Thank you for this. 3.7K likes . 6) The Velvet Underground London Calling was a huge album, and a great one, but compared to zeppelin, queen, the beatles??? Costello is perhaps the best songwriter alive today. I think one has to be a guitarist to truly appreciate them. Sure, the music he makes today might be just a little more exciting than John Tesh, but lets not forget how awesome his early catalog was: Alison, (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Watching the Detectives, (I Dont Want to Go To) Chelsea, Pump It Up, Radio Radio, Olivers Army and I Cant Stand Up for Falling Down are just a few of his early hits. 1 that much is obvious. He graduated from The Royal Academy of Music in 2012 and then launched Hello Music Theory in 2014. ???? They all count in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, if that helps. A list of musicians who have named Queen as an influence would take up all 50GB of my allotted space on this server. Where is Echo & the BunnyMen, The Cult, Def Leppard, or Bush?? He plays the guitar, piano, bass guitar and double bass and loves teaching music theory. Frantic Elevators. #49- Japan this low? Maybe. Some bands were extremely popular and longevus, but not so influential and innovative. Genesis was hugely influenced BY Yes and King Crimson not the other way around. Jimi was American but the band was British. 31) Talking Heads Wow. Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldntve) andWhat Do I Get? can stand proudly with Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California and Dream On as some of the best rock songs of all time. About half of these bands would be on my list. You have a very shity music taste, so go and trow yourself from a very high mountain, and make sure that the place where you land is hard so you can smash easily. I understand your rationalization for including them, but Coldplay and Muse just dont belong with the rest of the heavy hitters youve got here. Held up as some kind of Rock Gods, the bands material has been packaged and repackaged so many times, its almost nauseating. 5. 31: Humble Pie 23. And who would ever put the clash above the Beatles!! I think Deep Purple should be an honorable mention since they did contribute to the hard rock history, A great reference and definitely well executed and presented. 6) Queen: You cant think of 1970s music without thinking of Queen. Toto (band) 70s British Rock Bands. The band was a huge inspiration for these artists. And, as mentioned, I think Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists ever. 9) Elton John: People under the age of 35 have probably always thought of Elton John as a bitchy old gay man who used to be popular. Found myself agreeing with 65% and disagreeing with the rest thats great and makes for an interesting world Period. Discover Best of British: Classic Hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s by Various Artists. When I was younger, I recall hearing how big band was the music of choice in old folks homes. King Crimson began life with a vengeance in 1969 and were the first real progressive rock band. You like Fun Boy 3 better? Oasis- They probably should have charted higher. - except to tell you the Beatles are the greatest plain and simple no need to get original or cute on us. 19. Jesus, what a condescending comment. They dont have another other Top 20 hit in the US until the 2000s, when Billboard shifted them over to the Adult Contemporary charts, where theyve been a bit more successful. If not, your list is garbage. Placing The Clash as #1 is musically sinful! I think next you should compile a list of your top 50 British bands ( we all should, and we could compare)!! Motorhead(as well as maiden) are just as worthy to be on this list, warts and all. 19) Creedence Clearwater Revival The group is especially interesting in that they had five separate tenures. 44: The Specials What a brilliant list! After the holiday festivities died down, I went to my room and put my headphones on and had a listen. If you look at the Boillboard Hot 100 int he 80s and the UK Singles Charts for the same, you see how different musical tasts were between the Us and Europe. Its not easy to sit down and try to remember EVERY important band of the last 50 years, even if you narrow it down to a tiny little country. Moody Blues should be in the top 10 as should ELO. I like that you have Prince and Parliament on there. But they do deserve respect. Clash? 22) Status Quo: Its hard to think of a band I like less than Status Quo. 29) Kate Bush: Does Kate Bush really need an introduction? Period.. And the band put their money where the mouth was literally. 7. Music has really died in my generation. 27) Nirvana Whereas a lot of 80s electronic bands were influenced by Kraftwerk, Neu! 100 Best Rock Bands of the '70s - Spinditty You missed The Electric Light Orchestra seriously, Jeff Lynne wrote better throwaway songs than most of the bands on you list. On the other hand, I am impressed you remembered to include the Animals. Wings was the biggest selling band in the 70s. And if I did that, Id have to have separate entries for Joy Division and New Order, Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, and maybe Marc Bolan. Phil Collins makes me wanna vomit. The best Top Ten for me is: 1-Beatles, 2-Rolling Stones, 3-The Who, 4-Led Zeppelin, 5-Pink Floyd, 6-The Kinks, 7-Deep Purple, 8-David Bowie, 9-The Doors, 10-Bob Dylan. And as soon as Disorder started I was hooked. His 1958 single Move It is considered by many of be the very first British rock song, and in Richards 53 year career hes had 130 Top 20 singles and albums. Where are Tears for Fears, Jethro Tull? Just to say The Who are my favorite rock band ever! UK- Well, lets just call it English, shall we? Thank you! And lets not forget that when Small Faces broke up, three members coaxed Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart, two more British music icons, into joining the reformed Faces. