Greatest English rock band

None of the above. And most of the groups in your pic aren't English.

Oh, it's the Kinks.

Joy Division & Pulp are among mine.

The Kinks

The Clash for 2nd place

The Beatles, brainiac.

One Direction is english, right?

Yes, but they're not rock, dumbass.

Yes they are rock.

And you are stupid as well as taste-impaired.

I vote for One Direction, then.

Does one direction even play their own instruments?

I think you missed a band.

Isn't One Drecktion a Simon Cowell confection?

R12 I tend to avoid ancient 60s band. And Beatles are more pop than rock.

Yes, screw ancient 60s bands.

R13 Good one mate! Though I appreciate The Beatles I agree with OP R12. After The Kinks, The Clash, The Who, Pink Floyd, I'd place The Beatles... But only because you brought them up!

Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, too, R15.

OP types "singles troll."

R15 Say you don't mean it! Take it back and we'll give you a pass. If not, toss off!

r19 Read the whole thread and spare yourself further embarrassment.

Of the poll options, probably the Rolling Stones. I really like The Kinks and I'm glad to see several people have mentioned them.

Led Zeppelin > Rolling Stones > Pink Floyd >>>>>> Queen

Led Zeppelin > Rolling Stones > Pink Floyd > The Who >>>>> Queen

I wish I liked The Who Sell Out more.

R14/OP. You avoid ancient 60s bands, yet your poll includes The Rolling Stones and The Who?

R20 You make no sense.

Suit yourself, R26.

My comment to you R27 was meant that your reply @ R20 was a non-sequitur to my post @ R19... Not arguing with you, just doesn't logically follow. Perhaps you could explain what you meant to convey? Are you R15?

R28, r15 was a sarcastic way of stating the obvious, that two of the bands are "ancient '60s bands," which OP had just said he hated in r14. In other words, R15 didn't really mean it. So "Say you don't mean it!" means you didn't get it. And I am NOT explaining that again.

Anyway, OP left out Black Sabbath.

With good reason, r30.

Most if not all of Beatles output were in the 60s. Not so the other bands listed. That’s what I meant by 60s band.

OP, you're an idiot. Go home. Get some rest.

R29 I was being sarcastic in MY post @ R19, funny that. Lighten up, we're both Kinks fans apparently. I'm curious here what is the cut-off for "Ancient"?

The Beatles. case closed

R34 Beatles year active 1960-1970, hence 60s band. What’s so difficult to understand ?

You should have typed "Greatest '70s or later English rock band" then, dumbass.

The Smiths, of course.

OP, et al: Why everyone so testy here? Was hoping this would be as enjoyable as the metal thread, but apparently I've stumbled upon a bloody pissing contest.

R37 Cos some bands were active in the 60s and well beyond the 60s, who is dumb now ?

It's because the idiot OP left out the Beatles because they're an "ancient '60s band," and expected us to intuit somehow that that disqualified them for consideration. Save your bloody piss, R39.

No one is dumber than you, OP.

Um, still you, R40/OP.

Then you should have included the Beatles if you were being as inclusive as you say you are in r40. Dumb, dumb, dumb OP. Dumb.

Copious quantities of contentious cuntiness here!

Op also left out Judas Priest and Def Leopard.

R44 Start your own thread or are you too dumb for that ?

Buzzcocks

You're the dumbest cunt here, OP, and possibly the dumbest cunt anywhere.

OP, you don't get to call someone else dumb.

Crikey, Competitive contemptuousness as well!

Beatles would be out of place among this group. End of discussion

Why, R52?

Pink Floyd x 1000

R53 Beatles...can you say pop ? 60s pop. Hardly rock.

Sounds as if some of us need to smoke a bit of grass and mellow the fuck out!

Everyone calm down. The correct answer is Roxy Music.

Fleetwood Mac feels sorely missed out on too.

Genesis says hi!

Um, no. They weren't "pop" as you put it, not for the time. In their earlier years, perhaps, but they crossed musical genres. 60s pop was stuff like Hermans Hermits, The Monkees, and other bubblegum pop bands. Without the Beatles innovation, rock music wouldn't have evolved the way it did.

R58 Fleetwood Mac is not strictly English

Where the hell are The Bee Gees?

The Bee Gees were Australian, weren't they? R62

The Jam...duh!

Australian, English, same difference.

Ok if you're all suggesting other bands, I say The Clash.

I mentioned them earlier R66.... Love them forever

None better than the Yardbirds, if it's English rock you're after. Ray Davies, The Beatles, pop perfection. Creem, Derek and The Dominos, also top shelf.

