The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked
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It's been "20 years since Nirvana came on the scene...", umm it has been 31 years. Good editing!
Also, Jimi Hendrix is... "a band"? Nope.
Apparently you have to be male, pale, have a depressed look, and horrible hair. And ugly. But... chicks dig the guitar!
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 14:57 last edited by@89th said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
But... chicks dig the guitar!
They used to. That's why garage bands were such a thing. Music was what was popular then. Now kids, what, try to be YouTube or TikTok famous?
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wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:08 last edited by bachophile
Off the top of my head I would add Crosby stills Nash although they had different iterations.
Also maybe dire straits.
The band.
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@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I don't think Jimi Hendrix and SRV really count as bands.
Okay, then Double Trouble/Triple Threat and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I don't care. The point is Joe Strummer got his name because he couldn't play worth a shit.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:13 last edited by Doctor Phibes@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
The point is Joe Strummer got his name because he couldn't play worth a shit.
Unlike the musical phenomenon that was Johnny Ramone?
The point isn't whether you can play or not. Not that I think The Ramones should be on the list.
If you're going to put a punk band on the list, ditch the Clash and Ramones, and put on the ultimate example, The Sex Pistols.
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I'll ask because somebody has to. How do you click past Credence??? I can't find anything to move the thing.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:25 last edited by@catseye3 I had to use another browser to do that.
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wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:27 last edited by
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
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Off the top of my head I would add Crosby stills Nash although they had different iterations.
Also maybe dire straits.
The band.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:28 last edited by@bachophile
I agree with Dire Straits over a number of these. The Band is at presentable #9. -
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:50 last edited by
Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac didn’t make it
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U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 15:56 last edited by@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
U2's popular, but that's about it. The Edge ain't no Gilmour.
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@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
U2's popular, but that's about it. The Edge ain't no Gilmour.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:03 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
U2's popular, but that's about it. The Edge ain't no Gilmour.
It's about "bands". They put on a massively great show, and have a massive string of hits, and play very tightly together. There's a reason that they are "popular" and have been for 40 years.
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wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:05 last edited by
@kluurs said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac didn’t make it
I don't care too much for either of them, but I agree with you that they should be up there, along with the Eagles.
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@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
U2's popular, but that's about it. The Edge ain't no Gilmour.
It's about "bands". They put on a massively great show, and have a massive string of hits, and play very tightly together. There's a reason that they are "popular" and have been for 40 years.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:23 last edited by@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@ivorythumper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
U2's popular, but that's about it. The Edge ain't no Gilmour.
It's about "bands". They put on a massively great show, and have a massive string of hits, and play very tightly together. There's a reason that they are "popular" and have been for 40 years.
Way to perpetuate your demographic stereotype there, IT.
Just joshin'. Yeah, they should be on there, considering what the list parameters appear to be. -
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:26 last edited by Doctor Phibes
I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
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I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:28 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing. Sadly, it's not really something that's continuing. Not in the mainstream, anyway.
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@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing. Sadly, it's not really something that's continuing. Not in the mainstream, anyway.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:33 last edited by Doctor Phibes@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing.
I'm 57, right on the edge of boomerdom, and the majority of those bands were either before my time, or considered a bit lame, at least when I was growing up.
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I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:49 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
old codgers playing rock and roll
I watched this last night on Netflix
Lots of old codgers playing rock and roll drums
Count Me In
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@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing.
I'm 57, right on the edge of boomerdom, and the majority of those bands were either before my time, or considered a bit lame, at least when I was growing up.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 16:57 last edited by Aqua Letifer@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing.
I'm 57, right on the edge of boomerdom, and the majority of those bands were either before my time, or considered a bit lame, at least when I was growing up.
Yeah because Kesha and Drake are just so much cooler than Led Zep or Deep Purple. Give me "Hotline Bling" over "Immigrant Song" any day!
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@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I think it makes sense. Rock and roll is a boomer thing.
I'm 57, right on the edge of boomerdom, and the majority of those bands were either before my time, or considered a bit lame, at least when I was growing up.
Yeah because Kesha and Drake are just so much cooler than Led Zep or Deep Purple. Give me "Hotline Bling" over "Immigrant Song" any day!
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 17:03 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Kesha and Drake are just so much cooler
Are they the same as Lil Baby and Drake? Cuz just yesterday I heard a thing called "Yes Indeed" which I just loved.
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wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 17:16 last edited by
There's no mention of Eric Clapton at all in that list.
Cream should go in at 24.
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wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 17:40 last edited by
Most of them have that rebel without a clue look.
Notable exceptions: Beach Boys, Hendrix, Beatles, coincidentally that may be the best 3
By my count, there is one woman and one person of color, so diversity has been served.
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I must admit, I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll, even if the band is really good. There's something vaguely discomfiting about it.
And yes, my use of the word 'discomfiting' marks me out as one of them.
wrote on 27 Aug 2021, 17:52 last edited by George K@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
I don't really like watching old codgers playing rock and roll
I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That’s too long as far as I’m concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were. If you were pretty and young and wore short skirts and were busy trying to be sexy and all that shit at 25, it worked. If you’re 50, it doesn’t work quite as well.
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you’re 25. To me it’s embarrassing. I realized that during the 80s. In the 80s we weren’t writing our own songs. It was like being in L.A. rather than San Francisco. I like to write my own stuff or have the band members write their own stuff, and we weren’t doing that. I was in my 40s and I remember thinking, God, this is just awful. But I was such an asshole for a while, I was trying to make up for it by being sober, which I was all during the 80s, which is a bizarre decade to be sober in. So I was trying to make it up to the band by being a good girl. Here, we’re going to sing this song, “We Built This City on Rock & Roll.” Oh you’re shitting me, that’s the worst song ever. I could do it, I could get up and imitate myself, but that doesn’t feel right.
In another interview:
Slick, whose brash style in the masculine world of rock was a role model for today’s greatest female performers, confessed in a 1998 VH1 documentary that “all rock ‘n’ rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire.”