What is your favorite band? What is their best song?
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Moody Blues. The Actor.
Nights of White Satin
Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
Tuesday Afternoon
Question
Ride My SeeSaw
In Your Wildest Dreams
No Tides Rushing In. No wonder I question your judgement. LOL
For your listening pleasure.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+tide+rushes+in+moody+blues&refig=1c09fea519d9459c8eb0f88d0089c01d&sp=2&qs=MT&pq=the+tide+rushes+in&sk=LT1&sc=8-18&cvid=1c09fea519d9459c8eb0f88d0089c01d&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dthe%2btide%2brushes%2bin%2bmoody%2bblues%26form%3dANNNB1%26refig%3d1c09fea519d9459c8eb0f88d0089c01d%26sp%3d2%26qs%3dMT%26pq%3dthe%2btide%2brushes%2bin%26sk%3dLT1%26sc%3d8-18%26cvid%3d1c09fea519d9459c8eb0f88d0089c01d&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=379218CC61A3D67711C8379218CC61A3D67711C8&FORM=WRVORC
They even did a version for heart attack sufferers: nights in white statins
Jab takers.
Legend of a Mind
Eyes of a Child
Candle of Life
Legend of a mind – great song.
I love the spiritual message in their songs. The songs real message is how drugs make you spiritually dead. The story is of the pop cult figure Timothy Leary. Those of us who lived back then got to see it with our real eyes.
The Story in Your Eyes
Their ‘Live at Red Rocks’ is the best ever. Like that concert, I saw them a decade ago perform with a 20 piece orchestra. It was mind-blowing.
Yes. You can’t beat the great harmonies, lyrics, and instrumentation. Only the Beatles can compare. Justin Hayward carries some notes in Tuesday afternoon for about a minute. The guitar playing in The Tide Rushes In are fantastic.
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The Tide rushes in. Best guitar ever.
Rush is my favorite band most favorite song is Red Barchetta. As a teenager I thought the song was about some distopian society is some far away dystopian future, now I have reconsidered that description. 🙂
I as well used to think Red Barchetta was about some far away possible future. Now I’m the uncle with the country place.
I sorta want to bookmark the “moving Pictures” album … side 2 …. fav, camera eye, witch hunt, and vital signs ….
was so reminiscing of side 1 to 2112 ….
Rush as fav! …
2112 is high art… Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush album first note to last, The Trees is quite telling in our society of lowering standards for the lazy and ill-suited among us.
love the trees.. good call
I never get tired of this one:
Just one, huh? That’s a tough call, but I’ll go with the original Allman Bros. before Greg was a junky & Duane had the M/C accident. Best song? The whole fuckin’ Live at the Fillmore album. All 4 sides along with the 5th & 6th side that was added to Eat A Peach.
Honorable mention to:
Cream
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rory Gallagher
The Jeff Beck Group
The Mothers/Zappa
Little Feat
David Bromberg Band
& probably a couple more without looking thru the record collection.
Am I 1st?
X100
Yep Little Feat
ZZ Top
The Stooges- Search and Destroy
Osterberg, a survivor in the true sense. At last call for the whole world, him and Keith Richards will be closing.
I’m going to cheat a bit, I have a favorite individual who happens to have 3 bands:
Tool
Perfect Circle
Puscifer
That man is Maynard James Keenan.
He’s got a place not far from us. From what I hear, a decent guy IRL.
Maynard is a genius.
Delicious is my PC fave
Right now it’s The SteelDrivers
Nice! Love it. Thanks for the introduction.
Doesn’t seem there are many bluegrasses here. I thought about suggesting O Brother Where Art Thou for classical sundays.
I like bluegrass…I like everything…except rap & heavy metal.
Was on the Cayamo cruise in 2020 before COVID. Can’t remember his name, but got to see the guy who actually sang it in the movie perform it live. It was surreal.
Pink Floyd
Honorable mentions:
Yes
Blue Öyster Cult
Rush
Dire Straits / Mark Knopfler
Cream
Queen
ZZ Top
Deep Purple
Fleetwood Mac
Pink Floyd is a fav.
Great list … nearly every one of them a top pick …
Some of Jethro Tull was good — the ‘Aqualung’ album was long a favorite …
The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Heart … the Wilson Sisters have had a lot of excellent hits – and their Pink Floyd cover at the Kennedy Center of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was excellent …
Fleetwood Mac – lots of great material spanning decades …
And, of course, The Doors (saw them live in Cleveland just a couple months before Jim Morrison died) …
Jefferson Airplane/Starship — saw them live in Cleveland — about the time I saw The Doors — excellent show — Surrealistic Pillow — Blows Against the Empire — Sunfighter … great stuff …
One last edit, I promise … The Cars — had some great music, as did Benjamin Orr during his solo days (I grew up with him — lived 3 houses apart — during his local Cleveland band, The Grasshoppers era) … he died so young — pancreatic cancer.
Heart … the Wilson Sisters have had a lot of excellent hits – and their Pink Floyd cover at the Kennedy Center of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was excellent …
i know what you meant to say… a bit of a typo… Led Zeppelin
Here’s to the most underrated band with the greatest number and quality of hits.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band!
To all you TBPers I dedicate
‘I Feel Like a Number’
‘Against the Wind’
‘Fortunate Son’
and
‘The Famous Final Scene’
You’ll accompany me– my favorite Seger song
BOB is my 2nd fav!!!! funniest part is… his top song (ol time r&r) (that i hate by the way) 1 of 100 might be able to name the album title it is from….
Reason for hating that song… be a canned DJ for a few years and see how many times people want to hear it…. UHHHGG
Live bullet for the win ….
Like you … I love Bob Seger AND HATE Old Time R&R ….
Favorite Seger tunes … Mainstreet, Night Moves, Fire Lake
and ‘No Man’s Land’. I never liked his “screaming into a bucket” stuff either.
my all time fav, “turn the page” followed by “travelin man/beautiful loser” off Live bullet.
cheers 🙂
oops from KC…
Bob Seger is probably one of the most under rated song writers of the generation. Great musicianship, but absolutely one of the best song writers to ever entertain an audience.
It took us about a month to find out who these guys were when this song was new and on the radio daily.
One fella kept arguing that it was Bob Dylan.
This one grabbed ya the first time you heard it.
I thought it was Dylan too. Obviously has similar voice.
Really like Dire Straits … Love Skateaway … fantastic tune!
Once upon a time in the West and Brothers in Arms.
Dire Straits ? didn’t they get their money for doing nothing, and free chicks too ?
I just love how the whole counterculture and related music of the 1960s & early 1970s was a completely organic rebellion of the masses of youth at the time…
∆ ¶ ® ! £ ƒ Ø Ó ⏌ $ ! Sorry Boomers! Like so many other things, it was all engineered.
Here’s your real favorite band, the ones behind so many of those acts:
https://youtu.be/xyl_j7ziZeY
So some of my favorite music turns out to be a big Psy-Op? Yup! Here’s a couple pages about that:
https://www.winterwatch.net/2020/05/laurel-canyon-military-intelligence-family-backgrounds-of-the-iconic-60s-counterculture-rock-stars/
Hmmmmmm, I wonder what else will be revealed to be engineered….
However, Glen Campbell from WC went on to be one of the most talented authentic performers ever. Loved his stuff. Only years later I found out he was backing Beach Boys, Monkees, and other shit “bands”.
Dire Straits
Grand Funk Railroad.
So many awesome songs, it’s hard to pick. But ‘Comfort Me’ always soothes.
Bad Time To Be In Love
Love that one too. Glad and surprised someone besides me knows who they are.
Creepin’
Fell for Your Love
Pass it Around
I’m Your Captain
… Just realized I could keep going for a long time.
Got turned onto them in HS with E Pluribus Funk. Then started getting their earlier stuff after a head shop opened up in my small town. No real favorite between Mark and Don; both had great voices. Just sad all the drama kept them from putting out more. Can’t believe I’m a 65-year old fanboy, but something about them really clicked. I really haven’t heard too many bands that had such a wide variety of music. Maybe the Stones? They were really hard to pigeon-hole.
There is a Grand Funk live version of Into The Sun on youtube you should check out. It is kind of silly psychedelic at the beginning being filmed in 1970, but when they are shown actually playing it is something else.
Never got a chance to see them but had the albums.
Pink Floyd. Nothing comes close.
But for good old fashioned rock and roll, The Angels.
The Who. Or Rush. Or Dire Straits.
Depends on my mood.
Who’s Next…..holy shit!
