OleMissCub

Absolutely, I could not have put it better. Throughout my teenage years in the mid 90's, when I was drumming for rock bands at party's and stuff, we played ALOT of Pearl Jam and Greenday stuff. I personally enjoyed playing drums on Green Day tunes because they are so quick and fun. Tough decision, but I went with Pearl Jam because I feel that Green Day has alot of songs that sound very similar. I'm not a fan of bands that stick to one formula of tune. I realize Green Day has improved in recent years with that, but I still went with Pearl Jam.

Is Bob Dylan being considered folk? If so, that's fine, but if you're considering him to be rock, his omission from this tourney is a travesty. I would most def consider Dylan a folk artist. Second, this tourney is for bands. Of course, Dylan did have a great back up band, "The Band". who had their own critical success apart from Dylan. But I consider Dylan a solo folk singer.

See, that's the problem. You're comparing what you view as VH's best song with a song that's not even LS's top. It's just the one you've heard most. It's like using "Creep" to judge Radiohead, or "All Along the Watchtower" to rate Hendrix. Excellent point! Sweet Home Alabama is just a jingle compared to some of their real musical works such as Tuesdays Gone

I'm a HUGE fan of CSN+Y...masters of harmony, and I did vote for them...but, I'd really consider them more Folk than rock, similar to Simon and Garfunkel.

KISS sucks.

CSN+Y all the way!! In their short, short time together they produced some of the smoothest sounding and most beautiful tunes ever released.

Hell, I personally think that the Stones jinxed themselves creatively by losing Brian Jones. Nearly every one of their No.1's came with Brian Jones writing and playing guitar for them. Stones with Brian Jones >>>>>>>>>>> Stones without

Truffle, i'm a huge fan of the "one group, one lineup" thing, as in John, Paul, George, and Ringo...and as you pointed out Paige, Bonham, Plant and Jones. As you can see from my rant on page 1 about Lynyrd Skynyrd. However, it should be known that all those different groupings came about AFTER their plane crash, and thus, after the REAL Lynyrd Skynyrd had gone. After the crash they never had another hit, naturally...BECAUSE THE REAL SKYNYRD DIDN'T EXIST ANYMORE!!!....Grrr....I hate those guys posing as Skynyrd these days.

Which begs the question of whether it really was a minority that was racist at that time, or whether those who were not racist did anything to speak out against or to stop those who were racist. I would submit that Skynyrd's generation of southerners (baby boomers) were the first generation where racists were indeed the minority.

I BEG to differ on the "Sweet Home Alabama" bit. Do you think that "Penny Lane" or "Strawbery Fields Forever" were marketing ploys trying to get Liverpudlians to like the Beatles? No, they were songs about growing up in a place that they loved and remembered fondly. I feel that "SWA" is the same thing. Southerners are very "dixie-centric" and are generally proud of it. It doesn't strike me as odd or clever at all to write a song about it....Southerners have been writing songs and novels about the South for centuries. I would argue that historically southerners feel/felt that Florida was a southern state...they did fight for the Confederacy afterall. But I certainly don't think of the current "Dixie" to be including Florida.

Whenever that song was played at Ole Miss bars or parties, we always changed the chorus from "Sweet home Alabama, Lord i'm coming home to you" to "Go to hell Alabama, LSU sucks too"

Cream!!! I listen to them on vinyl all the time. They rocked so, so hard.

1 vote for the Doors here. The extended and original version of "Light My Fire" is one of the most bada** rock jams ever. Also, "The End" is wickedly cool.

