Sounds like a fun time. I also like going to see local bands that play bluesrock, its always a good time.
Greatest Rock Bands Of All Time?
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Sounds like a fun time. I also like going to see local bands that play bluesrock, its always a good time.
Both Prince and Jackson were "rock bands". Pop stemmed from rock, possibly even earlier, its just short for popular. Glen Miller was heavily rediculed by the jazz/swing/big band community for bringing a more widely appealing and commercially viable sound to swing... aka popular music in its day. The commercial metal bands of the 80's were heavily critized by the "metal" community for being more user friendly... aka pop metal.
Early Beatles was nothing more or less than a roote of bubblegum rock which was based primarily around the idea that bubble poping teen girls would drewl, faint, shreek and piss themselves. Boys were not exempt from enjoying it but did not have the sensational reaction. This age group grew older and most continued to like the sounds of middle of the road "rock".
Then hardrock arrived and was primarily appealing to testosterone charged male teens and a line was drawn in the concrete. Many would drag along friends and girlfriends into the thunder but most would still resort to preferably listening to middle of the road popular rock on their own time.
By the mid 70's this pop thing spred into forms from disco to new wave to blues boogie such as Nugent, ZZ Top and AC/DC, to a oddly soft form of hardrock such as Journey and Foreigner. Then melded further into the 80's with an extremely commercially viable form of hardrock/metal (depending on the band) triggered mostly by VanHalen, AC/DC, Kiss, later by Def Leppard, Scorpions, Doken and the entire Sunset strip scene. With other variant on the old new wave twist, which I honestly dont know what that stuff is considered, seemed primarily to be slew of one or two hit wonders, MTV was an additional huge player here from what previously was just radio.
It was all popular and all various branches stemming from the "rock"
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lol at you trying to categorize prince. the man has no category. i own at least 25 prince albums and almost every album sounds different
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lets not put prince and MJ in the same sentence. prince releases about 1 album per year, writes 99.9% of the tunes he's ever released and plays dozens of instruments. MJ use to pay off ghost writers and then credit himself as the songwriter, MJ maybe plays piano and in his 30 year solo career he only released 6-8 albums
not being a big fan of either, as in purchasing or extensive listening outside of what the radio blasted, I would not know how to seperate them but I do feel they catered in taste to the same basic demograph. Shared much the same stage presence and charisma as well. My main point was that its still all "rock" under the whitewashing method. So technically both those names belong in "greatness" under this... yet another... general non specific thread 
At one time I thought they were one in the same person... {joke}
At one time I thought they were one in the same person... {joke}
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Ok, ok after reading this thread all I can say is razoredge, using your own limited definition of rock you exclude The Eagles. They started as a country band first and foremost with Bernie Leadon on banjo of all instruments. Their succesful singles at this point could be called either pop music or country pop. The first real signs of rock in their music came with the On The Border album where Don Felder got involved and progressed into rockier territory when Joe Walsh came on board.
There was still a huge country influence in their sound from the likes of Henley and Frey as can be evidenced in their albums after reforming. Girl From Yesterday on Hell Freezes over is flat out country music.
There was still a huge country influence in their sound from the likes of Henley and Frey as can be evidenced in their albums after reforming. Girl From Yesterday on Hell Freezes over is flat out country music.
No doubt and wouldnt deny that for a second, peacefull easy feeling, Take it Easy. Than later many of their popular 70's songs were "soft" rock ballades. Hotel California even has a western meets latin musical feel. But thats musically, still their popularity came from middle of the road "rock" listeners. I also made mention of the rock/country.. country/rock, blues/rock... rock/blues, country/blues.. blues/country complexity.
This is why I hate all these old music generalizations made around this place and wish people would be specific rather than all the stereo typing or lumping into a single catagory.
Here I just figured some people might like to think about straight up middle of the road popular rock bands rather than reguritate the typical famous hardrock and progressive bands... we have tons of threads on them.
This is why I hate all these old music generalizations made around this place and wish people would be specific rather than all the stereo typing or lumping into a single catagory.
Here I just figured some people might like to think about straight up middle of the road popular rock bands rather than reguritate the typical famous hardrock and progressive bands... we have tons of threads on them.
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not being a big fan of either, as in purchasing or extensive listening outside of what the radio blasted, I would not know how to seperate them but I do feel they catered in taste to the same basic demograph. Shared much the same stage presence and charisma as well. My main point was that its still all "rock" under the whitewashing method. So technically both those names belong in "greatness" under this... yet another... general non specific thread
At one time I thought they were one in the same person... {joke}
heres the easy way to seperate them. MJ tried his hardest to play up to a mainstream audience and white people. prince did that once (purple rain) and then deceided to go back to doing what he always did which is not try and make anyone but himself happy and normally his music sounded more like it was for black people
Oh, sounds interesting but I'll pobbaly never go out and buy any of his CD's.
