Bad opinions • Page 968

It's hard to argue against the Dead if you think longevity should be part of the judgement but you can search my posts on here for more info

 

How much influence has the dead had overall though?

 

Yes. They pretty much served as the seminal American Pop Rock band. They blended Doo Wop, R&B, Classical, Psychedelia, but they were still a rock band.

 

It’s R.E.M.

 

Though, if backing bands are in the conversation, The Heartbreakers and The E-Street Band are both up there.

 

Does Fleetwood Mac count as an American rock band? 2/5th of them were American, and the two Americans in FM were arguably the most prominent members.

 

The two people that started Fleetwood Mac - who the band is named after - are British, so that’s a pretty cut and dry “no”

 

Talking Heads probably also wouldn't count because David Byrne is Scotish

 

it's tom petty if you could the solo stuff + the heartbreakers as one

 

For the life of me I will never understand what people hear in Tom Petty. Plod, plod, plod.

 

Tom Petty is the epitome of dudes rock, just a cool guy from Florida chilling with his friends

 

“Plod, plod, plod,” said about one of the true masters of melodic craft. Wild stuff. Guess we’re having this conversation in the right thread!

 

you’re telling on yourself

 

I hate America *and* guys being dudes so this is all making sense now

 

As a Floridian I will gladly admit he is to us what Springsteen is to NJ

 

But do you like weed?

 

I smoke weed now more than ever before and my antipathy for Tom Petty remains undimmed.

FWIW most of the canonical American mainstream radio rock guys of the 80s don't do much for me and that includes Brooce so yknow

 

this whole thread is participating in Hanson erasure

 

In today’s weird charts, Nirvana totally would have.

 

If civilization, after all this time, has only progressed far enough for Linkin Park to be the greatest American rock band then maybe a nuclear holocaust wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.

 

Morgan Wallen is to Drake to Nu-metal was to 90s rap

 

You’re absolutely right but you also expect way too much from the average American music writer lol

 

I think Metallica could be an answer to the rock band question, but what do I know lol

 

If Tom Petty counts, then Bruce probably does too so I’d go with him.

 

If solo artists count then it is Elvis, or at least depending on what great means