Greatest Rock Bands

They excel in both pop and rock and are easily the best band that there's ever been.

Best band ever

Ha! Beatles number 1 again! No complaints here.

beatles ...........most always number one good work i love himmmmmmmmmmmm.................

Gimme Shelter: One of the best songs ever made!

How can Tool and Korn possibly be ranked higher then the Rolling Stones?

led zep Best band ever !!!

led zep best band EVER !!

I don't like the way they stole songs but I still think their great! Yeah!!

Don't forget about the kinks and the who!

Shrug. I was just saying. Never hurts to have the facts. What's the problem here?

In fairness, Hendrix did more to pave the way for hard rock than anyone else. Led Zeppelin are an incredibly important band, though.

With all due respect, Mr. DeargDoom, you are completely wrong. Led Zeppelin is one of the most influential Hard Rock bands in history. They paved the way for modern hard rock and heavy metal. Deep Purple was good, but, honestly, how many times can you listen to "Smoke on the Water"? It gets rather dull.

Little Wing is one of the best songs ever written!

Jimi was awesome. Hey and the band weren't bad either. lol. Nah, just kiddin they were all great!

Freddie Mercury, best singer and frontman ever, Brian May, very underrated, Roger Taylor very talented, and John Deacon, best bassist of all time.

Awesome band! I like their earlier stuff better but the later stuff is still a lot better than what most other bands can do

Greatest rock band of all time--Had it all: 4 distinct personalities; virtuoso musicians; greatest live performers ever; great songs--powerful, strong melodies; innovators--early use of synthesizers, concept albums, equipment (Marshall stacks, large drum kits)

Queen better than Sabbath... I think not!

My iPod still has Rush songs. Their unique sound and technical perfection never get boring.

I am both shocked and elated to see Rush listed this high. The power trio from Canada is simply amazing!!!

I'm glad they weren't over looked.... Great, great band that sometimes gets overshadowed by other British bands of the 60's and 70's!

Greatest band of all time, no doubt about it. Love em.

Unquestionably the greatest band that is currently still making music and a serious contender for the coveted "greatest band since the Beatles" title. Tool will be remembered. They are right up there with Floyd and Zeppelin in terms of greatness.

ACDC IS FREAKIN AMAZIING !!!!!!!

acdc is one of the most amazinnnnng bandz of allllll time!!!!!!! i looooove them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

are a boffin Mrs. .......... perfect staging songs

Awesome power from this Seattle punk trio.Unrepeatable.

OH YEAHH!!

Should be renamed 'Three Prats and a Drummer' Bono makes me almost ashamed to be Irish.

If you are thinking of slitting your wrists, listen to this band first. They will really put you in the right mood.

Since when did Radiohead refuse to make videos? They've got loads of videos! Some of them are pretty cool.

"Outlandos d'amour" pure masterpiece.... One of the top ten albums of all time!!!

MUCH better than the over-rated Led Zep. Check out the remixed 'Highway Star' on the 'Machine Head' album. 'nuff said!

Romeo n Juliet is a great song

The best band ever.

Just plain awesome.

The best band of the universe!!

Very good and classical. Should be on the top 10

well, what's the story morning glory?

welcome 2 da jungle!

what are you on about? Yes appetite was amazing but listen to the use your illusion albums they are epic hate to say it, but chinease democracy is also quite good

That one album defined their career

Guns 'n Roses have only done one good album, the rest are all 4/10. You all know which is the best one but if you need it spelling out for you it's Appatite For Destucton, now that is a 10/10 album but it don't make them a great band as the great bands have more then one good album.

No one plays better live. Listen to them cover On the Road Again, Whiskey in the Jar, and especially Astronomy--I wish they would do it in a concert. These guys can flat-out play with.

Pre-Load: Top 20. Load and onwards: Yikes! At least we still have the old records...

is the largest in my opinion, Mrs. ................. They have melodic songs with words perfektnimi

I LOVE metallica but i gotta admit that they arent the "best" rockband ever, Slayer should be up her.

Metallica pre-Load is top five hands down!

Ya.. Metallica was so very rock.... I love their songs especially "King Nothing" I am a guitarist,thats why I love their songs... very Hard..

The Ramones at 74? Seriously? That is completely ridiculous.

Yay! I seen 'em not so long ago. They didn't have Hugh Cornwell with 'em but they were pretty good.

Great,Great,Great,Great band.... would be in my top 5

One hit wonder? Listen to their discograhy : Say You Will, Urgent, I Want to Know What Love Is, Running the Risk, Cold As Ice, Tooth And Nail...

Extraordinary band! Lou Gramm was one of the best rock singers out there. Rock, pop and a little blues(in earlier records), Foreigner was one versatile band and one of the best live bands

Please tell me this is a joke. One hit wonders, man. How has it come to this?

Good band. Underrated by most, but overrated on this list.

