Top 50 Rock Bands Of All Time

[beerexpressman]

The Beatles are NOT a rock band.
KIss. My arse

Surprised Rush and Van Halen are so high.

[anonymous-user]

No.34 Slade were my favourites in early 70s
First album was ‘Sladest’

I checked their early 70s live stuff on youtube, must be top 5 !

[craig1912]

Big Slade fan- one of my first singles was Cos I Love You.

Slade Alive is a brilliant album

[Escort3500]

blueg33 said:

Shock horror - subjective list is subjective

^^^^^^^ this. Lists like this are pointless. Fifty people will produce fifty completely different lists, all arguing that their’s is definitive.

[P5BNij]

gazza285 said:

P5BNij said:

Raygun said:

P5BNij said:

I recall an interview in the NME about thirty years ago where one of Andrew Eldridge's backing musicians took the piss out of him for listening to Fleetwood Mac on the tour bus...

Who's Andrew Eldridge?

Sisters Of Mercy front bloke

Try again.

Sisters line up c.1988 / 89, Patricia thingummy and Andrew Eldridge...

[Martin350]

W.A.S.P. would definitely be in there on my list.

Some on that list wouldn't be!

Tool is the only one I've not heard of, off to check them out...

[gazza285]

P5BNij said:

gazza285 said:

P5BNij said:

Raygun said:

P5BNij said:

I recall an interview in the NME about thirty years ago where one of Andrew Eldridge's backing musicians took the piss out of him for listening to Fleetwood Mac on the tour bus...

Who's Andrew Eldridge?

Sisters Of Mercy front bloke

Try again.

Sisters line up c.1988 / 89, Patricia thingummy and Andrew Eldridge...

Try again, you are still wrong.

[P5BNij]

gazza285 said:

P5BNij said:

gazza285 said:

P5BNij said:

Raygun said:

P5BNij said:

I recall an interview in the NME about thirty years ago where one of Andrew Eldridge's backing musicians took the piss out of him for listening to Fleetwood Mac on the tour bus...

Who's Andrew Eldridge?

Sisters Of Mercy front bloke

Try again.

Sisters line up c.1988 / 89, Patricia thingummy and Andrew Eldridge...

Try again, you are still wrong.

Go on, give us a clue...

[JustALooseScrew]

P5BNij said:

Sisters line up c.1988 / 89, Patricia thingummy and Andrew Eldridge...

'Patricia thingummy'

In my circles she was known as 'Fat Pat' which is a little unfair given any one of us would have crawled over broken glass just to... anyway.

Heart were beginning to use 'big' to make in roads into the charts back then too.

They say that 'Video killed the radio star', perhaps that's true, but it certainly made big chicks look thinner.



Oh and corsets

[JustALooseScrew]

realjv said:

Sonic Youth

That's a good call, but I wouldn't quite call them a 'rock band'.

[Trophy Husband]

Blind Melon.
Smashing Pumpkins.
All personal of course.

I do have a thing for Rainbow though!

[gazza285]

P5BNij said:

Go on, give us a clue...

Eldritch.

[Martin350]

Trophy Husband said:

I do have a thing for Rainbow though!

Me too, and for me it's by far the the Ronnie Dio era.

[Adam B]

Kinky said:

So as there's lots of questionable bands on that list, how about we do our own "PHers Top 50 Bands Of All Time"?

I'll start a new thread and outline some guidance

I fear it will be very similar with a huge bias to 70/80s soft and prog rock and many alarming mentions of the fking Who

[Kinky]

Adam B said:

I fear it will be very similar with a huge bias to 70/80s soft and prog rock and many alarming mentions of the Who

I suspect so; but they're not on my list

[Lotobear]

...U2 in a top 50 list, Jesus H Christ!!?

[Penelope Stopit]

What, no Gary Moore

Slade, no way

The Beatles, Girly band?

Status Quo???????

Bad Company to name two, not on the list

This list wasn't compiled by anyone that is into Rock Music

Where's Big country, George Thorogood, The Cars and Tom Petty

Only having a bit of fun but???????????????????

[dandarez]

cherryowen said:

Dr Murdoch said:

gazza285 said:

ZZ Top are a novelty act?

+1

+2



"Novelty Act"

You know when a rock band (subjective) is good. You

ZZ Top are still the longest running band with same members.
Really worth a watch: ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas.
Was released in Aug this year.

(below is just a trailer, the actual film/doc lasts 1hr 30m - We (me and the Mrs) enjoyed every min of it. The early stuff is hilarious. The legs stuff is better!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ZZ+Top%3a+Tha...

[dandarez]

Penelope Stopit said:

What, no Gary Moore

Slade, no way

The Beatles, Girly band?

Status Quo???????

Bad Company to name two, not on the list

This list wasn't compiled by anyone that is into Rock Music

Where's Big country, George Thorogood, The Cars and Tom Petty

Only having a bit of fun but???????????????????

As a big Tom Petty fan (& The Heartbreakers) I agree.
For a rock band, what else beats this? Live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iBKacXIA4

Big Country - loved them, rock period not bagpipes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mj76kOmg4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkPVguTOuU

However, having watched the Beatles on the roof live in 69, I wouldn't call them girly.
Mind you don't like a lot of their stuff. But this was superb. Only time I liked McCartney!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7eOpthvWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCtzkaL2t_Y

So bloody much in the late 60s.
Anyone mention Humble Pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZlf_9ObLg

Quo (again early stuff, was rock! You had to be there to appreciate - I did! - that after Matchstick rubbish they went 'raw' and were great.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhwCqAmggnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr3JO0MhFTY

One of my best 60s surprise moments was going with pals to see T Rex (who, thankfully didn't turn up!).
In their place was a group called Love Sculpture.
Just five feet from this was absolutely amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30kLVsWivU

I could go on forever. So much. Never surpassed.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

beerexpressman said:

The Beatles are NOT a rock band.
KIss. My arse

At least the fab four could play rock n roll, which is is something the cissy Floyd couldn't do to save their scrawny necks.

Nick Mason wouldn't recognise a backbeat if it kicked him up the poo hole.