I'm bored so....5 Greatest Rock Bands Of All Times!!!

PJRock75

In all honesty (and IMO) they are in no particular order:

Led Zepplin (my personal vote for greatest)

The Who

The Beatles

Pink Floyd

The Rolling Stones

These are the founders of all that is good and of what we love in music today,

Commy

I'd put pearl jam ahead of the stones.

Wobbie

Commy wrote:

I'd put pearl jam ahead of the stones.

+1

Even tho I was never a big Beatles fan , they have to stay.

I also have to add that (IMHO) the Stones, Who and Floyd all hung (are hanging) around for too long. :shock:

Red Mosquito75

20 years from now maybe less people will put pearl jam in the top five

youngster

In order:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Metallica
Pink Floyd

Red Mosquito75

cropduster82 wrote:

In order:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Metallica
Pink Floyd

good list we better do a top ten. I really need to think about this

Wobbie

pg305420 wrote:

cropduster82 wrote:

In order:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Metallica
Pink Floyd

good list we better do a top ten. I really need to think about this

Not to start shit but................... Metallica? Really? I have to plead ignorance since I only know their stuff in a "greatest hits" kind of way but I've never considered them to be even close to an all-timer type band.

Explain your nomination, please.

Red Mosquito75

i would say metallica is a top ten not top five. They are good been around.. They have some great songs but not top 5

Red Mosquito75

in order:

The Beatles
Led Zepplin
Rolling stones
Pink floyd
The Who

then pearl jam and probaly 7 metallica

Wobbie

I think if I could only listen to 5 bands, they would be:

Pearl Jam

Black Crowes

Husker Du/Bob Mould/Sugar

REM

Rush

Not to say these are the "greatest" by any means, but they'd do for me . No argument from me, that Zep, Floyd, Beatles, etc. were great.

Red Mosquito75

I might get some big boos but i would have to throw in the grateful dead if it was just 5 band I had to listen to not top 5

Wobbie

pg305420 wrote:

I might get some big boos but i would have to throw in the grateful dead if it was just 5 band I had to listen to not top 5

boos :shock:

Red Mosquito75

imalive wrote:

pg305420 wrote:

I might get some big boos but i would have to throw in the grateful dead if it was just 5 band I had to listen to not top 5

boos :shock:

the band might be ok but you put Rush out there. decent band but c'mon..I just saw them two months ago baecause i never had and I would gladly listen to the dead anyday over rush

Red Mosquito75

top ten I would have to put santana up there

Brisk.

Guess its hard to understand what great means in this context?

Who is technically best?
Who is most influential?
Who changed the world?

Commy

imalive wrote:

pg305420 wrote:

cropduster82 wrote:

In order:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Metallica
Pink Floyd

good list we better do a top ten. I really need to think about this

Not to start shit but................... Metallica? Really? I have to plead ignorance since I only know their stuff in a "greatest hits" kind of way but I've never considered them to be even close to an all-timer type band.

Explain your nomination, please.

I was thinking the same thing. its almost as if everything they've done since the 90's has kind of removed them from "greatest of all time" status. their early work was badass, with what's his name on bass, but since he left they kind of went to shit.

soulsinging

pg305420 wrote:

imalive wrote:

pg305420 wrote:

I might get some big boos but i would have to throw in the grateful dead if it was just 5 band I had to listen to not top 5

boos :shock:

the band might be ok but you put Rush out there. decent band but c'mon..I just saw them two months ago baecause i never had and I would gladly listen to the dead anyday over rush

Rush mops the floor with the Grateful Dead.

Red Mosquito75

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

Brisk.

pg305420 wrote:

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

................

Red Mosquito75

Red Mosquito75

besides I really love live shows. I have seen Rush. good but no where near a live pj show or a gratefuldead show. the energy just was not there at Rush. Iprobably shoud have saw them in there prime?

Brisk.

pg305420 wrote:

besides I really love live shows. I have seen Rush. good but no where near a live pj show or a gratefuldead show. the energy just was not there at Rush. Iprobably shoud have saw them in there prime?

Rush really arn't like Grateful dead, they arn't a massive jam band so you wont get that total soul like you do with jam bands etc. They write awesome songs and they are all brilliant muscians!! And thats an understatement. No one gives a drum solo like Neil.

Brisk.

pg305420 wrote:

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

Could you give me loads of Grateful Dead albums i should check out?

Want to explore them.

soulsinging

pg305420 wrote:

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

I hung out with nothing but hippies in college. I heard Grateful Dead bootlegs until my ears bled. I like a lot of jam bands, I love live shows and improvisation and cool solos that go on forever. But I never liked the Dead... they bore me. And they don't really have any GREAT songs, just a bunch of decent sounding jams... I'll take Neil Young & the original Crazy Horse from the 60s doing a 20 minute Cowgirl in the Sand over anything the Dead ever did. Or give me the Allman Brothers, hell even the Black Crowes or Phish. There was a great jam band in our region called Ekoostik Hookah, very Dead-inspired. But I liked them better than the Dead.

Rush has a ton of phenomenal songs. I have their 2-disc Gold compilation and every song on there is a knockout.

