Its getting a wee bit old, I ofund it on a search database, and I thought it was pretty cute though:

Rank 100

BAUHAUS RELEASES `BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD' 9/3/79

Guitarist Daniel Ash has no idea how the single "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
sparked "this whole Goth nonsense." Bauhaus cut the dirge for $35 in a
cozy, sunny den in the English town of Wellingborough. "We wrote it
instantly," says Ash. "It was one of those magic moments." But as the
single crept out, thousands of teens used it to conjure up the
Nosferatu chic (black nails, porcupine hair, powdered skin, Count Dracula capes)
of Goth, a movement that would cast a spell on performers like Trent
Reznor and Marilyn Manson for two decades to come.

Rank 99

JETHRO TULL Wins the Grammy... for HEAVY METAL! 2/22/89

Was America finally embracing those dudes in Judas Priest jean jackets
down at the 7-Eleven? It sure seemed like it. The famously uncool
Grammys had added a long-overdue Best Hard Rock/Metal category, and
uncompromising headbangers Metallica (fronted by guitarist James
Hetfield, right) were invited to perform their intense epic "One" at
the glitzy ceremony. "We never felt like, 'What the f--- are we doing
here?' " says drummer Lars Ulrich. "We were like, 'If they want us, we'll
f---ing do it and we'll f---ing step up to the plate and f---in' kick
them in the head a little bit harder than anybody else.' " D'oh! Soon
after the band's thundering performance, the Grammy went to washed-up
proggers Jethro Tull, solidifying metal's status as rock's most
undeservedly disrespected genre.

Rank 98

Green Day's Woodstock II Mud Melee 8/14/94

By Sunday the ground was a wet, gray brown pudding, and after three
days of slogging through it, the pilgrims at Woodstock '94 were feeling
punchy. So when Green Day took the stage--armed with an arsenal of
punk-pop anthems--fans struck upon a clever way to vent their
frustration and glee: They threw mud. Green Day threw back. Within
seconds, the gooey clumps set off a Gen-X turf war. The winner? Rock &
roll.

Rank 97

JIM MORRISON "Flashes" Audience 3/1/69

It was already overheated at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. Then, as
the Doors played "Touch Me," a drunk, half-naked Jim Morrison taunted the
crowd with the promise of exposing more. A near riot ensued, the stage
collapsed, and the Lizard King was later convicted of using profane
language and indecent exposure. What really happened? "Mass
hallucination," contends keyboardist Ray Manzarek. "At the trial there
were hundreds of concert photos--and not one of Jim's ivory shaft."

Rank 96

The BIG CHILL Soundtrack Peaks At No. 17 on The Billboard 200 1/21/84

Like the '60s, it started innocently enough. While Lawrence Kasdan
directed Hollywood's ode to wilting flower power, The Big Chill, his
wife, Meg, stockpiled homemade cassettes full of chestnuts by the
Temptations and Marvin Gaye--songs that might sound nice in the movie.
"It was very casual," she says. Once Meg's Motown mix exploded on the
charts, however, baby boom "counterculture" became a Madison Avenue
code word for "comfort." Thereafter, the oldies would sell laxatives, not
love.

Rank 95

Ginger Quits The Spice Girls 5/31/98

As rock entered its fifth decade, the old rules--substance over flash,
rock over pop--crumbled like so many post-MTV VJ careers. Nothing
captured this transitoriness more than Geri Halliwell's announcement
she was exiting the Spice Girls at the peak of their fame. "I was running
at this high level of energy," says Halliwell. "I had to put it into
something else, or God knows what I would have done." Like become a
Backstreet Girl?

Rank 94

ELVIS' Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite 1/14/73

It was the beginning of the end: the moment an enormous TV audience (a
billion-plus viewers) discovered that the King was living large. Though
hardly the obese caricature he would later become--Elvis had lost 25
pounds on a diet that reportedly required daily injections of urine
from a pregnant woman--it was, says singer and Elvis historian Mojo Nixon,
"the last great gasp before the pills, panties, and pudginess took
over." Decades later, the appeal of Fat Elvis versus Young Elvis would
be debated by many, including the U.S. Postal Service.