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon (album)
Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed (album)
Guess Who – American Woman (album)
INXS – Kick (album)
Favorite band?!Jethro Tull of course!
They had rock/folk/tastes of jazz in early albums/classical/blues and even a bit of metal at times in their music.Metal you ask,why yes,Aqualung and the Minstrel In The Gallery both metal guitar riffs!
Favorite era of band,well,the Warchild era of course!
Favorite song,this:
Pat Metheny Group, all day long.
HS,
We saw Metheny a month ago in Jacksonville. Horrible show. I’m a fan but VERY disappointed. He had a guy on piano/organ (with his back to the crowd and it certainly wasn’t Lyle) and a bassist.
It was a boring jam sessional at best. We left early.
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris and the band they toured with, documented with a video of their performance in LA. Favorite song: Speedway at Nazareth.
Definitely NOT the Flu Fighters
I heard they’re hiring.
Any band that doesn’t demand its fans be triple vaxxed for their concerts.
Tool. I was finally able to see them on one of their once a decade tours for my 50th. It was a very moving experience.
tough one, but have to go with Genesis
Only the Peter Gabriel incarnation.
Genesis Three Sides Live, wore out cassettes, finally got on cd.
Steely Dan – Do it Again
In the mornin you go gunnin’
For the man who stole your water
And you fire till he is done in
But they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all sangin’
As they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn’t hangin’
And they put you on the street
Skunk Baxter on ‘Reelin in the Years’ still blows me away.
America is another one I never get sick of.
Tin Man:
Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shells
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn’t, didn’t already have
And cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad
Say what you want about the band, Jim, his dad being the one in charge during the Gulf of Tonkin sham, etc. but I really like this song. Tremendous juxtaposition of the rain and Ray Manzarek’s organ playing.
Song is of original Karma, sin.
Into this house we’re born.
Into this world we’re thrown.
Like a dog without a bone,
and actor out on loan.
It’s amazing that these drugged out musicians can touch the truth of God.
Van Halen – I’m The One & Romeo Delight
Rush is an extremely close 2nd.
Favorite current band is Dream Theater- the most talented band ever
There is a distinct lack of Power metal here.
Manowar
Battle Hymns
While you can’t quite call him a band I must also link this (not an accident it’s the 1989 concert when the wall came down)
Hmmm.
Stranded on a deserted island, with just 1 album to play, if it were possible…what would it be?
I’d be using 2 sticks to bang on coconuts to keep the beat, and hammer out some percussion.
Good Rock, Creative song writing, great beats, awesome harmonies. and
lyrics that made sense telling a story.
A timeless classic.
Boston.
More Than A Feeling
Foreplay / Long Time
Peace of Mind
Hitch A Ride
Smokin
Rock & Roll Band
Something About You
Let Me Take You Home Tonight
Back in the day, played with the windows down on hot summer days in the car at volume 10.
6 x 9 oval speakers on the back deck with the trunk as a baffle, 5-1/4 inch rounds mounted flush in the doors,
with an indash tape deck, and for pure power, an equalizer.
And weed.
Being in my 20’s during the 70’s was a lot more fun than being near my 70’s in the 20’s.
Boston is one of my favorites too. Excellent choice.
Amazing that that first album is so much better than most other bands “greatest hits”.
It was a “Greatest Hits” album except it wasn’t.
I totally relate to your closing statement
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Another excellent choice.
pre plane crash only
I’ve madly loved nearly everything everyone listed already, but the test is, what have you kept going back to re-listen to over and over and over through the decades and still today… for me, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, Allman Brothers Live and Steely Dan/Fagan.
moving pictures … rush ….
The Lunatic French….
Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider?
i was wondering about that too…
Most of you haven’t heard of this band, but … Country Joe & Da Ho. It’s a HUGE band … 535 pieces. Country Joe let’s the female members of the band sit on his face during concerts, while Da Ho blows all the male members’ trumpets. They put on quite a show.
Honorable Mention:
—1) CCR (what? no one else even gives them a mention??)
—2) Abba
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Edited to add: Nobody picked Kansas?
Never pictured you as a dancing queen.
I was going to jump in. But it might be one of his fishing expeditions.
I tried to post a vid of Wayward Son but the system here told me to pound sand.
(George and the Destroyers got through with no problem. Maybe Admin just hates Kansas!!!)
