Top 5 American Bands of All Time - **official thread** (1 Viewer)

[Joe T]

5. Nirvana

4. Counting Crows

3. Aerosmith

2. Eagles

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

No need to debate this one fellas.

 

[General Malaise]

1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

2. The Bangles

3. Replacements

4. Smithereens

5. Zebra

 

[Workhorse]

I'd find room for Creedence and the Grateful Dead.

 

[Joe T]

1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

2. The Bangles

3. Replacements

4. Smithereens

5. Zebra

No Rush?

 

[Nipsey]

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Wildflowers 3.99 on amazon right now

 

[Long Ball Larry]

1. Grand Funk Railroad

 

[General Malaise]

1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

2. The Bangles

3. Replacements

4. Smithereens

5. Zebra

No Rush?

I thought I did that pretty quickly.

 

[General Malaise]

Did not know this: Little River Band is from Australia. They sure seem like a generic, crappy American rock act.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

5. Wilco

4. R.E.M.

3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

2. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

1. Grateful Dead

 

[timschochet]

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Wildflowers 3.99 on amazon right now

I believe that Tom without the Heartbreakers.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Tony Orlando&Dawn

 

[Nipsey]

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Wildflowers 3.99 on amazon right now

I believe that Tom without the Heartbreakers.

it is but they all played on the album

 

[timschochet]

1. The Velvet Underground

2. The Ramones

3. The Byrds

4. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

[Eephus]

Ramones

Parliament/Funkadelic

Talking Heads

Van Halen

The Beach Boys

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Did not know this: Little River Band is from Australia. They sure seem like a generic, crappy American rock act.

I will fight you

 

[NCCommish]

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Wildflowers 3.99 on amazon right now

One of my favorite albums of all time.

 

[NCCommish]

5 - The Band

4- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3- Aerosmith

2- The Doors

1- the Boss

 

[bosoxs45]

The Stooges

Pixies

Replacements

The Sonics

Ramones

 

[Nipsey]

Sex Pistols

Scorpions

Loudness

Menudo

Abba

 

[General Malaise]

Sex Pistols

Scorpions

Loudness

Menudo

Abba

 

[mr roboto]

Beach Boys

Aerosmith

Doors

Petty and the Heart Breakers

Van Halen

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The Doors blow, people.

 

[Parrothead]

Kansas

 

[NCCommish]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

 

[FDAS]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

 

[NCCommish]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

 

[Nipsey]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

Crazy talk.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

 

[zamboni]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Don't get the hate either. Who wouldn't want to have been Jim Morrison, outside of an ill-fated bath?

 

[NCCommish]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

Morrison was a hell of a lyric writer and Manzerak was no slouch on the music side. They have sold more than 100 million albums. They had 3 albums in RS's top 500. They have had numerous songs inducted into halls of fame. And lastly boring is certainly the one thing they weren't.

 

[Ookie Pringle]

Jackson 5

 

[JohnnyU]

1. Grand Funk Railroad

/thread

 

[Tiger Fan]

Glad to see Joe T back to early aught form

 

[Ilov80s]

The Byrds

The Eagles

The Talking Heads

Bruce Speingsteen and the E Street Band

Beach Boys

 

[Don Quixote]

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra

Glenn Miller Orchestra

Count Basie and His Orchestra

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

No particular order:

Allman Brothers

Talking Heads

Grateful Dead

The Byrds

Alabama

 

[DocHolliday]

Tough to pick just 5 but Metallica and Journey are on the list.

The Doors barely cracks my top 200.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

1. Grand Funk Railroad

 

[Homer J Simpson]

1. Springsteen

2. Pearl Jam

3. T Petty

4. Ramones

5. CCR

The Doors are near the bottom 5...above 98 Degrees but below Hanson.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

In no particular order:

Booker T & the MGs/Memphis Horns

Funk Brothers

Allman Brothers

Skynyrd

That studio bunch that played on damned near every Phil Spector/Beach Boys record ever recorded.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

 

[identikit]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

Morrison was a hell of a lyric writer and Manzerak was no slouch on the music side. They have sold more than 100 million albums. They had 3 albums in RS's top 500. They have had numerous songs inducted into halls of fame. And lastly boring is certainly the one thing they weren't.

Robby Krieger was $$$ as a songwriter as well.

 

[oso diablo]

REM would be in my top 5

 

[Stinger Ray]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

American bands

 

[Juxtatarot]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

Morrison was a hell of a lyric writer and Manzerak was no slouch on the music side. They have sold more than 100 million albums. They had 3 albums in RS's top 500. They have had numerous songs inducted into halls of fame. And lastly boring is certainly the one thing they weren't.

And they accomplished that all in the time frame current bands take between albums.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

American bands

Yes, just pointing out how another country totally kicks our ### in this.

 

[Tau837]

1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

2. Jimi Hendrix and the Experience

3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4. Pearl Jam

5. Metallica

 

[Moe.]

No Wu-Tang?

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

Morrison was a hell of a lyric writer and Manzerak was no slouch on the music side. They have sold more than 100 million albums. They had 3 albums in RS's top 500. They have had numerous songs inducted into halls of fame. And lastly boring is certainly the one thing they weren't.

Morrison was a self absorbed lame-o wannabe poet. The music was mostly meh. Plenty of crappy artists have sold tons of albums.

 

[Nipsey]

The Doors blow, people.

I will fight you

I love a good ifight, but he's right. THE DOORS BLOW

The Doors the band America loves to claim to hate.

Hey, I listened to them in college as much as the next guy, but they really are pretty boring in all facets.

Morrison was a hell of a lyric writer and Manzerak was no slouch on the music side. They have sold more than 100 million albums. They had 3 albums in RS's top 500. They have had numerous songs inducted into halls of fame. And lastly boring is certainly the one thing they weren't.

Morrison was a self absorbed lame-o wannabe poet. The music was mostly meh. Plenty of crappy artists have sold tons of albums.

Craziest thing ever written on the site and that includes larryboy and timscotchie and anyone else.