Music - Top 10's!
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Could never do a "best" list because it's so subjective no matter what metric you apply.
I could only do "favourite" and it would include Bowie, Maiden, The Chemical Brothers, and The Manic Street Preachers.
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@godder said in Music - Top 10's!:
On sales at least, Pink Floyd are absolutely a top 10 British/UK band. In no particular order, I'd start the list with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Queen. Who the rest are would be more challenging to select.
Not sure how it stacks up without googling a lot, but Queen sold out Wembley in 1986, before computers and online sales, in 2 hours for 2 nights, which was about 140,000 tickets. I remember reading that was the Wembley stadium sales record pre-online, but maybe that was hype.
Deep Purple have sold more than the Who apparently. According to Google it’s over a hundred million vs a hundred million. Again, not sure how accurate that is. Deep Purple sounded like tired old past it rockers when they released ‘the Battle Rages on’ in my last year of school, 1994. The fact they’ve released about ten albums since that ( including one they recorded in lockdown last year ) is pretty staggering to me. I’m a massive fan as I’ve mentioned but they passed their used by date in 1984.
But I guess if you release a truckload of albums as they have then your sales will go up even if only five or six out of about 30 are any good.
Possibly going off topic but my mate raves about the new Maiden album, says it’s as good as anything they’ve ever done. Massive call. I’ll have to have a listen.
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Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
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@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
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@victor-meldrew Controversial opinion: Mick Avery was a better drummer than Keith Moon. There, I’ve said it.
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@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
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@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
Cool, will check it all out. I’ve just never heard them mentioned in that sort of echelon before.
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@jc said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew Controversial opinion: Mick Avery was a better drummer than Keith Moon. There, I’ve said it.
I'll also stick my head above the parapet and say Ringo was a bloody great drummer and hugely underrated...
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@jc said in Music - Top 10's!:
@nevorian Genesis and The Police weren’t really contemporaries. And as good a guitarist as Andy Summers is - and he is very good indeed for my money - Hackett’s solo towards the end of Firth of Fifth is a thing of beauty.
Apart from the lyrics, Firth of Fifth is an astonishing piece of music. Daryl Steurmer does a pretty good rendition too.
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@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
Cool, will check it all out. I’ve just never heard them mentioned in that sort of echelon before.
"Great lead guitarists get amused by people and critics saying they are the best player around. They all know Alan Holdsworth is" 😎
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@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
Cool, will check it all out. I’ve just never heard them mentioned in that sort of echelon before.
"Great lead guitarists get amused by people and critics saying they are the best player around. They all know Alan Holdsworth is" 😎
Doens’t count. He plays Jazz.
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@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
Cool, will check it all out. I’ve just never heard them mentioned in that sort of echelon before.
"Great lead guitarists get amused by people and critics saying they are the best player around. They all know Alan Holdsworth is" 😎
Doens’t count. He plays Jazz.
Could probably play anything to perfection. Even a Shane Warne spell.
I've heard Billy TK is mentioned in guitarist circles as an underrated player as well.
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@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
Kinks definitely. Ray Davies is a song-writing legend and his brother Dave and bassist Pete Quaife were up there with the likes of Brian May & Jon Entwhistle.
You'd have to include The Police in the list. Yardbirds deserve a look at as well - really influential
Massive call. I’m going to need some examples to verify how accurate this is.
"Lola", "You really got me", "Johnny Thunder".... His riffs were awesome. Check out the live album "One for the Road" for his solo playing. His was a pioneer in using distortion as well.
Quaife left the band due to ill health in 1970 but his bass playing was something else. Check out "Village Green Preservation Society". Entwhistle and Macca have quoted him as an influence and I think Entwhistle said he was his favourite bass player.
Cool, will check it all out. I’ve just never heard them mentioned in that sort of echelon before.
"Great lead guitarists get amused by people and critics saying they are the best player around. They all know Alan Holdsworth is" 😎
Doens’t count. He plays Jazz.
Could probably play anything to perfection. Even a Shane Warne spell.
I've heard Billy TK is mentioned in guitarist circles as an underrated player as well.
Shame his boy is such a dropkick
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@jc said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew Controversial opinion: Mick Avery was a better drummer than Keith Moon. There, I’ve said it.
Ginger Baker, John Bonham, Ian Paice and Bill Ward were/are as well.
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@jc said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew Controversial opinion: Mick Avery was a better drummer than Keith Moon. There, I’ve said it.
He played for the song like Charlie Watts and Ringo did. They were all key players in great bands - music first, ego second.
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@victor-meldrew said in Music - Top 10's!:
@jc said in Music - Top 10's!:
@victor-meldrew Controversial opinion: Mick Avery was a better drummer than Keith Moon. There, I’ve said it.
He played for the song like Charlie Watts and Ringo did. They were all key players in great bands - music first, ego second.
… which nobody could say about Ginger Baker with a straight face.
