Sabbath for starting it all
AC/DC for doing it properly
Motorhead for keeping it real
Iron Maiden for sheer panache
Metallica – for keeping it going after 30 years
GnR – for style if not consistency
Oh and slight wild card, Queen’s early stuff was pretty heavy but they dominated 80’s chart rock and Freddie is irreplaceable
Guns n Roses for me-I’m not a huge fan, but they seem to have done the whole Rock Band/ Rock Star thing as well as anyone, and their first albumn is a top 10 of all time for me.
Whilst there are some truly great rock bands I think it has to be Led Zep and by some margin – about 100 million albums – then again both Elton john and the Beatles outsell them so read in to that what you want 😉
Very few rock bands are liked by anyone who is not into mainly rock – yes I mean Metallica, and AC DC in particular- and Zep are the best in this respect.
Without them we would not be having this chat either 😛
only Dylan, Lou Reed, Charlie Watts and Miles Davis made decent music on heroin.
Charlie used briefly in the 80’s, hardly the Stones best period. Now if you’d said Keith you could have had Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street and probably Let It Bleed too.
I agreed with some of the above. My tastes vary but for me they are some of the following:
A Perfect Circle (awesome band).
Cranes
Hootie and the Blowfish
Sisters of Mercy (seen them 3 times live, amazing)
Yo La Tengo
New Radicals
Queens of the Stone Age
Rammstein
Soundgarden
Screaming Trees
Pearl Jam