Best Band of our Lifetime ?

too difficult to name just one -but the Stranglers deserve a mention imo

"Fight The Flower" was certainly a fantastic early Floyd song.

i'm a Rebel G

i guess Coach will be digging those old Beatles 12" out soon

Well it's going to obviously come down to Blur or Oasis, and I vote Iron Maiden.

Guns & Roses were ok in their day .. but about as memorable as a Shopping List!

Appetite for Destruction is still awesome and stands up really well to time, I've listened to it a few times this year.
Did you guys realise Axl Rose is now singing for AC/DC? Not sure how well known that is.

Oasis init

yay , the Beatles also McMoon of course  but i'm guesing like the Floyd,Stones,Who,Oasis etc they will get enough votes  anyway

Louisiana Gator Boys had a few half decent musicians.

THE ROLLING FEKN STONES>>GAME OVER>

think the Stranglers were bit before my time Coach but my old man played Golden brown non-stop .. a true Classic

I heard it's actually a reference to Heroin

Girls Aloud 3-1-2-4-5

Is that ... the order you'd .. err .. "do" them in?

Public Enemy saw them off the main stage at Glastonbury kenny .. they were not happy bunnies .. that's what i call GAME OVER

The Beatles will never be surpassed.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

REM

Pixies

Oasis Like a cr@p Beatles tribute band.

Rolling Stones win in a canter. Probably have 150 really good songs and another couple of hundred that are pretty good. Very few stinkers.

Small Faces
Mott the Hoople
The Animals

As a live band Queen were in a different league.

for the OP impossible question !!!

although The Clash is the answer !

good pick vlad

if not the best they must be in the top 1

Queen? Please...

Marmalade.

Kiwi band Mi-Sex. That is a CHOON!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-90cyQ1Vko

Purleeeeze. The Beatles INVENTED the whole idea of a 'band' . Everything begins and and with The Beatles . The Beatles - Best Band. The Rest - Who Cares

St Winifred's school choir

The Band
The Velvet Underground
The Bee Gees
The Rolling Stones

Oasis no one can match their back catalogue apart from the Beatles, but they weren't in my lifetime. If The Beatles are the best British band ever, Oasis are unequivocally the 2nd.

They are not at the very highest level, Don`t have the depth and honesty of the very best.
Not human enough.

Difficult to leave Radiohead off any shortlist imho.

Depth and honesty? Sounds like some shyte a film reviewer would say. It's about the tunes, and Oasis have those in the bucket loads.

of course its about the tunes, that`s why the monkees should rate above Oasis

now if we accept that great groups must have great tunes, then look at something else as well, for the very best.

you see if you listen to Lou Reed sing Perfect Day, gosh that`s a great tune...and then again it is much more than that. It makes you feel something is missing.
That`s what I meant by being more human.

its has more depth, is more honest, is more insightful, more grown up.

Dire Straits. Lyrically the best by a distance.

Tunnel of love:

She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay.

Depeche Mode, what have I won?

The Who weren't to shabby either.

Beatles
The band nearly every other band base themselves and their music on. The band who wrote songs for loads of other bands. The band whose songs have been covered more than any other. The band who people on here have to say they aren't fans of on some sort of principle.

Queen
Abba
10cc

All 4 of the above didn't follow trends (at least once they were established), they set them or ignored them and were original and prolific.

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Dire Straits. Lyrically the best by a distance.

Tunnel of love:

She took off a silver locket she said remember me by this
She put her hand in my pocket I got a keepsake and a kiss
And in the roar of dust and diesel I stood and watched her walk away
I could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay.

close second tbf.

Kraftwerk

The Pretenders, The Polica and The Pogues

all come between Pink Floyd and Public Enemy

Procol Harum and The Pointer Sisters

Primal Scream

http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/p.html

Spinal Tap ... Amps only went up to ten before them.

The Beatles - obviously !

Radiohead

The Ruttles

Hadn't realised the guy from The Rutles had sued Oasis .. and won! Can YOU hear any similarity? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-3jIrlkYQ

I Want To Break Free

Radio Ga Ga

One Vision

It's a Kind Of Magic

I Want It All



Some of the biggest Stinkers of all time.

Should have packed it in after about 1977 imo.

The Beatles = Take That of the 60's

The Beatles = Take That of the 60's

The Beatles.

Would have to go for the Beatles too, though of course Dylan beats everyone by a mile if we bring in solo acts.

I Want To Break Free

Radio Ga Ga

One Vision

It's a Kind Of Magic

I Want It All



Some of the biggest Stinkers of all time.

In your opinion only.

Queen by a country mile.

Have any of you seen Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine live? They used to rock The Brixton Academy silly back in the day.

Saw Carter on the Pier at Southsea/Pompey in early '91, and Kilburn later that year.

Saw them again in Pompey in '92.


The first of those gigs in particular was a belter, and I bought the awesome '30 Something' LP on the strength of it.

Good man Alun, I'm not the best singer going but when I get persuaded to do a karaoke tune I sing G.I. Blues rather badly at the top of my voice!

"30 Something" is a mighty fine album. Jim Bob lives in Crystal Palace, just up the road from me.

Beatles

I Want To Break Free
Radio Ga Ga
One Vision
It's a Kind Of Magic
I Want It All

Bohemian Rhapsody
Killer Queen
Somebody to Love
We are the Champions
Crazy Little Thing Called Love

and about 40 brilliant album tracks

Even the greatest bands and musicians make some that aren't very good.
It's a question of if we measure them by the good or the bad.

For me they never get the recognition they deserve because it was all about freddie and his voice and live performances.

According to the compilers of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums, Queen have spent 1,322 weeks on the chart, compared with the Beatles' 1,293 weeks.

