The greatest American rock band is ____________

The greatest American rock band is ____________

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The Byrds

U2

They're one of the best for sure

The Beatles

The Kinks

Kyuss

In another timeline, it's the Beach Boys

Television

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

...

my band

the fact that

ACTUAL greatest coming through

Skrillex

John Cale was the talented one.

one of these

ween

Archers of LOAF

Unironically this

Guns & Roses

Kansas

I'm understand just how good English rock bands are historically. For such a tiny island to put out so many incredible acts, bless them.

Slipknot

The Shaguars.
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Pavement

Toto

Iron Maiden

In terms of music, velvet underground
In terms of cultural impact, nirvana

I actually can't argue with the second one. How come America doesn't have many rock acts with the massive success of Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Who, etc. ? To be fair Kurt died so if Nirvana continued they would have surely sold more records, especially as as record sales continued to climb all the way until the millenium where they peaked and then dropped off hard. I think Nirvana would have ended up with a cozy 100 million records sold

Edit: OOps, I just checked and Wiki says Nirvana is at 75 mil. Yeah so they would have ended up with 150 easy if they kept on

>How come America doesn't have many rock acts with the massive success of Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Who, etc. ?
Americans fetishize brits. Brits don't fetishize Americans

T A L K I N G H E A D S

For me, it's The Funk Brothers

the foo fighters

All the best rock bands are British huh?

Your band sucks

fuckin the doors ya fuck

Rush

Me, my buddy Dave, and some guys he knows from Tennesse desu

The Grateful dead

winner

CCR

R.E.M.

John Cale was the avant garde part. when he left it was mostly just rock 'n' roll but with "dark" lyrics

Metallica, objectively. Other notable candidates include: Alice in Chains, Nirvana, The Doors, The Allman Brothers, Soundgarden, The Stooges, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and Megadeth.

The Motor City 5

>forgetting the Byrds, CCR, The Band, and Buffalo Springfield

I admit I forgot CCR

>Buffalo Springfield
>Neil Young
>American

>The Byrds in general

not good taste

The greatest American rock band is REM

Yeah this is true. It's incredible that a classically trained welsh guy ended up with lou reed and their combined desire for something new resulted in one of the most influential bands of all time.
Also, if you listen to John Cale's solo stuff it's clear that dark lyrics also come pretty naturally to him. He had a pretty troubled upbringing and is from Wales, which is the most miserable place I've ever been to at least, so I reckon that probably influenced him being so avant garde

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Please

They're not good

oh damn you're right. Sorry.

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath

Operation Ivy. This is the objective truth and you can't refute it

The Band are canadian

pleb
technically canada is american.

A E R O S M I T H

Eagles

The Smiths

the stooges

Damn, never realised how shitty American rock music is.

Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu or The Doors

hollywood undead

Swans

kanye west

Nirvana

Cheap Trick

löded diper

R.E.M.

Yea I pretty sure Donovan and Beatles didn't suck Dylan's cock

Fuck off, Dadrocker.

Lol

death grips

All nice picks

Neil Young technically isn't a band but I felt he deserved a mention.

Obviously

>Neil Young
>American

Weezer

canucks technically

thats a rap groop

Smashing Pumpkins. It saddens me but doesn't surprise me that they have yet to be mentioned in this topic. Sup Forums probably thinks they're "buttrock."

But R.E.M. are a very good shout, and Automatic For The People is in one of the top five American albums ever.

Also honourable mentions to Pixies, Nirvana and Black Flag.

this and hendrix, albert king

and michael jackson
and cows

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>not using Sup Forums X in 2018, the current year

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I am questioning your mental health now.

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Unironically this

Canada is basically America. I'm saying this as a Canadian

Hello???

My negro.

Kyuss, no contest

Big Star no contest

Gotta compensate for losing an empire somehow

t. Torontonian

Chrome

incorrect.