Rank 93

MASSIVE ATTACK Releases Blue Lines 7/22/91

A long time ago, bands played instruments, made music rooted in blues
and country, and had stable lineups with recognizable members. With its
first album, this Bristol, England-based collective of DJs and
producers subverted those rules forever. Their blend of rap, reggae, heavy-lidded
R&B singing, and multi-textured samples--dubbed trip-hop and epitomized
by "Unfinished Sympathy"--influenced everyone from Tricky to Portishead
and rerouted the sound of pop. Blue Lines was such a harbinger that it
could have been called Blue Print.

Rank 92

MICHAEL JACKSON Heats Up 1/27/84

How hot was Jacko in early '84? While shooting a Pepsi TV spot, the
newly crowned King of Pop actually caught fire when a special-effects
mishap ignited his glossy locks, giving him third-degree burns. It was
the beginning of 15 years of bad karma, as his increasingly freakish
behavior invited derision and eventually a lawsuit alleging the sexual
abuse of a child (later settled out of court). Though far from
extinguished, today his career burns significantly less brightly.

Rank 91

THE REPLACEMENTS Sign to Sire 5/7/85

The first time Sire Records chief Seymour Stein (the man who signed
Madonna) caught a Replacements show at a Manhattan club, he decided to
bring the indie darlings into his fold. "I'd heard they could be awful
live, or really great," he says. "That night they were great." Purists
called the Minneapolis quartet's defection to the major label "rock's
great sellout." Some sellout. Tim, the band's first Sire album, was
recorded without label interference and sold fewer than 100,000 copies,
according to lead singer Paul Westerberg: "If anyone got rich off the
deal, it's news to me."

Rank 90

New Wave Swells When The THE POLICE Play Shea 8/18/83

Though the new-wave craze is often remembered not for its musical
merits but for the fashion bloopers it inspired--skinny ties, bug-eyed
spectacles, and silly haircuts--the Police's innovative pop excursions
lent the genre some old-school respect. In 1983, Synchronicity
(featuring the chart-topping "Every Breath You Take") held the No. 1
album spot for 17 weeks. The album was the band's last, but that night
at Shea Stadium, the Police both defined and transcended new wave.
Drummer Stewart Copeland recalls: "Those 70,000 people were not 'new
wavers,' they were everybody."


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That's pretty low ranking for Aloha IMO. And I don't know how Ginger leaving the Girls made it up there. Everyone knew they were falling out by then. Most likely, if I'd given something to the PSice Girls it would have been for their first hit and music video, because that was HUGE.

I've seen the tv show about 100 times The number 1 is obvious and everyone should know it.

#1 will be...

The Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show for the first time, guaranteed!

Wouldn't it be a different beatles incident?

Like what?

Honestly, I don't think John Lennon's death counts as a "great" moment in rock and roll history.

:razz: I saw this ones eons ago, and stumbled upon a print list. Guys...you are going to ruin the fun for anyone that doesn't know. Or is like me, and has such a bad memory they forgot years ago.

ahh, I must be thinking of vh1's 100 most shocking moments in rock n' roll.

But seriously, we all know that the top 2 are gonna have to be something with the beatles and michael jackson.

Rank 89

MILLI VANILLI IS EXPOSED 11/14/90

The rumor had circulated, but more than girls knew it was true when
about a year after an onstage lip-synch slipup, producer Frank Farian
confessed to the press that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were the world's
most sophisticated ventriloquist act. ("Sure, they have a voice, but
that's not really what I want to use on my records," Farian said.) Some
shock waves were immediate: The humiliated duo had to return their Best
New Artist Grammy. Others--a backlash against dance pop that paved the
way for the Unplugged fad--unfolded over time. Besides, where would
Behind the Music be without Rob and Fab's disgrace?

