150 - Dire Straits - One of the biggest stars of the early 80's, Dire Straits was also one of the first big stars of MTV, back when MTV played rock videos, let alone videos at all.
149 - Liz Phair - An indie sensation from the start, Liz Phair struggled to live up to the early hype her first few albums promised. In the end, she never lived up to that promise, but along the way she still managed to have a sensational career.
148 - Echo And The Bunnymen - They'll be going up in my next evaluation, but for now, Echo falls in the top 150 of my list. Echo was one of the best bands of the early alternative era, cranking out epic new wave song after epic new wave song during the late 70's and early 80's.
147 - Rilo Kiley - From one of the best alternative bands of the past two one of the best in the present. Rilo Kiley is an alt-rock beast propelled forward by the vocals of Jenny Lewis and some of the most clever lyrics and hooks of the new century.
146 - The Eels - Another fantastic alt-rock band comes in at #146. The Eels are tragically anonymous, though they've put a lot of big hits on college rock and alternative rock radio over the years. They definitely deserve more attention than they've got, but that seems to be a reoccuring theme in modern rock music.
145 - The Decemberists - One of the most promising new indie rock bands on the scene, The Decemberists broke through onto the alt rock scene with their brilliant Rushmore send-up video to their best song "Sixteen Military Wives" and continued to improve their awareness with a gimmick rivalry with comedian Stephen Colbert. Their last few albums have been quirky, but brilliant and they've shown a lot of promise for the future.
144 - White Zombie - Possibly the biggest metal band of the 90's, White Zombie filled a gap created by the alt-rockification of Metallica during that decade. They only had a couple albums, but they carved their own niche in the genre that's carried on long after the band itself broke up.
143 - Blur - The loser of the Brit Pop battle, Blur never crossed over in America the way that Oasis did, but they still did manage to create some of the best albums of the 90's.
142 - Paul Simon - After the break-up of Simon And Garfunkel, Paul Simon went solo and explored world music, bringing it to the masses in a way that no American artist had at that point. The songwriting wasn't quite as good as it used to be, but it's still stellar.
141 - Heart - The female Led Zeppelin, Heart tore into the classic rock era with shredding guitars and wicked lyrics, easily making them one of the biggest snubs at the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Top 1000 Songs #160-#151
#160 - "Alive" - Pearl Jam - Ten - #21/25 - Pearl Jam's greatest guitar solo is contained towards the end of "Alive". "Alive" was also the first Pearl Jam song and one of their biggest hits.
#159 - "C'mon C'mon" - The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart - #1/1 - As one-hit wonders go, this is one of the best. A garage rock throwback that's also the theme song of Rescue Me and features one of the most intense choruses of all-time.
#158 - "Lithium" - Nirvana - Nevermind - #12/15 - One of Nirvana's first great songs, "Lithium" starts out very slowly and then builds to an intense, raging chorus.
#157 - "New Slang" - The Shins - Oh, Inverted World - #3/3 - The song that changed Zach Braff's life in the movie Garden State, "New Slang" is one of the key songs of the indie rock millennium with it's clever lyrics and sweeping chorus.
#156 - "Something" - The Beatles - Abbey Road - #16/22 - George Harrison didn't write many songs for the Beatles, but when he did, they were fantastic, as illustrated by this brilliant love song.
#155 - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - The Stooges - Raw Power - #3/5 - Easily the best use of sleighbells in a rock song, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was an iconic song of the proto-punk genre with its subversive lyrics and pulsing sound.
#154 - "Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl - #2/2 - One of the most memorable pop rock songs of the 60's, "Brown" is catchy and has a universal appeal that made it popular everywhere from classic rock radio to proms.
#153 - "What Is And What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - #18/24 - The song starts out pretty slowly, but the chorus is among Zeppelin's best and one of the best minutes in all of classic rock.
