Just who IS the acknowledged "greatest rock n roll band in the world" these days?
skel
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It's not the Rolling Stones.
Please let it not be U2.
Surely it can't be Kings of Leon or similar low-key scruffsters.
Please speak on it.
Please let it not be U2.
Surely it can't be Kings of Leon or similar low-key scruffsters.
Please speak on it.
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Are they a rock'n'roll band though? Guitars - yes, rock'n'roll - ??
What about that group with Jack White and some other guys. Fits more easily into the pigeonhole imo.
Biggest selling? Most influential? Most respected?
Poo2 probably win the money made category. No idea about about the others tbh.
Coldplay
Defining it thus: it won't make you LOL if you hear the epithet applied to the band, and it generally is applied to them.
They're at the top of their game, you may even hate them but their appeal / swagger / LearJet-ability is undeniable, every inch of their pomp being justified. It's a congnoscenti consensus thing.
:beerbang:
Lenny Kravitz was right.
"Who is the best? These three are bands I hate, IHOPEIHOPE it isn't them!!!!"
Like who you like, fuck what some pop station thinks of Kings of Leon.
It just seems silly that you ask a question; throw out three answers that are probably right, but make you butthurt; and then look for people to tell you that it'll be ok, there is more rock out there.
U2 is huge, and I hatt them. Waaaambulance, move on.
Man, you've changed since your KK days. More clenched.
as far as the Kings of Leon, they lose the award in my eyes over an incident I was involved in with them years ago...I was hanging out with some old bandmates who were on tour with KOL..we were partying in a limo...there was a bottle of REALLY good tequila going around. Tequila so smooth you could pour it on paper cuts and road rash and it would of even stung. Anyway, bottle gets passed to guitar player dude, who was wearing a Jack Daniels t-shirt, had the "I dont give a fuck" cigarette hanging out fo his mouth, Keith Richards/Rod Stewart rooster haircut, and he looks at the bottle and says "I dont know, Im scared its going to burn" I laughed (I was drunk) and said "and you wanna be Keith Richards?" His asshurt level went from yellow to red instantly...so VERY unrocknroll.
Hahaha! In fairness to KoL, they started out fairly young and green, despite the off-the-peg central casting rock'n'roller threads. I imagine most of us wouldn't have looked terribly self-assured when we took our first shot of the hard stuff. I know I didn't afterwards...
At a push, I'd have said AC/DC too, although quite how widely acknowledged that is is debatable. If a bunch of drips like Coldplay can even be considered a rock'n'roll band, much less the world's greatest, it suggests to me that the terms of qualification might need recalibrating.
If it was a matter of personal taste, then I'd say Queens Of The Stone Age.
disallowed due to that mushy cover of ribbon in the sky he always plays
Go look at the Spin/Rolling Stone recent "Best of The Year" polls.