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Well what do you people think? Myself the best recent band has to be the libertines and the best band ever...Erm...Not sure I have not heard all of them yet.

Pink Floyd!

agreed with Floyd

It will be interesting to see how in the future bands like Ween or the Pixies are looked at, since they are, IMHO, much like a modern versions of Floyd.

Also, I'm not sure if he counts, but David Bowie. He has been so influential in music for a very long time, and even has a new album. Quite possibly the most essential/influential musical artist in the past 100 years.

Nirvana

Well what do you people think? Myself the best recent band has to be the libertines and the best band ever...Erm...Not sure I have not heard all of them yet.
What do the Libertines sound like?

Probaby Queen. And The Darkness.
And my fav "not big" band would have to be hörstreich

Radiohead.

GUNS N' ROSES

THE EAGLES

ROLLIG STONES

Led Zeppelin

anything but the white stripes.

Pink Floyd and Bowie are both solo artists not bands

Guns N' Roses

Pink Floyd and Bowie are both solo artists not bands
i think if you bothered to look that pink floyd were a band and not a solo artist since there was more than one of them! roger waters sang most of the songs in later times.
and clearly the best band ever is led zeppelin who are by far the most talented band to ever make it big!
and anyone who says the beatles is just crazy!

recent banc; Evanescence

best band ever: thats a good question

Rush, hands down.

Pink Floyd would be my second choice.

Evanescence & Linkin Park

Best recent: Jane's Addiction
Best "solo": Frank Zappa
Best ever: ???? too many differing styles to choose just one, so here's a top 5: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Cream, Budgie, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Best recent: Jane's Addiction
Best "solo": Frank Zappa
Best ever: ???? too many differing styles to choose just one, so here's a top 5: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Cream, Budgie, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Yeah, Budgie!!!

There is someone else in the world who knows about them! They are good.

Nirvana.

Come on now, we all know Radiohead deserves top spot.

Well now ......... it seems to me that 'aint nobody mentioned "Blind melon" or ,for that matter "Gomez"!!!!!! . Two of the best,although for depth ,influence and sheer drama it's gonna have to be the mighty zep.
Honorable mentions to "The small faces" and the utterly brilliant "U2".
and as for "Rush", christ !!!! I hav'nt heard that name in 15 years (ish).

Come on now, we all know Radiohead deserves top spot.

They come pretty close but just not quite IMHO.

They come pretty close but just not quite IMHO.

IMHO ?? Wassah den ????

I've got to support The Doors on this one.

:headbang:TooL

There is so many different opions and ways that this question can be answered. It depends on what genre you're talking about. I for one, enjoy lots of different bands. Anyways, the word 'favorite' is over rated. If I had to choose from my collection of bands I enjoy, well, I'd have to say: The Rasmus, Switchfoot, Weezer, Guster, and They Might Be Giants. (Not in that order mind you).

Rush, hands down.

Pink Floyd would be my second choice.

Pink Floyd is the best ever.

Rush is the second greatest.

Garbage is the best band to come around since the 90s began.

Black Sabbath is the greatest metal band.

w00t

you are all wrong the best band ever is CHIMAIRA :headbang: New Wave American Heavy Metal is in everything else is out!

Pink Floyd is the best ever.

Rush is the second greatest.

Garbage is the best band to come around since the 90s began.

Black Sabbath is the greatest metal band.

w00t

We're on the same wavelength.

Black Sabbath was my fave before I really got into Rush. And I love Garbage.

Faith No More

The Darkness

in the interst of taste you should be locked up

has to be Zepplin or Hendrix

i think if you bothered to look that pink floyd were a band and not a solo artist since there was more than one of them! roger waters sang most of the songs in later times.
and clearly the best band ever is led zeppelin who are by far the most talented band to ever make it big!
and anyone who says the beatles is just crazy!

