Top 5 Rock bands ever

Recently I got curious and did a google search to see who people thought were the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. Some of the shit that some websights put at the top made me laugh. So I'll ask you guys who you think the best ones are.

Heres mine:

1. Pink Floyd
2. The Beatles
3. Led Zeppelin
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Grateful Dead


Honorable mentions:
Dire Straits, The Doors, AC/DC, Sublime, Bad Company, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Derrick and the Dominos, Rush

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Nirvana
4. The Eagles
5. Green Day

Honourable mentions:
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Foo Fighters
Guns 'N Roses
Pearl Jam
Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers
UB40
U2

Here is what I think are the top 5 bands.

Iron Maiden
Nightwish
Iced Earth
Overkill
Metal Church/Megadeth/Early Metallica


I'm sure most of you will be able to sense a pattern here.

1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Bob Dylan
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Neil Young

1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. David Bowie
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Jimi Hendrix

and to RaggingBull, Sublime is awesome.

In No Particular Order:

-Pink Floyd
-Led Zeppelin
-The Rolling Stones
-Guns n' Roses
-Bon Jovi

E.Z.!
Led Zeppelin (who could actually fill all 5 slots)
Foghat
AC/DC
Molly Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd

1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Rolling Stones
4. Eagles
5. U2

No order, but do solo artists count? I'll exclude Lennon's solo career.

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Bob Dylan

HONORS (no order) (two best from each decade, with two solo artists from the 80's, with several people pre-80's)
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Neil Young
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
The Cure (80's)
The Velvet Underground
The Clash
The Ramones
Nirvana (90's)
Radiohead (90's)
Metallica (Kill 'Em All-Black Album) (80's)
Steve Vai (80's solo)
Yngwie Malmsteen (80's solo)
Queen
The Sex Pistols

I was gonna add The Pixies and REM but I need to branch out further into their material.

1) The Beatles
2) Pink Floyd
3) Led Zeppelin
4) The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5) Black Sabbath

My top 5 "favorite" bands

1) Black Sabbath/solo Ozzy Osbourne
2) Nirvana
3) Metallica (Kill em All - Black Album, naturally)
4) Pearl Jam
5) Audioslave (the greatest current band around, IMO)

The Beatles
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Joy Division

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Beach Boys
Oasis

My Choice

There's only 1 for me

1 - Ramones
2 - Dead Kennedys
3 - The Clash
4 - Nirvana
5 - Pixies

-BEST in no order-
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
Led Zepplin

-FAVORITES-
1.) Radiohead
2.) Pink Floyd
3.) Primus
4.) Weezer
5.) NOFX

1) Led Zeppelin
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3) Nirvana
4) Pink Floyd
5) Sublime

In no particular order:
Chuck Berry/Buddy Holly (influenced everyone)
U2
The Replacements
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana/Foo Fighters

Honourable mention:
The Clash
Stiff Litle Fingers
Pixies
X
Iggy Pop
Velvet Underground
Jimi Hendrix
Neil Young
Little Feat
Oasis

And many others who had one great record and the blues and roots musicians who influenced the 'greatest' bands.

Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin

(I need to mention that only a very few Fifties R&R artists played with their own bands, and none benefited from the electronics and studio techniques that boosted the above bands. The best of the Fifties bands: Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Duane Eddy, all of whom toured with their own bands.)

Alright, another Weezer fan!

to limit yourself to one genre is pretty ridiculous - but rock & roll has become a term that defines an all-around basis of pop music in the 20th century, so:

top five greatest:
1.) the beatles
2.) radiohead
3.) bob dylan
4.) the rolling stones
5.) the velvet underground

top five favorites:
1.) nirvana
2.) the beatles
3.) neutral milk hotel
4.) radiohead
5.) the smiths

Forgot my favorites. Only the first two are in any order. Can't really chose any for the last two spots.

1) Nirvana
2) Neil Young
Black Sabbath
Metallica (Kill 'Em All-Black Album)
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
The Cure
Jimi Hendrix Experience

Favorites:

1. Radiohead
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Doors
4. Nirvana
5. The Beatles

from your signature - the lyric is "you will be first against the wall"...