best rock band…. ever?

There is no possible good argument against The Stooges

Sisters of Mercy

have you seen them lately? as in since 1985? one word – karaoke 🙁

loved them around the time of Black October/ FALAA tour but since Eldritch sacked the rest (ie The Mission), his live shows have been cr@p.

speaking of The Mission, however, I’m tempted to shell out for FOTN + The Mission October 2013. Would have liked to see The Cult, Killing Joke + The Mission but Jaz Coleman went walk about..again..

my favourite ever gig:
Sisters Of Mercy
New Model Army
Skeletal Family
c1983-4 Huddersfield Town Hall. That was an amazing gig.

FOTN + The Mission + Killing Joke would be equally amazing if it could ever happen.

There is no possible good argument against The Stooges

Yeah. I meant to say that 🙂

FOTN – just awesome live always way better than the sisters, who just sort of stood there.

NMA- brilliant band

for me my fave ever gig was testament, suicidal tendencies, slayer and megadeth on the same bill, Clash of the titans. (megadeth were a bit poo, but there always were iffy)

or

FOTN, Janes addicition and creaming jesus at the brixton academy before janes were really known in the UK.

it depends on the term rock, for me, it’s a bit light and fluffy radio friendly pap. Now most of the great bands mentioned so far have been metal: motorhead, maiden etc… or punk/alt like the stooges. husker du etc…

so led zep are the best “rock” cos they are bland guff for the mundane and dull. 😉

Why the need to slag off the people who like a certain band? Bit of a crass generalisation when they have so many fans no?

Do you just not like them because they’re mainstream? Did you stop liking Jane’s addiction when they became popular?

mogrim – Member
Led Zeppelin? God no, pretentious tedious crap loved by musos. Awful, awful rubbish, only outdone by Pink Floyd.

You might, possibly, have had a point, until you wrote:

GnR, ACDC. Or early Stones.

Your problem with Zep stems from the fact that you’re obviously not old enough to have been around when they started, so have absolutely no proper perspective on what else was around at the time. The ‘musos’ then would have been into jazz, or possibly the Beatles or Beach Boys. Zeppelin were a folk band with amplifiers.
Actually, the musos would have probably been into King Crimson, lots of complicated jazz rhythms and clever lyrics.
Basically, mogrim, all you like is 12-bar blues, anything more complicated than that is

pretentious tedious crap loved by musos. Awful, awful rubbish, only outdone by Pink Floyd.

Most of us, on the other hand, can cope with, and appreciate a wider variety in our music. And are old enough to remember how much of a revelation Zeppelin were at the time.
Nobody’s mentioned the Pixies yet, or Mudhoney, or Pavement. Or Screaming Trees; now there’s a bloke with an awesome rock/blues voice!

Led Zeppelin: mundane dull guff? I think you might be dazed and confused.

OK. So which part of Motorhead don’t you understand?

Led Zeppelin are one if my favourites as are Nirvana, The Stooges, the Rolling Stones, The Small Faces and (castigate me forever) U2. But the best rock and roll band of all time – has to be The Who!

ciderinsport – Member
So then STW, what’s the collective agreement to this one

Obviously, there isn’t one and never will be when it comes to music.

Few omissions that I thought would have got more of a mention

Iron Maiden, Cream, Judas Priest, Motorhead, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Bad Company, ZZ Top and Rush to name but a few

Do agree that Big Country were excellent live and new album out soon I believe

Pah – no one has even mentioned The Eagles yet 🙄

You CAN’T have Mudhoney on that bloody list!

Sonic Youth 😉

Iron Maiden
Queen
Allman Brothers
Rush

**depending on your definition of “rock”

]To go and see it would be the original Fields Of The Nephilim. For sheer amount of music TheStones, for just ripping up the rule book and giving the world a kick up the backside The Stooges.

Fugazi – for all the right reasons

Motorhead – for all the wrong

Lol at this thread, do calm down chaps. 🙂

A few good calls above but I can’t nail it down to one. Just consider myself pretty lucky to have been growing up around some fantastic music that appeared following the Beatles and Stones.

AC/DC…
Motorhead…
Led Zeppelin…
The Stooges…
Big Country ??? 😆

Rolling Stones and Little Feat.
The Kinks.