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this trip down memory lane with the 100 best boy bands from the 80s. Just as The Ramones convinced thousands of American kids to start their own bands, the Pistols did the same for the UK. Coldplay, the most boring band ever?????????? I call foul Granted Genesis made it but I think Peter Gabriels work seperate from Genesis merits his own place in the top 50. Its not exactly my thing, but its decent enough. This led Verve frontmanRichard Ashcroft to quip that Symphony was the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years (and it was true:Symphony was the highest-charting Jagger\Richards single since 1971s Brown Sugar!). Pink Floyd on 13th place. 13) Pearl Jam 27: Rolling Stones 32) Kiss No James Brown??? Sure, there are a lot of bands that might have copied Floyds sound, but Im thinking their influence wasnt as obvious as most. And heres an amazing fact: every single released by The Jam all 18 of them hit the UK Top 40, with four of them going to #1. Gotta be top 20. Had the band stayed together and released a few more awesome albums, they might have held the spot in pop culture that U2 holds today (By the way, U2 being an Irish band, are not British, which is why theyre not on this chart). No Rod Stewart? The British heavy metal scene in the 60s and 70s has been a defining moment in Heavy metal history. Holding Back the Years is likely the only Simply Red song many would know, aside from their cover of If You Dont Know Me by Now. And can someone explain to me why the smiths alway figure on these lists i honestly dont get the appeal. 40. For London Calling they straight up tricked cbs records into including a free single which allowed them to squeeze a few more songs in. Shifting from punk and prog-rock to a harder kind of tune, we arrive at number nine on our list, Iron Maiden. But whats more, Weller didnt (at the time) wear his politics on his sleeve. Unlike a lot of the comments, I wont be abusive about it where I disagree. 44) Jerry Lee Lewis Arctic Monkeys, UB40, Amy Winehouse, Squeeze and The Fall must have been just outside the top 50? 23) Lynard Skynard Stone Roses first recorded in 1987, pioneering the manchester baggy psychedelic sound. During the set, Strummer jumped off the stage and tried to pull the fence down. The latter record included the song that is undoubtedly the Polices most well-known tune: Every Breath You Take. If youve seen Top Gun even once, you know exactly what were talking about. Ten years ago I did not like Radiohead, now theyre in my top five, in another ten years, this guys list will probably be different too. Mention The Smiths or Oasis, and theyll either argue with you until theyre blue in the face or theyll stick their fingers in their ears and say they cant hear you. . With Peter Gabriel they lacked success and it was reason PG left. It looks pretty accurate, in line with most of the British music mags lists (with the exception of Cocteau Twins and Bananarama- hehe!) Doors as far down as #14? All of them have released iconic songs that still get radio play today. Classic Rock Bands of the 1970s and '80s, Then and Now - Insider Peter Weller took the jazz thing even further with Style. I feel free 70s Rock: In Search Of The Forgotten Heroes | uDiscover And while each of their four studio albums charted at either #1 (Meat is Murder) or #2 (The Smiths, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come) in the UK, their success outside the UK was limited. Formed in London in 1976, The Clash spent the second half of their tenure in the 1980s, and during that time, they continued their work as pioneers in the world of music. Whereas, say, Bono and Sting also wrote songs that shared Wellers sense of social justice, they beat you over the head with it. XTC arent included on the list because, while critically acclaimed, I also dont know how influential they were. Roxys influence on bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Japan, ABC, and Ultravox was legion. For me, I always hated how far too many critics fawned over punk rock, and the newer avant garde artists and loved to snub the underground rock legends of the sixties and seventies. Minor point of contention. Its like saying Metallica were influenced by Shakespeare , since they both used English language verses. Even with the anthology set I found myself deleting ALOT of tunes that just didnt hold up..The Sex Pistols one album is far better as a whole then any Clash record..Coldplay and Radiohead always struck me as well pretentious rock for folks who want to appear to way too hip when it comes to music..but they have had a pop appeal that eludes me to this day Queen was GIANT.. maybe should have been a little higher on the list as well.. My first rock album was Queen Live Killers.. so I am biased on that one..I guess I will be the one that says it..Zeppelin were GODS.. the 9 original albums were the blue print for all these hardrock to come. (well, in Canada and the U.S. at least.) This is the single most ignorant statement ever made. If you need any evidence that the band is a true icon of the 1980s, consider the B-52s/Bowling for Soup hit 1985, which mentions the group by name. I suspect you were itchin fer some controversy, though, so Ill try my best to satisfy that in the limited time I have. I really enjoyed your list entertaining and well thought through Pink Floyd. The band released just two albums, Tango in the Night and Mirage. Fittingly, the group changed its character just after the 80s, when founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had a dramatic breakup (though, thankfully for the world, they reconciled about ten years later). Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road are all classics. Personally, my favorite band now and forever will be the beatles. Very good list. Ill probably be shot by someone (not you, of course) for saying this but I prefer Plants solo stuff. Too bad Mick had some health issues in 2019, Your email address will not be published. And emo, or the act of wearing teenage depression on your sleeve, is all Morrissey. Probably makes it tougher, right? So by this criteria, Siouxsie And The Banshees should be in the top 50 by far. Madness- You cannot find a more cool, fun, and delightful band. Heres a quick top 50 based mostly on my enjoyment. Oddly, Im not a huge fan of the group, which is weird, because youd think itd be right up my alley. 31) Dire Straits: Im not a fan of Dire Straits, either. You cant put The Clash No. For me, The Jam and The Smiths need to move up the list by a lot ! I think part of this is because Zepplin offers something for everyone: drunk rednecks love their balls-out rock and roll; more intellectual types can try to decipher Robert Plants opaque, yet seemingly meaningful, lyrics; and musicians can appreciate the pure talent thatJimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham brought to the table. Despite the fact that you are done with The Beatles they are the No. Sure, they put out some great pop tunes with awesome hooks but they didnt seem like a band with a lot of staying power. Egad! Yes I know that classic rock radio has beaten to death quite a few of the songs in their catalog but its for a reason..THEY WERE JUST THAT GOOD..If you ever picked up a guitar you learned atleast one Zeppelin tune. From there, they rose to immense global success and critical acclaim, releasing albums whose musical quality was only matched by their cover art. This group was the most popular in the 1960s and early 70s, and they became a group in 1963. Please..I will not even go there.. bar none the best of the British bands. And although the band crashed and burned way too soon, in their place came thousands of bands, all doing their own (beautiful) thing. 1 band. One of my favorite stories about the band is actually about their fans. Simply Red, U2 where are they on the list. The band jumped into the scene and became tremendously popular in the early 70s. They had a massive influence on lots of top artistes, including some mentioned in your list. 2) The Beatles: Oh no! All side acts are included with their original acts. An unashamedly personnel take. Its founding members were three-fifths British (Mick Fleetwood and John and Christine McVie) and two-fifths American (Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks). 39) The Cure: What can I say about The Cure that hasnt been written a hundred times already? A thoroughly incomplete list. The interesting thing sbout this snd mwny others on the topic is that the majority of the bands listed were formed between 1963 and 1980. Not a bad list overall. West Sussex band The Cure wasnt created in the 1980s, but they helped define it. And Beatles fans are right when they say that no band will ever have the per capita fanbase that the Beatles did. 49: Sex Pistols But when the song turned into a major hit, Allen Klein sued (hes the former Stones manager who managed to steal the rights to most of their pre-1970 catalog), saying that The Verve had sampled it too much. 3: Radiohead They're widely regarded as one of the leading classical metal acts from the 80s. The flamboyant and prodigiously gifted keyboardist Keith Emerson would have overwhelmed most other bands. This list is a joke. And wheres Ultravox? The criteria given (record sales, chart performance) are essentially financial, not artistic or cultural. They're beyond doubt one of the very, very best British rock bands of all time. Style Council. Unique and always willing to change (for better or worse). The Clash had to rely on the Pistols (and jeans adverts) for sucess. But to put the clash or even led zeppellin(which most people do) is crazy. They really werent distinctive enough to where you can listen to a new band and say oh yes, thats definitely an XTC influence. The Best Prog Rock Bands: 50 Classic Groups Its not an understatement to say Duran Duran spearheaded the Second British Invasion, creating an explosion of pop mania that rivaled the widespread Beatles fandom of the 1960s. But hey what a good list and entertaining and like any good list it gets you thinking so thanks for that and the fun of now needing to do my own list. Theres nothing wrong with their music, its really just not my thing. IM STILL RELEVANT! desperation to me. While the group first began to crumble in the 70s (Rumours has been called an album made by and for people in failing relationships), the 80s saw the release of two albums, with 1987s Tango in the Night UK and Sweden charts. I agree with you , the author apparently lacks objectivity and justice ; perhaps the author in his heart harbors some kind of suspicion or selfishness , just so you can explain that on that list has been marginalized iconic rock bands . However, Im sad that neither the list nor the comments talked about Deep Purple. In total, the band released 17 consecutive records that were amongst