Greatest Band of all time

Which floyd album would be best example?

Meddle

except for George W. Bush right???????ha ha ha

WYWH 

Trouserpress wrote: The Beatles might be successful and more than a little influential, but for me, these chaps: are the greatest band of all time. That's right. Gentle Giant are the greatest band of all time. You heard me. Why? Well, apart from all five being hugely adept musicians, capable of playing countless instruments to astonishingly high standards, their music pushed the boundaries of modern composition more effectively than any "modern classical" composer, avant garde nutter writing symphonies for choir and toaster or indeed any other rock band by drawing on more genres than you can shake a stick at, adapting them to their own unique sound, arranging and composing their work in a supremely rich and dense manner and all the while writing songs that YOU COULD SING ALONG TO. They could be catchy, quirky, powerful, humourous, heart-wrenchingly beautiful and downright surreal, but they always always always sounded like themselves. Okay, so they produced some dud albums. I'd maintain that so did the Beatles. They didn't have the money, the far-reaching success of the former, but artistically no one can top them. And what's music about - money or art?

I had thought of answering this band. Gentle Giant is one of the bands that indeed has the most artistic level on the entire progressive rock scope. Only Frank Zappa's band rivals these guys. So if I had to choose those, I would be torn up which one. Joren pointed to Frank Zappa, and rightly so, because [the yellow snow crystals...] there is no band as tight and musically powerful as his bands. Not even Gentle Giant. But Gentle Giant has the 'bandness' which I miss with FZ. His songs are a bit too static for me I guess. I'm sure Joren will rebuke me on that

To all of you Beatle loving fools out there. There is way more to a band than influence. Indeed, if we are talking about 'greatest' band than it is mostly about how the band is! in that regard, the beatles are a bunch of overrated childish ninkapoops. And saying that they were the first is nonsense, because jazz was kicking musical arse before that and the first arsekicking progband was the first arsekicking progband. They didn't have the beatles as example to arsekicking, because they don't.

There is actually this TF show in France "nouvelle Star" where they reduce from week to week 30.000 potential pop stars (everybody can be a star for 15 minutes) to the one and onlyNumber One. 

I think this is realy a mirror of our society, instead of pointing out individual particularities, you have to choose a "winner" who reflects the majority.  We have had a lot of polls, best this, best that but Yanns question :  Greatest band of all times reflects our state of mind in excellence, because it implies the existence of an absolute measure.

 My personal favourite would be Gentle Giant, but that was not the question.On the other hand I love filing music, (I am the guy in High Fidelity , I just bought new shelfs and I'am already elaborating a new classification system) I am a typical "product" of our society, always comparing, classifying : is this the best product I get for my money, are the new boxes worth the price, can I get a cheaper flight with this company...

So yes, The Beatles , I agree with Reed, what they have done at their time in their categorie is cool, but then ... is there  a  Greatest band of all times?

yes there is




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No such thing as THE GREATEST BAND EVER...As for the Fab4 - Overrated and repetitively boring. They made 5-6 pretty good pop tunes and thats it. Funny nobody mentioned the ROLLING STONES ! (LOL)...Or the RAMONES for that matter.

Velvet would have gone for MARIAH CAREY ! ! !

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Lunar

Joren wrote: no, there isn't

.. .unless, maybe Helen Reddy

"It was a singles bar, a Tuesday night
The moon was dim, the band was tight
They did the bump together

What a splendid sight,(Ren-nen-nen-nen) her teeth were white
The drinks were cheap (it was Ladies Nite)
He was glad that he met her

She was an office girl ("My name is Betty")
Her fav'rite group was HELEN REDDY
(They discussed the weather)" .F.Z.

Alucard wrote: Joren wrote: no, there isn't .. .unless, maybe Helen Reddy "It was a singles bar, a Tuesday night The moon was dim, the band was tight They did the bump together What a splendid sight,(Ren-nen-nen-nen) her teeth were white The drinks were cheap (it was Ladies Nite) He was glad that he met her She was an office girl ("My name is Betty") Her fav'rite group was HELEN REDDY (They discussed the weather)" .F.Z.

"a HONEY HONEY HEY -

baby don't you want a?

baby don't you want a?

baby DON'T YOU WANT A MAN SOMETIMES?"

Edited by Joren