This list would be like asking which of the following is the most influential band of all time: Beatles, Animals, Foreigner, Boston, Allman Brothers, Aerosmith. There is not even a close second. Led Zep.
Does Muse count as a Hard Rock? Maybe they're just Rock. But I think they're one of the best bands out there today. off topic: I remember when they came to UH about 3-4 years ago for only $10!!!! I didn't go cus I had a history test the next day, which I didn't even study for! BASTAAARD!
I'd replace deep purple, cream, and hendrix with metallica, guns n roses, nirvana.. or something like that
Your list is too incomplete for me to vote. This is more like which Manny Ramirez hard rock band do you like the best. If I had to pick a band, I'd pick The Black Crowes or I can't stand Led Zeppelin. With Ozzy Osbourne, the Ramones and the Allman Bros. as a close second. All that psychedelic **** can go the way of disco as far as I'm concerned.
Led Zeppelin, the king of hard-blues-rock. Basically Lord of all rock music (today's music doesn't count-they're mostly crap) .....Closely followed by....... Cream, in my opinion
Well you highly edited from a list that is so all over the map that it is meaningless (Sex Pistols as hard rock? The Doors, etc?). Odd choice to go off of VH1, Manny my dear.
Grand Funk Railroad? Blue Cheer? Alvin Lee and Ten Years After? Velvet Underground? Lou Reed? Did I just happen to miss them on the list of 100?
The more I look at the list of 100, the more puzzled I become. Janis is Hard Rock? There are many more on that list that don't meet the criteria for what I think of as Hard Rock. This Rocks more than Janis and some others on that list, but probably not quite enough to be called Hard Rock: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LZMmV6xXYFw&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LZMmV6xXYFw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
Ask yourself, if you were going on Survivor and could only take one boxed set of any hard rock band which one would you take? I rest my case. Almost all of the earlier heavy bands were blues based. The exceptions were the bands that veered into the Metal movement ...The MC5 , Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath etc. But you really get into splitting hairs trying to define music catagories; were The Stones not hard rock? The Allman Brothers however were not a hard rock band, they were an electified blues jam band. Why Did Cream Break Up? Wednesday, October 19, 2005 | 8:41 AM NEW YORK (AP) The reason Cream broke up in the first place is because of Ginger Baker's ears. Baker tells Guitar World magazine he wanted out of the band because of the volume. He says, "It just got louder and louder and louder," and he didn't enjoy it anymore. He says he asked the band to turn it down and they wouldn't, so that's what finished it for him. Jack Bruce says he was nervous when they first reunited because he and Baker had had a falling out. Bruce says the best part about the reunion is that he and Bruce are buddies again. Their reunion show from May in London is now out on D-V-D. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=3550454 Clapton's version of the break-up (Too long to cut and paste)
Well by your choices listed in the poll you should change the title of the thread to greatest Rock Band before the 80's. You can't really put up a poll on the best rock bands of all time and exclude decades of bands. If you add other to the poll that would win, because your short list of options is not at the top of everyone's list.
My list for HARD ROCK would omit Hendrix, Deep Purple, and Cream and add Van Halen, Queen, Aerosmith, The Who, and Alice Cooper. Those would be my 8 candidates. Of course AC/DC would win.
The main difference to me is that we all have our Zeppelin phase, but to me they got old very quickly. I can still throw in any AC/DC album and jam to it.
From what I've seen Black Sabbath was the primary inspiration for most heavy metal bands today. Note that is Heavy metal and not more mainstream rock.