#152 - "Let's Stay Together" - Al Green - Let's Stay Together - #1/1 - The all-time R&B classic to end all R&B classics, Al Green's greatest hit features great lyrics and one of the greatest choruses ever.
#151 - "Float On" - Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - #4/4 - The song that catapulted them to the forefront of the indie rock song, "Float On" actually hit #1 on the Modern Rock charts, one of the few truly indie songs to ever achieve such a feat. The peppy song with quirky verses also served as a launching point for a new tidal wave of fantastic indie rock that has dominated the millennium so far.
#159 - "C'mon C'mon" - The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart - #1/1 - As one-hit wonders go, this is one of the best. A garage rock throwback that's also the theme song of Rescue Me and features one of the most intense choruses of all-time.
#158 - "Lithium" - Nirvana - Nevermind - #12/15 - One of Nirvana's first great songs, "Lithium" starts out very slowly and then builds to an intense, raging chorus.
#157 - "New Slang" - The Shins - Oh, Inverted World - #3/3 - The song that changed Zach Braff's life in the movie Garden State, "New Slang" is one of the key songs of the indie rock millennium with it's clever lyrics and sweeping chorus.
#156 - "Something" - The Beatles - Abbey Road - #16/22 - George Harrison didn't write many songs for the Beatles, but when he did, they were fantastic, as illustrated by this brilliant love song.
#155 - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - The Stooges - Raw Power - #3/5 - Easily the best use of sleighbells in a rock song, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was an iconic song of the proto-punk genre with its subversive lyrics and pulsing sound.
#154 - "Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl - #2/2 - One of the most memorable pop rock songs of the 60's, "Brown" is catchy and has a universal appeal that made it popular everywhere from classic rock radio to proms.
#153 - "What Is And What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - #18/24 - The song starts out pretty slowly, but the chorus is among Zeppelin's best and one of the best minutes in all of classic rock.
#152 - "Let's Stay Together" - Al Green - Let's Stay Together - #1/1 - The all-time R&B classic to end all R&B classics, Al Green's greatest hit features great lyrics and one of the greatest choruses ever.
#151 - "Float On" - Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - #4/4 - The song that catapulted them to the forefront of the indie rock song, "Float On" actually hit #1 on the Modern Rock charts, one of the few truly indie songs to ever achieve such a feat. The peppy song with quirky verses also served as a launching point for a new tidal wave of fantastic indie rock that has dominated the millennium so far.
Top 1000 Bands #160-#151
160 - Jane's Addiction - One of the biggest alternative bands before grunge broke, Jane's Addiction had huge hits with "Jane Says" and "Been Caught Stealing" along with some of the greatest albums of the 80's.
159 - Alice Cooper - The grandfather of shock rock, Alice Cooper was a very controversial figure in early rock n roll and a pioneer in stage presentation. He's also a surprisingly good songwriter and one of the most notable snubs in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.
158 - David Byrne - The former lead singer of The Talking Heads, David Byrne has made a two-decade career out of a combination of New Wave and world music that is entirely unique and always fascinating.
157 - The Band - The former backing band of Bob Dylan went out on their own and created some of the signature music of 60's classic rock, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Weight".
156 - Joy Division - One of the biggest bands of the New Wave and post-punk era, Joy Division was poised to become one of the biggest alt-rock bands of all-time until the suicide of the lead singer Ian Curits broke the band up (the remaining members would form New Order) at the peak of their success. At the moment, Joy Division is one of the most relevant and influential bands on modern indie rock.
155 - X - One of the best punk bands of the punk and New Wave era, X never enjoyed the kind of success that they deserved, but they've still been a remarkably influential and important band in alternative music.
154 - Squeeze - Another overlooked New Wave band with a great track record, Squeeze released brilliant and weird single after single, creating some of the most interesting music of the early 80's.
153 - Fugazi - One of the most important hardcore punk bands Minor Threat broke up in the early 80's and Fugazi formed as a hard rock alternative band that kept the underground spirit alive while still cranking out great hits with mass appeal.
