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NME is asking people to vote on who you think is the greatest rock ’n’ roll band ever. The list changes pretty quickly, at least so far.
Here is the current Top-20 as of March 25:
1. Oasis - Current Rating: 8.87
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Current Rating: 7.85
3. The Beatles - Current Rating: 7.78
4. The Rolling Stones - Current Rating: 6.58
5. The Who - Current Rating: 6.55
6. The Clash - Current Rating: 6.55
7. Led Zeppelin - Current Rating: 6.39
8. Manic Street Preachers - Current Rating: 6.33
9. Nirvana - Current Rating: 6.13
10. The Smiths - Current Rating: 6.09
11. The Sex Pistols - Current Rating: 5.96
12. The Stone Roses - Current Rating: 5.92
13. Pink Floyd - Current Rating: 5.90
14. Radiohead - Current Rating: 5.72
15. The Libertines - Current Rating: 5.66
16. The Doors - Current Rating: 5.66
17. Joy Division - Current Rating: 5.59
18. The Jam - Current Rating: 5.59
19. The Verve - Current Rating: 5.55
20. The Ramones - Current Rating: 5.55
You can vote here
www.nme.com/index.php
and rank bands on a 1 (worst) to 10 (greatest) scale. I did it until is started to repeat.
Who do you think should be on the list, but isn't?
My choices (if we're sticking to the somewhat lose interpretation of "Rock ’n’ Roll" band): U2, The Alarm, New Order.
Here is the current Top-20 as of March 25:
1. Oasis - Current Rating: 8.87
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Current Rating: 7.85
3. The Beatles - Current Rating: 7.78
4. The Rolling Stones - Current Rating: 6.58
5. The Who - Current Rating: 6.55
6. The Clash - Current Rating: 6.55
7. Led Zeppelin - Current Rating: 6.39
8. Manic Street Preachers - Current Rating: 6.33
9. Nirvana - Current Rating: 6.13
10. The Smiths - Current Rating: 6.09
11. The Sex Pistols - Current Rating: 5.96
12. The Stone Roses - Current Rating: 5.92
13. Pink Floyd - Current Rating: 5.90
14. Radiohead - Current Rating: 5.72
15. The Libertines - Current Rating: 5.66
16. The Doors - Current Rating: 5.66
17. Joy Division - Current Rating: 5.59
18. The Jam - Current Rating: 5.59
19. The Verve - Current Rating: 5.55
20. The Ramones - Current Rating: 5.55
You can vote here
www.nme.com/index.php
and rank bands on a 1 (worst) to 10 (greatest) scale. I did it until is started to repeat.
Who do you think should be on the list, but isn't?
My choices (if we're sticking to the somewhat lose interpretation of "Rock ’n’ Roll" band): U2, The Alarm, New Order.
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Re: Who is greatest Rock ’n’ Roll band EVER?
Tue, March 25, 2008 - 3:12 PMOASIS?!? #1???? WTF???? Give me a break.
Other bands that shouldn't be on this list: Stone Roses, Libertines (who?), Manic Street Preachers (who?), Joy Division.
...and where the fuck are the BEACH BOYS??
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Tue, March 25, 2008 - 3:55 PMThe Stone Roses had ONE good album. And one shite album. Two albums does not a supergroup make. -
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Tue, March 25, 2008 - 10:37 PMI would change that to the Stone Roses had one fantastically great amazing album, the Libertines were WAY WAY overrated, the Manics are gonna be great in the UK (and I like them a lot) but nowhere else....
Well if you ask the Rolling Stones they would say themselves (and I would agree up to like the 80's maybe 90's). hmmm when I think Rock n Roll I think The Who, Stones, Led Zep, Guns and Roses - I certainly wouldn't say Joy Division!
and BTW where are the Smiths???? -
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Tue, March 25, 2008 - 10:37 PMOOPS sorry missed the Smiths! -
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 7:52 AMI'd place the Eagles over the Smiths bases solely on their body of work, not on my personal preference.
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 9:53 AMI am partial to The Beatles above all, but they were my first love even when I was a wee lass.
The Smiths should be in there! and Led Zepplin higher. But I agree with The Rolling Stones before 1980. Oasis is good, but above The Beatles??? wtf? As usual I missed a trend everyone seemed up on. -
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:32 AMI spent 5 months in London. One night, at a party, I joked "The man who shot and killed John Lennon is up for parole in a couple of years. Wouldn't it be interesting if he shot and killed the Gallagher brothers?"
