R&P: Who do you think are the top 10 most influential rock bands?

Question

Hello! So I am wondering who you guys think are the top 10 most influential rock bands/artists. 
It came up in English class, and I would like to see what you guys think.

BQ: Favorite band you mentioned?
BQ2: How are you?
BQ3: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BQ4: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhshhhhhhhhh
BQ5: Favorite Belle and Sebastian album?

Seederman · Accepted Answer

Velvet Underground
Led Zeppelin
My Bloody Valentine
Funkadelic
Bob Dylan
Black Flag
The Byrds
Nirvana
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles

BQ: Velvet Underground
BQ5: I dislike them considerably.

? · Answer

The Allman Brothers Band
The Sex Pistols
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
Nirvana
The Ramones
Led Zeppelin
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Velvet Underground
Run-DMC
BA: The Allman Brothers Band
BA2: Tired

? · Answer

Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Velvet Underground
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Black Sabbath
The Stooges
The Ramones
Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Metallica

BQ: Jimi Hendrix Experience
BQ2: Very good

? · Answer

The Crickets
The Beatles
The Ramones
The Velvet Underground
The New York Dolls
The Sex Pistols
Television
The Doors
Nirvana
Sonic Youth 

The Ramones
Okay, yourself?

Achilles (formerly known as New Life) · Answer

1. The Beatles
2. The Who
3. Frank Zappa
4. The Velvet Underground
5. Pink Floyd
6. Rush
7. Black Sabbath
8. The Strokes
9. Ramones
10. Sonic Youth

BQ: Pink Floyd
BQ2: Swell
BQ3: AHHHHHH
BQ4: SHHHHHH
BQ5:If You're Feeling Sinister

David V · Answer

I believe you are asking for rock bands, so I can't say the Beatles because they were not a rock band but a pop/rock band. So now I'll give you my ten.

The Rolling Stones
The Who 
The Kinks
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Creedence Cleawater Revival
Deep Purple
Cream

BQ: Rolling Stones

BQ2: not bad

BQ3: ok

BQ4. ok

BQ5 don't have one.

take care
dave

esiheahistahtple · Answer

The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Ramones
Metallica
The Smiths
U2

Anonymous · Answer

The Velvet Underground (arguably the first alternative act)
Kraftwerk (hugely influential on electronic music)
The Beatles (huge influence on pop music, and production styles were influential)
Ramones (arguably the first punk band)
Television (hugely influential on post-punk)
Led Zeppelin (huge influence on rock music in general)
R.E.M. (brought alternative more into the mainstream)
Black Sabbath (arguably the first heavy metal act)
Massive Attack (first trip-hop album released by them, nearly every pop song heard today has influence of trip-hop in it)
Talking Heads (huge influence on new wave)

Bonus:

Nirvana (officially broke alternative into the mainstream)
The Strokes (first post-punk revival act; many followed afterwards)
Pixies (DIY aesthetics were influential)
Elvis Presley (arguably the first rock n' roll artist)

BQ: The Velvet Underground, surely.
BQ2: I am alrighty, how are you Fancy Squirrel?
BQ3: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BQ4: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BQ5: The Boy with the Arab Strap

? · Answer

The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ac/dc
Nirvana
Nickelback(jk) umm Van Halen

i tryed to cover different genres.

bq:Lynyrd Skynyrd or Van Halen or ac/dc
bq2:good but kinda tired you?
bq3&4:OKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
bq5:n/a never heard sorry Fancy

? · Answer

Torsof*ck
Spermswamp
Rompeprop
Anal Torture
GUT
Cock and Ball Torture
Regurgitate
Last Days of Humanity
Jig-Ai
Exhumed
BQ: Regurgitate
BQ2: Loveley, you?
BQ3: It is time to die.
BQ4: Wrong move lady.

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R&P: Who do you think are the top 10 most influential rock bands?

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