Post your top 5 rock bands of all time

[Buck]

I'm interested in seeing what era most people's favorites come from and if there are more US bands or UK bands (or Scandinavian if you're Reaper16)

Clean sweep for the Brits for me.

1. The Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Led Zep
4. Pink Floyd
5. The Who

Define band however you want. If you want to throw Elvis on your list, do it.

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by Johnny Vegas

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.

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

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

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...

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

[Dayze]

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

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

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.

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.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

But they're TOP FIVE?

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.)

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

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

when it's good, it's great.

When it's bad, it's unbearable.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

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

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

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Dayze

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

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

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

[KC Tattoo]

Originally Posted by SuperChief

Alice in Chains
System of a Down
Incubus
Tool
Tenacious D

Good ones

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

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

1985-on, especially.

it's cringe-worthy.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

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.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Driving Wheel

remember Living Colour??

Band Of Gypsys, I think one counts, too.

So, yes - there are 2.

Living Colour?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

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

You forget The Experience.

[SuperChief]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

Good ones

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?

[saphojunkie]

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: