The Magnificent Seven - Page 2

NightTripper · #21 12-31-2012, 11:49 PM

This was a no-brainer for me. The Beatles are my favorite band of all time. I would order it this way:

1. The Beatles
2. Hendrix
3. Pink Floyd
4. The Doors
5. Led Zeppelin
6. The Rolling Stones
7. The Who

However, if I were to make my own "Magnificent Seven" list from that era, there would be some replacements. Led Zepp, the Stones, and the Who would be dropped in favor of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin. They are all great, culturally significant bands, but we all have our favorites. Even narrowing it down to seven is crazy hard.

drummer5359 · #22 01-01-2013, 12:27 AM

I like all of the above. But... I love the Stones from "Beggar's Banquet" through "Exile on Main Street".

Munjibunga · #23 01-01-2013, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

spleen

Ween.

MarkMgibson · #24 01-01-2013, 07:40 AM

I've never heard the "magnificent seven" thing either. It's hard to pick one out of those bands, but The Who get my vote due to their wicked live performances.

JimK · #25 01-02-2013, 06:43 AM

...good point about including "live performances" in your evaluation.
In spite of a nice performance on the rooftop, The Beatles may be last on that list.

FilterFunk · #26 01-02-2013, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

I'll get flak for this, but, to be completely honest, I've never really liked any of those bands. Don't get me wrong, I definitely enjoy some of their songs, and I can appreciate what each group did for popular music, but none of them really spoke to me on any meaningful level.

This sums it up for me.

**baba** · #27 01-02-2013, 12:55 PM

I love all of those bands except for the Who and it really depends on my mood. They are all very different.

HaMMerHeD · #28 01-02-2013, 01:05 PM

Really dislike all of those bands.

ksandvik · #29 01-02-2013, 01:06 PM

Where's Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention?

JTE · #30 01-02-2013, 02:10 PM

Meh-

Also never heard of them with that peculiar appellation. Sounds like some classic rock radio hype.

The Beatles- Wrote great songs, made great records (NEVER CONFUSE THESE TWO!!!), and changed the pop music world totally.

The Rolling Stones- Wrote some good songs, made some better records, and came up with cool riffs that made good records out of mediocre songs.

Led Zeppelin- Well... changed one aspect of pop music pretty much, but IMO most of the songs aren't really good. Lottsa great riffs and cool records, and while they are vitally important, I think the music doesn't hold up as well as it should for all the adulation they receive.

Pink Floyd- Nothing really to say about this band- had very little impact if any on music that matters to me.

The Who- Now THIS is the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world. Pete wrote real songs, not just riffs. The band was unconventional, but they played to their strengths. One could say that Pete was the drummer, John the lead guitarist and Keith the unknown surprise everytime. They set the mold for life rock 'n' roll. Barechested singer making grand gestures? Roger! Big bombastic noises from the guitar? Pete! Intricate melodic musicianship at an incredibly high level despite the chaos going on around him? Ox. I submit that a LOT of arena rock bands got all their good ideas from The Who.

Jimi Hendrix- Like Jaco, there's simply the world of electric guitar before James Marshall Hendrix and a different world totally after him.

The Doors- Started with such great potential, but descended into Morrison-centric silliness. They seemed to recover from the excess and were making great music when Morrison died...

No order to my list, I just copped the OP's. If it were MY list it would have to have Cream in there just because they made pop/rock music something MUSICIANS could aspire to instead of it just being pop music fodder.

John

nutso42 · #31 01-02-2013, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JTE

Also never heard of them with that peculiar appellation. Sounds like some classic rock radio hype.

I'm sure it is.
This isn't my list of the seven best. Just the ones I had heard referred to that way, and many people that I knew were familiar with under this name.

5StringBlues · #32 01-03-2013, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ksandvik

Where's Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention?

Oh,Zappasnap! +1

mellowinman · #33 01-03-2013, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

I'll get flak for this, but, to be completely honest, I've never really liked any of those bands. Don't get me wrong, I definitely enjoy some of their songs, and I can appreciate what each group did for popular music, but none of them really spoke to me on any meaningful level.

