Top 10 Questions to Ask Users of TheTopTens About Rock Music

The Top Ten
1 What's your favorite rock band?

Blink-182, they bring comedy and relatable situations all in their songs. The band members are great and fun people, and Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus are funny, they should be comedians. Their performances are entertaining and not boring. The band is really talented and can actually play and sing live. They make the best songs and have variety in their music, skate punk, emo punk, pop punk, punk rock.

Rage Against The Machine.They combine Rap/Hip Hop,Heavy Metal and Alternative Rock in the most awesome way possible.They're lyrics speak the truth about political and global events unlike the mainstream corporate media like CNN or Fox News who just report what the government wants you to believe.-DarkBoi-X

Currently, my favorite band is Dream Theater. Never thought prog and metal could mix together so well.

95% of the time I'm listening to solo artists but beach boys, or if that's not rock enough, the who.

2 Alternative or Progressive?

Alternative, because it's one of my favourite genres of rock.

Definitely progressive.

Alternative is life

Progressive.

3 Axl Rose or Kurt Cobain?

Kurt Cobain. Maybe Axl's vocal range is great but still his voice is annoying. But especially I hate his personality.

Kurt Cobain, only cause Rose didn't show up with his band at the rock and roll Hall of fame when they were enshrined.

Kurt Cobain he just has more variety and at least he could sing before he died Axl on the other hand is different.

Kurt Cobain, his voice in In Bloom sounds really great. His high notes and raw voice just sounds really amazing.

4 Freddie Mercury or Robert Plant?

Freddie Mercury, his voice is amazing, his vocal range is just great. Bohemian Rhapsody proves it all. And I actually like some of Queen's songs, they are good and musical.

Oh boy, I know I'm gonna sound awful, but I personally prefer Plant. I feel his voice had more power.

Freddie Mercury. Plant is also a good singer but I like Freddie's voice more.

Freddie by far, he has a stronger voice compared to Plant.

5 Who's your favorite guitarist?

Wes Borland, Brad Delson and Ben Moody. They are awesome guitarists.

Adrian Smith, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, Dave Murray, Kirk Hammett and Synyster Gates are all awesome in my opinion.

Jimi Hendrix, not just because he's the best though

Dave Mustaine. He is just the greatest.

6 Who's your favorite rock singer?

There's a few I like as far as favorite goes: Brian Johnson, Freddy Mercury, Amy Lee, Billie Joe Armstrong, Matt Walst, Adam Gontier, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Ozzy Osbourne and James Hatfield.

Freddie Mercury. If metal singers are accepted (metal is a rock subgenre) - Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song, The Throne, Majesty).

Hard question...my favorites are David Coverdale, Steve Perry, David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, and Freddie Mercury.

Freddie Mercury, Amy Lee, Mark Hoppus, Billie Joe Armstrong, and my all time favorite is Tom DeLonge.

7 What do you think is the most overrated Rock band ever?

Led Zeppelin - their signature songs are rip off songs. "Their" songs are so close to the originals that the court labeled them as "uncredited covers". Led Zeppelin are a cover band but they just forgot to mention that. The most unoriginal band ever. Led Zep have stolen music, lyrics and even whole songs together with the song titles. People who are not aware of their plagiarism may think I exaggerate but I don't. Here's a couple of examples of some Led Zep songs and the originals but the list is way longer:

Dazed And Confused (Jake Holmes - Dazed And Confused)
Whole Lotta Love (The Small Faces - You Need Loving Muddy Waters - You Need Love)
The Lemon Song (Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor)
Stairway to Heaven (Spirit - Taurus, intro and the main guitar line)
Since I've Been Loving You (Moby Grape - Never, same lyrics)

In my opinion, the most overrated band in my opinion is Linkin Park. They are good, but they aren't really that great. The lead singer is a good singer, but their songs aren't really that good, the only song I like from them is In The End.

This one is kind of hard, but a few that I think are overrated (I repeat: Overrated, not bad! ) are Nirvana, Linkin Park, Disturbed, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC etc.

The Beatles, Guns N' Roses, or Led Zeppelin. Probably one of the latter though since The Beatles were at least greatly influential to rock music.

8 Hard Rock or Heavy Metal?

Heavy metal obviously, and this genre has better bands and singers. And heavy metal songs are better too, Hardwired, Enter Sandman, Chop Suey.

The answer is in my user name but I love hard rock, too. These are my favorite subgenres of rock music.

If heavy metal is intended as the entire genre, then heavy metal. If just the subgenre, hard rock.

Eh both cause one wouldn't be possible without the other.

9 Who's your favorite drummer?

Travis Barker, he is seriously talented, and plays fast too. How can he learn all the Blink 182 songs in a very low amount of time?

If you're talking rock-wise, then probably Mike Portnoy or Gavin Harrison.

I easily say Rob Bourdon, Rocky Gray and John Otto.

Either John Bonham, Ian Paice, or Nicko McBrain

10 The Rolling Stones or The Beatles?

Well, I'm not much of a fan of either. But I've discovered that The Rolling Stones are pretty decent, while I really don't care that much for The Beatles.

It use to be The Beatles, but now it's the Stones.

The Beatles, they are much more influential.

The Rolling Stones.

The Contenders
11 Baba O'Riley or Stairway to Heaven?

