Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime

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  Neil Young
  Country rock,Folk rock,Hard rock,Rock music
  
  "Actually, #1 should be Neil Young And Crazy Horse, though i am a big fan of Neil in all incarnations. except for a few of those 80s Geffen genre records."

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  Toronto,Winnipeg
  After the Gold Rush,Journey Through the Past,Time Fades Away,Harvest,Neil Young,On the Beach,2000-09-22: Red Rocks,American Stars'n'Bars,American Stars 'n Bars,Anthology (disc 3: Live USA 1986-1992),Are You Passionate?,Carnegie Hall 1970-12-05,Chrome Dreams,Chrome Dreams II,Comes a Time,Dead Man,Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 02-01-71,Everybody'
  Geffen Records,Reprise Records
  Canada
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  Led Zeppelin
  Blues-rock,Classic rock,Folk rock,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
  "i hate long plane rides, and i had just gotten back from my honeymoon, in europe a few weeks prior, so i blew off a chance to see the reunion show, figuring there was about a 70% chance of a tour. Almost every band that plays a full length reunion set in a full arena tours afterwards - if they are going to spend all the time to rehearse, put together a production, etc, why not take it on the road and milk it for some big bucks and pampered glory. Might prove to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. "

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  Birmingham,London
  Houses of the Holy,Immigrant Song / Hey Hey What Can I Do,Led Zeppelin II,Led Zeppelin III,Led Zeppelin IV,Led Zeppelin,1971-04-01: Return to Paris Theatre: London, UK,Box Set 2,Burn Like A Candle,Classic Ballads,Coda,Complete Studio Recordings,DVD The Music,Early Days and Latter Days,Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume One,Early Days:
  Atlantic Records,Swan Song Records
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  Bob Dylan
  Blues,Folk music,Folk rock,Rock music,Country
  
  "One of the greatest Americans of alltime, and certainly my favorite lyricist (tho by looking at my list you will probably see that lyrics aren't the top priority, especially after you get past the top 20 or so)"

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  Greenwich Village
  Man Gave Names to All the Animals,Modern Times,Gotta Serve Somebody,Rollin' and Tumblin',Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love),Wigwam,Another Side of Bob Dylan,Before the Flood,Biograph,Blonde on Blonde,Blood on the Tracks,Bob Dylan's American Journey: 1956-1966,Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits,Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3,
  Asylum Records,Columbia Records
  United States
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  Grateful Dead
  Acid rock,Jam band,Rock music
  
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  Haight-Ashbury,San Francisco
  Workingman's Dead,Grateful Dead,American Beauty,Live/Dead,Anthem of the Sun,Aoxomoxoa,Beyond Description (1973-1989),Birth of the Dead (disc 1),Birth of the Dead (disc 2),Built to Last,Dead Set,Dick's Picks, Volume 26,Dick's Picks, Volume 27,Dick's Picks, Volume 28,Dick's Picks, Volume 28 (disc 2),Dick's Picks, Volume 29,Dick's Picks,
  Arista Records,Grateful Dead Records,Rhino Entertainment,Warner Bros. Records
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  Pink Floyd
  Art rock,Experimental rock,Hard rock,Progressive rock,Psychedelic rock,Space rock
  
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  Cambridge,England
  Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live,Shine On (disc 2: Meddle),The Embryo,The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,Tonite Let's All Make Love in London,Pulse,1967: The First 3 Singles,1967: The First Three Singles,Animals,Another Brick in the Wall, Part II,Atom Heart Mother,A Collection of Great Dance Songs,A Momentary Lapse of Reason,A Nice Pa
  Capitol Records,Columbia Records,EMI,Harvest Records,Tower Records
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  The Rolling Stones
  Blues,Blues-rock,Hard rock,Rhythm and blues,Rock music,Country
  
  "Keef! And Mick. And the rest."

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  London
  Come On / I Want to Be Loved,England's Newest Hit Makers,I Wanna Be Your Man / Stoned,Not Fade Away / Little by Little,The Rolling Stones,12 x 5,19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By,19th Nervous Breakdown / Sad Day,Aftermath (UK),Angie / Silver Train,Another Side of Steel Wheels,A Bigger Bang,Beggars Banquet,Between the Buttons,Black and
  ABKCO Records,Decca Records,Interscope Records,Polydor Records,Rolling Stones Records,Virgin Records
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  Black Sabbath
  Heavy metal
  
  "The first, and best, true metal band. Great with Ozzy, great with Dio ( http://www.ranker.com/list/ronnie-james-dio_s-greatest-album-moments/clark-benson ). and honestly, pretty damn good with Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, and even Ray Gillen for a few live shows. Crap with Tony Martin tho... "

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  Birmingham
  Master of Reality,Paranoid,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,Sabotage,Volume 4,Black Sabbath,Blackest Sabbath,Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath,Black Sabbath: The Collection,Black Sabbath: The Dio Years,Black Sabbath, Vol. 4,Cross Purposes,Cross Purposes Live,Dehumanizer,Greatest Hits 1970-1978,Headless Cross,Heaven and Hell: Live at Rad
  Epic Records,I.R.S. Records,Reprise Records,Sanctuary Records,Vertigo Records,Warner Bros. Records
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  Radiohead
  Alternative rock,Art rock,Electronica,Electronic music,Progressive rock,Experimental rock
  
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  Abingdon
  Pablo Honey,Creep,Anyone Can Play Guitar,Pop Is Dead,Stop Whispering,Drill,2002-07-22-26: Portugal,Airbag/How Am I Driving?,Amnesiac,College EP,College Karma EP,Com Lag: 2plus2isfive,Hail to the Thief,High & Dry: Live Package,In Rainbows,I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings,Just for College EP,Kid A,Kill All: The Rarities Collection,Manic
  Capitol Records,Parlophone,XL Recordings,TBD Records
• 9
  
  Blue Öyster Cult
  Hard rock,Heavy metal,Progressive rock,Psychedelic rock
  
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  Long Island
  Agents of Fortune,On Your Feet or on Your Knees,Secret Treaties,Spectres,Tyranny and Mutation,Blue Öyster Cult,A Long Day's Night,A Long Day's Night Live,Bad Channels,Blue Oyster Cult - The Singles Collection,Career of Evil: The Metal Years,Club Ninja,Cultösaurus Erectus,Cult Classic,Curse of The Hidden Mirror,Extraterrestrial Live,Fire of
  CMC International,Columbia Records
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  Pearl Jam
  Alternative rock,Grunge music,Hard rock,Rock music
  
  "PJ are a better-sounding live band now than they have ever been. They are playing widely different sets night after night. Their studio albums have been lacking the massive hooks of their first 3, but still tend to have 2/3 or so really strong songs, songs which grow on you live and you end up digging and turning to like 3 years after the album came out. I really can't say anything negative about Pearl Jam - they were probably my favorite band from 1992-95, and have never really stumbled since. For some reason they went long stretches without playing Los Angeles, though that has finally changed. They also have the distinction of being the most-i-have-ever-spent-on-a-scalped-ticket band, by at least 5X, for the fan club only show (I am a Ten Club member, just got shut out) in Chicago a few days before they headlined Lollapalooza."

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  Seattle
  1991 Fanclub Single,1992 Fanclub Single,Ten,Alive,Even Flow,Oceans,1993 Fanclub Single,1995 Fanclub Single,1996 Fanclub Single,1997 Fanclub Single,1998 Fanclub Single,1999 Fanclub Single,2000-05-23: Estadio do Restelo, Lisbon, Portugal,2000-05-25: Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain,2000-05-26: Velodromo Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain,20
  Epic Records,J Records
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  Rush
  Hard rock,Heavy metal,Progressive rock,Rock music
  
  "The first band I just had to own every album by. Back when that meant a lot. And my first live show ('82, with the late Rory Gallagher opening). UPDATE: I had parked the mighty Rush at #16 on my list. But in 2010, with the tour where they will be playing "Moving Pictures" looming, and the fine documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, I have come to my senses and moved them to their rightful slot just shy of my Top 10. Perhaps I myself have been as guilty as the critics I used to loathe as a kid. I am looking forward to this Rush show at a level which I save these days for festivals. I am turning to the Rush catalog and bootlegs regularly when I need comfort food. So I have vaulted Rush beyond their peers in VH and Aerosmith, and even above master songwriters The Beatles (who lose points for not being a live band) and Bob Marley."

