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Greatest British/UK Rock Band of All Time?


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Which British/UK Band is Your Choice?  

38 members have voted

  1. 1. Alltime greatest?

    • The Beatles
      13
    • The Rolling Stones
      4
    • Led Zepplin
      11
    • The Police
      0
    • U2
      6
    • Sex Pistols
      0
    • Pink Floyd
      2
    • The Clash
      0
    • The Smiths
      0
    • The Who
      1
    • Radiohead
      1


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For me, Zepplin is probably wins the title.

 

I realized after creating this list that I would put more British/UK bands towards the top of my all time favorites vs. America....

 

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For me, Zepplin is probably wins the title.

 

I realized after creating this list that I would put more British/UK bands towards the top of my all time favorites vs. America....

There are at least seven bands on this list superior to any American band.

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as much as i love Queen, any other selection from the list besides the Beatles and you would just be ignoring the influence they had upon rock. I'm not a giant fan of them myself, but I can't ignore what they meant for music.

 

Also, did anybody else hear on Stern a few weeks ago that classic rock specialist who proved, or suggested very convincingly, that Zepplin ripped off their whole first album? Hearing the songs he played from the album, and then the songs that they were ripped from, makes it a far more convincing than just reading it.

http://www.classicrockcentral.com/classic_...llery.cfm?fID=9

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One thing people forget about the Beatles is that they were the first band to make every song on an album a good song. Before the Beatles an album consisted of the hit song and a bunch of trash. They raised the bar. No matter what genre ie: country, rock, easy listen, or top 40, the reason the songs on a cd are not throw away songs is because of the Beatles. There is no other band in music history that created that change. This why they are the greatest band of all time. Can anyone name a band before them that had a great album all the way through? If you can, I will give you ----uh, uh, hmmmm, --- :D uh--oh yeah, :D ,my deepest admiration!

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One thing people forget about the Beatles is that they were the first band to make every song on an album a good song. Before the Beatles an album consisted of the hit song and a bunch of trash. They raised the bar. No matter what genre ie: country, rock, easy listen, or top 40, the reason the songs on a cd are not throw away songs is because of the Beatles. There is no other band in music history that created that change. This why they are the greatest band of all time. Can anyone name a band before them that had a great album all the way through? If you can, I will give you ----uh, uh, hmmmm, --- :D uh--oh yeah, :D ,my deepest admiration!

Well, how about Buddy Holly and the Crickets? Very short-lived, highly influential career's that Bob Dylan, McCartney and Lennon all recognize as being inspirational to their careers. They wrote their own music, a unique concept in that day, amongst other thigns.

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as much as i love Queen, any other selection from the list besides the Beatles and you would just be ignoring the influence they had upon rock. I'm not a giant fan of them myself, but I can't ignore what they meant for music.

 

+1

 

You should take The Beatles off this list, add Queen and call the poll "2nd greatest British group of all time".

 

I'm partial to King Crimson myself, but in their 2nd incarnation they had too many Americans (Levin and Belew most notibly) to count for this poll.

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