Top-50 All-time (Rough Draft)

You people are out of your minRAB

James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Bob Marley Aretha Franklin, Jerry lee Lewis, Velvet Underground, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley and Fats Domino are not even in the same class. Any list that would rank them above Zeppelin is mistaken.

I can't even find the worRAB to justify that, but I would slap you in the face if I knew you.

Much Love,
 
Pink Floyd > Eric Clapton

Though it could be argued that Cream > Pink Floyd.

And The Who really should be above Clapton.

I also favor Bowie above Queen.
 
New Updated List as of 7:00 Meeting

1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Beatles
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. The Who
6. Bob Dylan
7. Eric Clapton
8. Stevie Wonder
9. Elvis Presley
10. Pearl Jam
11. Pink Floyd
12. Queen
13. Van Morrison
14. The Beach Boys
15. Johnny Cash
16. Metallica
17. David Bowie
18. The Allman Brothers Band
19. The Grateful Dead
20. Nirvana
21. Bob Marley
22. Janis Joplin
23. Creedence Clearwater Revival
24. Chuck Berry
25. Velvet Underground
26. Elvis Costello
27. Incubus
28. The Doors
29. Ray Charles
30. CSNY
31. Red Hot Chili Peppers
32. Black Sabbath
33. Aretha Franklin
34. Michael Jackson
35. Green Day
36. Roy Orbison
37. B.B. King
38. Rage Against the Machine
39. Elton John
40. The Police
41. Rakim
42. The Clash
43. Marvin ***e
44. Simon and Garfunkel
45. The Eagles
46. The Ramones
47. Tupac
48. 311
49. Yes
50. Sublime

Keep the comments coming. Less then I week until I finalize the list!

Main Goals:
1) Determine any omission in need of addition.
2) Finalize Top 10 (1-7 are set in top 10 but flexible)
3) Eliminate any outstanding personal bias
4) Represent each genre of Rock related music sufficiently.

Thanks! This forum has been one of the best for helping shape the list.
 
Hi there! It's not that I don't like 'em (I have 3 albums) I just don't think they're near the top 50 of all time. Sure they were original, but (to me anyway) they didn't really expand on that. And hey, if you wanna put 'em on your list, cool. But I just couldn't see them on a overall all time list.
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I am 32 years old and I have given those artists a chance, I don't rate it half as high as the things going on in the eighties.

Now it's time for me to stir the pot:

Straight Outta Compton as amazing as that album is, set the genre back. All of these thug artists started coming out of the woodwork and doing the same thing, I liken it to Pearl Jam and Korn creating a genre that is being exploited and sold to the masses as original
 
all-around

Major Criteria include (still a work in progress)

personal preference
popular opinion
technical ability
cultural significance\groundbreaking
relative success
 
Thanks JerK!
No really though I always misspell Metallica, and CCR was a victim of automatic spell check, even the band can't spell Skynyrd correctly and just an oops on Elvis.

Thanks for the corrections and comments.
 
7. Eric Clapton
8. Stevie Wonder
9. Van Morrison
10. Queen


you have got to be kidding me. should be more like

20-40 Eric Clapton
40-100 Stevie Wonder
25-50 Van Morrison
20-40 Queen
 
Sorry Mate but Mr. Ed here to tell you Animal Farm was the inspiration for that theme of the album. 100% accurate, it's in the Book "Inside Out" written by Nick Mason.
 
This list is so cliche its not even funny, and theres many more important folk artists than Dylan. Why he is always placed on lists so highly and Guthrie and Seeger get no mention will never make sense to me. Also, Green Day and not the Ramones? I expected upon reading the first top 10 that they'd get mention over Green Day.
 
Alternative rock, punk, and grunge. You're seriously out of your mind. Three subgenres of rock n roll, one even being a sub-sub genre, have had a greater impact on music than hip hop, a completely original style music which has spawned an entire culture out of it (or perhaps you could say visa versa)? Are you joking? You've got to be pretty desperate to list grunge, more of a movement than even a sub sub genre, which went stale in about 10 years. Punk? How has punk influenced music more in the past 20 years? You do realize that 20 years ago puts you in 87, not 77?

Like I said, you just seem a little desperate here. Whether you like it or not, to deny that it is the style of music which has had the largest impact on the music industry of the past 20 years is ludicris.
 
a greater culture influence yes.

this is because rap has a very small culture. even with a large demographic and many platinum albums, the people who own the albums are predomenatly people who only listen to it because it is at the dance clubs and dont really listen to anything but what is "popular". they arent, nessisarily (excuse spelling) affected by the rap music they listen to like punks more commonly are.

take the effect tupacs music ultimately has on a suburban white kiRAB (the largest consumer market for this music) life. then compare that to how a ramones record has affected the life of the average purchaser.
 
Thats more attributed to EVH's dubious choice of hiring Sammy Hagar, going for a more AOR style and polished synth ladin sound and trying to write "deep" lyrics once DLR left than to his guitar playing, which remained as tight as ever.

I still like some of the Hagar stuff for EVH's guitar playing alone.
 
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