slam32

Do you like Rock music? The following is the top 10 rock band.Which one do you like best?
1. The Beatles
The Beatles are unquestionably the best and most important band in rock history, as well as the most compelling story. Almost miraculously, they embodied the apex of the form artistically, commercially, culturally and spiritually at just the right time, the tumultuous '60s, when music had the power to literally change the world (or at least to give the impression that it could, which may be the same thing). The Beatles are the archetype: there is no term in the language analogous to “Beatlemania.”
2. The Rolling Stones
When the Beatles ceased to exist in 1970, the title of “World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” fell with very little dispute to the Rolling Stones, who by then were in the middle of such a wondrous creative peak that they might have challenged the Fab Four for the title anyway. It’s a title the one-time “anti-Beatles” haven’t relinquished since. Not only have the Stones been the greatest rock band in the world for more than 30 years, but they have been a functioning rock ‘n’ roll unit for more than 40, the longest run in history.
3. U2
Ireland’s U2 is the most important and influential band of the post-punk era, joining ringing guitar rock, punkish independence, Celtic spirituality, innovative production techniques and electronic experimentalism — all held together by singer/lyricist Bono’s transcendent vision and charisma.
4. The Grateful Dead

when Henley wrote “The Boys of Summer’ in 1984, he saw the sticker on luxurious Detroit steel as a contradiction of values: a symbolic matter/antimatter collision that obliterated the meaning of both. But Henley didn’t realize that his symbol of a Dead past was in reality a very powerful symbol of the present and future.

5. Velvet Underground
Brian Eno has famously said that not many people bought the Velvet’s albums when they were originally released, but everyone who did formed a band. After bravely jousting the twin enemies of indifference and open hostility in its lifetime, the Velvet Underground has gradually been embraced as one of the best and most important bands in rock history.

6. Led Zeppelin
Over a 10-year, nine-album career from 1969-79, Led Zeppelin was the most popular rock group in the world, ultimately selling more than 50 million records in the U.S. alone (more than 200 million worldwide), developing the blues-based power trio-plus-lead singer archetype in many directions including mystical English folk-rock, Middle Eastern-influenced exotica, quirky pop and every manner of heaviness. They also came to symbolize the Dionysian excesses of the rock lifestyle.
7. Ramones
The Ramones — Dee Dee (bass, vocals), Joey (vocals), Johnny (guitar), Tommy (drums, later replaced by Marky) — were the American punk band, an endless wellspring of noise, energy, attitude, humor and (sometimes forgotten) great songs, who helped reinvent rock ‘n’ roll when it needed it most in the mid-'70s.
8. Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is the most eccentric and experimental multi-platinum band of the album rock era, creating exceptional cinematic sound sculptures “Meddle,” “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here,” and the band’s popular apex and conceptual death knell, “The Wall.”
9. Bob Marley and the Wailers
The greatest singer, songwriter, and cultural figure in Jamaican history, Bob Marley brought the righteous message and “positive vibrations” of reggae music to the world, and is the only towering figure of the rock era not from America or the U.K.
10. Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone made some of the most buoyant and thoughtful music of the late-'60s and early-'70s, uniting and transforming black and white music at a time of highest hope and deepest betrayal in America. Leader Sly Stone personified both extremes, as the truest of believers and a victim of his own disillusionment.

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SWPants666

I've actually heard most of those bands, making me feel like I don't live under a rock

I'd probably say I like Pink Floyd the best out of these.

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LiMoss

Whenever I have to pick a favorite anything, my mind goes blank!

I guess the Beatles are my favorite from this list.

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FelsGoddess

Out of these? The Beatles.

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RampagingAlbatross

Do I have to say it?

I wouldn't grant the Stones the title of Greatest Rock Band so easily, though. And the Who definately deserve to be one there - I mean, hell, without them there would BE no punk rock for the Ramones to ride in on.

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Eldarwen22

My favorite would have to be Led Zeppelin.

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AlbieTom

The fact that you don't have Van Halen listed is an insult to my eyes and ears, how can you list Velvet Revolver above Van Halen, hell how can you list Velvet Revolver above Guns n Roses(because 3 members of VR were in Guns n Roses). I like Velvet Revolver but come on, Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen is perhaps the greatest Guitar Player, and I would argue better than Hendrix. How about Aerosmith, or ZZ Top, I'd put both of those up above U2 or the Grateful Dead. Or Steve Miller Band or Steppenwolf, or Lynyrd Skynyrd, how could you possibly limit it to 10 its not , I can keep going, what about Clapton (including Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominos and more). So I have to say your list is far from complete, and far from being the top 10.

RampagingAlbatross

Yeah... in total, I agree with about half the list. Especially the Beatles being in 1st.

There's a lot of good stuff being left out.

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AlbieTom

I thought it said Velvet Revolver whoops, but I still stand by everything else I said, hehe .