Brisk.

soulsinging wrote:

pg305420 wrote:

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

I hung out with nothing but hippies in college. I heard Grateful Dead bootlegs until my ears bled. I like a lot of jam bands, I love live shows and improvisation and cool solos that go on forever. But I never liked the Dead... they bore me. And they don't really have any GREAT songs, just a bunch of decent sounding jams... I'll take Neil Young & the original Crazy Horse from the 60s doing a 20 minute Cowgirl in the Sand over anything the Dead ever did. Or give me the Allman Brothers, hell even the Black Crowes or Phish. There was a great jam band in our region called Ekoostik Hookah, very Dead-inspired. But I liked them better than the Dead.

Rush has a ton of phenomenal songs. I have their 2-disc Gold compilation and every song on there is a knockout.

For a long time man i've read your posts and I really agree with your music. Must be the only person who talks about Black Crowes around here! Soul Singing is such a great song too! Can't wait to see them again in May

Red Mosquito75

soulsinging wrote:

pg305420 wrote:

rush c'mon. they are good but would they be in tthe top fifty. They did nothing. limelight tom sawyer. I know it is hard but as a hard core pj fan i don't think there are many other pj fans that have really listened to the grateful dead. Listen to tehm once with a open soul and see what comes out. it won't be Rush

I hung out with nothing but hippies in college. I heard Grateful Dead bootlegs until my ears bled. I like a lot of jam bands, I love live shows and improvisation and cool solos that go on forever. But I never liked the Dead... they bore me. And they don't really have any GREAT songs, just a bunch of decent sounding jams... I'll take Neil Young & the original Crazy Horse from the 60s doing a 20 minute Cowgirl in the Sand over anything the Dead ever did. Or give me the Allman Brothers, hell even the Black Crowes or Phish. There was a great jam band in our region called Ekoostik Hookah, very Dead-inspired. But I liked them better than the Dead.

Rush has a ton of phenomenal songs. I have their 2-disc Gold compilation and every song on there is a knockout.

you sound like my mentor. he hated the dead. I could never get him to like them. Youmake some very good and valid points. Rush has some very good songs. That I have always loved. I think the dead is more then a jam band. it was a movement a way of life even though i am way too young. I can't find that atmosphere at any shows now except for phish maybe dvb. ben harper of course allman brothers. but for my generation with nothing out there we go back to the dead and life always with pj. I go to a pj show and see the same family, great songs and a culture which neither were intended to be. When I was 18 I would go to as many dead and pj shows as i could each year. They might be opposite spectrums but maybe closer then we think? But Rush will always have a place on my player but they are not close to pj or dead?

soulsinging

I BrisK I wrote:

soulsinging wrote:

I hung out with nothing but hippies in college. I heard Grateful Dead bootlegs until my ears bled. I like a lot of jam bands, I love live shows and improvisation and cool solos that go on forever. But I never liked the Dead... they bore me. And they don't really have any GREAT songs, just a bunch of decent sounding jams... I'll take Neil Young & the original Crazy Horse from the 60s doing a 20 minute Cowgirl in the Sand over anything the Dead ever did. Or give me the Allman Brothers, hell even the Black Crowes or Phish. There was a great jam band in our region called Ekoostik Hookah, very Dead-inspired. But I liked them better than the Dead.

Rush has a ton of phenomenal songs. I have their 2-disc Gold compilation and every song on there is a knockout.

For a long time man i've read your posts and I really agree with your music. Must be the only person who talks about Black Crowes around here! Soul Singing is such a great song too! Can't wait to see them again in May

Thanks! I snagged this name years ago. I didn't know they had a tour lined up again though? I heard they were going to record new material live at some point in the near future, but nothing specific. Warpaint is enough to hold me over until then! I got to see one of those preview shows where they played the whole album in order

soulsinging

pg305420 wrote:

you sound like my mentor. he hated the dead. I could never get him to like them. Youmake some very good and valid points. Rush has some very good songs. That I have always loved. I think the dead is more then a jam band. it was a movement a way of life even though i am way too young. I can't find that atmosphere at any shows now except for phish maybe dvb. ben harper of course allman brothers. but for my generation with nothing out there we go back to the dead and life always with pj. I go to a pj show and see the same family, great songs and a culture which neither were intended to be. When I was 18 I would go to as many dead and pj shows as i could each year. They might be opposite spectrums but maybe closer then we think? But Rush will always have a place on my player but they are not close to pj or dead?

Yeah, I don't hate the dead, I just never saw the big deal with them. I think it is very much a cult following... if you got into the scene and the following and touring, it was a blast. They do have quite a bit in common with PJ in that sense. I think they also were a great model of a way to sustain a band without being in the mainstream. But unless you're immersed in the cult, I don't think the Dead are particularly impressive outside of sheer improvisational musicianship. Song-wise, they don't stack up for me. So when you strip all that stuff away and get down to just the music, the Dead don't do it for me. I find Rush to be a far more impressive band in terms of their catalogue.

Red Mosquito75

I will give it up to the black crowes. A great band...Guess where i saw them once. Opening up for the dead after jerry died

soulsinging

pg305420 wrote:

I will give it up to the black crowes. A great band...Guess where i saw them once. Opening up for the dead after jerry died

They'd fit right in The Robinson brothers were born in the wrong generation!

Red Mosquito75

my mentor said the same thing about the dead..soul...You guys might have a point. he was a big fan of of songwriing. he liked warren zevon..so i bought some of his works. he is good but not my stuff. He always said they had no harmonies and no soull as I am getting older I tend to think this a little. I never hear the dead on the radion so they did not commerciallize themselves like pj or rush. I can't seem to put the dead in the same boat as rush no matter how hard it try. They are different genres but all good