Hall of Acclaim 2020 (CLOSED)

[Live in Phoenix]

I'm going to go ahead and just start this now.


Category 1, Performers: Nominate at least five and no more than ten acts that you feel are deserving of being in the AMF Hall. 2020 releases can be included in your evaluations. There are no restrictions concerning voting for newer performers. The point system: #1 = 10 pts., #2 = 9 pts., and so on. This poll is kind of the Wild West of our forum, so if you are so inclined, you can do something like push your most appealing picks (instead of your personal favorites) to the top spots in your submission. The acts with the four-highest points will be our four inductees.

Category 2, Backstage Wing: Additionally if you'd like, you can nominate up to three “Backstage Wing” individuals who you feel deserve to be in the Hall. “Backstage Wing” types include songwriters, producers, record company founders/owners, music video directors, and critics/scholars. (Inductees have also included session musicians, wandering guest musicians, and record company house bands. Unofficial band members like Ian Stewart are "allowed" onstage in this category, as are guest musicians; but this isn't a category meant for a Performer's official backing band like the E Street Band.) The Backstage Wing point system: #1 = 3 pts., #2 = 2 pts., #3 = 1 pt. Whoever gets the highest points will be our one inductee.

I will keep this poll up through the end of Friday, February 12th, UTC timezone. In the case of a Backstage Wing tie, or a fourth-place Performers tie, a tie-breaker vote will go into effect for 3 days to determine the winner, in which case I will cast the last vote (or abstain) if need be.

With that all said and taken care of, let the voting begin!

[Live in Phoenix]

The list of inductees so far:


Performers:

2Pac -- 2020

ABBA
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Animal Collective
Aphex Twin
Fiona Apple -- 2020
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Louis Armstrong

The Band
Alain Bashung
The Beach Boys
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Beck
Belle and Sebastian
Chuck Berry
Beyoncé
Big Star
Björk
Black Sabbath
Blondie
Blur
David Bowie
Georges Brassens
Jacques Brel
James Brown
Jeff Buckley
Kate Bush
Buzzcocks
The Byrds

Can
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Ray Charles
The Chemical Brothers
Chic
The Clash
Patsy Cline
Cocteau Twins
Leonard Cohen
Coldplay
Nat King Cole
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Sam Cooke
Elvis Costello
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cure

Daft Punk
Miles Davis
De La Soul
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Bo Diddley
DJ Shadow
Dr. Dre
Fats Domino
The Doors
Nick Drake
Bob Dylan

The Eagles
Duke Ellington
Missy Elliott
Eminem
Brian Eno
Eurythmics
The Everly Brothers

Ella Fitzgerald
The Flaming Lips
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
The Four Tops
Aretha Franklin
Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi

Peter Gabriel
Serge Gainsbourg
Marvin Gaye
Genesis
The Grateful Dead
Al Green
Green Day
Guns N’ Roses
Woody Guthrie

Merle Haggard
PJ Harvey
Jimi Hendrix
Billie Holiday
Buddy Holly
Howlin’ Wolf
Hüsker Dü

The Isley Brothers -- 2020

Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
The Jam
Jay-Z
Jefferson Airplane
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Billy Joel
Elton John
Robert Johnson
George Jones
Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company
Joy Division

B. B. King
Carole King
King Crimson
The Kinks
The Knife
Kraftwerk
Fela Kuti

Kendrick Lamar
LCD Soundsystem
Lead Belly
Led Zeppelin
John Lennon
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Love
Low
Lynyrd Skynyrd

M.I.A.
Madonna
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Massive Attack
Curtis Mayfield
Metallica
Charles Mingus
Joni Mitchell
Modest Mouse -- 2020
Thelonious Monk
Bill Monroe
Ennio Morricone
Van Morrison
My Bloody Valentine

Nas
The National
Willie Nelson
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Order
Randy Newman
Joanna Newsom
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
The Notorious B.I.G.
N.W.A.

Oasis
Roy Orbison
OutKast

Charlie Parker
Parliament/Funkadelic
Gram Parsons
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Edith Piaf
Pink Floyd
Pixies
The Pogues
The Police
Iggy Pop
Portishead
Elvis Presley
Pretenders
Primal Scream
Prince
Public Enemy
Pulp

Queen
Queens of the Stone Age

Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Ramones
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Otis Redding
Lou Reed
Django Reinhardt
R.E.M.
The Replacements
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
The Rolling Stones
Roxy Music
Run-D.M.C.