Queen are the only group in which every member has composed more than one #1 single, and hence, all four members were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003.

An event that could fill a football stadium almost anywhere in the world

Public execution of Bono

People did travel insane distances to see U2 in the day though.

I have just been looking at the queen videos on youtube, again.

As most people agree he was a great showman, but what I liked about him was his soft side.   I read about that, like his hit somebody to love, he did not have someone to love and it shows I think.  I looked at the last video he made and you could tell he was dying but he still was camping it up for the screen.  He had a lovely smile and the last thing he said on the video looking straight to camera was, ' I still love you' - I cried.

Cheers Slippy.


I'll go for The Beatles as the best of my particular lifetime, although I like loads of others.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

best band ever and people put up queen and carter?..bampots

Problem for me with Queen is they just commercialised their sound at the end of the 70s in search of success. Before then they were a bit of a left field rock act and quite interesting. A bombastic Sparks. Somewhere along the line though that changed and that same band proceeded to come out with utter dross like Friends Will Be Friends, Radio Gaga, It's a Kind of Magic etc. They were a mainstay of commercial radio in the early 80's and even as a not-yet teenager I knew enough to realise these were awful songs but were just everywhere. I always find it telling that near the end of his life Freddie came back with Innuendo which is a great song and reminiscent of them at their best. Almost like he realised that substituting artistic integrity for "hits" is all rather sad and he'd rather be remembered as a serious song writer.

The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Porcupine, i think you are being a bit hard on Queen. I agree they did write some dross but i think you can go through history and find dross from virtually every band. They were a massive band long before the songs you mention. They changed their sound a few times but i don't really believe it was searching for commercial success. Hot Space for example was a big change of direction and not really commercial. I'd say it was more that the sound and Freddie's flamboyance made them perfect for the MTV 80's generation. I do agree that the 70's stuff was much better than the 80's stuff. Agree with you about Innuendo too.
They are certainly not the greatest band ever imo, but they were a great live band, fronted by a brilliant performer and innovator. Let's not judge a band by their worst stuff but by their overall body of work. After all some people on this thread have suggested Oasis as the greatest band ever and the Gallagher brothers have been average to hopeless with almost everything they've released for the last 20 years.

Some people have had a very short, or sheltered, lifetime.

Fair enough Asparagus. I do think they sought commercial success. I watched a documentary on them a while back and their did seem to be some bitterness at one time that they weren't getting the fruits of their labours so to speak. I think the MTV angle is a good point though. I actually don't mind them as much as I used to do and I'm doing a bit of a study into Brian May's guitar as he was certainly an iconic player and I'm curious about how he added harmonies to it all, including the dross.

I think it's just a personal thing with me. I was around 6 or 7 when I got into music and was into Adam and the Ants, Boomtown Rats and the Police mostly. But I think as I started consuming more at the start of the 80s I just found stuff that was omnipresent that I hated. Seemed to be dominated by middle aged men, disco and then Queen and I didn't like any of it. Dropped out of music altogether for about 3-4 years before re-discovering the quirkier side of chart pop music and then metal. I'd still hear all those songs on the radio though on a sunday morning and they just grated with me.



As for most bands having dross, hence why I pick REM. No other band, including the Beatles* can rival such a consistent run of form from Murmur through to Automatic. Ridiculously strong run of albums spanning 9 years. Only Fables slightly dips below the excellence but is still a solid album. Still a pretty good band from Monster through to Up before succumbing to blatant averageness at the end.

*Beatles excluded as they were before my lifetime though are obviously the greatest ever.

*Stones greatest ever pal.hth.

Floyd, Zeppelin, Purple, Skynyrd, CCR ...

The Cure deserve a shout imho - Disintegration is one of the great albums, and other excellent material over many years. Radiohead right up there for me - The Bends/OK Computer/In Rainbows all outstanding. U2 are every muzo's favourite kicking boy but Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby are sublime albums and Unforgettable Fire also superb. Admittedly, they have been very ordinary for the last 20+ years but few artists can maintain outstanding material over a long period.

Parliament,Funkadelic the best live band ever

Scorpions.

One thing, once youth has passed, not many bands can come up anything remotely as good as their original stuff. Music died after the eighties, with the arrival of grunge and the horrible Brit Rock movement.

I always find it telling that near the end of his life Freddie came back with Innuendo which is a great song and reminiscent of them at their best.

it may be, it may not, but ever since Tenacious D did their shtick, I'm afraid it just sounds like something they would do.

Here`s the betting;

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah; Evens
Rubber; 4/1
Gastric; 5/1
Waist; 10/1
Hair; 16/1

Didn't know you were a rock chick, Makybe.  Good shout.  Seen them a few times

Wow! I'm impressed, Trilby.

I only discovered them a few years ago

I couldn't believe how long they had been around.

I have the DVD of a concert they did in Athens a few years ago. They are my favourite band

bonst
12 Sep 17 18:49

Parliament,Funkadelic the best live band ever

Not sure if I am having a bad dream or nightmare but my girlfriend told me at the weekend that she saw some jazz or funk band at the Jazz Cafe in Camden last year/this year  She mentioned it at the time I remember saying I probably would have liked them. She was offered two free tickets from a friend but said I would be unavailabe as I was working that day and getting there on time would have been a problem so she went without me. I left it there but as I said this weekend she mentioned it again as I told her that I played the boys at work some Parliament, "who" she said and I said "you know George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, One Nation under a groove " and then she says oh I think I saw him/ them at the Jazz Cafe!

We haven't split up or anything since but I am kind wondering if this girl knows me at all or is she just stupid or a bent nosed Phillistine? FFS!

Pink Floyd for me ...