Tapestry only sold about 100 million copies and stayed in the top 100 for something like 20 years as the top selling record of all time. It is not perfect, as you acknowledged right off when comments began. "I Love Rock 'N Roll" (1981) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Tommy 92 ???? I only like two songs from it. Van Halen? Kraftwerk Autobahn created electronic music and the next two decades after it in terms of music technology and electronic music phrasing. It is has gotten a lot of support. hide this ad PLAY QUIZ Score 0/100 Timer 12:00 Recently Published Famous Men on Book Covers Literature 2.5m No Yes? This list includes no single artists, its just pure rock and roll bands. Electric Warrior by T.Rex should be in there. John Cougar: American Fool. Were you even born yet? Check out our picks for the Top 6 best rock . Using a number of different metrics, 24/7 Wall St. has identified the 100 most popular rock bands of all time. Nobody has done more to cultivate, and then break down, his legend more than Bob Dylan. Turn The Pager, one of the top rock anthems ever. Genesis Selling england . Revolver, who da thought? And no YES..NO sorry, tis list is not a list but a shambling mess. The order of artists on the list also illustrates that there is more to being a popular rock band than simply musical ability. Really late now!!! second: David Bowie was an incredible Chameleon and formed since the 70s every year a new Rock Rhythm Blues Glam Character/Style he was everything in once While there are many great rock performers who are better known as solo artists such as Prince, David Bowie, and Elvis Presley 24/7 Wall St. looked only at bands for this article. There is no 100 Greatest List of anything in music. They already had a flair for hauntingly lovely tunes (see the acoustic Perfect Circle) and Radio Free Europe became a rallying call for the 80s musical underground. Boston should have been on there, as their debut album was the highest selling until Appetite for Destruction came along. Saved charts. Creedence Clearwater Revival :Cosmos Factory Radioheads triumph here was to revive the multi-layered concept album, one that demanded you put on headphones, ponder all the musical surprises, and absorb its take on modern alienation. YES, Relayer? R and R. Good list,,,,I would of put Supertramp,,,,Crime of the century. A sin of omission indeed! Because it should be. you need to listen lots of music first to make a chart as this poor one, sorry! I have one great but forgotten band name for Brits and Yanks to re-discover: Buffalo Springfield. I agree with 20 % of the list. Yessongs? BRAVO!! Greatest of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists. Brain Capers would have been an inspired choice. Reading the angry replies was very enlightening! Both Guns NRoses and Appetite for Destruction revitalized heavy rock, making it dangerous and fun again and made instant icons out of Slash and Axl Rose. No ELP? How about the longest running chart Album of all time -BAT OUT OF HELL by Meatloaf, The Eagles. I think if I were to make a list of the best lists of top rock albums, this one just might be #1. If you werent there then you dont know how each and every Album on your list impacted those who were there. Learn how your comment data is processed. To determine the most popular rock bands of all time, 24/7 Tempo generated an index based on the popularity of a band on streaming . No Sgt Pepper? Pearl Jam. Why the fuck Van Halen have 2 albums? And then there isnt much logic having the Betales at #1, #2 and #4, but nowhere else. Peppers, Revolver, Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, The White Album, Let It Be, Help!, A Hard Days Night, Magical Mistey Tour, Beatles For Sale. id forget billion dollar babies, all things must pass, genesis, band on the run etc. Mine of course are: Easter Everywhere by the 13th Floor Elevators, #1 Record Big Star, Crown of Creation-Ride, The Tindersticks debut, Songs from Northern Britain Teenage Fanclub, Moon Safari-Air, The Boy with the Arab Strap Belle & Sebastian, Between 10th & 11th-The Charlatans, Teenage Head-The Flamin Groovies, Forever Breathes the Lonely Word Felt, 16 Lovers Lane The Go Betweens, Cold Water Flat Revolver, The Magical World of The Strands-Michael Head, Psychocandy-JAMC, Prehistoric Sounds-The Saints, No Other-Gene Clark, Foxbase Alpha-Saint Ettienne, The Gilded Palace of Sin-The Flying Burrito Brothers, I am the Cosmos-Chris Bell, John Barleycorn Must Die-Traffic, Meat Puppets II, Nine Types of Light-TVOTR, The Bends-Radiohead, The Pretenders debut, Rattlesnakes-Lloyd Cole, Road to Rouen-Supergrass, Spirit debut, Technique-New Order, Turtle Soup-The Turtles, Waterpistol -Shack, White Light White Heat-The Velvet Underground. PEASE SELL , RUST IN PEACE. I was hoping to see Linkin Parks Hybrid Theory on the list. But, This List is not a realistic list, the others told why this list is so far from Greatests in overall. Go Orange. Groundbreaking as Bowie, the Clash, Springsteen and Nirvana were, there are few Rock bands that have not in some way, directly or indirectly, been influenced by that album. Good list but I really think Def Leppard Pyromania should be at least top 50. The idea that daft punk, arcade fire, arctic monkeys, and plenty of other modern hipster nonsense is on here is pretty sad. no TOOL ? Why? I give two thumbs down to this entire list and to your