SG has a much better batting average and forebears of the grunge explosions they had quite impact.

    I don’t think Petty is as influential as most other bands of their stature and sort of went with the flow of what was popular until they were firmly established. Huge fan but I wouldn’t put him in my top 5 American bands. Obviously a deep catalog and more well known classics than just about anybody.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 31,064
    Metallica
    DewieCox said:
    I think SG has a much better batting average and forebears of the grunge explosions they had quite impact.

    I don’t think Petty is as influential as most other bands of their stature and sort of went with the flow of what was popular until they were firmly established. Huge fan but I wouldn’t put him in my top 5 American bands. Obviously a deep catalog and more well known classics than just about anybody.
    Well TP is really a derivative of the Byrds and the Laurel Canyon sound.  I agree that they are not necessarily 'influential', but he did his own thing, on his terms.  And his fans span country music to hard rock and everything in between.  The mainstream cultural impact of Full Moon Fever is pretty significant too.  I would argue much more than any SG record.  In 1989, you could not go anywhere without hearing something from Full Moom.

    We got Mtv in the early 80's and the You Got Lucky video just blew me away.  The whole Mad Max thing with such a cool song was just astounding to my little brain.  Dont' Come Around Here No More tripped me out too.  
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