The Top 25 Rock & Rollers of All Time

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[Chi-townChief]

#3

[Supernatural]

"Ball of Confusion"...Temptations.

[Chi-townChief]

The station is calle "Real Oldies" so they play a lot of popular stuff from Perry, Nat, Dean, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, etc. all of whom should probably be on the list as well.

[WalterSkinner]

..The Beach Boys only at #20--they're crazy...

[mmercier]

Was that their only brush with fame?

Pretty much... The entire album, with the exception of that one song, sucked like a black hole. Everything else they produced was not much better.

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[Chi-townChief]

That was one amazing piece of music - a shame all their other stuff kind of blew.

[Millee]

Madonna over Stevie Ray Vaughn??? Oh yeah...absolutely. Couldn't agree more.

Excuse me while I go shoot up some more herion now.

[Supernatural]

Rock and Rollers...old ones.

Bill Haley & the Comets

Buddy Holly & the Crickets

Jerry Lee Lewis

Elvis

Carl Perkins

Little Richard

The Big Bopper

Don't Step on my Blue Suede Shoes

Rock Around the Clock

Great Balls a' Fire

Tutti Fruiti

Long Tall Sally

[RayChuang88]

One often wonders what would have happened if Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson did not die in that untimely airplane crash in 1959. I personally think it would have likely continued the dominance of rock and roll by American artists for many years afterwards.

As such, their passing left a HUGE hole in new rock and roll artists during the early 1960's, one that was finally filled by four young lads from Liverpool in the UK named The Beatles.

[nomorelurker]

Where's ABBA is a good question without dissing Marley etc. etc.

[scott says]

< Carl Perkins and NRBQ put out an album a long time ago. I agree with your point about music categories- you have listed rock and rollers here.Carl Perkins might be called rockabilly....

[Supernatural]

Rockabilly...stll yet another catagory. Jazz, progressive jazz, jazz-rock fusion...lots of catagories. Progressive rock is another.

[Blackirish]

Lose Madonna ...list is no good without Ramones or Clash.

[vetvetdoug]

I'm glad you mentioned Carl Perkins. Perkins was equal to Elvis in popularity in 1955-56 when a car wreck sent him off to obscurity for a couple of years. The Beatles were members of Carl Perkins' fan club; at least the Beatles could recognize a true rocker. I wonder what kind of list Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Mick what's his name, and Ringo Starr would come up with?

[fortunecookie]

Sorry, I took those slots with the Kinks and Van Morrison. ;o)

I believe you've knocked out Cobain and Jacko, I knocked out Jacko and Madonna (shudder). ;-O

That leaves one spot jointly! We could collaborate and knock out all three, and I'd take Tom Petty over Aerosmith. Because I couldn't bump out the Kinks or Van. ;-)

Unless you're some kind of Madonna fan..... (tee hee)

[Mr. Blonde]

Kurt Cobain is on the list because of MTV. The more I hear it, the more I'm convinced that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is one of the worst songs Nirvana did. Chris Cornell should be on the list way ahead of him. Any man who can cut his hair and looks more like a rock star with short hair deserves to be on this list. That isn't an easy feat. Not to mention with Temple of the Dog he did more to start Grunge.

And no Zeppelin? Wow. Influence, popularity, living like a rock star? They had it all. Maybe they are being punished for all of the crappy Led wannabes that followed.

[scott says]

Just checked my favorite Dylan Site- Expecting Rain, a daily update of Dylan related news and web stuff is posted and this was highlighted for today----
The History of Rock'n'Roll- The Golden Decade 1954 -1963

[pissant]

True. ALvin Lee would be top 5 in my book.

[pissant]

Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin

[pissant]

Lotsa good old crooners. Not sure about the R&R credentials but its good stuff.