152 - A Perfect Circle - Maynard James Keenan's side project band has enjoyed a great deal of success with their radio-friendly metal tunes. By ditching the prog antics of Tool, APC isn't nearly as good MJK's original band, but it's still near the best music on the mainstream rock charts.
151 - Iron Maiden - One of the best metal bands of the 70's and 80's, Iron Maiden's always been a little too goofy to be taken seriously, but you can't deny the guitar skill and riffs involved in making their epic metal.
159 - Alice Cooper - The grandfather of shock rock, Alice Cooper was a very controversial figure in early rock n roll and a pioneer in stage presentation. He's also a surprisingly good songwriter and one of the most notable snubs in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame.
158 - David Byrne - The former lead singer of The Talking Heads, David Byrne has made a two-decade career out of a combination of New Wave and world music that is entirely unique and always fascinating.
157 - The Band - The former backing band of Bob Dylan went out on their own and created some of the signature music of 60's classic rock, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Weight".
156 - Joy Division - One of the biggest bands of the New Wave and post-punk era, Joy Division was poised to become one of the biggest alt-rock bands of all-time until the suicide of the lead singer Ian Curits broke the band up (the remaining members would form New Order) at the peak of their success. At the moment, Joy Division is one of the most relevant and influential bands on modern indie rock.
155 - X - One of the best punk bands of the punk and New Wave era, X never enjoyed the kind of success that they deserved, but they've still been a remarkably influential and important band in alternative music.
154 - Squeeze - Another overlooked New Wave band with a great track record, Squeeze released brilliant and weird single after single, creating some of the most interesting music of the early 80's.
153 - Fugazi - One of the most important hardcore punk bands Minor Threat broke up in the early 80's and Fugazi formed as a hard rock alternative band that kept the underground spirit alive while still cranking out great hits with mass appeal.
152 - A Perfect Circle - Maynard James Keenan's side project band has enjoyed a great deal of success with their radio-friendly metal tunes. By ditching the prog antics of Tool, APC isn't nearly as good MJK's original band, but it's still near the best music on the mainstream rock charts.
151 - Iron Maiden - One of the best metal bands of the 70's and 80's, Iron Maiden's always been a little too goofy to be taken seriously, but you can't deny the guitar skill and riffs involved in making their epic metal.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Top 1000 Songs #170-#161
#170 - "Head On" - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Automatic - #1/1 - It's hard to say whether this song is more famous than the Pixies' cover version, but I prefer this more somber version of the song in comparison to Frank and Co.'s frenetic version.
#169 - "Aenema" - Tool - Aenema - #7/9 - The epic climax to Tool's greatest album tells the story of the "big one" that finally sends California plummeting into the ocean, and based on MJK's take on the matter, that would be just fine by him.
#168 - "Losing My Religion" - R.E.M. - Out Of Time - #10/12 - The big breakthrough hit that sent R.E.M. to the top of the pop charts after years on the college rock scene, this song was a very important pivot point that kicked the door open for the alt rock explosion of the 90's.
#167 - "You Know You're Right" - Nirvana - Greatest Hits - #11/15 - The song was available for years before it became a radio sensation, but the last Nirvana song is also one of their best, showing an exciting new direction that the band never had a chance to explore.
#166 - "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath - Paranoid - #1/3 - The world had never heard anything like Black Sabbath when they tore into the hard rock scene, creating a dozen different varieties of metal and setting the scene for the future of the genre. With their classic "Paranoid", they created speed metal.
#165 - "Real Wild Child" - Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah - #2/5 - I don't think it's an Iggy original, but this song is still one of his signature post-Stooges songs with it's solid lyrics building up to a crazy chorus.
#164 - "Once In A Lifetime" - The Talking Heads - Remain In Light - #9/10 - One of the weirdest hit songs of the 80's, The Talking Heads created a New Wave sensation with their bizarre art-rock hit.