so-called intentions. Totally disagree! Funeral hit like a blast of pure emotion, with the urgency of Win Butlers lead vocals as the immediate grabber, but further listens revealed how much was going on instrumentally. Then it is simple. So what you are saying is that Led Zeppelin, the greatest rock band ever, had only one great album.Take a flying leapWho is #9 Brice Springsteen???? A casual view of the song list on that album reveals how trite some of these other choices are. ABB at #39! It certainly marks a breaking point as many of the original British Invasion bands couldnt keep up with the changes implemented by the Beatles, and summarily became nostalgia lounge acts. Would love to hear from the editors about how that conversation unfolded. not in top 10 and then one of the other bands I mentioned should be , Priest needs to be on the list.. also NO DETROIT BANDS? While there will always be loyalists to each singer, it was probably the difference between both singers that inspired Eddie Van Halen to write such different music for the different time periods that Van Halen thrived with their different singers. Harry Nilssons Nilsson Schmilsson is an album the Beatles were in awe of, but I dont see it? Blue is an amazing album, Rock it is not Thanks,Pete. Any and all Mothers of Invention, springsteen,and rem pffffffft! Each component of the index was given equal weight. Theres a reason many fans remember this fondly as their first favorite Frank Zappa album: Apostrophe had so much musical invention and lyrical hilarity that it even had commercial potential (yes, Dont Eat the Yellow Snow was even a single). No Jetrho Tull? The selection of these artists is based on measures such as record sales, Billboard performance, Wikipedia page views, and popularity on the online streaming platform Spotify. mostly garbage in this 100 alblums.black sabbath should move up in top 20 not enough heavy music on list. Although we already did a top 200 classic rock bands and artist list, we thought it would be fun to do one that just focuses on the bands this time. Must have been the youngsters pickers. Whatt a friggin joke! I was thinking the same thing Sgt That Captain Beefheart album is totally unlistenable.
Top 100 Classic Rock Artists Highway 61 revisited should be top 5. Starting off with the nastiest song ever written about an ex-manager (Death on Two Legs), A Night at the Opera goes everywhere from metal to music hall. (or any Tull LP, for that matter). You did say rock n roll, correct? No Traffic- Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Blind Faith and Cream- Wheels of Fire. This is about the top 100 ALBUMS, not bands Just sayin. I saw Carl Palmer back in 1970 at St.Marys High School,South Amboy,NJ..
Top 100 Greatest Rock Bands/Artists of All Time If you list were correct that number would closer to 90. I found at least 30 that dont belong and it would be tough selecting from so many of the true Rock Era bands the ones that do.noticed the oversight of a little band with Steve Marriot known as Humble Pieperhaps Smokin or Live at Fillmore, Fleetwood Mac in early years had a keeper called Bare Trees also, Ten Years After oldies like Cricklewood Green and so many more, all the new stuff is not Rock Era but more like new wave trying to sound like rockI associate Rock Era as British Invasion up till late 70s.thanks to disco it all got confusing after that and besides the hangers on and a very few new acts doesnt qualify as rock with me.leaving out Sgt. Where in the heck is Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band? Perhaps you could try again and research all eras, not just your favorites? are you kidding !! Not a totally horrible list- much is good- but leaving out Thick s A Brick by Tull is not forgivable. Emerson, Lake & Palmer? Thank you! By pavlemil - /5 - RATE QUIZ MORE INFO Classic Best Score? sad sad sad what kind of list is this ? Jefferson Airplane !Surrealistic pillow or a different album but to be left out! That is what is great about music, we all have a favorites list of musicians/bands that may not jive with anyone else. Monolithic tracks like Battery and Welcome Home (Sanitarium) broke musical boundaries with acoustic breaks and prog-like complexity, while the lyrics evince social conscience and a general sense of dread. A broken heart never did a bluesman any harm, and Eric Clapton made his defining statement while his muse Pattie Harrison was out of reach. Releases that have high sales amounts do not necessarily equate to greatnessMany of the ones listed, appealed to the masses. Then again, most lists like this that are made up of the Top 100 of anything, is usually done without the required knowledge/experience to do so. THEY WOULD NOT BORN YET THANK YOU MR BUDDY DRUMMOND. the list goes on. Ive seen Revolver at #1 on other lists as well. What is with Echo & The Bunnymen, some early Rock N Roll albums (at least 3 or 4 good things), a little more Garage & Psychedelic Rock albums.& Black Sabbath? So many others I could come up with. I understand Rushes 2112 but what about Moving Pictures? The Beatles Soundtrack | The Beatles: Get Back The Beatles were an English rock band that became arguably the most successful act of the 20th century. There is an Album called sth Luke Sgt. The Pixies? for fucks sake.TWO U2 albums ? No CCR? Characteristically, he provided a few beautiful songs to go along with the dark cathartic ones.
