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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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“Liveblog” of Bonnaroo 2009. Bonnaroo 09 Reviews, some Setlists, etc. Listed in order of preference, not schedule order. Continually updated.

5PM Sat update: In the middle of a no-win situation; that would be the combo of Mule>Wilco>Volta (3 of my alltime fave live bands, followed by another, The Boss). It will be impossible to see all of Mule or Wilco due to overlap. I will have to split the baby.

12:30 AM sat update - i did my best. i have seen a lot of amazing rock. it is entirely possible that this day, Sat June 13, 2009, will prove to be my best-ever single day of Rock (one must count sets that start in the early AM as part of the prior day, to be fair). The key variables will be a) my stamina. b) Nine Inch Nails, who are going on at 1am, and who were one of if not the absolute best sets of music i saw last year.

2AM Sat/Sun AM stop the presses:
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announces this is their last show ever in US at Bonnaroo

7:40PM Sun - it's current up to this point. Phish closing headline performance is the last thing on agenda. I need coffee.

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Coffee in bloodstream and halfway thru Phish there is BIG news: Bruce Springsteen is on stage performing with Phish. 3 songs so far. see details below.
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Career Began:
Cleveland 
Genre(s):
Alternative metal  Alternative rock  Electronic music  Industrial metal  Industrial music  Industrial rock 
Year (as Award Winner):
1992,1995
Award (as Award Winner):
Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance 
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Wish  Happiness in Slavery 
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2008

  


 

 

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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 mathayus on December 13, 2009 04:29 for My Artists of the 00s
I'm still digging Reznor's new stuff.

First off - let's get it out of the way - Nine Inch Nails announced from the Bonnaroo stage that this would be their last ever US show. Trent Reznor has been saying they would be taking a LONG break from touring after this tour, but this is the first he has publicly said it would be their last show in the States (they are headed to Europe on this tour next). Probably just something said after fatigure - I'm sure after a long hiatus he will rethink things, as Reznor after all is NIN for all intents and purposes. But who knows. 90 mins into the latenite set, which had already been tailored into a 1am saturday night at a festival style show, reznor annouced,after introducing the band, that this will be the last US NIN show, as per reznor "I just can't do this to myself anymore" after thanking the audience and the fans who have stuck with nine inch nails all these years" The set was already an atypical one, likely specifially crafted to be more exploratory for this particular set time. A song they wrote with Saul Williams was played, the members of Dillinger Escape Plan (playing Sun) came out for a even-thrashier-than-usual "Wish", one of the encores was the cover of Joy Division's "Dead Souls" (off The Crow soundtrack), etc. No "Closer", though they did pull off a stunning "Hurt" as the final track. The set to my eyes seemed to have some of the oddities/slower tracks that he was playing on the NINJA tour with Janes just recently, as well as a few of the ambient interludes from last years tour. It was not the tour de force of last year's Lollapalooza headline slot- the stage show wasn't as built out and the setlist wasn't packed with classes. Very cool show and glad to see something so different. We'll call it #4 for the weekend so far. ( Sunday will be a lighter day for me. Probably a good thing for my sanity and stamina.

 


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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:52 about Nine Inch Nails on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Sucked

by Rye at February 11, 2010 16:59 about Nine Inch Nails on My Artists of the 00s
Man I'm still digging With Teeth! Can't stop listening to that album! All his shit is great though!

by MMM at June 25, 2009 17:46 about Nine Inch Nails on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Yes

by Clark Benson at May 13, 2009 00:35 about Nine Inch Nails
actually, NIN have always been great live... but they are at the absolute top of their game these days.

 

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