Author Topic: Top 5 Classic Rock Bands (Read 7154 times)

TAC · « **Reply #35 on:** December 20, 2016, 08:45:53 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 07:40:11 AM

Unless it's just purely "My favorite", I don't understand how the Beatles aren't on every list. They were legend in almost every way.

Even though I have never listened to a Beatles album in my life, I do agree.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #36 on:** December 20, 2016, 08:59:26 AM »

Quote from: TAC on December 20, 2016, 08:45:53 AM

I have never listened to a Beatles album in my life

King Postwhore · « **Reply #37 on:** December 20, 2016, 09:29:26 AM »

LudwigVan · « **Reply #38 on:** December 20, 2016, 09:37:58 AM »

Quote from: TAC on December 20, 2016, 08:45:53 AM

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 07:40:11 AM
Unless it's just purely "My favorite", I don't understand how the Beatles aren't on every list. They were legend in almost every way.

Even though I have never listened to a Beatles album in my life, I do agree.

Nuggetz!

Stadler · « **Reply #39 on:** December 20, 2016, 09:48:52 AM »

I think there is a narrow list of albums - Tommy, Zep IV, Dark Side Of The Moon, Rumors - that are must listening, if for no other reason than to understand that which came after. It's like "musical education". The Beatles are one of the few bands that have THREE of those types of albums: Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road. Even if you think I'm wrong on that last point, I think you have to at least have heard "Sgt. Pepper" to get where artists like Hendrix, Yes, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, etc. are coming from.

TAC · « **Reply #40 on:** December 20, 2016, 10:02:30 AM »

I've never heard Tommy or Rumours either.

red barchetta · « **Reply #41 on:** December 20, 2016, 10:16:57 AM »

My alltime 5 favorite bands

Rush (for their whole career, the only band I kept following through the years)

The Beatles (the first band I ever listened to, about 5 years after they were done and bought everything and sing all the songs, all the time back then)

Genesis (for what they made during the '70s until Abacab in '81. I wished I had seen them live in the '70s)

Boston (that guitar sound and voice, just great, real rock'n roll music)

Harmonium (the greatest band by far in my province of Québec, their second album is amoung the top 50 alltime prog album by Rolling Stones mag. But their whole catalogue is amazing, singing in french and touring the States and opening for Supertramp in Europe, you don't see that often.)

Prog Snob · « **Reply #42 on:** December 20, 2016, 10:22:10 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 07:40:11 AM

Unless it's just purely "My favorite", I don't understand how the Beatles aren't on every list. They were legend in almost every way.

That's what I was implying earlier on.

TAC · « **Reply #43 on:** December 20, 2016, 11:05:08 AM »

If I could only take five 70's acts to a desert isle, it'd be these:

Alice Cooper (band & solo)
UFO
Thin Lizzy
Rainbow
Aerosmith

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #44 on:** December 20, 2016, 11:23:10 AM »

Quote from: TAC on December 20, 2016, 10:02:30 AM

I've never heard Tommy or Rumours either.

Stadler · « **Reply #45 on:** December 20, 2016, 11:32:47 AM »

Quote from: red barchetta on December 20, 2016, 10:16:57 AM

My alltime 5 favorite bands

Rush (for their whole career, the only band I kept following through the years)

The Beatles (the first band I ever listened to, about 5 years after they were done and bought everything and sing all the songs, all the time back then)

Genesis (for what they made during the '70s until Abacab in '81. I wished I had seen them live in the '70s)

Boston (that guitar sound and voice, just great, real rock'n roll music)

Harmonium (the greatest band by far in my province of Québec, their second album is amoung the top 50 alltime prog album by Rolling Stones mag. But their whole catalogue is amazing, singing in french and touring the States and opening for Supertramp in Europe, you don't see that often.)

Your avatar has the source of my single favorite passage of music ever. EVER.

TAC · « **Reply #46 on:** December 20, 2016, 11:33:57 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 11:32:47 AM

Your avatar has the source of my single favorite passage of music ever. EVER.

Gee thanks!

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #47 on:** December 20, 2016, 11:36:09 AM »

Quote from: TAC on December 20, 2016, 10:02:30 AM

I've never heard Tommy or Rumours either.

TAC · « **Reply #48 on:** December 20, 2016, 12:02:33 PM »

I know. I'm sorry. And I call myself a music fan.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #49 on:** December 20, 2016, 12:41:29 PM »

Do better, TAC.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #50 on:** December 20, 2016, 01:17:31 PM »

Now go to your room.

Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #51 on:** December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM »

Do I genuinely need to put the word 'favourite' in the title? What would even be the point of asking for a list with no personal aspect to it?

Also, I probably should have guessed the thread would become polluted with a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #52 on:** December 20, 2016, 02:14:30 PM »

Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM

a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

This may very well be one of the awesomest things ever posted on this site.

cfmoran13 · « **Reply #53 on:** December 20, 2016, 02:33:33 PM »

My personal five would be...

