Best band

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All right...who ya got for best band?

Me, I got Queen!

[Stephen Day]

Beatles

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Feb 10, 2019 4:51:47 GMT Stephen Day said:

Beatles

Well Dad...that makes sense. 

[Stephen Day]

Feb 10, 2019 4:53:10 GMT @walt said:

Well Dad...that makes sense. 

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Feb 10, 2019 5:00:21 GMT Stephen Day said:

Feb 10, 2019 4:53:10 GMT @walt said:

Well Dad...that makes sense. 

Coulda been worse...you could have gone with Laurence Welk. 

[Stephen Day]

Feb 10, 2019 5:07:35 GMT @walt said:

Coulda been worse...you could have gone with Laurence Welk. 

[achilles]

Feb 10, 2019 4:48:22 GMT @walt said:

All right...who ya got for best band?

Me, I got Queen!

Hard to argue; after all they had both Freddie Mercury the best singer ever, and the only guitarist I know of who's also an astrophysicist, and was Rolling Stone's 6th best guitarist of all time.  Plus...they just rocked.

That said, there are a lot of great bands, the Stones, Creadence, The Clash, Led Zeppelin….

Still, if you have to pick one, it's very easy to pick Queen.  Because in the end, there can be only one...

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Feb 10, 2019 5:54:15 GMT achilles said:

Feb 10, 2019 4:48:22 GMT @walt said:

All right...who ya got for best band?

Me, I got Queen!

Hard to argue; after all they had both Freddie Mercury the best singer ever, and the only guitarist I know of who's also an astrophysicist, and was Rolling Stone's 6th best guitarist of all time.  Plus...they just rocked.

That said, there are a lot of great bands, the Stones, Creadence, The Clash, Led Zeppelin….

Still, if you have to pick one, it's very easy to pick Queen.  Because in the end, there can be only one...

Queen's my pick...though Pink Floyd and Zeppelin aren't far behind them.  

[lordsimian]

Zechs told me once that his pick for best band ever was either Asia, or the cast of My Little You-Know-What.

[Amoebas]

As I said in achille's thread on this topic, it's been and always will be...  The Beatles.

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Feb 10, 2019 14:33:55 GMT Amoebas said:

As I said in achille's thread on this topic, it's been and always will be...  The Beatles.

Always thought they were tremendously overrated. 

[Amoebas]

Feb 10, 2019 14:37:19 GMT @walt said:

Feb 10, 2019 14:33:55 GMT Amoebas said:

As I said in achille's thread on this topic, it's been and always will be...  The Beatles.

Always thought they were tremendously overrated. 

And I would counter that group's like Queen would never have come into existence without the Beatles changing music and culture the way they did.

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Feb 10, 2019 14:41:24 GMT Amoebas said:

Feb 10, 2019 14:37:19 GMT @walt said:

Always thought they were tremendously overrated. 

And I would counter that group's like Queen would never have come into existence without the Beatles changing music and culture the way they did.

I think that is a huge over-statement. 

[Amoebas]

Feb 10, 2019 15:48:42 GMT @walt said:

Feb 10, 2019 14:41:24 GMT Amoebas said:

And I would counter that group's like Queen would never have come into existence without the Beatles changing music and culture the way they did.

I think that is a huge over-statement. 

I think you young whippersnapper don't know history.  

• The Beatles were responsible for ushering in:  the concept album, the music video, backward masking, stereo recording, the double album, recorded distortion, musical feedback, etc.
• The Beatles wrote and performed their own songs - except for Buddy Holly and folk musicians, that wasn't the norm anywhere.  Heck, John & Paul taught Mick & Keith how to write songs.
• The Beatles indirectly put FM radio on the map.  Before Hey Jude, FM was 'talk radio'.  But because AM stations wouldn't play songs over 3 minutes (Hey Jude is 7:11).  A San Fran FM station boasted they were the only ones to play the full song.  It caught on and, wham bam thank you Beatles - we have the FM we know today.
• The Beatles inspired so many artists that followed them, including the aforementioned Queen...
  
  

  Brian May: "I mean I'm the biggest Beatles fan on the Earth"  "I don’t think anybody comes close to The Beatles"
  Roger Taylor: "When they first broke, I couldn't get around them. I was never crazy about their music until the release of "Revolver". Then they got me. That album was just brilliant and it really affected me rather strongly."
  John Deacon: Who inspired you to be a musician?
    "The Beatles and other 60's groups.
  "
  Childhood Friend of Freddie Mercury: "Freddie Mercury was definitely influenced by the Beatles. In the late sixties his two favourites were the Beatles and Hendrix"

• The Beatles were there to put a spark of life back in post-war England. 
• The Beatles were there to put a spark of life back in America after the JFK assassination
  
• Hey Jude helped heal the US after the RFK & MLK assassinations
  
• Clothes, hair, drugs, rock & roll - if the Beatles were in it, so were millions of others
  

Don't be so dismissive of the Fab Four, the Beatles legacy isn't a bunch of songs from the 60's - their true legacy is in what and who were inspired from them.  And there simply isn't room here to list them all.

 

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Feb 10, 2019 18:24:12 GMT Amoebas said:

Feb 10, 2019 15:48:42 GMT @walt said:

I think that is a huge over-statement. 

I think you young whippersnapper don't know history.  

• The Beatles were responsible for ushering in:  the concept album, the music video, backward masking, stereo recording, the double album, recorded distortion, musical feedback, etc.
• The Beatles wrote and performed their own songs - except for Buddy Holly and folk musicians, that wasn't the norm anywhere.  Heck, John & Paul taught Mick & Keith how to write songs.
• The Beatles indirectly put FM radio on the map.  Before Hey Jude, FM was 'talk radio'.  But because AM stations wouldn't play songs over 3 minutes (Hey Jude is 7:11).  A San Fran FM station boasted they were the only ones to play the full song.  It caught on and, wham bam thank you Beatles - we have the FM we know today.
• The Beatles inspired so many artists that followed them, including the aforementioned Queen...
  
  

  Brian May: "I mean I'm the biggest Beatles fan on the Earth"  "I don’t think anybody comes close to The Beatles"
  Roger Taylor: "When they first broke, I couldn't get around them. I was never crazy about their music until the release of "Revolver". Then they got me. That album was just brilliant and it really affected me rather strongly."
  John Deacon: Who inspired you to be a musician?
    "The Beatles and other 60's groups.
  "
  Childhood Friend of Freddie Mercury: "Freddie Mercury was definitely influenced by the Beatles. In the late sixties his two favourites were the Beatles and Hendrix"

• The Beatles were there to put a spark of life back in post-war England. 
• The Beatles were there to put a spark of life back in America after the JFK assassination
  
• Hey Jude helped heal the US after the RFK & MLK assassinations
  
• Clothes, hair, drugs, rock & roll - if the Beatles were in it, so were millions of others
  

Don't be so dismissive of the Fab Four, the Beatles legacy isn't a bunch of songs from the 60's - their true legacy is in what and who were inspired from them.  And there simply isn't room here to list them all.

I'm happy you enjoy them. I just do not find them all that enjoyable.