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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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Career Began:
Toronto 
Genre(s):
Hard rock  Heavy metal  Progressive rock  Rock music 
Year(s):
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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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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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:41 about Rush on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Not that great.

by Mr. Mad Mike at June 25, 2009 17:44 about Rush on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Yes, Rush is one, if not the greatest, rock bands ever known to man kind

 

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