WHAT!?!?!? I take great offense to this comment, sir. And besides, Rush is already at the top, seeing as they're the GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME!MONSTERheart said:
The greatest American band ever is...
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Pink Floyd?
I dunno. It's impossible to pin "Best ever" in a wildly subjective category.
Crosby, Stills and Nash (of which one isn't American, so I guess it's DQ'd)
Hendrix
Santana
Honestly. Everything up there beats just about anything I can think of when it comes to "American culture" music, which is why I didn't put up more metal or rock groups despite liking the genre better.
I dunno. It's impossible to pin "Best ever" in a wildly subjective category.
Crosby, Stills and Nash (of which one isn't American, so I guess it's DQ'd)
Hendrix
Santana
Honestly. Everything up there beats just about anything I can think of when it comes to "American culture" music, which is why I didn't put up more metal or rock groups despite liking the genre better.
The greatest might be.......I think Metallica is at top here. They hold many top spots for records like consecutive #1 album releases and the like. About 100 million records sold worldwide and 60 million or so sold in the US alone. Only two bands I have seen mentioned here were higher, the Eagles and Aerosmith. However, when you think of their respective genres, odds are one of the first bands you think of won't be them. They didn't help sculpt out their genre out of nothing. Metallica did.
+Respect to you, sir, on all points.Novskij said:
Well that's because Evoken kicks ass (maybe as much ass as the others on that list). They're almost a perfect combination of Sunn O))) and Ahab's styles/sounds (despite those two coming five and eleven years after Evoken as founded, respectively).dsmops2003 said:
Can I just expand on slightly, because I have nothing else better to do at this time? Yes, because you can't stop me from typing *cackles*bak00777 said:
So yes, heavy metal. Arguably the first heavy metal songs being either 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks (no, seriously) or 'Purple Haze' by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (I can't remember the official verdict, other than it's one of these two). Notice that these are British (or Britain-rooted) bands. That's because Britain is the main place for heavy metal in its birth. Let me introduce you to the big 3:-
-Led Zeppelin
-Black Sabbath
-Cream (yeah, Cream, let me explain)
Led Zep. and Sabbath don't really need explaining, but, to some of you, Cream might. Cream's lead guitarist was Clapton. He revolutionised the use of valve-amp distortion (high-gain, low volume, more commonly known as 'overdrive'), which is the basis of the heavy sound which you here in heavy metal today.
These three bands are all British, and Heavy Metal mainly originated from the Midlands (of all places, Black Sabbath were from Birmingham).
