Top 1000 #100-#91

100 - The Jam - A key band from the late 70's that made the transition from one of the best punk bands to one of the best New Wave bands. They didn't have the crossover appeal of The Clash, but they cranked out a lot of great songs and influenced a lot of artists.

99 - The Cars - They usually get lumped in with the other AOR bands of the 70's, but the truth of the matter was that the Cars were one of the first great New Wave artists to cross over to mainstream success. The band enjoyed a long string of hit singles before selling their soul to a devil named Mutt Lange.

98 - Hole - The band will always be associated with the death of Kurt Cobain, but independent of that situation, Hole was one of the best grunge/punk bands of the 90's. The band was driven primarily by the manic vocals of Courtney Love, one of rock's greatest insane frontmen, and the lyrics were co-written by 90's legends Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan.

97 - Van Halen - One of the biggest rock bands of all-time, Van Halen has survived for three decades on the strength of the game-changing guitar virtuosity of founding member Eddie Van Halen. The band was aided in the 70's by the wildman antics of lead singer David Lee Roth and then later on by the radio-friendly Sammy Hagar. They were not helped in the least by 90's lead singer Gary Cherone, as no one has ever been helped by Gary Cherone. Seriously, when the band was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, the inducted line-up included both Roth and Hagar as well as all other members of the band and 19 of their roadies. Cherone was not invited as the phrase "Gary Cherone" is actually the exact opposite of the phrase "Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame".

96 - Stevie Ray Vaughan - The guitar virtuoso who brought the blues back to rock n roll in the 1980's was shockingly snubbed for the Hall of Fame the first year he was eligible. The shock of the matter is that SRV is one of the most important and dynamic artists of the 80's and really, there weren't a whole lot of them.

95 - At The Drive-In - Yet another underappreciated alt-rock / punk bands of the late 90's, ATDI were set to become the heirs apparent to Rage Against The Machine as their artistic and commercial breakout came just as Rage was calling it quits. Unfortunately, Relationship Of Command was also the band's last album as their swirling emotionally-charged agit-punk eventually broke down into it's parts, forming new megabands The Mars Volta and Sparta.

94 - Bob Marley - When you think of reggae, you think of Bob Marley. No single artist more entirely encompasses his genre of music than Bob did, bringing his homeland's music to the world and changing the face of rock n roll forever.

93 - Chuck Berry - Elvis Presley always gets credited with being the "king of rock n roll", but without Chuck Berry, Elvis would be another country singer pretending he was Johnny Cash. Berry was one of the biggest stars in rock n roll in the late 50's and early 60's and created several of the most important songs of all time including "Johnny B. Goode" and "Rock N Roll Music".

92 - Cream - After the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton joined this supergroup, which was among the biggest bands of the 60's and one of the most important rock bands of all-time. The songs speak for themselves. Where would rock n roll be without "White Room" or "Crossroads" or "Sunshine Of Your Love"?

91 - Prince - One of the biggest pop stars of all-time, Prince cranked out hit after hit after hit after hit during the 80's and 90's before essentially disappearing off the face of the earth in the late 90's. Prince mixed filthy lyrics with pop beats from the 80's and a whole lot of funk on loan from James Brown himself to create a string of hits that sounds as fresh today as it did when it was made, unlike fellow 80's artists, most of whose music hasn't aged well in the least.