101 Best Bands

100 wasn't enough. Another quite meaningless post. Just a mental exercise as much as anything but I'd stand by most of those listed below. In no order...

 

1. The Velvet Underground
2. R.E.M.
3. Roxy Music
4. Can
5. The Go-Betweens
6. Wire
7. Sly & the Family Stone
8. Love
9. The Smiths
10. The Clash
11. Iggy & the Stooges
12. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
13. Television
14. The Beatles
15. The Modern Lovers
16. The Ramones
17. Sonic Youth
18. Creedence Clearwater Revival
19. Dexys Midnight Runners
20. The Byrds
21. Nirvana
22. Funkadelic
23. The Triffids
24. The Doors
25. Misty In Roots
26. The Cure
27. Mott the Hoople
28. T.Rex
29. Talking Heads
30. Suicide
31. PiL
32. The Rolling Stones
33. Echo & the Bunnymen
34. The Sun Ra Band
35. The Kinks
36. Elvis Costello & the Attractions
37. The Undertones
38. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
39. The Cramps
40. Neu!
41. Public Enemy
42. The Specials
43. Orange Juice
44. The Feelies
45. Joy Division
46. Pixies
47. Pulp
48. The New York Dolls
49. The MC5
50. The Monkees
51. Blondie
52. The Small Faces / Faces
53. The Beach Boys
54. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
55. The Slits
56. Pere Ubu
57. Suicide
58. Minutemen
59. Josef K
60. Steel Pulse
61. The Fall
62. Buzzcocks
63. The Yardbirds
64. The Patti Smith Group
65. The Gang of Four
66. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
67. The Stone Roses
68. Associates
69. The Cramps
70. The Teardrop Explodes
71. Kraftwerk
72. The James Brown Band
73. Buffalo Springfield
74. The Band
75. XTC
76. Pink Floyd (sorry for brackets but with Syd)
77. The B52s
78. Traffic
79. The Gun Club
80. Big Star
81. Stereolab
82. The Teardrop Explodes
83. Magazine
84. The Beat
85. Young Marble Giants
86. Felt
87. Led Zeppelin
88. Thin Lizzy
89. Pavement
90. Dinosaur.Jr
91. The Flamin Groovies
92. Chic
93. Steely Dan
94. My Bloody Valentine
95. The Only Ones
96. The 13th Floor nElevators
97. Black Uhuru
98. The Who
99. Super Furry Animals
100. The Sonics
101. The Seeds