Rank 88

Maurice Starr Meets NEW EDITION JANUARY '82

It was a less-than-swinging start: One winter day in the projects of
Roxbury, Mass., a group of kids auditioned unsuccessfully for
producer-songwriter Maurice Starr. But "to get rid of them," Starr
says, he let them sing for him again--when suddenly the power of Ralph
Tresvant's pipes kicked in. "The kid had a sellable voice," Starr says,
"and I knew I could sell it." The hit-bound association of Starr and
that quintet--New Edition--proved to be earthshaking. After New Edition
disbanded, members Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, and Bell Biv DeVoe
pioneered new jack swing, a hip-hop-rooted style of R&B crooning and
fashion that dominated '90s pop (from Jodeci and Boyz II Men to TLC and
Brandy), while Starr and one of his former employees, Johnny Wright,
separately steered the boy-band renaissance, working with such acts as
New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync, and the Backstreet Boys. They could
sell it indeed.

Rank 87

KCRW PLAYS `LOSER' 7/13/93

When Chris Douridas, then music director at L.A. radio station KCRW,
first spun a little ditty consisting of a Dr. John sample, a nasty
slide-guitar lick, and the lyric "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you
kill me," alternative rock met its future. Within weeks, Beck's club
shows became standing-room-only affairs and Geffen Records won a
furious bidding war. "At a time when everybody was chasing grunge," Douridas
says, "it felt like the next big step." Beck was less impressed: "I was
kind of embarrassed about 'Loser,' because it was already a couple of
years old and I felt the moment had passed."

Rank 86

'AUTOBAHN' ENTERS THE U.S. CHARTS 3/15/75

It came from Germany, but when heard alongside hit singles by Elton
John and Olivia Newton-John, Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" seemed to emanate from
another galaxy. Recorded entirely with synthesizers, the quartet's ode
to the European superhighway had an addictive, otherworldly blankness.
Although it peaked at No. 25, "Autobahn" was electronica's first
incursion into the mainstream, and Kraftwerk would inspire future knob
twiddlers from Afrika Bambaataa to the Chemical Brothers. "Kraftwerk
was the first German band I accepted as a guideline," says guitarist
Richard Kruspe of electro-metallists Rammstein. "They were leaders."

Rank 85

GARTH BROOKS TOPS THE POP AND COUNTRY CHARTS 9/28/91

Who knew there were as many citybillies plunking down urban cowbucks on
Garth Brooks as there were country fans in them thar hills?
Everybody--after Ropin' the Wind became the first album to debut
simultaneously atop Billboard's pop and country charts. One factor
giving Garth enough rope to achieve this feat was the advent of
SoundScan, a more accurate tabulation process that ensured the big
sales enjoyed by country, rap, and other "niches" would no longer be an
industry secret. The downside of SoundScan was "the onset of the box
office mentality we have now in music," as ex-A&M Records CEO Al Cafaro
puts it--with Brooks the poster boy for artists' growing obsession with
opening-week tallies.

Rank 84

PAUL SIMON GOES GLOBAL NOVEMBER '71

Flying down to Kingston, Jamaica, Simon--sans Garfunkel for the first
time--had one goal: to record a ska version of a new song, "Mother and
Child Reunion." The locals, Simon recalls, had other ideas: "They said,
'We play reggae now.' I said, 'What's reggae?' " The resulting
collaboration and hit single broke ground for the Anglo-worldbeat of
Talking Heads, Sting, Joni Mitchell, and Simon's 1986 Graceland. Says
Simon of his own expedition: "You walked out the back door of the
studio and there were goats grazing. It was a bit of an adventure."

Rank 83

Kiss See the New York Dolls 5/29/72

It was the dawn of glitter rock, and the New York Dolls, tarted up like
transvestite hookers, were the darlings of the scene. To
pre-makeup-wearing future Kiss members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley,
watching David Johansen (right) and the Dolls perform at New York's
Diplomat Hotel provided crucial inspiration. "Paul and I looked at each
other and said, 'Wow, they look like real rock stars," says Simmons.
"Then we said, We'll kill 'em.' " Kiss went on to handily trump the
Dolls, commercially and sartorially.