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  Toronto
  Ghost of a Chance,Moving Pictures,Permanent Waves,Retrospective II: 1981-1987,Test for Echo,Gold,2112,Anatomy of a Drum Solo,A Farewell to Kings,A Show of Hands,A Work in Progress,Caress of Steel,Counterparts,Different Stages,Different Stages Live,Exit...Stage Left,Fly by Night,Grace Under Pressure,Hemispheres,Hold Your Fire,Power Windows,R
  Anthem Records,Atlantic Records,Mercury Records
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  Bob Marley
  Reggae,Rocksteady,Ska, Roots
  
  "I don't think I had ever heard a Bob Marley song before I went to college. I probably heard more Bob Marley than any other artist in college. I have heard so much Bob Marley that I rarely find myself actively thinking "time for some Marley", but as overplayed as he might be I can't say there's a cringeworthy song in his entire repertoire. The second greatest individual songwriter of alltime."

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  Saint Ann Parish
  Natty Dread,Rastaman Vibration,Soul Rebels,Rasta Revolution,Live!,Exodus,127 King Street,1977-06-02: Rainbow Theatre, London, UK,36 Reggae Songs (disc 1),African Herbsman,Africa Unite: The Singles Collection,Archive Series, Volume 3,At the Lyceum in London,A Portrait of Bob Marley (disc 1),A Rebel's Dream,Babylon by Bus,Best of Bob Marle
  Beverley's,Island Records,Studio One,Trojan Records,Tuff Gong,Upsetter
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  Aerosmith
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
  "the first cassette i ever bought was Toys In The Attic, and the 3rd or 4th was Live! Bootleg. (we won't discuss the first vinyl album i bought) up until 1993 i had never met an Aerosmith song i didn't like. Still a full on rock-and-roll machine live, if you can handle a few power ballads in the mix. "

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  Boston
  Draw the Line,Get Your Wings,Rocks,Aerosmith,Toys in the Attic,Live Bootleg,A Little South of Sanity,Big Ones,Box of Fire,Box of Fire Bonus Disc,Classics Live!,Classics Live! Complete,Classics Live! II,Classics Live I and II,Crazy/Blindman,Devil's Got a New Disguise,Done With Mirrors,Dream On (live),Gems,Get a Grip,Greatest Ballads,Greatest
  Columbia Records,Geffen Records
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  The Clash
  Pop punk,Punk rock,Rock music,Ska punk
  
  "If I had been more of a casual fan when they were in their prime, I could easily see them in my Top 10. If I had seen them live, they might even be my #1 (I didn't start going to shows until I was about 14, and at that point they were on their last legs)."

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  Notting Hill
  Complete Control,The Clash,White Riot,Clash City Rockers,Remote Control,White Man in Hammersmith Palais,Black Market Clash,Capital Radio One,Clash on Broadway,Combat Rock,Cut the Crap,From Here to Eternity: Live,Give 'Em Enough Rope,Hitsville U.K.,Live at Bond's Casino,London Calling,Return to Brixton,Sandinista!,Sonic Book #15: The Clash S
  Columbia Records,Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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  The Beatles
  Pop music,Rock music
  
  "Though the Beatles were a big part of my childhood, as they probably are for just about anyone, i didn't grow up in the 60s, so don't have that "nothing compares to the Beatles" mentality. But the main reason such an inarguably genius and seminal band didn't make my Top 10 is that the Beatles never played live in their prime, and live music (either experienced in person or recorded) is a good half of the equation for me. "

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  Liverpool
  Introducing... The Beatles,Please Please Me,With the Beatles,I Want to Hold Your Hand,She Loves You,From Me to You,16 Superhits, Volume 1,16 Superhits, Volume 2,16 Superhits, Volume 3,16 Superhits, Volume 4,1962-1966,1962-1966 (Red Album),1962-1970,1962 Live at Star Club in Hamburg,1962 Live Recordings,1967-1970,Abbey Road,Alternate Rub
  Apple Records,Capitol Records,Polydor Records,Swan Records,United Artists Records,Vee-Jay Records,Odeon Records,Parlophone,Tollie Records
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  Van Halen
  Glam metal,Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
  "Tho the first 4 albums are the alltime classics, I am also a fan of the Van Hagar era (mainly the first 2 albums of that era). And I was pleasantly-shockingly- blown away by the reunion they did with Wolfgang on bass."

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  Pasadena
  Diver Down,Fair Warning,Van Halen II,Van Halen,Women and Children First,1984,5150,Balance,Best of Van Halen, Volume 1,Best of Volume I,Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do),For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,Jump (live),Live: Right Here, Right Now,Live: Right Here, Right Now (bonus disc),Mini Best,OU812,Van Halen III,Van Halen Live: Right Here, R
  Warner Bros. Records
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  Jimi Hendrix
  Acid rock,Blues,Hard rock,Psychedelia,Psychedelic rock,Rock music,Blues-rock
  
  "Another where if I had been of age in the 60s and had seen live, would potentially be in my Top 10. Then again, when you die young, you get penalized a bit simply by lack-of-output - though perhaps not penalized as hard as if you stayed alive but put out loads of shite after age 27 . . . "

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  Seattle
  All The Hits,Burning Desire,Digitally Remastered,Live at Berkeley: 2nd Show - 10PM,Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blues Blues,Purple Haze (disc 1),16 Greatest Classics,Astro Man,... At His Best 1,A Film About Jimi Hendrix-DeLuxe Edition - Disc 1,A Film About Jimi Hendrix-DeLuxe Edition - Disc 2,A Film About Jimi Hendrix-DeLuxe Edition - Disc 3,B
  Barclay Records,Capitol Records,MCA Records,Polydor Records,Reprise Records,Track Records
  United States
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  Phish
  Jam band,Jazz,Jazz fusion,Progressive rock,Rock music
  
  "Lyrics - terrible Songs - inconsistent (tho they have many, many excellent ones, especially if you don't really think about the lyrics) Albums - mediocre (except for Billy Breathes) Musicianship - phenomenal Live Shows - astonishingly varied yet top quality"

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  Burlington
  A Picture of Nectar,Lawn Boy,Junta,Sloth,Rift,Hoist,1997-12-07: Nutter Center, Dayton, OH, USA (disc 2),1998-08-09: Virginia Beach, VA, USA,2003-07-19: Alpine Valley,2004-06-17: KeySpan Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA (disc 1),2004-06-26: Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI, USA,2004-08-14: Coventry, VT, USA,A Live One,Billy Breathes,Colorado
  Elektra Records,JEMP Records
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  Metallica
  Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music,Speed metal,Thrash metal,Metal
  
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  Los Angeles
  Garage Days Re-Revisited,One / Eye of the Beholder,Ride the Lightning,Kill 'Em All,...and Justice for All,Harvester of Sorrow,1987-02-13: Tower of Strength: Gothenburg, Sweden,2004-03-02: Phoenix, AZ, USA,2004-03-05: Los Angeles, CA, USA,2004-03-06: Los Angeles, CA, USA,2004-03-08: San Francisco, CA, USA,2004-03-23: Edmonton, AB,
  Elektra Records,Megaforce Records,Sony Music Entertainment Japan,Vertigo Records,Warner Bros. Records
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  The Allman Brothers Band
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Instrumental rock,Jam band,Southern rock
  
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  Macon
  At Fillmore East,Eat a Peach,Idlewild South,Beginnings,The Allman Brothers Band,1992-06-12: Los Angeles, CA, USA,American University 12/13/70,A Decade of Hits 1969-1979,Best of the Allman Brothers: Hell & High Water,Best Zounds,Brothers and Sisters,Enlightened Rogues,Fillmore East, February 1970,Hittin' the Note,Instant Live: The Fox
  Arista Records,Capricorn Records,Epic Records,PolyGram,Sanctuary Records
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  Tool
  Alternative metal,Art rock,Progressive metal,Progressive rock,Rock music,Metal,Heavy metal
  
