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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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Skip's top 25 bands
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If you don't own all these albums head to your record store now!
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Artists I have seen.
views:  320
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Most of these I have seen multiple times.
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#2
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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#6
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
by JohnH
views:  50
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
by mollie
views:  45
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#4
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
views:  42
likes:  0
I'm not a rockaholic, but even I know these bands reign supreme.
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The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
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My favorite bands for the Ranker community list.
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Career Began:
London  Shepherd's Bush 
Genre(s):
Art rock  Hard rock  Pop rock  Power pop  Rock music 
Films (as Film Composer):
Quadrophenia  The Kids Are Alright  Tommy 
Films (as Film Actor):
The Concert for Kampuchea  Monterey Pop 
Induction Date:
1990
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 JohnH on August 03, 2010 19:58 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
Eternally seeking, rarely disappointing.

by RG Dalton on August 03, 2010 07:28 for The Best Rock Bands Of All Time
LOUD!!

  


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by Doc at May 01, 2010 09:45 about The Who on Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
One word... Genius.

 

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