Also ranks #1 on The Best Punk Bands Of All Time Also ranks #1 on Punk Bands with the Best Lyrics Also ranks #13 on The Best British Rock Bands/Artists 2 Ramones 1,480 votes The Ramones stand as the proverbial godfathers of punk rock, kickstarting the movement with ...
Also ranks #1 on The Best Punk Bands Of All Time Also ranks #1 on Punk Bands with the Best Lyrics Also ranks #14 on The Best British Rock Bands/Artists 2 Ramones 1,480 votes The Ramones stand as the proverbial godfathers of punk rock, kickstarting the movement with ...
With their 1980 releasePermanent Waves, Rush offered a workable vision of prog rock for the new decade: Shorter and more immediate songs with real-world lyrical themes, still evincing a high degree of musical complexity. Not many bands picked up their lead (or had the chops to do it), bu...
The 50 greatest progressive rock albums of all time, including Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Rush and more
Some were inspired by progressive rock stalwarts likeKing CrimsonandYes, others just wanted to try something new and cool. Most of the bands started recording at Electric Audio in Chicago, overseen by a nerdy but cantankerous audio engineer, columnist, and bassist named Steve Albin...
Queen had become established as one of the biggest rock bands in Britain with the album A Night at the Opera and its single "Bohemian Rhapsody". From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, Queen were an almost constant presence in the UK charts and played some of the biggest venues in th...
In the 21st century, a new generation of bands has taken up that mantle, shaping the direction of modern rock in ways that are both familiar and fresh. Some of these bands continue the legacy of the giants who came before them, while others forge their own paths, blending genres, ...
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One of the best-selling American hard-rock bands of all time, with over 150 million records sold worldwide, Aerosmith is one of those bands that every man, woman, and child has at least one favorite song from. Getty Images Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage The band was originally ...
melody; emotion; a strong statement that becomes part of the lexicon; and great production. Think of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” by Queen. That song had everything — different melodies, opera, R&B, rock — and it explored all of those different genres in an authentic way, where it felt ...