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The list, better than Kiss.

A work colleague of mine a few nights ago made an awful, awful admission. Whilst sitting down after closing time, the conversation turned to music and said colleague's love of the band KISS. You read that correctly, the band KISS, I was outraged, really I was. Of all the bands to openly declare admiration for he chose four make-up wearing buffoons. A band that always cared far too much about image and marketing and merchandise than improving upon their meaningless, vacuous music. The ensuing diatribe left my colleague stunned. I then assured him that I could easily produce a list of 100 guitar based bands that are better than KISS. Here, reader, is that list:

1. The Beatles                            
2. The Rolling Stones                       
3. The Kinks                            
4. The Byrds                           
5. The Yardbirds
6. Buddy Holly and The Crickets               
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience               
8. Weezer                           
9. The Cure                           
10. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band           
11. MGMT                           
12. Bloc Party                               
13. Lynyrd Skynyrd                       
14. Jefferson Airplane                       
15. Foreigner                           
16. The Strokes                       
17. The Smiths                   
18. Nirvana                           
19. The Ramones                       
20. U2                               
21. Velvet Underground                   
22. Bob Marley and The Wailers           
23. The Stooges                       
24. Led Zeppelin                   
25. The Clash                           
26. Deep Purple                       
27. The Pixies                           
28. Aerosmith                           
29. Metallica                           
30. Blue Oyster Cult                       
31. The Police                           
32. The Verve                           
33. REM                           
34. Radiohead                           
35. Pink Floyd                       
36. The Doors                           
37. Television                           
38. The Who                           
39. Queen                           
40. The Animals                       
41. The Patti Smith Band                   
42. The Jam                           
43. Blondie                           
44. Ash                           
45. The Zombies                   
46. The White Stripes                       
47. New York Dolls                       
48. Sweet                           
49. Cream                           
50. The Coward Brothers   
51. Squeeze
52. AC/DC
53. Mott The Hoople
54. Black Sabbath
55. Beach Boys
56. New Order
57. Booker T and The MGs
58. Joy Division
59. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
60. Creedence Clearwater Revival
61. Van Halen
62. Boston
63. Steppenwolf
64. Fleetwood Mac
65. Supertramp
66. T-Rex
67. Rush
68. The Mamas and The Papas
69. Rage Against The Machine
70. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
71. Iron Maiden
72. Sex Pistols
73. The Eagles
74. The Cribs
75. The Arctic Monkeys
76. Foals
77. Kings of Leon
78. Franz Ferdinand
79. Linkin Park
80. The Libertines
81. The La’s
82. Thin Lizzy
83. Biffy Clyro
84. Arcade Fire
85. Muse
86. The Undertones
87. Mumford and Sons
88. Kasabian
89. Vampire Weekend
90. Supergrass
91. Dire Straits
92. Coldplay
93. Blur
94. Oasis
95. Pulp
96. Modest Mouse
97. Simple Minds
98. Journey
99. Cliff Richard and The Shadows
100. Manic Street Preachers               

This list is not in any order of preference, just the order in which they occurred to me. I am sure there are many glaring omissions, feel free to let me know the error of my ways.

Joel



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