Using your taste to look at music is the most biased way to look at music. In other words, it is 100% opinionated, which means he can't be dumb for listening to a kind of music.


Now I am not targeting this just towards you, but towards people that judge music while using the bias of taste. Why can't music be judged on a more universal standard such as skill and originality? IDK maybe because people don't care about that anymore. So without using taste, I will judge your bands.

1. Danzig 7/10
2. Nirvana 3/10 (They ripped the Melvins, what did you expect?)
3. Alice in Chains 6/10 (Umm what exactly did they do for music that was so special?)
4. Screaming Trees 6/10 (Same as above)
5. Static Grim (No clue who they are.)

See now instead of arguing how cool these bands are, we can argue on a much easier base like talent.

The only good band you named was Danzig. Even then, old Misfits are much better. Either way, none of those bands are punk, so why is this in the punk forum?

I listen to good music, and so can you! Go here and download everything. Then listen to it. Congratulations, you now listen to good music.

I'm mostly joking, you can listen to whatever music you want. But if you go around attacking others' musical preference, you should expect to get some ****.

David Bowie beats them all!

EASILY.

(I do like AIC though)

You stole my favorite band *gasp*. Seriously though, Okkervil River is better than every band that that guy mentioned.

Tool
TMV
CTTS
Bayside
Co&Ca
Dillinger

combined overall/right now:

Funeral Diner
Spirit of Versailles
Envy
Et tu Brute
Blood Brothers

The Fall of Troy
The Mars Volta
Elliott Smith
Portugal.The Man
Weezer

based on talent, the orginal danzig line up should have a 9/10 after the line up change 5/10.
yea nirvana ripped the melvins, and the pixies.
and as for doing something for music, since when do you have to do something amazing to be a good rock band?
what did metallica do? what did led zeppelin do?
so while you are right about basing things on talent ,your wrong in your assumption that you have to be amazingly influencal to be good.

Metallica, lost Newstead.

then again, they have spider fingers now so meh

A band is a band through all its generations. So what is the average of those two fractions. ZOMG it is 7/10 O_O.

You amazing is obviously not my amazing. You have to something good to be in a good rock band. Many bands out there are original or technical in some way, therefore you must raise the standard of amazing to things like Mozart and those genius's. Excellent is like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and King Crimson who were technical for their time and were both original in what they did. Good is very broad scale with many bands across the board including Rush, Radiohead, etc.

Influential in Thrash Metal, but I consider Metallica to be in the good scale.

Already explained.

No, you just have to be amazingly influential to be amazing.