[Z]

Which boybands are in your opinion the best of all time? Allowing multiple choice.

[Lee.]

Take That, Backstreet Boys and Westlife... And I chose "other too for Bros

[Z]

When Will I Be Famous is such a tune

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

jls and the beatles in the same poll

only on tibb

i dont even like the beatles btw~~~

[Z]

The Beatles set the template for modern boybands - hysterical legions of fans, merchandise, touring the world, image heavy etc, it would be a disservice to NOT include them. Same with the Monkees (setting the template for manufacturing boybands) and the Jackson 5 (each member having a 'role', a focus on all of the members singing rather than the traditional band set up of having a singer, guitarist, drummer etc)

[Z]

Oops sorry East 17

[Locke.]

Blue are my favourite but Westlife are the best

[King Gizzard]

As in actual 'boybands' like pop groups..Backstreet Boys


..Then I saw Jackson 5 and the Beatles which would obviously be the top overall but yeah

[King Gizzard]

No LFO or O-town - this poll is void

[Roy Mars III]

Backstreet Boys

[MTVN]

Boyzone

[MB.]

Bay City Rollers tbh

[Marc]

TT, Westlife and Beatles/Beach Boys

[MB.]

Hot.

[Roy Mars III]

oh yeah, the Beach Boys

[Shaun]

beatles and beach boys boybands? ok then

[Z]

Originally Posted by Shaun

beatles and beach boys boybands? ok then

hi I'm Shaun and I come into everything with an attitude

Take one look at Beatlemania and the cult of personality built up around their impressive back catalogue and tell me those things aren't consistent with everything every boyband who has come after them has aspired to achieve? Yeah they weren't doing choreography but nobody was back then. Their success pioneered the concept of a boyband; same with the likes of The Monkees, Bay City Rollers, The Beach Boys, The Jackson 5 - they might not have been boy bands in the sense that we know them today but they certainly shaped how such boy bands came to be, hence their inclusion. Which I stated in a previous post.

And it's just a ****ing poll.

[Shaun]

OK thanks for the overreaction Greg, I'm just saying they're not boy bands. They're bands. The mania about them is pretty irrelevant considering it applies to solo popstars too.

[Ryan57]

The Beatles and Jackson 5 > All.

[Samuel.]

Poll's insulting to The Beatles. C'mon.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Shaun

OK thanks for the overreaction Greg, I'm just saying they're not boy bands. They're bands. The mania about them is pretty irrelevant considering it applies to solo popstars too.

No, I'm sick of you coming into threads and shooting stuff down just because you don't agree with it. Yeah they're bands but so are McFly and Busted and they follow the exact same marketing strategy as boy bands. Radiohead for example wouldn't be considered a boy band because there's no hype around the band as individuals, it's solely about their abilities as a band. The mania isn't irrelevant because it's exactly what inspired boy bands over the last 50 years. Legions of screaming girls and women. They put out films, merchandise and girls wanted to be with them, guys wanted to be them.

[Shaun]

meh, to me a boyband and a girlband are a group of singers put together. The Temptations, Four Seasons etc. would be better fits.

[Josy]

NKOTB and 3T

Oh and if we are just talking about basically bands with all males then The Beastie Boys too

[Ryan57]

One Direction ahead of The Jackson 5?

[Jordan.]

Youtube video

The greatest boyband song of all time