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  Los Angeles
  72826,Sober: Tales From the Darkside,Undertow,Undertow (disc 2),Opiate,Prison Sex,10,000 Days,Lateralus,Salival,Sober,Ænima,Schism,Tool,Parabola
  Volcano Records,Zoo Entertainment
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  Phil Lesh and Friends
  Folk rock,Jam band,Psychedelic rock,Rock music
  
  "my favorite live band of the last 10 years. See my entry on The Beatles - Phil and Friends have the opposite weighting. I actually prefer some periods of P&F (particularly the Warren Haynes years, which i believe hardcore fans refer to as the Phil Lesh Quintet) to some of the years i saw the Grateful Dead (obviously, I wasn't old enough to see the Dead in '69 or '72)"

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  San Francisco
  28 April 2001,2006-07-02: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA,There and Back Again,2004-12-17: Act I: Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA, USA,Mason's Children,1999-04-15: San Francisco, CA, USA (disc 4),Live at the Warfield,Love Will See You Through
  Columbia Records
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  The Who
  Art rock,Hard rock,Pop rock,Power pop,Rock music
  
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  London,Shepherd's Bush
  A Quick One,Magic Bus: The Who on Tour,The Who Sell Out,The Who Sings My Generation,I Can't Explain,My Generation
  Brunswick Records,Decca Records,MCA Records,Polydor Records,Republic Records,Track Records
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  U2
  Alternative rock,Post-punk,Rock music
  
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  Dublin
  Boy,11 O'Clock Tick Tock,I Will Follow,A Day Without Me,Three,Another Day,2000-12-05: Irving Plaza, New York, NY, USA,2001: Torino, Italy (disc 1),Achtung Baby,All That You Can't Leave Behind,Earthquake in Rome,Even Better Than the Real Thing: Remixes,Go Home: Live From Slane Castle Ireland,Go Home: Live From Slane Castle Ireland (disc
  CBS Records,Columbia Records,Interscope Records,Island Records,Mercury Records
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  Bruce Springsteen
  Folk music,Heartland rock,Rock music
  
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  New Jersey
  Born to Run,Darkness on the Edge of Town,Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.,The River,Nebraska,The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,18 Tracks,57 Channels (And Nothin' On),Accoustic Concert Live Performance,Born in the U.S.A.,Boss's Birthday Party (disc 3),Bruce Springsteen: The Best of All, Volume 2,Chimes of Freedom (live),De
  Columbia Records
  Italy,United States
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  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Rock music,Southern rock
  
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  Jacksonville
  Gimme Back My Bullets,Second Helping,Street Survivors,Gold & Platinum,(pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd),Skynyrd's First And... Last,Best of the Rest,Christmas Time Again,Collectybles,Edge of Forever,Extended Versions: The Encore Collection,Free Bird... The Very Best,Gimme Back My Bullets (disc 1),Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991,Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyv
  Atlantic Records,Capricorn Records,CMC International,MCA Records,Sanctuary Records,Universal Records
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  Wilco
  Alternative country,Alternative rock,Alt-Country,Experimental rock,Folk rock,Rock music
  
  "Wow. Wilco ahead of such giants as Queen, Maiden, The Doors, Jane's? Yes, even though I haven't been blown away by any of their studio records since A Ghost Is Born. For Wilco is a hell of a live band, and they are 100% of this time, in this moment."

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  Chicago
  A.M.,More Like the Moon EP,Summerteeth,War on War,Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,Being There,A Ghost Is Born,Down With Wilco,Kicking Television: Live in Chicago,Mermaid Avenue,Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,More Like the Moon,Outtasite (Outta Mind),Sky Blue Sky,Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest,The Wilco Book,Monday,A Shot in the Arm
  Nonesuch Records,Reprise Records
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  Queen
  Art rock,Glam rock,Hard rock,Pop music,Progressive rock,Rock music,Heavy metal
  
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  London
  A Day at the Races,A Night at the Opera,Queen II,Sheer Heart Attack,The BBC Sessions,Queen,Another One Bites the Dust (feat. Wyclef Jean),At the Beeb,A Kind of Magic,Best of Queen,Bohemian Rhapsody / These are the Days of Our Lives,Classic Queen,Final Live In Japan,Five Live,Flash / Football Fight,Greatest Hits - dts,Greatest Hits II,Greate
  Capitol Records,EMI,Hollywood Records,Parlophone,Universal Music Group,Elektra Records
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  Guns N' Roses
  Glam metal,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
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  Los Angeles
  Appetite for Destruction,G N' R Lies,Live from the Jungle (EP),Paradise City,Nightrain,Patience,Bad Obsession (disc 2),Chinese Democracy,Live at Rock In Rio (disc 1),Live at Rock in Rio (disc 2),Live Era: '87-'93,Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide,Live, Volume 4,Rockin' in Chile,Rockin' in Chile (disc 2),The Spaghetti Incident?,Use Your Illusion,Use
  Geffen Records,UZI Suicide
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  The Doors
  Acid rock,Blues-rock,Hard rock,Psychedelic rock,Rock music
  
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  Los Angeles
  Absolutely Live,Morrison Hotel,The Soft Parade,Waiting for the Sun,The Doors,Strange Days,Alive She Cried,An American Prayer,Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal,Bright Midnight: Live in America,Essential Rarities,L.A. Woman,Legacy: the Absolute Best,Live In Detroit,Live in Detroit: Cobo Hall, 05/08/1970,L.A. Woman / Waiting for
  Elektra Records,Rhino Entertainment
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  Jane's Addiction
  Alternative metal,Alternative rock,Art rock,Funk-rock,Hard rock
  
  "So many unique and amazing elements to this band . . . which is why they have a very high ranking on my list, even though just about every great song of theirs was written in a 3 year period (a couple of the songs on Ritual were written in 89-90)."

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  Los Angeles
  Kettle Whistle,Nothing's Shocking,Strays,Ritual de lo Habitual,Jane's Addiction,Been Caught Stealing,Up from the Catacombs - The Best of Jane's Addiction,Live and Rare,Classic Girl,Just Because,So What!,Up From the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction
  Capitol Records,EMI,Warner Bros. Records,Warner Music Group
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  Scorpions
  Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
  "did i really just put the Scorps above Purple, AC/DC, and even f-ing MAIDEN? i did. when you add up the peak streamlined hard rock machine era of the early 80s along with the totally different, and at times (ie the whole live Tokyo Tapes double album) perhaps even more timeless than Blackout or Magnetism, it's the Scorps by a hair. "

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  Hanover
  Fly to the Rainbow,In Trance,Taken by Force,Virgin Killer,Lonesome Crow,Tokyo Tapes,Acoustica,Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions,Best 2000,Best Masters of the 70's,Best of Scorpions,Best of Scorpions, Volume 2,Born to Touch Your Feelings,Box of Scorpions,Crazy World,Deadly Sting,Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years,Eye II Eye,Face the Hea
  Atlantic Records,EMI,Mercury Records,RCA Records,Rhino Entertainment,Warner Music Group,BMG
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  Deep Purple
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Classic rock
  
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  Hertfordshire
  Black Night / Speed King,Deep Purple in Rock,Fireball,Shades of Deep Purple,The Book of Taliesyn,Deep Purple,1990-1996,24 Carat Purple,30: Very Best Of,Abandon,Black Night - Best,Burn: 30th Anniversary Edition,Come Hell or High Water,Come Taste the Band,Concerto for Group and Orchestra (disc 1),Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple,D
  BMG,Edel Music,EMI,Polydor Records,Tetragrammaton Records,Warner Bros. Records,Aquarius Records
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  AC/DC
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
  "Trying to choose btw these guys, Scorps, Purple, Maiden is like playing favorites with one's children. Thankfully they are all still playing live with enough key members to make worth seeing. And in that regards, AC/DC still has it the best"

