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Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: clueidiotaclueidiota Date: Aug 2, 2006 19:17
Bassplayer12 wrote:
> What's retarded is that they list The Who as a "power trio".
They obviously dont count Daltrey as he did not play any instruments. I
know it is retarded but thats probably what they meant.
> They don't know how to count.
>
> At #37, the Guess Who: Canada's most popular rock band
Yes, The Guess Who is Canadian. Most popular, I doubt that but they are
Canadian
> .........................................
>
> And then Rush passed them.
>
>
> yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1154567895.058070.177900@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 12. AC/DC
> Essential Album: Back In Black
> This pioneering hard rock/heavy metal group has sold an estimated
> 100-million albums worldwide.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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."
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 24. Journey
> Essential Album: Greatest Hits
> Its jazz-flavored progressive rock sound has been a fixture in the rock
> scene since 1973.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 34. Creedence Clearwater Revival
> Essential Album: Chronicle
> At the height of the British Invasion, they were the leading American
> rock band.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 38. Dave Clark Five
> Essential Album: 30 Greatest Hits
> Beatlemania helped propel this British group to great popularity in
> America.
> Profile
>
> 39. Steppenwolf
> Essential Album: All Time Greatest Hits
> This Canadian heavy metal band is credited with creating the Bike Rock
> genre.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 42. Chicago
> Essential Album: Only The Beginning
> The most successful orchestral rock group formed in 1967 and is still
> touring nearly 40 years later.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 43. Kiss
> Essential Album: Gold
> Mix hard rock with over-the-top appearance and stage antics and you get
> the fathers of glitter-punk.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 45. Mothers of Invention
> Essential Album: Absolutely Free
> The first and formemost practitioners of successfully combining
> humorous lyrics and avant garde rock music.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
> Tour Dates/Tickets
>
> 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.
> Profile
>
> 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.
> Profile
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