Quite a retarded list! Well I guess most of the bands deserve to be in
the list but the order is so messed up.

http://classicrock.about.com/od/recommendationsandreviews/a/top100_bands.htm

1. The Beatles
Essential Album: Revolver
With record sales estimated at more than a billion worldwide, no other
band had a greater influence on the course of rock music.
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2. Pink Floyd
Essential Album: Wish You Were Here
They had one of the flashiest stage shows of any band, but their music
gained its most fame being used in movies.
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3.The Who
Essential Album: Who's Next
One of the first, most successful, and longest lasting "power trios,"
this group was innovative both musically and technically.
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4. Rolling Stones
Essential Album: Sticky Fingers
The original "bad boys" of rock, they are among the most durable bands,
recording and touring with few breaks since they began in 1961.
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5. Led Zeppelin
Essential Album: Led Zeppelin IV
Their Stairway To Heaven is believed to have received more radio
airplay than any other song in history, even though it was never
released as a single.
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6. Eagles
Essential Album: Their Greatest Hits
Another of rock's longest-lasting acts, their 1976 greatest hits album
is the biggest selling album of all time.
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7. Grateful Dead
Essential Album: Anthem Of The Sun
One of San Francisco's first "flower power" bands, their fan following
is nearly as strong today as it was when the group disbanded in 1995.
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8. Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship
Essential Album: While Bathing At Baxter's
Pioneers of the Psychedelic Rock genre, they were in the vanguard of
the counter-culture of the '60s and '70s.
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9. The Doors
Essential Album: The Doors
In spite of a short life and limited discography, they became one of
rock's most popular and influential groups.
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10. Moody Blues
Essential Album: Days Of Future Passed
With the exception of a few years in the mid-70s, this
progressive/psychedelic group has toured and recorded since 1964.
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11. Fleetwood Mac
Essential Album: Rumours
After numerous personnel and musical style changes, their 1977 Rumours
album is still among the top ten best selling albums ever.
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12. AC/DC
Essential Album: Back In Black
This pioneering hard rock/heavy metal group has sold an estimated
100-million albums worldwide.
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13. Boston
Essential Album: Boston
When their first album was released in 1976, it was the highest
grossing debut album ever seen up until that time.
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14. Cream
Essential Album: Wheels Of Fire
The group existed for less than three years but staked its place as one
of the first and most enduringly popular of rock's "power trios."
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15. Def Leppard
Essential Album: Hysteria
Futuristic instrumentation and vocal harmonies have kept them near the
top of the all-time best selling album lists for a quarter of a
century.
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16. The Byrds
Essential Album: The Byrds' Greatest Hits
Aomng the pioneers of Folk Rock, their popularity in the mid-60s
rivaled that of the Beatles.
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17. Aerosmith
Essential Album: Toys In The Attic
Originally written off as Rolling Stones imitators, the group has
consistently produced multi-million-selling albums for 30+ years.
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18. Santana
Essential Album: Abraxas
This groundbreaking Latin Rock group timed the release of its first
album to coincide with a highly successful performance at Woodstock in
1969.
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19. Blood Sweat & Tears
Essential Album: Blood Sweat & Tears
Virtually a small orchestra, this group established a milestone in rock
history with its large horn section and jazz-blues orientation.
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20. Van Halen
Essential Album: 1984
One of the most innovative and influential heavy metal groups of the
late '70s, the group continues to perform some 30+ years after its
inception.
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21. ZZ Top
Essential Album: The Best Of ZZ Top
The self-proclaimed "little ol' band from Texas" was one of the
earliest influences in Southern Rock, and continues so, three decades
later.
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22. U2
Ireland's best known rockers have been a successful fixture on album
charts and in concert venues since their formation in 1976.
Essential Album: The Joshua Tree
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23. Allman Brothers
Essential Album: Eat A Peach
The success of their unique fusion of hard rock, blues, jazz, and
classical music has secured this group's immortality.
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24. Journey
Essential Album: Greatest Hits
Its jazz-flavored progressive rock sound has been a fixture in the rock
scene since 1973.
