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


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