Rank 82

PINK FLOYD Unveil Dark Side of the Moon 2/17/72

"One of the best ways to find out if something is working," recalls
bassist Roger Waters, "is to perform it," preferably before an
audience. The idea never seemed better as Pink Floyd toiled away in a rehearsal
hall on an ambitious song cycle. So, over four nights at London's
Rainbow Theatre, the band let fans hear the nascent Dark Side of the
Moon months before it was recorded (and eventually sold a staggering 15
million copies). "These were the days when people would sit and listen
instead of yelling 'rock & roll!' " says Waters. "This was more like a
night at the theater."

Rank 81

THE HARDER THEY COME Opens in America 2/9/73

When director Perry Henzell's film The Harder They Come debuted in the
U.S., reggae was only slightly more common in Stateside record
collections than Ukrainian folk music. That quickly changed: The gritty
drama of a Jamaican musician on the lam (and its accompanying
soundtrack) was most Americans' first taste of pure reggae, paving the
way for the likes of Bob Marley. "The music was new--it was expressing
the things of the time," says star Jimmy Cliff. "It had the same effect
that rap is having on people today."

Rank 80

The MOTHERSHIP Lands 10/29/76

With what seemed like a hundred outlandishly costumed star children on
stage, Parliament's '70s shows were the ultimate party spectacle. And
that was before they landed the mothership. The set, which first
touched down at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, sealed the band's rep as
funk's master showmen. "The first time we opened the show with it
landing," recalls George Clinton (below), "we couldn't [top] it! We
said, 'Wait a minute, forget this.' So we put it at the end of the
show, and after that, [the show] was on."

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I love when Paul Simon went "ethnic." Graceland and Obvious Child are two of his best albums.

Britney Spears OOps I did it again performance must be somewhere here, and/or the Madonna-Spears kiss...

Those were great..and...."erotic" *grrowl!*


But I agree with Mav. I think the day that the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show, is the day where music changed forever. The Beatles were finally in America, for the first time, and everything thereafter, was history.

Ryan, I think this list is too old for that. Geri dirching Posh might be the most recent event it covers. I don't know yet, I haven't read the list ahead of time.

Rank 79

THE EAGLES DEBUT AT DISNEYLAND 6/12/71

For once, Tomorrowland really lived up to its name. Disneyland wasn't
the likeliest place for the four founding Eagles to play together for
the first time: They all knew each other from weekly "hoot nights" up
at West Hollywood's Troubadour, where all the young talents of SoCal
country rock, including Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, used to hang
out. "We were sort of like neighborhood buddies," says Bernie Leadon.
But--speaking of small worlds after all--Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and
Randy Meisner were acting as Ronstadt's backing band for a balmy Date
Nite gig on the Tomorrowland Stage when mutual pal Leadon got up to
join them for a couple of tunes, allowing a few hundred unwitting teens a
glimpse into the E-ticket fast lane of the future.

Rank 78

Tapers' Choice for Best DEAD Gig 5/8/77

Getting Deadheads to agree on the band's best show is harder than
getting bong water out of the carpet, but few fans disagree that this
Cornell University gig was a classic. One of the most popular of the
many tapes still in circulation, the bootleg recording is a prime
showcase for the band's expansive jams. "We were very nearly the only
band who was leaving stuff up to chance," says singer-guitarist Bob
Weir. "We were trying to reinvent songs every time we played them, and
I think that set us apart."

Rank 77

PAT BOONE's 'Ain't That A Shame' Enters The Charts 7/9/55

Breaking down racial barriers? Or whitey rippin' off the black man? Pat
Boone's sanitized cover versions of black hits are controversial to
this day. "At that moment, pop stations were not playing rhythm & blues, and
it didn't look like they were ever going to," Boone says. "But after I
had a No. 1 pop record with 'Ain't That a Shame,' the Fats [Domino
original] version started getting played on pop stations. It was
probably the song that in crossing over helped establish R&B--though we
were calling it rock & roll--as an acceptable form for millions of
people." And black music would never again fail to find Caucasian
"early adopters"--from Ricky Nelson to Vanilla Ice.

