I've been having such a good time on here talking about music I thought I'd try to add a new subject. Lets elaborate on our picks also. Here's my list: 1. Led Zeppelin 2. Pantera 3. Skid Row 4. Alice in Chains 5. Faith No More Led Zeppelin is the quintisential songwriters/musicians rock band of all time IMO. Creating the whole 80's genre to follow and influencing just about everyone. Robert Plant single-handedly created the screaming high-pitched rock star! John Bonham CREATED today's metal drummer with his powerful fills and earth-shaking bass drum! That Jimmy Page guy wasn't too bad either, not to mention John Paul Jones. PANTERA - Dimebag REVOLUTIONIZED metal with his shrilling larger then life solos and southern metal crunching riffs. Phil went from a Bruce Dickinson/Rob Halford screamer to a death-metal growler influencing the modern metal style of singing. Vinnie Paul is the modern-day version of John Bonham, even more so then Jason Bonham... And Rex wasn't too bad either. Skid Row - Went from a ballad 80's clone to a 90's metal machine with Slave to the Grind. Sebastian Bach became the early 90's version of Robert Plant and wasn't scared of anything! He did everything from openly saying he didn't even know how to ride a Harley (sacrilige back in the day) to playing live with his band with the likes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Not to mention putting Pantera on the map with the Slave to the Grind Tour (still the best show I've ever been too, Skid Row/Pantera wha?). Everything after Sebastian sucks though... Alice in Chains - The TRUE originators of the Seattle grunge-scene. AIC had a thick, heavy, melodic sound that had a true grunginess to it! Layne Staley was a tortured soul who let his inner-self bleed into the music, one of the best singers of all time! Jerry Cantrell provided the backing vocals and a very original guitar sound. Faith No More - Mike Patton brought this band to life with his diverse styles ranging from rapping to death metal and everything in between! His other bands Mr. Bungle among others have been large influences on many musicians including the similar sound of Incubus. His newest project Peeping Tom has that same sound as FNM. Solid musicians with keyboards, synths and crunching guitars. This is my opinions, lets see whatcha' got!
JMO but I honestly don't believe Rock and Metal should be combined in a 'greatest list', they are their own genre.
True, but its all rock... If you rock you rock, LOL! That's ok though if no one wishes to combine them.
Love the Pantera and Skid Row picks. Those are two of my favorite. I'd throw in Van Halen as a band that is a great rock band no matter what genre you choose to put them in.
Yeah but rock is so broad. Elvis Presley could be considered rock, but I don't see too many people putting him on their top five list.
I'll just go with metal. Metallica Pantera Soundgarden (half of Superunkown and everything before was metal) TOOL (prog this) Ronnie James Dio
TRUE guys, I should've atleast stated Hard Rock/metal I guess... I did want some ellaboration though, see why you made those picks.
1. Metallica - because of their first few cd's they became one of the best selling and most widely popular mainstream metal bands. Few, if any can provide better vocals then Hettfield. As a band, it can be argued they plowed the way for mainstream metal and for many other artists success in the genre. 2. RATM - Lyrics written by an angry man (De La Rocha) and a Harvard grad (Morello) combined with a drummer (Wilk) who was flat out nuts (See: MTV Award show) apparently = great music. And they're an even better live band. 3. Pantera - How you can be a metal fan and not like Pantera is beyond me. 4. Black Sabbath - Maybe the first metal band with great lyrics. 5. Soundgarden - Dark, at times morbid, beats and lyrics fill their music. Cornell has one of the best voices I have heard.
Ditto, except I, personally, would replace Kamelot with Iced Earth. So glad they got Matt Barlow back...don't get me wrong, I love Ripper Owens, but I watched my "Alive in Athens" DVD the other night and DAYUM that man can sing. Plus I just think he fits their sound a weensy bit better.