#163 - "Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles - Revolver - #15/22 - You wouldn't think that a band as cheerful and pop-friendly as the Beatles would produce such a bleak and grim song as "Rigby", which is a song about a woman who dies alone and is buried by a preacher with no congregants, but they did, foreshadowing a darker turn that the band would take in the future.
#162 - "Ocean Breathes Salty" - Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - #3/4 - Modest Mouse is the latest great band to come out of the Seattle alternative rock scene with their breakthrough album Good News. While "Float On" was the big hit, "Salty" was the important follow-up that sealed the band as a force of nature rather than a mere one-hit wonder. I didn't think this song was so great the first time I heard it, but like all Modest Mouse songs, it really grows on you the more you hear it.
#161 - "Born In The U.S.A." - Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. - #9/11 - Although it was used by Ronald Reagan as a campaign song, "U.S.A." is actually a bleak and sarcastic view of life in Reagan's America for it's victims, the poor and disenfranchised.
#169 - "Aenema" - Tool - Aenema - #7/9 - The epic climax to Tool's greatest album tells the story of the "big one" that finally sends California plummeting into the ocean, and based on MJK's take on the matter, that would be just fine by him.
#168 - "Losing My Religion" - R.E.M. - Out Of Time - #10/12 - The big breakthrough hit that sent R.E.M. to the top of the pop charts after years on the college rock scene, this song was a very important pivot point that kicked the door open for the alt rock explosion of the 90's.
#167 - "You Know You're Right" - Nirvana - Greatest Hits - #11/15 - The song was available for years before it became a radio sensation, but the last Nirvana song is also one of their best, showing an exciting new direction that the band never had a chance to explore.
#166 - "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath - Paranoid - #1/3 - The world had never heard anything like Black Sabbath when they tore into the hard rock scene, creating a dozen different varieties of metal and setting the scene for the future of the genre. With their classic "Paranoid", they created speed metal.
#165 - "Real Wild Child" - Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah - #2/5 - I don't think it's an Iggy original, but this song is still one of his signature post-Stooges songs with it's solid lyrics building up to a crazy chorus.
#164 - "Once In A Lifetime" - The Talking Heads - Remain In Light - #9/10 - One of the weirdest hit songs of the 80's, The Talking Heads created a New Wave sensation with their bizarre art-rock hit.
#163 - "Eleanor Rigby" - The Beatles - Revolver - #15/22 - You wouldn't think that a band as cheerful and pop-friendly as the Beatles would produce such a bleak and grim song as "Rigby", which is a song about a woman who dies alone and is buried by a preacher with no congregants, but they did, foreshadowing a darker turn that the band would take in the future.
#162 - "Ocean Breathes Salty" - Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - #3/4 - Modest Mouse is the latest great band to come out of the Seattle alternative rock scene with their breakthrough album Good News. While "Float On" was the big hit, "Salty" was the important follow-up that sealed the band as a force of nature rather than a mere one-hit wonder. I didn't think this song was so great the first time I heard it, but like all Modest Mouse songs, it really grows on you the more you hear it.
#161 - "Born In The U.S.A." - Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. - #9/11 - Although it was used by Ronald Reagan as a campaign song, "U.S.A." is actually a bleak and sarcastic view of life in Reagan's America for it's victims, the poor and disenfranchised.
Top 1000 Bands #170-#161
170 - Janis Joplin - The legendary blues rock singer from the 60's, Joplin unfortunately died very early in her career, meaning that she didn't establish the track record she needed to chart higher on this list, though she did have an amazing run while it lasted.
169 - Supertramp - One of the biggest artists of the 70's, Supertramp gets a bad rap for it's goofy name, but the songwriting was actually very clever and the hooks are amazing.
168 - The Counting Crows - They aren't much these days, but their first two albums were sensational, in particular their second album, Recovering The Satellites.
