Top 100 Classic Rock Bands

This list is based on sales volume, although not deemed too awful accurate as of “today”. I could not get up-to-date records, but overall this is just the top 100 that I could come up with, (along with some help from my friends).

I hope that the article spurs discussion. It is meant to further the love of classic rock, the music that I play daily from noon to three on SKY7music.com/OnlyClassicRock as Dean Benson, “The Dean Of Rock & Roll.”

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1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Pink Floyd
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Queen
6. AC/DC
7. Aerosmith
8. The Who
9. Van Halen
10. Guns N’ Roses
11. Fleetwood Mac
12. Eagles
13. Bon Jovi
14. Boston
15. Genesis
16. Journey
17. Def Leppard
18. Deep Purple
19. ZZ Top
20. Kansas
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd
22. The Doors
23. Rush
24. Foreigner
25. The Police
26. Styx
27. The Moody Blues
28. Meat Loaf
29. Cheap Trick
30. Scorpions
31. Alice Cooper
32. Yes
33. Creedence Clearwater Revival
34. Black Sabbath
35. The Beach Boys
36. David Bowie
37. Jimi Hendrix Experience
38. Bad Company
39. KISS
40. Steely Dan
41. Supertramp
42. Toto
43. The Cars
44. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
45. Uriah Heep
46. Whitesnake
47. Judas Priest
48. Motley Crue
49. Nirvana
50. Ozzy Osbourne
51. Pearl Jam
52. Santana
53. Thin Lizzy
54. Blue Oyster Cult
55. Chicago
56. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
57. Jethro Tull
58. Metallica
59. Soundgarden
60. The Allman Brothers Band
61. The Byrds
62. The Kinks
63. The Ramones
64. The Smiths
65. ZZ Top
66. Alice in Chains
67. Blind Faith
68. Cream
69. Jefferson Airplane
70. Mountain
71. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
72. The Yardbirds
73. Traffic
74. Blue Cheer
75. The Mamas & The Papas
76. The Moody Blues
77. The Doors
78. Iron Butterfly
79. Buffalo Springfield
80. The Animals
81. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
82. Cream
83. The Band
84. The Velvet Underground
85. Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company
86. Love
87. The Grateful Dead
88. The Small Faces/Faces
89. The Stooges
90. Derek and the Dominos
91. New York Dolls
92. Patti Smith
93. Iggy Pop
94. MC5
95. The Runaways
96. The Clash
97. Sex Pistols
98. Ramones
99. Black Flag
100. Misfits

Does this line up with what you think are the top 100? Let me know!