Santana
Sex Pistols
Sigur Ros
Paul Simon
Simon and Garfunkel
Nina Simone
Frank Sinatra
Siousxie and the Banshees
Sleater-Kinney
Sly and the Family Stone
The Smashing Pumpkins
Bessie Smith
Elliott Smith
Patti Smith
The Smiths
Soda Stereo
Sonic Youth
The Specials
Dusty Springfield
Bruce Springsteen
Steely Dan
Sufjan Stevens
The Stone Roses
The Stooges
The Strokes
St. Vincent
Suede
The Supremes

T. Rex
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Television
The Temptations
A Tribe Called Quest
TV on the Radio

U2

Van Halen
The Velvet Underground

Tom Waits
Scott Walker
Muddy Waters
Weezer
Kanye West
The White Stripes
The Who
Wilco
Hank Williams
Wire
Stevie Wonder
Wu-Tang Clan

X
XTC

Yes
Neil Young

Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention
Warren Zevon


Backstage Wing:

Steve Albini (Indie record producer)
Burt Bacharach and Hal David (Songwriting team)
Lester Bangs (Music critic)
Irving Berlin (Legendary songwriter)
Rodney Bingenheimer (Best known as the first American D.J. to play hot new punk/new wave/alternative acts)
Chris Blackwell (Founder of Island Records; helped popularize reggae music)
Booker T. & the MG’s (Stax Records house band)
Leonard Chess (Chess Records founder)
Robert Christgau (Music critic)
Miles and Ian Copeland (Miles: I.R.S. Records founder; Ian: Promoter, booker, his "FBI" talent agency helped new wave acts)
Ry Cooder (Guest musician discography a mile long; produced Buena Vista Social Club)
Willie Dixon (Also a prolific blues songwriter)
DJ Kool Herc (Credited with helping originate hip-hop music)
Brian Eno (Also a record producer)
Brian Epstein (Discovered and managed the Beatles)
Michael and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Michael: Created AllMusic; Stephen: Allmusic critic and senior editor)
Ahmet Ertegun (Atlantic Records founder)
David Fincher (Music video director)
Henrik Franzon (Acclaimed Music founder)
Alan Freed (Early rock and roll D.J.)
Dave Fridmann (Indie record producer)
The Funk Brothers (Backed most Motown recordings from 1959 to 1972)
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (Songwriting and production team credited for developing Philadelphia soul)
George Gershwin (Legendary songwriter)
Gerry Goffin and Carole King (1960s songwriting team)
Nick Gold (World-music producer)
Michel Gondry (Music video director)
Berry Gordy (Motown founder)
Norman Granz (Founded Verve, and other labels; jazz's most successful impresario)
John Hammond (Talent scout, helped the careers of Dylan, Springsteen, Billie Holiday, Aretha, Leonard Cohen, etc., etc.)
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland (Motown songwriting and production team)
Nicky Hopkins (Session musician, 1960s to 1990s, e.g. the Rolling Stones)
Jimmy Iovine (Record producer; co-founder of Interscope Records)
Quincy Jones (Most famously the record producer for Michael Jackson, "We Are the World")
Spike Jonze (Music video director)
Casey Kasem (D.J. for American Top 40)
Hilly Kristal (Owner of the New York City club CBGB)
Larry Levan (American D.J., dance music pioneer)
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (Songwriting team and producers, primarily 1950s)
Alan Lomax (Ethnomusicologist, best known for numerous field recordings of folk music)
Greil Marcus (Music critic)
George Martin (Long-time Beatles producer)
Malcolm McLaren (Promoter and manager of the Sex Pistols, the New York Dolls)
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (A group of studio musicians, 1960s to 1980s; most notably played on "Respect")
Les Paul (One of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar; credited with many recording innovations)
Bruce Pavitt (Sub Pop founder)
John Peel (Legendary English D.J.)
D.A. Pennebaker (Rock and roll documentary filmmaker, e.g. Don't Look Back)
Lee “Scratch” Perry (Reggae record producer; pioneer in dub music)
Sam Phillips (Record producer, Sun Records founder)
Cole Porter (Legendary songwriter for Broadway and film musicals)
Rick Rubin (Hip-hop/rock producer; Def Jam Recordings co-founder; established American Recordings)
Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork founder)
Martin Scorsese (Also a rock and roll documentary filmmaker)
Harry Smith (Compiled 1952’s Anthology of American Folk Music)
Phil Spector (Record producer with the "Wall of Sound")
Timbaland (R&B/hip-hop record producer)
Rudy Van Gelder (Long-time jazz engineer, most closely associated with Blue Note Records)
Ivo Watts-Russell (Joint-founder of the indie record label 4AD)
Jann Wenner (Co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone)
Jerry Wexler (Signed and/or produced numerous Atlantic Records stars)
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (Motown songwriting team)
Pharrell Williams (Also a record producer)
The Wrecking Crew (Loose collective of L.A. session musicians, 1960s-1970s; de facto house band for Phil Spector)

(Basic descriptions after the fact, edited by Live in Phoenix)

[Live in Phoenix]

Who is even left? Here are some names you could work with (not strictly recommendations).

