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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: Mike
Date: Aug 11, 2008 02:44

On 9 Aug, 03:53, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 8:26 pm, Jellore bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Where are The Jam; The Smiths and New Order ?
>
> This list is US centric

More than half the list is from OUTSIDE the US. How does that make it
a US Centric list?
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: JohnB
Date: Aug 11, 2008 02:53

On 11 Aug, 10:44, Mike googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 9 Aug, 03:53, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 8, 8:26 pm, Jellore bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>>> Where are The Jam; The Smiths and New Order ?
>
>> This list is US centric
>
> More than half the list is from OUTSIDE the US. How does that make it
> a US Centric list?

Presumably it means US-generated.

What I can't understand is how Jethro Tull don't feature?
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: Jellore
Date: Aug 11, 2008 15:12

On Aug 9, 12:53 pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 8:26 pm, Jellore bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Where are The Jam; The Smiths and New Order ?
>
> This list is US centric
>
>
>
>> Raja wrote:
>>> Discuss!
>
>>> Rust ripped it off from this website.
>
>
>>> 1. The Beatles
>>> 2. Rolling Stones
>>> 3. The Who
>>> 4. Led Zeppelin ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: amy
Date: Aug 12, 2008 08:00

On Aug 8, 7:59 pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> Discuss!
>
> Rust ripped it off from this website.
>
> http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_artistsddd.html
>
> 1. The Beatles
> 2. Rolling Stones
> 3. The Who
> 4. Led Zeppelin
> 5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
> 6. The Beach Boys
> 7. Pink Floyd
> 8. Black Sabbath
> 9. Queen
> 10. U2
> 11. The Doors
> 12. The Clash
> 13. The Grateful Dead ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: amy
Date: Aug 12, 2008 08:05

On Aug 10, 10:07 am, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 10:59 pm, jean-yves hervé cs.uri.edu> wrote:
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>
>
>
>
>> In article
>> <2dd6d9d4-67f6-4754-9cfc-f776fd240...@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
>>  Morning Glory yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 10) I never understand why Talking Heads are supposed to be great.
>
>>> You don't understand much music, so it shouldn't be hard for anyone to
>>> see why you don't understand anything beyond your pet bands.
>
>> As much as it pains me to agree with the raja, I also think that Talking
>> Heads is one of the most overrated bands of all time.  Besides a
>> particular demographics (basically, people who were in college in the
>> late 80s, give or take a couple of years) nobody gives a rat's ass about ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: wenquan lee
Date: Aug 12, 2008 08:14

On Aug 9, 11:39 pm, Morning Glory yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 8:10 am, Dale Houstman skypoint.com> wrote:
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>> Morning Glory wrote:
>
>>> Deep Purple is a flash in the pan kind of group which doesn't merit
>>> much except for a handful of tunes. Pearl Jam, however, were a
>>> prominent grunge band at the time.
>
>> I suspect you haven't heard much of Deep Purple beyond their handful of
>> (huge) hits, but they were a very exciting live band,
>
> In fact, to tell the truth, I had a friend who was a co-worker of mine
> that I collaborated with on story about Deep Purple. We did plenty of
> research, went to concerts (I purchased tickets and went with him to
> see them live in concert at the California Jam Festival in '74 (now on
> DVD), listened to three out of four of their studio albums and met
> them backstage. I enjoyed listening to Blackmore's exciting guitar
> playing and his improvisational skills were outstanding (in fact I
> later heard they were almost banned from playing in America ever ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: zzbunker
Date: Aug 12, 2008 15:26

On Aug 8, 8:59 pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> Discuss!
>
> Rust ripped it off from this website.
>
> http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_artistsddd.html
>
> 1. The Beatles
> 2. Rolling Stones
> 3. The Who
> 4. Led Zeppelin
> 5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
> 6. The Beach Boys
> 7. Pink Floyd
> 8. Black Sabbath
> 9. Queen
> 10. U2
> 11. The Doors
> 12. The Clash
> 13. The Grateful Dead ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: Morning Glory
Date: Aug 12, 2008 19:39

On Aug 12, 11:14 am, wenquan lee yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 11:39 pm, Morning Glory yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Aug 9, 8:10 am, Dale Houstman skypoint.com> wrote:
>
>>> Morning Glory wrote:
>
>>>> Deep Purple is a flash in the pan kind of group which doesn't merit
>>>> much except for a handful of tunes. Pearl Jam, however, were a
>>>> prominent grunge band at the time.
>
>>> I suspect you haven't heard much of Deep Purple beyond their handful of
>>> (huge) hits, but they were a very exciting live band,
>
>> In fact, to tell the truth, I had a friend who was a co-worker of mine
>> that I collaborated with on story about Deep Purple. We did plenty of ...
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: Jeff Blanks
Date: Aug 17, 2008 18:46

Jellore bigpond.com> wrote:
> No more like old hippy dominated.

Dude! We're ALL old now.

--
"There is no excellent beauty which hath not some
strangeness in the proportion." --Francis Bacon
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Re: The 44 greatest rock bands of all times         


Author: Jeff Blanks
Date: Aug 17, 2008 19:07

Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> 7) ...Chicago, WTF are they doing here?

Listen to their first five albums (OK, I'll let the 4-LP set *Chicago at
Carnegie Hall* slide if you'll substitute *Chicago VII*) and you'll
understand.

--
"There is no excellent beauty which hath not some
strangeness in the proportion." --Francis Bacon
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