Pretty easy on this one for me.
Instead of naming the band, I'll post a fave for each one to make it more fun.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEipftwkn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huR__xAcUQs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQYQ5p2Ko
Excited for other takes........
Same as always…
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
If I may add to that very short list then I’d add Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Queen.
*sorry for cheating but you almost have to with top 3 or top 5 lists!
I'm the same way... almost impossible to narrow these things down to three, five, ten, etc., but I would choose the same three bands that you did (The Beatles are definitely my favorite, by I go back & forth between The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin as to who I'd give the second spot to...call it a tie for me! 😀).
shareThere's too many to list, but Iron Maiden, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are really good.
shareSeeing as how I kind of cheated in the American bands thread in a reply, I'll stick with the two I mentioned:
The Kinks - "The Contenders" https://youtu.be/YV6WiJRAaiY - gets going 40 seconds in
Faces - "Stay with Me" https://youtu.be/Xwyyrq8Jb_U - live, of course
3 Mustaphas 3 - "Kač Kuzulu Čeylan" https://youtu.be/AXX8Dlz1VIg - they're English, even if their music isn't
I didn't know 3 Mustaphas 3 were English, I've been a fan for decades!
shareForward in all directions! :D
It actually adds another level to the whole humorous legend/backstory of the band, innit? But for real, they are phenomenal musicians/musicologists who imo played a big part in introducing the Western world to the wonders of traditional music from all over. Couple favorites they directly introduced me to: Pece Atanasovski, Selim Sesler, Saban Bajramovic, Naftule Brandwein. And indirectly: Besh o droM, Esma Redzepova & Ensemble Teodosievski, Kočani Orkestar.
I've been racking my brain for the past few hours trying to figure out what it was that led me to purchase the "Shopping" cd in the first place(exactly thirty years ago as it turns out...)
I finally figured it out, I was choosing for the Columbia Record House club*! At the time I was heavily into World Music, particularly Soukous and the like, and I just liked the name 3 Mustaphas 3... Coincidentally, this club order also contained the combo Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation disc that began my love of FZ!
*for the second time, no less, as I had done it with vinyl in the late 70s...
"Five albums for 1¢!"??? Or something like that. Was actually a good deal if one were disciplined enough to return the albums they mailed to you and finally purchased one you wanted at at least retail. Can't remember if I was that disciplined as a kid, so the odds aren't too good...
Jeez, for the life of me I can't remember how I was introduced to 3M3. Pretty sure the first album of theirs I got was Heart of Uncle, which came out in 1989, the same year as Passion - Sources, and 1988-90 was the period I really branched out musically (both FZ and the Dead in 88!). After work at The Strand bookstore in NY, I'd walk over to Smash CDs on St. Mark's Place and browse there for long enough I befriended the owner and his manager who I saw a bunch of Dead shows with and dated his cousin. So probably bought it there around then. Good times!
Cool! Actually the school year of '88-'89 I was also living in the city, attending the Institute of Audio Research down in that neck of the woods(between Union Square and Washington Square Park...) I went to the Strand often on my wanderings(I would usually subway down to school and walk back home to the Upper East side!) Did you catch any of the GD 88 fall run at MSG? I went to two of them, one with my sister and one with my Mom(she fell asleep during the loudest 'space' I had ever heard!)
shareHa! Crazy! I was the guy in the remainders dept. downstairs with the long hair in a ponytail who kinda looked like Bob Weir. Remember a coworker gave me a tape of the Jerky Boys before they got big. Used to score decent weed from the Rastas in Wash. Sq. And here in L.A. people get grumpy if they can't find parking within a block; in NY, walking to/from the UE/WS to/from the Village was enjoyable if you had the time.
My first show was 7/4/89, and second one was 10/16/89, the second Darkstar after a five year hiatus. Saw all six nights at MSG in September 1990, though. And drumz/space was when I usually hit the head or just wandered around the circumference of the venue depending on my headspace.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
I'm pretty basic, I guess. Oh well.
Nothing at all wrong with being "basic." I'd choose the same three bands also.
A couple of other British bands I love that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
1) The Outfield (what a great band they were...RIP John Spinks and Tony Lewis 😥)
2) A Flock Of Seagulls (I think the extended version of "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" is one of the greatest songs ever written).
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Radiohead
Beatles
Pink Floyd
May your excitement be endless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFiUE-T2OA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC9Ou2K55Zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zz0s7yJefY
And yes, they're all movie related songs.
You've made it very difficult to only pick three as there are too many. Some of the obvious classic ones are already listed so I will skip those right now....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l35XzUD8GGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVKLtWoVnbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FNUvJYGpE