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  Sydney
  Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,Let There Be Rock,Powerage,T.N.T.,High Voltage,'74 Jailbreak,AC/DC in the 20th Century,Back in Black,Bad Boy Boogie (live),Ballbreaker,Blow Up Your Video,Bon Scott Rarities,Bon Scott Years,Flick of the Switch,For Those About to Rock We Salute You,Highway to Hell,If You Want Blood You've Got It,Bonfire,Live USA 2,
  Albert Productions,Atlantic Records,East West Records,Elektra Records,EMI,Epic Records,Atco Records,Columbia Records
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  Iron Maiden
  Heavy metal,New Wave of British Heavy Metal
  
  1 comment
  East London, England,Leyton
  Killers,Live!! +one,Piece of Mind,Iron Maiden,The Soundhouse Tapes,Run to the Hills,2 Minutes to Midnight / Aces High,A Real Dead One,A Real Live Dead One,A Real Live One,Beast Over Hammersmith,Best of the Beast,Best of the B'Sides,Can I Play With Madness / The Evil That Men Do,Dance of Death,Death on the Road,Eddie's Archive,Eddie's Archiv
  Capitol Records,CMC International,Columbia Records,EMI,Epic Records,Portrait Records,Harvest Records,Sanctuary Records
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  Nine Inch Nails
  Alternative metal,Alternative rock,Electronic music,Industrial metal,Industrial music,Industrial rock
  
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  Cleveland
  Broken,Fixed,Pretty Hate Machine,Down in It,Head Like a Hole,Sin,And All that Could Have Been,And All That Could Have Been (bonus disc: Still),And All That Could Have Been: Live,And All That Could Have Been: Still,Further Down the Spiral,Purest Feeling,The Downward Spiral,The Downward Spiral (disc 1),The Downward Spiral (disc 2),The Fragile
  Interscope Records,Island Records,Nothing Records,Rykodisc,TVT Records
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  UFO
  Hard rock,Heavy metal,Space rock
  
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  London
  No Heavy Petting,UFO 1,UFO 2: Flying - One Hour Space Rock,Live in Japan,Force It,Phenomenon,Ain't Misbehavin',An Introduction To UFO CD,Best Of UFO: Gold Collection,Big Apple Encounters,Castle Masters,Champions of Rock,Essential U.F.O.,Flying, The Early Years,High Stakes & Dangerous Men,Lights Out in Tokyo,Making Contact,Mechanix,No H
  Chrysalis Records,EMI,Metal Blade Records
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  Thin Lizzy
  Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
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  Dublin
  Fighting,Remembering, Part 1,Shades of a Blue Orphanage,Vagabonds of the Western World,Night Life,Thin Lizzy,Bad Reputation,Best Of: Soldier of Fortune,Black Rose: A Rock Legend,Boys Are Back in Town: Live in Australia,Continuing Saga of Ageing Orphans,Dedication: The Very Best of Thin Lizzy,Johnny the Fox,Live and Dangerous,Lizzy Killers,
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  Misfits
  Hardcore punk,Heavy metal,Horror punk,Punk rock
  
  "In my life there have been 5-10 bands that utterly floored me and caused me to reevaluate music as a whole when I first heard them. This is one of them."

  1 comment
  Lodi
  Collection I,Earth A.D.,Earth A.D. / Wolfs Blood / Evilive,Legacy of Brutality,Walk Among Us,Cough / Cool,12 Hits From Hell,3 Hits from Hell,Beware,Box Set,Box Set (disc 1),Collection II,Cuts from the Crypt,Cuts from the Crypt: 1996-2001,Die, Die My Darling,Evilive,Evilive II,Evillive II,Famous Monsters,Horror Business,Project 1950,Static
  Caroline Records,Plan 9,Roadrunner Records
• 40
  
  Genesis
  Hard rock,Pop rock,Progressive rock,Rock music,Soft rock,Symphonic rock
  
  "Deducted a few points for the Godawful 1983-onward period, though my absolute favorite Genesis material is actually with Collins fronting - Abacab and both the double lives. "

  2 comments
  Godalming
  From Genesis to Revelation,Genesis Live,Nursery Cryme,Selling England by the Pound,Trespass,Foxtrot,3 X 3,Abacab,...And Then There Were Three...,And the Word Was...,Archive 1967-1975,Archive #2 1976-1992,A Trick of the Tail,Calling All Stations,From Genesis to Revelation (Music Club version),Genesis 1976-1982,Genesis 1983-1998,Genesis Archi
  ABC Records,Atco Records,Atlantic Records,Charisma Records,Decca Records,Rhino Entertainment,Impulse! Records,Virgin Records
• 41
  
  Oasis
  Britpop,Indie rock,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  Manchester
  Collaborating # 2,(What's the Story) Morning Glory?,Only Hits,Stop Crying Your Heart Out,Familiar to Millions,Greatest Hits,Be Here Now,Definitely Maybe,Don't Believe the Truth,Heathen Chemistry,Little by Little / She Is Love,Live Demonstration,Oasis Studio Album VII,Standing on the Shoulder of Giants,Stop the Clocks,Stop the Clocks (disc 1
  Big Brother Recordings,Columbia Records,Creation Records,Epic Records,Sony BMG Music Entertainment
• 42
  
  Nirvana
  Alternative rock,Grunge music,Punk rock,Rock music
  
  "Never saw them live, a great regret. Might be higher up on this list if i had."

  1 comment
  Aberdeen
  Nevermind,Hormoaning,Blew,Bleach,Sliver,Smells Like Teen Spirit,1994-01-08: Into the Black,All Apologies / Rape Me / MV,Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind,From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah,Incesticide,Incesticide/In Utero Box Sets,Into the Black (disc 3: Paramount Theatre),Into the Black (disc 4: Reading Festival),Live at Duffy's,Live!
  Geffen Records,Sub Pop
• 43
  
  Built to Spill
  Indie rock
  
  1 comment
  Boise,Idaho
  Keep It Like a Secret,Perfect From Now On,There's Nothing Wrong With Love,The Normal Years,Ultimate Alternative Wavers,Carry the Zero,Ancient Melodies of the Future,Built to Spill Caustic Resin,Built to Spill Live,Sabonis Tracks,They Got Away/Re-Arrange,You in Reverse,Center of the Universe,Live,They Got Away / Re-Arrange,Car,In the Morning
  Warner Bros. Records
• 44
  
  Naked Raygun
  Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  Basement Screams,Free Shit! (Live in Chicago, 2 Final Shows),Jettison,Last Of The Demohicans,All Rise,Throb Throb,Raygun...Naked Raygun,Understand?
  Homestead Records,Quarterstick Records,Ruthless Records
• 45
  
  The Black Crowes
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Jam band,Southern rock
  
  1 comment
  Athens,Atlanta
  Amorica,The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion,Three Snakes and One Charm,Wiser Time, Part 1,Remedy,Shake Your Money Maker,Ain't That America,Freak 'n' Roll Into The Fog,Kicking My Heart Around,Live at the Greek,Live From Sam Houston Coliseum,Shake Your Moneymaker,She Talks to Angels,Sho' Nuff Box Set,Sho' Nuff Live,Sting Me,The Lost C
  American Recordings
• 46
  
  Rainbow
  Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
  "see: http://www.ranker.com/list/ronnie-james-dio_s-greatest-album-moments/clark-benson"

  1 comment
  England
  Difficult to Cure,Long Live Rock 'n' Roll,Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow,On Stage,Rising,Down to Earth,All Night Long: An Introduction,Bent Out of Shape,Catch the Rainbow: The Anthology,Circus Night,Classic Rainbow,Finyl Vinyl,Jealous Lover EP,Live Between the Eyes,Live in Germany,Live in Germany 1976,Live in Munich 1977,Straight Between the E
  BMG,Polydor Records
• 47
  
  Lou Reed
  Art rock,Experimental rock,Glam rock,Hard rock,Noise rock,Rock music,Protopunk
  
