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Originally Posted by RockawayBlind
Eh, OK. Never got The Who. Weird sound with a single-minded message. Never evolved.
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I don't understand how you could NOT "get" The Who, yet you wonder where on the list The Clash is? No Who, No Clash...simple as that. (also, there wouldn't have been The Jam or Oasis)
The Who never evolved? From "Substitute" & "I Can't Explain & "My Generation" >> "Tommy" >> "Baba O'Riley" & "Won't Get Fooled Again" >>"Squeeze Box" & "Dreaming From The Waist" >> "Who Are You?" >> "Imminence Front" & "The Wire" isn't a progression of evolution? If you don't think so, it is obvious you don't know squat about The Who.
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Originally Posted by RockawayBlind
Good list -- but only if punk had never happened. Where is The Clash? No credit to the Talkin' Heads? Ramones?
And, on a second tier, I would also throw in Violent Femmes, Replacements, and a few others.
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We might be seeing this from opposite sides of a Generation Gap. To me, The Clash & most of the punk movement was just derivative from The Who, The Kinks, The MC5, etc. Talk about your "not evolving"...in fact, from my view, (like that weird band from Indiana) the punk movement was a DE-volving. I'll admit that I was (and except for a scant few exceptions of bands that went from a "punk" beginning to taking a quick u-turn back to the corner of "Mainstream Blvd" & "Commercial St") quite dismissive of the whole punk phenomenon. The Clash, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Ramones...and their "New Wave" counterparts Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, etc., all drank the Mainstream Kool-Aid quite early in their careers...which is one reason we know who they are these days and WHY they're still relevant, but still not near being "Mt Rushmore" in stature of The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zep, The Who, Pink Floyd, U2, Clapton, Dylan, & Neil Young.