The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked
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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…
The Brad
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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.
@copper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Notable exceptions: Beach Boys . . .
The Beach Boys are sacred. They are unparalleled not just in the world of music, but in the world of sound.
Don't no one say bad about the Beach Boys. If you do . . .
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Furthermore, Liam Neeson agrees with me.
I was only joking
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Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Furthermore, Liam Neeson agrees with me.
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@copper said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Notable exceptions: Beach Boys . . .
The Beach Boys are sacred. They are unparalleled not just in the world of music, but in the world of sound.
Don't no one say bad about the Beach Boys. If you do . . .
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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…
@lufins-dad said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
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…
Yeah but we're arguing here, not there, so we're winning and they don't get the engagement.
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Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Furthermore, Liam Neeson agrees with me.
@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
Please love yourself.
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Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Everyone loves the Beach Boys, I have seen them in concert many times. Members of the band have included Glen Campbell and the Captain & Tennille. I have seen them share a stage with the Boston Symphony and with Chicago.
Except, of course, President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt.
The Beach Boys had marked Independence Day at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1980, 1981 and 1982, performing to large audiences each time, and it had been expected that a fourth appearance would take place. Watt, however, had other ideas – without naming the band directly, he announced that no more rock acts would take part on July 4, saying they attracted “the wrong element.” “We’re not going to encourage drug abuse and alcoholism, as was done in the past,” he said.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beach-boys-4th-of-july-band-1983/
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@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
+1
Only one of the bands listed, are in my top 10.
You can probably guess which one.
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@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
I would agree.
But then I have never liked Van Morrison either.
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@aqua-letifer said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
@doctor-phibes said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
Not only do I dislike the Beachboys, I am also at a total loss as to why anybody likes them.
Same. It's contrived, shallow nonsense.
I would agree.
But then I have never liked Van Morrison either.
@renauda said in The 25 Greatest Rock Bands Of All-Time, Ranked:
But then I have never liked Van Morrison either.
OMG, YES!
Never understood the attraction.
Years ago, I saw Michael Feinstein do a big band version of "Moondance," and it was quite good.
Good song, questionable artist.
