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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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Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
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Top 500 Rock Bands isn't 100% accurate as this includes solo artists, and though it does not include jazz or blues it does include soul, R&B, Americana, reggae, and classic country (yes, that is somewhat arbitrary, but for whatever reason i listen to blues and jazz differently than the rest, and would be too hard to compare Miles or Ornette or Hooker to, say, Aerosmith). Criteria for my greatest bands of all time list is a combination of recorded albums, live shows I've seen, live recordings I've heard, radio songs, and even overall image/album covers/general coolness or uniqueness. I guess that was a way of trying to explain that the ranking is just a gut feeling. But it's probably about 50% based on "live chops", hence the lower ranking of the Beatles, who quit playing live before the most creative parts of their career. I am very into live shows and live recordings. Obviously, this list will change over time. I'm adding commentary to items whenever i get a spare minute or something interesting comes to mind about a band, probably 10-20 entries a month.
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18 Reasons Why 'Exile On Main Street' Deserves Its Rep
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"Exile" is one of those rare records where every year or two a different song on it will become a special talisman to be played when I really need a fix of something deep. This list explains why this 18-song masterpiece deserves every bit of praise it gets.
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Austin City Limits 2010: Lineup of Bands on ACL 2010
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The announced Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010 lineup. The 2010 ACL artists roster includes bands, comedians, and solo artists. The complete list of bands playing Austin City Limits 2010 in Austin, Texas is here for your use. This list of ACL bands for 2010 can be copied to start your own list on Ranker.
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Bonnaroo 09 liveblog
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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.

10:10 PM Sun.
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.
2009 Bonnaroo Lineup: Bands that Played Bonnaroo 2009
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Bonnaroo lineup of 2009 brought a slate of Phish, Springsteen, more Phish, numerous others and some great comedians. The lineup for Bonnaroo 2009 was a killer and hit the floors from June 11th-14th in Tennessee. Bonnaroo's green efforts started in the 2009 Bonnaroo event. Aside from thunderstorms on Thursday that brought mud on Friday, and sometimes oppressive heat, the event came off well. On June 14th, 2009 Bonnaroo fest ended drawing the curtain on what its producers feel was their most successful event ever on many levels.


 

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Career Began:
Burlington 
Genre(s):
Jam band  Jazz  Jazz fusion  Progressive rock  Rock music 
Albums:
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                                                                                                                                                                 
Films (as Film Composer):
Phish: Live in Brooklyn  Phish Walnut Creek DVD 
Films (as Film Screenwriter):
Phish: Live in Brooklyn 
Works:
The Phish Book 

 


 

 

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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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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

Many rock fans have a negative opinion of Phish, founded on some or all of: -hearing a mediocre studio song -their goofy lyrics -their sometimes deodorant-challenged "Phans" -the very name "Phish" -a loathing of hippies in general I understand all these prejudices, and can't say there isn't an element of truth there. But Phish are MONSTER players, pound-for-pound as talented as any band alive. Give the attached "Loving Cup" just 90 seconds or so, ye haters. . . And they also know and respect their rock history. Long before the concept became widespread, when Phish played a Halloween show they would don a "costume" and cover a classic album - often a double. Prior costumes: -The White Album -Quadrophenia -Remain In Light -Loaded August company indeed. In 2009 the costume was "Exile On Main Street", and I was fortunate enough to see it live. Justice was more than done: http://www.ranker.com/list/phish-festival-8-set-by-set-review/clark-benson

Head over to main stage. Find decent spot and park ass on ground. Start to tire as 11pm start time passes. Lights go out. Chords to 'chalkdust torture' commence. Limbs start flying or at least noodling. Sudden slap as beach ball makes contact with face. Phish have arrived. Overall, a STUNNINGLY great set. As good as 1998-era Phish. Everyone sounded in fine form. Killer setlist as well which can be one of my major peeves with Phish as i loathe about 20% of their material. As an added bonus, they didn't take a set break instead playing a solid 3hrs all thru, which was very thoughtful for my 41 year old body that can't rebound like it used to after sipping vodka + for 10 hours...

  


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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:44 about Phish on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
They're a bunch of tone deaf donkeys.

 

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