Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Top 1000 Bands #580-#571

580 - Stone Sour - The side project of the lead singer of Slipknot, Stone Sour has only released two albums and has already far out-achieved the original band.

579 - The Lovin' Spoonful - One of the best hippie bands of the 60's, The Lovin' Spoonful created 2 all-time classics with "Do You Believe In Magic" and "Summer In The City".

578 - Whiskeytown - Ryan Adams' band before he went solo, Whiskeytown is one of the finest bands of the alt country genre.

577 - The Klaxons - A new modern rock band that has a glam sound and a couple of great albums thusfar.

576 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - One of the top bands of the 70's prog rock genre, Emerson, Lake & Palmer could accurately be described as the band that inspired hundreds of other bands in the late 1970's... to rebel against it and create punk.

575 - The Spencer Davis Group - As a teenager Steve Winwood was in this band which had one of the all-time great songs of all rock n roll with "Gimmie Some Lovin'".

574 - Big Audio Dynamite - I'm not sure when exactly the Clash broke up but shortly after they did a former member formed this band, which basically filled the gap left by the band, but like most things in the 80's it wasn't nearly as good as it was in the 70's.

573 - Jonny Lang - A modern-day bluesman from North Dakota, Jonny Lang was everything Kenny Wayne Shepherd tried his entire career to be.

572 - 1990s - An indie dance rock band that is so similar to Franz Ferdinand that they're referred to one another constantly.

571 - Big Head Todd And The Monsters - They're just about at the exact midpoint of the modern rock spectrum in the 1990's. They've had more than a few all-time classic songs, but not so many to get any higher than this.

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