So who’s the best band?

[winjim]

Wu-Tang, who are for the children.

Unlike Run the Jewels, who are not.

 

[Rusty Nails]

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.

Go on, you know you miss them.

How old were you in the early noughties?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Whenever I walk through the technology section of John Lewis I enjoy wandering past their demo unit of Siri or whichever and asking it to play the Sex Pistols or heavy metal. Makes a change from the usual anodyne stuff they play.

 

[Hacienda71]

Right if we are allowing all genres. Parliament and Funkadelic. George Clinton a genius.

 

[Drago]

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.

Hip hop? What rot. Im a hardcore raggae man myself. Cant beat a bit of Musical Youth.

 

[winjim]

Go on, you know you miss them.

How old were you in the early noughties?

I'm of an age where I went to see Steps and S Club at the Smash Hits party while at university. Ironically of course.

 

[yello]

It's fun to debate but it doesn't really matter does it? No, it doesn't really matter.

Honest to dog, I don't think I'd want to make a claim. How does one seriously compare the diverse bands already mentioned here, and that's before you consider the many more not mentioned.

On a related note, and speaking of influential, I was listening to BB King's version of Hoochie Coochie Man earlier. I said to my wife 'you know, I don't even know what a hoochie coochie man is'. She googled. Well, you learn something every day. Sometimes you'd rather not.

 

[Chief Broom]

For raw jungle gut punching nihilistic electric hair raising sardonic armagedon I would say Iggy and the Stooges.....Would i want to listen to them today? probably not, maybe a few tracks if i was driving somewhere ....and had a car

 

[Rusty Nails]

I'm of an age where I went to see Steps and S Club at the Smash Hits party while at university. Ironically of course.

At university I saw Spencer Davies, Geno Washington and the RJB, Status Quo (pre their rock image days), PJ Proby, Cliff Bennett and the RR, plus the Bonzo Dog DD band. Unironically, but quite drunk.

 

[delb0y]

Great to see The Motors mentioned earlier on in this thread. They really were very good.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Mozart’s band was pretty good.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

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

Got to be worth a separate thread start.

 

[pawl]

Desford colliery brass band Not heard them for some may have if you pardon the pun disbanded .

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Mozart’s band was pretty good.

Similarly, Beethoven was the first in a long line of rock stars who shocked the establishment.

I'd wager he would love this:

https://www.google.com/search?clien...ate=ive&vld=cid:bbb8cafc,vid:dBb060OPegg,st:0

 

[Dave 123]

Pink Floyd. Or maybe All Saints.

Never ever....