Adele – The Allman Brothers Band – Tori Amos – The Animals – The B-52's – Bee Gees – Bobby "Blue" Bland – Bon Iver – Boogie Down Productions – Garth Brooks – Jackson Browne – Tim Buckley – Buffalo Springfield – Built to Spill - Burial – Mariah Carey – The Cars – The Carter Family – Manu Chao – Cheap Trick – Eric Clapton – Eddie Cochran – Ry Cooder – Alice Cooper – Count Basie – Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) – Bing Crosby – D'Angelo – Dead Can Dance – Dead Kennedys – Def Leppard – Lana Del Rey – Derek and the Dominos – Devo – Dion – Dire Straits – Donovan – Drake – The Drifters – Earth, Wind and Fire – Enya – Eric B. and Rakim – Bill Evans – Fairport Convention – The Fall – FKA twigs – Fleet Foxes – Judy Garland – Stan Getz – Dizzy Gillespie – Benny Goodman – Gorillaz – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – Grimes – Herbie Hancock – George Harrison – Isaac Hayes – Lauryn Hill – John Lee Hooker – Whitney Houston – Ice Cube – Billy Idol – Julio Iglesias – Interpol – Iron Maiden – The Jackson 5 – Etta James – Louis Jordan – Kiss – LL Cool J – Manic Street Preachers – Martha and the Vandellas – Paul McCartney/Wings – George Michael – Janelle Monáe – Jelly Roll Morton – Motörhead – Muse – Youssou N'Dour – New York Dolls – Frank Ocean – The O’Jays – Angel Olsen – Dolly Parton – Pere Ubu – Wilson Pickett – The Prodigy – Rihanna – Robyn – Sonny Rollins – The Ronettes – Todd Rundgren – Rush – Bob Seger – The Shirelles – Slayer – Slint – Small Faces – Solange – Soundgarden – Spiritualized – Spoon – Stereolab – Rod Stewart – Barbra Streisand – Donna Summer – Swans – Taylor Swift – Tame Impala – James Taylor – Richard and Linda Thompson – TLC – Tool – Traffic – Ike and Tina Turner – Vampire Weekend – John Williams – Lucinda Williams – Jackie Wilson – Bill Withers – The Yardbirds – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – The Zombies – ZZ Top

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Here is the master list of previous, eligible Backstage Wing nominations that have yet to be inducted, with short or edited descriptions, plus the name of one forum member who made the nomination. (Let me know if you think my description missed the mark.) I added some names that I thought would be of some note.

William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (Founders of Windham Hill Records, a new age record label from 1976 to 2007) (Live in Phoenix)

Moses Asch (Ran the Asch [later Folkways] label from 1948 until his death in 1986; some of America's greatest folk songs were originally recorded for Asch) (EmilienDelRey)

Kurt Ballou ("Probably the greatest producer of heavy rock and metal albums in the last 20 years, responsible for dozens of modern classics") (FrankLotion)

Pierre Barouh (Introduced Bossa Nova in France before founding the "Saravah" label, on which some seminal French acts recorded) (Pierre)

Adrian Belew (King Crimson frontman has also played and/or toured with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, Tom Tom Club) (notbrianeno)

Emile Berliner (Inventor best known for inventing the flat disc record and the Gramophone) (Rocky Raccoon)

Otis Blackwell (His compositions include "Fever," "Great Balls of Fire," "Breathless," "Don't Be Cruel," "All Shook Up," "Return to Sender" [with Winfield Scott]; and "Handy Man") (The_Claw)

T-Bone Burnett (Record producer; credits include everyone from B.B. King to the Wallflowers, with over a dozen Grammys [e.g., Raising Sand; O Brother, Where Art Thou?], and one Oscar ["The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart]) (DocBrown)

John Cale (Record producer and arranger on a number of albums, including the Stooges' debut and a trilogy by Nico; produced Patti Smith's Horses) (luney6)

Julián Carrillo (Composer, conductor, violinist and Mexican scientist, considered by many experts as one of the most important composers in the country and an important microtonal music pioneer) (Blanco)

Dick Clark (From 1956 to 1989, hosted American Bandstand, a popular music-performance and dance show also credited with introducing rock and roll to many Americans) (luvulongTIM)

Gregory Coleman ("drummer behind the Amen Break, the most used sample in recorded music") (mileswide)

Michel Colombier, Alain Goraguer, and Jean-Claude Vannier (Three of the Gainsbourg arrangers. And three great composers too.) (Romain)

Anton Corbijn (Director and photographer with his very own style: Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box,” Joy Division’s “Atmosphere,” and personal favourite Depeche Mode "Never Let Me Down Again") (Honorio)

Don Cornelius (American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train [hosted 1971 to 1993]) (luvulongTIM)

Dee Nasty (French DJ who practically created the French hip-hop subculture) (Pierre)

DJ Premier (Has worked with Big Daddy Kane, Christina Aguilera, Common, D'Angelo, Dr. Dre, Game, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, Kanye West, KRS-One, Ludacris, Mac Miller, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., Rakim, Snoop Dogg) (EmilienDelRey)

