Greatest American rock band

Has anyone said N-Sync yet?

 

I'll take Aerosmith and Get Your Wings any day over anything else they made.

 

I would gladly take Aerosmith as one of the greatest American rock bands and I would venture to say Rage Against the Machine just because of their popularity and the genre they created.

 

What genre did Rage create?

 

I can't think of it, either, Bubbler. It's not rap-rock. Because, and there might be others before them, 311 started doing that in 1989.

 

No clue. If he's talking about rap-rock, Faith No More was the first band to have their lead singer rap on almost every song. And Blondie recorded the first rap-rock song.

 

Angry pro-Zapatista rap-rock?

 

I don't know what to call it, but a different brand of rock/rap/screamo fusion. Bands created off of that sound and pushed the envelope forward. Soundgarden, Audioslave (had several members of RATM in it) and Linkin Park come to mind.

Edit: Other bands might have done it before them, but RATM put it on the map.

 

311 was there before them.

 

As was Soundgarden.

 

Fuck screamo. Makes me puko.

And Soundgarden was around looong before Rage was.

 

1. The Doors
2. The Beach Boys
3. Aerosmith
4. Guns N Roses
5. Pearl Jam