The 10 best Guns N' Roses songs of all time I concur on Exile. Because weve had enough of 100 top albums lists with only 60-70 artists on them. With their talent and electronic mastery they sounded like a band of more than three people. No FOGHAT, no savoy brown no mountain no Ted Nugent no Robin Trower no iron maiden no Dokken No REO SPEEDWAGON dude this list SUCKS. Perhaps you could acknowledge that not everyone wants to listen to music created by drug addled musicians as much as by those who know how to create with all their faculties intact? !, And excuse me if i forget some others (that i like too), None of the albums from The Stooges? Find out how they stack up, as we count down the Top 100 classic rock artists. The instrumental breaks on Cinema Show and Firth of Fifth are among progs most majestic, while Gabriels surreal wit runs wild on The Battle of Epping Forest., This was and is a band bursting with ideas, and found space on this album to try them all out. Does nobody remember Buddy Holly? No Bob Seger or the Eagles aND Jackson Brown is no slouch. A list without Sgt Peppers, Revolver, Abbey Road and Rubber Soul could be everything but a list. They got their ideas from blues singers bands jazzers folkies avent garde and just plain old eccentrics that were to unpalatable. Sorry should have read, Carnival of Light by Ride. Sweetheart of the Rodeo by the Byrds is where country rock and modern country really began. (and its cinematic video of two female best friends falling . Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, The Clash and the Sex Pistols should also be bottom 50. How about Emerson Lake and Palmer. British Invasion and you leave out The Hollies, The Kinks, and The Yardbirds. Tangerine Dream-Phaedra. music from the pig pin ? Pepper. NO SRV? 90 some spots before Transformer? Etc just because they were made to make more appealing to the mass media does not mean that makes them great or influential. A band's most popular album is based on RIAA data for US album sales. Just try to name another album with a protest song, a vaudeville novelty, a nursery rhyme, a tough rocker, an easy-listening lullaby, and an avant-garde sound collage and that was only Side Four. But why is there no Jethro Tull, no Yes, no Man? Btw, your No 100 is my favourite. If the interplanetary stomp of Space Truckin and the high-speed cruising anthem Highway Star dont get your blood pumping, call the doctor. Album. still listen to this crap? The Pixies? is it as good as music from the big pink? Bee Gees / Various Artists Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track Pepper. As music fan that actually was a living witness to this era having grown up in it. You have crappy bubblegum Van Halen on here and you dont have Judas Priest. Not to mention Butch Vigs savvy production, which became the grunge-era standard. How about Traffic, Talking Heads, Ted Nugent, did I miss Umaguma Pink Floyd, Animals? NO; BAD COMPANY . On one hand, this is an album that a bunch of music-loving guys made for fun, daring to be quirky with the songwriting and production. The Allman Brothers Band Live At Fillmore East at #39??? With lists like this, nobody is going to agree with the list. Few two-piece bands ever had this much intuitive chemistry, and the tracklist bears out their ability to do just about anything from grisly blues-rockers to the giddy bubblegum of I Think Were Going to Be Friends., During the first week of 1967 when this album was released, the future of rock could be anything, including a jazz-identified band with a Dionysian Beat poet upfront. really? I agree with most of your choices, but Id definitely include the first Led Zeppelin album, add Jethro Tulls Benefit and Stand Up, Crosby, Stills, & Nash first album, Days of Future Past by Moody Blues, Blues From Laurel Canyon by John Mayall, and Deep Purples In Rock. Where are Mashmakhan and Babe Ruth? The Phil Spector-produced title track is arguably the greatest flop in pop history, a passionate outpouring that proved too intense for the charts. Imagine all the same and would give only one song! Love your work. I think very few if any of these examples are among my favorites, not that I claim to be an expert on rock but I know what I like and enjoy. Could have been included: It also marked the first (and probably the only) use of the phrase humiliating kick in the crotch in a hit single. Controversial, yes! Procol Harum Broken Barricades No Ten Years After? George Harrisona All Things Must Pass deserves a much higher position, perhaps in the top 20. No Jethro Tull? Sometimes Neil Young picked up his acoustic for tender intimate albums, sometimes he called in Crazy Horse and became the godfather of punk (or grunge or metal, depending on the year). Wtf? oh well, whatever. Top 10, no way. This is what happens when you let Millennials or their kids rate rock music. Also.The first Led Zeppelin is another essential, as is anything by Janis Joplin.
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