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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:21 PM
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Poll question: Best. Band. Ever.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:24 PM
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1. What....no Laura Brannigan? n/t
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:30 PM
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2. Queen is still #2. BTW, you know their music is distributed through..
...a subsidary of Disney along with anything that Brian May does.

That's just in the states.

Makes me glad I pretty much have all the Queen music out there because I'm not supporting Disney in any way
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:32 PM
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3. anyone who wrote songs as bad as "we will rock you" and
"we are the champions" is automatically disqualified from best band ever status
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:33 PM
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4. what makes those "bad" songs?
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:37 PM
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5. everytime i hear them i want to shove railroad spikes in my ears
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:38 PM
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6. oh.
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:49 PM
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7. i like a lot of queen, but
i don't know how anyone who wrote songs like killer queen or you're my best friend could write two songs as atrocious as those....ugh
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:54 PM
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11. That's cool. I was just wondering.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:57 PM
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13. I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I have RR spikes in my ears!
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:11 PM
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28. Anyone who wrote songs as subversive as "fat bottomed girls"...
... is okay in my book. :toast:
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:50 PM
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8. I do not like the rouse....
everyone knows the best band is METALLICA!!!

http://www.metallica.com/


"Fight fire with fire"

"creeping death"

"fade to black"

"welcome home sanitarium"

God, the list goes on and on....:)
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:53 PM
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9. Bullshit, everyone knows the best band ever is The Who!
I bet even the guys in Metallica would agree!
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:56 PM
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12. nah...
the guys from metallica would say...

1. J. Hetfield-Jimmy, Johnny Cash, Lemmy Kilmenster

2. K. Hammet-Jimmy, sabbath, Scorpions, UFO, Rudolph/Michael Schenker

3. Lars-Lemmy(motorhead), Iron Maiden..........

4. The new bassist...I don't care to much for him...I miss Newsted...badly. That ...Trujillo probably likes Slayer though, so I can't fault him to much...:)
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 03:53 PM
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10. Queen is really more a Broadway show than a rock band.
The show tune aspect. "Bohemian Rhapsody". Very theatrical, over the top.

Never liked them much. I like rock that is rock.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:52 PM
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31. Exactly
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 04:05 PM
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14. Queen is borderline Top Twenty for me...
Certain Top Twenty, if we are just talking Rock:

The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Allman Brothers Band
The Band
Fleetwood Mac (only if Christine McVie is with them, or the original group with Peter Greene)
The Who
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream
Traffic
CSN/CSNY
Bruce/E Street Band
R.E.M.
Janis Joplin/Big Brother & The Holding Company
The Beach Boys

And I would add other Eric Clapton groups like Derek/Dominoes, plus a couple of Bob Dylan/backup band groups as well, before Queen.

:hi:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 04:35 PM
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15. why Bad Brains of course!


I just really wanted to post a pic of them, but they were a really great band.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 04:43 PM
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16. Queen was great but not very political
The Minutemen had the most righteous politics of any band. Kudos to whoever posted this link a few days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIIuM_tH_ug
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:51 PM
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30. Actually, british punks in the day thought that Queen embodied every...
Tory value
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 06:28 PM
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17. Anybody but Queen, basically. (nt)
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tinfoil tiaras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 08:51 PM
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18. Are. Eee. Emm.
totally. =D
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:07 PM
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FOR WE ARE..... GWAR!
And we'll go far.

We've got guitars.

We'll eat your.... car.

Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar!
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:47 PM
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23. Vlad, vlad, vlad the impaler!
:P
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:10 PM
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27. i had the great pleasure of seeing them live
oh so much fun.

this was in a club in Austin. They had a giant dragon that they cut its head off, and blood went everywhere. It came shooting out all over the crowd, and totally drenched some cops that were breaking up a fight. (skinhead bouncers beating the shit outta some guy)

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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:18 PM
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29. When I lived in Florida..
I saw every concert they did from the Scumdogs tour up through Ragnarok.
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:07 PM
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19. FOR WE ARE..... GWAR!
And we'll go far.

We've got guitars.

We'll eat your.... car.

Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar!
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:18 PM
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20. Suzie Spaghetti and the Meatballs
hands down the best.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:37 PM
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21. SLAYER!



Actually Slayer is my favorite band, the best band ever is Led Zeppelin.
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 02:52 AM
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34. No, Slayer is the best band.
Skinny Puppy is my favorite.
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hickman Donating Member (904 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:46 PM
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22. Not the best but...
Gotta love this one as an all time favorite.


Are you gonna take me home tonight?
Ah, down beside that red firelight;
Are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls,
You make the rockin' world go round.

Hey
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad,
But I knew life before I left my luxury,
Left alone with big fat Fanny,
She was such a naughty nanny!
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me!
Hey, hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire, across the land,
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Wear kind of smooth after a while.
Take me to them lardy ladies every time!

(C'mon)
Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight,
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round...etc.

Got to love this song.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:47 PM
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24. Other: Skinny Puppy.
20 years of genius.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:49 PM
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25. The Who
hands down!
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 11:06 PM
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26. radiohead
Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 11:16 PM by ikhor
i dont care if you disagree, i'm right.

:)
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mduffy31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 12:34 AM
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32. Dave Matthews Band
And if you don't agree Fuck You
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 01:12 AM
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33. E.L.O.
Super Tramp
Moody Blues
The Who
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Cobalt-60 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-13-06 02:52 AM
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35. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
I'd bet my last mud shark on it
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