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Yanns 
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:14 |
This is an interesting question. What, in your opinion, is the all-time greatest band? Doesn't have to be prog. I'm just wondering, what do you think is the greatest band of all-time?
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:24 |
 Yanns wrote:
This is an interesting question. What, in your opinion, is the all-time greatest band? Doesn't have to be prog. I'm just wondering, what do you think is the greatest band of all-time?
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The Greatest band ever.
Technically they were the richest,most succesfull band ever.
Near enough every one in every record buying nation should own or have a copy of a beatles track.
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 22:34 |
100% agreed 
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gdub411
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 23:05 |
Can't go wrong with The Beatles! 
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 04:22 |
BLACK SABBATH! 
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Cluster One
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 04:34 |
I'd like to think FLOYD, or GENESIS or YES 
But it all started with the lads from Liverpool..... 
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Marmalade...I like marmalade.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 04:37 |
The Beatles are a good choice.
Personally, I think The Police were one of the best.
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 04:47 |
The Beatles were pop music pioneers, I agree.
Depends whether you are asking what bands people like the most, or what bands were technically the most influencial, innovative etc..
Personally I have not listerned to the Beatles for some years and to to be honest dont feel any urge to. The greatest band ever IMO are RUSH. In terms of musicianship, inspirational songs, originallity of sound (once they had grown out of their Zep fixation) and generally the pleasure their music has brought me over the years. I appreciate there will be few who agree with me.
In very close second place would be Genesis, for very similar reasons.
The Police are a good choice. Imagine a band like the Police trying to score a hit these days. They would be completely ignored, perhaps ridiculed. Imagine seeing musicians as good as they were playing live on TOTP in 2005. We can dream..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 05:55 |
No Such Thing in my view but I'd say LED ZEPPELIN.
Sorry thats the best I can do for Now!
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CYMRU AM BYTH
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 06:49 |
The Beatles - No question of that
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JrKASperov
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 06:53 |
Probably some jazz band. Those guys know how to play. But they are too obscure to be known.
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Epic.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 06:58 |
I just wanna be against everyone's opinion, so here it goes:
The Beach Boys.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 07:19 |
Give me a break. The Beatles????
I think that the "Fab 4" have very little in common with Genesis,Yes or ELP,musically.
There used to be a lad in my local pub who always drunk bitter.We got to discussing beer one evening and he confessed he didnt really like bitter,and preferred lager.I asked the obvious question to which he replied,well the lads would think I'm a wuss if I started drinking lager.This is how I view this situation where the Beatles are repeatedly cited as the greatest band ever on this forum.
The Beatles sold hundreds of millions of records,and good luck to them.When someone first invented the wheel life changed forever,but when you step up to your gleaming motor car in the morning,you might say "great set of wheels," but you certainly are not praising the lumps of rubber in each corner.The Beatles are certainly pioneers,of course,but just because they were in it at the start (they were the start) doesnt mean they are the greatest.We are talking about music here,which is a matter of taste,and we would not be on this forum if we preferred the type of poppy proto-psychedelic songs that the Beatles wrote.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 07:19 |
Impossible to be in any way objective with a question such as this  .
However -
If you absolutely had to pick a single band from the vast spectrum of music created since the idea of a band came about, I guess I'd have to go with The Beatles, if for no other reason than their huge influence on popular music at the time, and since their demise.
And anyone who doesn't put 'Abbey Road in their all time top 10 is a poo-head.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:02 |
The Who
Daltrey, Townsend, Entwistle & Moon!
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:03 |
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YES
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:14 |
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:20 |
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L O V E
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VELVET UNDERGROUND
Can't make up my mind
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:24 |
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the grateful dead hands down.....btw, i hate how everyone says its the beatles because they know all those songs...teh beatles are the backstreet boys after theyve paid soembody to teach them an instrument....i hate even more how they are constantly credited wiuth being the "start" of rock and roll, they werent....have yu people ever heard of chuck berry or little richard?rock and roll was started among black american artists struggling to break the chains of r&b and jazz and usher in a new sound that wasnt as derivative from teh classical approach
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Posted: April 26 2005 at 08:29 |
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I'm not aware of anyone saying that the Beatles were the start of rock n roll!
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