Who would you say are the "Big Three" rock bands for each decade of your life?

Question

Criteria for determining the "Big Three" are:

-How many records they sold

-How much of an influence they had on music

-How much they are still appreciated today

Update:

Mine:

1980's:

Aerosmith

Bon Jovi

U2

1990's

Nirvana

Pearl Jam

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2000's

Coldplay

Radiohead

Muse

2010's

too soon to tell

Update 2:

I was actually born in the 1970's, but not until '77 so the only music I remember from that era was from Sesame Street and Disney, lol. So I just did 80's, 90's, and 2000's.

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

Born in 1965 so a wide sampling!

60's - Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones

70's - Led Zeppelin, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac

80's - Def Leppard, Van Halen, Prince

90's - Nirvana, Collective Soul, Alice in Chains

00's - Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave

10's - Sugarland, Lady Antebellum, ??

Collective musical paradigm shift this decade so far!

Answer 2

80's

Slayer

Morbid Angel

Metallica

90's

Insane Clown Posse

Faith No More

Machine Head

00's

Bring Me The Horizon

All Time Low

Raging Speedhorn

Answer 3

Well, I started regularly listening to music since 2007, so I'm just gonna do by year since then.

Just to give band choices more variety, instead of the same by decade.

Pre 2007 - Nirvana, Van Halen, Soundgarden (stuff on the radio)

2007 - Metallica, Judas Priest, Anthrax

2008 - Tool, Alice In Chains, Pantera

2009 - Megadeth, Iron Maiden, various thrash metal bands

2010 - Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Death

2011 - Not sure yet actually

@ SADvenom Just fyi, Atheist have been death metal legends since 1989.

Answer 4

80's

GNR

Def Leppard

Aerosmith

90's

Nirvana

Alice In Chains

Metallica

00's

Godsmack

Queens of the Stone Age

White Stripes

Answer 5

90's I was born in 96 haha

so

It's Electric Wizard

The Melvins

Alice in Chains

2000

Green day

wHITE STRIPES

Queens of the Stone Age

2010

The Mars Volta

Atheist

Counterparts