Your five most beloved classic rock acts

poast 'em

rush

yea i said it

neil young
ccr
marvin gaye
beatles
the who

bowie
the who
neil young
dylan
beatles

Steely Dan
Hawkwind
Dire Straits
Sparks
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

The Who
Cheap Trick
Love
The Stooges
David Bowie

Bubbling under the top five The Small Faces, The Move, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Creation

1. The Who
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Beatles
4. The Kinks
5. Cream

Rolling Stones
Neil Young
The Kinks
Queen
Beach Boys
CCR

Oops, is that six?

lately: Ian Hunter/Mott

Now we're talking.

Top to bottom:

AC/DC
E.L.O.
Queen
The Beatles
CCR

Originally posted by edbert:
lately: Ian Hunter/Mott

Have always liked Ian's solo material, but other than the best known Mott the Hoople tracks on it's greatest hits the rest left me a bit cold. Is there better stuff lurking on the Mott records?

No order…

Stones
Beatles
Zombies
Love
Beach Boys

Beatles
Dylan
Stones
Led Zep
CCR

Without even thinking.

Love and The Zombies are the two biggest bandwagonned classic rock acts among musical faux-intellectuals….nothing against any of them. I would be honored to be included in your rarified circle. That being said, I haven't had a chance to get to their stuff, mostly because I don't want to gamble on a compilation.

I'm always amazed when people compare their influence as being remotely comparable to that of the Beatles, Stones, or Velvet Underground. It just makes no sense to me.

Would The Clash be considered classic rock these days?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Have always liked Ian's solo material, but other than the best known Mott the Hoople tracks on it's greatest hits the rest left me a bit cold. Is there better stuff lurking on the Mott records?

I also think the solo albums were better than the Mott ones. He'll blend a few Mott songs into his live shows that aren't from the greatest hits thing, and they usually work better in that context than they did on the Mott albums

Originally posted by frenchpiece:
Love and The Zombies are the two biggest bandwagonned classic rock acts among musical faux-intellectuals….nothing against any of them. I would be honored to be included in your rarified circle. That being said, I haven't had a chance to get to their stuff, mostly because I don't want to gamble on a compilation.

I'm always amazed when people compare their influence as being remotely comparable to that of the Beatles, Stones, or Velvet Underground. It just makes no sense to me.

Well they you might as well dismiss the influence The Hollies, The Kinks, Raspberries, T. Rex,etc also had.

The primary reason Love's legacy isn't bigger is because they rarely played outside of California, thus resulting a lower profile at the time. The Doors lifted much of thier sound from Love. The Rolling Stone where fans of the band at the time.

Echo and Bunnymen and numerous other postpunk British bands were influenced by Love. The influence carried forward to bands like Belle & Sebstaine.

"Forever Changes" is one of the most stunning albums ever released. While some of Love's later stuff on the retrospective is dodgy, you'll get to hear the band start as a great garage rock band and develope into the outfit that released "Forever Changes", which is included in it entirely in that collection.

Originally posted by frenchpiece:
Love and The Zombies are the two biggest bandwagonned classic rock acts among musical faux-intellectuals….nothing against any of them. I would be honored to be included in your rarified circle. That being said, I haven't had a chance to get to their stuff, mostly because I don't want to gamble on a compilation.

Not sure if your faux intellectual rant was meant to be an attack or not on me, but just in case it was….

Get bent fuckwad!!! And do yourself a favor and pick up some love/zombies records.

addendum to my rant… how can you dismiss a band's influence without actually listening to them or at the least reading thier bio on allmusic.

I've tried to like Love; I really have. I like some of their stuff off of Da Capo, and at one point I convinced myself that I liked Forever Changes. Then it got to the point where I would be listening to Andmoreagain or that crusty snot song and wondering, "what the fuck?!" Can't get into it. Maybe in another decade, but not now. That said, Alone Again Or is a great song.