167 - The Beastie Boys - One of the biggest rap artists of all-time, The Beastie Boys started out as more of a frat rock sort of band before branching out in more artistic directions, reaching a pinnacle with the song "Sabotage", which is one of the best rap-rock fusions ever.
166 - Rob Zombie - As a solo artist, Zombie didn't quite reach the artistic heights he did with White Zombie, but commercially and on the rock charts he achieved new levels of greatness with his radio-friendly glam metal.
165 - Garbage - Although they are insanely popular on XM radio, Garbage fell just short of absolute greatness in my opinion. They did have a reasonably long string of indie rock hits, but not very many of them rank as true classics.
164 - Sleater-Kinney - One of the greatest alt-rock acts of the 21st Century, Sleater-Kinney were part-grunge and part-punk with their heavy riffs and outstanding lyrics.
163 - Marilyn Manson - Carrying on the tradition of Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne, Manson used shock rock as a genre to drive ignorant music non-fans insane with his parent-baiting gender-bending and religion-baiting. The funny thing is, for a few albums at least, he was actually really good at it. Antichrist Superstar is one of the best metal albums of the 90's, while Mechanical Animals is perhaps the best glam rock album since Ziggy Stardust.
162 - Frank Sinatra - Not so much of a rock star as a pre-cursor to the genre, Sinatra was a brilliant crooner who sang great songs with an attitude that would inspire generations of punks and rebels.
161 - Ted Nugent - The Motor City Madman hasn't done much in the last 30 years, but in the 60's and 70's he was one of the greatest guitar players and wildest singers in all of classic rock.
169 - Supertramp - One of the biggest artists of the 70's, Supertramp gets a bad rap for it's goofy name, but the songwriting was actually very clever and the hooks are amazing.
168 - The Counting Crows - They aren't much these days, but their first two albums were sensational, in particular their second album, Recovering The Satellites.
167 - The Beastie Boys - One of the biggest rap artists of all-time, The Beastie Boys started out as more of a frat rock sort of band before branching out in more artistic directions, reaching a pinnacle with the song "Sabotage", which is one of the best rap-rock fusions ever.
166 - Rob Zombie - As a solo artist, Zombie didn't quite reach the artistic heights he did with White Zombie, but commercially and on the rock charts he achieved new levels of greatness with his radio-friendly glam metal.
165 - Garbage - Although they are insanely popular on XM radio, Garbage fell just short of absolute greatness in my opinion. They did have a reasonably long string of indie rock hits, but not very many of them rank as true classics.
164 - Sleater-Kinney - One of the greatest alt-rock acts of the 21st Century, Sleater-Kinney were part-grunge and part-punk with their heavy riffs and outstanding lyrics.
163 - Marilyn Manson - Carrying on the tradition of Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne, Manson used shock rock as a genre to drive ignorant music non-fans insane with his parent-baiting gender-bending and religion-baiting. The funny thing is, for a few albums at least, he was actually really good at it. Antichrist Superstar is one of the best metal albums of the 90's, while Mechanical Animals is perhaps the best glam rock album since Ziggy Stardust.
162 - Frank Sinatra - Not so much of a rock star as a pre-cursor to the genre, Sinatra was a brilliant crooner who sang great songs with an attitude that would inspire generations of punks and rebels.
161 - Ted Nugent - The Motor City Madman hasn't done much in the last 30 years, but in the 60's and 70's he was one of the greatest guitar players and wildest singers in all of classic rock.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Top 1000 Songs #180-#171
#180 - "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - #8/10 - Bowie's most famous guitar riff is a highlight of this pivotal song in the artist's legendary, career-defining concept album that cast him in the title role and set the high-water mark for all glam-rock that would ever come to pass.
#179 - "Instant Karma!" - John Lennon - Shaved Fish - #4/5 - The climactic verse of this brilliant song's chorus "And We All Shine On, Like The Moon and the Stars And The Sun" has to be one of the most famous and significant lyrics in classic rock history. Easily one of John's finest solo songs, though still a ways behind the best, which we'll see later... much later.
