Who were the best band of the 1960s?
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Dirty Martini
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Decades are a fun and mostly valid way of classifying music, best means 'my favourite and I'm prepared to say why'. Easy.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
If the button can have the Stooges, I'll say Can (although they did loads of great stuff in the 70s too).
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
So it's not 'who mwere the best' then but' who was you're favourite' from [insert decade]?! An entirely different question as one seeks some objective definite answer whilst the other is entiorely subjective.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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Haughty and Superior
Good call.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
In theory, yes. In practice, I can't imagine saying 'this band were the best but they're not my favourite'. Best is shorthand for favourite here, I reckon.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Fuck, forgot to mention The Band ...
kained&able
Here for the football.
I say the stooges.
dave
dave
Clint Iguana
not an undercover cop
ten years after
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out on the kocker
On reflection, maybe Booker T & the MGs. For their solo stuff, but even more for their work as the Stax records "house band."
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Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Thing is, if you can have Can then Led Zeppelin are also admissible ...
While I admire both greatly, I'd tend to think of them as 70's bands 'cos that's when they did most of their classic stuff (although in both cases and in that of Capt Beefheart also, arguably their very best stuff was all late 60's)
by that criteria, and it's a fair one, i'd go with The Skatalites - great in their own right and also the backing band for literally scores of classica
The Funk Brothers
but unlike The MGs or The Skatalites, they weren't known for their own stuff, they were purely a session band.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
They're a band, the bulk of their recording career was in the 60s, so fuck it, I'm sticking with them. They did better stuff than some of the hippy shit suggested so far
Booker T & the MG's solo stuff gets really grating after a whole album. A few tracks are great, but I find I wish they'd just turn that fucking organ off for a few tunes about half way through one side.
Beach Boys. Only cos nobody else has said 'em.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Surely Cream are the worst band of the sixties? They're where it all went wrong. I blame them for the bilge that clogged up the early seventies.
I vote for the Beach Boys as best band. Rock'n'roll, surf, teenage symphonies to God, and "Good Vibrations". Their best was better than anyone else's.
I vote for the Beach Boys as best band. Rock'n'roll, surf, teenage symphonies to God, and "Good Vibrations". Their best was better than anyone else's.
No mention of the Stones yet. Although for me, they become the Stones in the 70's.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
....and not enough people have mentioned the Beatles
Agreed. I don't think there should be a doubt that they are number one. Had a career longer than most of the 60's bands, were hugely prolific, expanded their repertoire quickly, were innovative, set the benchmark and influence for many bands, and broke up before they got shit.
I just fear sometimes they come under the idea of familiarity breeds contempt schtick. How often do I listen to the Beatles thesedays??? Hardly ever, I've had my fix. But I still don't deny their greatness.
Remember in the space of less than 3 years they went from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Tomorrow Never Knows". Pretty impressive if you look at it in that context.
marksims68
Have guitar will travel
Fleetwood Mac anyone????
Just casting it out there.........
Just casting it out there.........
Good call. They were who I immediately thought of.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Sonics?
Spion
I hear ya
I thought about them too. Some blinding tunes, but a bit of a one trick pony
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