Hmm. Tricky question, and very subjective. In fact, this list has been quite hard to compile, simply because my choice in music is so varied and also tends to change a lot depending on what mood I'm in.
However, some music is just so great that it stands the test of time and always inspires emotion in me. I think the bands listed here are at the pinnacle of inspiration and emotion and have made a lasting contribution to 20th century music.
The top two should really be joint No.One I think as they're both far and away the greatest bands ever. However, I think the sheer emotional energy inspired by the Floyd puts them in the top spot.
Arguably the greatest rock band of all time. The fusion of David Gilmour and Roger Water's musical talents created an unmistakable and unique sound. I don't care what anyone says, Dave Gilmour is one of the world's greatest guitarists.
I think my personal favourite album is Wish You Were Here but A Momentary Lapse of Reason is another brilliant album, and who can forget the all-time classic Dark Side of the Moon. One of the greatest songs ever is Comfortably Numb.
However, I guess the song that will remind most people of Pink Floyd is probably their most famous song, Another Brick in the Wall.
Should really be joint first position because The Moody Blues are another band with a unique and special kind of music. Play any Moody Blues track and they're instantly recognisable. As Ray Thomas once said, when the four of them start playing, there's that unmistakably Moodies sound. I agree.
Their lyrics are profound, thought-provoking and highly emotional. And if you've never seen them live in concert then you've missed a truly memorable experience. They epitomised that 60s and 70s feeling.
My all-time favourite song is Forever Autumn, although technically this was a Justin Haywood solo track rather than a Moody Blues one. (my second all-time favourite is Comfortably Numb (see above)
Most people will probably remember Nights in White Satin and Question, two of their most famous songs.
After the top two it becomes a bit more difficult to put them in numeric order, because they're all good and, depending on mood, should all go at no.3. However, I'll try...
Brilliant! Another band I can listen to anytime, and what a range of talent through the years! I think Fleetwood Mac have excelled at more musical styles, ranging from Blues to Pop, than I've had hot dinners - and they're all brilliant.
From Peter Green's early blues stuff (sometimes I think this is my favourite era) to best seller classics like Tango in the Night, Fleetwood Mac span the generations and bring back all the emotions of a bygone era of freedom and inhibition.
Albatross is another of the greatest tracks of all-time, especially the extended live version.
Arguably the loudest rock band of all time. Again, one to sum up the feelings of a lost era (do watch Quadrophenia and Tommy if you get the chance). Pinball Wizard and Behind Blue Eyes demonstrate the range of their classic songs.
If you've not heard them before (where HAVE you been??) then get "Who's Last" which contains most of their classic tracks.
A classic mix of superb talent and composition. Virtually all their albums are essential listening, to say nothing of the cover art, each a masterpiece of Roger Dean's airbrush work. Yes have another unique and instantly recognisable sound. 90125 is another must-have album for any collection.
American supergroup of the 1980's (I'm a bit of a fan of those 'middle-of-the-road-80s-American-supergroup' type bands) but Journey are one of the best in my opinion. Trial By Fire is a must have for any serious collection, but all their albums are great air guitar stuff.
I've decided to include Journey more as representative of a whole genre which is important to include. Such other genre members would include bands such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Dio, The Eagles, Guns and Roses, REO Speedwagon and Supertramp etc - so perhaps this entry should be more 'American Symphonic Rock' than Journey per se.
I'm sure Meat Loaf (real name Marvin Lee Aday) is one of the fastest singers in the world. The speed and skill at which some of his songs are performed is enough to take the words right out of your mouth (excuse the pun).
Bat Out of Hell is yet another all-time classic album and all his songs just overflow with energy and emotion. Great videos too (must remember to add that woman in the I'll do anything for Love video to my list of beautiful women!)
Many people would argue that Queen should go higher in the list - and I'd probably agree, as it's difficult to categorise so many favourites. And Queen are easily the best group I have ever seen live (I was lucky enough to attend 'Knebworth in 85').
Everyone must remember Bohemian Rhapsody but they have so many classic hits it would be difficult to list them all here. Freddy Mercury was one of the greatest showmen and performers of rock, and his death (in 1991) was a sad loss to the world of music.
Early stuff is perhaps more unique and certainly influential, but all excellent. Unfortunately in the later years they went a bit too commercial for my liking. Foxtrot is a favourite, but I bet Peter Gabriel would rather forget the marigold custume...
Like Queen, The Rolling Stones should probably go higher in the list, but then someone would have to go lower and I'd spend all day re-jigging the list! Again, too many hits to list here, but the Hot Rocks 1964-1971 double-album might be a good introduction, as if Mick Jagger's mega-group needs an introduction!
Paint It Black, Ruby Tuesday and Satisfaction will probably be their most memorable tracks for many people.
....Loads.... (in alphabetical order to avoid getting into the problem of trying to categorise them all again)
A special mention must go to Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds which ranks amongst the best albums of all time. featuring Julie Covington, David Essex, Phil Lynott and Justin Haywood with a narration by Richard Burton, this album is an absolute must for all music collections, not least because it contains my favourite song of all time - Forever Autumn by Justin Haywood.
