Favorite artists

[StevieFan13]

A few people have shared their lists, so off the top of my head, here are my favorite artists.

1. Stevie Wonder
2. The Smiths
3. R.E.M.
4. Ben Folds Five
5. David Bowie
6. Prince
7. The Beatles
8. Sleater-Kinney
9. Billy Joel
10. Queen
11. The Clash
12. Green Day
13. Aretha Franklin
14. Parliament-Funkadelic
15. Marvin Gaye
16. Pixies
17. Blur
18. Oasis
19. Carole King
20. Bruce Springsteen
21. Nirvana
22. Foo Fighters
23. Adele
24. The Police
25. The Strokes
26. Ray Charles
27. Patti Smith
28. The Pogues
29. Simon & Garfunkel
30. Public Enemy
31. Talking Heads
32. The Notorious B.I.G.
33. Mariah Carey
34. Janis Joplin
35. The Band
36. Eminem
37. Jay Z
38. Kendrick Lamar
39. Bob Marley
40. Madonna
41. Elvis Costello
42. Kate Bush
43. U2
44. Arctic Monkeys
45. Kanye West
46. 2Pac
47. Amy Winehouse
48. Fiona Apple
49. Tori Amos
50. The Rolling Stones
51. Radiohead
52. Run-DMC
53. Rilo Kiley
54. Kate Nash
55. LCD Soundsystem
56. Nick Cave
57. Elvis Presley
58. Glenn Miller
59. Louis Armstrong
60. James Brown
61. Red Hot Chili Peppers
62. Gogol Bordello
63. Al Green
64. Paramore
65. The Specials
66. Neutral Milk Hotel
67. Billy Bragg
68. ABBA
69. The Who
70. Rush
71. The Cure
72. New Order
73. The Kinks
74. Wu-Tang Clan
75. Muddy Waters
76. Sam Cooke
77. The Velvet Underground
78. Earth, Wind and Fire
79. Timbaland
80. Big Star
81. OutKast
82. 10,000 Maniacs
83. Depeche Mode
84. Pretenders
85. Ramones
86. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
87. Panic! At the Disco
88. Led Zeppelin
89. Samia (though I will admit some personal bias here)
90. Soundgarden
91. Kacey Musgraves
92. Johnny Cash
93. Little Richard
94. Devo
95. "Weird Al" Yankovic
96. Tom Lehrer
97. John Cale
98. Leonard Cohen
99. Rodriguez
100. Tim Minchin

[Romain]

On the top of the top, I have really 5 artists that I love all the work (alphabetical order):

- The Beatles
- David Bowie
- Georges Brassens
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Prince

[StevieFan13]

On the top of the top, I have really 5 artists that I love all the work (alphabetical order):

- The Beatles
- David Bowie
- Georges Brassens
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Prince

A fine group. I don't know much by Brassens or Gainsbourg, but I'm hoping to give myself more of an education in French music (and any recommendations would be much appreciated - and yes, I am aware of the French Song of the Day feature).

[Zombeels]

The Kinks
Los Beatles
Rolling Stones
Zombies
Small Faces
Built To Spill
Jack Drag / Submarines
Radical Face / Electric President
Girls In Hawaii
Friska Viljor
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Who
The Byrds
Creedance Clearwater Revival
The Cars
Fleetwood Mac (The early years)
Pretty Things


... to name a few

[BleuPanda]

I just recently changed my formula to only include songs and albums I've rated an 8 or higher (I used to include 7s or higher), so artists with a few really strong works boosted, while artists with a lot of minor works I appreciated but don't particularly find impressive collapsed. It feels a lot more personal this way. This is my raw numbers list; I would easily put LCD Soundsystem at the top if I was going with my gut. David Bowie is leagues ahead of everyone based on my score-based list, while LCD Soundsystem is close enough that they'll overtake The Beatles if their next album is a similar quality to their earlier work (or if they have another strong song or two; if it's particularly impressive, they might beat out Radiohead as well).