Coxsone Dodd (Studio One owner/producer) (Mindrocker)

Tom Dowd (Atlantic Records' chief engineer and a producer; popularized multitrack recording; recorded both for Atlantic, Stax and Muscle Shoals and worked with jazz, R&B, soul and rock legends) (The_Claw)

Dr. Demento (American radio broadcaster specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings; brought ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic to national attention) (luvulongTIM)

Dr. Dre (Produced for -- and in some cases, overseen the careers of -- 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak) (Live in Phoenix, 2019)

The Dust Brothers (Paul's Boutique, Odelay and MmmBop, 'nuff said!) (nassim)

Thomas Edison (His 1877 phonograph is the recording industry's Big Bang [originally too lo-fi for serious music recording, and improved on for years without him]. Co-founded Edison Records in 1888.) (Schüttelbirne)

Manfred Eicher (Founder of ECM Records and record producer) (Schüttelbirne)

Daniel Ek (Founder of Spotify. Changed the music listening experience and made streaming albums easier and more accessible.) (Mattceinicram)

El-P (Co-founder of the Definitive Juxrecord label; a major driving force in alternative hip hop, producing for Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, and Cage, among others) (nassim)

Paul Epworth (Record producer, songwriter: Adele, Florence and the Machine, Rihanna, Maxïmo Park) (Henry)

Bob Ezrin (Produced some of the most entertaining hard rock albums in history [credits include Alice Cooper's '70s run, Lou Reed's Berlin, Kiss's Destroyer; co-producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall]) (Pierre)

Anthony Fantano ("Probably the most popular music critic of all time, and second only to Ebert & Roeper among critics of all mediums") (prosecutorgodot)

Flood (Post-punk and alternative rock record producer and audio engineer: New Order, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, The Smashing Pumpkins, Brian Eno) (notbrianeno)

Kim Fowley (Runaways manager; kinda like the John Waters of 70s glam/hard rock with his wild perversion and raunchy imagery) (luvulongTIM)

Bob Geldof (Singer of the Boomtown Rats, co-founder of Band Aid, actor in The Wall, he has earned his place in pop music history) (Pierre)

Charlie Gillett (Radio presenter, musicologist and writer [e.g. The Sound of the City book]; promoted world music; discovered and promoted such acts as Dire Straits and Ian Dury) (DaveC)

Nigel Godrich (Producer of Radiohead's studio albums since OK Computer. Has worked with Beck, Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M., Pavement and Roger Waters.) (Gillingham)

Peter Guralnick (Music biographer, including an acclaimed two-volume Elvis biography in the '90s) (Live in Phoenix, 2017)

Rick Hall (Record producer, owner of FAME Studios. "I'd recommend the documentary Muscle Shoals for his story. It's amazing how much great music came out of there, and he had a lot to do with it.") (andyd1010)

W.C. Handy ("Possibly the most important backstage guy in popular music. The blues became part of the musical landscape thanks to his compositions [like 'St. Louis Blues'], which also helped developed jazz.") (Rob)

Martin Hannett (Producer, particularly of Joy Division's two LPs, significantly shaping the sound of those records) (mileswide)

Hipgnosis (English art design group [primarily Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, and later Peter Christopherson]. Album cover clients included Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Wings, T. Rex, and especially Pink Floyd.) (Live in Phoenix)

Jessica Hopper (American writer; author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, a compilation of her essays, reported pieces, zines, and reviews) (StevieFan13)

Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow (The lyricists for Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, respectively, of the Grateful Dead) (Live in Phoenix)

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Went from playing in The Time to being major R&B songwriters and producers: Janet Jackson [nine #1 hits], TLC, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey. Wrote 41 U.S. top ten hits.) (bonnielaurel)

Eddie Kramer (Recording producer and engineer: Jimi Hendrix [all four original albums], the Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, The Kinks, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Carlos Santana) (Live in Phoenix)

Robert John "Mutt" Lange (Produced some of the most entertaining hard rock albums in history [AC/DC's Highway to Hell, Back in Black; Def Leppard's Pyromania, Hysteria]) (Pierre)

Bill Laswell (Everywhere-at-once figure as a producer, player, composer and multiple-label entrepreneur [Ramones, Swans, Herbie Hancock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Motörhead, the Last Poets, Whitney Houston, Fela Kuti, etc.]) (CupOfDreams)

Teo Macero (Jazz saxophonist, composer, record producer; producer at Columbia Records for twenty years; credits include Bitches Brew, and Dave Brubeck's Time Out) (sonofsamiam)

Robert Mapplethorpe (Creator of a disturbing but fascinating universe with his provocative black and white pictures, not hiding pornographic subjects. Favourite cover art: Patti Smith's Horses.) (Honorio)

Marley Marl (DJ, producer [LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out], rapper, record label founder; influenced hip hop icons such as RZA, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock) (StevieFan13)

