# In your "Objective" opinion, which are the 5 greatest Rock Bands of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983 "2008-06-15T04:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/61 "2008-06-16T19:25:27Z")
1. The Beatles 2. The Eagles 3. The Who 4. Aerosmith 5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/62 "2008-06-16T23:35:40Z")
1. The Eagles 2. Led Zeppelin 3. AC/DC 4. The Beach Boys 5. Aerosmith ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/63 "2008-06-17T02:17:46Z")
The problem with Queen is that they’re Freddy Mercury. If I recall correctly, he even played all the guitars on the albums. And, of course, the question of what ‘greatest’ means. I say the Greatest Rock Band needs some serious fuck ups, drugs, fire, groupies, parents protesting, and still heart and love somehow. This covers both Sabbath and the Beatles. Oh, and it would help if they inspired generations of musicians after them. At least one tragic death. And, most importantly, a comeback that proves they never sold out, and still know how to rock. (I have to get Ozzy’s latest, it sounds good!) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/64 "2008-06-17T02:44:56Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] The problem with Queen is that they’re Freddy Mercury. If I recall correctly, he even played all the guitars on the albums. [/QUOTE] You do not recall correctly.Freddie rarely played guitar. They have a guitarist named Brian May who uses some cheap home-made guitar to play with. > **[Red Special](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_special)** > > The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Queen's guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, when Brian was a teenager in the early 1960s. The Red Special is sometimes referred to as the Fireplace or the Old Lady by May and by others. The name Red Special came from the reddish-brown colour the guitar attained after being stained and painted with numerous layers of Rustins Plastic Coating. The name Fireplace is a reference to the fact that the wood used to make the A guitar... And a bass gutarist named John Deacon who built an amplifier. > **[Deacy Amp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacy_Amp)** > > The Deacy Amp (pronounced "Deeky" /ˈdiːki/) is an electric guitar amplifier created in 1972 by Queen's bassist John Deacon, who is an electronics engineer by training. The amplifier circuit board from a Supersonic PR80 portable radio found in a builder's skip was fitted into a speaker cabinet and powered by a 9-volt battery. The amplifier had no volume or tone controls and for most of its history it was never broken and thus never repaired. It was used along with Queen lead guitarist Brian May In... This band cant even afford to buy equipment,gotta build their own stuff…not to mention after Freddie died they faded into obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/65 "2008-06-17T02:46:19Z")
The Doors. Best band of all time. They get 1-5 only because you limited it to 5 and they released more albums than that. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/66 "2008-06-17T04:54:19Z")
[QUOTE=Octalcode] … 4 Ramones … [/QUOTE] I’ll Nth the Ramones, in _End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones_ both Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) and Joe Strummer (Clash, his last interview before his death) said that if they hadn’t heard the Ramones records there would not have been a punk scene in England. No Ramones = no British Punk scene, no American punk scene, no [New Wave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Wave_bands_and_artists)/[2 Tone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Tone)/[Post Punk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-punk_bands)/etc, no ginormous list of bands! CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/67 "2008-06-17T10:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] You do not recall correctly.Freddie rarely played guitar. They have a guitarist named Brian May who uses some cheap home-made guitar to play with. [/QUOTE] I remembered both those stories, I just thought it was Freddie in both of them. Weird how memory works. I was in error, I do humbly apologize. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983/68 "2008-06-17T11:21:46Z")
Beatles Tool Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin Someone not on par with those other 4 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-objective-opinion-which-are-the-5-greatest-rock-bands-of-all-time/452983.md?page=3)