#178 - "Respect" - Aretha Franklin - Respect - #2/2 - The most famous "feminist" song in rock n roll (the song was written by Otis Redding and actually was very sexist), "Respect" is Aretha's best song and one of the best songs of the 1960's.
#177 - "Good Fortune" - P.J. Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - #4/4 - Harvey's best song is also her most electric, with a chorus that highlights the best aspects of her wild, desperate music.
#176 - "Here's Your Future" - The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine - #1/1 - For a band that most people have never heard of, The Thermals may be the best political punk band in the world at the moment. This song, which uses biblical stories to point out religion's failings, is by far their most intense and melodical.
#175 - "Fallen" - Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better - #5/6 - The best song off of FF's second album, "Fallen" starts out with a killer riff and builds to a faster and even better riff for the chorus. This is about as good as indie dance punk has ever gotten.
#174 - "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I - #17/24 - One of Zeppelin's best straight-forward blues rock songs, "Good Times" combines a monster riff with clever lyrics and an outstanding chorus.
#173 - "Creep" - Radiohead - Pablo Honey - #6/8 - Radiohead's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Creep" was a megahit that brought the band to the front of the alt-rock scene and became so popular that it almost destroyed the band. No song better embraces teen angst than this one.
#172 - "One Armed Scissor" - At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - #3/3 - ATDI's best song was the hit that should have made the band the heirs to the just broken-up Rage Against The Machine. The song has a strong political theme, great lyrics and a monster chorus full of passion and desperation. Of course, they broke up a few days after they became stars, so it never did work out for the band, but the greatness remains.
#171 - "Lake Of Fire (Unplugged)" - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York - #10/15 - The biggest new song off of Nirvana's last "real" album, "Lake Of Fire" is a cover of an old Meat Puppets song, though let's face it, by now Kurt's laid permanent claim to the song with it's dark lyrics and strange chorus.
#179 - "Instant Karma!" - John Lennon - Shaved Fish - #4/5 - The climactic verse of this brilliant song's chorus "And We All Shine On, Like The Moon and the Stars And The Sun" has to be one of the most famous and significant lyrics in classic rock history. Easily one of John's finest solo songs, though still a ways behind the best, which we'll see later... much later.
#178 - "Respect" - Aretha Franklin - Respect - #2/2 - The most famous "feminist" song in rock n roll (the song was written by Otis Redding and actually was very sexist), "Respect" is Aretha's best song and one of the best songs of the 1960's.
#177 - "Good Fortune" - P.J. Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - #4/4 - Harvey's best song is also her most electric, with a chorus that highlights the best aspects of her wild, desperate music.
#176 - "Here's Your Future" - The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine - #1/1 - For a band that most people have never heard of, The Thermals may be the best political punk band in the world at the moment. This song, which uses biblical stories to point out religion's failings, is by far their most intense and melodical.
#175 - "Fallen" - Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better - #5/6 - The best song off of FF's second album, "Fallen" starts out with a killer riff and builds to a faster and even better riff for the chorus. This is about as good as indie dance punk has ever gotten.
#174 - "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I - #17/24 - One of Zeppelin's best straight-forward blues rock songs, "Good Times" combines a monster riff with clever lyrics and an outstanding chorus.
#173 - "Creep" - Radiohead - Pablo Honey - #6/8 - Radiohead's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Creep" was a megahit that brought the band to the front of the alt-rock scene and became so popular that it almost destroyed the band. No song better embraces teen angst than this one.
#172 - "One Armed Scissor" - At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - #3/3 - ATDI's best song was the hit that should have made the band the heirs to the just broken-up Rage Against The Machine. The song has a strong political theme, great lyrics and a monster chorus full of passion and desperation. Of course, they broke up a few days after they became stars, so it never did work out for the band, but the greatness remains.