None better than the Yardbirds.

Also The Babies.

R68 they look too clean cut for rock

The Yardbirds wer great but they were a 60s band.

All the needless niggling about sixties bands is ridiculous.... Out of OP's list, all except Queen were formed in the sixties, therefore sixties bands. It's like a middle-school spat this thread.

I agree R71 I was merely pointing it out. Besides The Yardbirds were born and died within that decade so the OP would be particularly adamant to keep them out I suppose.

Then OP ought to better title threads.

OP, I would love to shove a gun up your ass and fire.

R71 But they were still relevant beyond the 60s, not the Beatles

If it's to be a 70s band, let's go with John Peel: The Undertones.

R72 Love The Yardbirds too!

My favorite, if not the objectively greatest: Radiohead ca. OK Computer --> Kid A --> In Rainbows

The Beatles did play rock music. In fact they expanded it and enriched it.

Where are the Beatles?

We wouldn’t be talking about greatest English rock bands if it hadn’t been for the Beatles.

God I love "A Day in the Life"

Pink Floyd by a country mile. The Rolling Stones suck

Pink Floyd isn't bad but the songs are too long.

I dig the Verve too.

Believe it or not OP, but a lot of Brits of a certain age would nominate Status Quo.

New Order

Agree with The Kinks. Also happy to see Roxy Music, Joy Division and The Buzzcocks mentioned.

I'll add another one: the forever-underrated XTC.

I like the police. I just saw sting on Jimmy Fallon. Sting looks so good for 66!

Nothing that any of these other bands ever did compares with the four-album run from BEGGARS BANQUET to EXILE ON MAIN STREET -- or the late-70s masterpiece SOME GIRLS.

The Stones should've hung it up a long time ago but in their prime they were something else.

The best band ever from Liverpool, the Fab Four....

Echo and the Bunnymen

Have The Beatles been mentioned?

Bucks Fizz

From this list, I went with Pink Floyd, although I love Led Zep more or less equally. But I acknowledge that they were plagiarists, and it does seem unfair to award them the title for that reason. Never could really get into the Who or the Stones, just not my cup of tea. Also on my list would be the Smiths, the Clash, and the Zombies (woefully underrated).

yes, THE CLASH! the only band that matters!

R90, I am one of those weirdos who preferred THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST to three out of those four albums (LET IT BLEED being the exception, of course).

^ My junior and senior year drinking song.

Seriously OP? How did you miss the Beetles?

R93, I love you dearly, but I think Black Lace has them beat.

Bananarama. Any one of them could outsing Aretha Franklin and together their intricate, complicated harmonies elevated pop music to level like never before or since. Robert DeNiro's Waiting (Talking Italian) is possibly one of the finest pieces of music to come out of the 20th century.

They played 1400 concerts, recorded over 200 songs, still hold sales records, had enormous influence in pop music and pop culture, and their songwriting catalog is worth billions. Is there really any other answer?

But r102, they stopped recording in 1970, which disqualifies them according to OP (the dumbest poster on Datalounge who is not the Drew Dixon Douche).

Not quite English but close enough

THE CLASH for first place.

OP's pic is full of American bands.

The Beetles of course. I'm not saying they're my favorite, mind you, but it goes without saying they are the "greatest" in terms of fame and universal appeal.

Is OP the Beetles Hating Troll who passive aggressively posted this excluding the Beetles thinking that the poll would somehow make the Beetles not the greatest band? lol

Beatles of course, lol

This is not a pop song. This is one of the greatest rock songs ever. And its greatness secures this rock band as one of the greatest rock bands ever. And certainly THE greatest English rock band, period.

The Clash.

The Stone Roses

60s - The Kinks

70s - Roxy Music

80s - New Order

I like the Beatles but reckon they are more pop than rock

I also want to shoehorn Wire in here somewhere

Nothing wrong with being "pop."

R114 Nothing but this thread is about real rock bands

[quote]I like the Beatles but reckon they are more pop than rock

Rock is exactly what the Beatles were doing when they started, and Rock evolved along with them, driven to some extent by what they were doing. The fact that it continued to evolve after the broke up doesn't mean that they're not a rock band.

The Beatles are a "real rock band," r115. The first one I ever listened to, in fact.

Go give yourself a swirlie.

1/3 of a WW for r111.

Even the pic OP provided shows the Beatles were at least one of the biggest rock bands (and those groups aren't all English, btw, OP).

OP, you forgot King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer!

R120 Ok giants of rock then

Led Zep

[quote]OP, you forgot King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer!

So did most of the rest of us.

Pink Floyd

R123 - You Bitch!

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