Best AMERICAN Rock-n-Roll bands

TheFreak · 07-31-2003, 09:18 PM

What do you think? These are only MY picks, and limited to what I can think of right this second - I don't need any music snobs getting in my face:

1) Van Halen
2) Cheap Trick
3) Aerosmith
4) KISS
5) Alice Cooper
6) Ramones
7) Guns -n- Roses
8) Metallica

Honorable Mention:

Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
The Doors
Enuff Z Nuff
King's X
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mötley Crüe
Queensryche
Social Distortion
Tesla

SEATTLE SUCKS (Unless it's Queensryche...)

OmegaSupreme · 07-31-2003, 09:24 PM

how about good charlotte?

j/k

anyway... i've yet to hear anything that wasn't good from orgy... candyass or vapor transmission.

by the way... they need something new to come out. i'm tired of waiting. arrrr!

BobFinn* · 07-31-2003, 09:25 PM

Night Ranger
Black Crowes
Journey
Skynard

Jimi is American, so...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Raven Lunatic · 07-31-2003, 09:26 PM

I am so happy to not see Nirvana on your list.

Mine would be:

Metallica
Dream Theater
Van Halen
Guns and Roses
Megadeth
Tool
Bad Religion

AntiSonic · 07-31-2003, 09:29 PM

Mine:

Bon Jovi
Van Halen
Aerosmith
Guns and Roses

bigtexxx · 07-31-2003, 09:30 PM

I agree with BobFinn that Jimi should probably be on the list.

Eagles and Steve Miller Band would be on my list as well.

Mrs. JB · 07-31-2003, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TheFreak
I don't need any music snobs getting in my face:

LOL Freak! If I didn't know better, I'd think you were the old man at the end of my street who yells at the kids to get off of his lawn.

Anyway, I second Bob Finn's mention of the Black Crowes -- especially the Southern Harmony album era. They rocked.

**Rockets2K** · 07-31-2003, 09:36 PM

Hmm..seperate metal from RnR..

VH (early of course)
Skynyrd
Molly Hatchet
Tesla
GnR
Cooper
Springsteen
Boston
Foghat(they moved to the US right after forming, does that count?)
Nugent(Amboy Dukes)
Nugent(solo)
Styx(early)
Black Label Society

metal:
Queensryche
Savatage
Pantera
Dream Theater
Metallica(early)
Kiss
Godsmack
Fates Warning

UTweezer · 07-31-2003, 09:41 PM

KISS

Ramones

New York Dolls

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers

MC5

The Stooges

Chicken Boy · 07-31-2003, 10:48 PM

Weezer
Ramones
Misfits
Strokes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Embarassing American bands:
Metallica
Aerosmith

And many, many others.

EDIT: Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana

Kill Dirty Stockton · 07-31-2003, 11:00 PM

THE DOORS!!!

rudager · 07-31-2003, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by UTweezer
MC5

KOTJ/MF, no one else comes close.

serious black · 07-31-2003, 11:26 PM

off the top of my head
...Best American Bands...
Velvet Underground
Violent Femmes
de Schmog
The Cars
Dead Kennedys
Nirvana
Ramones
...Best American Solo People...
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen (Canadian?)
Will Oldham
Beck
Jimi Hendrix (and the Experience)
Buddy Holly (and the Crickets)
(this is just rock and roll by the way)

ima_drummer2k · 07-31-2003, 11:37 PM

Man, I didn't realize how many of my favorite bands AREN'T from America.

Current:
DMB
Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins
RHCP (pre-Under The Bridge)
REM (pre-Losing My Religion)
Metallica (pre-Nothing Else Matters)

All Time:
Aerosmith (pre-detox)
Van Halen (pre-Hagar)
Skynyrd
Tom Petty AND The Heartbreakers
The Doors

And a bunch that I'm too lazy to think of.

jo mama · 07-31-2003, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by serious black

de Schmog

best houston band ever...at least! to this day, i dont think that i have seen a band more than de schmog. they were fab! good to see that they are not forgotten.

here is my list of best american rock and roll bands...

pixies
ramones
velvet underground
guns n roses
janes addiction
rem
sonic youth

ill take it a step further and name my top 3 american r & r records...
1) pixies-doolittle
2) janes addiciton-ritual de lo habitual
3) g n' r-appetite for destruction

the best album ever recorded, in my opinion, is my bloody valentine-loveless, but they were british, or scottish or something.

not a band, but bob dylan would be there. neil young is canadian, but his band crazy horse were american, so he could get on there.

jo mama · 07-31-2003, 11:45 PM

DAMN, i can believe i left diamond dave-era van halen off my list. and i call myself a music snob, im embarrased. guess i was blinded by the utter suckiness of non-diamond dave halen.

FLAGRANT1 · 07-31-2003, 11:59 PM

3 outta the 4 Monkeys.

serious black · 08-01-2003, 12:04 AM

Yeh, the Pixies outa be on my list.

Pole · 08-01-2003, 12:15 AM

Despite some of their later stuff being fluff, their first seven albums are good enough to make up for any later lapses in quality.

I'm really disappointed that a thread about best AMERICAN rock bands on a HOUSTON BBS has NO mention of ZZ Top.

ima_drummer2k · 08-01-2003, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pole
I'm really disappointed that a thread about best AMERICAN rock bands on a HOUSTON BBS has NO mention of ZZ Top.

"Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass."

How could we forget ZZ Top?!?!?