#171 - "Lake Of Fire (Unplugged)" - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York - #10/15 - The biggest new song off of Nirvana's last "real" album, "Lake Of Fire" is a cover of an old Meat Puppets song, though let's face it, by now Kurt's laid permanent claim to the song with it's dark lyrics and strange chorus.
Top 1000 Bands #180-#171
180 - Television - One of the most important bands of the 70's, Television bridged the alt-rock gap between The Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth and were also the most influential band of the '77 NYC scene.
179 - The Rollins Band - I actually like the Rollins Band better than Black Flag, which is probably a pretty unique point of view. The music is somewhat more complete and mature than the early punk music the band started their career out with.
178 - Joan Osborne - Osborne is best known for her mega-hit "One Of Us", but she's actually been one of the most consistent artists in all of alternative pop, creating great album after great album.
177 - Alanis Morissette - One of the best-selling female artists of the 90's, Alanis became a sensation after the release of her debut album. It's been downhill since then, but she still cranks out decent albums every couple of years.
176 - Collective Soul - One of the biggest bands in modern rock history, Collective Soul isn't known for writing flashy songs or legendary albums, but they have cranked out hit after hit for nearly 15 years now and have never descended to the depths their contemporaries have to keep their careers going.
175 - Our Lady Peace - Another great band from the 90's that never got the appreciation that they deserve. They had a few big hits, but they were one of the more consistent bands of the last twenty years and should have had a lot more.
174 - Marvin Gaye - One of the biggest stars of the Motown era, Marvin Gaye reached the stratosphere in the 70's and early 80's with a string of hits such as "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing".
173 - Aretha Franklin - The Queen of Soul, Aretha enjoyed one of the most successful careers in all of pop music with a four decade long run at the top of R&B.
172 - The Mars Volta - One of two bands to emerge from the break-up of At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta is the best prog metal band of their generation and may one day be the best ever. Their music is bizarre and definitely an acquired taste, but if you can appreciate their greatness, it's well worth the effort.
171 - Parliament Funkadelic - One of the greatest funk bands of all-time, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton's massive funk-rock collective created some of the best music of the 70's and some of the best funk ever.
179 - The Rollins Band - I actually like the Rollins Band better than Black Flag, which is probably a pretty unique point of view. The music is somewhat more complete and mature than the early punk music the band started their career out with.
178 - Joan Osborne - Osborne is best known for her mega-hit "One Of Us", but she's actually been one of the most consistent artists in all of alternative pop, creating great album after great album.
177 - Alanis Morissette - One of the best-selling female artists of the 90's, Alanis became a sensation after the release of her debut album. It's been downhill since then, but she still cranks out decent albums every couple of years.
176 - Collective Soul - One of the biggest bands in modern rock history, Collective Soul isn't known for writing flashy songs or legendary albums, but they have cranked out hit after hit for nearly 15 years now and have never descended to the depths their contemporaries have to keep their careers going.
175 - Our Lady Peace - Another great band from the 90's that never got the appreciation that they deserve. They had a few big hits, but they were one of the more consistent bands of the last twenty years and should have had a lot more.
174 - Marvin Gaye - One of the biggest stars of the Motown era, Marvin Gaye reached the stratosphere in the 70's and early 80's with a string of hits such as "What's Going On" and "Sexual Healing".
173 - Aretha Franklin - The Queen of Soul, Aretha enjoyed one of the most successful careers in all of pop music with a four decade long run at the top of R&B.
172 - The Mars Volta - One of two bands to emerge from the break-up of At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta is the best prog metal band of their generation and may one day be the best ever. Their music is bizarre and definitely an acquired taste, but if you can appreciate their greatness, it's well worth the effort.
171 - Parliament Funkadelic - One of the greatest funk bands of all-time, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton's massive funk-rock collective created some of the best music of the 70's and some of the best funk ever.
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