Rank the five greatest "classic rock" bands
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Okay, maybe they're the greatest to me, but rank them:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Doors
3. The Who
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Pink Floyd
This is the kind of stuff I think about in traffic. This was actually pretty difficult to do. I think if there was a classic rock station that played only music from these artists I'd listen every day. There are some other greats, of course, from that era, but there's was too much filler crap on most classic rock stations. Really, how do you go from "Wish You Were Here" to "The Boys are Back in Town"?!
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. The Doors
3. The Who
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Pink Floyd
This is the kind of stuff I think about in traffic. This was actually pretty difficult to do. I think if there was a classic rock station that played only music from these artists I'd listen every day. There are some other greats, of course, from that era, but there's was too much filler crap on most classic rock stations. Really, how do you go from "Wish You Were Here" to "The Boys are Back in Town"?!
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2. Pink Floyd
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Doors
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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a list with no Stones or Beatles is quite faulty in my opinion
jimi hendrix, beatles, stones, doors all have got to be on there...then for me its a toss up between zeppelin and the who depending on what kind of mood i'm in
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I know I'm gonna get flammed, but IMO Zep is overrated. I like them, but overrated.
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Beatles
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5. The Who
Zeppelin
Floyd
Doors
Hendrix
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Zeppelin
Beatles
Hendrix
Springsteen
2. The Doors
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Pink Floyd
5. Grateful Dead
HM: Neil Young
So, I'll say
1 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
2 Band of Gypsies
3 Rolling Stones (between 1965 and 1974 especially)
4 Pink Floyd
5 Cream
2. led zeppelin
3. the doors
4. deep purple
5. black sabbath, you can´t deny the greatness of those guys especially from iommi and ward...
2. Grateful Dead
3. The Doors
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Who
those are my top five but pink floyd, and the rolling stones needs to be mentioned as well. only 5 for the list is not enough room. if i could make it 10 i'd also add CCR, velvet underground, and the jimi hendrix experience. there were so many great classic rock bands.
Sure, Sgt Pepper might be classic rock, but Please Please Me? If I had to name a year "classic rock" came about, it'd be 1965, around the time of Dylan at Newport, or Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. It's all in the guitar distortion, and the evolution of AOR.
anyway.. going with the original list + the beatles...
1. Beatles
2. Pink Floyd
3. Hendrix
4. Doors
5. Zep
6. Who
I'm ranking by preference.. in a serious "who's the best band' kind of question the who and zep would probably push the Doors to last.
Edit: The Beatles are classic rock because they made music in the 60s and were enormously influential, thus deserving the label "classic". It's less of a genre than a time period.
Dylan was in his own league.
double edit: Also, Revolver, The mother fucking White Album, sgt peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, Hard Day's Night, and probably others are all easily 'classic rock' albums.
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I wasn't questioning that they're classic. They're my favourite band. I was questioning whether they were "rock". They seem to expand beyond that generic label.
classic rock has nothing to do with guitar distortion. listen to what you are saying. CLASSIC rock. it is not a genre, it is just rock music that has stood the test of time therefore becoming, "classic rock". The Beatles are definitely classic rock, and it doesn't matter what album we are talking about, if they aren't i don't know what is. Pearl Jam is also classic rock for that matter.
They do go beyond labels but they're rock music through and through.
Rock/pop/pychadelic/experimental and a touch of noise rock.
So yeah they're way beyond labels but they're also definetly some kind of rock music.
As for distortion, Tiki said it.
You gonna tell me a band like Haley and the Comets aren't rock because the guitars aren't blazing with distortion?
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I also forgot about Crazy Horse, so sorry Pink Floyd, consider yourselves bumped. Five bands are a bitch.
Tiki doesn't know what rock is.
She's thinking of rock and roll. She hasn't a clue.
1954-1957 - rock and roll
1957-1962- Elvis post army, E. Brothers, the return of the mafia and crooner shit
1962-1965 - the birth of pop - Beatles, Dave Clarke Five, early Stones in suits, The Who (they were the epitome of pop/maximum r&b)
1965 - ROCK
ROCK is not rock and roll! it's not pop!
Dylan going electric, Keef buying a fuzz tone, Jeff and Jimmy Page experimenting in the Yardbirds, The Cream forming, and then Jimi consolidating the whole thing, was
the
birth
of
ROCK!
http://stage6.divx.com/user/BenjaminBraddock/video/1257935/Seven-Ages-of-Rock---part-1