- KISS
- Rush
- Led Zeppelin
- Aerosmith
- Pink Floyd

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #54 on:** December 20, 2016, 08:56:40 PM »

Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM

Also, I probably should have guessed the thread would become polluted with a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

But... but... the Beatles!

Though I do kind of agree that if one considers oneself more than a casual music fan, one is almost certainly obliged to at least listen to a few of their albums.

Anyways... my list!
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Rush
Pink Floyd
Queen

Honorable Mention would probably go to The Beatles actually

KevShmev · « **Reply #55 on:** December 20, 2016, 09:00:35 PM »

Quote from: lonestar on December 18, 2016, 09:06:24 PM

Nit a single mention of the Who. So dissapointed...

I love The Who, but I just love a lot of bands more.

Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #56 on:** December 21, 2016, 05:58:59 AM »

Quote from: The King in Crimson on December 20, 2016, 08:56:40 PM

Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM
Also, I probably should have guessed the thread would become polluted with a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

But... but... the Beatles!

Though I do kind of agree that if one considers oneself more than a casual music fan, one is almost certainly obliged to at least listen to a few of their albums.

There is a difference between
"if you want to gain perspective on early rock music and hear some neat music, listen to some Beatles albums"
and
"you are not properly 'educated' on music until you've sat through X Beatles albums and enjoyed them",
let alone
"your taste in music is objectively cack if you don't blah blah blah sales in the hundreds of millions blah blah blah albums are holy documents blah blah blah invented the question mark".

What I'm seeing is along the lines of the second and third, not the first. And the reason I probably should have guessed that would be the case is because with the Beatles, it always is, in any discussion where their fans chime in with this crap, which is almost whenever they possibly can.

Take note of how little anyone else has insisted anyone else's personal list of top bands is wrong, flat-out wrong, if it doesn't include any other band. One thing I will give The Beatles: there is perhaps no band for whom fandom more frequently leads to the development of its own special strand of autism.

Stadler · « **Reply #57 on:** December 21, 2016, 07:17:34 AM »

Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 21, 2016, 05:58:59 AM

Quote from: The King in Crimson on December 20, 2016, 08:56:40 PM
Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM
Also, I probably should have guessed the thread would become polluted with a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

But... but... the Beatles!

Though I do kind of agree that if one considers oneself more than a casual music fan, one is almost certainly obliged to at least listen to a few of their albums.
There is a difference between
"if you want to gain perspective on early rock music and hear some neat music, listen to some Beatles albums"
and
"you are not properly 'educated' on music until you've sat through X Beatles albums and enjoyed them",
let alone
"your taste in music is objectively cack if you don't blah blah blah sales in the hundreds of millions blah blah blah albums are holy documents blah blah blah invented the question mark".

What I'm seeing is along the lines of the second and third, not the first. And the reason I probably should have guessed that would be the case is because with the Beatles, it always is, in any discussion where their fans chime in with this crap, which is almost whenever they possibly can.

Take note of how little anyone else has insisted anyone else's personal list of top bands is wrong, flat-out wrong, if it doesn't include any other band. One thing I will give The Beatles: there is perhaps no band for whom fandom more frequently leads to the development of its own special strand of autism.

I'm the one that brought up the 'musical education' aspect of things, but YOU added the "enjoyed them" part, not me. I never once said that anyone has to LIKE them. I deplore Bob Dylan, can't stand him, can't even listen to him, but I'd be an idiot if I tried to say that he's not an iconic American musician. Not top five, in my opinion, but certainly top ten. His influence is immeasurable. And I hate him.

And yeah, I did make sure I heard "Blonde on Blonde" and "Highway 61 Revisited". I feel like I'm not credible if I say "DYLAN SUCKS!" and "DYLAN'S OVERRATED!" if I haven't even heard the music in it's context.

My comment was very clearly - in both intent and execution - limited to number one. Fill your list with whatever band you like (and even if every person here put the Beatles on the list, that leaves four spots to debate, argue, and insult with). But I feel it's valid to question the credibility of the "TOP FIVE CLASSIC ROCK BANDS!" if you haven't even heard half the legendary classic rock output. It's like saying "list the ten best baseball players ever!" and only listing players you've seen live. No Babe Ruth, no Lou Gehrig, no... unless your 100 years old that is.

And the "autism" comment is out of line.

red barchetta · « **Reply #58 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:21:15 AM »

Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 21, 2016, 05:58:59 AM

Quote from: The King in Crimson on December 20, 2016, 08:56:40 PM
Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on December 20, 2016, 02:06:52 PM
Also, I probably should have guessed the thread would become polluted with a chorus of "The Beatles shat gold" cuntery.

But... but... the Beatles!

Though I do kind of agree that if one considers oneself more than a casual music fan, one is almost certainly obliged to at least listen to a few of their albums.
There is a difference between
"if you want to gain perspective on early rock music and hear some neat music, listen to some Beatles albums"
and
"you are not properly 'educated' on music until you've sat through X Beatles albums and enjoyed them",
let alone
"your taste in music is objectively cack if you don't blah blah blah sales in the hundreds of millions blah blah blah albums are holy documents blah blah blah invented the question mark".