Hah!

You didn't get any flak.

Like what you like, man.

You can't have my Doors records anyway. Someday, they will pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

JimK · #34 01-04-2013, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JTE

Led Zeppelin- Well... changed one aspect of pop music pretty much, but IMO most of the songs aren't really good. Lottsa great riffs and cool records, and while they are vitally important, I think the music doesn't hold up as well as it should for all the adulation they receive.

Back in the day, Led Zep & Deep Purple were "my" bands. Then I went away from that kinda material for a long, long time.
Anyway-
I just bought/watched Celebration Day (recorded live from 2007-ish)...IMO, their stuff has held up. "Kashmir" is a nice piece.

**bassybill** · #35 01-05-2013, 01:14 AM

Interesting Brit dominance in that list.

I love all seven in one way or another, but here's my take:

1) Beatles
2) Zep / Who

3) Floyd / Hendrix

4) Stones
5) Doors

Yes, the gaps are sort of deliberate.

I was going to make a comment replying to the Clapton mention, but I just couldn't bring myself to type his name on the same line as Jimi Hendrix.

MarkMgibson · #36 01-05-2013, 02:11 AM

I'd add "Queen" to the list, and "Cream" as well - purely for their influence on music (I've never heard a guitarist who didn't play the occasional Clapton lick).

MarkMgibson · #37 01-05-2013, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

Interesting Brit dominance in that list.

I love all seven in one way or another, but here's my take:

1) Beatles
2) Zep / Who

3) Floyd / Hendrix

4) Stones
5) Doors

Yes, the gaps are sort of deliberate.

I was going to make a comment replying to the Clapton mention, but I just couldn't bring myself to type his name on the same line as Jimi Hendrix.

True, his name would have to be well above Hendrix.

MysticMichael · #38 01-05-2013, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

Interesting Brit dominance in that list.

I have to confess, nearly all the classic rock that has ever inspired me was British, rather than American. To this very day, I feel the Brits have a sense of style; a flash & panache that mostly eludes the rest of the rock world - including the Americans, the Australians, the Canadians...and everyone else too (i.e. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers anyone? meh...). It permeates their culture - so it permeates their music as well.

As much as I loved The Who, as much as I still love early Pink Floyd, nobody has surpassed The Beatles in my book - nor even come close. I simply don't have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to adequately express my admiration for what they accomplished; the sheer, brilliant, creative genius of it all. To this day, I still love to give a listen to Revolver...and soak up all those lovely, fresh, electric guitar sounds from the mid-Sixties.

The Stones? Just too rough around the edges for my taste. It took me years and years to really appreciate them. Their output from the Sixties and early Seventies was brilliant. Even now, I feel as if they peaked creatively around 1972 or so. And that it's been a long, long, slow downhill slide for them ever since...

MM

P.S. I might just have added Cream to that list myself...

bggeezer · #39 01-05-2013, 03:10 AM

Stick in The Kinks for the 60s, and Sabbath for the 70's and you've got a list!

AuntieBeeb · #40 01-05-2013, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by JimK

First, I have never heard those bands referred to as "The Mag 7"...where have I been?
...
Anyway-
'72-'75...Led Zep & Deep Purple (IMO, they should be part of the Mag 7...with Sabbath, too) were "my bands".

Yeah, this does look a lot like a list some music journalist pulled made up for a highly opinionated article. JimK's point about Purple and Sabbath is a particularly important one: the music press seem to adore Led Zeppelin at the moment, but if you actually talk to the guitarists who were playing hard rock and heavy metal, most of them cite Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi (and of course, Hendrix) as key influences well ahead of Jimmy Page.

And since everyone else is doing it: wot no Beach Boys? At their peak, I'd argue they beat any of those seven in terms of pure innovation and originality.

For my own ha'porth, I'd pick The Who out of that lot any day of the week. Doors a close second, and Pink Floyd after that. Is it safe to admit I've never liked The Beatles?