I'll take stairway,I do know that stairway is considered a rip off,but it's just the chord progression,and even if it's a rip off I'm happy Zeppelin turned the original to an awesome masterpiece

Baba O'Riley. I was in love with Stairway to Heaven but now I know it's a rip off song, so Baba O'Riley.

Stairway to heaven, as it is an amazing song that switches genres.

This is tough. I'll take Stairway to Heaven because of the solo

12 What do you think is the most overrated rock song ever?

Either Stairway to Heaven or Don't Stop Believing. I'm not much of a Led Zeppelin fan in general, but I've never been impressed enough with Stairway to Heaven to understand why it always gets considered one of the best rock songs. And while I love early Journey before and the first couple albums with Steve Perry, after that, they weren't nearly as good. Don't Stop Believing is nowhere near the best Journey song, let alone one of the best rock songs.

Any Led Zeppelin song because these are rip off songs - Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Dazed And Confused, The Lemon Song, How Many More Times, to name a few (see my comment and examples in "What do you think is the most overrated Rock band ever? ".

I don't have a definite number 1, but I can name a few.
Hey Jude(to me, this song is boring)
Smells Like Teen Spirit(I'm pretty sick of this song)
Whole Lotta Love(ripped off, plus to me Heartbreaker is the best song on LZ II)
Don't Stop Believing(this is NOT the only Journey song.)
Stairway to Heaven(part of the song is ripped off. Achilles Last Stand is original and better)

Stairway To Heaven, it is not really that great. I am just not really a fan of ballads, I don't know why. The lyrics to the song are good I admit.

13 Grunge or Punk?

Grunge (Alice in Chains)
Punk (Green Day)

Both are pretty good.

Grunge 100% over punk.

14 What do you think is the worst rock band ever?

What I consider rock is definitely not what you probably consider rock. So if we went with what I considered rock, then Limp Bizkit is the worst. If we went with what the public considered "rock," I guess BOTDF.

Probably some of the mediocre recent rock bands, like Twenty One Pilots. Also, I see One Direction and bands like that getting considered rock, so if that counts, then One Direction.

Good Charlotte, they suck, are they even rock? I heard one of their songs, and the lead singer can't sing and has a bland voice. The guitar playing is generic and not unique.

BVB, Bring me the horizon, Creed, and no, Blood on the Dance Floor is not rock.

15 Led Zeppelin or the Beatles

The Beatles obviously. Led Zeppelin are talentless hacks.

The Beatles, they had more originality in their music.

The Beatles were more original, so The Beatles.

Led Zeppelin for me

16 Blink-182 or Sum 41?

Blink-182 easily owns Sum 41.

17 Ministry or Nine Inch Nails?
18 What's your favorite rock album?

I have a few:
Life Starts Now - Three Days Grace
The Open Door - Evanescence
Meteora - Linkin Park
The Hunting Party - Linkin Park
Flyleaf - Flyleaf

I can go on naming a lot more tho

At The Edge Of Time by Blind Guardian (2010). It's actually symphonic metal but I guess it counts because metal is a rock subgenre.

I am not sure, I think Dude Ranch since that has a more rock sound than Enema Of The State.

My favorite album is blood on the tracks, but since we're talking rock, who's next

19 Nirvana or Linkin Park?

Nirvana, Linkin Park can be kinda bland, but they are still a good band. Nirvana is more influential as well and has better music.

Honestly, Linkin Park. Nirvana's great as well but Smells Like Teen Spirit is poor in comparison to Guilty All The Same.

Nirvana, they remained with grunge for their entire existence, while Linkin Park went downhill.

Nirvana may be the most influential, but Linkin Park is the better band.

20 Do you think some lead singers use Autotune?

Well, of course. Every genre's going to have at least one person who uses it.

Probably. It wouldn't be a shocker if some did.

No. Why think about that?

21 Fall Out Boy Or Linkin Park?

Linkin Park I could careless about Fall Out Boy.

Linkin Park! They kick ass!

I love both actually.

22 Who's your favorite bassist?

Mark Hoppus, he is self taught and really good at it. Just listen to Adam's Song and that really proves how great he is at playing the bass.

Probably Cliff Burton. There are many good bassists though.

For me it depends. Slap, tapping, finger picking, pick using etc.
1. For only finger picking, I'd go with Geddy Lee. Has got most skills in this category.
2. For pick using bassists, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters or Dee Dee Ramone.
3. For slap bassist, Les Claypool, Sumon, Buckethead etc.

But overall, I'd go with either Geddy Lee or Sumon. Because both of them play their bass guitar like lead guitar. But Geddy Lee can't slap. So, its Sumon by a bit.

John Myung, Geddy Lee, and Les Claypool.

23 What's your favorite rock documentary?

Metal Evolution for me too. Although I also really like the making of a Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden.

Pink Floyd - Behind the Wall

Pink Floyd - Behind The Wall

24 What's your favorite rock concept album?

The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spider from mars. might be replaced by quadpronia once I get around it listening to it.

Rock: The Dark Side of the Moon
rock (metal): Nightfall in Middle-Earth / Blind Guardian

Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age

The Dark Side of the Moon

25 Ozzy Osbourne or Marilyn Manson?

Marilyn Manson, I heard his voice in The Beautiful People. Sure, it is not be beautiful at all or gentle, but it sounds really cool and in a creepy awesome way for a rock song.

Why is this a question? Marilyn Manson has one of the worst voices I've ever heard

Neither - both are awful singers.

Ozzy Osbourne, the least bad one

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