Rank 76

JERRY LEE LEWIS Weds His Teen Cousin 12/12/57

Fulfilling every parent's worst rock & roll nightmare, hell-raisin'
piano pounder Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, drove from Memphis to Mississippi
and got hitched for a third time--to his 13-year-old second cousin, Myra
Gale Brown. It took five months for the Killer's breathless act to
become public. As the man many were calling "the next Elvis" began a
U.K. tour, a media feeding frenzy ensued when Myra's age and kinship
(and Lewis' still-valid marriage to wife No. 2) were disclosed.
Overnight, the singer with three top 10 hits was banned by many radio
stations and American Bandstand, never to reach the pop top 10 again.

Rank 75

'HAIR' OPENS ON BROADWAY 4/29/68

If you're going to the Great White Way, be sure to wear a flower in
your hair.... That was the implicit message upon the opening of the rock
musical Hair, which transformed San Francisco's Summer of Love into
springtime for hippies on Broadway, complete with nekkid dancers
letting their freak flags (and various appendages) fly. This was either the
giddy triumph of the counterculture within America's seat of culture,
or--if you take the cynical (i.e., easy to be hard) view--one of the
first commercial co-optings of a generation's fleeting ideals. Its
lasting merit is debatable, but Hair definitely put Broadway blue-hairs
on notice: No genre would be safe from rock's manifest destiny.

Rank 74

The Monkees Debuts 9/12/66

Hey, hey, they're the Monkees--and their TV bow paved the way for an
entirely new relationship between music and the tube. TV execs were no
longer satisfied with showcasing pop groups Bandstand style. The
Monkees (like the Partridge Family after them) were manufactured out of thin
air. The basic concept: Beatles lite. Every episode came complete with
tension-free camaraderie, drug-free psychedelia, a potential radio hit,
and manic music sequences--which, for the genealogy-minded, provide the
missing link between A Hard Day's Night and MTV.

Rank 73

Reagan Co-pts THE BOSS 9/19/84

Ronald Reagan was running for reelection, the L.A. Olympics whipped
jingoism into a frenzy, and Bruce Springsteen released Born in the
U.S.A. In that climate, the title song (a cri de coeur by a Vietnam
vet) was misread as a patriotic anthem. At one campaign stop, Reagan
declared that the Boss conveyed "hope.... Helping make those dreams come true is
what this job of mine is all about." On stage a few nights later, Bruce
wondered aloud if his Nebraska, a bleak portrait of an America blasted
by failed promises, was Reagan's fave. The Celebrity Death Match
between Presidents and rock stars was on--and the rockers won the first round
hands down.

Rank 72

Mockumentary THIS IS SPINAL TAP Premieres 3/2/84

Before rock was dead, it was dumb--as delineated in This Is Spinal Tap,
the barely exaggerated touchstone by which all real band disasters were
thereafter measured. Metal may have waned, but, says Michael McKean
(a.k.a. David St. Hubbins), "there will always be teenage guys who want
to do that thing with their heads. Even if music had never been
invented.... Just imagine them in Renaissance times, looking at the
Pieta and rocking their heads back and forth."

Rank 71

The Concert For BANGLADESH 8/1/71

It sounded so simple. When Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar wanted to raise
$25,000 for starving, war-torn Bangladesh, his student, George
Harrison, figured, "Why not make a million dollars?" So the ex-Beatle rallied
pals such as Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan to throw rock's first major "cause"
fund-raiser. But while the Madison Square Garden show, and subsequent
album and film, would ultimately gross more than $9 million, legal and
tax-man wranglings kept most of the money from those in need until
1981, providing a cautionary lesson for Live Aid and Farm Aid.

Rank 70

LOLLAPALOOZA II Opens for Business 7/18/92

The first Lollapalooza (in 1991) validated the idea of a traveling
alt-rock circus. But by the time Lolla II kicked off in Mountain View,
Calif., the music was hotter than an overactive mosher, and the tour,
featuring Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Pearl
Jam (with Eddie Vedder, right), grossed $19.1 million, cementing the
music's dominance. "It reeked of a capitalist venture," says Ministry's
Al Jourgensen. "But by the end, it was all for one, one for all. I hate
to sound like 'summer of luuuv, man,' but it really was cool."

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Spinal Tap should be higher. I liked "Celebrity Death Match between Presidents and rock stars" hehe.

I bet in the to 20 will be: Ramones playing at CBGBs, The Clash releasing London Calling.