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Play this bracketGreatest Band of All Time
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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | The DellsFive voices that stayed together for half a century. Inducted 2004. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | TrafficDear Mr. Fantasy is a jam that grew a song around itself. Class of 2004. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ZZ TopTwo beards, three players, and Sharp Dressed Man. Inducted 2004. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The O'JaysLove Train asks every country by name to get on board. Class of 2005. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The PretendersBrass in Pocket is Chrissie Hynde being certain about herself. Inducted 2005. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | U2With or Without You holds one note back for four minutes then lets go. Class of 2005. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Black SabbathParanoid was written in minutes as filler and invented a genre. Inducted 2006. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BlondieHeart of Glass is a punk band walking into a disco on purpose. Class of 2006. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lynyrd SkynyrdSweet Home Alabama answered a Neil Young song and outlived the argument. Inducted 2006. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Sex PistolsAnarchy in the U.K. is a career of one album that changed everything. Class of 2006. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious FiveThe Message made rap report the news. Inducted 2007. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | R.E.M.Losing My Religion is a hit single built on a mandolin. Class of 2007. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The RonettesBe My Baby opens with the most copied drum intro ever recorded. Inducted 2007. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Van HalenJump swapped the guitar for a synth and still sounded like Van Halen. Class of 2007. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Dave Clark FiveGlad All Over knocked the Beatles off the top and got its own invasion. Inducted 2008. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The VenturesWalk, Don't Run taught a generation what a guitar was for. Class of 2008. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Little Anthony and the ImperialsTears on My Pillow is a falsetto that cracks on purpose. Inducted 2009. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MetallicaEnter Sandman brought thrash into arenas without slowing down much. Class of 2009. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Run-DMCWalk This Way put rap and rock in one video and broke the wall down. Inducted 2009. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ABBADancing Queen is engineered joy from four Swedes who meant it. Class of 2010. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | GenesisLand of Confusion had puppets do the arguing. Inducted 2010. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The HolliesHe Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother is three-part harmony carrying a heavy line. Class of 2010. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The StoogesI Wanna Be Your Dog is one piano note hammered until it hurts. Inducted 2010. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Beastie BoysSabotage is a fake cop show and the best two minutes of the nineties. Class of 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Blue CapsGene Vincent's band, and Be-Bop-A-Lula is rockabilly at its most echoed. Inducted 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The CometsRock Around the Clock is the record that put rock and roll on every radio. Class of 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The CricketsBuddy Holly's band, and That'll Be the Day is where the template starts. Inducted 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Famous FlamesJames Brown's group, and Please, Please, Please is begging as performance. Class of 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Guns N' RosesSweet Child O' Mine began as a warm-up exercise Slash was making fun of. Inducted 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The MidnightersHank Ballard's band, too rude for radio and impossible to stop. Class of 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The MiraclesThe Tracks of My Tears hides its crying behind a smile. Inducted 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Red Hot Chili PeppersUnder the Bridge is the loud band admitting it was lonely. Class of 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Small FacesItchycoo Park has the flanging effect everyone copied afterwards. Inducted 2012. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | HeartBarracuda is the Wilson sisters answering a sleazy promoter with a riff. Class of 2013. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Public EnemyFight the Power is a siren, a horn stab, and no room for disagreement. Inducted 2013. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | RushTom Sawyer is a synth line, an odd time signature, and Neil Peart. Class of 2013. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Hall & OatesYou Make My Dreams is the most cheerful three minutes in blue-eyed soul. Inducted 2014. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | KissRock and Roll All Nite is makeup, pyro, and one chorus. Class of 2014. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | NirvanaSmells Like Teen Spirit ended one decade of rock and started another. Inducted 2014. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Green DayBasket Case is an anxiety attack at a hundred and seventy beats a minute. Class of 2015. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Joan Jett & the BlackheartsI Love Rock 'n Roll is a jukebox, a stomp, and no apology. Inducted 2015. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Paul Butterfield Blues BandBorn in Chicago brought the blues north with an integrated lineup. Class of 2015. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double TroublePride and Joy is a Texas shuffle played harder than the strings want. Inducted 2015. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Cheap TrickOn I Want You to Want Me the Budokan crowd screams louder than the band. Class of 2016. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Chicago25 or 6 to 4 is a horn section and a guitar solo fighting for the room. Inducted 2016. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Deep PurpleSmoke on the Water is the first riff every guitar shop bans. Class of 2016. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | N.W.AStraight Outta Compton got the FBI to write the group a letter. Inducted 2016. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Electric Light OrchestraMr. Blue Sky is a Beatles record that arrived ten years late. Class of 2017. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | JourneyDon't Stop Believin' refused to die and got a second life on television. Inducted 2017. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Pearl JamAlive turned a grim story into a crowd singing it back. Class of 2017. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | YesOwner of a Lonely Heart is prog rock cut down to fit the radio. Inducted 2017. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bon JoviLivin' on a Prayer has a key change that everyone waits for. Class of 2018. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The CarsJust What I Needed is new wave with the guitars still turned up. Inducted 2018. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dire StraitsSultans of Swing is a guitar tone that needed no distortion at all. Class of 2018. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Moody BluesNights in White Satin put an orchestra behind a pop band and meant it. Inducted 2018. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The CureJust Like Heaven is the happiest song by a band famous for the opposite. Class of 2019. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Def LeppardPour Some Sugar on Me is a stadium chorus assembled in a studio. Inducted 2019. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | RadioheadCreep was the hit they spent a decade trying to outrun. Class of 2019. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Roxy MusicMore Than This is style making its own argument. Inducted 2019. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The ZombiesTime of the Season came out after the band had already broken up. Class of 2019. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Depeche ModeEnjoy the Silence is synth-pop with a guitar line that stays with you. Inducted 2020. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Doobie BrothersListen to the Music is harmony over an acoustic strum that never stops. Class of 2020. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Nine Inch NailsThe Hand That Feeds is industrial rock with a hook it does not hide. Inducted 2020. | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | T. RexBang a Gong is glam distilled into a single strut. Class of 2020. | — win | — match wins |