Greatest rock bands
of all time

TM, ®, Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi
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  1. Velvet Underground
  2. Pere Ubu
  3. Amon Duul
  4. Mothers Of Invention
  5. Faust
  6. Rolling Stones
  7. Grateful Dead
  8. Pink Floyd
  9. Soft Machine
  10. Pop Group
  11. Can
  12. Metallica
  13. Doors
  14. Jefferson Airplane
  15. Talking Heads
  16. Minutemen
  17. Sonic Youth
  18. Slint
  19. Tangerine Dream
  20. Swans
  21. King Crimson
  22. Television
  23. Cream
  24. Blind Idiot God
  25. Fugazi
  26. Who
  27. Pearl Jam
  28. Tortoise
... and, in random order,...
  • REM
  • Gong
  • Residents
  • Popol Vuh
  • Husker DU
  • Morphine
  • Bardo Pond
  • Jesus Lizard
  • Mercury Rev
  • Roxy Music
  • Ministry
  • Royal Trux
  • Henry Cow
  • Savage Republic
  • Rip Rig And Panic
  • Cop Shoot Cop
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Replacements
  • Butthole Surfers
  • Neu
  • Phish
  • Primus
  • Pixies
  • MC5
  • Dream Theater
  • Faith No More
  • Unrest
  • Stooges
  • Yes
  • Squirrel Bait
  • Band
  • Death Of Samantha
  • Soundgarden
  • Dead Can Dance
  • Magma
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Nirvana
  • Polvo
  • Bugskull
  • Ramones
  • Shellac
  • Family
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Lounge Lizards
  • Clash
  • Holy Modal Rounders
  • Byrds
  • Deviants
  • Slowdive
  • Van Der Graaf Generator
  • Kinks
  • Animals
  • Quicksilver
  • Pearls Before Swine
  • Tsunami
  • Pavement
  • Traffic
  • Sex Pistols
  • Guns And Roses
  • Genesis
  • Buffalo Springfield
  • Hawkwind
  • and many others from the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s that you can find at this page.
No, I did not forget these ones:
  • Beatles
  • Beach Boys
  • Radiohead
  • U2
I just think there are a few hundreds that i should list if i list these two, and I don't have time to list them all.