“Your meme, should you choose to accept it, is to rank the following bands in order, from couldn’t live without to couldn’t care less. To add value to this process, you must also add one band to the list, and remove one band from the list, before passing the meme on (including these instructions).”
Here’s my list…
Sonic Youth (my addition)
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
Harem Scarem
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
REM
Fleetwood Mac
The Sex Pistols
Queen
I removed the Beatles. They’re one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music, I own all their albums and like them very much, but… bringing up the Beatles always seems to render a discussion pointless, a kind of musical Godwin’s Law. I added Sonic Youth, partly because they came quickly to mind and partly because the list lacked any truly *alternative* bands, so to speak. I’m fairly indifferent to most of the bands listed, so the order is somewhat arbitrary.
There’s another version by Mark…