Daytripper

As voted by the listeners. What do you think?

THE 106.7 BIGGEST KROQ BANDS OF ALL TIME- VERSION 4.0
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2002

1. Nirvana
2. Sublime
3. Depeche Mode
4. Linkin Park
5. No Doubt
6. Rage Against the Machine
7. U2
8. Green Day
9. Beastie Boys
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
11. Blink-182
12. System of a Down
13. The Smashing Pumpkins
14. Korn
15. Bob Marley
16. Metallica
17. The Offspring
18. The Cure
19. Incubus
20. Stone Temple Pilots
21. Pearl Jam
22. Tool
23. Radiohead
24. 311
25. Nine Inch Nails
26. Weezer
27. Social Distortion
28. The Smiths/Morrissey
29. Jane's Addiction
30. Oingo Boingo
31. Alice In Chains
32. Limp Bizkit
33. The Clash
34. Dave Matthews Band
35. Creed
36. The Ramones
37. Staind
38. R.E.M.
39. Bush
40. Bad Religion
41. Foo Fighters
42. New Order
43. Soundgarden
44. Garbage
45. Pennywise
46. Violent Femmes
47. Rob Zombie/White Zombie
48. David Bowie
49. Godsmack
50. Duran Duran
51. P.O.D.
52. Coldplay
53. Beck
54. Eminem
55. Deftones
56. Cypress Hill
57. Oasis
58. Jimmy Eat World
59. Tori Amos
60. Moby
61. The Pixies
62. Blondie
63. Live
64. Hole
65. Rancid
66. Fatboy Slim
67. Siouxsie and the Banshees
68. Marilyn Manson
69. Save Ferris
70. The Sex Pistols
71. Disturbed
72. Billy Idol
73. The Strokes
74. The Police
75. Primus
76. The Go-Go's
77. Everclear
78. Bjork
79. Dramarama
80. Prodigy
81. The Cult
82. Cake
83. MxPx
84. Third Eye Blind
85. Sum 41
86. Travis
87. Papa Roach
88. Devo
89. A Perfect Circle
90. New Found Glory
91. The Cranberries
92. Lit
93. The B-52's
94. Puddle of Mudd
95. Blur
96. Unwritten Law
97. Pet Shop Boys
98. Hoobastank
99. X
100. Lenny Kravitz
101. Adema
102. Echo & the Bunnymen
103. Kid Rock
104. INXS
105. Everlast/House of Pain
106. Faith No More
106.7 Ozzy Osbourne

Butters

I can see about 80 things wrong with that list.

Seriously, it's surprising how the majority of the list is bands from the last 10-15 years, with some exceptions.

MJKTool

Illinois Enema Bandit

Apparently people didn't listen to music prior to the 80s

benedict

Presumably the results reflect the demographic of the radio audience - and a younger audience is likely to vote for newer bands.

Wouldn't it be great if someone added together all such polls for the past decade or so, did some statistical jiggery-pokery to make them representative of, say, 15-50 year olds generally and then announced those results....?

Daytripper

Well, KROQ *is* supposed to be an alternative/modern rock station. What bands and artists prior to the 80's were labeled that? And I'm not quite sure what the definition of alternative or modern rock would be these days. But I certainly wouldn't label most of the famous bands from 50's/60's or 70's either.

DodgingCars

Note: It says, BIGGEST KROQ BANDS OF ALL TIME.

I believe KROQ might have been around in the 70's, but its primarly known for its influence in the 80's and 90's.

The funny thing is.. half these bands wouldn't even be "KROQ" bands if KNAC was still around. A lot of the bands played on KROQ used to be played on KNAC (Metal/hard rock station).

Metallica and Rage come to mind.

Either way, its good to see some bands on the list (the played these bands during the memorial weekend). I'm surprised Nirvana is #1. Funny cause Offspring was #1 last year (I think).

Daytripper

Actually, I'm pretty sure the Beastie Boys were number #1 last year. This year they are #9. It's pretty interesting (to me) to see these numbers change. But I'm thrilled that Depeche Mode are at #3. They were number #1 three years ago and #2 last year. And KROQ never plays them anymore!

grunter

I can see the reasoning behind the nOObian teen set voting in Linkin Park to the top of the list. Sad, though it may be.

But Sublime? SUBLIME???!!!???

Rypro 525

i am very surprised that ozzy is 106.7 when he is now very popular because of the tv show.

Daytripper

I have **never** heard Ozzie on KROQ. I think they just threw him in for good measure just BECAUSE of his popular show on MTV.

Illinois Enema Bandit

I know what it said My bad for not including and

Which leads me to another topic: some consider making music to be a lifelong commitment...why should you stop making music when you are 35, 45, 55, or whatever? Should one stop because the high priests of "relevance" say so? I think not

"Special Edition"?

cdollaz

The funny thing is how many of those bands only have 1 or 2 albums out. They are just a passing phase. 5 years from now, no one will know who Papa Roach or Sum 41 is.

DodgingCars

I don't know if I'd make a prediction like that. The same could have been said about No Doubt in 1995, but they are still around. Or of Green Day in 1994. etc. etc. etc.

Gdrlv

I have way less of a problem with Sublime's placement than I do with Linkin Park's.

RevLiver

I agree. I can't stand either Sublime or Linkin Park, but I understand that Sublime is a SoCal area band and were very popular in that area for years before breaking nationally. But Linkin Park that high on the list? That's just nuts. But what do I know, this list is why I don't listen to the radio.

evenflow

Linkin Park

KROQ

Goat3001

Linkin Park ahead of U2?
Eminem ON the list?
Ozzy last?

This list it way off IMO

GuessWho

It's NOT The Biggest Bands Of All Time

It's the biggest KROQ Bands of All Time

AM I THE ONLY ONE NOT BLIND? The biggest bands from that station's playlist through history of that station. What's so damn_hard to grasp? Geesh...

Rypro 525

why is bob marley on the list.

DodgingCars

Because he is played on KROQ. In fact for years KROQ used to have a Reggae show on Sunday (I believe).

benedict

same thing happens in all these "Best Of...." threads.

raithen

Quote:

3. Depeche Mode
18. The Cure
28. The Smiths/Morrissey
42. New Order
50. Duran Duran
60. Moby
72. Billy Idol
74. The Police
78. Bjork
91. The Cranberries
97. Pet Shop Boys
104. INXS

The rest of the list however... hrrrmmmmm....................

-matt

MJKTool

So what? The list still sucks ass

JonTurner

1. Nirvana
2. Sublime
3. Depeche Mode
4. Linkin Park
5. No Doubt
6. Rage Against the Machine
7. U2
8. Green Day
9. Beastie Boys
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers
11. Blink-182
12. System of a Down
13. The Smashing Pumpkins
14. Korn
15. Bob Marley
16. Metallica
17. The Offspring
18. The Cure
19. Incubus
20. Stone Temple Pilots
21. Pearl Jam

Uh... U2 and maybe Metallica are the only ones there that could possibly be considered bigger than Pearl Jam. I mean really, once I saw Blink-182 over them, that was it (the whole list is a joke)