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

[NewlyRetired]

5 - The Band

4- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3- Aerosmith

2- The Doors

1- the Boss

I thought The Band had Canadian roots?

 

[Abraham]

Allman Brothers

GnR

Aerosmith

Credence

Petty

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

Replace The Police with U2 and you can argue the Top 5 bands OAT aren't from the home of Rock and Roll.

 

[meanjoegreen]

5 - The Band

4- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3- Aerosmith

2- The Doors

1- the Boss

I thought The Band had Canadian roots?

The Band was mainly made up of Canadians. Levon Helm was the only American. The Band was Canadian-American. Fleetwood Mac is considered British-American since three are British and two are American.

 

[Apple Jack]

Grateful Dead

Dylan

Guided by Voices

Velvet Underground

R.E.M.

 

[Mohawk]

Dylan and all his assorted bands

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Allman Brothers (while Duane was alive)

Grateful Dead

Talking Heads

 

[NewlyRetired]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

Replace The Police with U2 and you can argue the Top 5 bands OAT aren't from the home of Rock and Roll.

And that does not even mention Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Queen or The Clash

 

[rockaction]

Ramones

Beach Boys

Supremes

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Leaving one blank for your favorite

eta* Ooh, if we're going to consider the Crickets a band, then them, and forget your band, friends.

 

[timschochet]

5 - The Band

4- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3- Aerosmith

2- The Doors

1- the Boss

Love the Band, but one American does not qualify as an American band.

 

[timschochet]

5 - The Band

4- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3- Aerosmith

2- The Doors

1- the Boss

I thought The Band had Canadian roots?

The Band was mainly made up of Canadians. Levon Helm was the only American. The Band was Canadian-American. Fleetwood Mac is considered British-American since three are British and two are American.

How about the Pretenders?

 

[Nipsey]

lol @ 9:24

 

[Eephus]

Dylan and all his assorted bands

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Allman Brothers (while Duane was alive)

Grateful Dead

Talking Heads

As long as we're being Anglophile anal retentives, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were both English.

 

[rockaction]

Dylan and all his assorted bands

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Allman Brothers (while Duane was alive)

Grateful Dead

Talking Heads

As long as we're being Anglophile anal retentives, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were both English.

Yeah, was kind of wondering about this.

 

[Insein]

1. Aerosmith

2. Van Halen (DLR)

3. Metallica

4. The Doors

5. Pearl Jam

 

[Mario Kart]

1. Tommy James and the Shondells

In fact... these guys are better than the Beatles.

 

[dmac37]

Talking Heads

Tom Petty

Springsteen

Aerosmith

Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[skol asylum]

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.

Pretty good list.

 

[skol asylum]

In no particular order...

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

 

[Insein]

Talking Heads

Tom Petty

Springsteen

Aerosmith

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Forget the chili peppers. Better overall than Nirvava imo and I'm a big fan of Nirvana. Easily fit into that 6-10 area.

 

[Eephus]

Talking Heads

Tom Petty

Springsteen

Aerosmith

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Forget the chili peppers. Better overall than Nirvava imo and I'm a big fan of Nirvana. Easily fit into that 6-10 area.

I try to forget them every day. Then I turn on the radio and hear that tone deaf hemma nemma nemma nonsense.

 

[Insein]

Talking Heads

Tom Petty

Springsteen

Aerosmith

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Forget the chili peppers. Better overall than Nirvava imo and I'm a big fan of Nirvana. Easily fit into that 6-10 area.

I try to forget them every day. Then I turn on the radio and hear that tone deaf hemma nemma nemma nonsense.

They dont play RHCP on the Oldies station now do they?

 

[Eephus]

Talking Heads

Tom Petty

Springsteen

Aerosmith

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Forget the chili peppers. Better overall than Nirvava imo and I'm a big fan of Nirvana. Easily fit into that 6-10 area.

I try to forget them every day. Then I turn on the radio and hear that tone deaf hemma nemma nemma nonsense.

They dont play RHCP on the Oldies station now do they?

Anthony and Flea are both AARP eligible

 

[timschochet]

Dylan and all his assorted bands

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Allman Brothers (while Duane was alive)

Grateful Dead

Talking Heads

As long as we're being Anglophile anal retentives, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were both English.

Is Wesley Snipes aware of this?

 

[Tau837]

Dylan and all his assorted bands

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Allman Brothers (while Duane was alive)

Grateful Dead

Talking Heads

As long as we're being Anglophile anal retentives, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were both English.

The band namesake is American. So the rules here are every member of the band must be American?

