Your opinion sucks shit.

Zepp
Floyd
Tool
Radiohead
Alice In Chains

1) Black Sabbath (Ozzy years)
2) Led Zeppelin
3) The Who
4) Ozzy Osbourne
5) Dio (Black Sabbath years and solo, plus Rainbow)

Nirvana
Korn
Sublime
Eagles
Beastie Boys

Sweeeeeet Caroliiiine bah baaah baaaah SHUT THE **** UP

Rush
Cheap Trick
The Beatles
The Who
Pink Floyd

REMOVE THAT SMILIE IMMEDIATELY. And turn in your Headbanger card as well.

1) Rush
2) Yes
3) Porcupine Tree
4) Dream Theater
5) Pink Floyd

#1 Guilty Pleasure) Insane Clown Posse

I saw Tool in the summer of 1992 before anybody really knew who they were. They were on the 2nd stage at Lollapalooza.

The headliners? Rage Against the Machine, Fishbone, Primus, Alice in Chains...JFC what a day.

Wow, I think that's the first time I've ever seen Tool and Journey in the same list (of anything).

No, he's pretty much dead-on right. :D

Understandable.

But to me, 'the Beatles' went through 5 extremely different phases, and as a result can almost sound like 5 different bands :

1. early days - fast swinging 'beat' rock and roll w/huge soul/Motown influence on ballads...lots of 'boy-meets-girl' lyrics. (1962-64)

2. middle period - marked by more lyrical and instrumental experimentation; transitional period, but progressive (1965)

3. Psychedelia - complete sonic and aesthetic overhaul; music was in black and white before; the Beatles made it in technicolor with Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Orchestral, hall, jazzy flairs, eastern influence - a complete and total synthesis of every existing type of music on earth.

4. The soloists - (1968) - for the White Album, they worked on each song almost as a 'solo performer' with a backing band. Stripped of psychedelic trappings, earnest and raw, again reaching heights no one before had attained. Hey Jude and Revolution date from this period, as do Lady Madonna and Old Brown Shoe. The first (and superior) Across the Universe dates from this period.

5. The End - where they finally coalessed into a complete whole one last time to make the grand definitive statement in Abbey Road. They had never sounded better, before or since, either together or apart.

So, to me...'their sound' is a bit of a misnomer; they were very broad.

Guns N' Roses
Pearl Jam
Metallica
AC
Red Hot Chili Peppers

I really liked it... wish they had released something other than Tatoo as their first song. Stay Frosty grew on me.

Outta Space, Blood and Fire - those are my two favorites from the album.

Exactly.

You could throw 'Bon Jovi' on there as well, but I refuse to consider them an actual band at this point...they're just an aberration that I will not acknowledge.

Like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man...if you don't think about it, it doesn't exist.

Yeah dude, I agree... Great Call....

Hello, fellow traveler.

Tattoo grew on me - Blood & Fire is AWESOME. I dug Bullethead, Beats Working...She's the Woman.

It's just too long; drop a couple of the 'filler' somgs and you'd have the classic 39-42 min DLR-fronted VH album.

Which is good enough for me.

Except every band you listed is actually great.

see, if you just don't listen to classic rock radio and listen to the ALBUMS by Sabbath, Zep, Floyd, the Who, Skynyrd, et al, you get past the BS songs that the radio format shoves down a person's throat, and you get the whole picture and can truly appreciate their greatness.

On the flip side, as a kid I was exposed to repeated spins of Journey Escape and Captured and Departure, REO's Can't Tune A Piano,Cheap Trick's Dream Police & Budokan, foreinger's 4 (**** Mutt Lange, btw), Styx Kilroy and Grand Illusion, etc.

I've heard ALL that shit. Styx SUCKS. Dennis DeYoung is ****ing ANNOYING. His voice is nails on a chalkboard, personafied. Plus, all the Foreigners, REOs, Journeys, Bostons, etc sonically SOUND the same - cut from the same 70s AOR cookie-cutter cloth. Not only can you really not tell the difference from album to album, even band to band.

