Your 5 Greatest American Rock Bands of All Time and 5 More

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.

    Me too.  My first favorite band!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
    hahahahaah!!!

    And this is why they made subgenres in music.  If you said BEST southern Rock band?  You'd get CCR, Skynard and Grand Funk for sure every time in those!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
    hahahahaah!!!

    And this is why they made subgenres in music.  If you said BEST southern Rock band?  You'd get CCR, Skynard and Grand Funk for sure every time in those!

    Great idea!  Why didn't I think of that?
    Ice Cream On Head GIFs Tenor

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
    hahahahaah!!!

    And this is why they made subgenres in music.  If you said BEST southern Rock band?  You'd get CCR, Skynard and Grand Funk for sure every time in those!

    Great idea!  Why didn't I think of that?
    Ice Cream On Head GIFs Tenor

    Well then we would argue how Kings of Leon are not southern rock but acid rock and so on and so forth, lol.


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
    hahahahaah!!!

    And this is why they made subgenres in music.  If you said BEST southern Rock band?  You'd get CCR, Skynard and Grand Funk for sure every time in those!

    Great idea!  Why didn't I think of that?
    Ice Cream On Head GIFs Tenor

    Well then we would argue how Kings of Leon are not southern rock but acid rock and so on and so forth, lol.



    The rabbit hole runs deep, lol
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    If I count them (which I did) they are on top list, for me.
    OMG ZZ Top!  How can one forget them.

    How about CSN?  Croce? Skynard? Kiss?

    All great bands but maybe a different tier?
    All good possible choice BUT...
    ...This leads me to  realizing how futile the whole premise of this thread is.  Who the hell came up with this nonsense in the first place anyway? :lol:          
    But seriously, it nearly impossible to define "greatest" when it comes to music.  What if we did a thread similar to this for jazz?  How could we possibly compare, let's say, the work of early Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra to Bitches Brew era Miles Davis?  They are so different it's almost not even the same genre!
    Somebody needs to talk to the OP here and straighten that guy out!
    hahahahaah!!!

    And this is why they made subgenres in music.  If you said BEST southern Rock band?  You'd get CCR, Skynard and Grand Funk for sure every time in those!

    Great idea!  Why didn't I think of that?
    Ice Cream On Head GIFs Tenor

    Well then we would argue how Kings of Leon are not southern rock but acid rock and so on and so forth, lol.



    The rabbit hole runs deep, lol

    I've been compiling playlists for an older (okay, elderly) friend whose only knowledge of twentieth-century non-classical music seems to be The Beatles. There are some deep rabbit holes on YouTube. :-D And yes I keep branching off into various sub-genres.
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    brianlux said:

    pjhawks said:
    My rankings, not necessarily my favs

    1 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    2 - Metallica
    3 - Pearl Jam
    4 - Eagles
    5 - Beach Boys

    Next 5
    6 - Van Halen
    7 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakrs
    8 - Aerosmith
    9 - The Killers
    10 - REM

    Underrated:
    Goo Goo Dolls
    Smithereens
    Shinedown
    Bob Segar & the Silver Bullet Band


    Agreed, Seger often gets over-looked.   I remember reading once that Bob Seger and Ted Nugent  shared a bill and between sets Nugent told Seger to "shit or get off the pot".  Much as I don't care for ol' shot-gun Ted, apparently that really fired up Bob and he really stepped up his game.  Seger has done dome great work.

    I grew up in Michigan and I have no idea why Ted Nugent ever would be more popular than Bob Seger. I don't care much for either of them, but Seger has the larger, better catalog, I'd argue.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    curmudgeoness said:
    brianlux said:

    pjhawks said:
    My rankings, not necessarily my favs

    1 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    2 - Metallica
    3 - Pearl Jam
    4 - Eagles
    5 - Beach Boys

    Next 5
    6 - Van Halen
    7 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakrs
    8 - Aerosmith
    9 - The Killers
    10 - REM

    Underrated:
    Goo Goo Dolls
    Smithereens
    Shinedown
    Bob Segar & the Silver Bullet Band


    Agreed, Seger often gets over-looked.   I remember reading once that Bob Seger and Ted Nugent  shared a bill and between sets Nugent told Seger to "shit or get off the pot".  Much as I don't care for ol' shot-gun Ted, apparently that really fired up Bob and he really stepped up his game.  Seger has done dome great work.

    I grew up in Michigan and I have no idea why Ted Nugent ever would be more popular than Bob Seger. I don't care much for either of them, but Seger has the larger, better catalog, I'd argue.

    I totally agree.   The weird thing to me about Nugent though is that some of his early work with The Amboy Dukes is excellent.  Their LP Migration from 1969, for example.  I found a copy of that LP in a thrift store for something like $1.79, so out of curiosity I bought it, took it home, cleaned it, and put it on the turn table and was like, WTF? this is great stuff! 
    Nugent never got into drugs.  Maybe he is one of those odd cases for whom heavy drugs might have actually helped him.  I don't know what his trip is, but he traded in a very creative, potentially brilliant career for a life of schlock rock, bullshit politics and a blood thirst for killing animals.  So strange.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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