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duke richardson
how about R.E.M. ? id say their stature has grown, based on how many folks loved them, grew up with them, and now want them to get back together...
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ThePaleRider
Interesting thread...I work in a multi-generational workplace that employs everyone from millennials to soon-to-retire baby boomers such as myself. Everyone gets along great but it's been amusing listening to the younger ones who have tromped out to see Bohemian Rhapsody and gush on Monday mornings that Queen was the greatest rock band of all time.They were a little taken aback when I was telling them that most considered Queen as just another rock act, on the level of a Styx or Foreigner or Boston and nowhere near the 70's rock pantheon of the Stones The Who, Floyd, Zeppelin...at least in my neck of the woods,Toronto. I actually felt bad when I also mentioned that Mercury had no idea he was ill at Live Aid...They were crushed....
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duke richardson
how about R.E.M. ? id say their stature has grown, based on how many folks loved them, grew up with them, and now want them to get back together...
ummmm.....no
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tomk
The band Journey's stature has skyrocketed, more than I ever thought. Every dumb Millennial knows that stuff, and loves it.
The Beatles will always be there, on top.
Zeppelin, too.
As for the Stones, I think the general public doesn't care what they do anymore, and it's been that way for quite a while. Sell out a stadium, yeah, but besides us, nobody cares what whey do anymore.
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Paddy
The Doors kinda peaked I think in popularity around the early 90s. They were big in the secondary school I went to at that time, probably around when the movie came out. A guy I went to school with, his brother won all the Doors albums & In Concert on CD, I promptly got cassette copies and my 15 year old ears were hooked!
I really liked An American Prayer, technically a Morrison album, with music by the Doors. I would get drunk and spout the shit on this album on occasions. There’s a great live version of Roadhouse Blues on it also.
I didn’t listen to the Doors for maybe 15 years. Morrison’s a bad influence.
But I came back to them about 5 years ago, and have enjoyed them as much as the first time round.
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Stoneage
What about ABBA? Take a look at this video and tell me you don't like them...
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SomeGuy
The Doors are the only band to have more albums in my personal top 5 than The Stones, about all of them to be exact, give or take one or two...
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DandelionPowderman
Queen have sold 68 million albums in the US, only 6 millions shy of what the Stones have (Certified sales, according to Wikipedia).
In total, they've sold 134 million albums, 35 million more albums than the Stones.
I find those numbers baffling. If Queen tanked in the US in the 80s, when they were on top of their game sales-wise, did they sell the majority of these albums after Freddie's death?
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SomeGuy
The Doors are the only band to have more albums in my personal top 5 than The Stones, about all of them to be exact, give or take one or two...