Zep

Or The Clash

Do you just not like them because they’re mainstream? Did you stop liking Jane’s addiction when they became popular?

oooooo are you going to turn this into a “you’re just a niche whore” argument again like you always do? oh goody 😆

I stopped liking janes addiction when they became crap. Ritual was a terrible album.

and just because a lots of people like something doesn’t make them right, just sheeple. 😛

Well in answer to the OPs question about a rock n roll band it has to be AC/DC.

They’ve stuck to a formula and produced some epic tooooooons. Live they’re fabulous. What’s not to like.

Don’t change the recipe. Don’t evolve. Do what you do and do it loud. AC/DC innit.

Don’t change the recipe. Don’t evolve

go to be Quo then 🙂

Black Sabbath. The most under rated band ever. Should be up there with the Beatles as far as influence on other bands goes.
Couple of mentions for wildhearts earlier. What a great live band.

oooooo are you going to turn this into a “you’re just a niche whore” argument again like you always do? oh goody

Well, if the shoe fits…….

and just because a lots of people like something doesn’t make them right, just sheeple.

Just because lots of people like something doesn’t automatically make it bad either.

I’d have to include both Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Don’t forget that there were quite a few musicians that dropped out of one band and joined another, perhaps moving on to yet another.

buzz-lightyear – Member

Led Zeppelin: mundane dull guff? I think you might be dazed and confused.

LOL’d at that! 😆

Well, if the shoe fits…….

see, you wear shoes…I bet sensible ones from clarks….which is why you like zep. dull dull sensible dull 😉

bare foot on a pogo stick, it’s the only way to travel 😆

Cream were amazing. How could I have missed them out…?

I don’t get the led Zeppelin thing, never did, they were ok but ever that good IMHO.
Guns n roses had one album that was ace, faded on the next two and then were crap from then on.
Ac/dc just carry on churning the same chords out.
Motörhead have a couple of songs but Lemmy never had enough to claim that title.
Even Aerosmith, kiss, Crüe were all great but not the best.

To be classed as the best, a band has to consistently of blown away many generations of fans with loud guitar. I gotta say Metallica are up there somewhere. But everybody has a personal favourite or three. I’m a bit of a Doors fan, like Deep Purple, really like NIN, Soundgarden, Rammstein… But best??? Hmmm. Not sure any band should have that title.

big country

see, you wear shoes…I bet sensible ones from clarks….which is why you like zep. dull dull sensible dull

Yup, every day I put my Clarks on and drive my Mondeo to my 9-5 office job while listening to a David Gray CD. 🙂

Tricky one – I mean does “best” mean favourite, most successful, or most talented?

Still can’t decide on one band.

To be classed as the best, a band has to consistently of blown away many generations of fans with loud guitar.

Strange criteria to have and I am less sure why you think Led Zep dont qualify. Paige will be consistently ranked above Hammett on a top guitarist list

There is no best ‘best’, just the noise you like the most. 😀

I always find that people who accept the subjectivity of art tend to be the least repressed, very open minded and generally the most fun to be around.
Very difficult to wind up though.

Paige will be consistently ranked above Hammett on a top guitarist list

Nothing worse than musicians discussing music – once they’ve done their bit they should all be locked away ’till next time.
Their opinion is less than relevant, it’s in fact positively harmful.
Most of them have become brainwashed by the technicalities of their craft and forgotten how or why they enjoyed music in the first place.
Much the same as working in a chippy for years puts you right off a nice piece of fried haddock. 😀

THIN LIZZY – any of the girls want a little more Irish in them ?!

Some very strange candidates ^^.

Out of interest I’ve just looked up biggest selling artists WIKI and some of it is bizarre. I can understand loads of MOR/mainstream in there but The Backstreet Boys sandwiched between Barbra Streisand and Bon Jovi at 130 million units! Seriously WTF 😯

Personally, I couldn’t even begin to say who was ‘best’ as there is too much to take into account for different eras and musical progression.

One of the best bands I ever saw live. IOM TT ’77 absolutely blew the doors off

Junkyard – Member

Paige will be consistently ranked above Hammett on a top guitarist list

Hammett’s a pretty boring guitarist (he seems to be branching out now mind). Very skilled, but not really inspiring. (I’ve a sneaking suspicion Hetfield’s got him beat now, maybe not as a technician but as an artist)

But that doesn’t stop him from blowing away many fans with loud guitar