  1 comment
  Brooklyn
  The Wild Side,The Very Best Of,Wild Child,Walk on the Wild Side & Other Hits,Hudson River Wind Meditations,Pop Classics,American Poet,Animal Serenade,A Retrospective,Beauty And Rust,Century Sessions: Best Of,Coney Island Baby,Different Times (In the 70's),Different Times: Lou Reed in the '70s,Essential Lou Reed,Growing Up in Public,Lege
  MGM Records,RCA,Sire Records
  United States
• 48
  
  The Cure
  Alternative rock,Gothic rock,New Wave,Post-punk,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  Crawley
  Boys Don't Cry,Seventeen Seconds,Faith,Three Imaginary Boys,Killing an Arab,Primary,alt.end,... and Dreams Come True in '92 (disc 1),Bloodflowers,Close to Me (Closest mix),Close to Me (remix),Concert: The Cure Live,Disintegration,Entreat,Funeral Party Now Began: Australia, 1980 (disc 2),Galore,Galore: The Singles 1987-1997,In Between Days
  Elektra Records,Fiction Records,Geffen Records,Polydor Records,Sire Records,Fiction
• 49
  
  Paul McCartney & Wings
  
  "After i got Wings Greatest (I was 10 years old) "Junior's Farm" was probably my alltime favorite song-that-I-had-never-heard-on-the-radio. Wings on album are a frustratingly inconsistent band, but the best 20 or so Wings tracks stand up to almost any other bands best tracks IMHO, including even the Beatles. "

  1 comment
  Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition,Red Rose Speedway,Band on the Run,Junior's Farm / Sally G
• 50
  
  Sonic Youth
  Experimental rock,Indie rock,Noise rock,No Wave,Post-punk,Underground music,Alternative rock,Art rock,Avant-garde,Punk rock
  
  2 comments
  New York
  Confusion Is Sex,(Over) Kill Yr Idols,Sonic Death: Early Sonic 1981-83,Sonic Youth,Kill Yr. Idols,Death Valley '69,4 Tunna Brix,A Thousand Leaves,Bad Moon Rising,Blastic Scene,Bright (Live at the Metro Club 11.5.88),Confusion Is Sex / Kill Yr. Idols,Daydream Nation,Dirty,Dirty Boots,Dirty: Deluxe Edition,EVOL,Experimental Jet Set, Trash an
  Ecstatic Peace,Geffen Records,Interscope Records,Neutral Records,Sonic Youth Recordings,SST Records,Enigma Records,Homestead Records,Matador Records
• 51
  
  Rage Against the Machine
  Alternative metal,Alternative rock,Funk-rock,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rapcore
  
  1 comment
  Los Angeles
  Rage Against the Machine,Evil Empire,Bullet in the Head,Killing in the Name,Freedom,Bombtrack,30 Songs for a Revolution,Guerilla Radio,Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium,Renegades,The Battle of Mexico City,The Battle of Los Angeles,Vietnow,People of the Sun,Bulls on Parade,Testify,Guerrilla Radio,Sleep Now in the Fire
  Epic Records,Revelation Records
• 52
  
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  Alternative rock,Blues-rock,Post-punk,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  Melbourne
  From Her to Eternity,Kicking Against the Pricks,Your Funeral... My Trial,Tupelo,The Singer,The Firstborn Is Dead,Abattoir Blues,Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus,Abattoir Blues Tour,(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?,As I Sat Sadly by Her Side,Breathless / There She Goes, My Beautiful World,Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow,Get R
  Mute Records
• 53
  
  Spiritualized
  Alternative rock,Indie rock,Space rock
  
  1 comment
  Rugby
  Feel So Sad,Fucked Up Inside,Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space,Pure Phase,Lazer Guided Melodies,Medication,Complete Works Vol. 1,Complete Works Vol. 2,Electric Mainline,I Think I'm in Love,Out of Site,Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997,Stop Your Cryin',The Complete Works, Volume 1,The Complete Works, Volume 2,Amazing Grace,Th
  Arista Records,Dedicated
• 54
  
  R.E.M.
  Alternative rock,College rock,Jangle pop
  
  1 comment
  Athens
  Fables of the Reconstruction,Lifes Rich Pageant,Reckoning,Murmur,Dead Letter Office,Chronic Town,1988 Fanclub Single,1989 Fanclub Single,1990 Fanclub Single,1994 Fanclub Single,2003 Fanclub Single (live, 2003-09-14: Red Rocks),Accelerate,Aftermath (disc 2),All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star),Around the Sun,Automatic for the People
  Hib-Tone,I.R.S. Records,Warner Bros. Records
• 55
  Iggy & the Stooges
  
  "Ranking includes Iggy solo (The Idiot/Lust For Life were almost as good as Stooges material). "

  1 comment
  California Bleeding,Michigan Palace 10-6-73,Rough Power,Year of the Iguana,Raw Power,Open Up and Bleed!,Double Danger (disc 2),I Got a Right,Open Up and Bleed,Search and Destroy: The Detroit Studio Out-takes,Metallic K.O.,Wild Love,Penetration: The Best of the Legendary Demo & Rehearsal Recordings,Head On
• 56
  
  The Velvet Underground
  Art rock,Avant-garde,Experimental rock,Noise rock,Protopunk,Rock music,Alternative rock
  
  1 comment
  New York
  1969: Velvet Underground Live, Volume 1,Live at Max's Kansas City,The Velvet Underground and Nico,Loaded,White Light/White Heat,The Velvet Underground,1969-08-02: Hilltop Festival, Rindge, NH, USA,1969: The Velvet Underground Live,1969: Velvet Underground Live, Volume 2,Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground (feat. Nico),Another View,An Intr
  Atlantic Records,Mercury Records,MGM Records,Polydor Records,Sire Records,Verve Records
• 57
  
  Judas Priest
  Classic metal,Heavy metal
  
  1 comment
  Birmingham
  Hell Bent for Leather,Killing Machine,Rocka Rolla,Sad Wings of Destiny,Sin After Sin,Stained Class,241 Double Header,98 Live Meltdown,Angel of Retribution,Best of Judas Priest,Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight,Defenders of the Faith,Deliverin' the Goods,Jugulator,Live Meltdown,Metalogy,Metal Works '73-'93,Painkiller,Point of Entry
  CMC International,Columbia Records,Epic Records,Koch Records,RCA Records
• 58
  
  Steely Dan
  Jazz fusion,Rhythm and blues,Rock music
  
  2 comments
  Annandale-on-Hudson
  Aja,Can't Buy a Thrill,Countdown to Ecstasy,Katy Lied,Pretzel Logic,The Royal Scam,Alive in America,Art Crimes,A Decade of Steely Dan,Citizen Steely Dan,Everything Must Go,Gold, Expanded Edition,Live At The Record Plant (KMET) 03-20-74,Live in St. Louis (disc 1),Live on PBS,Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party,Remastered: The Best of Steely Dan, Then
  ABC Records,MCA Records,Reprise Records
• 59
  
  Television
  Art rock,New Wave,Post-punk,Punk rock,Rock music
  
  "about as high on the list as a band with such a short career could possibly make it. i didn't listen to this band at all until i was in my mid 20s, and Marquee Moon has been one of my goto mood records ever since. and numerous live recordings show off some absolutely sick guitar interplay, reaching out far beyond their studio work. "

  1 comment
  New York
  Live at the Old Waldorf,Marquee Moon,The Blow-Up,This Case Is Closed,Adventure,Television,Live at the Academy, 1992,Prove It
  Capitol Records,Elektra Records
• 60
  
  Eric Clapton
  Blues,Blues-rock,Hard rock,Pop rock,Rock music
  
  "I am counting Derek and the Dominoes as part of Clapton here, otherwise he'd be a bit lower"

