In my opinion, these are the best bands of all time. Keep the list going because i may have forgotten a few. Led Zeppelin, Green Day, ACDC, Oasis, The Who, The White Stripes, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Cage The Elephant, Alice in Chains, All American Rejects, Black Sabbath, Blur, The Clash, Cream, The Doors, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Generation X, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Jam, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Expirience….. Jimmy Eat World, Joe Jackson, John Lennon, Nickelback, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ozzy Osbourne, The Ramones, Rancid, Seether, Sublime, System of a Down, The Yarbirds, The Stone Roses, The Heavy, U2, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Queen, Deep Purple, The Sex Pistols, The Bee Gees, The Band, Weezer, The Velvet Underground............ i may have forgotten a few. feel free to add
I'd leave off Led Zeppelin, Blur, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, U2 and Weezer, and add in Skyhooks, Bad Company, Free and Boston (but only with Brad Delp)
The best band of all time is Genesis. Everything they wrote up until Abacab (1981) is pure genius, even the more pop-oriented songs.
I really don't know why, but people tend to knee-jerkedly put them into undesireable categories. There are two types I notice: 1. Younger people who lump Genesis into the "crappy 80s band" group. Yes. Some of their 80s work was not that good, but some of it was, even then, and they formed in 1969. 2. Middle Aged people who lump Genesis into the "Genesnooze" category of long, boring instrumentals. In fact, most of Genesis' material, even in the old days, was not long, and most of the long songs were dynamic, changed musical ideas alot, etc. Some songs, admittedly, are a little noodly. I suggest to those people to check out an album like "Trick of the Tail," which is all short or medium length songs that aren't cheesy at all, but retain the top-notch musicianship Genesis is known for.
Probably difficult to believe if you weren't there, but back in 1977 Genesis, along with the likes of Pink Floyd, AOR-era Fleetwood Mac, etc, were the enemy. Accused and found quilty of castrating the spirit of rock n roll [luckily it got a balls-transplant courtesy of Punk ].
Oh, I know all about that. That is why I respect Genesis even more, as they moved on to their own musical direction in the early 80s that wasn't prog rock, but wasn't pop rock. Bands like Yes still play 1972-style prog rock to this day.
