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joostone · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:51 pm

Ok, you know those chats you sometimes have along the lines 'they are the modern day Rolling Stones'.

I've made a long list of classic acts and picked the more modern band that sound alike, or look alike or have made a similiar impact to music. Had some fun doing this, so join in

. There's about fifty years of rockNroll music, so the splitting point is the mid eighties.

Neil Young & crazy Horse - Pearl Jam
The Who - Artic Monkeys
Lynyrd skynyrd - Kings Of Leon
James Brown - Prince
Big Star - REM
Grand Funk Railroad - My Morning Jacket
Motorhead - Queens of the Stone Age
Hendrix Experience - Red Hot Chili Peppers (frusciante)
Stooges - Nirvana
Tim Buckley - Jeff Buckley
Nick Drake - Elliot Smith
New York Dolls - Strokes
Roxy Music - Arcade Fire
Talking Heads - Blur
Clash - Fugazi
Dire Straits - Coldplay
Booker T Mgs - The Roots
ACDC - Foo Fighters
Tom Waits - Mark Lanegan
The Band - Wilco
Patti Smith - PJ Harvey
Queen - Muse
Television - Franz Ferdinand
Captain Beefheart - Sonic Youth
Pink Floyd - Radiohead
Aerosmith - Stone Temple Pilots
Genesis (peter gabriel) - Flaming Lips
John Mayall - Jack White
Abba - Roxette
Madonna - Gaga/Spears/Rihanna
Michael Jackson - Justin Timberlake
King Crimson - Tool
David Bowie - Beck
MC5 - Mudhoney
Elton John - Rufus Wainwright
Rory Gallagher - Ben Harper
Thin Lizzy - Metallica
CSN - Fleet Foxes
Led Zeppelin - Soundgarden
Black Sabbath - Wolfmother
Cream - Rage Against the Machine
Blind Faith - Audioslave
Rolling Stones - Black Crowes

Ok, some comparisons work better than others

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SuperNintendoChalmers · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:38 pm **Posts:** 4388

Man there must be some good smoke in the Netherlands.

warehouse · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:57 pm

joostone wrote:

Tim Buckley - Jeff Buckley

man, you are way off here

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:02 pm

The who and arctic monkeys??

nah.

Gods' Die · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:06 pm

Haha...some of these actually seem to be decently good points of comparison. Some on the other hand were stretching it pretty thin.

Patrick Bateman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:09 pm

Haha Dire Straits-Coldplay is the funniest to me.

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:13 pm

And Timberlake wishes he was comparable to Michael jackson. MJ is peerless in every way.

Gods' Die · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:27 pm

I always mentally connect bands from the eras to bands of past eras...when I hear something that I think reminds me of something. I think the Crowes are a much fairer comparison to the Faces (Rod Stewart era; cutting off the Crowes in the late-90s). And Tom Waits stuff pre-mid-80s is nothing like Lanegan if that is the rough cutoff line - Waits is in his prime during Lanegan's prime...AKA EPIC FAIL!!!! (on that one point)

joostone wrote:

OBVIOUS
Neil Young & crazy Horse - Pearl Jam
Nick Drake - Elliot Smith
Patti Smith - PJ Harvey
CSN - Fleet Foxes
Led Zeppelin - Soundgarden
Pink Floyd - Radiohead

INTERESTING
The Who - Artic Monkeys
Lynyrd skynyrd - Kings Of Leon
Motorhead - Queens of the Stone Age
Stooges - Nirvana
New York Dolls - Strokes
Roxy Music - Arcade Fire
Clash - Fugazi
ACDC - Foo Fighters
The Band - Wilco
Aerosmith - Stone Temple Pilots
Genesis (peter gabriel) - Flaming Lips
John Mayall - Jack White
David Bowie - Beck
Captain Beefheart - Sonic Youth

DON'T SEE IT
Big Star - REM
Hendrix Experience - Red Hot Chili Peppers (frusciante)
Talking Heads - Blur
Television - Franz Ferdinand

mastaflatch · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:28 pm

Patrick Bateman wrote:

Haha Dire Straits-Coldplay is the funniest to me.

seriously.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:32 pm

I think 80s Metallica is the rightful comparison to Zeppelin.
Soundgarden should be Sabbath.
AIC is Thin Lizzy

Patrick Bateman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:37 pm

Owl_Farmer wrote:

I think 80s Metallica is the rightful comparison to Zeppelin.
Soundgarden should be Sabbath.
AIC is Thin Lizzy

oh hell no

warehouse · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:38 pm

i think pearl jam is more like zep than anyone listed

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:39 pm

Patrick Bateman wrote:

Owl_Farmer wrote:

I think 80s Metallica is the rightful comparison to Zeppelin.
Soundgarden should be Sabbath.
AIC is Thin Lizzy

oh hell no

I think it's at least closer than Soundgarden.

Patrick Bateman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:45 pm

Owl_Farmer wrote:

Patrick Bateman wrote:

Owl_Farmer wrote:

I think 80s Metallica is the rightful comparison to Zeppelin.
Soundgarden should be Sabbath.
AIC is Thin Lizzy

oh hell no

I think it's at least closer than Soundgarden.

I also disagree.

ejny · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:49 pm

Some of these were pretty funny.

Here's a nomination: Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Black Crowes

J's Brain · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:01 pm

Madonna - Britney Spears

mastaflatch · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:28 pm

i really don't see many things in common between Radiohead and Pink Floyd. it works superficially but that's all.

theplatypus · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:50 pm

The Supremes - Chiendent

joostone · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:18 pm

haha, I already said some comparisons work better than others...

thought of some more:

Leonard Cohan - the National
T Rex - Suede
JJ Cale - Jack Johnson
Velvet Underground - Dandy Warhols
The Doors - the Tea Party
Santana - Mars Volta
Joni Mitchell - Feist
Eric Clapton - John Mayer

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I challenge you to find worthy comparisons for: Springsteen, Dylan (not: Conor Oberst

), Beatles, Zappa, Bob Marley

theplatypus · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:19 pm

joostone wrote:

Leonard Cohan - the National

Oh my God, no

Classic acts with their modern examples

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