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Rush sold more than 25 million records, received seven Grammy nominations
Best of includes Tom Sawyer and Fly By Night
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#24 Journey "Don't Stop Retrievin'" actually BELIEVIN'
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23 Van Halen On the ledge? "JUMP!"
Early 1980s, heavy metal bands did not use keyboards and synthesizers. "Van" did.
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22 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Formed in Florida, "Won't Back Down", American Girl, You Don't Know How It Feels, and learning To Fly among top hits.
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#21 Creedence Clearwater Revival
This Vietnam War era band gained worldwide fame for anthems and Dan Foggleberg's "Down On the Corner". Looking out "My Back Door", and Who'll Stop the Rain" and many others. Only active 67-72...managed to pump out 7 major albums including "brown best of". which has been acclaimed as "Tuffer Than a Tin Tamale!"
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#20 Kiss
More than a simple rock band — they were primal entertainers led by Gene Simmons whose creativity made them a visual show smash. Still occasionally perform songs like "I Was Made For Loving You"
As Bill Clinton once said: "KISS this!" (This later caused him to settle out of court a mere $850,000.)
The insultedly "hit upon" lady spent some of what the lawyers let her have on a "nose job". try to search engine Bill Clinton nose job or $850,000
20 studio albums have sold over 100 million copies, - Kiss.
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#19 The Eagles
Considered one of best of the 1970s, The Eagles were awarded five American Music Awards (AMA) and six Grammy Awards. Six Eagles albums became #1 and generated five #1 singles.
Huge hit song "Hotel California" helped them get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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#18 The Ramones were not biologically related but adopted the last name "Ramone" when forming the band in 1974. Probably considered "Two Hit Wonders" - they must have had quite a visual act to become famous at all and their New York overpowering influences made them possibly the most over-rated band of all time as they were pioneer punk rockers from New York...known for overly simplistic three-chord style, the 1970s Joey (not a youth kangaroo) Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee (D-Twice) Dee Ramone and Tommy Ramone were the most famous version.
Blitzkrieg Bop and "I Wanna Be Sedated"
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#17 The Velvet Underground
Although the first album of the Velvet Underground only sold 10,000 copies, it has been said that everyone who bought a copy was truely inspired to begin their own band which speaks volumes. It is said that "
- Beginning To See The Light and Oh! Sweet Nothin' are among best of
"VU's" live performances resembled art shows more than live music performances — because Andy Warhol began managing "VU" in 1965. The Velvet Underground pushed the limits of conventional music during the 60s and 70s and created a lifelong legacy.******************************************************************************
#16 Fleetwood Mac
Although the history of Fleetwood Mac dates back to London in 1967, Americans Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham didn’t join the group until 1974 to create a unique sound of two men and two women/Americans and Brits that served to skyrocket the band into disc-selling commercial success with "Rumours" album featuring n 1977, Fleetwood Mac released the album Rumours and the hit singles "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain" and "Dreams," cemented Fleetwood Mac's enduring legacy in music.
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15 The Kinks
Four working-class musicians from northern London formed The Kinks in the 1960s. Mick Avory, Pete Quaife and Dave and Ray Davies generated a unique British rhythm and blues style that starkly reflected the English culture at the time with smash hits like "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" and "Something Better Beginning".
It is thought that the rebellious stylings of The Kinks resulted from the sibling rivalry of Dave and Ray Davies' sibling rivalry which propelled them. Although the band split and went on solo careers in 1996, they eventually reunited in 2018.
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#14 The Doors
In only six years, before the death of Jim Morrison, The Doors created a lasting legacy and a powerful influence on American music. Jim Morrison, the iconic frontman and his poetic lyrics and stage presence are perhaps still uniquely vibrant making music history. His death at age 27 was to contribute to the "Age 27 Jinx" that became legendary.
No one can forget their "Riders In the Storm",
"Light My Fire". " Gloria" and "Break On Through [To The Other Side]"
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#13 The Beach Boys
Brothers Dennis, Carl and Brian Wilson joined up with friend Al Jardine and cousin Mike Love to create The Beach Boys in the early 1960s. The catchy and unique "dragging and surfing music produced songs such as "Surfin’ USA," "I Get Around" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" The Beach Boys' surf style melodies caused 80 songs to penetrate worldwide charts, dating back to the ‘60s. They were touted for years as "America's Band".