Conversely, Pink Floyd's Animals sounds NOTHING like Meddle. At all. Led Zeppelin III and Presence sound like different ****ing BANDS. The Who Sell Out and Who's Next both sound radically different from Who Are You or It's Hard. Sabbath's Never Say Die is a far cry from their first record...and the raw, rocking Queen II is a far cry from the productions of Jazz or News Of the World.

damn. full of face melting epicness. I just seen Primus a couple months ago for the first time. Shit was awesome. I think they played for like 3 hours too. I had to get me tour shirt for that experience.

at what?

forcing people to beat their radios with hammers?

My god there's some terrible taste in here.

Korn?
Foreigner?
yes???

How about you all go into your Itunes and look up your most played bands. See what actually comes up.

Alice in Chains
System of a Down
Incubus
Tool
Tenacious D

This is the whitest collection of bands since the 1943 Lollapalooza in Berlin.

Turn the radio to a station other than 101.1 The Fox.

racist.

Trust me, I havent listened to main stream shit stations in years. I have sirius in my truck and Xm in the car.

We avoid radio all together.

Don't listen to the radio. It's pretty simple.

Are there any black rock bands? :p

great at not sounding like other bands or like themselves all the time.

That is, if you've actually heard the albums and not just the songs on the radio.

I have seen some dog shit bands in this thread; but YES, my friend, is not one of them.

remember Living Colour??

Band Of Gypsys, I think one counts, too.

So, yes - there are 2.

Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Earth, Wind, and Fire is my shit, dawg.

Yes was AWESOME, say 1970-1985.

I have that 0u890210 LIVE - The Solos album; Trevor Rabin was actually a badass on guitar, and anything with Steve Howe is ****ing amazing.

Chris Squire and Alan White are one of rock's most pre-eminent rhythm sections EVER.

Anyone who talks shit on them doesn't know what they're talking about.

Korn and Foreigner, on the other hand, are ****ing God-awful, and anyone who listens to them...I feel sorry for. You should like yourself more.

But they're TOP FIVE?

true, but they became more of a funk/soul band.

See, if we're gonna go there, I'll bring out Funkadelic, ya know??

Just for Maggot Brain and Mommy, What's a Funkadelic ALONE.

for some people, sure.

The prog rock crowd, for People who are down with Rush, King Crimson and especially early Genesis, Yes is absolutely a top 5 band.

Yes was everything that was good about prog rock...

Ahem...

yep.

Ha! For some reason I thought it was just top 5 bands.

Sure, there are black rock bands, though I doubt anyone would put them top 5, because none of them happen to be as good as a lot of others.

TV on the Radio comes to mind.

You COULD argue for Otis Redding.

My top five, to allow for ridicule:

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Rolling Stones
3. Pearl Jam
4. Alice in Chains
5. Radiohead

Note to self: Poop in a box and send it to Johnny Vegas for Christmas; he'll think it is awesome.

Fair enough. I guess I always thought of Prog rock has a misuse of talent. Not wasted, just misused.

I could pretty much 'shuffle' my ipod with only Led Zep, VH, and ACDC and be good to go for quite a while.

I hate those low-bitrate mo3 streams.

Satellite radio is the devil.

I hate around 3000 vinyl records, around 40,000 CDs and abot 5TBs of everything you can name : classical, jazz, rock, pop, punk, soul, blues, etc. Everything in analog or FLAC format. Mp3s are for little girls to listen to dance music on their ipods.

Shit-tons of live recordings and studio outtakes, etc. Bootlegs are my shit. I've taken it to such an extreme that anything commercially available is considered pedestrian. I laugh at Satellite radio, because it sounds like dogshit.

I'm a HUGE Yes fan who didn't put them in my historical top 5, because of their slide into bloat and pretention (which I love anyway).

But I put them in my honorable mention because of their technical ability (Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Bill Bruford, Alan White and Rick Wakeman are/were gifted musicians), their long-term success and their influence.

For good or bad, their virtuoso musicianship combined with vocal harmonies influenced many 70s and 80s bands (Boston, Styx, Kansas, Foreigner, etc.)

when it's good, it's great.

