Best Band/Musician/Singer of all time

[Clayman]

What do you guys think is the best Band/Musician/Singer...of all time is?

for me, it would definately be Iron Maiden

[ar]

Metallica, White Cross, POD, and Jimi Hendrix

[Yeldarb]

Either Tom Petty or Bob Marley

[DariusMonsef]

Well to go with all time you'd have to look at who has made the greatest impact world wide and I think that would be Bob Marley. Elvis and Jacko have made pretty big impressions too, but they both sort of lost their minds towards the end of their careers.

[gonzales]

gotta be either bach or robert johnson.

[kirupa]

Mozart or Beethoven...and I guess the Beatles also :beam:

[trundrumbalind]

An insanely tough question as an artist can be brilliant and "the best" for so many different reasons.

I'm a huge fan of AC/DC and I think they're genuinely brilliant as they have managed to release over 200 songs all based around a few simple chords. Any band that can create so many great riffs from just a few basic chords is my idea of genius.

Also, I personally don't like them in the slightest but I do admire ABBA for writing some of the best pop tracks of all time on which a lot of different artists nowadays have based their work upon.

I think the problem with this thread though is that most people will just list their favourite artist and not the ones they think are genuinely brilliainit/geniuses.

Metallica, Joe Satriani, AC/DC, Pantera, Leonard Cohen, ABBA, The Beatles, The Bee Gees and probably a few more definately deserve a place in the list though.

[aknatn]

#1 All time is Pink Floyd (with Waters in the band, absoulte genius)
#2 Trent Reznor (for opening my mind reallly wide)
#3 Jimi Hendrix (man those guitar lix, whooo)

[guitarplayer08]

LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[B3NKobe]

Beatles !! :D:D:D

[Mik3]

Johnny Ramone

[fester8542]

Metallica - Prior to thier last album

[MoNkEe]

Hanson... definitely Hanson......http://www.kirupa.com/forum/images/smilies/drool2.gif
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..... LOL JUST KIDDING! http://www.kirupa.com/forum/images/smilies/huh.gif ..... tough one really, love Metallica, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, & of course early Elvis.... but narrowing it any further isn't going to happen lol :D

[paddy.]

Probably Bob Dylan, Don McLean or David Bowie. Not my favourites but phenomenal musicians.

Best of all time is hard to pick though.

[mjULTRA]

i cant narrow it down to the best, but here are some musicians that have made a lasting impression upon my musical tastes..

the Beatles
Jim Morrison (the Doors)
Bob Marley
Frank Sinatra
Bradley Noell (sublime)
Kurt Cobain
Maynard James Keenan (tool & APC)

[Byrnzie]

hard to pick the best but here are a few groups /artists that have to be amoung my favorites.

-the beatles + the solo works of john & paul

-the velvet underground + solo work of lou reed

-david bowie

-the living end (chris cheney plays the g-tar with some of the best solos every also u got to love the way bass player scott jumps up on his double bass in concerts)

-nick cave, he has an awsome voice + alot of his songs are realy cool especially the murder ballads album.

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the list could go on for ever but have to cut it some where