Dave Marsh (For his many written words concerning the world of music and his part in organizing the real RnR HOF) (Rocky Raccoon)

Jimmy Miller (Producer, notably the Rolling Stones' most famous run [even the main drummer on "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Tumbling Dice"]; Steve Winwood's '60s run; also Screamadelica) (Henry)

Robert Moog (Inventor of the synthesizer, which is easily as influential on popular music as the electric guitar) (Kingoftonga)

Giorgio Moroder (Dubbed the "Father of Disco", pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music; his work with synthesizers heavily influenced several music genres) (The_Claw)

Shadow Morton ("For his contributions to my favorite girl group of all time, The Shangri-Las." Wrote and produced "Remember [Walking in the Sand]", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits) (HRS)

James Murphy (Has worked on the side with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Pulp) (notbrianeno)

The Neptunes (I know Pharrell is already on the list but I think the Neptunes with Chad Hugo deserve even more recognition for their contribution to pop music) (FrankLotion)

Michael Nesmith (Wrote "Different Drum"; won the first Grammy for Video of the Year, in 1981, for the hour-long Elephant Parts; wrote/directed one-hour Monkees '90s comedy special) (jap123)

Alan Parsons (Assistant recording engineer on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road," engineer for Dark Side of the Moon, reinvented the Hollies, produced 11 albums as the Alan Parsons Project) (DocBrown)

Conny Plank (Principal krautrock producer, also many new wave/postpunk acts in the 80s) (Mindrocker)

Ann Powers (Music critic, writer [NPR, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spin, Village Voice]; co-authored book Piece by Piece with Tori Amos) (Pierre)

Mark Radcliffe (Radio broadcaster; best known for his broadcasting work for the BBC since the 1980s [e.g., Mark and Lard, The Folk Show]) (Akhenaten)

The Raelettes (American girl group from the 1950s to 2003, formed, as the name suggests, to provide backing vocals for Ray Charles) (Pierre)

David Ritz (Autobiographies co-written by Ritz include: Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Jerry Wexler, Etta James, B.B. King, Neville Brothers, Janet Jackson, Morris Day. Author of Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. Co-wrote "Sexual Healing" song.) (Live in Phoenix)

Sylvia Robinson (Founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records, "The Mother of Hip–Hop"; credited as the driving force behind "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, and Grandmaster Flash's "The Message") (EmilienDelRey)

Nile Rodgers (Produced David Bowie's Let's Dance, Madonna's Like a Virgin; later worked with The B-52s, Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry, Lady Gaga, and Daft Punk [three Grammy Awards]) (bootsy)

(Richard) Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein (Songwriting team behind Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. The "Lennon/McCartney" style of dual songwriting credit was based on these kinds of teams.) (Live in Phoenix)

Todd Rundgren (Production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up, Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band, New York Dolls, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, XTC's Skylarking) (Henry)

George Russell (His jazz music theory book led the way to modal jazz and crystallized it as theory, with Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, from 1953. This essentially gave us Kind of Blue.) (Live in Phoenix)

RZA (Produced many Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects) (Gillingham)

Gustavo Santaolalla (One of the most-awarded and recognized musicians in South America. Santaolalla has produced over a hundred albums, which form a kind of map of Latin alternative music.) (Blanco)

Stéphane Saunier (Arranged the live performances on the French show Nulle Part Ailleurs [including Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, Pulp, and Elliott Smith]. The show was known as the best place to perform.) (Nassim)

Piero Scaruffi (Music critic; he has some unorthodox opinions, but a lot of the time the criticism is objective. He reviews a lot of genres that someone like Robert Christgau hasn't even touched on.) (PlasticRam)

Sly and Robbie (Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres) (Live in Phoenix)

Stephen Sondheim (Considered American musical theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century -- “Send in the Clowns,” Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Oscar-winner "Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy) (Live in Phoenix)

SOPHIE (Was also a record producer for Charli XCX, Vince Staples, Kim Petras, Madonna, Let's Eat Grandma, Namie Amuro) (Nassim)

Charles Stepney (Record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician; noted for his work with The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire) (EmilienDelRey)

Bernie Taupin (Elton John’s long-time lyricist; also co-wrote Heart’s “These Dreams") (luvulongTIM)

Ike Turner (In the ‘50s, a producer/talent scout for innumerous R&B acts including Howlin' Wolf, Bobby Bland and Elmore James, and of course his future wife Tina) (Mindrocker)

Andy Warhol (Sticky Fingers and Velvet Underground album covers, among many others; Lou Reed: "In a sense, he really did produce [the Velvets' debut], because he was this umbrella that absorbed all the attacks when we weren't large enough to be attacked.") (Holden)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Has been called the most commercially successful composer in history -- Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita) (Live in Phoenix)

Kanye West (Executive producer on his own albums; producing credits include The Blueprint, Common's Be and countless other albums and songs) (PlasticRam)