  1 comment
  London
  461 Ocean Boulevard,Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert,There's One in Every Crowd,The Early Clapton Collection,E.C. Was Here,Eric Clapton,1992 - Live in New York,24 Nights,And Friends in Concert (disc 1),Another Ticket,Backless,Backtrackin',Back Home,Best of the Yardbird Years,Blues Power,Blues Rehearsals,Clapton Chronicles,Clapton-Page-Beck (d
  Apple Records,Atco Records,Polydor Records,Reprise Records,RSO Records,Warner Bros. Records,Deram Records
  England,United Kingdom
• 61
  
  KISS
  Glam metal,Hard rock,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  New York
  Kiss,Dressed to Kill,Rock and Roll Over,Alive!,Hotter Than Hell,Destroyer,Alive II,Alive III,Animalize,Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions,Crazy Nights,Creatures of the Night,Greatest KISS,Hot in the Shade,KISSOLOGY Volume 3,KISS Alive! 1975-2000,Kiss Gold,KISS Symphony: Alive IV,KISS Unplugged,Lick It Up,Limited Edition Australian Tour 1
  Casablanca Records,Columbia Records,Mercury Records,Sanctuary Records,Universal Music Group
• 62
  
  Cheap Trick
  Hard rock,Power pop,Rock music,Pop punk
  
  1 comment
  Rockford
  In Color,Lap of Luxury,Next Position Please,At Budokan,Greatest Hits,Busted,At Budokan: The Complete Concert,Authorized Greatest Hits,Baby Talk EP,Dream Police,Found All The Parts,Heaven Tonight,Music for Hangovers,Sex, America, Cheap Trick,Special One,Standing on the Edge,The Essential Cheap Trick,The Hits of Cheap Trick,Woke Up With a M
  Epic Records,Warner Bros. Records
• 63
  
  Tom Petty
  Heartland rock,New Wave,Punk rock,Rock music,Southern rock
  
  2 comments
  Gainesville,Los Angeles
  Full Moon Fever,Highway Companion,Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,Wildflowers,You Don't Know How It Feels,Mary Jane's Last Dance,Anthology: Through The Years,Bad Girl Boogie,Damn the Torpedoes,Hard Promises,Into the Great Wide Open,Let Me Up,Let Me Up (I've Had Enough),Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ,Long After Dark,Pack up the Plantation:
  American Recordings,MCA Records,Shelter Records,Universal/MCA Records,Warner Bros.,Warner Bros. Records
  United States
• 64
  
  The Smashing Pumpkins
  Alternative rock
  
  "Dropped them down the list quite a bit recently - I guess as punishment for Billy still using the Pumpkins name without a quality filter (though I thought Zeitgeist was decent, the singles I've heard in 2010 are underwhelming, and losing one of the greatest live drummers in 90s rock is just a bad call). Plus they were an inconsistent live band even in the peak years."

  2 comments
  Chicago
  Gish,Moon Demo,Lull,Peel Sessions,The Smashing Pumpkins,Tristessa,1979: Mixes,1991-2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection,Adore,Early 1989 Demos,Earphoria,Greatest Hits (Rotten Apples),Greatest Hits Video Collection,Judas 0,Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88,MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music,Machina/The Machines of God,Mashed Po
  Caroline Records,Constantinople Records,Reprise Records,Virgin Records
• 65
  
  Motörhead
  Hard rock,Heavy metal,Punk rock,Rock music,Speed metal
  
  1 comment
  London
  Louie Louie EP,No Class EP,Motörhead,Bomber,Overkill,1916,1916 Live...Everything Louder than Everything Else,25 & Alive: Boneshaker,'92 Tour EP,Ace of Spades EP (limited christmas edition),Another Perfect Day,Bastards,BBC Live & In-Session,Burner EP,Everything Louder Than Everyone Else,Fistful of Aces: The Best of Motorhead,Golden Y
  Bronze Records,Epic Records,GWR Records,Sanctuary Records,SPV GmbH
• 66
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revisited
  Rock music,Swamp rock
  
  1 comment
  Recollection
• 67
  
  Traffic
  Hard rock,Progressive rock,Psychedelic rock,Rock music,Folk rock,Jazz fusion
  
  1 comment
  Birmingham
  Best of Traffic,John Barleycorn Must Die,Mr. Fantasy,Welcome to the Canteen,Last Exit,Traffic,Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic,Heaven Is in Your Mind: An Introduction to Traffic,Last Great Traffic Jam,Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory,Smiling Phases,The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,Gold,When the Eagle Flies,On the Road,The Collecti
  Atco Records,Island Records,Polydor Records,United Artists Records,Virgin Records
• 68
  
  Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
  Avant-garde,Blues-rock,Experimental rock,Garage rock,Protopunk,Psychedelic rock
  
  1 comment
  The Dust Blows Forward,The Legendary A&M Sessions,The Mirror Man Sessions,The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot,Unconditionally Guaranteed,Hot Head - Introduction... Captain Beefheart (The Liberty and Virgin Recordings),Bluejeans and Moonbeams,Bluejeans & Moonbeams,Bongo Fury,Clear Spot,Doc at the Radar Station,Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-19
  Atlantic Records,A&M Records,DiscReet Records,Epic Records,Mercury Records,Reprise Records,ABC Records,Blue Thumb Records,Buddah Records,Straight Records,Virgin Records,Warner Bros. Records
  United States
• 69
  
  Ramones
  Pop punk,Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  Forest Hills, Queens,New York
  Blitzkrieg Bop,Leave Home,Road to Ruin,Rocket to Russia,Ramones,It's Alive,Acid Eaters,All the Stuff (and More), Volume 2,All the Stuff Volume 1,Animal Boy,Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go!,Best of the Chrysalis Years,Birthday Bash,End of the Century,Halfway to Sanity,It's Alive 1974-1996,Loco Live,Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits,Mast
  Chrysalis Records,Radioactive Records,Sire Records,Beggars Banquet Records,Philips Records
• 70
  
  Drive-By Truckers
  Alternative country,Cowpunk,Rock music,Southern rock
  
  "Odds are that a decent percentage of people stumbling on this list have never heard this band. If you love quality soulful straightahead rock, and need a fix of something new, go buy either The Dirty South or Decoration Day. Trust me on this one."

  1 comment
  Athens
  Alabama Ass-Whuppin',Gangstabilly,Pizza Deliverance,The Dirty South,Decoration Day,Southern Rock Opera,A Blessing and a Curse,Alabama Ass Whuppin',Brighter Than Creation's Dark
  Lost Highway Records,New West Records
• 71
  
  The Replacements
  Alternative rock,College rock,Hardcore punk,Punk rock,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  Minneapolis
  I'm in Trouble,Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash,Stink,Tim,Let It Be,Hootenanny,All for Nothing (disc 1),All for Nothing/Nothing for All,All Shook Down,Don't Tell a Soul,Nothing For All (disc 2),Pleased to Meet Me,The Shit Hits the Fans,Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements,Boink,Don't You Know Who I Think I
  Sire Records,Twin/Tone Records
• 72
  
  Fleetwood Mac
  Blues,Blues-rock,Instrumental rock,Pop music,Pop rock,Rock music,Hard rock,Soft rock
  
  1 comment
  London
  English Rose,Kiln House,Mr. Wonderful,Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,Then Play On,The Pious Bird of Good Omen,25 Years: Selections From "The Chain",25 Years: The Chain,As Long as You Follow,Bare Trees,Behind the Mask,Blues Jam in Chicago, Volume 1,Blues Jam in Chicago, Volume 2,Boston Blues,Fleetwood Mac In Chicago,Fleetwood Mac in Chicago (
  CBS Records,Columbia Records,Epic Records,Reprise Records,Sanctuary Records,Sire Records,Blue Horizon,Warner Bros. Records
• 73
  
  The Mars Volta
  Art rock,Experimental rock,Hard rock,Jazz fusion,Neo-Psychedelia,Progressive rock
  
  1 comment
  Long Beach
  De-Loused in the Comatorium,Frances the Mute,Live EP,Televators,Tremulant EP,Amputechture,Scabdates,The Bedlam in Goliath,Inertiatic ESP,The Widow,Viscera Eyes,L'Via L'Viaquez,B-Sides,Wax Simulacra
  Gold Standard Laboratories,Universal Music Group
• 74
  
