Which is your favorite band?

[Deja Q]

And tell us your favorite song and why!

I'd vote "Jefferson Airplane". The group often sung about real topics and not the fluffy, saccharine, generic, and equally cancerous "I love you" crap (though they rather did early on, but even then there was a glimmer of something unique, thank goodness). "Lather" being a good example of one of their better ditties, mind the drug reference though... Of course, "Good Shepherd" and "Volunteers" can't be beat. And I'd want "Meadowlands" to be played at my funeral... O8) And as for "Triad", it's done infinitely more tastefully than the drek being sung these days on the subject... :wow: :evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

1. From that list? I guess I'd say R.E.M., the earlier stuff.

[Deja Q]

3. Or add in your own, of course! 9 effective slots minus millions of bands.

:-)

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. R.E.M. Greatest Rock and Roll band of all time

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[asthmaticeog]

2. Tie: the Who and the Beatles

Because I couldn't even begin to pick a favorite from either. From the other choices you've offered for consideration, among those I like, I could pick a favorite quickly.

BTW, Beatles, but no Stones? You are SO gonna get flamed.

[Deja Q]

4. LOL - sorry, 9 slots and I couldn't think of all the best bands.

Wish I could. :-(

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Madonna and Tina Turner are not bands, they are just singers.

:P

[Deja Q]

8. Nobody's perfect...

Cluthing at straws. :D

[donheld]

6. Madonna is not a band

She's a singer there is a difference :shrug:

oops you beat me too it.

[Seldona]

7. Other.

I still have to rate the Dead up there as my favorite band.

It is virtualy impossible to listen to them perform and be down. For me anyway.

[agates]

9. The Beatles

but then I guess I'm old :shrug:

[saltpoint]

10. Voted 'Other' for Velvet Underground.

It's essential to be acquainted with the night.

[greendog]

11. "The Band"

Three great singers; Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel. Great Keyboardist; Garth Hudson and one of the best and most unique guitarist/songwriters in rock'n'roll...Robbie Robertson.

One of a kind and brilliant.

If I had to pick one song I'd pick "The Weight"

[stinkeefresh]

13. The Weight

is my go-to kareoke number. I sing the Last Waltz version. (as well as I can manage, anyway!)

[stinkeefresh]

12. The Who, The Band, Velvet Underground -

these are some of my absolute favorite THINGS never mind BANDS. (this is some group!)

But more favorite than the Beatles? Can't be. And I'm young.

I've listened to the Beatles since I was an infant, and haven't stopped for 30 years.

My craziness:

- I once thought they might actually BE the second coming of Christ- (the spirit being wisely dispersed into a group rather than sitting precariously in one easily-crucified individual)

- We had only Beatles music at our wedding

- I think that they were the greatest threat the VRWC ever had to deal with, which is why they burnt their albums in huge stacks.

- I actually consider them UNDERplayed (not as underplayed as the Velvet Underground, but still...)

And my fav album these days is Rubber Soul.

Thanks for asking.

[solinvictus]

15. I'd have to say REM...

Their early music still holds up well.

[sundog]

16. my faves change from week to week

I never have a definitive answer.

[JimmyJazz]

17. The Clash - Washington Bullets

I love the political lyrics of Washington Bullets. There are other songs I like better for their musicality, but I like the lyrics of that song the best particularly because I learned about Victor Jara as a result:

Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again

As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es verdad - those Washington Bullets again

[Chicago Democrat]

19. Police and Thieves

Police and Thieves
In the Street
oh yaa
Scaring the nation
with their
guns and ammunition

[JimmyJazz]

20. That's Junior Mervin - not the Clash. I mean, they recorded it, but

the lyrics aren't theirs. I'm not in disagreement, though...

[Chicago Democrat]

18. Pink Floyd, Cypress Hill, The Pixies, Nirvana, The Cure

Weezer

[sendero]

21. None...

.... over the years:

Eno, Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Stranglers, DJ Shadow, Stereolab, King Crimson, Yes, Wolfgang Press, Massive Attack, Beatles, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Talking Heads, Vangelis

Someone in another thread suggested that picking your top 10 (or was it 20?) songs of all time was pretty difficult. If I were to actually do it, I'm sure it would take a solid week :)

[Borgnine]

22. The Beatles.

And I'm only 21. Am I odd?