Rolling Stones top 100 greatest artists of all time

"Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Beatles
2
Bob Dylan
3
Elvis Presley
4
The Rolling Stones
5
Chuck Berry
6
Jimi Hendrix
7
James Brown
8
Little Richard
9
Aretha Franklin
10
Ray Charles
11
Bob Marley
12
The Beach Boys
13
Buddy Holly
14
Led Zeppelin
15
Stevie Wonder
16
Sam Cooke
17
Muddy Waters
18
Marvin Gaye
19
The Velvet Underground
20
Bo Diddley
21
Otis Redding
22
U2
23
Bruce Springsteen
24
Jerry Lee Lewis
25
Fats Domino
26
The Ramones
27
Prince
28
The Clash
29
The Who
30
Nirvana
31
Johnny Cash
32
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
33
The Everly Brothers
34
Neil Young
35
Michael Jackson
36
Madonna
37
Roy Orbison
38
John Lennon
39
David Bowie
40
Simon and Garfunkel
41
The Doors
42
Van Morrison
43
Sly and the Family Stone
44
Public Enemy
45
The Byrds
46
Janis Joplin
47
Patti Smith
48
Run-DMC
49
Elton John
50
The Band
51
Pink Floyd
52
Queen
53
The Allman Brothers Band
54
Howlin' Wolf
55
Eric Clapton
56
Dr. Dre
57
Grateful Dead
58
Parliment and Funkadelic
59
Aerosmith
60
The Sex Pistols
61
Metallica
62
Joni Mitchell
63
Tina Turner
64
Phil Spector
65
The Kinks
66
Al Green
67
Cream
68
The Temptations
69
Jackie Wilson
70
The Police
71
Frank Zappa
72
AC/DC
73
Radiohead
74
Hank Williams
75
Eagles
76
The Shirelles
77
Beastie Boys
78
The Stooges
79
The Four Tops
80
Elvis Costello
81
The Drifters
82
Creedence Clearwater Revival
83
Eminem
84
James Taylor
85
Black Sabbath
86
Tupac Shakur
87
Gram Parsons
88
Jay-Z
89
The Yardbirds
90
Carlos Santana
91
Tom Petty
92
Guns n' Roses
93
Booker T. and the MGs
94
Nine Inch Nails
95
Lynyrd Skynyrd
96
Diana Ross and the Supremes
97
R.E.M
98
Curtis Mayfield
99
Carl Perkins
100
Talking Heads
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Level 48
Sep 23, 2013
could you accept "Guns and Roses" for Guns 'n Roses?
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Level 75
Oct 29, 2014
Missed Skynyrd and Shakur because I couldn't spell them. So many here I should have gotten but didn't.
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Level 24
Dec 2, 2015
I agree - some bands you require "The" (like The Allman Brothers Band) and others you do not (like The Grateful Dead which is accepted as Grateful Dead). Make up your mind and put it in the instructions at top. Plus there is a spelling error for Parliment and Funkadelic - it is actually Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Level 53
Feb 24, 2016
Doesn't accept any names! Terrible waste of time...
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Level 76
Nov 6, 2021
Agreed. Terrible.
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Level 45
Dec 2, 2016
Could you accept last names? I think if we type in Dylan you know who we mean.
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Level 52
Jun 5, 2017
You should accept "Supremes" for Diana Ross and the Supremes.

I agree - the word "The" should not be required and last names should be accepted.

Also you spelled Parliament incorrectly.

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Level 79
Apr 16, 2018
You would have to be a super typist to be able to enter all 100 acts without any abbreviations in the allotted time.

Besides all the corrections listed previously, it would also help if you accepted CCR for Creedence Clearwater Revival. That is a pretty standard abbreviation.

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Level 85
Feb 22, 2019
Either accept last names and no "the" OR increase the time!
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Level 79
Sep 10, 2020
Anyone else wondering how Eagles could make the list and not Steely Dan? Oh, right it's Jann Wenner's personal favorites.
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Level 57
Oct 13, 2020
This quiz is way too strict on the wording. Also missed several because it does not accept answers without the word 'The' in front of it. I agree that surnames should be enough. Felt more like a spelling test than a music quiz.
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Level 52
Jan 5, 2021
Parliament Funkadelic is spelled incorrectly
+1
Level 62
Nov 6, 2021
I normally try not to nit-pick, but could you put the apostrophe into "Stone's" in the quiz title.
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Level 65
Nov 6, 2021
hahahhahhahahhaa
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Level 70
Nov 6, 2021
This quiz could be great if it allowed some type-ins. I wasted a ton of time having to type full names and having to type "the" before band names, and I missed Sly & the Family Stone because apparently the ampersand wasn't an acceptable replacement for the word "and." And almost missed Tupac because I had to type "Shakur" for it to be accepted?

Other than that, my only complaint is that Rolling Stone lists are terrible. Not that any of these bands are awful, but Beastie Boys and Gram Parsons over Fleetwood Mac or Miles Davis?

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Level 76
Nov 6, 2021
Ridiculously awful quiz. Takes nothing.
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Level 67
Nov 7, 2021
Add me to the chorus. It's terrible without type-ins. You need to accept last names, at a minimum.