The "Greatest" Band ever?

**snowyporpoise** · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 1655 Location: Burlington, ON

Beatles, Zepplin and Sabbath probably all have good cases.
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**afrojavi** · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 227

The greatest band is Tool

**Shadowstep** · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

The Beatles are boring.

It's really hard to pick the greatest band of all time. If I had to pick I guess I'd say either Tool or Atheist.
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**stumper93** · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: Iowa

I think in my opinion, being the "greatest" band ever has to be one that:

1. Has influence on other bands
2. Has a huge legacy
3. And you can ask any person and they will know this band, whether it be one song or every song.

My answer (you guessed it): The Beatles.

It seems it's already been established that the Beatles have influenced tons of bands and have a huge legacy.

But what some people, imo, never take into consideration is the third one. Now the two posts above me wrote Tool and Atheist. Alright...that's fine and good. Now ask any normal person who those bands are and you'll get a "Huh?"

Ask any normal person who The Beatles are and you're bound to get a "Duh, who doesn't know them? Or you'll get a "Yes." You could probably ask them to name off a song and they would know at least one. Even if they aren't a huge fan of them. They just know them.

That's what I think, what do you think about the third number?
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**Ensiferum** · Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 202 Location: UW-Madison

My main issue with the influential argument is that most seem to believe (or they imply it in their explanations) that progression needs to be linear. X influenced Y, Y influenced Z. I'm not going to lie and say influence is irrelevant. Obviously, most bands that haev ever existed were inspired by or formed because of another band. This isn't to say however, that Band Z could not have just formed in a garage creating some brand new genre of music. If the influence of music is in fact so defined and linear, then every band that was ever influenced by The Beatles has been indirectly influenced by Chuck Berry, Elvis, etc.

I really can't find any other way to explain my thoughts...

I don't honestly believe I could pick a certain set of distinctions that qualify a band as being the "greatest" ever.
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**BNghfreak12** · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 583

This thread demonstrates why music should only be subjective. The Beatles are just a band. So are Nirvana. So are Tool. So are [insert band here]. Yes, one band may be the most influential and the most popular (The Beatles is an obvious candidate for that) but does that equal greatest? Does ANYTHING in music equal greatest? No.

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