  Tom Waits
  Blues,Folk music,Jazz,Rock music,Experimental music
  
  1 comment
  San Diego
  Eurovisions (disc 2),Live in Florence (1999),Missing Parts,Tales From the Underground 4,Spare Parts,Heartattack and Vine,Anthology of Tom Waits,Asylum Years,A Nickel's Worth of Dreams,Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years,Big Time,Black Rider Outtakes,Blood Money,Blue Valentine,Bone Machine,Bounced Checks,Bukowski Waits for Us, Volume 2,Clo
  ANTI-,Asylum Records,Island Records
  United States
• 75
  Joan Osborne
  Blues,Country rock,Folk music,Rock music,Country
  
  "My alltime favorite female singer. She may only have put out one truly great record, but she could sing the phonebook and I'd listen. "

  1 comment
  Blue Million Miles,Early Recordings,Righteous Love,Soul Show,Relish,One of Us,How Sweet It Is,Pretty Little Stranger,St. Teresa,Breakfast in Bed,Christmas Means Love
  Interscope Records,Mercury Records
  United States
• 76
  
  Royal Trux
  Alternative rock,Indie rock,Noise rock
  
  add comment
  Washington
  Dogs of Love (UK) EP,Twin Infinitives,Royal Trux,Thank You,Cats and Dogs,[untitled],Singles, Live, Unreleased,The Radio Video EP,Veterans of Disorder,Pound for Pound,Accelerator,Sweet Sixteen,Untitled,Hand of Glory,Radio Video,3-Song EP
  Domino Records,Drag City,P-Vine Records,Virgin Records
• 77
  
  Whitesnake
  Blues-rock,Glam metal,Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
  1 comment
  Leeds,London
  Come an' Get It,Love Hunter,Ready an' Willing,Snakebite,Trouble,Live... in the Heart of the City,Best of Whitesnake,Good to Be Bad,Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection,Live At Hammersmith,Live...In the Heart of the City,Live: In The Shadow Of The Blues,Live in the Still of the Night,Lovehunter,Slide It In,Slip of the Tongue,Starkers I
  EMI,Geffen Records,United Artists Records
• 78
  
  David Bowie
  Art rock,Avant-garde,Blue-eyed soul,Glam rock,Pop rock,Rock music,Dance music,Hard rock,New Romantic,Experimental music
  
  2 comments
  Brixton
  Glass Spider,New Killer Star,Seven,Take Off: "Heroes",Alabama Song / Space Oddity,John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (1975),1. Outside,1. Outside: Version 2,50th Birthday Concert (disc 2),Aladdin Sane: 30th Anniversary Edition (bonus disc),All Saints (Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999),Alternative Biography (disc 1),Black Tie White Noise,Bridg
  BMG,Columbia Records,Parlophone,RCA Records,Rykodisc,Virgin Records,Deram Records,EMI America Records,EMI Records,Pye Records
  England
• 79
  
  Van Morrison
  Blues,Celtic music,Folk music,Rhythm and blues,Rock music,Country,Blue-eyed soul,Jazz
  
  1 comment
  Belfast
  At the Movies: Soundtrack Hits,Live at Austin City Limits Festival,The Great Van Morrison,Blowin' Your Mind!,Still on Top: The Greatest Hits,The Best of Van Morrison, Volume 3,Astral Weeks,Avalon Sunset,A Night in San Francisco,A Period of Transition,A Sense of Wonder,Back on Top,Bang Masters,Beautiful Vision,Common One,Days Like This,Down
  Bang Records,Lost Highway Records,Polydor Records,Warner Bros. Records,EMI
• 80
  
  Dinosaur Jr
  Alternative rock,Indie rock,Noise rock
  
  1 comment
  Amherst
  Whatever's Cool With Me,You're Living All Over Me,Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me,Fossils,Bug,Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr.,Feel the Pain,Get Me EP,Green Mind,Hand It Over,Take a Run at the Sun,Where You Been,Without a Sound,Zombie Worm,Get Me,Dinosaur Jr.,Quest,Freak Scene,Just Like Heaven,In Session,Out There,Beyond,I
  Blanco y Negro Records,Fat Possum Records,Homestead Records,Merge Records,Sire Records,SST Records,Play It Again, Sam
• 81
  
  Green Day
  Alternative rock,Pop punk,Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  Berkeley
  1,039/Smoothed out Slappy Hours,39/Smooth,Kerplunk!,1,000 Hours,Slappy EP,Sweet Children,American Idiot,Boulevard of Broken Dreams,Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking,Bullet in a Bible,Cigarettes and Valentines,Dookie,Foot in Mouth,Insomniac,International Superhits!,International Supervideos!,Live Tracks EP,Nimrod.,Shenanigans,Slappy,
  Lookout! Records,Reprise Records
• 82
  
  Soundgarden
  Alternative metal,Alternative rock,Grunge music,Heavy metal,Rock music
  
  2 comments
  Seattle
  Louder Than Love,Loudest Love,Screaming Life/Fopp,Ultramega OK,Hands All Over,Room a Thousand Years Wide,A-Sides,Alive in the Superunknown,Badmotorfinger,Badmotorfinger SOMMS (disc 2),Down on the Upside,Fopp,Louder Than Live,Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas,Screaming Life,Songs from the Superunknown,Stolen Prayers,Superunknown,Blow Up the Ou
  A&M Records,SST Records,Sub Pop
• 83
  
  Ozzy Osbourne
  Hard rock,Heavy metal
  
  1 comment
  Birmingham
  I Just Want You,Live Pigs,Perry Mason,The Essential Ozzy Osbourne,See You on the Other Side,Black Rain,Bark at the Moon,Best of Ozz,Blizzard of Ozz,Diary of a Madman,Just Say Ozzy,Live and Loud,Mr Crowley Live EP,No More Tears,Ozzmosis,Ozzy Bloody Ozzy,Prince of Darkness,The Ozzman Cometh,The Ultimate Sin,Under Cover,No Rest for the Wicked,
  Columbia Records,Epic Records,Jet Records
  England,United Kingdom
• 84
  
  Pixies
  Alternative rock,Indie rock,Post-punk
  
  1 comment
  Boston
  Come on Pilgrim,Surfer Rosa,Doolittle,Here Comes Your Man,Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim,Gigantic,2004-04-23: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada,2004-06-02: Brixton Academy, London, UK,2004-06-02: Brixton Academy, London, UK (disc 2),2004-11-13: Chicago, IL, USA,2004-11-17: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, USA,2004-11-24: Tor
  4AD,Artemis Records,Elektra Records,SpinART Records
• 85
  
  Black Flag
  Hardcore punk,Heavy metal,Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  Hermosa Beach
  Damaged,Everything Went Black,My War,Six Pack,Nervous Breakdown,The First Four Years,Annihilate This Week,Annilhilate This Week,Family Man,In My Head,I Can See You,Jealous Again,Loose Nut,Minuteflag,Slip It In,The Complete 1982 Demos Plus More,The Process of Weeding Out,Wasted...Again,Who's Got the 10 1/2?,TV Party,Louie Louie,Wasted Again,
  SST Records
• 86
  
  Gov't Mule
  Blues-rock,Hard rock,Jam band,Rock music,Southern rock
  
  1 comment
  United States
  Dose,Life Before Insanity,Live at Roseland Ballroom,The Deep End, Volume 1: Hidden Treasures,Gov't Mule,Live... With a Little Help From Our Friends,2005-02-13: Fox Theater, Boulder, CO, USA,Live From Roseland Ballroom (album,Live ... With A Little Help From Our Friends,Mo' Voodoo,Mule Tracks Presents... Deep Ellum Mule,Mule Tracks Prese
  ATO Records,Evil Teen Records
• 87
  
  The Orb
  Ambient house,Ambient music,Chill out music,Dub,Intelligent dance music
  