 

[Tau837]

Ramones

Parliament/Funkadelic

Talking Heads

Van Halen

The Beach Boys

Sorry, David Byrne, founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer of the Talking Heads, is Scottish, not American. Looks like Talking Heads are out... as long as we are being anal retentive...

 

[jwb]

Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

The Eagles

The Velvet Underground

Metallica

 

[Abraham]

Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

The Eagles

The Velvet Underground

Metallica

Not a terrible lost at all. Beach boys are underrated as are the eagles.As a note Suane allman was 24 when he died. Damn.

 

[Eephus]

Ramones

Parliament/Funkadelic

Talking Heads

Van Halen

The Beach Boys

Sorry, David Byrne, founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer of the Talking Heads, is Scottish, not American. Looks like Talking Heads are out... as long as we are being anal retentive...

If it ain't Scottish, it's crap

 

[drummer]

Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

The Eagles

The Velvet Underground

Metallica

Not a terrible lost at all. Beach boys are underrated as are the eagles.As a note Suane allman was 24 when he died. Damn.

It is terribly lost. He has Metallica on it.

 

[skol asylum]

Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

The Eagles

The Velvet Underground

Metallica

Not a terrible lost at all. Beach boys are underrated as are the eagles.As a note Suane allman was 24 when he died. Damn.

It is terribly lost. He has Metallica on it.

Should be Megadeth instead?

 

[drummer]

Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

The Eagles

The Velvet Underground

Metallica

Not a terrible lost at all. Beach boys are underrated as are the eagles.As a note Suane allman was 24 when he died. Damn.

It is terribly lost. He has Metallica on it.

Should be Megadeth instead?

Both deserve each other in Top 5 Drama Queen bands.

BTW, Jason Newsted finally explains why he left Metallica around 30 minutes into this interview:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/metallica-why-jason-newsted-quit/

 

[Ilov80s]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

American bands

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

We'll obviously as that country is so much larger than the US.

 

[drummer]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

American bands

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

We'll obviously as that country is so much larger than the US.

He should point out how they all were heavily influenced by American music. So much so they became musicians.

 

[doowain]

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

The Who

The Police

Replace The Police with U2 and you can argue the Top 5 bands OAT aren't from the home of Rock and Roll.

And replace The Who with Zeppelin.

 

[drummer]

A poster earlier gave some cred to this thread by posting American bands that didn't just have the usual bass/guitar/drums in it.

Although he should replace Benny Goodman with Chick Webb.

 

[Eephus]

A poster earlier gave some cred to this thread by posting American bands that didn't just have the usual bass/guitar/drums in it.

Although he should replace Benny Goodman with Chick Webb.

Goodman swung. Glenn Miller not so much.

 

[timschochet]

Well if you're going to go outside of rock and roll, hard to beat Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, and Julian Adderly.

 

[Judge Smails]

Eagles

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Aerosmith

Pearl Jam

 

[drummer]

A poster earlier gave some cred to this thread by posting American bands that didn't just have the usual bass/guitar/drums in it.

Although he should replace Benny Goodman with Chick Webb.

Goodman swung. Glenn Miller not so much.

That's a good point. But Chick owns Benny. Glenn needs to be scratched.

 

[drummer]

Well if you're going to go outside of rock and roll, hard to beat Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, and Julian Adderly.

Thread title says American Bands. With some listing Metallica over decades worth of them.

 

[Don Quixote]

A poster earlier gave some cred to this thread by posting American bands that didn't just have the usual bass/guitar/drums in it.

Although he should replace Benny Goodman with Chick Webb.

Webb is a good call. I was mostly just trying to bring some of the "big bands" into the discussion with my post.

 

[bushdocda]

Weezer?!?

 

[Apple Jack]

The 12.31.69 Band of Gypsys release is probably the greatest live document of Jimi Hendrix there is, so I think it's safe to use those guys to get him in under the Americans only clause.

 

[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.

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

True

 

[DocHolliday]

I thought about this again. Here is my list.

Aerosmith

KISS - Original line up

Eagles

Journey

Metallica

This is the final list. All others are junk.

 

[Insein]

Weezer?!?

Top 10 for me.

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers

7. Nirvana

8. Pearl Jam

9. Weezer

10. Guns N' Roses

 

[NCCommish]

You know since the anal retentives are fighting me on The Band I'll swap them for The Allman Brothers. Really should have been on the list anyway.

 

[pecorino]

Red hot chili peppers

They might be giants

Phish

The beach boys

Grateful dead

 

[ConstruxBoy]

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.

So true. Doors are completely overrated.

 

[Idiot Boxer]

1. You haven't heard of them

2. They only play small venues

3. I have their only non-label release on vinyl

4. They aren't even born yet

5. Kid Rock