Let’s kick off by saying this is MY top 100 rock artists. So this is MY choice and nobody else’s.

And don’t look at it like at an ordinary top (1 to 100) but more like a list of bands that I like. I will also be adding some songs that I consider to be emblematic/most known for that band.

  • Judas Priest (Breaking The Law / Painkiller / Hell Bent for Leather)
  • Iron Maiden (Fear Of The Dark / The Trooper / Aces High)
  • Megadeth (Hangar 18 / Symphony of Destruction / Sleepwalker)
  • Metallica (Enter Sandman / Master Of Puppets / Fade To Black)
  • Queensrÿche (Jet City Woman / Empire / Silent Lucidity)
  • Nightwish (Nemo / Over the hills and far away / Dark Chest of Wonders)
  • Annihilator (Alison Hell / The Fun Palace / Sixes And Sevens)
  • Whitesnake (Here I go Again / Is This Love / Fool For Your Loving)
  • Paradise Lost (As I Die / Remembrance / Embers Fire)
  • Pantera (Walk / Cowboys From Hell / Cemetery Gates)
  • Guns N’ Roses (Sweet Child O’Mine / Welcome To The Jungle / November Rain)
  • Alice In Chains (Rooster / No Excuses / Down In A Hole)
  • Pearl Jam (Jeremy / Alive / Even Flow)
  • Soundgarden (Rusty Cage / Black Hole Sun)
  • Stone Temple Pilots (Creep / Plush / Vasoline)
  • Nirvana (Smells Like Teen Spirit / Polly / Rape Me)
  • Rage Against The Machine (Bullet in the Head / Bombtrack / Freedom / Killing In The Name)
  • Within Temptation (Mother Earth / Deceiver Of Fools / Stand my ground)
  • Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody / We Are The Champions / We Will Rock You)
  • Rainbow (Catch The Rainbow / Since You Been Gone / I Surrender)
  • AC/DC (Highway To Hell / Money Talks / Thunderstruck)
  • Alice Cooper (No More Mr. Nice Guy / Poison / Hey Stoopid)
  • Accept (Balls to the Wall / Metal Heart / Midnight Mover)
  • DIO (Holy Diver / We Rock / The Last In Line)
  • Manowar (Kings Of Metal / Heart Of Steel / Hail and Kill)
  • Thin Lizzy (Whiskey in the Jar / The Boys Are Back in Town / Jailbreak)
  • Scorpions (Rock You Like the Hurricane / Send Me an Angel / Wind of Change)
  • Def Leppard (Pour Some Sugar on Me / Love Bites / Two Steps Behind)
  • Bon Jovi (Livin’ on a Prayer / You Give Love a Bad Name / Bad Medicine)
  • Kiss (Rock and Roll All Nite / I Was Made for Lovin’ You / God Gave Rock & Roll to You)
  • Mötley Crüe (Dr. Feelgood / Home Sweet Home / Girls Girls Girls)
  • Van Halen (Jump / You Really Got Me / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / Panama)
  • Twisted Sister (We’re Not Gonna Take It / I Wanna Rock / You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll)
  • Skid Row (I Remember You / 18 and Life / Can’t Stand the Heartache)
  • Europe (The Final Countdown / Superstitious / Carrie)
  • Ozzy Osbourne (Mr. Crowley / Shot in the Dark / Mama / I’m Coming Home / See You on the Other Side)
  • Motörhead (Ace of Spades / Orgasmatron / 1916)
  • Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock / Love Me Tender / Blue Suede Shoes)
  • The Beatles (Hey Jude / Yellow Submarine / Help / Twist and Shout / All You Need Is Love)
  • Jimi Hendrix (Purple Haze / Hey Joe / Foxy Lady / Voodoo Child)
  • Janis Joplin (Cry Baby / Mercedes Benz / Summertime)
  • Bob Dylan (Like A Rolling Stone / Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door / Blowing In The Wind)
  • Deep Purple (Smoke on the Water / Child in Time / Soldier of Fortune)
  • Led Zeppelin (Whole Lotta Love / Stairway to Heaven / Kashmir)
  • Jethro Tull (Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die / Bungle in the Jungle / Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day)
  • Black Sabbath (Iron Man / Paranoid / Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)
  • Pink Floyd (Another Brick in The Wall / Hey You / Have a Cigar / Shine On You Crazy Diamond / Welcome to the Machine / Wish You Were Here)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival (I Put a Spell on You / Suzie Q / Have You Ever Seen the Rain? / Up Around The Bend)
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer (C’est La Vie / Still You Turn Me On / The Sage)
  • The Eagles (Hotel California / New Kid in Town / Love Will Keep Us Alive)
  • The Doors (People Are Strange / Light My Fire / Hello, I Love You / Break on Through to the Other Side)
  • Santana (Black Magic Woman / Samba Pa Ti / Oye Como Va / Europa Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile / Corazon Espinado / Maria Maria / Put Your Lights On)
  • Ten Years After (I’m Going Home / I’d Love to Change The World / Love Like A Man)
  • The Who (My Generation / Summertime Blues / Behind Blue Eyes / Won’t Get Fooled Again)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd (Sweet Home Alabama / Free Bird / The Ballad Of Curtis Loew)
  • Iggy Pop (The Passenger / I Wanna Be Your Dog / Candy)
  • Rolling Stones ((I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction / Like A Rolling Stone / Ruby Tuesday / Jumpin’ Jack Flash / Brown Sugar)
  • ZZ Top (Legs / Gimme All Your Lovin’ / Viva Las Vegas / Rough Boy)
  • Sex Pistols (Anarchy in the U.K. / God Save the Queen)
  • The Clash (London Calling / Should I Stay or Should I Go / Bankrobber)
  • Type O Negative (Black No. 1 / Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family) / My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend / Love You to Death)
  • Héroes Del Silencio (Entre Dos Tierras / La Sirena Varada / La Apariencia No Es Sincera)
  • The Black Crowes (Remedy / Jealous Again / Twice As Hard)
  • R.E.M. (Everybody Hurts / Man on the Moon / Bang and Blame / Losing My Religion / Shiny Happy People)
  • Faith No More (Epic / The Real Thing / We Care a Lot / I’m Easy / Evidence)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under the Bridge / Give It Away / Suck My Kiss / Higher Ground / Scar Tissue / Aeroplane)
  • Linkin Park (A Place for My Head / Points of Authority / My December / One Step Closer / Crawling / In the End / Faint)
  • Evanescence (My Immortal / Bring Me to Life / Sweet Sacrifice / Going Under / Broken)
  • Disturbed (Down with the Sickness / Stupify / Violence Fetish)
  • Oasis (Wonderwall / Don’t Look Back in Anger / Supersonic / Champagne Supernova)
  • Green Day (When I Come Around / Basket Case / Minority / Fashion Victim / Give Me Novacaine / Wake Me Up When September Ends)
  • Korn (Freak on a Leash / Blind / Coming Undone / Alone I Break)
  • System Of A Down (Chop Suey / Toxicity / Sugar)
  • Nine Inch Nails (Something I Can Never Have [still] / Closer / Deep)
  • Rammstein (Du Hast / Sehnsucht / Ohne Dich / Ich Will / Amerika / Feuer Frei / Engel)
  • Ministry (Jesus Built My Hotrod / New World Order / Psalm 69)
  • Marilyn Manson (The Beautiful People / This Is The New Shit / The Dope Show)
  • Haggard (The Final Victory / In A Pale Moon’s Shadow / Awaking the Centuries)
  • Helloween (Keeper of the Seven Keys / I Want Out / Dr. Stein)
  • Savatage (Believe / Edge of Thorns / Hall of the Mountain King)
  • W.A.S.P. (I Wanna Be Somebody / Animal / Wild Child)
  • Slayer (Raining Blood / South of Heaven / Seasons in the Abyss)
  • Sepultura (Arise / Orgasmatron / Territory / Roots Bloody Roots)
  • Kreator (Pleasure to Kill / Enemy of God / Betrayer / Hordes of Chaos)
  • The Rasmus (Back in the Picture / First Day of My Life / In the Shadows / In My Life)
  • The Cranberries (Linger / Dreams / Not Sorry / Zombie / Ode to My Family / Ridiculous Thoughts / Just My Imagination)
  • Placebo (Running Up That Hill / Every You Every Me / Bitter End)
  • Radiohead (Creep / Karma Police / Lotus Flower)
  • Anthrax (Bring the Noise / Caught in a Mosh / I’m The Man)
  • Suicidal Tendencies (Alone / You Can’t Bring Me Down / How Will I Laugh Tomorrow)
  • Dream Theater (Pull Me Under / Panic Attack / The Dark Eternal Night / On The Backs Of Angels)
  • Overkill (Elimination / Horrorscope)
  • Manic Street Preachers (If You Tolerate This / A Design For Life / This Is The Day / Motorcycle Emptiness)
  • Exodus (Piranha / Bonded by Blood / War Is My Shepherd)
  • Metal Church (Watch the Children Pray / Badlands / Gods of Wrath)
  • Testament (Souls Of Black / Practice What You Preach / Return to Serenity)
  • Joe Satriani (Ice 9 / Surfing with the Alien / The Crush of Love / Summer Song)
  • Yngwie Malmsteen (Trilogy Suite Op: 5 / Arpeggios from Hell / Rising Force)
  • Steve Vai (For The Love of God / The Attitude Song / Tender Surrender)
  • LoNero (No Regrets / Whatever / Mr. Grinch)

