This is of course my personal opinion, but the Kinks were way better than the Beatles in that period, and would have been #1 if the AFM didn’t cut them off the biggest market. In my opinion, they could have been #1, but they were banned from performing in the US in 1964–1965, when Beatles reached their peak. They have produced great songs, and have been very influential. There is another band (part of the “big four”) that has influenced modern music a lot more than Beatles, and nobody is mentioning them: the Kinks. So is Nirvana the second best?Actually, there have been a lot of bands claiming (or whose fans claim) they “sound like Beatles” but if you know a little more about the 60s, that’s not true.

In the late 90s everything sounded like Nirvana, and today we forgot about grunge, but still call “alternative rock” everything that sounds like Nirvana. There are only 2 other bands who did something similar: Velvet underground and Nirvana. They redefined pop music, or maybe invented it.

Every band after them sounded like Beatles. They have been successful throughout the 80s and 90s, but became annoying after that (sill selling very well).Some would say Queen are the best, some would say Rolling stones, Pink floyd, Guns n roses… all these band can be found at #2 (some even #1) of some “Top 10/Top 100” list on the internet.But well, if the Beatles were the best band of all time, it’s because they changed everything. My personal number one would be U2, which nobody else is mentioning. And what if the Beatles weren’t the best band of all time?Defining “best” is always subjective.

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