Toto was a versatile band. Mainstream but very good pop/prog rock band.

Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams (lead vocals), David Paich (keyboards), Steve Porcaro (keyboards), Steve Lukather (guitars, vocals), Mike Porcaro (bass), and Simon Phillips (drums). Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard rock, R&B and jazz. They are regularly associated with the soft rock genre. They are best known for the hits "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," and "Africa". The band has released a total of 17 albums, and have sold over 35 million albums to date. The group was honored with several Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2009.

Don't post a band if you don't even know how to spell the name.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

If you like your music pretentious and gloomy, this band is for you.

i am the resurrection, and i am the life i couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as i'd like!!!

One of the best rock bands in our time. Of particular mention is the Straight Shooter Album as well as Desolation Angels albums. Paul Rodgers continues to be strong to this day. Deserves to be in the top 20

One of the most influential bands of the last 20 years. enough said.

The bargain store's Pink Floyd.

In no way does this band deserve to be in the top 50.

just for creativity alone should be in the top ten

Good band. Love 'em!

I never even heard of sweet but everyone knows Rock Around The Clock was the first single to sell a million!!! I just checked and Fox On The Run didn't even make it to number 1 in the USA or the UK. What did this guy think he was gonna achieve by blatantly making stuff up? lol

Actually, I kind of agree that they weren't really a rock band, no more than, say, Pink is a rock star. For Sweet to be rock you have to use a pretty loose definition of the word. The truth is Sweet had more in common with the Bay City Rollers than they did with Queen.

dude, call by rca music ltd and you will the sale of 41 mio records from sweet, after rca they went to polydor and there where the rest. sweet was one of the best selling bands in the seventies and your wrong to say there was not a rock band. good time to you

Links are apparently not allowed, so you will have to find the list yourself. Clue: Google. Good day, and continue to enjoy the Sweet's music, just don't talk absolute nonsense about it, and people will not 'call you out' on it, as it were.

The Sweet changed their sound many times, if you were as big a fan as you think you are, you would know this. As I have already stated, the Sweet sounded nothing like Queen before Queen were formed, thus your claim, that it is quite possible that we would not have had Queen were it not for the Sweet, is easily disproven, and once again you have failed to state why you consider this manufactured pop group a progressive band. As for your other bizarre claim, here is Wikipedia's list of top-selling music artists, note that an artist must sell over fifty million records in order to appear on the list, also note that the Sweet do not appear on this list. Feel free to add the Sweet to the list, and then marvel as they are instantly removed from said list. Ponder upon this mysterious occurance. Perhaps try to add them to the list once more, and then ask yourself why you are the only person who thinks the Sweet sold over fifty million records. My recent Google adventures have revealed that I may have underestimated the Sweet, and that the figure may in fact be closer to six or seven million records. Again, though, this is not quite fifty million. It has become painfully obvious that the supposed power of the Sweet's music has impaired your ability to think rationally. I can see that continuing this conversation would be akin to banging my head against a brick wall, and I refuse to waste further thinking time on this nonsense. Here endeth the lesson.

sweet was formed in 1968 and bfore queen had their first success with killer queen in 1974 sweet had inspired on all b sides their sound with chorus singing and sound effects.Brian may sayd himself that Sweet where one of the best bands in the 70s. And the selling of 50 million records is true. The first single they wrote himself " Fox on the run" was the first single that saled over 1 million.

Nope, the Sweet sounded totally different at the time Queen was formed (1971). So it is unlikely (impossible, basically) that Queen's existence depended on the Sweet. In fact the Sweet's sound changed around the time Queen got famous, not that I'm suggesting the Sweet merely followed whichever trends happened to be selling well. Ironically, in response to the accusation that they were a manufactured band (which they were), you point to record sales figures. This is ironic because the whole point of the Sweet, as they were a manufactured pop group, was to sell as many records as possible, and that's it. If that's your main criterion when it comes to your judging a band's ability and lasting impact then I don't think there's much I can say. And where are you getting fifty million from? Take a zero away and you'd be much close. Five million records would be my guess, which is still a lot of records, but not quite fifty million. Certainly, they sold less than ten million. I haqve no idea why you picked fifty million, there really aren't that many bands that have sold fifty million records, and the Sweet didn't even come close to that. Weird. P.S. Blockbuster was a rip-off of I'm A Man.

And it's quite possible we wouldn't have had Queen if it weren't for Sweet. They influenced many other bands - pity they fired Brian in 1978 and then split up in 1982. RIP Brian Connolly (1997) RIP Mick Tucker (2002)

over 50 million saled records!!!!! and listen to theyr b- sides.

Dude, are you serious? Progressive? My God that word is bandied about a lot these days. Listen, I was there, man. The Sweet were a manufactured pop band, ok? They were a complete joke, and everyone thought so. Grow up.

One of the most underratet bands ever, hear the songs they wrote self and you know what i mean