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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The best rock bands of all time, as voted on by music fans on Ranker. Click 'contribute' to add your input to this list of the greatest rock and roll groups ever. The list updates automatically every time new votes are added, making this a statistically-accurate representation of the community's collective rankings of the top rock bands in history. Add your picks to the list, vote for your favorite bands and rock on.
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These are famous people the Ranker community most wants to meet. Anyone can contribute to this list by clicking 'contribute'. The list updates automatically every time new contributions are added, which makes this a real-time reflection of the community's collective opinions. From scientists to celebrities, these are the famous folks Ranker users want to meet face to face. Add your most coveted meetings, and see how your picks stack up against the community.
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Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
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Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 best musical artists of all time. For the full article go to: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty
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Top 5 Worst Attempted Comebacks of 2009
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likes:  2
To have a comeback in 2009, you have to have been forgotten for a while and then all of a sudden pop back up out of nowhere this year. These people tried to do this in 2009, but failed miserably. Remember the last time you enjoyed/saw them? Yeah, neither do I, but I know it was sometime in 2009.
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Musicians I Have Always Had To Defend My Love For
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They are commonly called guilty pleasures, but guilt is never a good reason to do or feel anything. Still, when I'm sitting with my art critic and film aficionado friends, and we're talking about how wonderful Stockhausen or Tom Waits or Can were, I inevitably and accidentally let slip that I might love some of these bands. Then I am taunted and the waiter refuses my appeals for more escargot. At which point I flip them the bird, storm out and drive off in my mudflapped truck. Here they are. And I defend them all. Commentary in the "Discuss" balloons.
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You'll learn lots more about career paths at Careers Out There dot com than you could ever learn from pop songs! That's because we present video interviews with real professionals who discuss the realities of their career paths to help you find the right career fit. BUT you can also learn a little something about the different careers out there by listening to pop music! Check it out:
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People that I would wanna meet at some point in my life. I'll keep my fingers crossed, but definitely not holding my breath....
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On the Cover of the Rolling Stone, it may be a pipe dream from a song for many, but the celebrities on this list made the dream of being on Rolling Stone's cover a reality. Rolling Stone cover subjects are often the most famous celebrities and people of their era. President, actors, musicians, and even cartoon character have found a home as the subjects of a cover story in Rolling Stone magazine.
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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People i'd love to meet
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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This is the list of world's best rock bands of all time which will be remembered for ever and ever......
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A list of women in Playboy magazine during 1960-1969: This is a catalog of women and men who appeared in Playboy magazine during the '60s. This is an ultimate collection of all Playboy Playmates and sexy sirens, and of all people associated with the face of Playboy. Find all Playboy centerfolds, playmates of the month, Playboy cover girls and all other hot interview subjects. If you are looking for a beautiful face or a curvaceous body, this list of all people from Playboy is what you need. Many celebrities, singers, actresses & models have posed for Playboy magazine over the years. Note that not all of these Playboy people on this list have appeared nude for the magazine.
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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Best rock band of all time. I arranged them in my order of favorite list.
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I'm not a rockaholic, but even I know these bands reign supreme.
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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rock band by kerala newly arranged but very rare main master piece is 'kuzhaloothu''
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Motorpsycho Nightmare  Desolation Row  Black Crow Blues  All Along the Watchtower  Wagon Wheel  City of Gold  The Times They Are a-Changin'  Song to Woody  To Ramona  Talking New York  It Ain't Me Babe  Tangled Up in Blue  My Back Pages  Chimes of Freedom  Spanish Harlem Incident 
Lyrics:
Mr. Tambourine Man  Desolation Row  Knockin' on Heaven's Door  Tangled Up in Blue  Talkin' New York  Spanish Harlem Incident  Song To Woody  Motorpsycho Nightmare  City of Gold  It's Alright! Ma  Talking New York  Highway 61 Revisited  The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest  To Ramona  Don't Think Twice! It's All Right   
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Greenwich Village 
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Blues  Folk music  Folk rock  Rock music  Country 
Albums:
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                                                                                                                                                                     
Birthdate:
1941-05-24
Birthplace:
Duluth 
Nationality:
United States 
Religion:
Christianity  Judaism 
Gender:
Male 
Height:
1.71
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Author  Disc jockey  Poet  Singer  Songwriter  Writer 
Films (as Film Director):
Renaldo and Clara 
Films (as Film Composer):
Dont Look Back  I'm Not There  No Direction Home 
Films (as Film Screenwriter):
Masked and Anonymous  Renaldo and Clara 
Year:
2000,1997,1972,2008,2006,1998,1973
Induction Date:
1988
Hall of Fame:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
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Performers 
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May 24 1941
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by Ranker Community on August 26, 2010 03:31 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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by JohnH on August 03, 2010 19:46 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
Rock's all-time greatest wordsmith

by notomato on July 27, 2010 05:29 for People i'd love to meet
the names enough!

Singer-songwriter

by Luber on May 09, 2010 19:01 for 20 Songs About Careers Out There
"Mr. Tambourine Man" = Musician careers

by theothermother on November 16, 2009 22:37 for Top 5 Worst Attempted Comebacks of 2009
Okay, we all know he is a legend in his 'raw-country love songs' style, but when is it enough? His live performances have always had that almost scat-like charm, but when that starts bleeding over into the recorded career, it is not good. It was like listening to a special kid trying to tell you a joke, but he kept getting side tracked and forgetting what he was talking about. First he couldn't sing and people got used to him basically talking...now he can barely talk. I think it's been enough. Enough Bob Dylan? Sad!

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)

This has come up in my life against recently. Believe it or not, there are still people out there -- some whom I love and cherish -- who still think Dylan sucked when he opened his mouth to sing. This makes me terribly angry. I experience tumultuous, internal violence at these opinions. I'm starting to get them now. All I can do is point them to "Don't Look Back," which I think all of them will find funny, and just hope for the best.

  


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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:29 about Bob Dylan on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Dylan mumbles his tunes. Good writer, awful singer.

by kpb456 at November 19, 2009 16:23 about Bob Dylan on Top 5 Worst Attempted Comebacks of 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZ8LPIh4Xc this video is a perfect example of what you said. no need to explain more.

 

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