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25. Traffic
Essential Album: John Barleycorn Must Die
This group had far greater success with albums than with singles, and
thrived in spite of numerous personnel changes and long breaks.
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26. Jethro Tull
Essential Album: Very Best Of Jethro Tull
Typically considered a Progressive Rock band, they developed and
maintained a sound that was completely unlike any other group's, and
which isn't easy to categorize.
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27.Foreigner
Essential Album: Complete Greatest Hits
A group of back-up players got together in 1976 and formed a group that
became a longtime Arena Rock and radio airplay favorite.
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28. The Kinks
Essential Album: Ultimate Collection
They maintained their popularity through the '60s and '70s by adjusting
their lyric themes and musical styles as times, and public tastes,
changed.
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29. Blue Öyster Cult
Essential Album: The Essential Blue Öyster Cult
Formed in the mid '60s, this metal/psych rock band had a long string of
successful albums throughout the '70s and '80s.
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30. Buffalo Springfield
Essential Album: Retrospective
The group existed for less than two years, but was considered a
significant force in mid '60s rock, and launched the careers of members
Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Jim Messina, and Richie Furay.
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31. Queen
Essential Album: Platinum Collection
The band that put the glitter in Glitter Rock is second only to the
Beatles in album sales in the UK.
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32. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Essential Album: Deja Vu
More than any other group of their time, they endeared themselves to a
generation of youth with their lyric themes and eclectic variety of
musical styles.
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33. Styx
Essential Album: Come Sail Away
After failing to break through with Progressive Rock, this group is
credited with originating the more mainstream Arena Rock sound.
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34. Creedence Clearwater Revival
Essential Album: Chronicle
At the height of the British Invasion, they were the leading American
rock band.
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35. Deep Purple
Essential Album: Very Best Of
They shuffled personnel and musical styles until they became one of the
most successful bands on the concert and recording circuit.
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36. Steve Miller Band
Essential Album: Young Hearts
They paid their dues as a backup band before becoming one of the most
popular groups of the '70s.
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37. Guess Who
Essential Album: Anthology
Canada's most popular rock band evolved from soft rock to hard from the
early 60s through the mid 70s.
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38. Dave Clark Five
Essential Album: 30 Greatest Hits
Beatlemania helped propel this British group to great popularity in
America.
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39. Steppenwolf
Essential Album: All Time Greatest Hits
This Canadian heavy metal band is credited with creating the Bike Rock
genre.
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40. Yes
Essential Album: Very Best Of Yes
In spite of more than the usual number of major personnel changes, this
group has had a long and successful careeer.
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41. Doobie Brothers
Essential Album: Best Of The Doobies
They aren't actually brothers, but they have parlayed a distinctive
Heavy Metal/Southern Rock blend into a 30+ year career.
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42. Chicago
Essential Album: Only The Beginning
The most successful orchestral rock group formed in 1967 and is still
touring nearly 40 years later.
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43. Kiss
Essential Album: Gold
Mix hard rock with over-the-top appearance and stage antics and you get
the fathers of glitter-punk.
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44. Big Brother & the Holding Company
Essential Album: Big Brother & the Holding Company
Catapulted from local San Francisco band to worldwide phenomenon with
the addition of lead singer, Janis Joplin and a 1967 Monterey Pop
Festival performance.
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45. Mothers of Invention
Essential Album: Absolutely Free
The first and formemost practitioners of successfully combining
humorous lyrics and avant garde rock music.
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46. Sex Pistols
Essential Album: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Their short life as a punk band was out of proportion to the huge
influence they had on pop culture in England.
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47. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Essential Album: Skynyrd's Innyrds
Described by All Music Guide as "the definitive Southern rock band,"
they reunited ten years after the deaths of three original members in a
1977 plane crash, and still perform today.
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48. B-52s
Essential Album: Nude On The Moon
They went from alternative to mainstream with a quirky combination of
Surf Rock and dance music.
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49. Grand Funk Railroad
Essential Album: We're An American Band
Achieved greater commercial success than any other American rock band
in the '60s and early '70s.
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50. Black Sabbath
Essential Album: We Sold Our Soul For Rock And Roll
One of the longest lasting and most successful groups is credited as
the first Heavy Metal band.
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