Audiófilos elegem as maiores bandas da história

O site Audio Video Revolution, voltado para análise e venda de equipamentos de áudio e vídeo de alta-definição, fez uma lista com as 100 maiores bandas da história do rock, baseada em fatores como número de álbuns vendidos, habilidade com os instrumentos, inovação, performance ao vivo e consistência durante a carreira.



Os juízes foram Jack Sonni (guitarrista do Dire Straits), Ken Lopez (professor de música da University of Southern California), Charles Andrews (editor do site AVRev.com), Howard Schilling (presidente da empresa XHi-Fi e também da AVRev.com) e Jerry Del Colliano Jr. (editor musical).



Conheça melhor os fatores usados na escolha e como cada banda se classificou

To celebrate the pending tenth anniversary of AVRev.com on July 1, 2006, AVRev.com has compiled its list of the top bands in rock history.

The Judges
The group of five judges included three Baby Boomers and two Generation Exers. The Boomers include former Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni, as well as University of Southern California Thornton School of Music professor Ken Lopez and AVRev.com’s music editor Charles Andrews. Desktop speaker company XHi-Fi president Howard Schilling and AVRev.com founder and publisher Jerry Del Colliano, Jr. round out the group.

The Method and Categories
From a diverse list of 100 bands, judges ranked each band for each category. A perfect score is 550 points. Using the analytical tools that have become popular in high-powered fantasy sports, the AVRev.com judges rated bands based on a battery of criteria.

U.S. Sales: (100 points max) Sales numbers come from the RIAA’s website and are ranked from 100 to 1 (with the top score going to The Beatles). These numbers are based in fact and therefore were not voted on or changed in any way by any of the judges.

Songs and Songwriting: (100 points max) Songwriting is key to the legacy of any band. In addition to songwriting, judges were encouraged to judge a band on how they interpreted songs in performance. The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s version of “All Along the Watchtower” or Van Halen’s “You Really Got Me” reflect the respective band’s ability to remake a great song, written by someone else, as their own.

Technical Ability: (100 points max) All too often, music critics overlook a band’s ability to play their asses off (think reviews of Nirvana), but not at AVRev.com. Having chops is a fully ranked, 100-point category.

Innovation: (100 points max) The ability to define a genre or a sound or a technique, or to strongly influence bands that came after you, make up the parameters for the fully-weighted innovation category.

Live Performance: (50 points max) Some members of the panel of judges have actually played with or opened for a number of the bands on the list. Ken Lopez’s story of jamming with Jimi Hendrix at the Guild booth before the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival is an all-time classic rock story. Our team of judges look at how good a band is playing live based loosely on their draw, seeing the band live or watching them on video.

Consistency vs. Longevity: (50 points max) This is one of the most interesting categories, when you consider the role of the most critically acclaimed bands during the history of rock. Bands like The Eagles rank high in this category because they had a long run as a top rock band, yet knew when to hang up the spurs. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, despite their short run, also did well, considering their three studio records. Even when Jimi let Noel Redding (the bass player) sing – the song was good. The Rolling Stones have many a landmark record in their history, but they also have many a stiff. Consider your own grade for bands like Genesis and Van Halen, who tried to go for a third front man with disastrous results to an otherwise spectacular career.

Random Play (50 points max): This category allows the judge to vote on a band based on how likely he is to listen to a band’s songs if they were to come up on an iPod. Many respected bands suffer in this category, whereas bands that are quietly a guilty pleasure (think The Bee Gees or The Carpenters) can get high grades.

Bands That Never Got Considered
It was a tough job to assemble the list of bands for consideration. It was essential that bands from the early days of the 1950s through today’s most popular acts were considered. We looked for diversity in genre and type. We included bands that were reggae, electronic, strong country/crossover and beyond. We did not consider individual artists such as Elvis or Michael Jackson, because this is an exercise in looking at the best bands. In the event an artist was associated with a stable band, judges were instructed to only consider his or her work with that band. An act like Prince and the Revolution was aided in that category, since “the artist formerly known as a vegan symbol record company slave” isn’t being judged.

In the process of ranking bands, we have thought of a few we would have liked to add and we are confident you will have some good suggestions, too, which we will list. Email us at HateMail@AVRev.com and we will post. Here is a start to the list:

ABBA, Chicago, Kiss and more to come....

