So who’s the best band?

[Drago]

You should get them tattooed around your bellend.

I could indeed, and there would still be room for all 5 Spice Girls

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Sir there is a spare knighthood in a draw somewhere in Whitehall that Mr Beckham did not get,it's yours from today you have style.

As I proceed into the firey furnace it will be a Kinks song playing me out.

 

[Fat Lars]

It has to be Led Zeppelin.

They were the best band during the best years of the great Rock bands and Rock music - The Seventies.
John Bonham - Quite probably the greatest ever Rock drummer
Robert Plant - Quite probably the greatest ever Rock frontman
Jimmy Page - Greatest Rock Guitarist ever
John Paul Jones - Brilliant all round musician keyboards, bass player
Kashmir - rivals Comfortably Numb as the greatest ever Rock song that builds to a tremendous crescendo.

 

[MichaelW2]

Odd that no one has mentioned The Jam -.

Jam fans are smart enough to know that they were good, maybe great but never The Best.
Unlike Stone Roses fans.

 

[Grant Fondo]

They were very innovative of course but can't find myself humming any while I'm on the bike or elsewhere after just hearing them, apart from The Model and Robots.

 

[Brandane]

They were very innovative of course but can't find myself humming any while I'm on the bike or elsewhere after just hearing them, apart from The Model and Robots.

What about:-

 

[Adam4868]

Jam fans are smart enough to know that they were good, maybe great but never The Best.
Unlike Stone Roses fans.

Lol

 

[winjim]

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.

The trouble with algorithms is that they can start throwing up lots of similar but maybe rubbish versions of whatever genre you happen to be listening to at the time, when I like to be introduced to new, but interesting or good stuff from different genres.

 

[craigwend]

"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly"

"Hope I die before I get old..."

Who needs this longevity malarkey?

 

[Rusty Nails]

It's utterly beyond me how this forum doesn't attract a younger membership.

You can always start a thread comparing the merits of S Club 7, Steps and Little Mix, if that's more your thing, and see whether that attracts the yoof. There are no rules against it.

I like many of the more recent bands, and solo artists, and think that some, like the Killers, compare favourably with bands of any era (although hip-hop and rap, and a lot of the mid 80s and 90s sugary stuff) have left me cold), but have a theory that the (pop/rock) music of one's youth has the strongest and most lasting impact.

At my age clubbing, "raving" and rock festivals would probably kill me and look a little bit embarrassing...a bit like dad-dancing, so I'll stick to listening to music on my tape recorder and transistor radio as I haven't yet worked out this modern downloading and streaming malarkey.

 

[Adam4868]

You can always start a thread comparing the merits of S Club 7, Steps and Little Mix, if that's more your thing, and see whether that attracts the yoof. There are no rules against it.

You need to get out more.

 

[Drago]

As I proceed into the firey furnace it will be a Kinks song playing me out.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps for me, and The Garden by Rush as the hordes of mourning females leave the crematorium.

 

[Rusty Nails]

You need to get out more.

I would but the carers won't let me.

 

[winjim]

You can always start a thread comparing the merits of S Club 7, Steps and Little Mix, if that's more your thing, and see whether that attracts the yoof. There are no rules against it.

I like many of the more recent bands, and solo artists, and think that some, like the Killers, compare favourably with bands of any era (although hip-hop and rap, and a lot of the mid 80s and 90s sugary stuff) have left me cold), but have a theory that the (pop/rock) music of one's youth has the strongest and most lasting impact.

At my age clubbing, "raving" and rock festivals would probably kill me and look a little bit embarrassing...a bit like dad-dancing, so I'll stick to listening to music on my tape recorder and transistor radio as I haven't yet worked out this modern downloading and streaming malarkey.

S Club split up eighteen years ago, Steps twenty, barring reunions. That's even older than the early noughties techno I sometimes post on Friday nights, and that's old.

 

[AndyRM]

All of this so far has been focussed on rock music, so a few of the best from the world of hip-hop:

Wu-Tang Clan
Cypress Hill
N.W.A
Public Enemy

I love all 4, but in terms of massive influence, it has to be Wu-Tang, who are for the children.