VH 1 Top 100 Artists of All Time

:smack: The Eagles
How about if we always make the Beatles a given to free up another slot?

Whoops, i’ll try again…

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
The Beach Boys
The Who
The Doors
Pink Floyd
The Bee Gees
Depeche Mode
Nirvana

HM -
Cream
Cheap Trick
Guns N Roses

How could I forget

Counting Crows? :smack: I personal list is a fraud without them.

Toss out… Man, this is tough. Ok, toss out The Goo Goo Dolls, and move a-Ha! down to HM.

The Beatles
Queen
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Beach Boys
REM
The Temptations
Rolling Stones
The Who

HM
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
U2
Van Halen

The Beatles
Husker Du
The Replacements
R.E.M.
The Rolling Stones
The Clash
Talking Heads
The Kinks
The Who
Queen

HM

Ramones
The Velvet Underground
Parliament/Funkadelic
Yo La Tengo
Wire

The Clash
Everybody Else

Yeah no kidding. “Of all time”? I’m not seeing Bach or Beethoven or Mozart in that list. Somebody call Richard Thompson!

I get it! Best version of “There Is Beauty…” that I know of, by the way.

Now as for the topic at hand, I’ve seen this special a couple of times and I’m suddenly reminded of my hatred of VH1 and their perpetuation of the dad-rock mythmaking that makes people think they need to buy Pink Floyd and AC/DC reissues for the ninth time… that said, here’s my (entirely personal) list:

  1. Au Revoir Simone
  2. Sonic Youth
  3. Life Without Buildings
  4. Beat Happening
  5. Pavement
  6. Stars of the Lid
  7. My Bloody Valentine
  8. blink-182
  9. Blur
  10. The Spinanes

HM:

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Television
Hum
The National
Orbital