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Best/most important American rock band

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Gator, Jan 7, 2019.

  1. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Jesus, guys. The Beach Boys literally created a sound. A style of music. The Beatles have said they were an inspiration for Sgt. Peppers. Roger Daltry said that Keith Moon would have left the Who to be the drummer for the Beach Boys.

    I am willing to listen to another argument but I haven't seen one yet.
     
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  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    once in a while, maga is right.

    This thread is insane.

    Bob Seger? Night moves and Main Street?
     
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  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    I believe the OP says "best" as well as "important."

    Calling Bob Seger and the SBB a "nice little group" is akin to calling 1980s-era Bo Derek a 6.
     
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    this thread
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Pet Sounds will be around as long as cockroaches.

    And it wasn't even an album with the type of music that made the Beach Boys famous. The music that was imitated.

    There *should* be an American band on par with the Beatles, Stones and Who. There isn't.

    There is the Beach Boys.
     
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  6. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    If we throw up Bob Seger and the SBB as an example of this country's 'best' and most 'important', that's like us being Angola going up against the Dream Team in the 1992 Olympics.
     
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  7. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Sly and the Family Stone > BS and the SBB
     
  8. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Even as someone who grew up in the Seger Belt, him being included on this thread is pretty astounding.
     
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  9. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    THE MICHAEL STANLEY BAND CHANGED MUSIC, DAMMIT.
     
  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I'd argue GNR was on that track. Maybe even Aerosmith. But they both came up short.
     
  11. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    As infuriating as Chuck Klosterman can be, his discussion of who will be the most-remembered artist in 100 to 500 years did a good job of parsing a lot of these issues. I think he settled on Chuck Berry.

    I'm not sure he's wrong.
     
  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    10,000 Maniacs and REM would be high on the list.
    If Michael Stipe wasn't so weird, and made an intelligible lyric; and if Natalie Merchant wasn't so serious, they could have made some more inroads.
     
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