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#12 Black Sabbath
The Ozzy Osbourne heavy metal band influence of Black Sabbath is arguably unmatched in its genre. Forming in "the original" Birmingham in England, in 1968, the band accidentally created a lower, heavier sound because of a factory accident that cost guitarist Tony Iommi the most distal portions - the tips of two of his fingers. Iommi was forced to tune down his guitar for ease of play, giving the band its special sound on
"War Pigs", "Paranoid" and perhaps "tuffest was "Iron Man"
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#11 AC/DC
In 1973, Scottish brothers in Australia named Malcolm and Angus Young formed AC/DC. Although the suspicious death in 1980 cost them their lead singer, Bon Scott, AC/DC survived to became one of the most influential metal bands of all time. Like "Journey", AC/DC considered quitting after Scott's death they decided to try again with Brian Johnson as lead singer. Becoming hugely successful after filling in for Scott with "a Johnson", guitarist Angus (McTavish Dundee) Young also began performing while wearing a school boy's uniform making the look synonymous with AC/DC live performances.
Best include "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Hell's Bells" and "Back In Black",
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#10 Nirvana
Along with Kurt (Didn't I Die Weirdly)Cobain, Nirvana’s four-chord approach changed the course of music history. Their rebellion against ‘80s hair metal became known as the Seattle grunge movement and spawned a one-hit-wonder grunge group that produced "Flag-pole Sitter." They would play loudly then softly which was mocked in numerous parodies including that of parody genius Weird Al Yankovic who is perhaps the song-poet "national treasure" that wrote about Abraham Lincoln was as a "treasured-but-serious--poet".Among best remembered are "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
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#9 Aerosmith
After "making" the music scene in 1970, the Aerosmith has produced a seemingly endless number of classic rock anthems. Their unique sound is rooted in blues and hard rock with critically important elements of heavy metal and pop rock included. "Jaded" and a movie soundtrack combined to lock solidly their place in music history.
The band has sold over 150 million records into the 21st century making it one of the most commercially successful bands of all time. Perhaps "chagrinly", Aerosmith also helped rap music to gain popularity in the mainstream by collaborating with Run-DMC on the hit single "Walk This Way." But never hold that against their lead singer.
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8 Guns N' Roses
With Axl Rose and Slash being arguably the greatest vocalist-guitarist combo of all time, (BB) Guns and (Rose Wine) Roses came up with some of the most memorable rock anthems ever but are probably just as well known for their hard-partying lifestyle and bad-boy reputation.
Hit singles include "November Rain," "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Welcome to the Jungle" from the original band of Axl Rose lead vocals, Slash on lead guitar, Duff (Beer) McKagan on bass, Izzy (Or Isn't he)Stradlin on guitar and Steven (The Hammer) Adler on drums. Although the original band's combination ended in 1994, numerous reunion tours have featured various addition-combinations of Guns and Roses since '94.
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#7 Metallica
Metallica (AKA Met-a-Licker) forming in 1981 helped create the thrash metal genre. James (Hatfield Minus McCoys) Hetfield's robustly fierce performances on vocals, Lars Ulrich's drumming and Kirk Hammett’s guitar playing combined to create one of the most influential metal bands in history. But Metallica's road-to-success was "bumpy", the band overcame numerous obsticles AKA "demons" with the
entire band going to therapy together at one point, which helped them adhere to create a time-less legacy of music. Metallica even collaborated on an album with Lou Reed on one album, but the artsy album failed to prove itself a critical or a commercial - success although some described it as "good as Hell." Best include "nOTHING eLSE mATTERS, "oNE" AND eNTER sANDMAN".You may curse "capslock" as millions do, RAT NOW!
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#6 Pink Floyd
One music legend holds that if one "syncs up" Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" with "The Wizard of Oz," the music and the imagery manage to aline line up far too well as only one example of Pink Floyd's artistry, which is also quite evident in their music, stage shows, videos and concept albums. With every Pink (Punk Fluid) Floyd album with its very own unique theme, Pink Floyd has been credited with reinventing something called "progressive space rock".
Formed by several British students in 1965. their live shows have been considered more of a psychedelic experience than a typical rock concert.
Best include "Time", "Comfortably Numb, and
"Another Brick In The Wall"
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With Queen getting into what is considered "the top five", it has been proudly "staging" some of the most talented musicians ever. It was Freddie Mercury's four-octave range has caused him to be considered the best vocalist in the history of rock. Brian May on guitar, Roger Taylor on drums and John Deacon on bass filled out Queen.
Several of Queen single's, like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You," and "We Are the Champions, MF" have become rock anthems standardly played at many stadium events even nowadays. Considered far too long to be "radio-friendly", "Bohemian Rhapsody" wasn't even originally supposed to be released as a single, like lengthy "Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan.
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#4 The Who (Say What?)