Judge for Yourself
Download a template in Excel here so you can create your own list.


A lista completa, com a quantidade de pontos de cada banda, ficou assim:



001. Led Zeppelin (525 pontos)

002. The Beatles (514 pontos)

003. Pink Floyd (506 pontos)

004. The Jimi Hendrix Experience (503 pontos)

005. Van Halen (496 pontos)

006. Queen (493 pontos)

007. The Eagles (479 pontos)

008. Metallica (468 pontos)

009. U2 (455 pontos)

010. Bob Marley and the Wailers (454 pontos)

011. The Police (451 pontos)

012. The Doors (450 pontos)

013. Stone Temple Pilots (446 pontos)

014. Rush (444 pontos)

015. Genesis (436 pontos)

016. Prince and the Revolution (435 pontos)

017. Yes (434 pontos)

018. Earth Wind and Fire (433 pontos)

019. The Bee Gees (428 pontos)

020. The Rolling Stones (418 pontos)

021. The Beach Boys (414 pontos)

022. Soundgarden (413 pontos)

023. The Who (412 pontos)

024. Steely Dan (411 pontos)

025. James Brown and the JBs (408 pontos)

026. AC/DC (400 pontos)

027. Fleetwood Mac (398 pontos)

028. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (396 pontos)

029. The Allman Brothers (394 pontos)

030. ZZ Top (392 pontos)

031. Aerosmith (391 pontos)

032. Cream (390 pontos)

033. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (386 pontos)

034. The Grateful Dead (385 pontos)

035. Guns 'N Roses (381 pontos)

036. Pearl Jam (378 pontos)

037. Boston (377 pontos)

038. Dire Straits (363 pontos)

039. King Crimson (362 pontos)

040. Parliament Funkadelic (361 pontos)

041. Red Hot Chili Peppers (356 pontos)

042. Bon Jovi (355 pontos)

043. Dixie Chicks (353 pontos)

044. Foreigner (352 pontos)

045. David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars (351 pontos)

046. The Talking Heads (348 pontos)

047. Jethro Tull (347 pontos)

048. The Band (344 pontos)

049. The Beastie Boys (343 pontos)

050. Nirvana (342 pontos)

051. Rage Against The Machine (340 pontos)

052. Sly and the Family Stone (338 pontos)

053. The Clash (337 pontos)

054. Tool (335 pontos)

055. Journey (334 pontos)

056. No Doubt (332 pontos)

057. Creedence Clearwater Revival (328 pontos)

058. Deep Purple (325 pontos)

059. Alice In Chains (323 pontos)

060. Orbital (322 pontos)

061. Little Feat (321 pontos)

062. Duran Duran (320 pontos)

063. Living Colour (319 pontos)

064. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (318 pontos)

065. The Carpenters (317 pontos)

066. Audioslave (316 pontos)

067. The Pretenders (315 pontos)

068. Primus (314 pontos)

069. Blondie (313 pontos)

070. Black Sabbath (309 pontos)

071. Lynyrd Skynyrd (307 pontos)

072. Sex Pistols (306 pontos)

073. Isaac Hayes and the Movement (305 pontos)

074. R.E.M. (304 pontos)

075. Traffic (303 pontos)

076. Buffalo Springfield (302 pontos)

077. Derek and the Dominos (301 pontos)

078. The Jackson Five (299 pontos)

079. The O'Jays (298 pontos)

080. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (287 pontos)

081. Underworld (286 pontos)

082. Thievery Corporation (285 pontos)

083. Motley Crue (284 pontos)

084. Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company (283 pontos)

085. Blind Faith (277 pontos)

086. The Animals (276 pontos)

087. The Roots (271 pontos)

088. The Velvet Underground (265 pontos)

089. The Kinks (262 pontos)

090. Radiohead (261 pontos)

091. The Scorpions (260 pontos)

092. Kansas (258 pontos)

093. IRON MAIDEN (257 pontos)

094. Motorhead (253 pontos)

095. Judas Priest (251 pontos)

096. The Orb (239 pontos)

097. The Cure (230 pontos)

098. Coldplay (229 pontos)

099. Slayer (225 pontos)

100. Black Eyed Peas (214 pontos)