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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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Rolling Stone: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
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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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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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Career Began:
Los Angeles 
Genre(s):
Country rock  Folk rock  Jangle pop  Psychedelic rock  Rock music 
Labels:
Columbia Records 
Induction Date:
1991
Hall of Fame:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
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by Ranker Community on September 09, 2010 02:30 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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by JohnH on August 03, 2010 20:00 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
Not the first, maybe not even the best, but likely the most important exponent of country music in rock.

  


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