Greatest Band? Whos yours?
 

The misfits

Even though I'm not a huge fan, I think Dream Theater is the obvious choice. I mean, Petrucci and the drummer... gah... Only drawback is that their kind of boring at times. Another choice I think is Smashing Pumpkins. They weren't slouches instrumentally, the lyrics were great, the songs didn't all sound the same, and Corgan isn't a crappy vocalist.

Have To Be Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bad Religion Living End Social D. are up there

haha

I tip my incredibly pimp hat to you David Frost.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Red Hot's are a good one. Completely revolutionized new music. And just kick ass.

Smashing Pumpkins were a good band (and you're right about all that you said) but I wouldnt call them legends or anything.

I might lean towards someone like Queen. Or perhaps Rage Against the Machine. Imagine seeing them live..

I'm going to go with The Mars Volta. They are absolutley insane.

Every band has a bad album... unless they only put out one.

For this reason i have to say interpol.
Perfect album Turn On The Bright Lights

However, you didn't say it had to be metal or rock, even though it is in the rock and metal forum... Why was that anyways? Shouldn't it have been placed in General? Just a thought...
And they do suck live... but what do you expect?

Alice In Chains

Rolling Stones

The Chilli Peppers and the Foo Fighters for me. Well, modern ones. I'd mention classic rock but there's too many :band:

Well the way you posed the question makes it hard to answer so I'll divid eit up by genre.

Old school rock: Led Zepplin
New School rock: Edguy or Fireball Ministry
Hardcore: Either Zao or xDISCIPLEx A.D. both are legends
Emo: Taking Back Sunday most original emo band around
Metal: In Flames or Dark Tranquility

definetly not original dude.

originality in emo is hard to find nowadays. for some originalish emo bands that are still around check out books lie and van johnson. those bands are amazing.

I should of said most original of ones I've heard. I don't listen to much emo music....but I'll check them out.

go to hxcmp3.com

and listen to the cmhwak radio station.

everyband on there is good.

heroin to the one am radio to kodan armada

hell, if you listen to it long enough my band even pops up on their once or twice.

Pretty much every band that makes music these days is ripping off Led Zeppelin at some point and in some way. They were incredible.

That was a good choice. Haha, Boston is another good older band. Guns N' Roses. There's bunches.

Everyone loves Fleetwood Mac as well, they made some fine tunes in their time. Last album was woeful though.

these are just my favs not what most people would consider the best band:
Green Day
The Offspring

Iron Maiden are the greatest band nothing can beat them

[B]id have to go with, the ramones, the clash, rancid, pennywise, anti flag, bad religion............

ok, this is going to be pretty long, so bear with me. For one, I have to give credit to the Beatles. I've heard so many people say that the beatle's are overrated, that they're songs are simple, no lyrical content, no challenging guitar riffs etc etc etc. These kind of ignorant statements are exactly why I feel compelled to say exactly why the Beatles deserve credit as one of the greatest bands of all time. My reasoning basically comes down to this; they pretty much single handedly changed the course of music forever. First off, look at the music scene before they arrived, you have frank sinatra as the most popular recording artist at the time. Now look at what the beatles did. they alone broke out f the mold, and in my mind were one of the primary creators of modern rock. Every greatband after them had other bands to feed off of, to gain inspiration from, the beatles had no-one. Another common claim is that the Beatles lyrics aren't very meaningful. If this is your belief, you either haven't listened closely enough or to enough songs, or you just don't understand them. I've had a lot of very lengthy, in depth conversations about beatles songs, one of them about how Eleanor Rigby is a metaphor about the declining control and respectibility of the church and the monarchy in england (Eleanor Rigby, initials the same as Elizabeth Regina) or how the real meaning for the song let it be is a dedication to lennon's mother who came to him in a dream of his at one of the darkest time's in his life. The Beatles had some of the most brilliant lyricists and musicians of all time. McCartney is pure genious for being able to play his bass lines and sing at the same time, and Harrison was made a member of the Travelling Wilburys because of his incredible talent.

After the beatles, zeppelin and jimi hendrix need to be recognized, but they generally are acknowledged as musical gods, so I won't need to explain why I'm mentioning them.

As for music today, there are too many to name. I have to name thrice, Teppei Teranishi is absolutely unbelievable, plus they can really write. Other bands with great lyrics, brand new, finch, the list goes on and on.

Auf der Maur. You can convert her music into a classical piece, and that's a good thing.

Yea Rage Against The Machine Are Good

top 5
the doors
hendrix experience
radiohead
killers
red hot chili peppers

I hate fleetwood mac......

but i agree wiv you in that LED ZEPPELIN are the greatest band of all time. everyone is influenced by them, nothing like them before or after. legends

Greatest bands in my opinion are based on my mood for the day, right now Ive been listening to alot of Phish..but yesterday I went on a Dead Kennedy binge..go figure.

Deftones
Rage against the machines
Staind
36 Crazyfists

agree or disagree, i dont care..

I LITERALLY spat gatorade all over my comp screen at work when I read this cause it made me laugh so hard.

click here for all of Malignus Youths mp3s...one of my favorite bands and im so shocked to find all of their old stuff online!
(just checked the site and the domain has expired, hopefully they will get it up again soon)

I know no one will probably agree with me but personally my favorite band is GWAR

Gwar is playing here December 1st, cant wait, its been almost 4 years since ive seen them last..and check out the Malignus Youth link above, seriously, they are fast, aggressive, and melodic like nothing ive heard before or since.

The rasmus but I KNOW that no one agrees. oh well more lauri for me.

gee, thanx.. but I said I didn't care if you agreed or disagreed, so I don't really see what your story does for me??

I got loads of me fav bands probley Nirvana, Green Day an Metallica!!!

Rage Against the Machine

NIrvana are the best; no questions.
there are some other good bands that i like, but as far as im concerned, Nirvana beat all

hi

This is a tough one because there's so many great bands, you can't quite name one.

For revolutionising the world of music, it would have to be:

The Beatles
Sex Pistols
The Shadows

For the best band in the world it would have to be:

Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Does anyone agree with me???????

No, I'd say greenday personally.