Haha, Ten Years After is badass. Them, CCR, Dire Straits, Savoy Brown, and Uriah Heep are the only "classic" rock I can really stand to listen to. The rest just seemed like "expirimental" before it actually started to sound good.
Anyway...
...rock bands...
I'm going back to the root of the tree, here. I think, actually, I'll just post my favorite bands that can be considered "rock". Basically the most abrasive of my f-list.
Hot Snakes
Drive Like Jehu
Pitchfork
Rocket From The Crypt
Thingy
(I would sooo go gay just to have relations with John Reis and Rick Froberg in any hopes that their talent and creativity were the result of some unheard of sexually transmitted disease. really)
The Evens
Fugazi
(Dispite the "revolutionary" tendencies of the hardcore bands, IMHO MacKay is doing way better in the rock bands.)
Archers of Loaf
Nation of Ulysses
The Fucking Champs
Mclusky
Boris
Big Black
Part Chimp
Pixies
Spoon
Pavement
Silver Jews
Malkmus/The Jicks
(i have a predisposition to malkmus. he's just great by default.)
Now, if this were a Favorite Bands in general topic, that list would be totally different, but, rock bands it is.
So yeah, there's me.
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