Vivienne Westwood (British fashion designer, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream; made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's "SEX" boutique) (Pierre)

Joel Whitburn (For decades, he and his company have examined music statistics [1890s-onward] and published reference books like The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 1955–2009) (Live in Phoenix)

Hype Williams (Music video director: "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", "No Scrubs", Kanye West's "Gold Digger." Has collaborated with Kanye on 20 videos, and with Busta Rhymes on 16 videos.) (bootsy)

Brian Wilson (Equally as gifted as George Martin and his hero Phil Spector) (madzong)

Tony Wilson (Behind some of Manchester's most successful bands. He was one of the five co-founders of Factory Records and the founder and manager of the Haçienda nightclub. Promoted the culture of Manchester throughout his career.) (Akhenaten)

Francis Wolff & Alfred Lion (Wolff: Record company executive, photographer for Blue Note record label. Lion: Record executive, co-founded Blue Note Records, which featured many of the biggest names in jazz 1940s-1960s.) (EmilienDelRey)

[Live in Phoenix]

1. The Moody Blues
2. John Williams
3. Soundgarden
4. Tori Amos
5. Billy Idol
6. Oingo Boingo
7. Sting
8. 2pac
9. Bing Crosby
10. Jimmie Rodgers

I gave my bottom two picks over to a couple of performers based more on them being legends than on me enjoying their music (though Bing Crosby has a great Christmas album).
Bing Crosby: Biggest music star of the first half of the 20th century; Allmusic 5-star rating for box set Bing! His Legendary Years, 1931 to 1957. (Allmusic’s old bio of Frank Sinatra mentioned Crosby in the same breath as Sinatra, Elvis, and the Beatles.)
Jimmie Rodgers: Late ‘20s/early ‘30s star, “The Father of Country Music,” inaugural inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame; The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) gave 5-star ratings to all of his recordings.

Backstage:
1. Thomas Edison
2. Martin Hannett
3. Dr. Dre

[Schüttelbirne]

1 | Cecil Taylor
2 | Carla Bley
3 | New York Dolls
4 | Faust
5 | Klaus Schulze
6 | Ash Ra Tempel
7 | Tangerine Dream
8 | Max Roach
9 | Sam Rivers
10 | Popol Vuh

A few more:

McCoy Tyner
Gong
Keith Jarrett
Alice Coltrane
Neu!
Czeslaw Niemen
Peter Brötzmann
Pere Ubu
The Residents
Comedian Harmonists
Nina Hagen (Band)
Atheist
Today Is the Day
Bon Iver
Laurie Anderson

Backstage:
1 | Manfred Eicher
2 | Teo Macero
3 | The Funk Brothers

[Edre Depeche Head]

Artists:

1. Interpol
2. Bauhaus
3. Frank Ocean
4. The Killers
5. Bright Eyes
6. The Offspring
7. Grimes
8. Godflesh
9. Neu
10. Daniel Johnston

Others:

Neurosis
Tyler The Creator
Pusha T
Kid Cudi
Wavves
The Drums
Dead Can Dance
Clan of Xymox
Dead Kennedys
Melvins
Bloc Party
Nitzer Ebb

Backstage Wing:

1. Anton Corbijn
2. Thomas Edison
3. Anthony Fantano
4. Flood
5. Neil Godrich

[bonnielaurel]

Cat. 1:
1. Whitney Houston
2. Bee Gees
3. Donna Summer
4. Dire Straits
5. Grimes
6. Muse
7. Mariah Carey
8. Tori Amos
9. Jackson 5
10. Gladys Knight and the Pips

Cat. 2:
1. Giorgio Moroder
2. Robert Moog
3. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

[Nassim]

I would have assumed this would be the year we all say "oh wait, we have all overlooked Fiona Apple once again" but it doesn't show in the votes so far.
Also hard to believe Gorillaz still aren't in !

1. Built to Spill
2. Modest Mouse
3. Hot Chip
4. Car Seat Headrest
5. Run the Jewels
6. Four Tet
7. Gorillaz
8. Fiona Apple
9. Burial
10. Slint

Backstage wing.
El-P
Stéphane Saunier
Moroder

[spiritualized]

I have had a Tool moment for the past few days, especially since I have seen this video...

and listening to their discography, I am surprised they have not been voted for. I doubt that they will, this forum frowning upon modern-heavy rock type music, but here goes !

