gnruk Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 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 Floyd2) Led Zeppelin3) Rolling Stones4) U25) Queen6) Dire Straits7) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band8 The Beatles9) Bob Marley and the Wailers10) Fleetwood Mac11) The Eagles12) The Beach Boys13) Oasis14) Bon Jovi15) Guns N' Roses16) Nirvana17) Genesis18) Bee Gees19) Metallica20) Boston21) R.E.M.22) Backstreet Boys23) Red Hot Chili Peppers24) AC/DC25) The Police26) Steve Miller Band27) ABBA28) Santana29) Simply Red30) Supertramp31) The Carpenters32) Journey33) Spice Girls34) Def Leppard35) Deep Purple36) UB4037) Aerosmith38) Wham!39) Pearl Jam40) Hootie & the Blowfish41) Status Quo42) Simple Minds43) Wet Wet Wet44) 'N Sync45) Eurythmics46) Duran Duran47) Erasure48) The Shadows49) Boyz II Men50) Van Halen03 October 2004They 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santana Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Based on record sales and concerts and all that, I thought it would have been the Stones at #1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 haha Bon Jovi beats GnR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Boy Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 haha GnR beats Nirvana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redapple Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 haha GnR beats Nirvana Yeah yeah yeah ***I'm surprised Dire Straits were 6th, no one ever talks about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnruk Posted October 5, 2004 Author Share Posted October 5, 2004 haha GnR beats NirvanaYeah yeah yeah ***I'm surprised Dire Straits were 6th, no one ever talks about them. very underrated band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contraband Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Ah Bruce Springsteen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lwooD Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Makes me sick to see the Backstree Boys above AC/DC. Is this not proof enough that the world is crazy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy_1986 Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Ah Bruce Springsteen hes great isnt he..my teacher is obsessed with him, she even goes round calling herself his wife, cant remember what shes called now, but she has changed her name to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumin Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 It is awesome seeing Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones so high on the list. It's also kind of disturbing that the Spice Girls are higher on the list than Aerosmith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contraband Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Ah Bruce Springsteen hes great isnt he..my teacher is obsessed with him, she even goes round calling herself his wife, cant remember what shes called now, but she has changed her name to it. Hehehehehe yes he is great and your teacher rules sooooo much B) lol!!Anyone seen the Dancing in the Dark video? He looks HOT in it hehehehe...and hes a fantastic artist no doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.