1. David Bowie
2. Radiohead
3. The Beatles
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. The Velvet Underground
6. Bob Dylan
7. Nick Cave
8. Bruce Springsteen
9. R.E.M.
10. The Smiths
11. Talking Heads
12. Kraftwerk
13. Sufjan Stevens
14. Pixies
15. Kanye West
16. Daft Punk
17. The Rolling Stones
18. The Beach Boys
19. Joy Division
20. Prince
21. Kendrick Lamar
22. Blur
23. Bjork
24. Nirvana
25. The Who
26. Smashing Pumpkins
27. Arcade Fire
28. The Knife
29. Stevie Wonder
30. New Order
31. U2
32. The Cure
33. A Tribe Called Quest
34. Leonard Cohen
35. Beck
36. The Clash
37. Brian Eno
38. Primal Scream
39. Animal Collective
40. Led Zeppelin
41. Portishead
42. Grimes
43. Sonic Youth
44. The xx
45. Public Enemy
46. My Bloody Valentine
47. OutKast
48. Wilco
49. Buddy Holly
50. The Chemical Brothers
51. Tom Waits
52. Lou Reed
53. Frank Ocean
54. Depeche Mode
55. Miles Davis
56. Vampire Weekend
57. The Jam
58. Pet Shop Boys
59. The Supremes
60. Beastie Boys
61. M.I.A.
62. Bon Iver
63. James Blake
64. Underworld
65. Arctic Monkeys
66. Jay-Z
67. The White Stripes
68. The Doors
69. The Stooges
70. Ramones
71. Franz Ferdinand
72. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
73. Elliott Smith
74. Paul Simon
75. The National
76. Courtney Barnett
77. Missy Elliot
78. Patti Smith
79. The Horrors
80. Violent Femmes
81. Queens of the Stone Age
82. St. Vincent
83. Hot Chip
84. TV on the Radio
85. The Jesus and Mary Chain
86. Funkadelic/Parliament
87. PJ Harvey
88. Marvin Gaye
89. Pearl Jam
90. Madonna
91. Pavement
92. Dirty Projectors
93. Perfume Genius
94. ANOHNI/Antony and the Johnsons
95. Kate Bush
96. Neil Young
97. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
98. Aphex Twin
99. The Flaming Lips
100. King Crimson

[prosecutorgodot]

Top 40 artists, sorted by genre and in alphabetical order.

Pop:
ABBA
Bee Gees
Carole King
John Mayer
Kero Kero Bonito
Madonna
Norah Jones
Wham!

Rock:
The Beatles
Coldplay
David Bowie
Eagles
Green Day
Journey
Linkin Park
Paramore
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Santana
The White Stripes

R&B:
Beyonce
Janelle Monae
Michael Jackson
Prince
Stevie Wonder

Hip-Hop:
Death Grips
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar

Singer-Songwriter:
Bob Dylan
Kate Bush

Folk/Country:
Fleet Foxes
Johnny Cash
Kacey Musgraves

Dance/Electronic:
The Knife
Kraftwerk

Miscellaneous:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Dorough, Ahrens, Newall, Frishberg (Schoolhouse Rock)
Joe Hisaishi
Tchaikovsky
The Wailers

[luvulongTIM]

1. Lush
2. Belle & Sebastian
3. Cocteau Twins
4. Kate Bush
5. Camera Obscura
6. Sleater-Kinney
7. Ride
8. The Primitives
9. Trashcan Sinatras
10. The Housemartins
11. Super Furry Animals
12. The Boo Radleys
13. The Jesus & Mary Chain
14. Guided by Voices
15. The Divine Comedy
16. The Wonderstuff
17. Pulp
18. Manic Street Preachers
19. Siouxsie & The Banshees
20. The Beatles
21. Saint Etienne
22. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
23. Teenage Fanclub
24. PJ Harvey
25. Primal Scream
26. Magnetic Fields
27. Supergrass
28. Tori Amos
29. The Pixies
30. Apples in Stereo
31. Spiritualized
32. David Bowie
33. Pink Floyd
34. The Clash
35. Queen
36. Björk
37. Suede
38. Curve
39. James
40. AC/DC
41. The Beautiful South
42. The Sundays
43. The Stone Roses
44. Arctic Monkeys
45. Strawberry Story
46. The House of Love
47. Dressy Bessy
48. Liz Phair
49. Radiohead
50. Mew
51. Rilo Kiley
52. Shonen Knife
53. Sinead O' Connor
54. Kitchens of Distinction
55. Sonic Youth
56. Talulah Gosh
57. The Ramones
58. Oasis
59. Doves
60. Pale Saints
61. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
62. Vampire Weekend
63. Mull Historical Society
64. Bob Dylan
65. Of Montreal
66. Billy Bragg
67. Inspiral Carpets
68. The Flaming Lips
69. Travis
70. Ministry
71. Robyn
72. The Verve
73. Modest Mouse
74. Patti Smith
75. Blondie
76. The Velvet Underground
77. X-Ray Spex
78. Peter Gabriel
79. Interpol
80. Nine Inch Nails
81. M83
82. Roxy Music
83. Happy Mondays
84. The Cramps
85. Bruce Springsteen
86. Ladytron
87. The Frames
88. Bob Marley
89. The Doors
90. ABBA
91. My Bloody Valentine
92. Fiona Apple
93. Elastica
94. Gore Gore Girls
95. The Smiths
96. Ash
97. The Replacements
98. The Long Blondes
99. Elton John
100. The Runaways

