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Rock Music: Best Bands Ever - Top 15 List... and My Own Top 88 List! - Who Did I Forget? It's Amazing that there are So Many Bands Worthy of Mention!

The List from the Magazine... 
  • My List!
  • 1. Beatles
  • 2. Grateful Dead
  • 3. Pink Floyd
  • 4. Led Zeppelin
  • 5. Jefferson Airplane
  • 6. Moody Blues
  • 7. Country Joe and the Fish
  • 8. Canned Heat
  • 9. Jimi Hendrix
  • 10. The Who
  • 11. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • 12. The Rolling Stones
  • 13. Crosby Stills Nash and Young
  • 14. Willie Nelson
  • 15. Santana
  • 16. Journey
  • 17. Emerson Lake and Palmer
  • 18. Kraftwerk
  • 19. It's a Beautiful Day
  • 20. Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • 21. Bob Dylan and The Band
  • 22. Peter, Paul and Mary
  • 23. Janis Joplin
  • 24. The Mamas and the Papas
  • 25. Traffic
  • 26. Cream
  • 27. Lothar and the Hand People
  • 28. Beach Boys
  • 29. Allman Brothers
  • 30. Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • 31. Fleetwood Mac
  • 32. YES
  • 33. Steve Miller
  • 34. Tangerine Dream
  • 35. The Doors
  • 36. The Kinks
  • 37. Frank Zappa
  • 38. The Eagles
  • 39. Enya
  • 40. Johnny Winter And
  • 41. Edgar Winter
  • 42. ZZ Top
  • 43. Queen
  • 44. Chicago Transit Authority
  • 45. Youngbloods
  • 46. Procol Harem
  • 47. Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders... 
  • 48. New Riders of the Purple Sage
  • 49. Linda Ronstadt
  • 50. Michael Jackson
  • 51. Doobie Brothers
  • 52. Tower of Power
  • 53. Black Sabbath
  • 54. Rush
  • 55. Chuck Berry
  • 56. Joni Mitchell
  • 57. Van Halen
  • 58. Root Boy Slim and the New Hope for the Criminally Insane!
  • 59. Steppenwolf
  • 60. Deep Purple
  • 61. Iron Butterfly
  • 62. David Bowie
  • 63. Billy Joel
  • 64. Peter Frampton
  • 65. The Tubes
  • 66. Boston
  • 67. Bachman Turner Overdrive
  • 68. Blue Cheer
  • 69. Bee Gees
  • 70. Sly and the Family Stone
    • 71. Heart
    • 72. Simon and Garfunkle 
    • 73. Buddy Holly
    • 74. John Denver
    • 75. Biff Rose
    • 76. Smothers Brothers
    • 77. Al Yankovic
    • and the beat goes on and on and on... 
    • 78. Sonny & Cher...
    • 79. The Animals
    • 80. Jackson Browne
    • 81. David Lindley
    • 82. James Taylor 
    • 83. Carly Simon
    84. NO NUKES!
    85. Tom Petty

    a slightly different genres but... Totally Worthy!
    86. Kitaro
    87. Vangelis
    88. Spinal Tap

    and then there are some Names I Remember but I Don't Care for Them... Kiss, Jeff Beck, Metallica, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mott the Hoople, Foghat, ACDC, Aerosmith, Yardbirds, The Sons of Champlin, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Prince, Styx, REO Speedwagon, The Archies, Lou Reed, Todd Rungren, GO GOs, B-52s, Bangles, Spice Girls, John Mellancamp, U2, John McGlaughlin, Weather Report, Pat Metheney, Herbie Handcock, Billy Preston, Herman's Hermits, Talking Heads, Sopwith Camel, The Banana Splitz, J Giles Band, Leon Russel, Robin Trower...

    and then people suggested:
    Aerosmith, Metallica... 

    MP's List:
    Beatles
    Stones
    Eagles
    Who
    Pink Floyd
    Aerosmith
    Def Leppard
    Skinner
    Journey
    Queen
    ZZ Top
    REO
    Monkees
    Bee Gees
    Bon Jovi

    TD's List:
    -The Rolling Stones
    -Fleetwood Mac
    -Alica in Chains
    -Metallica
    -Aerosmith
    -Foo Fighters/Nirvana
    -The Beatles
    -Rage Against the Machine
    -Missy Elliott
    -Queen
    -Korn
    -Led Zeppelin
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    -John Cougar Mellencamp
    -Michael Jackson
    <Honorable Mention: Tool, Sevendust, Powerman 5000/Zombie, Primus, Kid Rock (the old Kid Rock before Joe C's death), Pearl Jam, Bush, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails


    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Grateful Dead Art by gvan42

    Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

    1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
    QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

    2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
    QUIZ: What's her name?

    3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
    QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

    4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
    QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

    5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
    QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

    6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
    QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

    7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
    QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

    8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
    QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

    9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
    "As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
    and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
    on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
    this side was made for you and me"
    QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

    10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
    QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
     END OF TOP TEN LIST
    ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

    answers to quiz:
    1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

    2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

    3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

    4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
    The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
    LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
    Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
    Oh...
    Done groun' it all in molazzis,
    Better git yo' overcoat ready,
    Well, it's comin' up a norther.
    Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
    Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
    Oh...
    Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
    Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
    Oh...

    5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
    6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

    7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
    The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
    ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

    8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

    9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

    "Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie


    l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

    Photo of The Grateful Dead in South San Francisco - In Front of Little Boxes Homes...
    Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
    by Bob Seidemann
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 




    Republican Corruption becomes a BIG Issue with Voters in 2018. "Throw OUT the Old White Men!" said an Anonymous Voter in California (ME)

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-trump-corruption-716001/
    Republicans Highlight Their Own Failure to Check Trump’s Corruption...
    A list compiled by the GOP exposes what horror Trump could face if the 2018 “blue wave” is real.

    President Trump’s tax returns
    Trump family businesses — and whether they comply with the Constitution’s emoluments clause, including the Chinese trademark grant to the Trump Organization
    Trump’s dealings with Russia, including the president’s preparation for his meeting with Vladimir Putin
    The payment to Stephanie Clifford — a.k.a. Stormy Daniels
    James Comey’s firing
    Trump’s firing of U.S. attorneys
    Trump’s proposed transgender ban for the military
    Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s business dealings
    White House staff’s personal email use
    Cabinet secretary travel, office expenses, and other misused perks
    Discussion of classified information at Mar-a-Lago
    Jared Kushner’s ethics law compliance
    Dismissal of members of the EPA board of scientific counselors
    The travel ban
    Family separation policy
    Hurricane response in Puerto Rico
    Election security and hacking attempts
    White House security clearances


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