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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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The very first groups I listened to when I was a kid
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I grew up in the Midwest. My first exposure to rock was from a jukebox at a dingy arcade while I played Wizard of Wor. I hope that explains things.


 

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Career Began:
Hanover 
Genre(s):
Hard rock  Heavy metal 
Albums:
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                                                                                                         

 


 

 

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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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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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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:50 about Scorpions on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
OK, but overrated here.

 

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