[Music] Top 3 Yankee bands

[studio150]

I like that the fact that a couple of posters like a group so much, that they have incorrectly named them.

Anyway my top 3

Talking Heads
Steely Dan
The Doors

 

[BadFish]

I'm sensing a tournament here...

Great idea, looking at these lists Talking Heads would be early favourites.

 

[aberllefenni]

Sparks
Devo
Love

 

[raymondo]

Steely Dan
Talking Heads
CSNY

 

[Badger]

The Killers
REM
Guns n' Roses

 

[Let's Have A Winner!]

Mastodon
Alice In Chains
Metallica or Megadeth (that's my way of getting four in!)

 

[Smithy]

Impossible to choose just 3 so I will choose bands that I don't think have been mentioned yet but feel deserve to:

Swans
Slint
Death (the death metal band, not the 70's proto-punk band)

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Nirvana
The White Stripes
I can't decide number 3. If I'm allowed solo artists I'm going Otis Redding. If I'm not...am I allowed to choose a particular era of a bands back catalogue. If I am then it's 90's Green Day. If I'm not then....

 

[lasvegan]

Most influential…
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
The Ramones
Steve Earle and The Dukes
Lucinda Williams (and whoever was backing her at the time)

 

[anygivensunday]

I think that’s the first mention of this great band on here

 

[bhafc99]

I’d never generally recommend people start with live videos when getting into bands, but their Town and Country gig of 1988 is wonderful.



My favourite band, they should have been bigger than Nirvana.

As to avoid completely turning this into a Pixies thread though, my other top 3 would be a toss-up between Talking Heads, Smashing Pumpkins and The National.

Amazing gig. The tour with Throwing Muses.

Later on in that footage, when they play In Heaven, you can just about make out my hand in the front row. Black Francis was swinging his guitar back and forth, and the lead kept whiplashing me. Had to try and whack it away every time he swung it forward again.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

shit, I missed the B52s...

Pixies
B52s
Ramones

 

[smillie's garden]

As others have said, it’s pretty impossible to pick the top three bands from the country that invented jazz, blues and rock and roll. Lots of excellent picks. I’ll put down 3 bands I really like that I’m not sure I saw when I skimmed through.

Blue Oyster Cult
The Replacements
Wilco

 

[OzMike]

Foo Fighters
Stray Cats
The Eagles

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Nirvana
The White Stripes
I can't decide number 3. If I'm allowed solo artists I'm going Otis Redding. If I'm not...am I allowed to choose a particular era of a bands back catalogue. If I am then it's 90's Green Day. If I'm not then....

you’ve used a loophole to get a top 4 in.
Shame on you.
I’m not angry but I’m very disappointed.

Anyway if we’re doing 4th places, I can’t decide between The Pixies, Talking Heads or The Smashing Pumpkins.

look what you’ve made me do now

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

That’s true! Not sure that they’re too fond of Neil Young either.

That's not true. They loved Neil Young's music. They just didn't like one of his songs! Which, in turn helped to make them lots of money.

 

[el punal]

That's not true. They loved Neil Young's music. They just didn't like one of his songs! Which, in turn helped to make them lots of money.

That may be the case but certainly not when you listen to Sweet Home Alabama.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

The Band - yes I know with the exception of Levon Helm they are Canadian but you can’t get much more Yankee than ’The night they drove old Dixie Down’
The Velvet Underground
The Stooges

It's only Yankee in the sense that they are the "they" and is an anti Yankee song, sung from the perspective of a Southerner at the end of the Civil War. Great song, and great band, but not American. On the same logic, Fleetwood Mac are an American band.

If you change it to "Bob Dylan and the Band" then the American cohort goes up to a third of the group.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

That may be the case but certainly not when you listen to Sweet Home Alabama.

That's not true. They loved Neil Young's music. They just didn't like one of his songs! Which, in turn helped to make them lots of money.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

shit, I missed the B52s...

Pixies
B52s
Ramones

I am a member of a record collecting Facebook page and someone posted a photo of Fred Schneider's NYC house and specifically his vinyl roon.....think of a library but with floor to ceilng vinly instead of books. The stuff of dreams.