The Ten Best Rock Bands and Songs Of All Time
While listening to the radio this afternoon I heard three songs in a row of bands that I will classify in, my all time favorite bands list. Being it’s Friday night I thought it would be fun, to come up with a few lists of some of my favorites. It’s much harder then I thought it would be.
This list is some of the music I grew up with and are the songs that influenced me at certain, special times in my life. I know there are some that would never make a “voted” top ten, but they are mine. Just as I am sure your top ten would be different then mine also.
The names in these lists are not in any particular order. There are most likely a few bands that influenced music more then the ones I listed, like The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead and the Beatles, but did not make my list.
Note: trying to pick the top ten songs, proved to be much more difficult then bands. So the list of songs encompass twenty instead of ten.
I dare you to sit down and come up with ten of yours. I would love to hear your top ten. The four categories that I came up with are:
- Top Ten Rock Bands
- Top Ten Twenty Rock Songs
- Top Ten Twenty Rock Ballads
- Top Ten Twenty Motown Hits
The names in these lists are not in any particular order. These are my favorite and doubt they would be in any official top ten list. There are most likely a few groups that influenced music more then the ones I listed, like The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead and the Beatles. But these are the bands and songs that influenced me the most and of course the ones I loved and still do.
Top Ten Rock Bands
1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Who
3. David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
4. Pink Floyd
5. U2
6. Roxy Music
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers
8. The Doors
9. The Eagles
10. Earth, Wind & Fire
Top Ten Twenty Rock Songs
1. Stairway To Heaven-Led Zepplin
2. Layla-Derek and the Dominoes
3. Light My Fire-The Doors
4. Free Bird-Lynard Skynyrd
5. Baba O’Reily- The Who
6. Time – Pink Floyd
7. What’s Goin On – Marvin Gaye
8. Roundabout – Yes
9. One – U2
10. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
11. Whipping Post – Allman Brothers
12. Nights In White Satin – Moody Blues
13. No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley
14. Changes – David Bowie
15. Doctor My Eyes- Jackson Browne
16. Call Me – Blondie
17. All Along The Watch Tower – Jimi Hendrix
18. Hey Jude – Beatles
19. Sympathy For The Devil – Rolling Stones
20. Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
Top Ten Rock Ballads
1. Imagine – John Lennon
2. Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Simon & Garfunkel
3. Crying – Roy Orbison
4. Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers
5. Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley
6. Yesterday – Beatles
7. Vincent – Don McLean
8. Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
9. Wild Horses – Rolling Stones
10. Dust In The Wind – Kansas
11. He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother – The Hollies
12. Your Song – Elton John
13. Behind Blue Eyes – The Who
14. Wicked Game – Chris Isaack
15. Have You Ever Loved A Woman – Bryan Adams
16. True Love Ways – Buddy Holly
17. Can’t Tell You Why – Eagles
18. Faithfully – Journey
19. The Flame – Cheap Trick
20. The Long And Winding Road- Beatles
Top Ten Motown Hits
1. My Girl – Temptations
2. Reach Out I’ll Be There – Four Tops
3. Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
4. I’ll Be There – Jackson Five
5. Stop In The Name Of Love – Supremes
6. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) – Four Tops
7. Just My Imagination – Temptations
8.You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
9. Neither One Of Us – Gladys Knight and the Pips
10. Brick House – The Commodores
11. Super Freak – Rick James
10. You’ll Never Find – Lou Rawls
11. Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – Spinners
12. Oh Girls – Chi Lites
13. You Make Me Feel Brand New – Stylistics
14. Billie Jean – Micheal Jackson
15. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell
16. Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson
17. Endless Love – Lionel Richtie & Diana Ross
18. No Where To Run – Marthe Reeves & The Vandellas
19. Superstition – Stevie Wonder
20. Shop Around – The Miracles
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Led Zeppelin has to be my all-time fave. I actually stopped listening to them for about ten years, and when I added them to my digital collection, it was like hearing them for the first time, like, ‘Wow…this is why they blew my mind when I was 15″
Nice list though. IMO, I’d swap Doctor My Eyes with Running On Empty. David Lindley’s slide solo kills me everytime on that one.
The Eagles….love them so much..
You have some excellent choices there. May have to go pull out some old CD’s now and listen to some tunes
Pink Flold for sure. I use to see the laser show with their music playing at the planetarium. Aww, the memories.
I can see your age shining through
Love them all…especially Pink Floyd…oh do I have memories to their sound…yummie
Led Zeppelin is next on my list for some interesting trips down memory lane.
Music is to similar to smells…they trigger off so many good memories !
Remember my age, Elvis, the Beatles, Sonny and Cher…to name a few…and then there is Andre Bocelli (not sure of the spelling…and Josh Groagin..however you spell him.)
This old lady love the oldies and goodies…
Best to you…
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Hey Glenn –
You were right – seems it IS difficult to narrow down a list of your favorite into just ten! So nice to see “The Flame” by Cheap Trick on your list, an oft-overlooked classic and one of my personal faves. The band did not want to release the song as a single because they didn’t want to hurt their straight ahead rock image, but the record company forced the issue. When they switched record companies – they often omitted the song from their live performances, sadly.
Oh my God these songs ARE awesome. Did I miss Journey’s “Open Arms”. That has got to be the sweetest love ballad ever!!!!
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This is my first time i visit here. I found so many interesting stuff in your blog especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here! keep up the good work.
1. Led Zeppelin – Of Course!
2. The Who – Number 2? Uhh, I’ll spot them at…
3. David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars – Not in the top 10
4. Pink Floyd – # 4 for PF
5. U2 – In the 80’s I would have completely agreed. I wouldn’t include Bono in the top 100 today. And, it’s too bad for the rest of the band.
6. Roxy Music – Didn’t make my top 10
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers – Didn’t make my top 10 rock bands and that is not to say what Bob Marley did wasn’t great.
8. The Doors – I’m placing the Doors at #…
9. The Eagles – These last two…
10. Earth, Wind & Fire – you’re kidding I take it.
Rock bands I think should be in Rock n’ Roll Bands in the top 10 are:
My top 10 Rock Bands of all time would be;
1) The Beatles
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
2) The Rolling Stones
3) Led Zeppelin
4) Jimi Hendrix
5) The Doors
6) The Who
7) Aerosmith
9) Pink Floyd
I’m placing a few deserving bands in the number 10 spot. It happens.
10) AC/DC, Neil Young, Queen, Peter Frampton, Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, Jethro Tull, BTO, Van Halen, Tom Petty… now I am in a top 20. I’m sorry Bono took the path he did, I hope the Eagles hang out forever (I’m pretty sure Joe Walsh will play until he can’t any longer) David Bowie is great, perhaps in the top 25. The only ones I really don’t understand why they were in a top 10 RnR category are Roxy Music, Earth Wind & Fire and especially Bob Marley. But art in any way, shape or form is so much like love. Great topic!
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