A Guide to the Best Rock Bands of All Time, By Era

Music is one of the vital components to life in the opinions of some. Most people say that they would not know what to do without their iPod or other portable music player and music generally just makes things more interesting. One of the most popular forms of music in the world currently is rock and roll. Rock has changed a lot over the ages and is now very dissimilar from when it started. Most musicians would say that they are inspired as artists by or get their start in classical music. Various tools involved in piano tunes include Pedal extenders for the piano, an Adjustable piano bench and sheet music storage. In each ten year span in the twentieth century there were various rock and roll groups that helped turn the genre into what it is now.

When the variety was first starting out the only really important band in rock and roll was The Beatles. The Beatles were group of musicians who started what was known as the British Invasion and were immediately a pop culture phenomenon. Nearly all young people wanted to see the young men from England play their new subset of music that hadn’t been heard before in America. The Beatles smashed record sales for their records and sold out essentially every venue in which they went to play. The style of music that they played fused American R&B with pop lyrics and guitar, something that was previously never thought about.

In the 1970s one of the more important rock acts was The Who. The band called, “The Who” was also from England and carried the torch that the Beatles had left behind. While playing the same general style of music as some other rockers from the previous decade, The Who brought a previously uknown anger and angst to the stage in their lyrics, as evidenced by songs such as “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. In this song the speaker mentions that he feels all politicians are essentially the same and that he won’t be tricked anymore by a political candidate’s false promises.

Moving on to the 1990s and one of the undoubted kings of the rock genre were Blink 182. This band was formed in California and wrote many songs about partying and generally being a young person and the struggles that some teens deal with. The group can be grouped with the general genre of punk, and to go along with that genre comes the inevitable punk look complete with baggy pants, lots of tattoos and piercings and crazy hair styles. The band still play together after a brief hiatus and took a comeback tour of the country in the summer of 2009 which drew massive crowds in every city they stopped in.

Rock and roll has evolved massively over the past forty or fifty years and there are certainly more changes in the midst for the genre as musicians innovate even more. Because of the demand for music it is certain that in a relatively short time there will be a new super group in rock and roll to take over the mantle as the most famous band in America.