the top 20 records and six number one hits. Specials- LOVE EM! ..Thanks for sharing. The band made some of the most solid pop hits of the 80s. Yet here we are, twelve Top 10 albums and 100 million records later. Please excuse the infraction. Think Id replace Iron Maiden with Motorhead, too. For example, the opening riff of Animals inspired a young David Evans to go out and buy his first delay pedal (you probably know him better as The Edge). They were a force of nature. And The Radio Dept., Bowery Electric, M83, Over the Atlantic, A Place to Bury Strangers, Sleigh Bells, Beach House, Ringo Deathstarr, The Raveonettes and 3,000 other current bands have done. Rock stations played his edgier tunes while AOR stations played his ballads. A Beatles cover, which reached number 1 in January 1966 for three weeks. Everyone knows who he is, but outside those three songs hes kind of an unknown here. 9: The Clash Stones- I must be a dude because I prefer them to the Beatles. Any list is purely subjective, but (..you knew it was coming ) a top 50 British bands without listing a band Metals top 4 and countless others all list as an influence, an American band even named themselves after a single. I did miss Tears for Fears and probably a few others that Ill think about 2 hours after I post this. About the list, not about my lack of time. Teens liked him. Pink Floyd should be way way way higher. Thats it for our post on the best of British rock bands from the 80s. I am talking about Electric Light Orchestra. I mean, ALMOST EVERY PERSON I KNEW in high school owned at least one Cocteau Twins album, and you can hear their influence in so many bands today. Led Zeppelin, Stones, Pink Floyd were way better 100 Popular Rock Bands of the 70s - Complete List But theyve had more songs in the UK charts (over 60) than any other band in history, and 22 of them have made in into the Top 10. Ill substitute them by The Velvet Underground. Thirdly, people CAN put The Beatles before no.1 and still be a relevant list, this isnt a dictatorship. It would take me a couple days to tell you exactly why. And as previously mentioned, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, and Deep Purple also belong on this list. Siouxsie Sioux has also inspired more singers than just about any other woman on the planet. Ill leave you with this: I find no fault with your Top 10, even though I am no fan of Sir Elton. Their latest albums are as good as their earlier ones. Really? Girls on Film? Its much more serious. I mean, obviusly you can, but they are not as huge as other bands you have on the list. And spot on for Duran Durans absolutely amazing bass player! That was a cover of an already craptacular song, though. Obviously Genesis should be in the top 3 or 4 but facts are wrong too example, Genesis were heavily influenced by King Crimson and a bit by Yes, not vice versa What about ELP (and the NIce),. Secondly, this ISNT a a greatest British rock bands list, its a greatest British bands list, so any genre is allowed. T.Rex this low? The best LPs from the age of Aqua Net. Abacab was arty and modern postpunk. The Police Another one of the most enduring bands (in terms of continual awareness) is The Police. There were no Scottish acts on there. The Cult above the Beatles!!!??? The thing that the best British rock bands have in common is that they're known all over the world for widely influencing a . So in high school I heard him play a lot of Slayer, Metallica, Zepplin, Judas Priest and every other metal or hard rock act you can think of (and many youve probably never heard of). In fact , you forgot to include one female singer that rivals with Kate Bush if not top her. Not much of a hard rock fan. 100 Best Rock Bands of the '90s Hard to pin down, as you mentioned. ERMAHGERD you are so verbose!!! For being primarily a trio, The Police have a massive sound, which is a testament to each musician's skill. a shame the are not mentioned in the top of this list. If anyone on the list deserved their own entry, its Gabriel. The Hollies, Cream and Slade are MIA. It wasnt really the chart's fault, just how singles was promoted. Im amazed. This is very misleading, please dont write without research. You sir are a poor judge of music! Pink Floyd 13th Pink Fuckin Floyd Fuckin 13th The most influencial band of all time 13th?! They became mod icons in their early years for their blue-collar work ethic. Aside from, I dunno EYEBALLING YOUR THEN-GIRLFRIEND FOR AN ENTIRE CONCERT, Costello seems like a great guy all around. 37: Moody Blues 3) Led Zepplin: Zepplin were one of the biggest acts in music history anywhere. So many great bands have been omitted here, Alan Price, Brian Auger, The Searchers, The Shadows, The Troggs, Manfred Mann, The Big Three, Cream, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, etc., etc. But no parent anywhere wanted his daughter to bring home Mick Jagger, Keith Richards orBrian Jones. Pop/Rock. Theyve had 42 Top 30 singles, 22 Top 10 singles and 4 number ones. Someone knows why dont appear The Electric Light Orchestra?, I think than this list its not complete. Top 10 UK 80s Indie Bands - the enduring cult acts He almost single-handedly invented glam rock. Bands and musicians from the 70s, 80s and 90s - Do You Remember? By. And I was a huge fan of The Clash but theres not a chance on earth they were a greater band than the Rolling Stones (and several others). More than that, they were an immense stylistic influence on other musicians, helping to define the emerging subculture of goth. 100+ Best Rock Bands of The '80s - Complete List
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