Top 50 Greatest American Rock Bands

Ranking the top 50 greatest american rock bands of all time. 🇺🇸🦅

Th Jimi Hendrix Experience formed in London with 2/3 members being British, so they are not an American band.

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[TheStone]

My top 20
1. The Doors
2. Metallica
3. Nirvana
4. Van halen
5. Gun n' roses
6. Beach boy
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Aerosmith
9. Eagles
10. Bon Jovi
11. Système of down
12. Liking Park
13. Scorpion
14. CCR
15. Ramones
16. Lynyrd skynyrd
16. ZZ top
17. Journey
18. Hendrix
19. Green day
20. Foo fighters

[johnjackson]

My favorites are: AeroSmith, Van Halen, CCR, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Doors, Chicago, The Byrds, Blue Oyster Cult, the Allman Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, Cheap Trick and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[newgate]

The Beach Boys are obviously the greatest, my top 5 is:
- 1 : The Beach Boys
- 2 : The Doors
- 3 : The Velvet Underground
- 4 : CCR
- 5 : Ramones
And if I make a top 10 with adding rock artists which could be really intressting it will be :
- 1 : Bob Dylan
- 2 : Elvis Presley
- 3 : The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- 4 : The Beach Boys
- 5 : The Doors
- 6 : The Velvet Underground
- 7 : Chuck Berry
- 8 : CCR
- 9 : Little Richard
- 10 : Ramones

[handle-schmandle]

Allman Brothers at 34; Skynyrd at 10? Yeah ok.

[melgo]

Good top 50 but, where is System of a down? 💀

[bbbeanman]

came for weezer, stayed for everyone else

[tbjfsu]

To whoever made this list: were you afraid that if you included The Eagles and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band that the video would've been blocked?

[diegoandrade]

CCR is top 3 without a doubt! Most influencial american band of all time and the only one to defeat The Beatles in the british invasion era.

[genetictrash]

Slayer, Dio and Anthrax should be on the list

[elenakindt]

Weezer just is NOT better than Heart, there is just no way, just like there is no way Pixies and Linkin Park are better than Aerosmith.

[kuzia]

"Anthrax", "Slayer", Bruce Springsteen, "The Band", "Steppenwolf", "System of a Down", "Korn", "Limp Bizkit" ( Okay, I'm kidding) аnd so on

[tfe]

I’m not going to watch the video but here is my opinion on the top 30

1. The Beach Boys
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Nirvana
4. The Doors
5. Metallica
6. Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Guns n Roses
8. The Velvet Undergound
9. Eagles
10. Aerosmith
11. Van Halen
12. Bon Jovi
13. Talking Heads
14. Ramones
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers
16. Foo Fighters
17. Linkin Park
18. Green Day
19. Chicago
20. Lynyrd Skynyrd
21. ZZTop
22. Allman Brother’s Band
23. Pearl Jam
24. Alice in Chains
25. Blondie
26. Journey
27. Nine Inch Nails
28. System of Down
29. Kiss
30. Grateful Dead

[idreamofgenie]

Opening with Grand Funk Railroad at #50 playing "We're An American Band" was a nice touch for this list. ^_^

[אריאל-חר]

no queens of the stone age ? no primus ? no pantera ? no slipknot ? no smashing pumpkins ?

[Amber_xo_]

5. Linkin Park
4. Evanescence
3. Green Day
2. Heart
1. Aerosmith

[caryrodda]

Not arguing against any of these bands, I like them all, but it's hard not to see bands like Cheap Trick, The Replacements, and Husker Du left off.

[jeffmcginn]

I was scared for a second when the Beatles weren’t number one but then I realized it was American bands

[yyggt]

Let's now have the greatest British rock songs and the greatest American rock songs

[raliminer]

I'm sorry but nirvana does not belong at number 2

[mesock]

maybe i missed it but where is E Street Band