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Thread: Who, in your opinion, is the best Rock band in history. State your reasons.

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    Default Who, in your opinion, is the best Rock band in history. State your reasons.

    And I'm talking all genres in the Rock spectrum here. Let's widen the field as much as possible. REMEMBER!! I'm asking for personal opinions and, after a fashion I guess, tastes.

    Personally, being a child of the late 60's and the 70's (I was born in 63), I pretty much grew up on what is nowadays called "classic rock" though I never can call it that myself.

    A lot can be, and has already been, said about so many of those bands. As I just about at least like them all, this is a debate we used to have very often when I was a younger man.

    But my personal choice has to be PINK FLOYD. Starting with the album MEDDLE all the way to THE FINAL CUT, all they did were masterpieces. Roger Waters was, and still is, a superb lyricist and conceptor (is that a word?) of this style of "Progressive/Art Rock". Some of his work reaches a degree of intensity unmatched by any other artist of the genre. I have somewhat outgrown the "angry young man" outlook of many of his work, still I cannot refrain from going back to them sometimes. And feel the same damned, sheer intensity wafting through me again.

    Couple that with DAVID GILMOUR's guitar and that's it! I'm on the floor!! NO other guitarist has moved me as much as this man. As alway, when it comes to art, the experience is hard to describe. I can only say, in all honesty, that only one guitarist has ever made me weep by his play. His solo in TIME ( The Dark Side Of The Moon ) still gets to me.

    RICHARD WRIGHT's piano and general keyboards work is absolutely masterful! Put on the album WISH YOU WERE HERE...I rest my case.

    NICK MASON's percussion is perfectly adapted to this style. Often softer than the usual BANG-BANG of rock music, even understated at times, he elevates the drummer to the rank of artist.




    You might be pardoned for thinking I'm a fan of these guys...
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    If I had to pick one out of my masively large musical library to represent all of rocks genres I would have to agree with your choice in Pink Floyd.

    A close second would be the often overlooked and massively underrated CLUTCH

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    Well I'm not a fan of picking just one band when I favour soooo many.

    Some of my favourites are (in no particular order):

    Rage Against The Machines
    Linkin Park
    AC/DC
    Lifehouse
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    Hinder
    Ironmaiden
    Slayer
    Metallica
    U2
    Guns 'N Roses..

    Lol so you see the list is pretty much endless.
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    I have recently found Slipknot to be enjoyable. Not all their songs, mind you, just some of em.
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    Can't choose between them really as music is an emotional ride.
    so can change depending upon mood.
    There are many great bands for many reasons.
    Led Zep are by far the best of their genre & styles.
    But if there was one full catalogue I would never be without .. it is Floyd.
    Only WITH Waters of course.. the rest I can easily do without.
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    Interesting topic, although impossible to do I have way too many bands

    I can give you my favourites though, and thats not to say they are the "best" just my favourites, some bands that are clearly of huge importance and significance are just not to my taste (eg U2)

    Here's probably my top 5 although it changes regularly with mood

    1 - Pearl Jam
    2 - Ash
    3 - Black Crowes
    4 - The Doors
    5 - Metallica

    That do for now?

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    Its gotta be The Who. I love them, they're so good.

    I just like their songs in general, they're uplifting and quite happy unlike some of the stuff I hear.

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    Guns N' Roses hands down. Among hard rock bands, they remain the best at performing softer songs. Sweet Child O' Mine is a perfect example of that. Their best song though is Civil War. They use that softness at times, but the song is still one of the hardest, most intense songs they ever performed, and it sounded even better with the Voodoo Child intro they did at Rock in Rio.

    Aside from GnR, I also listen to stuff by Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Guess Who, AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Fuel, Blue Oyster Cult, among many others.

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    nodody can beat the Mr. BIG ^_^
    paul gilbert and billy sheehan
    plus nice vocals from eric martin ^_^


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    Quote Originally Posted by PU239 View Post
    nodody can beat the Mr. BIG ^_^
    paul gilbert and billy sheehan
    plus nice vocals from eric martin ^_^
    This reminded me of one of my favorites.

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