BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME?

Aight, I wanna know;

Best Rock band of all time
Best Metal band of all time
Best Alternative band of all time
Best NZ band of all time
and...
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME

Forums: NZ Music,

MY opinions

Rock - Spankdirt
Metal - Guns n roses
Alternative - Smashing Pumpkins
NZ - Elemeno P

ALL TIME - mmm Nirvana

just my opinion anyway

Rock - rolling stones
Metal - Metallica
alternative - cold play
NZ - 8 foot sativa

respect!!!

Rock - Guns And Roses (they r sorta jazzey rock sorta thing)
Metal - Metallica (not fuckin saint anger tho)
Alternative - Jimi Hendrix
NZ - pacifier (shihad)

Overall - Guns And Roses
Best Guitarist award goes to Jimi tho, but slash is still amazing

yeah, I largely agree with that. although I think megadeth were the better metal band.

Rock - ac/dc
Metal - bitch seeking missile
alternative - can
NZ - ¿tie between the clean & voom?

ac/dc? how fuckin boring can you get?

the category is ROCK- that's all ac/dc play- unlike zep et al

Rock - Led Zep
Metal - Iron Maiden
alternative - Jimi Hendrix and The Experience
NZ - Bailterspace

yea go Jimi hendrix!

Best Rock band of all time: Led Zepplin
Best Metal band of all time: Tool
Best Alternative band of all time: Rage Against the Machine/At The Drive-In
Best NZ band of all time: Shihad

OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: Led Zepplin

Best Rock band of all time: Duran Duran
Best Metal band of all time: Duran Duran
Best Alternative band of all time: Duran Duran
Best NZ band of all time: Duran Duran

OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: Falco

Excellent choices. I was going to make my own list, but I don't think I could top this fine, fine selection.

I second that.

I used to own all the big man Falco's albums....classics!
Shame he is dead, along with Robert Palmer...Two legends dead.

Gonna have to face it your addicted to love.....

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But what about Fero Sharkey? And I'm sure that's nowhere near spelled correctly. Surely he's up there with Falco?

Feargal Sharkey. And - no. :P

"...nah man Im talkin 'bout mother fuckin Falco and shit" - Jimmy Pop

"out of ze dark, into ze light!"

falco was german, wasn't he?

Austrian, Falco 3 was the first album I ever bought, it had his biggest hit, Rock Me Amadeus, sometimes I still play it.

Go "Hungry Like A Wolf"!!

( singers and songwriters collection of the 80s from timelife music )

................................ I watch alot of infomercials.......

Best New Zealand band = 48May :):):)

Rock - G'n'R
Metal - Slayer
Alternative - Mudhoney
NZ - The Verlaines

yeah man, old gnr can't be touched.

Appetite for destruction! In my opinion one of the top five best albums of all time.

GnR own!

best ever - Velvet underground

Creedence Clearwater Revival

best band in terms of influence on my impressions of originality and inspiration: Soul Coughing

Im not sure about all that but they were pretty sweet.

TOOL!!!

Best rock~ AC/DC
Best Metal~ some dodgy SAXON
Best alternative~ Jesus and the mary chain
Best NZ~ too many to choose, maybe HDU, The Mockers, The Chills, Flesh D-Vice,The Terrorways

Best band ever~ The Smiths

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Side walking through NZ tour '87

Best Rock band of all time: Led Zepplin
Best Metal band of all time: Metallica
Best Alternative band of all time: Weezer
Best NZ band of all time: 8 foot sativa
and...
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: METALLICA

Weezer kick ass!

THERE IS ONLY ONE DECENT BAND ON THIS PLANET... EVERMORE

lucky i'm not on your little planet then

ouch

grusome - kudos

heh heh

POWER TO THE MONKEYS o.0

Best Rock band of all time: Nirvana
Best Metal band of all time: Pantera
Best Alternative band of all time: -
Best NZ band of all time: 8 Foot Sativa
and...
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: Tool

respect

NZ - Steriogram

i second that

Rock - tie between Dire Straits and Led Zeppelin
Metal - Iron Maiden
Alternative - The Pixies
NZ - Bailterspace or The Headless Chickens

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Great minds...

Best Rock band of all time: The Doors or U2
Best Metal band of all time: ?
Best Alternative band of all time: Radiohead
Best NZ band of all time: Split Enz
and...
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: The Beatles

Man the beatles were so fukin high they let ringo sing a couple of times :P
"we all live in a yellow submarine" we all live in a yellow submarine? Do you know how fukin high they were when they wrote that? they had to pull McCartny off the roof with a rake " Paul its ok Yokos gone, we can party now!"

- Bill Hicks

"Cos all those Musicians who made all that great music thats inhanced your lives over the years, Reeeeeeaaaaaal f**k'in high on Drugs"

Best Rock band of all time: The Stooges
Best Metal band of all time: Led Zepplin
Best Alternative band of all time: Straitjacket Fits
Best NZ band of all time: Straitjacket Fits
and...
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME: Joy Division

Best rock: Veruca Salt
Best metal: Tool
Best alternative: REM
Best NZ: Odessa
Best overall: The Beatles