who are the greatest band in the world right now

antod

my vote goes to arcade fire.

Oriel

Muse

deise_boi

that's easy......Porcupine Tree of course

OctavarIan

What do you mean by greatest?

BMSC

live id say muse but the kings of leon are musically the best IMO :cool:

judas101

Interpol for me

Mr. Presentable

U2.

I can't stand them, but you can't deny their track record and longevity.

PeakOutput

i don't know about greatest but the biggest would be u2 or green day.

id say arctic monkeys could get to that kinda level if its done right

Haven't a Clue

Muse.

Radiohead would be my second choice, but they'd wanna get their act together and release the new album pretty soon.

Driver 8

Radiohead

JC 2K3

A greatest band does not exist right now.

Karl Hungus

Bah, silly thread. There's no "greatest" anything.

But for the sake of a laugh, I'll say Dimmu Borgir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAmMcBQavKE

Sinfonia

Radiohead

Peyton Manning

Its all opinion.

Mine being Kings of Leon.

jmck87

Arctic Monkeys.... most potential.... I like the fact theyre not caught up on being 'superstars'..... old cliche i know but it seems to be just about the music with them...

lordgoat

Yawn

440Hz

I change my mind all the time!!!

Atm:Kings of Leon!

Not an easy question in fairness though

demanufactured

Worst Thread Ever.

Hypnotoad

Well I don't know what you mean really.
Radiohead are the greatest musically.But I'd say muse are possibly the 'greatest'.

But that's all my opinion.

BaZmO*

Can people not come up with better threads than the usual Best/Worst/Favourite sh1te?

Robbo

BaZmO* wrote:

Can people not come up with better threads than the usual Best/Worst/Favourite sh1te?

You're forgetting "What are you listening too right now" threads. Then you've covered 85% of all posts on all music boards since time immemorial, easy.

demanufactured

Theres no greatest band in the world, everyone just has an opinion of what is.

PeakOutput

BaZmO* wrote:

Can people not come up with better threads than the usual Best/Worst/Favourite sh1te?

feel free to come up with you own thread on any deep meaningfull music issue you wish anytime

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Radiohead for me

RastaRed

Kings of Leon, without a doubt

arcade fire, artic monkeys, killers, foo fighters are also class

BaZmO*

PeakOutput wrote:

feel free to come up with you own thread on any deep meaningfull music issue you wish anytime

Ah c'mon, regardless of whether or not I start my own thread on any deep meaningful music issue I wish these types of threads are pretty much pointless and have been done to death.

ger kass

for me it would hAVE to be faith no more or muse!
two great bands!
Matt Bellamy and Mike Patton are the modren greats of today!

Girrrrseach

BaZmO* wrote:

Ah c'mon, regardless of whether or not I start my own thread on any deep meaningful music issue I wish these types of threads are pretty much pointless and have been done to death.

Yet you're continuing them on by posting on them :P I know what you mean, but it's a music thread, if somebody wants to start a thread they can, no matter how much you roll your eyes at it. Also remember that new people constantly join this every day, so they don't know that it has been done a million and 3 times already.

Just a point.

And I would say Foo Fighters, but would love it to be Snow Patrol.

BaZmO*

Girrrrseach wrote:

Just a point

As was mine.

Girrrrseach

Ah, the pedantics of it....

Point taken.

Now answer the goddamn question in the thread!

BaZmO*

Girls Aloud

Girrrrseach

smarmy git

:rolleyes:

BaZmO*

:rolleyes:

Snap!

Mossy Monk

I am listening to Zeitgeist more than anything else atm so that must mean Smashing Pumpkins are the best*

*This of course is a load of rubbish

One Cold Hand

The Magic Numbers are the 'biggest' band in the world. Have you seen them? They're huge.

Seriously tho, can't really answer your question. If by greatest you mean biggest, then yeah, U2 / Greenday / REM someone like that. Greatest musically is someone like Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys. It's all a matter of opinion and all that.

The Polyphonic Spree

red_ice

arcade fire, interpol, kings of leon, queens of the stone age

so hard to pick

Hermy

Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mothers of Invention, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis Quintet, Weather Report, King Crimson, Led Zepplin...I could go on.
These were some of the great bands of the past and they are still some of the greatest bands of the present because as artistic merit continues to be subsumed by financial concerns the chances of musical endeavours reaching the heady heights of the past seem highly unlikely.

