So who’s the best band?

[Chromatic]

Out if the two, the Beatles. Not to say the Stones haben't done some damn fine work over the years.

I have Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and Rush tattoos (among others) andnhave considered getting a Stones rubber lips tattoo.

You should get them tattooed around your bellend.

 

[fossyant]

No-one has said Queen yet.

 

[winjim]

It still falls into the era in which music lost it's way, and has never recovered.

I think maybe you just weren't going to the right sort of parties.

 

[yello]

I think I stopped actively seeking out new music maybe a decade ago. That's not to say I don't listen to it on the radio, I don't listen exclusively to 'old fart' music channels! I'm just not as active as I once was.

These days, I like to discover stuff I've missed out on due to my past earnest desire to stay 'finger on the pulse' That does, ironically, lead to me listening to what you might call old fart music sometimes but not singularly so, and certainly not headline acts, more the influencers of headline acts - if I can put it like that.

For example, I was reading about The Charlatans yesterday, and they cited a range of influences. I would follow up on those influences these days. Or, I liked a description of them sounding like "the Spencer Davis Group on acid", so that might make me want to listen to them.

 

[Brandane]

James, Happy Mondays, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs...

All good; but where are they, or their individual members, now? None of them had the lasting influence of the big groups of the 60's/70's.

 

[fossyant]

Stereophonics !

 

[matticus]

TBF the 2000s were a horrendous decade for what you might call conventional guitar music. But since I guess the 80s with technology improving and getting cheaper, music production has become more democratised and whole new genres are appearing all the time. I do wonder if now that recording, sampling and synthesising has become so cheap and easy that we're missing out on the innovation which comes from exploring the limitations of what's possible with the equipment at your disposal but I guess we'll see.

That certainly could be true - many of favourite acts were doing new/weird/clever sh .. stuff. Now we rave about anyone using the latest software to mashup/sample stuff written last month with something from 1965; takes them 20minutes to record/publish a 3min song.

BUT: the cheap technology - both to create AND publish - probably means a dilution of the audience. There is now TOO MUCH music to listen to it all!

Perhaps there can NEVER be another story like The Beatles? Maybe Radiohead should have been bigger, or Daft Punk, PJ Harvey, Cheeky Girls ... whoever. Just a theory ...

 

[MichaelW2]

We need to approach this scientifically to obtain an objective result. We cannot limit ourselves to hard rock bands so we need The Best Band in each category.
Eg
Rock
Heavy Metal
Prog
Punk
Soul/Funk
Disco
Pop
Rap
Electronica

Then we compare the winning band in each category using suitable parameters:
Eg
Loudness
Length of Guitar Solo
Sexual Allure of Lead Singer
Number of drums hit
Size of biggest stadium played
Number of hotel rooms trashed
Quantity of drugs consumed
Melody
Lyrics
Musicality

Simples.

 

[MontyVeda]

The best band is of course... Gong!

 

[PaulSB]

Stroke of genius that pun...

I wish could take credit for pure chance

 

[Brandane]

You should get them tattooed around your bellend.

They tried with Led Zepp's "Stairway to Heaven", but there was only room for the first step!

 

[Cycleops]

Then we compare the winning band in each category using suitable parameters:
Eg
Loudness
Length of Guitar Solo
Sexual Allure of Lead Singer
Number of drums hit
Size of biggest stadium played
Number of hotel rooms trashed
Quantity of drugs consumed
Melody
Lyrics
Musicality

Simples.

Easy win for Spinal Tap.

 

[Drago]

The best band has to be the one im in.

I mean, who else could pull of a hard rock version of the Copacabana?

 

[swee'pea99]

The Fab Four. Der.

 

[roadrash]

As for McCartney the harsh reality is he's done little of real note since the Beatles broke up.

You seem to forotten about the frog chorus...





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