In 1964, The Who was formed which created another great and lasting legacy in rock music. The most famous combination consisted of Pete Townshend on lead guitar, John Entwistle on bass guitar, Roger Daltrey on vocals, Keith Moon on the drums. The starkly different styles of Townshend and Entwistle had Townshend tending to jump into the air and smash his guitar while Entwistle loked on and calmly played bass in the corner of the stage.
The Who is perhaps best known for their performance at Woodstock in 1969 although their "Live at Leeds" made the small previously unknown British city well known, they also produced the album-turned-film Tommy about a pinball wizard who is deaf, blind and mute. Later at least two of their hit singles became TV show themes giving them even more legacy-fame-and-timeless-renown. One of their songs was made even more popular by Elton John in a theatrical version of "Pinball Wizard".
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#3 Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin, one of the most famous rock bands ever, signed with Atlantic Records in 1968, reportedly legally locking in the most lucrative deal of the 60s era without executives even watching and approving of - a live performance. Rock legend holds that the lucretive deal with Atlantic gave Led Zeppelin subjective autonomy to steadfastly refuse single releases and create album-focused music which worked out well for both parties, especially considering the fact that Led Zeppelin has sold something like 300 million records worldwide.Best include, "Whole Lotta Love", Stairway To Heaven" and "Black Dog".A sound-alike doing covers is Dred Zepellin with an Elvis-sounding lead singer.
With Robert Plant's vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on keyboards and John Bonham on drums, the combination was so astounding that four friends later combined for one album called "Blind Faith" with amazing sales and worldwide acclaim for .
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#2 The Rolling Stones
Amazingly, in 1962, the Rolling Stones got together and are still going strong today. Longevity-wise, no other band can hold a lighted candle to what the Stones have musically accomplished in their sixty years onstage. The Stones have released over 30 studio albums, with undeniably one of the greatest impacts ever on modern rock music.Best include, "Jumping Jack Flash","Brown Sugar" and "
"[I Can't Get No] Satisfaction"
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And of course, at #1 The Beatles
take first prize as the all-time favorites on the "25 List" for their lasting and undeniable influence they had on music in general. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison managed the gargantuan task of producing 12 albums. This is a pace unapproached and unheard of by modern standards. Accolades and kudos cannot give justice to the Beatles, who are arguably the greatest selling rock band of all time."Among dozens of best,"
"Come Together", "Help!", "Hard Days Night" and "A Day In The Life".
Rated by Billboard and others as the #1-bestselling band ever in the United States, and they have also sold more singles in the United Kingdom (UK) than any other band in the history of the world since over 800 million Beatles albums have been sold worldwide.
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Of Honorable Mention is Band Cream
which didn't break into the top 25, but nevertheless deserves an honorable mention, if only for the renowned and thoroughly recognizable guitar riff from "Sunshine of Your Love.". Best include, "White Room",
"Sunshine Of Your Love", "Badge, and "Strange Brew" Paul Revere and the Raiders with "Hungry", "Great Airplane Strike", "Kicks", Just Like Me", and "Indian Reservation" - showed "British Invasion" that USA could still make chartbusters!
Like "Blind Faith", they technically are not called a band, but a "supergroup" like "Cars", "Chumbawamba", the "Archies" and the "Monkeys" since they have musical band members who were all particularly and especially gifted in their roles and specifically somewhat - "assembled" or "put together". The Supergroup Chumbawamba took up political themes and assembled in 1982 to go dis-assembled in 2012 with their name being somewhat lengthy beingalso known as (AKA) Skin Disease, Wumba, Antidote (with The Ex), Scab Aid, Sportchestra, The Middle (as a hoax) Their best known was their song "Tubthumping", Aka "I Get Knocked Down" which was nominated for Best Brit Single at the 1998 British Awards because of sales and radio air-play. Several other singles include "Amnesia", "Enough Is Enough" (with MC [or Motorcycle Club] Fusion), "Timebomb", "Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé)", and "Add Me". Perhaps "Thubthumping" will achieve the remembrance of "The Bandit-(Of Brazil)" (Ole O'Cangaceiro) originally sung by Tex Ritter & Buce (Laughter Is Contageous)Low and covered by numerous persons singing in other languages over the years. Like many other good and "re-surrected songs" it first appeared in a movie soundtrack, this one in 1953 - called "Cangaceiro" which is Portuguese for "Cangaceiro" and MAY BE "bandit". As usual comments are more than welcome below and commenters will NOT be hunted down like wounded deer. GAURANTEE by erstwhile blogger who has also never been hunted down like a wounded deer.
