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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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My Top 100 Musical Artists
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I was inspired by, and took most of my entries from, Clark Benson's list of 500, but he didn't have enough female artists for my tastes, nor did he have them rated highly enough. He excluded Blues and Jazz (except he has some artists who could be classified as Blues or Jazz on his list), so I did, too. However, I clearly like hip hop more than he does, so I had to add more of that, too. I haven't ranked the artists, and the list is in very rough order, because I'm new at this whole thing.
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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I'm not a rockaholic, but even I know these bands reign supreme.
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Career Began:
Los Angeles 
Genre(s):
Acid rock  Blues-rock  Hard rock  Psychedelic rock  Rock music 
Albums:
Absolutely Live  Morrison Hotel  The Soft Parade  Waiting for the Sun  The Doors  Strange Days  Alive She Cried  An American Prayer  Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal  Bright Midnight: Live in America  Essential Rarities  L.A. Woman  Legacy: the Absolute Best  Live In Detroit  Live in Detroit: Cobo Hall! 05/08/1970  L.A. Woman / Waiting for                                                                                                                
Induction Date:
1993
Hall of Fame:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
Category:
Performers 

 


 

 

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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 RG Dalton on August 03, 2010 07:29 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
They have been called america's Beatles Jim Morrison's voice was hypnotizing!

  


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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:49 about The Doors on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
They rocked.

by Joanne at April 22, 2010 06:51 about The Doors
My roommate used to sing along to them all night long. While i was trying to sleep. The reason for my premature hate.

by DaveHoward at April 22, 2010 07:06 about The Doors
Man. I feel sorry for you.

 

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