So who’s the best band?

[hobo]

Radiohead

 

[winjim]

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 ...

With pretty much all of recorded music available at the tap of a screen, and so much more being produced it's certainly different even to 25 years ago when I would ride to the record shop on pay day clutching my brown envelope and have to decide which album I could afford to buy.

I think this is where despite streaming and such, radio DJs are still an important part of music culture. They sift through all the shite and pick out the best or most interesting.

I'm with you on PJ Harvey but Daft Punk are massively overrated.

 

[tyred]

The Spice Girls

 

[swee'pea99]

Out of interest when did he say that?
I can admire the Stones but I always preferred The Who - always had the idea that there was more passion there.

I'd be very surprised if Macca ever said anything so silly. The Stones may have done some covers - pretty creditably, on the whole - but the vast majority of their stuff, and the stuff they're rightly rated for, is all Jagger-Richards. As for what Roger Daltry thinks about anything, does anyone give a shoot? I mean, he could sing. That's it isn't it? Or am I missing something?

As for the OP, you could argue the 'best' band all night, and definitely get nowhere, but for musical importance, in my lifetime, for sure, no other band comes close to The Beatles. McCartney, it's true, inflicted Mull of Kintyre and Silly Love Songs on us, but he also gave us Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby. I can remember almost nothing Lennon did post-Beatles, apart from Imagine - one of a bare handful of songs that I loath with a passion. But somehow the blend, massively boosted by George Martin, transformed popular music in just a few years. And for the better.

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make

 

[Oldhippy]

He said something along the lines of that in the early days the Stones were a blues cover band which in some respects they were as they (and many others) were doing versions of US blues. He said it on Radio 4 but don't know what show. Many bands, Beatles included in some were doing their take on what was coming over from the States. Some found their own style, many disappeared without trace.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

With pretty much all of recorded music available at the tap of a screen, and so much more being produced it's certainly different even to 25 years ago when I would ride to the record shop on pay day clutching my brown envelope and have to decide which album I could afford to buy.

I think this is where despite streaming and such, radio DJs are still an important part of music culture. They sift through all the shite and pick out the best or most interesting.

I'm with you on PJ Harvey but Daft Punk are massively overrated.

Spotify is pretty good at sifting out the 'junk' ie what is probably not to your taste.

Not infallible but it clearly uses some smart algorithms.

 

[markemark]

Rubber.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Best band is always going to be a matter of taste.

Zep were my teen idols and whilst my musical tastes have changed considerably over the decades I think that they were, and still are, the benchmark setters for a cohesive traditional 4 piece Rock band. Their timing was spot-on and they were very much a band rather than just four artists playing together.

Stellar guitar playing from Page has to be a given and he would be in the top handful of anyone's Best Rock Guitarist list I would've thought.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Nobody has mentioned the E Street Band!
Shame on you all!
A phenomenal backing band and all with successful careers away from that as musicians, actors, activists and producers.

Here's a Bee Gees cover!

View: https://youtu.be/4n1GT-VjjVs


And pure spontaneity!

View: https://youtu.be/L-Ds-FXGGQg

 

[Alex321]

Personally, I was never that keen on the Stones, I much preferred the Beatles. Other bands of that time I liked a lot - The Hollies, The Animals, the Kinks and a few more.

Of course, there are some more recent (if not by much!) bands very high in my list as well, such as Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Beautiful South

 

[Hacienda71]

Primal Scream were rocking it in the 80's and still are today. Screamadellica held up well even in the depths of the electronic era. Remember dancing to them in the Hacienda back in the day. Definitely a rock band but liked to experiment and accepting of modern influences.

 

[sheddy]

Rubber

 

[Cycleops]

Out of interest when did he say that?
I can admire the Stones but I always preferred The Who - always had the idea that there was more passion there.

It was about a couple of weeks ago in most of the rags but Daltry's comment was reported today.

 

[Spiderweb]

Oasis, Stone Roses, Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Stereophonics, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Arctic Monkeys, Keane👍

 

[raleighnut]

No mention of the various versions of 'The Mothers Of Invention'