When it's bad, it's unbearable.

And to be fair, everything that was bad. Very Spinal Tap-ish in some instances.

**** yes. that's good rockin's right there.

I can do Stones, Skynyrd and Neil Young all day everyday.

:thumb: Good ones

1985-on, especially.

it's cringe-worthy.

Try 1974 -- Tales From Topographic Oceans, especially the stage setup for the tour.

I love that shit. But I absolutely get why people hated it, and rebelled against it.

Living Colour?

:Lin:

:D

You forget The Experience. ;)

I try. And back to the "black" rock bands, I REALLY dig Sevendust (older stuff at least) and their lead singer is black.. Does that count?

I've been trying to get into newer music, mostly because if I never hear "Hotel California" again for as long as I live, it won't be soon enough.

I've discovered a band called Alt-J (the Mac shortcut for typing the Greek letter Delta).

Just one album so far, and most of the songs aren't like this, but the tool crowd might enjoy hearing the (light) influence:

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Hawkwind!

:LOL:

Now I'm gonna have to go put on "Space Ritual Live."

In case of sonic attack, use your wheels. It is what they are for. Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons.

In no particular order....

1) The Clash
2) U2
3) Cheap Trick
4) Talking Heads
5) Velvet Underground



I hate Led Zeppelin, Rush, Yes, Rolling Stones, that flute band and other crap from that era/genre for the most part.

Flame away.

Ok.. TV On the Radio, then?

****ing awesome band, btw.

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I like this list.

I would actually agree with this. #6 would be The Kinks.

:thumb:

The Kinks were my second concert and the first one I actually remember (my first was Rush but it's a little, umm..., hazy).

Alt-J has been getting pretty heavy rotation in KC. Here is another video (pretty disturbing).

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Alt-J is incredible. Definitely one of the top 5 albums of 2012.

Good for you, dude. Good for you. Keep discovering.

In no particular order:

1. Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship (This DOES NOT include "Starship")
2. Styx
3. REO Speedwagon
4. Paul McCartney & Wings (This DOES NOT include Paul's non-Wings solo garbage)
5. Anything with Eric Clapton

The correct answer is:

Van Halen
Aerosmith
AC/DC
ZZ Top
Led Zep

ROFL

How about the Michael Moorcock prose between tracks on "Warrior on the Edge of Time"?

Zeppelin
Stones
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots

I suppose that's a good list if you've never turned on a commercial radio station for the past 40 years.

Funniest Jethro Tull reference I've seen in a long time. :thumb:

Shit, didn't even think about the Stones. They should probably be on my list. Soundgarden would be in my Top 10, but not 5.

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This songs should only be listened to LOUD.

how about Wakeman's solo album, Journey to the Center of the Earth or whatever??


PASS on 4 sides of a synthesiser solo

King Arthur was performed by ice skaters dressed as knights on horseback.

C'mon...really?

It's really hard to come up with a top 5 list because it depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes my list might include 80's alternative like Guadalcanal Diary and REM. Other times it will be classic rock or 80's NWOBHM like Holocaust or Angelwitch. Lately, I've been on kind of a 70's kick and have been picking up stuff that I didn't use to like as much, like Neil Young or CCR.

I have a half full 160g iPod and I usually just have it on random so don't really favor one band over another.

As someone who likes Zep, Rush, Yes and Tull, I also like every group on your list.

Need lots of bass for this....

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to be honest, the more bass I play, the more Noel starts to annoy the shit outta me.

I'd rather have Billy and Buddy.

To me, it goes like this :

Band Of Gypsys>Cry Of Love Band>The Experience.

Flame away.

agreed; great musicians, a couple of decent songs, then so WAY WAY overrated to the point that they made a career out of it.

Kinda like Phish, only on a way smaller scale.

In the order that I recall listening to them:

1. Van Halen
2. Ozzy
3. Iron Maiden
4. Metallica


5 is tough, toss-up between NIN and Jane's Addiction.