The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked
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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.
@bachophile
I agree with Dire Straits over a number of these. The Band is at presentable #9. -
U2 and the E-Street Band didn't make the list?
@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.
@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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@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.
@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. -
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 was only joking
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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.
@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.
@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.
I was only joking
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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.
@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.
@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!
@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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There's no mention of Eric Clapton at all in that list.
Cream should go in at 24.
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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.
@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.”
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@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.”
grace slick was uber cool
Weird how the airplane transformed into top 40 starship
Although I must admit I liked the red octopus album back in the day.
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Lists like this are always just one man's opinion. Several of them are jokes, in my opinion. But that's because my taste in music differs from the guy's who put this list together. Where are Gino Vanelli and his band, where is Boz Skags and his band, SRV, etc. If the criteria for getting on the list is innovation, half the groups on his list dont even qualifu.
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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.
@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.
Fucking Millennials.
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Only people born in the 50’s really understand.
We r so much smarter than y’all
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You guys do understand how these lists work right? They don’t give a flying fig which bands were the 25 best. What they do want us for everyone to be talking about their list and how they disagree do more people will click on the link to see it (and the ads). I’d much rather make our own list…
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