People were not amused.
On a different tangent, there's plenty of R&R bands that are oddly absent from the survey. No Nine Inch Nails? I don't think they're the greatest band ever, but certainly better than the Libertines. -
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 11:08 AM"I'd place the Eagles over the Smiths bases solely on their body of work, not on my personal preference."
To that I have to politely reply, you've got to be fucking kidding! The Eagles? If I never heard another Eagles song for the rest of my life, I'd die a happy man. -
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 11:51 AMI just voted and the standings are pretty much the same now except 19 and 20 are now The Ramones (19 - 5.56) and The Kinks (20 -5.55).
I'm dissappointed that Oasis now has a slightly higher score 8.99, Jimi Hendrix is dropping to 7.8 (but the Beatles have almost taken the #2 spot with 7.78). I think Liam Gallagher must be skewing the vote!
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:24 PM"To that I have to politely reply, you've got to be fucking kidding!"
This from a man who has a Hall & Oates poster hanging on his bedroom wall. An autographed poster at that.
Hey I hate the Eagles as much as you do but you can't deny the huge influence they had on music in the 70's. That goes double for Creedence Clearwater Revival. Why aren't they on the list? Stupid British git bastards.
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 12:20 PMNo Bauhaus… no Van Halen.… no Elvis Costello and the Attractions… no Queen (WTF?)… no Police... and on and on and on…
but they do include the Replacements, Suicide, Happy Mondays, Blur, Pulp, Supergrass, the Melvins, Pavement, the Kings of Leon, CAN, Captain Beefheart, Teardrop Explodes, Slayer…
Meh. And I thought Americans had bad taste.
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 5:20 PMthe Brits have VERY strange taste. I was watching the Brit awards the other night....niminated for Best live act were:
Kaiser CHiefs
MUSE
Editors (I think)
Arctic Monkeys
Take That
Now, anyone who has EVER seen Muse knows they kick a TON of ass live, like one of the most amazing bands I have seen in all my thousands of concerts. who won??
TAKE THAT ( a fucking BOY BAND that Robbie Williams had enough sense to bail on years ago.)
I almost threw my glass of wine at the TV.
GROSS!
I would not consider NIN a "rock and roll band" really...Van Halen - absolutely!
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:25 PMYou can bet that a Canadian magazine with a similar list would include Rush and Barenaked Ladies
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Fri, April 11, 2008 - 12:50 PMNot much has changed since the last time that I looked.
A little flipping and flopping. The Jam and The Verve are out. Blur and The Kinks are in.
1. Oasis
2. The Beatles
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. The Rolling Stones
5. The Clash
6. Led Zeppelin
7. The Who
8. Nirvana
9. The Smiths
10. Manic Street Preachers
11. Radiohead
12. Pink Floyd
13. The Sex Pistols
14. The Stone Roses
15. Joy Division
16. The Doors
17. The Ramones
18. Blur
19. The Libertines
20. The Kinks
I really can't agree with a lot of those. Very British, for sure. So I decided to try my own list. Very personal and subjective. I struggled with the first nine or ten, but after that it was pretty easy. I tried very hard to stick to the "Rock 'n' Roll" genre of the title. Joy Division sure as hell aren't Rock 'n' Roll. New Order, Depeche Mode, The Cure- no, no, and no. Not Rock 'n' Roll either. Bowie? Glam/New Wave. Beach Boys? Surf. Oasis? Suck.
Then I eliminated bands that I never liked- Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd.
Bands with only one good album- Nirvana, The Sex Pistols, The Stone Roses, Radiohead.
And bands that have no business being on the list in the first place- Manic Street Preachers, Blur, The Libertines.
Skip's Top-20 "Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Bands!"
1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Bruce Springsteen
5. Rod Stewart
6. Led Zeppelin
7. The Ramones
8. The Clash
9. Buddy Holly
10. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
11. R.E.M.
12. Elvis
13. The Who
14. The Smiths
15. The Kinks
16. The Alarm
17. The Replacements
18. Joan Jett
19. The Go Go's
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Fri, April 11, 2008 - 2:05 PMhmmm...interesting. I would bump up the Kinks and the Smiths and take out REM. the Cars? hmmm
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