The Greatest Rock Band?

[Mindflux]

This discussion is going to be very very subjective.

Bands may sound HORRIBLE on stage, and godly in studio. Or Vice versa.

Rock is also vague... rock is pretty much anything with an electric something.

My votes:

Phish
Grateful Dead

[mcveighr]

Guns & Roses are pretty good. Sure axl has gone all stupid now but they were quite good.

[Torbo]

pink floyd.

[Ov3rmind]

The Ramones

Just due to the fact that their music is so stupidly simple and fun to listen to (oh yeah, and you can throw in their gigantic influence on modern rock n' rool if you'd like as well).

[Lopy]

their influence was nothing compared to zepplin or floyd.

[Rumble]

METALLICA!!! At least Ride The laghtning, and Master Of Puppets Alblums. after that, they got worse, but I still whip out the St. Anger CD once in a while, but Master of Puppets ALOT more.

[who_311]

Originally posted by Rumble
METALLICA!!! At least Ride The laghtning, and Master Of Puppets Alblums. after that, they got worse, but I still whip out the St. Anger CD once in a while, but Master of Puppets ALOT more.

Dude, how can say that a band is the "greatest" rock band ever when they have bad albums(black album-present) have bad albums? That doesnt make sense, that makes them not the best. Along with Zepp, they have albums that suck, like "In through the Out Door" and CODA, dude, those albums were lame.

My thoughts on this subject would be, that there is no such thing as a "greatest" artist, music is far too wide of a spectrum to judge one band as the best band. And, ACDC couldnt possibly be the best, their music all sounds the same.

[taylor492]

cmon is there any doubt its the Beatles. those other bands dont even come close. Dont get me wrong they're still good. I went to Paul McCartney when he was here a year ago. OMG...BEST.CONCERT.EVER

[Matt1427]

yeah

mindflux, your are a godd people. I have seen phish in concert 4 diff times. The Doors are a good studio band, but not live, the best band of all time is pink floyd. Grateful dead will always be the jam band of all time.

[71 LS6]

Zeppelin is the first that comes to mind, very well known, huge following, countless great songs. Personally, I like the fact that you can listen to Zeppelin for hours without ever hearing 2 songs that sound alike.

Also surprised that no one has mentioned Black Sabbath, they were pretty big in their day, and many consider them better than Zep (not me).

Can't beat old Van Halen, Eddie on the lead guitar, Roth or Hagar on vocals, they had some great songs.

Rush had one of the best drummers (Niel Peart) and one of the best bassists (Geddy Lee).

Boston has had some awesome songs, although many of them souund alike to some people.

Old Metallica was absolutely awesome, some of their original albums never get old.

AC/DC has a lot of great songs, even though they're fairly simple and a three year-old could play their drums. Go listen to AC/DC Live, it has 90% of their best songs on it.

The Who are a great band to listen to, their songs were truly works of art.

I also like Kansas, had some different music out there, and every line in "Dust in the Wind" should be a quote somewhere.

Jethro Tull. Love the flute included in the rock music, nice touch.

Ted Nugent, not a whole lot of great songs, but the guy is awesome. I want to go camping with him.

The Doors, Jim Morrison had a great voice, and i liked the heyboards.

Pink Floyd has had a lot of good songs, and can be phenomenal when you're in the right mood.

Queen has also had some great songs, Bohemian Rhapsody will always be a favorite.

Cream was great, as well as Eric Clapton on his own.

Guns 'n Roses had quite a few good songs, and the singer has a very unique voice.

Journey. Steve Perry had a great voice, and that band put together some good songs.

Foreigner. Lou Graham was from Rochester (like me).

The Beatles, one of the most widely followed bands ever.

Rolling Stones, same as above.

Lynyrd Skynyrd. C'mon, just look at their name. They're awesome.

Steve Miller Band, tons of good songs.

Eagles, again, loads of good stuff.

ZZ Top, some great music from just three guys and some long beards. Oh yeah, nice cars too.

Styx, I really like some of their songs.

I'm leaving out a lot that should be on here.

(I am in no way saying that all of those bands could be considered the best. I'd have to say Zeppelin, aftr that the bands listed are in random order).

[Ov3rmind]

Originally posted by Lopy
their influence was nothing compared to zepplin or floyd.

Maybe not as much, but not "nothing" compared to them. Modern alternative music would not sound how it does if they had never existed.

[WaveRhythm]

Originally posted by Ov3rmind

Maybe not as much, but not "nothing" compared to them. Modern alternative music would not sound how it does if they had never existed.

WTF are you doing here?

[Mateo]

*In a whiney teenage ricer voice*
LiKiN pArK rAwKs!!!!!!111! I mean chester has an amazing voice and that one dude can rap, never heard of anything like it, yo!!!!11
*end*

Now back to reality, The Beatles, Queen, Eagles, Bad Company, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, so many to choose from, but I have to agree Freddy Mercury was put on this earth by god to sing and rock.

And who ever said The Misfits must be pissed off at the government or something, punk is dead and they weren't as influential as some of the previous bands mentioned except to little "goth" kids who think life sucks and all they do is complain about everything instead of doing something about it.

Also I think The Ramones didn't have as much as an impact as Nirvana did, but Nirvana doesn't need to be mentioned in a all time greatest rock countdown. *pulls out umbrella and prepares for the flak to rain*

[ASDadam]

I think 71LS6 sumed up almost everything i could say. He listed all the bands that should be on the top lists.

But i think the BEST is a tie between Queen, The Who, Zepplin and Floyd

Like said, Freddys voice and the band was something god sent from above and NO one ever could compete with him.

The Who for their incredible lyrics and awesome music.

Zepplin for Page's godlike guitar.

And floyd for the phenominal music and lyrics that Go on and on in your head but never get old.

[AutomagRT1483]

AC/DC, seen 'em live twice. Greatest show I've been to.