Best pop/rock band

[kidcolin]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

Rolling Stones have some out there stuff, but Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, and Beggars Banquet will easily stand up to any other bands 4 best Rock albums

and obv. Led Zeppelin

I'm not sure if you're just considering 80's and up Pop/Rock bands though

[Aloysius]

Diablo - ahaha wtf - I am such an everyman in my taste in music. But... it is your thread so I defer...

-Al

[private joker]

blink-182.

I know they get a lot of hate, but I don't understand it. They write million-dollar hooks for super catchy songs; they're funny, insightful, humble, and really good guys. I can't think of a more enjoyable mainstream pop band (punk and rock both have their pop sides, and this is it).

Green Day is also an obvious choice for the same reasons -- and Green Day is even better (especially live), but they were already mentioned.

EDIT: Also for consideration: Social Distortion

[cognito20]

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You guys are all nuts with the FNM nominations. I'm a huge fan, but almost nobody liked them outside of Epic.

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And the weird (or maybe not that weird) thing is that "The Real Thing" is by far their worst album with Patton. The admittedly-uncommercial album "Angel Dust" that followed that is perhaps one of the most genius recordings ever to emerge under the imprint of a major label, and the one after that, "King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime", isn't much worse. And don't even get me started on the Bungle albums, especially "Disco Volante", which I would rank as the best album of the 1990s put out by -anybody-.

Here's another band that won't get much mention, probably, but deserves to be remembered as a great pop-rock band...the Smithereens. No gimmicks, only a couple small hits, just a no-nonsense high-quality rock and roll band that always delivered the goods. Highly underrated band.

--Scott

[cognito20]

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions.. not some of the later albums, but This Year's Model beats everything. Get Happy!, Armed Forces, and Trust fit the bill nicely as well (trust might be borderline).

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When I Was Cruel was an incredible album as well, and much more in the vein of his earlier recordings than most of the stuff he's been doing recently. Not a weak track on that one, IMHO.

--Scott

[kipin]

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kip: Creed, while they super-suck, pretty decent choice. Staind has too much noisy metal stuff. Limp Bizkit better choice, but also has some stuff that rocks too hard. Hmmm, Linkin Park prob a decent choice too.

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[El Diablo]

pj: Blink v solid choice.

cog: Yeah, Smithereens v solid, were pretty big for a while in the Southeast, but not quite the mainstream pop/rock sound to be a contender here.

Al: Please come up w/ good choices, I know you have it in you!

KBZ: LZ obv too much out-there stuff. Rolling Stones are better choice, but still prob have too much stuff lots of people won't like.

kc: WTF you are naming albums? What's wrong with you?

[kipin]

Evanescence, Third Eye Blind, Franz Ferdinand

[Hobbs.]

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