I have been thinking about a British version and have come up with this;
The same approach, no consideration of Take That, The Spice Girls, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, One Direction, and so on as not being rock bands. Once you've had it, you can't have it again. Consideration to tours, popular singles, critically acclaimed albums and fan-voted awards.
1960-1963 The Shadows
1964-1966 The Beatles (Alternate: The Rolling Stones)
1967-1968 The Rolling Stones (Alternate: The Kinks)
1969 Led Zeppelin (Alternates: The Who, Cream)
1970 Black Sabbath (Alternate: Deep Purple)
1971 T.Rex (Alternate: The Who)
1972-1975 Pink Floyd (Alternate: Roxy Music)
1976-1977 Queen (Alternate: The Sex Pistols)
1977-1979 The Clash (Alternate: Joy Division)
1980-1982 The Jam (Alternates: The Police, The Specials)
1983-1986 The Smiths (Alternates: New Order, The Fall)
1987-1988 The Cure (Alternate: The Wedding Present, The Pet Shop Boys)
1989 The Stone Roses (Alternate: The Happy Mondays)
1990-1991 The Happy Mondays (Alternate: The Charlatans, Massive Attack, Primal Scream)
1992-1993 Suede (Alternate: Blur)
1994-1995 Oasis (Alternate: Blur)
1996 Manic Street Preachers (Alternate: Ocean Colour Scene)
1997-1999 The Chemical Brothers (Alternate: Radiohead, The Verve, Travis, Stereophonics)
2000-2001 Radiohead (Alternates: Coldplay, Muse)
2002-2005 Coldplay (Alternates: The Libertines, The Streets, Gorillaz)
Totally agree with Boygenius, though I guess I’d extend them to 2019, because I saw them on tour then at a medium sized club and Phoebe played “Moon Song” and Lucy played “Thumbs” which were both mind-blowing, then they all wore matching vests when they played as Boygenius and just played the entire (basically perfect) EP. I totally agree that their album last year was extremely mid at best. Big Thief didn’t hit their stride until Dragon. I saw them in 2018 at Pitchfork and they were pretty boring, so much so that I ignored Dragon for at least 3 or 4 months and then played it for basically the entire summer and early fall.
I probably capped off The War On Drugs at Lost in the Dream and given Big Thief 2015-2022. I feel like Capacity is a bigger record than A Deeper Understanding (2017), and I don't think the Boygenius EP is so good that it would interrupt the Big Thief run.
Going back to the original column, I would have thought Kiss would have got a mention somewhere in the 70's in the Alive-Alive 2 era somewhere. As an admitted Kiss apologist and huge fan, I'm obviously biased. Great article regardless!
I have been thinking about a British version and have come up with this;
The same approach, no consideration of Take That, The Spice Girls, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, One Direction, and so on as not being rock bands. Once you've had it, you can't have it again. Consideration to tours, popular singles, critically acclaimed albums and fan-voted awards.
1960-1963 The Shadows
1964-1966 The Beatles (Alternate: The Rolling Stones)
1967-1968 The Rolling Stones (Alternate: The Kinks)
1969 Led Zeppelin (Alternates: The Who, Cream)
1970 Black Sabbath (Alternate: Deep Purple)
1971 T.Rex (Alternate: The Who)
1972-1975 Pink Floyd (Alternate: Roxy Music)
1976-1977 Queen (Alternate: The Sex Pistols)
1977-1979 The Clash (Alternate: Joy Division)
1980-1982 The Jam (Alternates: The Police, The Specials)
1983-1986 The Smiths (Alternates: New Order, The Fall)
1987-1988 The Cure (Alternate: The Wedding Present, The Pet Shop Boys)
1989 The Stone Roses (Alternate: The Happy Mondays)
1990-1991 The Happy Mondays (Alternate: The Charlatans, Massive Attack, Primal Scream)
1992-1993 Suede (Alternate: Blur)
1994-1995 Oasis (Alternate: Blur)
1996 Manic Street Preachers (Alternate: Ocean Colour Scene)
1997-1999 The Chemical Brothers (Alternate: Radiohead, The Verve, Travis, Stereophonics)
2000-2001 Radiohead (Alternates: Coldplay, Muse)
2002-2005 Coldplay (Alternates: The Libertines, The Streets, Gorillaz)
2006-2013 Arctic Monkeys (Alternates: Snow Patrol, Muse, Elbow, Foals and alt-J)
2014-2015 Royal Blood (Alternate: The 1975)
2016-2017 The 1975 (Alternate: Wolf Alice)
2018-2019 Idles (Alternate: Fontaines D.C.)
2020-2021 Fontaines D.C. (Alternate: Black Country, New Road)
2022-2023 Wet Leg (Alternate: Yard Act)
2024 The Last Dinner Party (Alternate: Yard Act)
Totally agree with Boygenius, though I guess I’d extend them to 2019, because I saw them on tour then at a medium sized club and Phoebe played “Moon Song” and Lucy played “Thumbs” which were both mind-blowing, then they all wore matching vests when they played as Boygenius and just played the entire (basically perfect) EP. I totally agree that their album last year was extremely mid at best. Big Thief didn’t hit their stride until Dragon. I saw them in 2018 at Pitchfork and they were pretty boring, so much so that I ignored Dragon for at least 3 or 4 months and then played it for basically the entire summer and early fall.
I probably capped off The War On Drugs at Lost in the Dream and given Big Thief 2015-2022. I feel like Capacity is a bigger record than A Deeper Understanding (2017), and I don't think the Boygenius EP is so good that it would interrupt the Big Thief run.
^would've
Going back to the original column, I would have thought Kiss would have got a mention somewhere in the 70's in the Alive-Alive 2 era somewhere. As an admitted Kiss apologist and huge fan, I'm obviously biased. Great article regardless!