What I'm seeing is along the lines of the second and third, not the first. And the reason I probably should have guessed that would be the case is because with the Beatles, it always is, in any discussion where their fans chime in with this crap, which is almost whenever they possibly can.

Take note of how little anyone else has insisted anyone else's personal list of top bands is wrong, flat-out wrong, if it doesn't include any other band. One thing I will give The Beatles: there is perhaps no band for whom fandom more frequently leads to the development of its own special strand of autism.

So, what's wrong with The Beatles? They are the Bethoven of the 20th century. People don't have to like or love them but what's wrong about the contrary? I just don't get your point.

soupytwist · « **Reply #59 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:33:11 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 09:48:52 AM

I think there is a narrow list of albums - Tommy, Zep IV, Dark Side Of The Moon, Rumors - that are must listening, if for no other reason than to understand that which came after. It's like "musical education". The Beatles are one of the few bands that have THREE of those types of albums: Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road. Even if you think I'm wrong on that last point, I think you have to at least have heard "Sgt. Pepper" to get where artists like Hendrix, Yes, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, etc. are coming from.

And you didn't even include the Beatles album widely regarded as their best 'Revolver'.

Stadler · « **Reply #60 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:35:29 AM »

The number of "firsts" that the Beatles accomplished (or, "fast follower" seconds, where they took a very little known idea and made it mainstream, like lyrics on a record. Zappa did it first, but after the Beatles, EVERYONE did it.) Listen to the snippet by Billy Joel on the bonus disk to the Greatest Hits box set, where he talks about being part of a nation that was stunned into silence by the assassination of John Kennedy in November of '63, and then not even two months later, we get these four aliens from Britain wanting to "hold our hand", and month after that, a THIRD OF OUR COUNTRY watched them sing "All My Loving", something else, and "Please Please Me" on television (virtually unheard of then for a pop group). They changed lives.

I love that line from John, when he was told that "no one would play a single that is seven minutes long" ("Hey Jude", which was 7:11 long): "They will if it's us." And they did; it spent something like nine weeks at number one.

One could make these arguments about Zeppelin, as well.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #61 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:40:41 AM »

Beatles arguments be like

NO, YOUR MOM!
NO, YOUR MOM!
NO, YOUR MOM!
NO, YOUR MOM!

Stadler · « **Reply #62 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:43:26 AM »

Really, the only knock AGAINST the Beatles is no whahibrido pickingant. It's really a glaring omission if you ask me.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #63 on:** December 21, 2016, 08:49:03 AM »

Well, yeah.

TAC · « **Reply #64 on:** December 21, 2016, 10:10:57 AM »

Somehow the Beatles conversation lost me.

bl5150 · « **Reply #65 on:** December 21, 2016, 03:06:16 PM »

Quote from: TAC on December 21, 2016, 10:10:57 AM

Somehow the Beatles conversation lost me.

The Beatles shit gold and Fluffy don't like the smell.

Add me to the list who have never owned (or listened to) a Beatles album

millahh · « **Reply #66 on:** December 21, 2016, 03:23:11 PM »

Lessee...

King Crimson (on the strength of the Larks-era lineup alone)
Rush
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin

TAC · « **Reply #67 on:** December 21, 2016, 03:25:46 PM »

Quote from: bl5150 on December 21, 2016, 03:06:16 PM

Quote from: TAC on December 21, 2016, 10:10:57 AM
Somehow the Beatles conversation lost me.

The Beatles shit gold and Fluffy don't like the smell.

Oh OK.

KevShmev · « **Reply #68 on:** December 21, 2016, 06:59:17 PM »

Quote from: soupytwist on December 21, 2016, 08:33:11 AM

Quote from: Stadler on December 20, 2016, 09:48:52 AM
I think there is a narrow list of albums - Tommy, Zep IV, Dark Side Of The Moon, Rumors - that are must listening, if for no other reason than to understand that which came after. It's like "musical education". The Beatles are one of the few bands that have THREE of those types of albums: Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road. Even if you think I'm wrong on that last point, I think you have to at least have heard "Sgt. Pepper" to get where artists like Hendrix, Yes, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, etc. are coming from.

And you didn't even include the Beatles album widely regarded as their best 'Revolver'.

I love Revolver (except for Taxman), but I don't think any Beatles is "widely regarded" as their best. It's certainly in the conversation alone with Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road, but opinions seem to vary quite a bit.

Prog Snob · « **Reply #69 on:** December 21, 2016, 09:28:49 PM »

Quote from: Stadler on December 21, 2016, 08:35:29 AM

One could make these arguments about Zeppelin, as well.

I do. They're dreadfully overrated and Robert Plant is terrible live.

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Author Topic: Top 5 Classic Rock Bands (Read 7154 times)