I think MJ always did what he always did, very commercial poprock, from the time he was ? 8 ? 12, whatever until he stopped which I really dont know when that was either, prolly sometime after his nose fell off... LOL
I think MJ always did what he always did, very commercial poprock, from the time he was ? 8 ? 12, whatever until he stopped which I really dont know when that was either, prolly sometime after his nose fell off... LOL
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To be honest with you, theres only a few songs I would considerably like by MJ and I never really listened to that much of Prince. However, I find Prince to be the better artist of the two. Simply because alot of MJs songs are a bit excessively cheesy which I don't like in comparison to Prince where as Prince, although hes cheesy as well which you expect from a pop artist, hes not as cheesy and sounds more quality oriented.
FYI, The Eagles suck. All you need to know is JOE WALSH and his guitar skills, period.
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Don Felder was as much if not more the guitar player as Joe, I think The Eagles was a good move for Joe. I also always felt The James Gang was overall better than Joes solo work even though he was still primary writer in James Gang. Joe is responsible for some great early riffage.
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So Michael Jackson and Prince are rock now? Oh ok 
Razor, you seem to have dodged musicevangelist's point ( which is a point I tried to make earlier). The Eagles are "country rock". By the definition you've been ramming down everyone's throats in this thread, that makes them ineligible to be on your list as they are not just "rock".
Whether you like it or not, rock is a blanket term like "metal" or "jazz" or "electronic". Every time one of these threads is made, rock bands in all its subgenres containing the word "rock" will be mentioned, because ROCK IS A BLANKET TERM. It's really not that big a deal.
Razor, you seem to have dodged musicevangelist's point ( which is a point I tried to make earlier). The Eagles are "country rock". By the definition you've been ramming down everyone's throats in this thread, that makes them ineligible to be on your list as they are not just "rock".
Whether you like it or not, rock is a blanket term like "metal" or "jazz" or "electronic". Every time one of these threads is made, rock bands in all its subgenres containing the word "rock" will be mentioned, because ROCK IS A BLANKET TERM. It's really not that big a deal.
They influenced rock artists really. I don't know why they were brought up but whatever. Some of their songs reasonably fit in the genre. I personally need to check out more of Prince.
As far as MJ goes, I wouldn't go far to say as an artist, he was incredible. I only like a few songs he made, thriller being one of them. On the other hand, as a performer, thats where MJ rolls in the big bucks overall.
As far as MJ goes, I wouldn't go far to say as an artist, he was incredible. I only like a few songs he made, thriller being one of them. On the other hand, as a performer, thats where MJ rolls in the big bucks overall.
I dodged no point and agree that its no big deal, just name the first bands that come to mind. I addressed all the influence in and by rock. Pop is rock, metal is rock, and blues and swing bands were rock before rock was cool, its all rock, most of its hair rock, just look at the lists.
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Metallica - very successful rock band amounst the greats of the greatest
add one
Metallica - very successful rock band amounst the greats of the greatest
Satanstoenail
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You're just saying words now. Pop and metal are genres that stemmed from rock or rock & roll and blues & swing existed long before rock in the 50's so how the hell are they rock? The lists are made up of people's favorite blues ROCK, hard ROCK, prog ROCK, punk ROCK, country ROCK and psychedelic ROCK bands, I see no pop or metal or swing or classical or jazz or straight blues or hip hop or drum & bass or electro or anything else that isn't rock. And Metallica are a metal band that released a couple of rock albums, not the other way around. AND you still haven't explained why country rock is ok to include but blues rock and prog rock etc isn't. Because it's "middle of the road"? Why don't you just start your own "favorite middle of the road rock bands" thread?
cause theres no genre called middle of the road rock, that catagory only carries the title of "rock". This double distinction if thats the correct word also belongs to "metal" a sub genre of rock, further subed into heavy metal, thrashmetal, ect. But I see, your leaning toward shaving a bit off the sides of the entire rock genre such as pop, R&B, Disco at one end and metals at the other end and only refering to the middle 2/4's as rock. But still including bands such as Tull and Zep that played their share of English folk, blues, or say Hendrix with his blues, psychedelic, funk and R&B, or his gateway to metal
I would be interested in a few other countryrock comparisions to the Eagles, not current country but back when they came out and more showed that sound. Maybe "The Band", Firefall I cant think of many but I know there were many.
Heres a few rock clips by a most famous rock artist also taged the King of Pop, representing the better part of the span of his career - Micheal Jackson
I would be interested in a few other countryrock comparisions to the Eagles, not current country but back when they came out and more showed that sound. Maybe "The Band", Firefall I cant think of many but I know there were many.
Heres a few rock clips by a most famous rock artist also taged the King of Pop, representing the better part of the span of his career - Micheal Jackson
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