Your Twenty All Time Favorite Rock Artists

[TheDayMan]

The Clash
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Jimi Hendrix
Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers)
The Who
Nirvana
Bob Dylan
Nine Inch Nails
The Butthole Surfers
Jane's Addiction
Social Distortion
Primus
Queen
Mudhoney
The Cure
REM
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Neil Young

With the disclaimers that I left a few obvious choices out (like The Beatles, for example) to make room for others that I currently give more listen time to, and I reserve the right to change my list based on the day and my mood.

And in after someone makes a pompous "my taste in rock music is obviously more refined than yours" type of comment.

 

[Band of Brothers]

Another one I forgot...love Def Leppard

 

[BoiseMike19]

1. Van Halen
2. Def Leppard
3. Journey
4. Foreigner
5. Scorpions
6. Cars
7. The Who
8. Bruce Springsteen
9. Tom Petty
10. AC/DC
11. Queen
12. Aerosmith
13. Huey Lewis and the News
14. Cheap Trick
15. The Doors
16. Heart
17. Lynyrd Skynyrd
18. Led Zepplin
19. Boomtown Rats
20. Beatles

 

[Band of Brothers]

Love the Scorpions , Bob Dylan, Cheap Trick, Cars and Huey Lewis and the News too.. Man, so many in my top 40

 

[BoiseMike19]

Love the Scorpions , Bob Dylan, Cheap Trick, Cars and Huey Lewis and the News too.. Man, so many in my top 40

I thought this would be tough, but they just rattled off. Got about 5 more that should be on there.

 

[Band of Brothers]

What about Little Richard who was a huge influence on bands like the Beatles and the Stones.

Chuck Berry

I can't believe I forgot Billy Joel and Elton John who are two of the greatest Rock and Roll lyrics geniuses of all time.

Wow so many so little space to put them..

Fuck it...why do we have to rank them...you can not rank brilliance and art...it is all beautiful.

 

[blindbaby]

The Clash
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Jimi Hendrix
Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers)
The Who
Nirvana
Bob Dylan
Nine Inch Nails
The Butthole Surfers
Jane's Addiction
Social Distortion
Primus
Queen
Mudhoney
The Cure
REM
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Neil Young

With the disclaimers that I left a few obvious choices out (like The Beatles, for example) to make room for others that I currently give more listen time to, and I reserve the right to change my list based on the day and my mood.

And in after someone makes a pompous "my taste in rock music is obviously more refined than yours" type of comment.

I hear ya.

Personally, I tend to dig - for the most part - more technical "musicians music", but I can dig pretty much anything as long as it's not solely written as a formula for the sole sake of making money.

 

[Voltaire26]

In no particular order

The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Bruce Springsteen
Eagles
Harry Chapin
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Alice Cooper
Led Zepplin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Elton John
Beach Boys
Doors
10cc
Moody Blues
The J. Geils Band
Frank Zappa
Rolling Stones
Pat Benetar
Bob Seger
Jimi Hendrix

I am sure I left some off .... hard to think of them on the fly.

 

[BoiseMike19]

Great list Voltaire, I need more than 20 cause everyone that posts shows 3 or 4 I couldn't live without.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

In no particular order:

Beatles
Queen
Guns n Roses
Metallica
Aerosmith (Note: back in their drugging days, they were the worst concert I've ever seen by far)
The Guess Who
The Who
Rolling Stones
Led Zepplin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
REO Speedwagon
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nickleback
Bon Jovi

 

[jakedog56]

Top 5 in no particular order:
Pink Floyd
Tool
Soundgarden
Led Zepplin
Faith No More

The next level of greatness (again in no particular order):
The Who
Queens of the Stone Age
Jimi Hendrix
Melvins
UFO
Neil Young
Alice in Chains
The Doors
Queen
Van Halen (No offense to Sammy, but not Van Hagar)
The Beatles
Screaming Trees
Frank Zappa
Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Rolling Stones (if you based it on pre-80s only, they could be in the Top-6)
Nine Inch Nails
Opeth
...........many more great bands but those are those that sit above the rest for me.

 

[handicappers]

IN no particular order:

Megadeth
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Pantera
Sepultura
Black Sabbath
Triumph
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
AC/DC
Minutemen
The Clash
Isis
Pelican
Neurosis
Van Halen
Slayer
Faith No More
Allman Brothers Band
moe.
Skynyrd

 

[Clayton]

Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
Skynyrd
Tom Petty
Metallica
Pearl Jam
Rolling Stones
Van Halen
Alice in Chains
Eagles
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Offspring
Led Zeppilin
The Doors
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
CCR
The Cars
Oasis just for like 4 songs
GNR even though Axl Rose is a douche

 

[shopson67]

You guys plucked all of the obvious low-hanging fruit. In fact, any mindless fuck (who didn't know shit about music) could've just googled a list to come up with what most of you posted.

Good to see somebody finally mentioned The Ramones. It took long enough.

Three all-time great bands that you guys missed.

Hard to imagine there had been no mention of:

Sex Pistols
Iggy Pop/Stooges
Wendy O./Plasmatics

Cultural literacy is a beautiful thing.

By definition, a top 20 all time list is going to be low-hanging fruit.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

One of my supplemental lists....

Little Feat
Traffic
The Yardbirds
Procol Harum
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Return to Forever
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Moody Blues
Roxy Music
Widespread Panic
Hot Tuna
CCR
Blue Oyster Cult
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Warren Zevon
Van Morrison
Tom Waits
The Byrds
The Residents
Phish

 

[Band of Brothers]

More of my favorites

Hall & Oates

Montrose...love me some Sammy/Van Hagar

Night Ranger

Santana

Triumph

Twisted Sister

give me a little QUIET RIOT...WOOOOOOOOOOOO! They were badass.

Foghat

SIXX A.M.

Saliva

Amthrax

Poison

Nazerath

Bob Marley

Blue Oyster Cult

Van Morrison

The Byrds

 

[packerzrule]

my 2nd tier

Black Crowes
The Byrds
The Cars
ELO
Foghat
Peter Gabriel
Heart
The Hollies
Mountain
Mott The Hoople
Tom Petty
RES Speedwagon
Johnny Winter
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Supertramp
Styx
Bruce Springsteen
Uriah Heep
Steely Dan

 

[Band of Brothers]

Anthrax not Amthrax

Wow..ELO ...love them

Rare Earth

Mozart...You can not tell me that that MF was not a rocker..he rocked hard ...Sex ..Drugs ...and Rock and Roll was in his DNA

shit, Eddie named his son Wolfgang...yep Mozart rocked fucking hard !

 

[beardown07]

You guys plucked all of the obvious low-hanging fruit. In fact, any mindless fuck (who didn't know shit about music) could've just googled a list to come up with what most of you posted.

Good to see somebody finally mentioned The Ramones. It took long enough.

Three all-time great bands that you guys missed.

Hard to imagine there had been no mention of:

Sex Pistols
Iggy Pop/Stooges
Wendy O./Plasmatics

Cultural literacy is a beautiful thing.

You seem like an obnoxious twat? Pretty sure every post I've read of yours, is condescending in nature.

I bet you're well-loved.

 

[packerzrule]

You guys plucked all of the obvious low-hanging fruit. In fact, any mindless fuck (who didn't know shit about music) could've just googled a list to come up with what most of you posted.

Good to see somebody finally mentioned The Ramones. It took long enough.

Three all-time great bands that you guys missed.

Hard to imagine there had been no mention of:

Sex Pistols
Iggy Pop/Stooges
Wendy O./Plasmatics

Cultural literacy is a beautiful thing.

how about fucking yourself with a flaming porcupine??