Rank these bands! (if you can)

[IbanezJem]

Dire Straits would be in my top 20.

Too right. I listened to Love Over Gold the other day (on cassette, bizarrely; I still have a few that I didn`t buy as formats changed). Private Investigations and Telegraph Road are truly exceptional.

[Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios]

1. Queen

2. Rush

3. Genesis

4. Dream Theater

5.The Beatles

6. Pink Floyd

7. Yes

8. The Rolling Stones

9. The Who

10. Soundgarden

11. Led Zeppelin

12. Judas Priest

13. Styx

14. Foo Fighters

15. King Crimson

16. Thin Lizzy

17. Aerosmith

18. Van Halen

19. Megadeth

20. Kansas

21. Black Sabbath

22. U2

23. Iron Maiden

24. Supertramp

25. The Police

26. ZZ Top

27. Def Leppard

28. Metallica

29. AC/DC

30. Journey

31. Mastodon

32. Jethro Tull

33. Boston

34. R.E.M.

35. Guns 'N' Roses

36. Nirvana

37. Toto

38. Blue Oyster Cult

39. Deep Purple

40. Steely Dan

41. Alice In Chains

42. Heart

43. UFO

44. Porcupine Tree

45. Uriah Heep

46. The Doors

47. Lynyrd Skynyrd

48. Triumph

49. Marillion

50. Ghost

 

I did it.

 

You forgot Muse ! ;-)

 

[Rick N. Backer]

This is right now. I left out the bands I either don't really know, or think are complete garbage. The top 4 are solid. After that, we're really talking about what I've listened to lately. Also, bands with larger discographies suffer from having more albums that are way of the peak (Rush, Aerosmith).

 

1. The Beatles

2. Van Halen

3. Black Sabbath

4. The Rolling Stones

5. AC/DC

6. The Police

7. Def Leppard

8. Soundgarden

9. Guns 'N' Roses

10. Rush

11. Aerosmith

12. Iron Maiden

13. UFO

14. Led Zeppelin

15. Lynyrd Skynyrd

16. The Who

17. Alice In Chains

18. The Doors

19. Nirvana

20. ZZ Top

21. Judas Priest

22. Deep Purple

23. Pink Floyd

24. Jethro Tull

25. Metallica

26. U2

27. Yes

28. Triumph

29. Queen

30. Blue Oyster Cult

31. Heart

32. Genesis

33. Boston

34. Steely Dan

35. R.E.M.

36. Journey

37. Thin Lizzy

38. Foo Fighters

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[cygnify]

Here's how I would rank the bands you listed (and ones you missed):

 

Bands I Love (my top tier)

Rush

King Crimson

Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd (& DG / RW solo)

Yes

Porcupine Tree (& Steven Wilson)

 

Bands you MISSED in my top tier:

Frank Zappa

Tool

King's X

Opeth

 

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Bands I Really Like (my second tier)

 

The Beatles (& assoc, solo)

Genesis

 

The Who

Van Halen

The Doors

Kansas

Jethro Tull

Alice in Chains

Queen

Steely Dan

The Rolling Stones

Boston

Soundgarden

 

Bands you MISSED in my second tier:

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Peter Gabriel

The Grateful Dead

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Jimi Hendrix

McStine & Minnemann

The Pineapple Thief

Dixie Dregs

The Aristocrats

Smashing Pumpkins

System of a Down

Sting

Bruford

Living Colour

the Mars Volta

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Anathema

Stone Temple Pilots

Return to Forever

Primus

Queensryche

Radiohead

 

Bands I somewhat Love/Like but don't care for part of their discography:

Marillion (Fish only please!)

Dream Theater (earliest albums my fav; hasn't sat well with Mangini)

Metallica (up to Black album!)

Iron Maiden (high school! got repetitive and uninteresting to me after Somewhere in Time)

Heart (early stuff rocked. then cheese.)

Def Leppard (high school. Early stuff great; later stuff not so much to bleh...)

Megadeth (high school. early stuff for sure. later, nope.)

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Bands I like (my third tier)

Triumph

Black Sabbath

Aerosmith

Deep Purple

Journey

The Police

Foo Fighters

Supertramp

Styx

AC/DC

ZZ Top

U2

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Nirvana

R.E.M.

 

Bands you MISSED in my third tier:

Santana

Allman Brothers Band

Pearl Jam

Anthrax

Cream

Dave Matthews Band

Phish

Eagles

311

Extreme

Janes Addiction

Liquid Tension Experiment

Incubus

Radiohead

 

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Bands are OK/Good but I never really got into them:

Toto (love Jeff Porcaro - masterful drummer, and Luthaker shreds. a few great tunes - under-rated Jake to the Bone; but too much mid stuff.)

UFO (sad to say because I actually had the chance to jam several times with Paul Chapman, RIP.)

Judas Priest (some good songs, some, meh.)

Blue Oyster Cult (really like their two most famous songs, but after that, nothing took.)

Thin Lizzy (like their two most famous songs, but after that, nothing took.)

Uriah Heep (potential is there, but never took.)

 

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Bands I've only heard a few times, but haven't really followed up and don't feel compelled to

Mastodon (don't dig the vocals; mind you I do like Opeth.)

Ghost (early stuff had a potential, did not like new stuff I heard.)

 

 

Other than those, I probably missed a bunch that you missed. lol.