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    Q magazine top 50 bands.

    in MY WORLD

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    :D Oh yes pink floyd number 1 for a change!!!!

    The top 50 bands of all time compiled by Q based on album sales, weeks in album chart and the scale of the biggest headlining gigs.

    1) Pink Floyd

    2) Led Zeppelin

    3) Rolling Stones

    4) U2

    5) Queen

    6) Dire Straits

    7) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

    8 The Beatles

    9) Bob Marley and the Wailers

    10) Fleetwood Mac

    11) The Eagles

    12) The Beach Boys

    13) Oasis

    14) Bon Jovi

    15) Guns N' Roses

    16) Nirvana

    17) Genesis

    18) Bee Gees

    19) Metallica

    20) Boston

    21) R.E.M.

    22) Backstreet Boys

    23) Red Hot Chili Peppers

    24) AC/DC

    25) The Police

    26) Steve Miller Band

    27) ABBA

    28) Santana

    29) Simply Red

    30) Supertramp

    31) The Carpenters

    32) Journey

    33) Spice Girls

    34) Def Leppard

    35) Deep Purple

    36) UB40

    37) Aerosmith

    38) Wham!

    39) Pearl Jam

    40) Hootie & the Blowfish

    41) Status Quo

    42) Simple Minds

    43) Wet Wet Wet

    44) 'N Sync

    45) Eurythmics

    46) Duran Duran

    47) Erasure

    48) The Shadows

    49) Boyz II Men

    50) Van Halen

    03 October 2004

    They were famed for their 20-minute opuses and grandiose stadium shows featuring flying pigs. Now Pink Floyd have received an accolade to match the enormity of their sound and performances - by being named the biggest band of all time, ahead of acts such as Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.

    Writers for Q magazine have compiled a top 50 of what they reckon to be the music world's biggest groups, placing Pink Floyd - the band whose Dark Side of the Moon album is estimated to be owned by one in every 18 Americans - at the top of the chart.

    The Beatles, on the other hand, manage just eighth place, despite their huge sales, behind arch rivals the Rolling Stones and even Dire Straits.

    The magazine sized up each band's performance with a points system that measured sales of their biggest album, the scale of their biggest headlining show and the total number of weeks spent on the UK album chart. Difficulties in finding accurate and reliable figures mean it is virtually impossible to compare on total album sales alone.

    Pink Floyd, the quartet that began life as a group of psychedelic space cadets playing in London's underground clubs before developing its defining, epic sound, triumphed with sales of 23.3 million for the 1979 album The Wall. That figure could be dwarfed by 1973'sDark Side of the Moon, but there are huge holes in sales records for that release which spent 14 years in the US Billboard chart. The largest live show - 125,000 at Knebworth Park in 1975 - and 911 weeks in the UK charts consolidated their position at the top.

    Q editor Paul Rees said: "I must say I suspected it might have been Queen at number one, but then when you think of the huge sales of The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon it would have to be Pink Floyd. If you look at the top 10 you would expect those bands to be in there. It's slightly more surprising that the champagne corks are popping for bands such as Erasure (ranked 47) and Hootie & the Blowfish (40). I was genuinely stunned to see them in there."

    Led Zeppelin, the masters of heavy blues, were runners-up thanks to their trump card of 22 million sales of their untitled fourth album. The Rolling Stones finished third, buoyed in the list by the half-million-strong crowd at their Hyde Park show in 1969.

    Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris said Pink Floyd owed their success to the multimedia approach. "I'm lucky enough to have been there almost at the start in the days of the UFO club and Middle Earth. The interesting thing was this idea of pushing the boundaries," he said. "They made sure they came on stage with visuals and liquid light shows and took great care with their artwork. There was a conscious decision to expand and experiment. They were one of the first bands to do tracks that last more than two and a half minutes."

    The full list of the top 50 bands will be published in the November edition of Q.

    Soundgarden...WOW

    in MY WORLD

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    I was just rocking out to Soundgarden and fuck they were amazing. Top notch players and Chris Cornell is the 2nd greatest rock singer (after W AXL ROSE)......I would encourage any metalheads to check out early Soundgarden if you never really heve. Download "Rusty Cage" or "Jesus Christ Pose". The band was really alot heavier than most people think.

    no way is he a better singer than jeff buckley.

    Well I see you have a fucking Radiohead album listed as the best ever. Therefore I cant take you seriously when talking about hard rock.

    what are you on about you misinformed prick of a human being!

    Ha and you're saying that....... :rolleyes:

    yes im saying that because his statement was completely wrong?

    Bumblefoot..WOW

    in MY WORLD

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    I was just rocking out to Bumblefoot and fuck they were amazing. Top notch player and Bumblefoot is the 2nd greatest rock player (after SLASH)......I would encourage any metalheads to check out early Bumblefoot if you never really have!!!. Download "Igor Rocks" or "smurf madness". The band was really alot heavier than most people think.

    Oh man....

    Why do you never just give things up? Why do you just have to keep it going?

    No wonder there's war in the world...... :book:

    :kiss:

    Bumblefoot..WOW

    in MY WORLD

    Posted · Edited by gnruk

    I was just rocking out to Bumblefoot and fuck they were amazing. Top notch player and Bumblefoot is the 2nd greatest rock player (after SLASH)......I would encourage any metalheads to check out early Bumblefoot if you never really have!!!. Download "Igor Rocks" or "smurf madness". The band was really alot heavier than most people think.

    Soundgarden...WOW

    in MY WORLD

    Posted

    I was just rocking out to Soundgarden and fuck they were amazing. Top notch players and Chris Cornell is the 2nd greatest rock singer (after W AXL ROSE)......I would encourage any metalheads to check out early Soundgarden if you never really heve. Download "Rusty Cage" or "Jesus Christ Pose". The band was really alot heavier than most people think.

    no way is he a better singer than jeff buckley.

    Well I see you have a fucking Radiohead album listed as the best ever. Therefore I cant take you seriously when talking about hard rock.

    what are you on about you misinformed prick of a human being!

    Soundgarden...WOW

    in MY WORLD

    Posted

    I was just rocking out to Soundgarden and fuck they were amazing. Top notch players and Chris Cornell is the 2nd greatest rock singer (after W AXL ROSE)......I would encourage any metalheads to check out early Soundgarden if you never really heve. Download "Rusty Cage" or "Jesus Christ Pose". The band was really alot heavier than most people think.

    no way is he a better singer than jeff buckley.

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