Not bad for a bunch of 70 year olds. #1 Album in the world.
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To be a Boomer was worth it just for the music. In the late 60s through the 70s the number of massive bands, many still around was fantastic, incredible!
Is there anything better than classic rock to get yur ya-yas out?
I can’t believe the shit thrown out that passes for music today.
Completely agree. Mostly everything after Grunge and Metal is not worth listening to. Although Korn is pretty fooking good. We’ve basically had two decades of nearly worthless music versus every decade since the 1930s being memorable. If music is a forward looking indicator as to the state of our nation, we’re in serious decline.
When a form of music becomes popular, it already has a number of musicians in the background who have been experimenting with it.
Then the popularity soars and all sorts of people start trying it as well.
So…we get a lot of talent and energy at the start.
Then it gets commercialized, and eventually devolves into a new form of elevator music.
It’s really good. Angus went to the vault on this one and did it right. I won’t say it’s Back in Black, Razor’s Edge, or For Those About to Rock, but it’s great.
What else is there to say? Best band of all time.
Best band of all time? Don’t make me have to take you behind the woodshed.
First, best is subjective. Second, although I do not listen to them much, there is almost no argument to be made that the Beatles were not the best band. Perhaps greatest is a better word. Listen to their early stuff, the I Wanna Hold Your Hand type stuff, then listen to their stuff only a few years later – like A Day In the Life. The Beatles changed music forever. They transformed it.
But if you do not like the Beatles as best, here are some other contenders: Pink Floyd. Creedence. The Clash. Fleetwood. Stones. The Dead. Zep. Marley. Etc. The list is very long. Depends on lots of things. Personally, I love the Clash – raw power, attitude, and ability to connect. That little bastard Marley was a wonder of the universe. Pink Floyd I listen to all the time. Etc.
Floyd is fantastic, CCR is fantastic, Fleetwood Mac is great. The Dead would be the only band I’d have if stuck on a desert island because they covered so many genres with finesse.
BUT – AC/DC is the best band of all time! There’s no debating this, thank you, that is all! 🙂 (You have some good selections for sure, but I’d also mention The Doors and The Who.)
I hate the crappy beatles as much as I hate rap.
Don’t have to like the Beatles. But they changed music, and it is simply inarguable. As I said they went from the smarmy early rock and roll stuff like “Hold Your Hand” to “Day in the Life”, “Sgt Pepper”, etc at warp speed. Brian Wilson literally cried when he heard Sgt Pepper as he knew he could never match that, and he wanted to be known as the guy that knocked the Beatles off their perch. They changed the world of music, and even changed the world to a certain extent. I do not much listen to them, but their greatness is undeniable.
Was raised on the Beatles, in part because my mom went country but my dad stayed rock ‘n’ roll, and they could agree on the Beatles (and the Guess Who, CSN), so i heard a lot of those guys from as early as I can remember.
Every road trip. Every visit to family. On the way to anywhere . . . mostly the Beatles. On a crappy cassette deck in a company car . . . through tinny speakers and no bass . . . and I hated the Beatles because of it. Glad to say I have grown out of it, but . . . first time I heard Sloop John B . . . it occurred to me that they had been listening to the wrong freaking band!
Of course, the Beatles are incredible. But legend has it that John Lennon, after hearing Pet Sounds, called Wilson up and said “It’s the greatest album ever made.” Dunno if that’s true, but they were certainly great admirers of one another.
Here’s an audio track of Paul and Brian together in 2002:
The Stranglers were great too. And don’t forget Daddy Cool and their Eagle Rock. In ’92 my ship was in Sydney for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Hall had a band that did the opening riff of that song to get everyone’s attention. One can’t go to an Australia Day celebration without hearing that. I last heard it on the Indian Pacific on that celebration day almost 3 years ago. First heard it on $2 Warner Bros. double album which featured new artists. Jethro Tull was on it too along with Bonnie Raitt.
I have seen the boys since the Highway Tour,didn’t know em well then or appreciate Bonn’s voice so much(Night Prowler me favorite song by them).Saw the Black tour in small theaters then huge places all within a year,am glad they still have it in them and that Brian got his hearing back to a degree.
I saw all the bands worth a damn mid 70’s on excepting Zep(had tix/Bonham died)/Skynard(had tix /plane crashed a few weeks earlier)and never had a chance to see T-Rex.
That said,saw Tull/Queen/Bowie/Bad Co./Yes and the list goes on and on,over 600 concert stubs thru the decades in total.
In tough times like the great band Foghat(saw em!)sang,When I Was Stone Blue/Rock n Roll Sure Helped Me Through.
In 8th grade, I had a teacher believing my name was Malcolm Young for 2 months.
Take that lazy, worthless, Crooked Hillary voting Millennials and Generation Zeroes!!!!!!
Too bad Malcolm Young is gone. He was a great rhythm guitarist.
First live concert I ever went to. They still rock.