Top 100 Favorite Bands

Every now and then, I'm asked where a certain band falls in my personal ranking of favorites.  A lot of times, I have no idea where I would rank them, so that's how I respond.  However, through this blog site, I have decided to challenge myself to list my top 100 favorite musical acts of all time.  For those of you that know me well, if you notice any blatant omissions from this list, please let me know.

I have developed a very specific method for determining this list and have shared it with you here along with commentary on some of my choices.

Also, for this particular list, I decided not to include composers such as Andrew Lloyd Weber, Danny Elfman, Nobuo Uematsu, Mozart, Beethoven, and John Williams, to name a few.

Well, enough nonsense.  Here is my top 100 favorite bands, singers, and instrumentalists of all time.

1. My Chemical Romance
2. Jimmy Eat World
3. Rancid
4. Green Day
5. Pencey Prep
6. The Clash
7. Paramore
8. blink-182
9. Rise Against
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Nirvana
12. Styx
13. The Killers
14. Weezer
15. Coldplay
16. The All-American Rejects
17. She Wants Revenge
18. Muse
19. The New Minstrel Revue/The Minstrels of Mayhem
20. Yellowcard
21. Good Charlotte
22. The Distillers
23. VaNa MaZi
24. Less Than Jake
25. Jeff Beck
26. Bowling For Soup
27. Deep Purple
28. Dashboard Confessional
29. Foo Fighters
30. Goldfinger
31. North Mississippi All-stars
32. Vampire Weekend
33. Flogging Molly
34. The Dead Kennedys
35. The Who
36. Bad Religion
37. Boston
38. Jefferson Airplane
39. Pink Floyd
40. Sum-41
41. Hey Monday
42. R.E.M.
43. The Doors
44. The Ramones
45. Journey
46. Van Halen
47. New Politics
48. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
49. The Sex Pistols
50. George Thorogood and the Destroyers
51. Jimi Hendrix
52. Steppenwolf
53. Led Zeppelin
54. The White Stripes
55. The Grateful Dead
56. Black Flag
57. Black Sabbath
58. Creedance Clearwater Revival
59. Filter
60. Robert Randolph
61. Buddy Guy
62. Chuck Berry
63. Collective Soul
64. Jet
65. Sonny Landreth
66. The Vandals
67. The Explosion
68. Eric Clapton
69. Puddle of Mudd
70. Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers
71. The Runaways
72. U2
73. Godspeed You!  Black Emperor
74. Carlos Santana
75. Guns 'N Roses
76. Joe Bonamassa 
77. BB King
78. Dropkick Murphys
79. Muddy Waters
80. The Wolf
81. The Violent Femmes
82. System of a Down
83. Steve Miller Band
84. Operation Ivy
85. Metallica
86. Iron Maiden
87. Joe Satriani
88. Alice Cooper
89. Silversun Pickups
90. AC/DC
91. The Bravery
92. The Doobie Brothers
93. The xx
94. Radiohead
95. Amanda Kitchens
96. Gary Clark Jr.
97. Soundgarden
98. The Yardbirds
99. The Kinks
100. Bruce Springsteen