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The Top 25 Rock & Rollers of All Time
Life.com ^ | 2005 | staff

Posted on 03/07/2006 4:41:33 PM PST by pissant

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To: pissant
These lists are hard to take seriously, we all have our personal favorites- mine- NRBQ- best band ever
Bob Dylan- best songwriter
Van Morrison- personal favorite
Beatles, Clapton.....everybody else
My favorite "Roots" of Rock'n'Roll- Louis Prima/Sam Butera
Smiley Lewis
Big Joe Turner- check out this cd- awesome!
41 posted on 03/07/2006 5:04:44 PM PST by scott says
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The author must have mixed up 25 best with 25 worst for a few - take Michael Jackson and Madonna off the list. Jacko - one bad apple did spoil the whole bunch, and Madonna? I actually like some of her songs, but her voice is so highly synthesized and manipulated and the 'music' electronically manufactured, that for all we know she sounds like Kermit the Frog and anyone of us could do what she does (singing that is) or better.

That being said, add, in no particular order Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers) and Aerosmith. Now that's a better list. ;-)

42 posted on 03/07/2006 5:05:03 PM PST by fortunecookie
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And Rob Zombie is dissed yet again...


43 posted on 03/07/2006 5:05:07 PM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: SittinYonder

If Cheap Trick makes your top 50, you better redo the whole thing. ;o)


44 posted on 03/07/2006 5:05:57 PM PST by pissant
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To: Chi-townChief

Why doesn't The Vogues ever get into these lists? They had 8 smash releases in 10 years. And their albums were always top sellers.


45 posted on 03/07/2006 5:06:19 PM PST by AGreatPer
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To: Chi-townChief

That's quite the list. though I do not consider some, like Sinatra to be Rock & Roll.


46 posted on 03/07/2006 5:06:57 PM PST by pissant
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I would prefer to blame Canada when and if at all possible.


47 posted on 03/07/2006 5:07:01 PM PST by thoughtomator (I understand Democrats' impatience; If Kerry were President, Iran would have nuked Israel by now)
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To: RockinRight

Or Madonna. That's a damn head scratcher.


48 posted on 03/07/2006 5:07:39 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

You would think so...LOL...my kids know I'm for real (even if I shame them at times).


49 posted on 03/07/2006 5:08:43 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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I knew I could count on a kindred spirit.

Big Joe Turner is smoking. Elmore James would be in my top 10, though he is theoretically the blues.


50 posted on 03/07/2006 5:09:09 PM PST by pissant
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Yeah...I don't get that one.

Where's Marvin Gaye? Certainly he ranks higher than Madonna!


51 posted on 03/07/2006 5:11:48 PM PST by RockinRight (Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
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"Jimmy Osmond was the true talent in the family."

Not even close!{:O)}

Donny carried 'em all! He's the crowd fave...Always!



52 posted on 03/07/2006 5:12:11 PM PST by Majie Purple
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SsssssSaturday Night!


53 posted on 03/07/2006 5:12:46 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: fortunecookie

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


54 posted on 03/07/2006 5:13:05 PM PST by pissant
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To: mrs. a

Imagine that. LOL


55 posted on 03/07/2006 5:13:22 PM PST by pissant
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Question: Did Ivory Joe Turner do: "I'm gone to the river and jump over board and drown"? Your good at this pissant. One of the very first pop blues songs.


56 posted on 03/07/2006 5:13:35 PM PST by AGreatPer
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To: pissant

An essential question has not been asked: "Top" at what? Earning money? Most influential? Most appealing music?


57 posted on 03/07/2006 5:13:48 PM PST by thoughtomator (I understand Democrats' impatience; If Kerry were President, Iran would have nuked Israel by now)
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To: RockinRight

hehe... Marvin Gaye....


58 posted on 03/07/2006 5:13:56 PM PST by Hoodlum91 (pcottraux says I'm special!)
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This is probably my favorite Big Joe cd- recorded in 1976- awesome session- this is REAL Music, not the garbage put out today....

59 posted on 03/07/2006 5:14:11 PM PST by scott says
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That works. I would have happily deported him there.


60 posted on 03/07/2006 5:14:14 PM PST by pissant
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