30-odd years on: Best NEXT BEATLES

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: 30-odd years on: Best NEXT BEATLES

Since the Beatles broke up (and before, for that matter) every rock fan and more especially every A&R man has been searching for and dreaming of the "next Beatles". Many, many have been anointed, but all have fallen short. Sooooooo, who's the best of all the next Beatles. (PS: Anyone voting for the Bay City Rollers loses all their hipness points)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. The BeeGees

I don't think many groups sold more albums worldwide than them.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Half Japanese.

n/t

[NightTrain]

3. Other: There will never---NEVER--be another Beatles!

Any more than there will ever be another Beethoven, Mozart, W.C. Handy, Enrico Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Rackson, Aretha Franklin, or Elvis Presley.

Other artists might come along who sell more discs than the Beatles, but they will never be able to match the Fab Four's contributions to the pantheon of popular music. And not necessarily due to a lack of musical talent.

[Bossy Monkey]

7. I din't say there would be

I said, of those who have been anointed as the "next Beatles," which is the best? Of course there won't be a next Beatles; if there were ever going to have been one, they would have come along by now.

Now, a side bet: How long before somebody says "Other: White Stripes"?

[Deja Q]

13. Quite right!

Anybody succeeding the Beatles will either transform music in their own way, or be another talentless constructed image, parroting a bland 'modern' style that everybody else does.

[Fovea]

4. If Warner Bros

had gotten their head out of their ass, it would have been
Soul Coughing.

[VelmaD]

5. I love Soul Coughing

Unmarked Helicopters ROCKS! My favorite tinfoil hat song. :-)

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. Sorry, I HAD to vote for Klaatu.

n/t

[Democrats unite]

8. Bay City Rollers!

They were so cute!

[jpgray]

9. Well, there hasn't been a band that consistent for a long count of years

For consistently making music that is popular both for mainstream and fringe audiences, I don't think we have had something like that for many years.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. Coldplay

mwahaha :D

[Tripper11]

11. I voted for Klaatu

I used to listen to them in the 70's. At one time there was an urban legend running about that they were actually the reformed Beatles. They had quite a variety of music on their albums. To add to the mystic, there wasn't any pictues of the band, they never toured or appeared anywhere. I quite liked them and have a "best of" cd.

[CanuckAmok]

12. Other: Trail of Dead.

Blew my doors off. George Martin is envious.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. There will never be another Beatles, but I'm obliged to vote for XTC.

or the Go-Betweens

[Squeech]

15. Agreed, XTC

They were also the next Kinks, the next Move, the next Byrds, and the original Radiohead :hippie: