Who are the coolest bands of all time? Its a tough call and one that greatly depends on your point of view with regards to the word cool!

Narrowing down this list to just 5 acts was incredibly hard. Many many acts were considered and many many hours were spent deliberating, just who has what Bruce Forsyth calls ‘It’!

Finally after a heavy session the list was complete, and lo it came to pass that the Frackin Cool shortlist of coolest bands of all time is…

• The Velvet Underground
• The Ramones
• Joy Division
• Massive Attack
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The problem we had were most bands have had moments of being both cool and uncool. Memories of the early Rolling Stones for example are now forever tarnished with the vision of stadium-filling wrinklies, which whilst great fun definitely isn’t cool. The early Beatles were a bit girly. Early Oasis soon became annoying Oasis. Blur, Country House will be on their tomb stone. The Sex Pistols were followers not setters. U2, too preachy. The Stone Roses, just too darn obvious.

So who do you rate as the coolest? Cast your vote in the poll on the left and if you feel we’ve missed anyone out let us know by adding your comments below. Oh no! We forgot about The White Stripes, Nirvana, shi…