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For me, The Pixies. I think they establised and alternative wave which not only influenced future artists, but laid the path for the 90's scene of grunge, alternative, new punk and britpop. A hybrid of sexual frenzy and discordant bi-lingual punk rock. Try 'em!
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i'll probably get hated on for this but.. i hold metallica as the greatest. i guess it's because i never really got into anything further back than the 80' (a little 70's but that's all) and most of the music i listen to is metal. guess i'm a bit biased in that sense.
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I find the Beatles a little overrated. [instinctively ducks] But they are good! They are good! [swats away incoming objects]
It's hard for me to answer your question. Greatest contribution, greatest influence worldwide, greatest person influence....it's hard to define "greatest." The Who, The Clash, The Ramones, Bon Jovi, the Rolling Stones....they could all be called the greatest by their respective fans with little argument.
Since you said personal opinion....Like almost every other music question on the board, for me the Doors are the answer. They were the first to totally integrate poetry and classical music with rock 'n' roll, drop the F-bomb on a record ("The End" from the Doors' self-titled album), break the "3 minute limit" on a regular basis, perfect the stage dive, and be some of the first real "bad boys" of rock and yet have the talent to back it all up. The keyboardist played a whole song backwards on an album just to get a cool effect. The Doors delved into various genres, from sea chantey, to the blues, to Greek epic, to German show tune, to goofy love song, to suicide note. With the diversity, darkness and all the surrounding myths, they stand number one for me.
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i agree 100%...Originally posted by The Guitar Slayer
the Doors are the answer.
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For me, this is a hard question, becuase all of my favorite bands have severly screwed up their music somewhere down the road, but at some point they created some of the greatest music ever. Even though most of the stuff they recorded after 1980 was utter crap, I think the greatest band is The Ramones. The Ramones represented everything that the 1970s wasn't, they played simple tunes with simple and sometimes dumb lyrics, but they managed to make it catchy and fun to listen to. Even some of their later stuff when they tried to appeal to the mainstream crowd is bearable, but every Ramones song from the late '70s is among one of the best songs ever recorded, IMHO.
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The Beatles...probably....But if I chose a band that is the "greatest band" I'd choose At the Drive-In. There not a huge famous band, but to ME they are the greatest band to me
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I'm all about the Floyd, baby. They're not as broadly influential as the Beatles (it's my opinion that any contemporary rock or pop band that's not directly influenced by the Beatles is influenced by someone who was influenced by the Beatles), but the groups that show the most Floyd influence are some of the most innovative bands of our time.
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This is too general of a question, but I will say Booker T and The MG's.
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I would say probably the BEATLES !!!
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Originally posted by wussiewussie
i'll probably get hated on for this but.. i hold metallica as the greatest. i guess it's because i never really got into anything further back than the 80' (a little 70's but that's all) and most of the music i listen to is metal. guess i'm a bit biased in that sense.
Ditto.
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AMEN!!! Pink Floyd is #1!!!Originally posted by Bartak123
What is in your opinion the greatest band of all time...
I'm not in any way educated in music history.
IMO Pink Floyd tops my list.
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the beatles are the greatest overall band and the who are the greatest rock band.
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The Doors. They spanned many genres of music, were never worried about commerical popularity, and basically did things their own way. Their music is timeless and still sounds great today, and it fits today as well. Another excellent band is Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
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