1. Tool
2. The Fall
3. Stereolab
4. Built To Spill
5. Dead Can Dance
6. Teenage Fanclub
7. Muse
8. The Prodigy
9. Morrissey
10. Spoon

[Henrik]

1. Dead Can Dance
2. Robyn
3. George Michael
4. Isaac Hayes
5. Judas Priest
6. Iron Maiden
7. Sade
8. Fat Freddy’s Drop
9. Röyksopp
10. The KLF

[luvulongTIM]

1. Teenage Fanclub
2. Lush
3. Guided by Voices
4. Manic Street Preachers
5. Sinead O’ Connor
6. Supergrass
7. Modest Mouse
8. Whitney Houston
9. Magnetic Fields
10. Fiona Apple
-Sade
- Ride
- Catherine Wheel
- Boo Radleys
- Liz Phair

Backstage Wing:
Bernie Taupin

[Henry]

1. Todd Rundgren
2. Allman Brothers
3. The Style Council
4. James Taylor
5. Isley Brothers
6. The Doobie Brothers
7. Jethro Tull
8. Joe Jackson
9. Chicago
10. Joe Satriani


Backstage:
1. Todd Rundgren
2. Brian Wilson
3. Paul Epworth
4. Robert John Lange

[Live in Phoenix]

9 submissions so far, so 90 performer names; 10 names are in common, so we are at least getting a top 10

[Live in Phoenix]

About a week and a half left.

By the way, the results will likely take a handful of days after the poll closes. (This was obscured a little last time by the tie-breaker voting, which took place while 3 Performers were already locked in.)

[LunarPiper]

1. The Isley Brothers
2. Fiona Apple
3. The Cars
4. Earth, Wind and Fire
5. 2pac
6. The Allman Brothers Band
7. Spoon
8. Modest Mouse
9. The B-52's
10. Interpol

Backstage:
1. The Funk Brothers
2. Nile Rodgers
3. T-Bone Burnett

[FrankLotion]

1. Tupac Shakur
2. Fiona Apple
3. Frank Ocean
4. Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
5. Lucinda Williams
6. Sonny Rollins
7. Slayer
8. D’Angelo
9. Soundgarden
10. Spoon

Backstage:

1. The Funk Brothers
2. The Neptunes
3. Kurt Ballou

can’t believe I didn’t notice the Funk Brothers weren’t on the list every other year I voted, given how many of their songs made it onto our All-Time Songs poll I’d say not including them would be an injustice...

[mileswide]

The Funk Brothers stood out as a major omission when I brought them up in last year's corresponding thread, so I may as well nominate them this time round!

Performers
1. Ike Turner (being responsible for arguably the first rock 'n' roll record)
2. The Isley Brothers
3. Toots and the Maytals
4. Kurtis Blow
5. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
6. Jorge Ben
7. Betty Davis (for her own work as well as supposedly inspiring Miles Davis to experiment with rock and funk)
8. The Damned
9. Gang of Four
10. Shabaka Hutchings

Backstage
1. The Funk Brothers
2. Gregory Coleman (drummer behind the Amen Break, the most used sample in recorded music*)
3. Giorgio Moroder

*Yes, I had to look that up- I knew it was The Winstons' drummer but his name escaped me!

[Live in Phoenix]

Last week!

[Arsalan]

1. Muse
2. Dire Straits
3. Linkin Park
4. Gorillaz
5. Interpol
6. Manic Street Preachers
7. Car Seat Headrest
8. Foals
9. The Black Keys
10. The Killers

[Live in Phoenix]

A few more days!

[Nassim]

I'm going to add a vote for SOPHIE in the backstage wing to my list !

[Live in Phoenix]

I'm going to add a vote for SOPHIE in the backstage wing to my list !

Where would you like to add your new vote?

Backstage wing.
El-P
Stéphane Saunier
Moroder

[Moonbeam]

1. Kylie Minogue
2. Annie
3. Janelle Monáe
4. Mylène Farmer
5. Grace Jones
6. Bat for Lashes
7. The Human League
8. Jenny Wilson
9. Gorillaz
10. Donna Summer

Backstage: Giorgio Moroder

[Nassim]

I'm going to add a vote for SOPHIE in the backstage wing to my list !

Where would you like to add your new vote?

Backstage wing.
El-P
Stéphane Saunier
Moroder

3rd

[Rob]

For me a Hall of Fame works best as something of a career achievement award that should go first to people who have been very influential, have/ had a very notable career or are deeply iconic. So like other years I’m going to leave my personal taste out of it and find a group of names that are deserving based on more objective criteria. Also, because I base it more on career trajectories I’m not going to give it to artists who are more or less recent. I don’t set an exact debut date like the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, but for now it is unlikely I will pick anyone from the 2000’s and the 2010’s are pretty much without a chance.

1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Slightly overlooked sometimes, but we have to pay our dues to the people who started rock. Officially Tharpe was a gospel musician, but listen to her electric guitar on Strange Things Happening Every Day and try not to think of rock. It’s impossible. So perhaps rock was inadvertently invented by a nun. Tharpe has long been semi-overlooked by the many music critics who determine history mostly by the Billboard charts, but luckily for us her songs have retained their power. Not on Live in Phoenix’s suggestion list sadly.

