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Old 16-04-2012, 15:06
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So I reckon in order to be great pop group. you ought to be able to name all the members

so I can only do these I think

Queen
Beatles
Stones
Who
Slade


who have I missed out.
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:11
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:11
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:12
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:13
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:14
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:15
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Jeez - that's a blast from the past. They write songs for Snoop Dogg now.
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:16
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The Animals
Mungo Jerry
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:17
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Jeez - that's a blast from the past. They write songs for Snoop Dogg now.
I hated them, I was a James fan and thought they were ripping off their name
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:17
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:18
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:18
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So I reckon in order to be great pop group. you ought to be able to name all the members

so I can only do these I think

Queen
Beatles
Stones
Who
Slade


who have I missed out.
I don't. In order to be considered a great group you must produce great music and be loved long after you stop creating great music. Whether or not fans can name all band members is irrelevant.

Incidentally, I would still include the bands you have named in the great group category
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:19
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So I reckon in order to be great pop group. you ought to be able to name all the members

so I can only do these I think

Queen
Beatles
Stones
Who
Slade


who have I missed out.
Purely on your criteria, I can add in

Take That
The Corrs
Van Halen

I could also add Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Wonderstuff, but don't think they'd count.
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:20
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The Animals
Mungo Jerry
Really. just Ray Dorsett, and I'm done on Mungo Jerry.

I wouldn't have got all the Animals. Eric Burden, and Alan Price
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:20
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Purely on your criteria, I can add in

Take That
The Corrs

Van Halen

I could also add Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Wonderstuff, but don't think they'd count.
If ever there were a point disproving the OP's point...........
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:20
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:25
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:26
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I don't. In order to be considered a great group you must produce great music and be loved long after you stop creating great music. Whether or not fans can name all band members is irrelevant.

Incidentally, I would still include the bands you have named in the great group category
i really meant there a lot of well known groups that I woudn't know every member instantly - like Duran Duran and Quo, etc etc.

Obviously I am no youngster, and I would have no chance with modern groups like Killers, Stereophonics, Radiohead and the like.(They probably are not modern any more, are they?)
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:28
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:30
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:30
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I don't. In order to be considered a great group you must produce great music and be loved long after you stop creating great music. Whether or not fans can name all band members is irrelevant.

Incidentally, I would still include the bands you have named in the great group category

I totally agree
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:31
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Greatest in what sense? Record sales?

For me there are two requirements:
Record sales (because it is popular music after all and for better or for worse that's what it's about).
Talent (because it does matter).

For me to consider a group or artist to be great they have to have sold a lot of records. Truly great groups continue selling after they have split up. They also have to be more than just a stage act. They should write their own material and if they produce it even better.

So on that basis I'd like to add:

Abba.
The BeeGees.
Neil Diamond.

But I'd like to add that I don't claim to just listen to great artists. Far from it. So I'll state that my definition of 'bad' music is music that hardly anyone ever buys. Everything else is good music.
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:31
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Queen
Beatles
Stones
Who
Slade

not pop, but at least you got good taste. For me i'd go for

Jefferson Airplane
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Opeth
Between the Buried and Me
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:31
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Old 16-04-2012, 15:35
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