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5 Best Rock Bands of All Time, Ranked
Study Finds ^ | February 07, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 02/26/2025 12:43:50 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: frank ballenger
INXS
141 posted on 02/26/2025 2:10:42 PM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Queen? Queen? All credibility lost right there at #3.
No way in heck they should be in the top 10.
Radio stations playing that obnoxious Bohemian Disaster twice an hour, doesn’t mean they’re a great band. They suck.


142 posted on 02/26/2025 2:11:08 PM PST by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Spacetrucker
Nirvana
143 posted on 02/26/2025 2:12:14 PM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Smash Mouth
144 posted on 02/26/2025 2:13:15 PM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: cowboyusa

The Beatles literally invented whole new genres of music.


145 posted on 02/26/2025 2:13:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

My top three favorite groups are:

The Beach Boys
The Cars
Pink Floyd

Glad to see Floyd made the list. “Rock band” is pretty subjective, but I like all the bands they listed.


146 posted on 02/26/2025 2:14:00 PM PST by Kharis13
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To: dfwgator
Die Antwoord
147 posted on 02/26/2025 2:14:27 PM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes.

And you can guess my age of 78 from my having seen them and all of the groups in my list in person.

Along with seeing the Beatles on tour. August 13, 1966 at Olympia in Detroit.


148 posted on 02/26/2025 2:14:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Kharis13

Some people don’t really consider “Prog Rock” as real rock. So bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, Yes, etc. don’t get mentioned.


149 posted on 02/26/2025 2:15:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: stinkerpot65
Drowning Pool
150 posted on 02/26/2025 2:15:19 PM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: frank ballenger

My biggest regret is never having seen Zappa live.


151 posted on 02/26/2025 2:15:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Agree about early Chicago.


152 posted on 02/26/2025 2:19:02 PM PST by j.frank.dobie
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To: Red Badger

Beatles
Eagles
Stones
Skynard
Allman Bros
Floyd
Byrds


153 posted on 02/26/2025 2:19:29 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: Red Badger

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band deserve a mention. Seger, in his prime, had the best voice in R&R.

Bob always gets overshadowed by the leftist hack Springsteen who is not anywhere as talented as Seger.


154 posted on 02/26/2025 2:19:36 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: dfwgator

Absolutely on Petty. Heartbreakers are my all time favorite with Chili Peppers next.

Greatest American rock rock band has to be Aerosmith if you go by my previously mentioned criteria. Petty and the Breakers could have been number 1 but they were blackballed by the radio industry years ago after they came out with The Last DJ. TP had legit top 10 songs on several albums from that time on but they would not play his new stuff on the radidio. Still pisses me off I didn’t see him with Joe Walsh on that last tour.


155 posted on 02/26/2025 2:20:16 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: BenLurkin

“The Beatles were a rock band?”

The Beatles were a band for girls to gysh over.


156 posted on 02/26/2025 2:20:35 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Red Badger

All of these Rock lists are so Subjective. So many great bands never considered.


157 posted on 02/26/2025 2:21:38 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Clutch Martin

A lot of the folks who made up those great bands from the 70s and 80s, decided to pursue being rock stars because of The Beatles. How many bands essentially were launched the night The Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show?


158 posted on 02/26/2025 2:22:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Sorry for you.
He ran a highly disciplined group, obviously well rehearsed, with fine musicians and singers.


159 posted on 02/26/2025 2:28:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: dfwgator

I love live albums and video concerts. U know, FWIW.


160 posted on 02/26/2025 2:28:48 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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