Greatest American Band

[MG1968]

too hard to pick only one

The Beach Boys
The Cars
Blondie
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Prince and the Revolution
Van Halen
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Styx
Chicago
Fleetwood Mac
Allmann Brothers
Skynrd
The Eagles
The Ramones
Aerosmith
The Pretenders (considered an English band, but Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio)
Heart

 

[Thrasher865]

There are some really awful suggestions in this thread.

 

[Thrasher865]

BLONDIE?!?!!?

Greatest American band? Blondie?!?! REEEALLY?

 

[vols_fan_68]

BLONDIE?!?!!?

Greatest American band? Blondie?!?! REEEALLY?

One way or another

 

[Thrasher865]

There are a lot of great bands listed in the thread, don't get me wrong, but only a handful with a legitimate argument for greatest.

 

[SDV]

There are a lot of great bands listed in the thread, don't get me wrong, but only a handful with a legitimate argument for greatest.

Jonas Bros?

 

[volger]

Mothers of Invention.

 

[vols_fan_68]

Jonas Bros?

Honorable mention
Toad the Wet Sprocket

 

[Thrasher865]

Jonas Bros?

No doubt they are a legitimate contender.

When I think of Blondie, I think of Rapture... One of the worst "rap songs" ever released

but I like this mashup:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw[/youtube]

Two of our nominees.

 

[Thrasher865]

Jim Morrison was sexy, amirite?

 

[NochNoch]

The Eagles have way more than Aerosmith.

Everything I've seen shows that Aerosmith has 150+ million in sales, which is 30 million or so more than the Eagles.

 

[NochNoch]

Beach Boys
Ramones
Talking Heads
R.E.M.
Pixies

This is probably the best answer.

I would also submit a vote for the Replacements.

 

[Roughneck]

Everything I've seen shows that Aerosmith has 150+ million in sales, which is 30 million or so more than the Eagles.

That's right. I was thinking of just the sales in the US.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Can we count Neil Young? He found exponentially more success/played tons more venues here than in Canadia.

 

[TennesseeOrange]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ub4EQJ__pk[/youtube]

 

[Roughneck]

Can we count Neil Young? He found exponentially more success/played tons more venues here than in Canadia.

Well that's because there are a ton more venues here. No one goes to Canada to become successful.

 

[cd12]

Sly and the Family Stone

Chicago when Terry Kath was alive and they were actually a rock band.

Mothers Finest

 

[volinbham]

too hard to pick only one

The Beach Boys
The Cars
Blondie
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Prince and the Revolution
Van Halen
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Styx
Chicago
Fleetwood Mac
Allmann Brothers
Skynrd
The Eagles
The Ramones
Aerosmith
The Pretenders (considered an English band, but Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio)
Heart

Fleetwood Mac was a British band and only got Americanized when it reinvented itself with the girls and Lindsay Buckingham.

 

[VOODOOVOL]

Fleetwood Mac was a British band and only got Americanized when it reinvented itself with the girls and Lindsay Buckingham.

I was thinking the girl that played keyboards was English too.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Well that's because there are a ton more venues here. No one goes to Canada to become successful.

Rush.

 

[underscore]

Rush.

Rush is based out of Cleveland, even though originally from Canada.

 

[Abe Hoffman]

Mothers of Invention.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Rush is based out of Cleveland, even though originally from Canada.

Great, but they've found just as much commercial success in Canada as they have here, if not more... which was the original inquiry.

 

[underscore]

Great, but they've found just as much commercial success in Canada as they have here, if not more... which was the original inquiry.

I do not dispute that, but it's simple economics as to why they migrated south. Canada has a population of just under 35M while the US sits around 300M+.

 

[possumslayer]

Steeley dan
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