List your favourite American Bands (for the US tournament)

[SasaS]

3 minutes ago, aws said:

If there's no cut-off date and no restriction on genres then Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys should definitely be in it. Genius song-writing from Hank, the best Country and Western band ever by a mile and playing rock and roll nearly ten years before it was 'invented".

But wouldn't they be two separate entities?

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, aws said:

If there's no cut-off date and no restriction on genres then Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys should definitely be in it. Genius song-writing from Hank, the best Country and Western band ever by a mile and playing rock and roll nearly ten years before it was 'invented".

Theres a bunch of older country who could/should make it - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Emmylou Harris' Hot Band are a couple for sure.

Someone already mentioned Bill Monroe.

[aws]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

But wouldn't they be two separate entities?

The line-up changed regularly but they backed him for most if not all of his career. He wasn't a solo performer. 

[SasaS]

Thee solution would be that people put what they want on their lists and if other people also put them on their top 20 list, they would make the cut.

[SasaS]

1 minute ago, aws said:

The line-up changed regularly but they backed him for most if not all of his career. He wasn't a solo performer. 

Yes, but when you say Hank Williams, you don't think of him and his backing group, same as with other similar big names.

[Tony Moanero]

Anyway, my top 20 favourites, including bands, groups and duos.

 

America

The Allman Brothers

The Beach Boys

Blondie

Buckingham Nicks

The Byrds

Creedance Clearwater Revival

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

The Doors

Eagles

The Highwaymen

The Isley Brothers

N.W.A

Santana

Simon and Garfunkel 

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

The Supremes

The Temptations 

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The Velvet Underground

 

[aws]

34 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Yes, but when you say Hank Williams, you don't think of him and his backing group, same as with other similar big names.

Maybe but you could say the same about Hendrix, Bruce, Cash,Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and others who should all be counted as bands or you're going to exclude music played by bands on the basis that they're really just backing bands. 

[SasaS]

1 minute ago, aws said:

Maybe but you could say the same about Hendrix, Bruce, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty and others who should all be counted as bands or you're going to exclude music played by bands on the basis that they're really just backing bands. 

Well, we did say the same, except maybe Hendrix. I don't know, there are always grey areas. 

[Redder Lurtz]

Nirvana

Foo Fighters 

Alice in Chains

The Distillers

The Interrupters

Green Day

The Dickies 

Queens of the Stone Age

Blondie

The Doors

Dead Kennedys

My Chemical Romance (guilty pleasure)

Pearl Jam

Pixies

Rage Against the Machine

Offspring

Weezer

Beck

 

 

 

 

[Paul]

Earth, Wind & Fire

De La Soul

Sly & The Family Stone 

Parliament/Funkadelic

The JBs

The Jackson 5/The Jacksons 

The Isley Brothers

The Roots

El Michels Affair

The Wu Tang Clan

Public Enemy

Rotary Connection

A Tribe Called Quest

The Beastie Boys

Outkast

Slum Village

Rufus and Chaka Khan

Gangstarr

Prince & The Revolution*

The Beach Boys

 

 

 

*Deffo a band. Parade was written & performed by them. 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Code said:

The Monkees

Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)

The Highwaymen

 

Never heard of The Highwaymen. Google tells me they were a country band in the way The Wilburys did rock/pop.The Monkees were a boy band who didn't even play their own songs. No female groups? 

[cloggypop]

The Monkees are boss. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Just now, cloggypop said:

The Monkees are boss. 

Their songs were. Thanks to The Wrecking Crew.

[cloggypop]

18 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Their songs were. Thanks to The Wrecking Crew.

They had loads of writers, including Goffin/King, Boyce/Hart and of course Nesmith, Dolenz, Tork and Jones. 

 

Stills and Young played on a few tracks. 

[johnsusername]

18 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

They had loads of writers, including Goffin/King, Boyce/Hart and of course Nesmith, Dolenz, Tork and Jones. 

 

Stills and Young played on a few tracks. 

I quite like the Monkees - but if they aren't playing the songs and aren't writing the songs then are they a band? 

[cloggypop]

8 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

I quite like the Monkees - but if they aren't playing the songs and aren't writing the songs then are they a band? 

They played from the 3rd album onwards. They wrote songs. They were manufactured to start with then turned into an actual band. 

 

Stephen Stills failed the audition. 

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Redder Lurtz said:

Nirvana

Foo Fighters 

Alice in Chains

The Distillers

The Interrupters

Green Day

The Dickies 

Queens of the Stone Age

Blondie

The Doors

Dead Kennedys

My Chemical Romance (guilty pleasure)

Pearl Jam

Pixies

Rage Against the Machine

Offspring

Weezer

Beck

 

 

 

 

Good list, I completely forgot about MCR as they absolutely would be in my list.

[Mook]

14 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

They played from the 3rd album onwards. They wrote songs. They were manufactured to start with then turned into an actual band. 

 

Stephen Stills failed the audition. 

He was too ugly & had shit teeth apparently.

[Tony Moanero]

5 minutes ago, Mook said:

He was too ugly & had shit teeth apparently.

Good sideburns though. Sidies are underrated, you don’t see enough of them nowadays.

 

[cloggypop]

Already had Mike Nesmith for the sidies.

[Josef Svejk]

Beach Boys

Byrds

Love

MC5

Big Star

Pere Ubu

Ramones

Television

REM

Feelies

Bad Brains

Black Flag

Minutemen

Fugazi

Lungfish

Shellac

Replacements

Jayhawks

Wilco

Tortoise

[Pidge]

2 hours ago, Redder Lurtz said:

Nirvana

Foo Fighters 

Alice in Chains

The Distillers

The Interrupters

Green Day

The Dickies 

Queens of the Stone Age

Blondie

The Doors

Dead Kennedys

My Chemical Romance (guilty pleasure)

Pearl Jam

Pixies

Rage Against the Machine

Offspring

Weezer

Beck

 

 

 

 

No rancid?

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Supertramp

Boston

Journey

Toto

Flying Burrito Brothers

Byrds
Buffalo Springfield

Crosby, Stills and Nash?

 

 

[Pidge]

Beach boys

Foo fighters

Rancid

Rocket from the Crypt

The Bronx

The Stooges

Death

Dead Kennedys

Fugazi

Love

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

The Highwaymen

Husker du

Gaslight Anthem

Blondie

ZZ Top

Alice Cooper

Velvet underground

GnR

Patti Smith band

[johnsusername]

I used to love the Monkees TV show. It used to be on summer holidays morning kids TV in the mid 80s. You wouldn't get that now would you? You don't get 20/30 year old shows on mainstream telly these day. I used to love the Addams Family, Sgt Bilko, Looney Tunes cartoons, all that jazz.