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the greatest rock band of all time is no other than 30 seconds from mars there new fresh punk good music great song great voice range im a number 1 fan from the phillippines
Dude the best rock band ever were the beatles weather you like it or not
interesting that the Stones were named "the greatest rock n roll band in the world" after the official divorce of the Beatles. Maybe the list was drawn up by a Gen Yer who's musical taste doesn't go beyond 1990
Without the Beatles,none of the groups you mention would ever be
As The All Music Guide saysn their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century."
"Moreover they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did *and* the most popular at what they did." THey also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.
Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennnis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been'
And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."
And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,ERic Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this guitar game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself.He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.
And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers are among the 2 greatest singers in rock and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that ERic Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.
John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.
Also on MusicRadar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on THe Ed Sullivan Show in Februar 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaborartion with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.
Also in an excellent Beatles book Ticket To Ride by Denny Somach where so many other well known popular respected rock musicians and artists are interviewed about The Beatles praising them including Jimmy Page,Brian Wilson who says he's always loved The Beatles. And Brian Wilson called John & Paul the greatest song writers of the 20th century on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show,(which had on music artists from every type of music,a young black jazz musician,a middle aged black opera singer,Steve Winwood,Meatloaf,and classical violnist Isak Perleman,who said he plays his children Bach,Beethoven Mozart and The Beatles)and he played With A Little Help From My Friends on the piano and he said he just loves this song. He also said that Sgt.Pepper is the greatest album he ever heard and The All Music Guide says in their Beach Boys biography,that Brian had a nerveous breakdown after he heard it. Brian also said that when he first heard The Beatles brilliant 1965 folk rock album Rubber Soul he was blown away by it.He said all of the songs flowed together and it was pop music but folk rock at the same time and he couldn't believe they did this so great,this inspired him to make Pet Sounds.
John Lodge and Justin of The Moody Blues are interviewed in this book and Bill Wyman and Ron Wood says how The Rolling Stones became good friends with The Beatles in 1963 after John and Paul wrote 1 of their first hits,the Rock n Roll song,I Wanna Be You're Man.
Ron Wood was asked what his favorite Beatles songs and he said there are so many apart from the obvious like Strawberry Fields I Want To Hold Your Hand is one he said he used to like a lot ,and he said he really loved We Can Work It Out.He also says that The Beatles used to have a radio show every Friday where they played live and spoke and he would never miss an episode. He said infact whoever has the rights to those shows should dig them up,because they are incredible.
Justin Hayward says that the album he always really loved ,and he said it was when they started experimenting with chord structures ,was A Hard Day's Night.He says they began to move away from the standard 3 chord thing and just went into more interesting structures .He said A Hard Day's Night was the album for him and their song If I Fell was the song.He said it started in a different key to how it ended up,and it's a beautifully worked out song and that there are some songs on that album that were very emotinal and evocative. He said that for everybody just starting to weite songs as he was,it was a real turn on and eye opener.
It's really ignorant and unreal that you don't even include The Beatles!
And that you even have The Bee Gees, a pop and disco band on the list as runners up!
The Beatles wrote *plenty* of great rock songs including hard rock on The White Album and Abbey Road and as many have rightfully pointed out Paul invented heavy metal with his 1968 song Helter Skelter and people have also said John's I Want You She's So Heavy on Abbey road was also one of the first heavy metal songs.
Even in their early days they wrote some great rockers that were very rocky for the times, as The All Music Guide said,in their very good review of Past Masters Volume 1 that they proved they could rock really really hard,with John's I Feel Fine from late 1964 which featured the very recorded feedback guitar on a rock song,and Paul's great blues rocker,She's A Woman also from late 1964,and what they called the peerless I'm Down which is Paul's screaming rocker from mid 1965 which they performed even harder rocking, and screaming in August 1965 at Shea Stadium.
Also John's You Can't Do That from early 1964,is a great rock song, so is Day Dripper,Paperback Writer, And You're Bird Can Sing, She Said She Said,Taxman,Oh Darling,Hey Bulldog,Revolution etc!
On Last FM. The Rolling Stones only had 80 members of their fan group in 2007, The Beatles had over 2,000 which is now over 11,000 and the average age of fans is 22 more guys than girls and they are from all over the world!
In 2006,2007 and 2008 The Beatles were the # 1 most listened music artists on Last.FM and they are very popular on YouTube and Rate Your Music where many male and female fans in their teens and 20's call them The Greatest Rock Band Ever!
The Beatles are still rightfully regarded by most people,most rock critics,and many other music and rock artists as The most creative,innovative,and prolific rock band ever!
As many people even some Rolling Stones fans have said, The Rolling Stones haven't made a great record in at least 25 years or more.
And they copied The Beatles in many ways including trying to rip off sgt.Pepper with their Satanic Majesties Request album.And it was John &Paul who wrote one of their first hits,I Wanna Be You're Man in early 1964 and they wrote it right in front of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards who were blown away and said how can you just write a song just like that?! And it inspired them
to start writing their own songs.
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Whoever made this list needs to go somewhere and get real. Do some research. This poll shouldn't be about your favorites according to you (who the hell are you anyway?)Do your research. Led Zeppelin holds the #1 spot in most of these polls and to put them where you have is insulting to say the least. It tells me allot about the person's musical background. In this case not much!
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