Smegball

Muse

Sir Graball

The Rubber Band !! Brilliant:D

qwertplaywert

Based on past and present material?The Foo Fighters are the best band currently active in the world
The biggest is properbly u2, followed by Green Day[I cant stand either of U2s stuff, and any of Green Days Stuff in over 10 years]

Rozie

demanufactured wrote:

Theres no greatest band in the world, everyone just has an opinion of what is.

That's not really true. There's such thing as a level of artistic merit, how much creativity, inventiveness emotion is put into music. It's not the same as technical ability or hard work which are easier to measure, but it's st

In those terms the only band that really fits the bill is Muse. But I'm sure there's a band I haven't thought of that's even better, or just as good. Because it's so fuzzy, there are probably several "greatest bands", depending on what genre or style you're looking at. Then subjective opinion comes in, what of these efforts do you actually enjoy.

We live in a world with a lot of "bias" though, and pap is marketed to the masses. Music with higher objective effort would have wider appeal "by default" in more accessible genres, like Rock or Alt Rock, but would still remain somewhat niche for more obscure genres.

Rozie

I think the Smashing Pumpkins would be a great candidate if they were still around in their original form(and if their next album impresses more than Zeitgeist, in their current forum they could be too, never know if past members will rejoin based on the success too), though obviously will have somewhat less mass market appeal or else they wouldn't be "Alternative" rock. Zeitgeist was pretty mainstream though. It lacked the ambience of past Pumpkins records. I'm forgiving it since it's the break-in album for the new line-up, Tarantula is an awesome track(as is another one I can't remember the name of, think it's Track 3 or so) and it actually sounds like real rock music, unlike much else that's been supposedly published under that genre in the last few years.

Foo Fighters.

JC 2K3

Rozie wrote:

That's not really true. There's such thing as a level of artistic merit, how much creativity, inventiveness emotion is put into music. It's not the same as technical ability or hard work which are easier to measure, but it's st

In those terms the only band that really fits the bill is Muse.

A lot of people, myself included, felt that BHaR was Muse adjusting to a more commercial sound and hated that album, whilst others feel that it was a Radiohead-esque, brilliant change of musical direction(lol IMO).

Point being, artistic merit, creativity etc. is immeasurable, no matter how much you think you're right, your opinion only applies to you.

Karl Hungus

It's Dimmu Borgir, end of story. Just watch this, and close the thread, because we have a winner.

Mr. Presentable

OK,so, if this is the new standard, then Turbonegro are the greatest ever.

Rozie

JC 2K3 wrote:

A lot of people, myself included, felt that BHaR was Muse adjusting to a more commercial sound and hated that album, whilst others feel that it was a Radiohead-esque, brilliant change of musical direction(lol IMO).

Point being, artistic merit, creativity etc. is immeasurable, no matter how much you think you're right, your opinion only applies to you.

No. First off I'll point out that you're championing what I call "common man's wisdom". Most people would "agree" with you, at least on the surface. But that doesn't make it through.

What you're describing is that you simply didn't like the musical direction of the new Muse album. It doesn't change the amount of actual creaitivity in the album.

It might be difficult when you're dealing on a less extreme level - but consider comparing "Bohemian Rhapsody" to The Fast Food Rockers.

When you say it's solely down to personal taste, you put the likes of Steps shoulder to shoulder with Joy Division. Do you really think that's a good thing? You can't tell me that there's something in there, that's different, not quite right with the former, that isn't just down to personal taste.

People might like or claim to like things, but the actual depth of experience they go through is as highly effective by this objective merit as much as it is by my taste.

There's also no other way to explain how certain songs have a wider appeal than you'd expect, when they didn't have the mass market explosion that pop acts get nowadays(and have done since the 1920s). Some things simply are popular based on how good they are - of course, this doesn't apply to more niche music, but there are still plenty of somewhat alternative tracks that get popular. The fact that Muse is so popular may well be evidence of this. They're not really part of any current marketable phenomenon - they're completely their own thing. In the 90s when Radiohead were still making good music, then maybe I could see some basis for this argument, but Muse are still very different, more epic, operatic.

And I have no idea how Map of the Problematique is more commercial sounding That's probably the most "alternative" and expriemental singles they've ever released...

Karl Hungus

Pfft, Dimmu Borgir are 10 times more creative than Muse, and on the whole, a far, far better band.

bazwin

stone Roses Without A Doubt.......

Buttons_sb

For me its The Who, Queen or The Killers