[Depeche Mode]

1.Radiohead
2.Opeth
3.Slowdive
4.Grouper
5.Wilco
6.Interpol
7.Animal Collective

That's my Golden 7, after that it gets too hard to rank/compare.

[StevieFan13]

1.Radiohead
2.Opeth
3.Slowdive
4.Grouper
5.Wilco
6.Interpol
7.Animal Collective

That's my Golden 7, after that it gets too hard to rank/compare.

Interesting...not the British band I expected to be your #1.

[Depeche Mode]

My username is sort of an accident, I wanted to have Depeche Mode as a thread title and it wound up as my username too and I stuck with it. At the time they were my favorite band, but not since I really got into more music. They would still probably make my top 20, relistened to their discography last year and liked them more than I expected(there was a time when Gahan's voice was really grating on me).

[Madzong]

1. David Bowie
2. Velvet Underground
3. Stooges
4. Ramones
5. T.Rex
6. New York Dolls
7. Patti Smith Group
8. Talking Heads
9. Primal Scream
10. John Lennon
11. The Damned
12. The Adverts
13. The Dead Boys
14. Shihad
15. Dave Dobbyn
16. MC5
17. Brian Eno
18. New Order
19. The Cure
20. The Smiths
21. The Clash
22. Blur
23. Split Enz
24. Elton John
25. The Strokes
26. The White Stripes
27. The Datsuns
28. The Black Keys
29. The Replacements
30. Husker Du
31. The Pixies
32. The Screaming Trees
33. Pulp
34. Suede
35. Oasis
36. Alice In Chains
37. Pearl Jam
38. Soundgarden
39. Nirvana
40. Smashing Pumpkins
41. U2
42. The Muttonbirds
43. Crowded House
44. AC/DC
45. Deep Purple
46. The Rolling Stones
47. The Kinks
48. The Who
49. The Beatles
50. Blondie
51. The Pretenders
52. The Police
53. Headless Chivkens
54. Black Sabbath
55. Guns N Roses
56. Led Zeppelin
57. My Bloody Valentine
58. The Doors
59. Richard Hell and The Voidoids
60. Television
61. Elastica
63. De La Soul
64. A Tribe Called Quest
65. M83
66. The Naked And Famous
67. TV On The Radio
68. Arcade Fire
69. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
70. Gorillaz
71. Sex Pistols
72. Mott The Hoople
73. Pink Floyd
74. The Cars
75. Aerosmith
76. Toy Love
77. Happy Mondays
78. Black Grape
79. Arctic Monkeys
80. The Beach Boys
81. Prince
82. The Killers
83. Queens Of The Stone Age
84. Iggy Pop
85. Lou Reed

[peteevans]

Wow not one mention of Steely Dan the greatest American band of all time !

[Jirin]

Just my top tier:

Bob Dylan
Tom Waits
Tom Buckley
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix

Guess second tier is also worth mentioning.

Radiohead
The Knife
White Stripes
Nirvana
Pixies
Prince
Velvet Underground
Neil Young
Public Enemy