Top 5 Metal 1. Black Sabbath 2. Judas Priest 3. Metallica 4. Acid Bath 5. Pantera Top 5 Hard Rock 1. Led Zeppelin 2. Jimi Hendrix Experience 3. Guns N Roses 4. AC/DC 5. The Darkness Top 5 Rap: 1. Public Enemy 2. Notorious B.I.G. 3. RUN DMC 4. Eric B & Rakim 5. Beastie Boys Top 5 Greatest of All Time: 1. Beatles 2. Stones 3. Ramones 4. Kinks 5. Neutral Milk Hotel
Led Zeppelin Metallica Pantera Van Halen Korn All five of those bands started a new trend in metal. LZ: IMO, the birth of metal began with the first four Led Zeppelin albums. Almost every metal band afterward can trace their roots to Zep's early days. Black Sabbath, while started around the same time, didnt really get mainstream success until after Zeppelin. Van Halen: They started alot of trends that led to the explosion of 80s metal. Metallica: Started just about everything afterward, with speedmetal and growling vocals, with heavy drumming. Slayer Also formed around the same time and also benefited their success from Metallica's rise to mainstream. Pantera: Formed around same time as Slayer and Metallica, but I credit them to starting trends that would later influence bands like Korn. Korn: The beginning of 90s nu-metal that inspired later bands like Mudvayne and Slipknot, who in turn led to 2000s hardcore.
actually metallica didn't start it..they only brought it to the california scene where it grew here in the states. bands like venom,motorhead,blitzkrieg and voidvoid were already apart of what was called the nwobhm(new wave of brittish heavy metal)..if it weren't for bands like that there wouldn't be a metallica sound. as far as korn starting anything..wasn't it rage against the machine that "started" that version of metal/hiprock? and yes black sabbath actually started as a blues band called polka tolk though their doom and gloom sound actually kicked off metal..otherwise robert plant would be known as the godfather of metal not ozzy. all great bands though as they all lent something different to the way music can be played. music is overly categorized and too hard to pinpoint exactly who started what version of music and when due to ther being so many bands out there.
I forgot about Thin Lizzy. They rule. I don't understand how anyone can omit Black Sabbath. Korn is absolute crap.
Gotta disagree with some of that but good effort... Pantera was a full on glam metal band when they formed. Slayer was recording Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits and Metallica was recording Ride The Lightning and Kill 'Em All, basically changing the landscape that was created by Venom and Motorhead while Pantera was posing in school gymnasiums. Pantera, in my opinion, had absolutely nothing to do with anything. They followed a trend. They did not even know what they were when the three most influential albums of the genre were released. This is my opinion but, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood and Peace Sells but Who's Buying paved the way for everything that came afterward. Not to bash too hard on Pantera here but Cowboys from Hell came out in 1989, there first record as a "metal band". Look at the body of work from the four bands I consider the forerunners of this new wave of "metal" at that time. Anthrax - Fistful of Metal, Spreading the Disease, Among the Living and State of Euphoria with Persistence of Time in 1990 Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, Garage Days and And Justice for All Slayer - Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood and South of Heaven with Seasons in the Abyss released in 1990 Megadeth - Killing is my Business, Peace Sell, So far So good, So what with a masterpiece Rust in Peace released in 1990. Basically, the VERY best of the genre had already hit the streets when Pantera was beginning, that is not influential at all in my opinion. In fact, I think a band like Anthrax, mixing rap and metal with some skater influence was a much bigger forerunner then Pantera. What did Pantera really bring us or influence? Like I said earlier, everything they did had been done by other bands and those bands did it a LOT better. I guess I'd better open myself up for some bashing since I spent some time bashing other people's opinion. I did not mean to insult anyone of course, just stating the facts as I see them. My top 5... TOOL - Pagan will tell me "they are not metal" and others will tell me "their songs drag on and sound the same". Well, I think they are a "kind" of metal and Pagan and I have argued it before. I respect the hell out of his opinion but in this case he is wrong...LOL! They are my favorite band of all time and no one is even close. Alice in Chains - Wrongly categorized by some as "grunge". They were NOTHING of the sort. They were a straight ahead metal band in my opinion. Listen to Dirt, one of the best records ever, and tell me they are "grunge". Iron Maiden - Still the masters. Nothing I can say has not already been said. In Flames - I can not stop listening to them. The beauty of it is I did not catch on to them until about 2 years ago. They had so much material that for me it was like they released a new record every 3 months for 2 years, I just keep buying records. Queensryche - They could have been so much more but Operation Mindcrime is a brilliant record with Empire holding up really well 15+ years later.
TOOL aren't metal. Nor are they progressive. King Crimson is more progressive than tool. Top five rock bands of all time? You've got to go way back. To the people that black sabbath and led zep and the who looked up to. Those are the guys.
