The Top 10 Most Influential Bands Of All Time
Just for fun, my list of the 10 most influential bands (not solo artists, so Josh Groban didn’t qualify) of all time, in my humble opinion (and in no particular order):
1. The Beatles
2. U2
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Queen
5. Nirvana
6. The Who
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Metallica
9. The Beach Boys
10. Linkin Park
Others that I’d love to include but don’t quite cut it are Creedence and Toto. Beach Boys may come as a surprise but I really do think they’ve made an enormous impact.
Who have I left out?
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how could you forget the cure, jeez
The Beatles are no doubt the most influential and best band of all time. Metallica in there? There were plenty more metal bands before them..
Linkin Park??? WTF???
Have you ever heard Faith No More’s Angel Dust? Released 1992, mixed rap metal was experimental used samples etc… way before Linkin Park…
and you forgot Velvet Underground probably the second most influencial band of all time behind the Beatles.
The Pixies
The Pixies should have some sort of mention… just my personal opinion…
The fact that this list includes Metallica but not Iron Maiden makes it invalid. If it weren’t for Iron Maiden, there wouldn’t be any Metallica, no Slayer, no Megadeath, no In Flames, metal would not even be near the same as it is now without Iron Maiden.
What about The Smiths and The Cure??
U2 at number 2 and no Pink Floyd, Joy Division, Black Sabbath or The Smiths??!! I suggest you listen to Dark Side of the Moon, Unknown Pleasures, Paranoid and Hatful of Hollow and then have another go at your list.
Pink Floyd