They are the one who changed the music forever. They are the one who shakes our father’s head and made our mother’s hips swing to the crazy music they invented.

And their great songs passed from generation to generation; in fact I saw some bands following their footsteps from their tuxedo to their eyeliners.

Here I present to you the top 4 best rock bands ever.

1. The Beatles. I remember I had a collection of their music I pinched from my father’s arrays of long playing albums. They are undeniably the greatest and the most famous band ever in rock history.

The Beatles produced great amount of joys that hits the face of throng of people with the consciousness that happiness and high spirits were not only possible but with them around, it is inevitable.

2. The Rolling Stones. I didn’t realized that their single “ I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)” was launched in 1965 because I heard the songs during 80’s and people that time were into that song . My cousin together with his band who used to jam in our place loves to play this song and we kids are having fun sneaking in their music room.

The Rolling Stone are English band whose music was based in rhythm and blues and rock & roll.

When The Beatles didn’t play music anymore their title as “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘n Roll band fell with the little arguments on the Stones.

3. U2. They were formed in 1976, young and with limited musical know-how it was in the 80’s that they become the top international act. Their success as a live act wasn’t greater than their success in selling record though but when they launched their album “The Joshua Tree, they become “heroes to superstars” according to Rolling Stones.

4. The Grateful dead. This American band was formed in 1965. though they became vital body in the psychedelic movement based out of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The band was famous for its exceptional and diverse style, which combined elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelic, space music and gospel—and for live performances of long musical improvisation.”Their music,” according to Lenny Kaye, “Touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”

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Throughout its history, skateboarding has been associated primarily with two genres of music. Hip hop and punk rock. The rationales behind the associations are reasonable enough. Hip hop being a rhythmic style of music lends itself very well to the groove required when skateboarding. Essentially, the beat in hip hop compliments the skaters bouncing around on their skateboards. Punk music, on the other hand, being loud, last, and aggressive lends itself well to the passion and raw emotion skaters possess when they are out competing.

So, the question here is really, “what is skateboarding about? Looking cool jumping around doing fancy little tricks? Or is it about the passion?”

Really, technical ability can only take one so far in any activity one endeavour skateboarding is no different. Tricks mean absolutely nothing if the skater shows no passion for what he or she is doing. Furthermore, taking into consideration the difficulty of mastering skateboarding, more than anything else, it is about passion.

Therefore, punk rock wins.

Intrinsic to punk rock is the mohawk. More than making the person with the hairstyle feel really cool, people that sport mohawks generally exude an air of unadulterated badassery.

Now, assuming all that you have had your hair cut, all you need to do is spike it up.

Here are three ways to do it.

Expensive gel – The most obvious way.
Pros – May actually be good for the hair.
Cons – Expensive. Expensive. Expensive.

Eggwhites and a dash of beer – A whole lot of eggwhites, a little bit of beer
Pros – Readily available in your mom’s kitchen. All natural.
Cons – Smells like dead rats after a while and gets itchy like nothing else.

Elmer’s glue – A wallop for punk rock goodness.                            
Pros – Cheap. Water soluble.
Cons – Glue begins to look like dandruff after a while. Though water soluble, a bitch to wash off.

Take your pick… See you in the pit.

In today’s age, rock bands are seen everywhere. Some new, some old. The bitter part is, some make it, some don’t.

Dashboard Confessional, as a band, has been active since 1999 and got their first single to be acknowledged by the hearing public 3 years after. This is actually already “good news” for new bands since most, either make it big after 5 – 8 years of being active (after they’ve changed so many managers and performed as man gigs as possible just to get the public’s attention), or just fade away in the music industry. After their first single (Screaming Infidelities), they had consecutive chart toppers with songs like “Hands Down”, “Vindicated”, “Stolen” etc.

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Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where groups such as the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. By 1977, punk was spreading around the world.

Punk rock bands, eschewing the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock, created fast, hard music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation and often political or nihilistic lyrics. The associated punk subculture expresses youthful rebellion and is characterized by distinctive clothing styles, a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies, and a DIY (do it yourself) attitude.

Punk rock quickly, though briefly, became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. By the beginning of the 1980s, even faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to the alternative rock movement. By the turn of the century, new pop punk bands such as Green Day were bringing the genre widespread popularity decades after its inception.

via [Wikipedia]

Now to sum it all up….

Punk is not what you wear, it’s who you are…
Punk is not a fashion it’s a way of life…

It’s all in the music.. try to listen to these bands.. to understand what I mean

• Iggy Pop & The Stooges
• The Velvet Underground
• The Who
• Sex Pistols
• The Clash
• The Damned
• The Misfits
• The Ramones
• Joy Division
• Public Image Ltd.
• The Cure
• Bad Religion
• Black Flag
• Dead Kennedys
• Social Distortion
• Suicidal Tendencies
• The Circle Jerks
• The Misfits
• Anti-Flag
• Green Day
• MxPx
• NoFX
• Rancid
• Rise Against
• The Offspring
• Alkaline Trio

Deftones is a rock band from Sacramento, California formed in 1988, consisting of Chino Moreno (vocals and guitar), Stephen Carpenter ( lead guitar), Chi Cheng (bass) Frank Delgado (keyboards, sampler and turntables) and Abe Cunningham (drums.) Their sound that has been described as ranging from alternative metal and dream pop to progressive rock and experimental rock.

Critics have often praised them as one of the more unique rock bands of recent years for their innovative, atmospheric music; as Johnny Loftus writes, “Rock critics usually reserve a special place for Deftones above or at least away from the rest of the turn-of-the-century metal movement [...] Deftones have always seemed more curious, more willing to incorporate traditionally revered sounds like dream pop or D.C. hardcore into their northern California alt-metal.”

via [Wikipedia]

One of the songs from Deftones that I like, (well, actually I love all the songs of Deftones) but this one particular song hit the spot, the first time I heard it.

RX QUEEN

Even wrote a post based on the lyrics of the song Rx Queen

A love song for my RX Queen from the moment I saw her, I wanted to be with her. I tracked her down and I can’t take my mind off of her.

“Cause you’re my girl and that’s all right, if you sting me I won’t mind”

You can do anything to me and nothing can stop me from loving you. Dammit… I’m in love…

“We’ll stop to rest on the moon and we’ll make fire, I’ll steal a carcass for you then feed off the virus”

I will do anything for you, I don’t care how much pain you put me through as long as I’m with you, in a way I’m so addicted to you. It’s all in hell and I don’t know what to do anymore. I hope you’re reading this, my RX Queen… Time is seeping fast, all else is a blur… you make me feel good, even though it hurts but it’s the right kind of pain. Pain is nothing compared to the High I get when I’m with you…

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Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band’s line-up has consisted of Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead guitar). The band’s current drummer is Matt Cameron, formerly of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.

Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard’s previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album Ten. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was nevertheless criticized early on as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. However, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices as their career progressed, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame.”

via [Wikipedia]

Pearl Jam - “the most popular American rock band of the 1990s”. - I agree to that

Pearl Jam’s music is the “the riff-heavy stadium rock of the ’70s with the grit and anger of ’80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses”.

a take on why Pearl Jam doesn’t do videos… as bassist Jeff Ament would say ,

“Ten years from now, I don’t want people to remember our songs as videos”.