Supergroup rankings

[AKKOLADE]

1) Traveling Willburys
2) Foo Fighters
3) Million Dollar Quartet (thought experiment form)
4) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
6) The Plastic Ono Band
7) Cream
8) Broken Social Scene
9) Bad Company
10) Temple of the Dog
11) Derek and the Dominos
12) Audioslave
13) The Dead Weather
...
874) Being hit by a car
875) Zwan
876) Asia

[Helmuth von Moltke]

The Power Station and Monsters of Folk should both be top 15.

(And if fictional supergroups can be counted, Echo Echo featuring James Mercer, Colin Meloy and Corin Tucker should also be included)

[Habitat_Against_Humanity]

Mostly correct, but The Highwaymen and maybe just maybe Bad Company warrant some mention.

[heterodyne]

Although they don't call themselves a supergroup, I would definitely classify the Raconteurs as one, and a very good one at that.

[Stained Diviner]

My first music purchase was cassettes by Asia and The Go-Gos. Please show more respect for my childhood.

[Sniper, No Sniping!]

Mostly correct, but The Highwaymen and maybe just maybe Bad Company warrant some mention.

QFT

[gyre and gimble]

(And if fictional supergroups can be counted, Echo Echo featuring James Mercer, Colin Meloy and Corin Tucker should also be included)

For all we know they might sound worse than Sparklepony.

[Steeve Ho You Fat]

I wouldn't really call the Foo Fighters a supergroup - they certainly don't behave too much like one. Also how did you underrate CSNY this much, Deja Vu is one of the best albums of all time. Of all time!

[Helmuth von Moltke]

(And if fictional supergroups can be counted, Echo Echo featuring James Mercer, Colin Meloy and Corin Tucker should also be included)

For all we know they might sound worse than Sparklepony.

Sparklepony is undoubtedly one of the best musical acts to appear on Portlandia, with Aimee Mann a bit behind.

(edit: Forgot how great the Eddie Vedder sketch was)

[ryanrosenberg]

I wouldn't really call the Foo Fighters a supergroup - they certainly don't behave too much like one. Also how did you underrate CSNY this much, Deja Vu is one of the best albums of all time. Of all time!

Yeah, I've never heard them referred to as a supergroup. CSNY and Derek and the Dominoes are getting majorly shafted here.

[Auks Ran Ova]

I unironically enjoy "Honestly" by Zwan

[AKKOLADE]

My first music purchase was cassettes by Asia and The Go-Gos. Please show more respect for my childhood.

I unironically enjoy "Honestly" by Zwan

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Mostly correct, but The Highwaymen and maybe just maybe Bad Company warrant some mention.

learn to read moran

[vinteuil]

Derek and the Dominoes [is] getting majorly shafted here.

Them and audioslave

[Auks Ran Ova]

To make it up to you, here's the best (use of a) Broken Social Scene song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG-I2pLRSM

[Rococo A Go Go]

The Highwaymen are pretty underrated, and I'd probably put The Postal Service somewhere up there too.

[Harpie's Feather Duster]

No love for Them Crooked Vultures?

[Helmuth von Moltke]

The Highwaymen are pretty underrated, and I'd probably put The Postal Service somewhere up there too.

A million times, this.

[Auks Ran Ova]

I'd probably put The Postal Service somewhere up there too.

877) Being hit by two cars
878) The Postal Service

[Helmuth von Moltke]

877) Being hit by two cars
878) The Postal Service

Serf status confirmed.

Give Up was one of the best albums of the early 2000's along with Kid A, Sea Change and By The Way.


(edit: Own serf status confirmed, forgetting a bracket)

[Helmuth von Moltke]

Speaking of Kid A, (the overlap of Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich) no love for Atoms for Peace?

[AKKOLADE]

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

[heterodyne]

877) Being hit by two cars
878) The Postal Service

Serf status confirmed.

Give Up was one of the best albums of the early 2000's along with Kid A, Sea Change and By The Way.


(edit: Own serf status confirmed, forgetting a bracket)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot

[Bartleby]

No love for Them Crooked Vultures?

We wouldn't want to include an actual supergroup featuring Dave Grohl on the list!

[Wynaut]

*cough* Emerson, Lake, and Palmer *coughcough*

[AKKOLADE]

No love for Them Crooked Vultures?

We wouldn't want to include an actual supergroup featuring Dave Grohl on the list!

well respected music journal wikipedia lists foo fighters as a supergroup, also the foo fighters own

[Rococo A Go Go]

I'd probably put The Postal Service somewhere up there too.

877) Being hit by two cars
878) The Postal Service

your are wrong

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

It's better than anything Foo Fighters have ever released!

[Bartleby]

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

It's better than anything Foo Fighters have ever released!

that is not true. the foo fighters are great. they aren't a supergroup. but they are great.

[Auks Ran Ova]

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

It's better than anything Foo Fighters have ever released!

your are wrong

[AKKOLADE]

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

It's better than anything Foo Fighters have ever released!

an actual stupid person, mommy!

don't get too close, he might bite you and it'll be contagious.

[Rococo A Go Go]

Foo Fighters aren't even the second best band that Dave Grohl has been in.

[Wynaut]

Did you just cite a RHCP album as one of the best of the early 2000s?

It's better than anything Foo Fighters have ever released!

that is not true. the foo fighters are great. they aren't a supergroup. but they are great.

Sunny Day Real Estate was an actual band, and I guess you could count Pat Smear (Germs).

Also, Journey (Santana + that one band named after Jabberwocky), as overplayed as they are, deserves some recognition.

[The Time Keeper]

There are some very weird definitions of supergroups here. Any band that comes together featuring people who happened to be in other bands before does not automatically constitute a supergroup, does it? Not to mention one-off collaborations between two people (the Postal Service as a supergroup makes no sense at all, no matter what you think of the actual material).

*cough* Emerson, Lake, and Palmer *coughcough*

I don't know if you can call this a "supergroup" when it was Greg Lake joining up with two people who weren't independently famous of each other after he had left/been forced out of a far, far, superior band in the original King Crimson lineup.

[Rococo A Go Go]

Not to mention one-off collaborations between two people (the Postal Service as a supergroup makes no sense at all, no matter what you think of the actual material).

The Postal Service also includes Jenny Lewis and all three of the band's members were well known musicians before they recorded together. More importantly, Wikipedia calls them a supergroup, and the only thing more infallible than Wikipedia are the musical opinions of Rob Carson and Fred Morlan.

[Helmuth von Moltke]

Foo Fighters aren't even the second best band that Dave Grohl has been in.

Tenacious D #1

[Auroni]

The Postal Service is Bad and The Foo Fighters are Good.

[Pushkin's Beard]

Postal Service is wonderful and many people, as well as websites such as Wikipedia and Spotify, call Postal Service a supergroup.

[Nine-Tenths Ideas]

What about The Stereo? It has the guy from Animal Chin and the guy from The Impossibles!

[quizbowllee]

Chickenfoot.