Update: Bonus :)

  • Phoenix (Mugur de fluier / Nunta / Andrii Popa / Mica tiganiada / Negru Voda / Ciocarlia / Muzica si muzichia / Anule, hanule / In umbra marelui urs / Ora-hora / Strunga / Tamara / Canarul / Vremuri / Te intreb pe tine, soare / Timisoara / Would You Follow Me? / Stars Dance / Baba Novak)
  • Cargo (Batacanda / Ziua vrajitoarelor / Doi pasi / Doi prieteni / Nu mai am tigari / Povestiri din gara / Erata / Ana / Aproape de voi / Ielele / Daca ploaia s-ar opri / Baga-ti mintile-n cap)
  • Iris (Trenul fara nas / Pe ape / Cine ma striga in noapte? / Floare de iris / Strada ta / Tot zbor / Valuri / Tu, doar tu / De ce oare ai plecat? / Corabia cu panze / De vei pleca / Baby / Mirage / Somn bizar)
  • Vita de Vie (Basul si cu toba mare / Esti mai frumoasa (cand plangi) / Ceata / Ozosep / Abdullah / Iamma / Beat mort / Liber)
  • Highlight Kenosis (It Wasn’t Love / A Drop Of You / I Wish You Felt The Same)

Now imagine a playlist (should I say a festival? :O ) like the one I envisioned. Would it be awesome or what? :D