undoubetly Metallica. Their new CD needs to come out already.

I vote for Honchie

http://www.myspace.com/honchierocks

Beatles.

Beatles.

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2007/01/kiss_destroyer.jpg

We talkin strickly American ?.. okay.


That's pretty easy actually.




3. Coltrane: the classic quartet.

2. Hendrix: A band of Gypsys

1. Fishbone.



All done!

A love supreme is greatness, but if we're gonna talk Jazz I'll go with the Miles Davis Quintet or some iteration of Charlie Mingus' band.

Still, Metallica kicks them in the teeth with steel toed crocs.

In no particular order

Zepellin
Beatles
Radiohead
U2

The Clash Cla****y clash clash clas

Beatles #1

I do have a special place in my heart for bands that claim to be the best, like Tenacious D and The Hives.

A love supreme is greatness, but if we're gonna talk Jazz I'll go with the Miles Davis Quintet or some iteration of Charlie Mingus' band.

Still, Metallica kicks them in the teeth with steel toed crocs.



Okat, we are talking about 'bands' here ? .. i.e. the classic musical ensembles! .. And btw, which Miles Davis Quintet are you referring to? The one with coltrane and paul chambers, red garlend and philly joe jones on drums? or the one with tony williams on drums, wayne shorter and herbie hancock and ron carter? ..

There were two different classic Quintets - both from completely different eras, and while they were both very good and very ground breaking in their own way - it would be sheer lunacy to say that they in any way formed a better ensemble than the 'classic' coltrane quartet; McCoy, Garrison and Elvin Jones. I mean come on dood, do I have to spell it out for you? .. The coltrane quartet had ELVIN JONES (and it had John Coltrane too) ..
So, I am sorry but it is obvious you are just utterly confused by asserting something so far fetched and ridiculous. On its worst day - the classic quartet could hold a faster tempo, a tighter groove, and do so with ten times the facility of any Davis quintet or sixtet or septet - could ever dream, on their best most swinginest day.

Nothing can even come close to touching the classic quartet - that just might as well be like a fundamental law of the universe by now.


And btw, metallica can't hold a candle to Living Colour .. nope. hang it up ppl. no dice. You lose. :beer:

@ red house-

I love the song "Sunless Saturday" by Fishbone.

I must have listened to Vivid by L.C. for months on end when it came out. "Desparate People" was my jam.

I must have listened to Vivid by L.C. for months on end when it came out. "Desparate People" was my jam.


cool man :beer:


If you like vivid - you should check out 'time's up' .. it's sound is much like vivid, but it many times better and more fully realised imo. Their next album after that was 'Stain' - not at all like vivid or time's up. It is much darker and heavy and raw - much more like ''heavy metal'' .. Stain almost has the 'feeling' that they just went into the studio and recorded the stuff live.


Their latest album 'kaleidoscope' (released just a few years back, after they reqrouped) .. really sucks. It's just terrible. Most of the songs are good - but it is way over-produced, it lacks any edge at all. It's just sterile sounding. imo. :P

But then again - my friend downloaded a bit-torrent of their concert in amsterdam, one that they performed the first day of kaleidoscope's release .. and they tore it up, it was just unbelievable. Incredible.. it's just amazing how they can be so tight enconcerte - and make those songs sound so good live .. and yet sap all the life out of them when mixing and recording them in the studio. I dunno, go figure..

The Who.

Way ahead of their time and the back catalogue still sounds relevant today.

Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

More... for Crankshaft

Floyd pepper...perhaps one of the front men of all time and damn...their lead guitar player was hot.

And their drummer... legend.

Can't believe the kid has never heard of Dr Teeth.

There is no debate, The Beatles hands down. The question should be who is the 2nd best band of all time?

Comparing some of these other clowns to them is ludicrous.

I gotta say though, McCartney's tank is empty.

Okay... Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was really a cover band but they really had a way of taking classic tunes and making them their own.

And none of them ever died from a drug overdose although their drummer did do a few stints in rehab for caffiene addiction.

And cause no-one has said this, and I don't know why.

Rush.

Clearly it's the Ohio Players. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF25KEloF5g&NR=1)

Bay City Rollers

Okay... Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was really a cover band but they really had a way of taking classic tunes and making them their own.

And none of them ever died from a drug overdose although their drummer did do a few stints in rehab for caffiene addiction.

I never realized you were a caffeine addict.

