Classic Rockers The Best And Most Influential Bands By Decade?

Question

What are your picks.
I would say
The 60's
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
The 70's
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
The 80's
Guns & Roses
But who are Your Picks and Why?

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Elric You get a great big hell yeah for mentioning Hawkwind

And I so totally forgot to Mention U2
They were definitely hugely influential in the 80's

Nary a bad answer
Ya'll are some musically sharp people
Brian...Yet Another Great Answer

Answer 1

60's
Cream. Every band that followed borrowed from their live improvision.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Did unthinkable things with the guitar, and one of the first power trio's.
The Beatles They're the Beatles...
The Stones. Their fusion of rock and blues in the early days was one of the first and best.
The Doors. Fusion of many varying styles, along with Jim Morrison creating the template for rock frontman.
The Who. Created the first rock opera, and their titanic live performances had a raw energy to them.

70's
Black Sabbath. Spawned heavy metal.
Van Halen. Reinvented what the guitar could do.
Led Zeppelin. One of the most original and creative bands ever.
Judas Priest. Probably the first band to come up with the dual guitar attack.
David Bowie. Created genre's of music, kickstarted trends, and came up with highly original music.

80's
Iron Maiden. The metal band of the 80's.
Guns 'N Roses. They brought a bluesier rock style back to the mainstream.

Answer 2

The 50's Buddy Holly - The first true rock band with lead, rhythm, bass, drums, & vocals.
The 60's The Beatles - They changed things up & set the standard for rock. The sound and the look. The first to get out of that greasy 50's look.
The 70's Alice Cooper - check out what he was doing in 71 through 74. He was way before his time. The music was great, the stage show was crazy. It was dark, violent, creepy. Alice was the first at everything when it comes to metal. Black Sabbath was a "Johnny Come Lately". Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith big influances too.
The 80's Nirvana - Like the Beatles, Nirvana changed the music scene, and all the other band fallowed right along of faded away.
The 90's Surely there was someone? Still Nirvana I guess?
The 2000's Maybe AFI? Who started all the Screamo & Emo?

Answer 3

60's - Jimi Hendrex. One of the best guitarists ever to play, he broke new ground and created what is hard rock today. I've heard he used to slash his amplifier cones to get that distorted sound out of the guitar.
70's - Led Zeppelin obviously. Pink Floyd would be a close second. Zeppelin were copied by so many bands... and Pink Floyd was uncopiable..that's what made them unique.
80's - R.E.M. - It's hard to think of a band that had a bigger influence on bringing college/alternative music into the mainstream. They were doing it long before Nirvana was around.
Metallica - Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, And Justice for All, Kill em All... all classic albums. Metallica birthed speed metal to millions of American youth. Then they released The Black Album and it was all downhill after that.
U2 - The Joshua Tree was epic and made this band one of the greatest 80's bands ever.
90's - Nirvana. I hate to say it but like them or not, they single handedly killed off hair metal and buried it along with their pride and egos.
Nine Inch Nails - Trent made "Industrial" a household word. He blended techno, metal, industrial and synth-pop into something....different.
Tool - I don't think there's ever been a band that most of the mainstream world doesn't know about, yet has such intense popularity.

Answer 4

The 60,s Beatles, Jimmi Hendrix.
beatles started the England band movement. Hendrix because He showed Rockin comes fome good guitar playin, and played about what was going on in the world like vetnam and drugs etc.
The 70's Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, AC/DC.
Aerosmith brought big hair and partys.
Black Sabbath brought distortion to Rock with Iron Man.
AC/DC where just bad ***.
80's Guns and Roses and Def lepperd
Them 2 because everybody else sucked in the 80's..
You forgot the 90's Metallica,Alice in Chains, Pantara, pearl jam, nirvana,

Answer 5

I'd agree with what you've got, and add :~

60's :~

Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Nick Drake

70's :~

Jethro Tull
Fleetwood Mac
Mike Oldfield
Meat Loaf
Queen

80's :~

Robert Palmer
Stevie Nicks
Dire Straits
The Cult

Although, despite having their biggest hits in the 70's,
Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Jethro Tull technically all started in the 60's.

Answer 6

I agree totally with your 60s and 70s picks and GNR in the 80s.....also for the 80s, I've always loved and admired U2, especially their early stuff from War, October, Under a Blood Red Sky, and The Joshua Tree
And from the 70's, although they weren't necessarily ''rock'', I thought Simon & Garfunkel were quite influential in that era...Paul Simon is a really a genius in his own right.

Answer 7

I'd say you pretty much got all of them. In the 60's I would add Hendrix, and in the 80's I think Sonic Youth and the Pixies were pretty influential into bands like Nirvana, and then in to today's current indie scene.

Answer 8

Since I've been among man I'll say most of yours but lik to add
The Small Faces
The Crazy world of Arthur Brown
The Small Faces
Jeferson Airplane
Fleetwood Mac
Gong
Hawkwind
Queen

Answer 9

You missed Hendrix in the 60's
Rush,Sex Pistols,The Ramones,The Talking Heads,Metallica
Motorhead,Van Halen,Queen,Aerosmith all of 70's and 80's I think belong,their names do the explaining

Answer 10

Don't need to repeat the obvious but would like to have you consider The Clash and Boston as 70's nominees