Poll: Best American rock band of all time

Mine anyway, not really rock though.

it's all a matter of preference.

Is lightyears ahead of anything else listed in this thread, the doors being the only ones even near the same realm.

Also you are all sleeping HARD on tenacious D who flat out destroy most of these bands as well.

Can we count Greta Van Fleet too? I mean they're practically a cover band but no one can imitate Zeppelin like them and that is a monumental W in my book.

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In comment 14186727 JerrysKids said:

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how there is so many different answers. The US has a lot of amazing bands but not like the big 4 in the UK. Beatles, Led Zep, Stones, The Who.

Yeah the Brits got us by a country mile on this

REM

I read an article on the top selling albums of all time (they usually update the list every 5-years or so) The Eagles had the #1 Album (Eagles Greatest Hits 71-75) and the #4 Album (Hotel California).

Their music sucks, but... John Petrucci

1. Tom Petty.... long history, great song-writing, great live band. Best Album: She's the One soundtrack

2. Eagles Hotel California

3. Beach Boys Pet Sounds

4. Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers

5. Buddy Holly Short, but brilliant career

6. Raspberries

7. Steely Dan

8. Byrds / Buffalo Springfield / CSN / CSNY


Others: The Dead.... only if you're baked... straight, its endless noodling.
Springstein.... I liked Nebraska. Just don't get it, I guess. Kiss... novelty act.
Monkees... love the music, but they didn't write or perform hardly any of it

going away.

Ramones
Velvet Underground

The most love the eagles will ever get on a giants forum

Close 2ND Aerosmith !!!!

Faith No More

The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The drummer and bassist were British, not American.

They are probably one of if not the most covered bands of all time

they were known as Levon and The Hawks then. Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, aka THE BAND

The Who

In comment 14186774 Earl the goat said:

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The Who

British bands, no?

For the sole reason they produced a top three rock album of all time according most people in the industry, including Rolling Stone. Most industry people put it at the second best record ever. Pet Sounds. Plus all the other hits they had. Hell even the Beatles, after hearing Pet Sounds, made them do Sgt Peppers. Paul McCartney called God Only Knows his favorite non Beatles song ever.

no one has done it for so long at such a high level.

listen to them live and it's nothing more than a carbon copy of what they did in the studio.

In comment 14186718 M.S. said:

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(1) Light My Fire (2) People Are Strange (3) Love Me Two Times (4) Hello, I Love You (5) Touch Me (6) Love Her Madly (7) Riders on the Storm But if you asked: What is my favorite American rock group? Gotta be the Byrds. David Crosby Chris Hillman Gene Clark Jim McQuinn Michael Clarke If nothing else, they probably created the first, real psychedelic hit, "Eight Miles High." I likes the Eagles, and you can't argue with the astounding number of memorable hits, but IMHO they are a sweet, canned version of The Byrds.

Agree on The Doors

So many good songs you dodnt even mention:

Back Door Man
Break on Thru
Five to One
Waiting for the Sun
Maggie M'Gill
Roadhouse Blues
Peace Frog

Too bad Jim died, coulda been one of the best ever with their unique sound

In comment 14186636 kinard said:

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... As a rock "dinosaur" I might put the Doors up there and maybe even the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

^^^This.

When the British rockers first heard Hendrix, they were tempted to just drop their guitars and go home.

is Stone Temple Pilots so I vote for them.

get more discussion if Duane Allman had not passed so young. I like the Hendrix/Doors genre. However, more than 20 years later Nirvana moved many.

Most of the legendary blues artists are more individuals with backup bands...

Given that the OP excludes those. I go with the Allman Brothers (who are a fine choice in my mind anyway)

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In comment 14186820 Blue21 said:

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What part of AMERICAN rock band didn't you read?

.... hands down !

Hands down. Able to make chart worthy music over 5 decades.

An insane amount of talent in all the versions of The Mothers through the years!

Like 10 (ish) albums in 6 or 7 years love a lot of the other answers and not my favorite band but that is the answer

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Grateful Dead
Allman Brothers

The Eagles deserve mentioning for all their hits but just a bit too soft rock/pop for me to consider them a top "rock" band. I know they're considered R&R and no problem with that, they just don't rock enough for me.

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Guns n Roses is better than Van Halen.

Other bands to consider:

Velvet Underground
The Ramones
The Pixies
REM
Sonic Youth
The Doors
Blondie/Devo/Pretenders
The Talking Heads

Honorable mention to the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, but for me they're on a lower tier.

In comment 14186822 section125 said:

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In comment 14186820 Blue21 said: What part of AMERICAN rock band didn't you read?

Sorry Section didn't mean to offend you. Lighten up. Read too fast I guess.

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In comment 14186773 Edward in Duckland said:

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they were known as Levon and The Hawks then. Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, aka THE BAND

I believe Levon Helm was the lone American in the band, the rest were Canadian

And then many other great bands

The Van Halen Brothers are from the Netherlands & the Jimi Hendrix Experience was two thirds British

The Allman Brothers Band. Just listen to Live at The Fillmore East - 1971

In comment 14186872 gmenatlarge said:

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In comment 14186773 Edward in Duckland said: Quote: they were known as Levon and The Hawks then. Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, aka THE BAND I believe Levon Helm was the lone American in the band, the rest were Canadian

You are correct. What a voice on Helm. One of my all-time favorite singers.

... I can’t get enough of Cage the Elephant and Interpol. Carry on.

In comment 14186907 Bill in TN said:

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The Allman Brothers Band. Just listen to Live at The Fillmore East - 1971

I was at those shows. I still remember when they announced that they were recording it for an album, and the audience went nuts.

One of the greatest gifts of my life was being in NYC during the village era and then the Fillmore years. Man, that was special.

In comment 14186897 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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The Van Halen Brothers are from the Netherlands & the Jimi Hendrix Experience was two thirds British

Van Halen is an American band. They were formed in Pasadena. The brothers may have been born in Holland but they moved to the Us when they were 7 and 9.

i think you need to include The Ramones and Red Hot Chili Peppers in the conversation

4 Seasons were pretty damn good too.

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