:lol:

I play the drums like Animal too.

Rush.
And for techno, daft punk.

You know....flame me if you like. I have very diverse musical tastes. But the Beatles...I've listened to them, I mean really sat down and played whole albums from a friends collection over multiple nights... I listened to them when I was a teenager, in my twenties and again recently in my late thirties and you know what....I just don't see it??? I don't see them being the brilliant songwriters and musicians that people seem to go ga-ga over. Sorry but the beatles do absolutely nothing for me. Zero. And I would not even include them in the top twenty greatest bands.

P.S. Metallica does not make the top twenty for what it's worth either.;)

led zepplin

Guns and Roses.
Pink Floyd.

The Clash Cla****y clash clash clas

The only one to get it right with The Only Band That Matters.

A few more mentions...

Queen.

The Benny Goodman Orchestra.

I don't think there can be a winner.

Gong - any version

I don't think there can be a winner.

Oh yeah there is, The Beatles. ;)

nin anyone ?

^^^^^^^^^^

Without question, it's the Kinsey Report. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kinsey#The_Kinsey_Report)

The Grateful Dead
Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd

that the big three for me.
Now I love The Clash
Drive By truckers
and anybody playing the blues

likely the beatles or the rolling stones. taught everyone in the 60s that they didn't have to restrain themselves when making music.

Count Basie Orchestra - we're talking all time here.

Pixies

"if man is 5 [3x]
then the devil is 6 [5x]
then god is 7 [3x]
this monkey's gone to heaven"

Beatles
Clash
Ramones
Nick cave
H.I.M.
Joy Division

That's enough for now

Only 10% of the population can see past their own preferences when listing "the greatest band/s of all time."

My favorite bands (in order)
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Beach Boys
3. CCR

None of those are "the greatest"

I am not a Beatles freak but if one has to be "the greatest" I guess it would be them, although later McCartney-penned songs seem to be nothing more than pointless stories about everday characters. Lennon was clearly superior, but how much of his writing could be attributed to drugs is up to debate.

I always compare them with Genesis, who at one time had both Peter Gabriel (superior writer ala Lennon) and Phil Collins (lightweight pop ala McCartney.)

Rush is definetly super awesome

While "best" is of course subjective. The best band or ensemble of all time........if you're judging by musical prowess and technical skill in the category of "Rock Music" in the United States is:

The Mothers of Invention 1973-1975

Ian and Ruth Underwood
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Bruce Fowler
Tom Fowler
Chester Thomson
George Duke
And of course Frank Zappa

It's just a fact........... you can look it up.

led zepplin

^^ What he said.

The Clash
.
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Beatles
Stones
Wailers
Bad Brains
Who
Stooges
Ramones
Radio Birdman

People will find it hard to suggest a BEST BAND OF ALL TIME given everyone has a FAVORITE PERSONAL BAND that will mean much more than purely the best music ever made, if music of course can be easily judged like that, which it can't :D

I ALSO find the same thing hard ... so ....

http://mog.com/pictures/wikipedia/54644/Manowar_band.jpg

http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/1184225697_000manowar__gods_of_warlive2cd2007box_frontfkk.jpg

Undoubtedly the kings of true Heavy Metal since 1982 - Manowar !

Along with Metallica, Pantera, Slayer and a few other great names [which, you guessed it, came after 1982]

- i won't venture beyond the area of Heavy Metal, since naming Manowar anyway usually attracts the mob & torches ony my ***** :D

The best of all time has to go to the Beatles, though I didn't like ALL of their music (White Album).

My favorites are:
Pink Floyd
Santana
and get this, Herb Alpert! :D

Living Colour = for the politics, the Vernon and the fact that every member has talent in their own right.
Tsunami (Jenny Toomey) for the lyrics and the indie DIY ethos.
At the Drive In (insane live, artcore lyrics that evoke imagery all ashimmery)
Nine Inch Nails. One man band that has stood the test of time, and evolved...

Living Colour = for the politics, the Vernon and the fact that every member has talent in their own right.



:beer:



**dood.. I just spent about five minutes on google looking for the photo of Wimbish wearing the T-shirt with El Che on it... wtf is that at?









(Jenny Toomey) for the lyrics and the indie DIY ethos.


guh? :P -?





At the Drive In (insane live, artcore lyrics that evoke imagery all ashimmery)
Nine Inch Nails. One man band that has stood the test of time, and evolved...



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