Actually, the lead singer for Floyd was Roger "Syd" Barrett. When he suffered from mental deterioration (indeed, there are plenty of references to him within Floyd's music, from practically the entire Wish You Were Here album to the line "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
" from the song Brain Damage off the Dark Side of the Moon album), Roger Waters became the lead singer. However, the band drifted apart, and when the other three members, Roger Gilmour (who joined the band to replace Barrett), Nick Mason, and Richard Wright wanted to drift back together, Waters declined, feeling that the band's time had passed. Thus, Gilmour became the lead singer, although not without a legal challenge to the usage of the band's name by Waters. But that was resolved in court a long time ago and everyone is now living (relatively) happily ever after.

The End

The moral of the story? The greatest band of all time is Pink Floyd, although how this connects with the story even I have a hard time fathoming.

The Beatles.

Bathory

Bathory
R.I.P. Quorthon

Thats a hard question.
Best Ever: The Clash or Sex pistols.
Recent: Linkin Park or Slipknot

The Police

Best Band Ever? Zeppelin

Best Grunge-ish? Floyd

Best Metal? Maiden

Punk? Ramones

Modern Punk? Dead Kennedies

Rock? Tie: Beatles/Queen

And, I'm sorry, but Linkin Park, Slipknot, and company are just plain awful.

Nirvana, hands down.

With AC/DC as a close second.

Best Band Ever? Zeppelin

Best Grunge-ish? Floyd

Best Metal? Maiden

Punk? Ramones

Modern Punk? Dead Kennedies

Rock? Tie: Beatles/Queen

And, I'm sorry, but Linkin Park, Slipknot, and company are just plain awful.
Pink Floyd grunge-ish? Come on. And the Dead Kennedys are hardly modern punk, they broke up almost 20 years ago, actually, before the Ramones did.

And, I'm sorry, but Linkin Park, Slipknot, and company are just plain awful.

Ha, shut it.

Actually, the lead singer for Floyd was Roger "Syd" Barrett. When he suffered from mental deterioration (indeed, there are plenty of references to him within Floyd's music, from practically the entire Wish You Were Here album to the line "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
" from the song Brain Damage off the Dark Side of the Moon album), Roger Waters became the lead singer. However, the band drifted apart, and when the other three members, Roger Gilmour (who joined the band to replace Barrett), Nick Mason, and Richard Wright wanted to drift back together, Waters declined, feeling that the band's time had passed. Thus, Gilmour became the lead singer, although not without a legal challenge to the usage of the band's name by Waters. But that was resolved in court a long time ago and everyone is now living (relatively) happily ever after.

The End

The moral of the story? The greatest band of all time is Pink Floyd, although how this connects with the story even I have a hard time fathoming.

Roger and David switched back and forth on lead vocal duties. Kind of like KISS, but only with two guys. Moreover, Syd was only on the first album.

No doubt about it, Oingo Boingo is the greatest.

Rush, hands down.

Agree whole-heartedly!!! :D

Queen

The Levellers

The best band ever is easy

Led Zeppelin, followed by Black Sabbath.

Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones

Actually, the lead singer for Floyd was Roger "Syd" Barrett. When he suffered from mental deterioration

He became a schizophrenic. By the way did I mention the best band ever are


GUNS N' ROSES

Closely followed by

Metallica

Evanescence and Rasmus suck big time

The Clash

Best band ever: The Homos

http://www.livejournal.com/community/the_homos/

Wallflowers

Well what do you people think? Myself the best recent band has to be the libertines and the best band ever...Erm...Not sure I have not heard all of them yet.


Any of them are better than the mind destroying repetitive electronic rubbish we have now!

Any of them are better than the mind destroying repetitive electronic rubbish we have now!
Agreed. (Most) electronica is terrible.

My Top Five (in no order):

The Pogues
Queen
The Who
Dave Matthews Band
Led Zepplin

best bands are:

N.W.A
M.O.P
and Public Enemy

Defo System Of A Down - All types of music, slow punk, fast metal, greasy rock. gotta love them. Thats my say.

System of a Down easily

Classic Rock (Zepplin, Floyd, Doors)
Blind Melon
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
and of course, who could forget Jimmie's Chicken Shack