  1 comment
  England
  A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld,Kiss EP,In Dub,A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld (remix),Little Fluffy Clouds,Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions,Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty,Bicycles & Tricycles,Cydonia,Cydonia V1.0
  Badorb.com,Big Life,Island Records,Kompakt
• 88
  
  Eagles
  Country rock,Folk rock,Hard rock,Rock music,Soft rock,Country,Country pop,Southern rock
  
  2 comments
  Los Angeles
  One of These Nights,On the Border,Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975,The Long Run,Eagles,Desperado,Eagles: Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne,Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2,Eagles Live,Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 & 2,Hell Freezes Over,Hotel California,Rock Legend,Selected Works 1972 to 1999,Their Greatest Hits,The Best of Eagles,The Eagles / D
  Asylum Records,Geffen Records,Lost Highway Records,Universal Music Group,Warner Music Group
• 89
  
  Sex Pistols
  Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  London
  Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols,Pretty Vacant,The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle,Holidays in the Sun,God Save the Queen,Anarchy in the UK,Anarchy in the USA,Back and There Again,Early Daze,Filthy Lucre Live,Flogging a Dead Horse,Jubilee: The Best Of,Kiss This,Kiss This (disc 2: Live in Trondheim: 1977-07-21),Live at Chelmsford
  A&M Records,EMI,Virgin Records,Warner Bros.
• 90
  
  Steve Earle
  Folk music,Rock music,Country
  
  1 comment
  Schertz
  Ain't Ever Satisfied,Copperhead Road,El Corazón,20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steve Earle,Transcendental Blues,Early Tracks,Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection,Angry Young Man,Essential Steve Earle,Fearless Heart,Guitar Town,I Feel Alright,Just an American Boy,Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator,Sidet
  United States
• 91
  
  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  Blues,Blues-rock
  
  1 comment
  Dallas,Austin
  Box Set 3,Live Alive,Live at Austin City Limits,Let the Good Times Roll (disc 2),Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues,Bug,Couldn't Stand the Weather,Family Style,In Step,Live At Carnegie Hall 1984,Live From Austin,Rough Edges,SRV Box Set,Texas Flood,Texas Flood (Expanded Edition),The Final Concert at Alpine,The Sky Is Crying,Tokyo '85,Touch t
  Epic Records
  United States
• 92
  
  Rory Gallagher
  Blues,Blues-rock,Classic rock,Rhythm and blues,Rock music
  
  "A criminally underrated talent in America. I threw a temper tantrum with a girlfriend when I somehow screwed up getting tickets to see Rory play on his last US tour and couldn't even scalp a pair outside the Park West - it was such a personally cringeworthy moment that I remember it to this day. Luckily, I did get a chance to see Rory play - in fact he was the first real rock band I ever saw live, opening for Rush in '82 at the Rosemont Horizon. The 5 other guys from my high school I was with were bored to death. I had never heard of him before but was pretty transfixed, though I remember the sound being very loud and pretty weak acoustically. Remember how crappy live sound was at hard rock shows in the 80s?"

  1 comment
  Deuce,The Story So Far,Rory Gallagher,Live! In Europe,Tattoo,Blueprint,A Blue Day for the Blues,Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher,Edged in Blue,Etched in Blue,Fresh Evidence,Irish Tour,Meeting With The G-Man,Meeting With the G-Man+,Wheels Within Wheels,Live in Europe,Defender,Photo-Finish,Top Priority,Stage Struck,Jinx,Calling Card,
  Chrysalis Records,Polydor Records
  Ireland
• 93
  
  Patti Smith
  Alternative rock,Protopunk,Punk rock,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  New York
  Dream of Life,Gone Again,Horses,Land (1975-2002),Peace and Noise,Gung Ho,Horses Horses,Radio Ethiopia,Trampin',Twelve,Easter,Wave,Set Free,Because the Night,The Coral Sea
  Arista Records,Columbia Records
  United States
• 94
  
  The Afghan Whigs
  Alternative rock,Grunge music,Indie rock,Rock music
  
  1 comment
  Cincinnati
  Big Top Halloween,Black Love,Gentlemen,What Jail Is Like,Congregation,Uptown Avondale,1965,Bonnie & Clyde EP,Honky's Ladder,Honky's Ladder EP,Live At The Howlin' Wolf,Somethin Hot,Turn On The Water,Up in It,What Jail Is Like EP,Going to Town,66,Debonair,Unbreakable,Retarded
  Columbia Records,Elektra Records,Sub Pop
• 95
  
  Isis
  Avant garde metal,Doom metal,Post-metal,Post-rock,Progressive metal,Sludge metal,Experimental rock,Psychedelic rock
  
  1 comment
  Boston
  Sawblade,Oceanic,Celestial,Mosquito Control,SGNL>05,The Red Sea,In the Absence of Truth,Live.01,Live.02,Live.03,Live.04,Oceanic Remixes and Reinterpretations,Oceanic Remixes / Reinterpretations,Oceanic Remixes, Volume I,Oceanic Remixes, Volume II,Oceanic Remixes, Volume III,Oceanic Remixes, Volume IV,Pig Destroyer / Isis Split,Panopt
  Hydra Head Records,Ipecac Recordings,Neurot Recordings,Robotic Empire
• 96
  
  The Pogues
  Celtic Fusion,Celtic punk,Folk punk,Folk rock,Punk rock
  
  1 comment
  Kings Cross, London
  Poguetry in Motion,Red Roses for Me,Rum, Sodomy & the Lash,The Boys From the County Hell,A Pair of Brown Eyes,Dirty Old Town,B Sides & Rarities 1,Essential Pogues,Hell's Ditch,If I Should Fall From Grace With God,If I Should Fall From the Grace of God,Live (Unlicensed),Misty Morning, Albert Bridge,Peace and Love,Pogue Mahone,The B
• 97
  
  Guided by Voices
  Indie rock,Lo-fi music
  
  1 comment
  Dayton
  Devil Between My Toes,Forever Since Breakfast,Same Place the Fly Got Smashed,Sandbox,Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia,Propeller,Alien Lanes,An Earful o'Wax,Back to the Lake,Back to the Lake (7"),Bee Thousand,Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut,Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut (Abridged),Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries),Brigh
  Matador Records,Scat Records,TVT Records
• 98
  
  Ministry
  Alternative metal,Alternative rock,Heavy metal,Industrial metal,Synthpop,Thrash metal,Industrial music,Industrial rock,New Wave
  
  1 comment
  Chicago
  I'm Falling / Cold Life,I Wanted to Tell Her,With Sympathy,Work for Love,Cold Life,Revenge,2004-10-30: Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, FL, USA,All Day / Everyday (Is Halloween),Animositisomina,Dark Side of the Spoon,Early Trax,(Everyday Is) Halloween,Filth Pig,Greatest Fits,In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up,Just Another Fix,Ministr
  13th Planet Records,Arista Records,Megaforce Records,Sanctuary Records,Sire Records,Wax Trax! Records,Warner Bros. Records
• 99
  
  The Police
  New Wave,Post-punk,Reggae,Rock music,Ska
  
  1 comment
  London
  Every Breath You Take: The Singles,Outlandos d'Amour,Reggatta de Blanc,Zenyatta Mondatta,Ghost in the Machine,Synchronicity,Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings,Roxanne '97,Roxanne '97 (Puff Daddy remix),The Very Best of Sting & The Police,Live!,Can't Stand Losing You,Their Greatest Hits,Greatest Hits,Brimstone and Treacle,The Poli
  A&M Records,Illegal Records,Polydor Records,Universal Music Group
• 100
  
  Jerry Garcia Band
  Rock music
  
  1 comment
  San Francisco
  Pure Jerry - July 29 & 30, 1977,Shining Star (disc 2),How Sweet It Is...,How Sweet It Is,Jerry Garcia Band,Don't Let Go,After Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80,Cats Under the Stars,Theatre 1839, July 29 & 30, 1977,Theatre 1839 (July 29 & 30, 1977) (Disc 1),Shining Star,Theatre 1839 (July 29 & 30, 1977)
  Arista Records,Grateful Dead Records

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