1. The Beatles

2. Led Zeppelin

3. Pink Floyd

4. The Rolling Stones

5. Black Sabbath

6. The Who

7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2/3 anyway)

8. Cream

9. The Police

10. Radiohead

Stones
Zep
Sabbath
Judas Priest
Deep Purple
Maiden
Clash
Police
Oasis
Cure

Ten Years After.


One through ten.

Beatles and Stones are overrated. Led, Pink and Who are Great.... Police and Radiohead are softies; more pop than rock, and you have Black Sabbath, but not Judas Priest!?! FOR SHAME!!

There is no such thing.

#1- Dave Clark 5 *Best
#2- Chad & Jeremy
#3- Herman’s Hermits
#4- The Kinks
#5- The Troggs
#6- The Animals
#7- Gerry and the Pacemakers
#8- Manfred Mann
#9- Peter & Gordon
#10- The Tremeloes


memtb

You don't get to critique my list without posting your own.

DQ'd

Pretty cool list.

Agreed. Alvin Lee had a great band.

You forgot Queen.

Man, that's tough to rank.

Is an Irish band British enough? If so, Thin Lizzy should fit in there somewhere.

We forgot to add Peter & Gordon……..now added! memtb

You're right.

The Police got their spot.

Todd knows!

The Yardbirds would be in there, just for the guitarists they attracted/spawned.

The Clash and Queen need to be in there.

I'd like to point out that there is only one (1) verifiable chick (female) in that entire sea of people.

I'll take the Moody Blues before the Police all day...

Def Leppard isn't on anyone's list???? I double checked the tile of the post and it did specify "Rock Bands"

1) The Stones

2) The rest of them
Look up Rock and Roll in the dictionary, this is what you find:

Pretty sure that’s Miss Lynn
That ain’t no chick, baby

Adding my list

1. Beatles
2. Led Zepplin
3. Rolling Stones
4. The Who
5. Def Leppard

Beatles
Zep
Who
Police
Queen
To be continued...

Spinal Tap

List only goes to ten...

Well PHOUKING played good sir.

LOL

Jethro Tull should be there somewhere. And Yes.

Stones popularity & longevity, a 10. Talent, a 4(I'm being nice as I have none)

Beatles popularity a 12. Talent a 7. Recording breakthroughs & first, a 12.

The Animals

Cream

Sabbath

The Who

And when a best from any country poll is posted...LED for your head.

YES, I was a huge fan.

Blind Faith should have been there but for short life.


John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers? Needed more than just The Beno album but still - big

The only thing the Beano album had going for it was great guitar tone and that was only on two songs.

FWIW

1. Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden

3. Led Zepplin

4. Diamond Head

5. Queen

6. Pink Floyd

7. Motorhead

8. Judas Priest

9. Rolling Stones

10. Oasis

Never woulda took Flave for a Diamond Head or Oasis guy.

Same, anyway, here's Wonderwall..

The Zombies are a very underappreciated band.

The only sensible answer.

1) Stones

2) Led Zep

3) Beatles

4) Who

5) Judas Priest

6) Jeff Lynne- ELO- 40 top 10 hits without 1 number 1. S--- is cash.

7) Sex Pistols

8) Eric Clapton and Cream

9) Queen

10) Muse

A few thoughts:

You mean “your ten favorite” I expect rather than “top ten”. I’m in no position to say which are in the top ten but I could tell someone which ten I like best. First of all, anyone who denies the Beatles as a group are not in the top ten is telling me they just don’t like their music. Fair enough. Not in the top ten by about any criteria? Impossible.

I liked the ballad-like songs of Chad and Jeremy. I think they’d been bigger yet had Chad Stuart not broken away into acting at the height of their American popularity. Peter and Gordon had a couple of great songs. Gerry and the Pacemakers and a couple from the DC5 (Mike Smith, the keyboard player was a great talent).

Chad Stuart and Gerry (of the PMKers) both passed within the last two years or so.

There are a bunch of groups here who might have been good, even very good, but just didn’t play the kind of music I liked.

Edit: I was in HS 63-67.

Id put the Sisters of Mercy and The Cure on my list.
Not a fan of The Who or the Beatles, and cannot freakin stand Def Leppard.

Sabbath I still listen to off and on.
And Deep Purple.....but Highway Star is beyond horrible.
Hate that tune.

Almost as much as Maidens Run to the Hills.
When they play that pos at concerts im running for beer cussin, and I aint the only one either

Stay with me here, Rod Stewart and the Faces. Ron Wood on guitar.

Stones
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Yes
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
Iron Maiden

Quite possibly the best Rock n' Roll tune to ever Rock n' Roll!

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Kinks
Some version of The Yardbirds
Cream
Led Zepplin
Black Sabbath
Fleetwood Mac
Foghat

Throw in Spencer Davis Group and Traffic

Faces/Small Faces too...