I voted Van Halen as "Van Roth", not "Van Hagar". Now...my diatribe about Lynyrd Skynyrd begins.... The original LS was a very good rock'n'roll band, with several classics such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird", which even though i've heard "free bird" a million times, it still has a rocking ending. But I digress...LS also had some other songs that weren't so popular but I think are much better than their classics, such as "Tuesday's Gone" and "Simple Man". The band Lynyrd Skynyrd CEASED TO EXIST outside of McComb, Mississippi when their plane crashed, killing their lead singer and their co-lead guitar player, among others. The drummer, who survived, was so shaken up by the incident that he quit drumming for them. The surviving guitar player was soon afterwards in a wreck, which ultimately claimed his life. Thus, after a few years, the only original members left were the bass player and piano player. YET, they tried to continue on by enlisting several ghouls to try and take the place of the original members, such as lead singer Van Zandt's little brother. These fools have been masquerading around for 20 years now, billed as "Lynyrd Skynyrd", wherein reality it was just the piano player and the bass player (who is now deceased)...yet they STILL go on. The fat piano player always goes on and on about how "we are doing this for the boys...to keep the music alive...bla bla bla" BS, you are simply a money whore! THE Lynyrd Skynyrd band CEASED TO EXIST in October, 1977. It just really pisses me off that bands are allowed to masquerade around as something which they are not. The original Lynyrd Skynyrd were some redneck boys from Florida who blended blues, soul, and rock'n'roll together to make some dang good music. The modern Lynyrd Skynyrd are just rednecks. Whenever I see them on tour it pisses me off to no end. End Rant.

I love Tool. Awesome band. Yes, even my girlfriend who hates metal really enjoys Tool because it's just "Interesting and well done" as she says, as opposed to other metal which can sorta sound similar. Although, i'm not sure TOOL is metal, moreso industrial rock.

Well, it certainly helps that his name is part of the band's name.

I don't think of Hendrix as a solo-guy at all. The Jimi-Hendrix Experience were all 3 AWESOME, ahead of their time musicians. Mitch Mitchell is considered to be one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, and he was only like 18-23 the whole time he played with Jimi. I've played drums since I was a child, got my first trap set when I was 6...until i played it so hard I busted all the drum heads. Anyways, the first time I heard "Fire", my brain just about exploded and I sat down and learned the drum licks for the next few hours. I think that CD has a permanent skip on "Fire" because of my rewinding it over and over again to get the drum part right.

Interesting take. Those are good songs but I think the real gems are on Badmotorfinger and Louder Than Love. I'm a huge fan of the earlier stuff as well....I've played drums in rock groups since I was 12...along with playing baseball it pretty much consumed my life. I loved playing alot of Soundgarden's early stuff. Matt Cameron is one of the rock drummers, along with John Bonham and Mitch Mitchell who practicaly raised me. But I like the stuff from Down on the Upside alot just because of the sound techniques they used... (the studio-band nerd coming out in me, i suppose)

No tomatoes here, I agree with you.

Based on all of your prior posts in this whole set of threads, this really surprises me. You've never heard Ripple, Uncle John's Band, Sugar Magnolia or Shakedown Street? Based on your other musical tastes you've mentioned on this board, I'd suggest you pick up a copy of Skeletons From the Closet. Though, I really like some of their other stuff on Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, etc. I actually own Workingman's Dead in my collection of vinyl LP's, just never had the desire to listen to it. I'll do so soon though. I've just always tried to avoid "jam band" types. I'm more into studio stuff which is why my favs are Beatles, Radiohead, and Tool.

Hell, I consider myself a classic rock aficianado and I can only name one Dead song, "Touch of Grey"

As much as I love them and own all of their albums, I think the Foo Fighters are a bit overranked here. RATM was better and had more influence than the Foo's.

"Pretty Noose", "Burden in my Hand" and "Blow up the outside world" are some of my favorite songs of all time. I went with Soundgarden.

Regardless of whether this is true, the first post in this thread says "vote for your fav." I wouldn't care if Radiohead invented music. I like listening to CCR more. I enjoy listening to CCR alot, I actually play their vinyl stuff alot on my turntable, but there is something that has always bothered me about them. I felt like alot of their songs sounded similar. I'm a big fan of diversity within a record, which is probably why my two favorite bands are Radiohead and the Beatles. I compare OK Computer to the Beatles' "Revolver" LP, which many critics believe is the greatest rock LP ever released. You won't find a track on either of those albums that even remotely sounds similar to another. That said, I think the worst band of all time for having all their songs sound similar is Nickelback. God are they awful about that.

*OleMissCub clutches heart, and screams out "this is the big one! i'm coming to see you Elizabeth"*