Oh ya, They used to play with Dicky Doo and the Dongs…. My Favorite was “Click Clack” by Dicky Doo and the Dongs. They used to play over at Greasy Eddies and Dirty Ernie’s Taco Pit on Sunset and Main every Saturday night. Free Beer and Tacos. If you brought a Honkey, you could get your ass in free.
Those were the days..
I’d have to add Led Zeppelin, especially their first two albums…serious heavy blues.
Honorable mention also for John Kaye and Steppenwolf
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. I would consider them the Premier band in Bluegrass Music.
Not mentioned
The Who
Even Journey had some good tunes.
I liked the Who until I saw them in concert. Talk about boring. Thankfully the Clash opened for them, so still a good show. Actually the Police were incredibly boring in concert as well.
No Beatles, so I had to add them. Seargent Pepper is one of the greatest albums ever. It’s the best of the Beatles with its great harmonies, lyrics, and insrtumentation.
Yes, next to last comment ?
The Beatles. A Day in the Life.
prefer Abbey Road
I like a hundred others but Elvis and his band was the king of R&R. The song I play the most is Police, Every Breath You Take, because it reminds me of the girl I still love but was not good enough for.
Rush? Seriously??
Much too technically accurate for my tastes.
And the singing?
Blech.
When I was really young, I remember seeing ‘The International, Silver String, Submarine Band’ … which quickly became a favorite …
In 1964, however, I met the Beatles back stage at a concert on their 1st American Tour — they quickly replaced that Little Rascals ensemble …
Since then — too many to name …
Next time, ask for favorite solo performers …
Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff
Offspring, good choice:
.
The song that got me into Offspring.
ELO
Jeff Lynne is one of the best songwriter/musician/producers of all time.
Better than Nile Rodgers?
Alan Parsons for the best production/engineer.
without allan there would be no Dark side of the Moon
Saw ELO in the 70’s,two days before Tull in the Garden 1977/78,great show!
I don’t see you as the drink alone man. But good song.
Mostly in my sinful youth.
I spent a good fifteen years straight drunk — including drinking WHILE driving!!!
I was one of those guys who could knock back ten Bombay Sapphires and you’d never know I had been drinking.
Steely Dan
Been listening for over 50 years and it’s timeless with excellence in every aspect.
Not sure how anyone could narrow it down to one band. I think I could narrow it down to 5 each in several categories.
Nobody mentioned Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Black Sabbath, The Scorpions, Foreigner (good up to a point), The Kinks (though Lola got a shoutout on the Babylon Bee tranny piece), Def Leppard, Motorhead, Motley Crue….
I’ll always put Pink Floyd on top, but might pick another band like Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix for hard rock, but would pick Madness for a Ska category, DEVO for a New Wave category, the Dead Kennedy’s or X for a punk category. These are always good types of questions as they get you remembering bands you likely have forgotten.
Nine Inch Nails, Head Like a Hold, or anything on the Pretty Hate Maching album:
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When I became aware of music, Kiss.
My first concert, Cobo Hall 1977
Later, Pink Floyd.
Music just flowed from Gilmour’s fingertips.
I grew up a 70’s-80’s kid so hard rock and metal.
Now, anything I have not heard 10,000 times already.
No good rock stations here in north central Texas so I have drifted to Pandora for Southern Rock and Country.
Not current country, I ain’t gay, but Merle, Jones, Coe, Reed, outlaw stuff.
Try the Blackberry Smoke channel. Good music, right there.
Cobo. 1975. 1st concert ever. KISS. Tier B, at a 30 degree angle from stage. Ticket: $4.00
The showmanship and pyrotechnics were spell binding.
Dark Side of the Moon soon thereafter.
We have some common ground. But, Is A9 a step up, from Audi’s A6, A7?
If yes, then well done, racer.
~Cheers.
Give me a couple major cross streets you lived near, if Cobo was part of your youth.
I’m curious as hell.
Lived in Holt, Mi. Best friends stepdad took us to the concert. I was 12. Blew my mind. Fire, blood, makeup. Almost too much for a lil yankee redneck. Then I wore Ace Frehley’s makeup for the next 3 years.
Then I discovered girls…
Firehead Fuck the fraud
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The Band. Never get tired of “Stage Fright” and “Life Is A Carnival”.