2. Dolly Parton
Also not on Live in Phoenix list is Dolly Parton, who is certainly more famous than Tharpe and I’m sure I have nominated her before. If we are talking icons there are few artists left that are not in our Hall more deserving than Parton. She was among the first country women to have a firm grip on her own career and with a talent for song-writing she also changed the course for female-driven country pop. Her early work is still strikingly beautiful. Later it became a bit muddled by over-production, but lucky for her audiences world-wide had a higher tolerance for that than me. A true titan.

3. 2 Pac
Speaking of icons. I admit that I personally don’t like his music much and I haven’t listened to anything of him in years, but this man undoubtedly casts a big shadow on the hip-hop field. He did not invent gangster rap and neither do I think he was the best artist in the genre (I vastly prefer his old nemesis the Notorious B.I.G.), but 2 Pac defines the style like no other. He seemed to really live the gangster lifestyle and rapped about it with an honesty that still speaks to millions. More than 25 years on his music has also retained a sense of danger, which is usually something that can easily fade in little time, another mark of his authenticity.

4. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
They made The Message. It would usually be preposterous to induct an act based on one song, but most songs are not The Message. That one really added a social undercurrent to the then still very new hip-hop genre. In a way it solidified the identity of rap music, tying to hard, impoverished lives present even in much of rap music from white artists like Eminem. It became the music of the streets and almost 40 years later that hasn’t changed. Sure, there is a lot of party music in rap and that was there before Grandmaster Flash, but The Message still feels foundational.

5. Bee Gees
Another iconic group, perhaps the one I’m most surprised isn’t in yet. If they had retained their original sixties sound they would have been perhaps remembered like The Beatles Light. There are some great songs there, but nothing that would warrant inclusion for, say, the next 50 years or so. Their importance is of course more determined by their status as disco symbols. It’s a staggering reinvention, the early Bee Gees don’t sound even remotely like second phase Bee Gees. Again, these people didn’t invent disco, but for better or worse they defined it’s image, with their sweeping melodies, weird falsetto voices and even dressing style. It helps to be the main artist on the soundtrack of the movie that popularized disco: Saturday Night Fever.

6. Fiona Apple
For now I have looked at the more mainstream icons in music. Even Rosetta Tharpe, despite a relative lack of spotlight, can be placed as a starting point in the development in mainstream music. However, I am also a firm believer that it is as important to have voices at any time that do not reach the majority, but leave an impact. Yes, Fiona Apple had a couple of minor hits at the start of her career, but her best work was yet to come as her style became more challenging and personal with each new album. A really searching artist, she along with PJ Harvey seems to be something of a precursor to the big sweep of female alternative artists that have been doing some of the best music since somewhere in the 2000’s. She is only still five albums in her career, but every one of them has been a meticulous and original work.

7. Koji Kondo
No, this man does not appear on Acclaimed Music yet, but that is only because AM does not have any game music, a form ignored by music critics. Nonetheless, game music has created its own idiom, especially in the early days when orchestras or even pop sounds were off-limits. Koji Kondo is probably the most famous composer of early game music, doing stuff for series like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. For them he created an 8-bit style that was melodious and catchy despite all limitations. A style that could be played in an endless loop without getting annoying, yet at the same time capturing your attention.

8. John Williams
John Williams is not the most innovative movie musician out there, but he is the one who defines it the most in the public eye. His music for Star Wars, E.T., Harry Potter, Indianan Jones, Jaws and many others is successful because of it’s sense of the grandiose and because it has clear hooks. When listening to his scores you don’t even have to have seen the movies to feel like your on some big adventure in unknown places. For decades film scores have been in his mold, although that has ended somewhat in the last ten years.

9. The Fall
Speaking of outsiders, these guys certainly belong in that category. They had no popular success that I know off, but it sometimes feels like they influenced everyone outside of the mainstream that came after them. They did this by almost willfully ignoring anything that could have made them popular. Mark E. Smith’s singing is deranged and their music ramshackle even for a punk-leaning act. Somehow though this all became oddly likable and sometimes even danceable, even managing to inspire much post-punk. They belong to the authentic weirdos in music.

10. Enya
Another artist that really defines a style, Enya is perhaps the symbol of new age. That has made her both very influential and much-maligned. Let’s face it, it’s hard to think of a music form less rock than new age. Yet if you can find yourself in the mood for something soothing, otherworldly and absolutely free of tension this music can be powerful. In Enya you find an ethereal and unique voice truly disconnected of this Earth. It seems that there is more respect for new age nowadays, with artists like Sufjan Stevens and even Nick Cave dabbling in the style. Time to pay due to it’s biggest practitioner.

Backstage
I’m not very good with the backstage group, but I’d like to reiterate my previous nomination for W.C. Handy, who is one of the most influential backstage person every, but he lived so far back that people here seem to miss it. He was the first professional in the time of recording music to take note of the blues and decided to write it down and let it be recorded. From there on out, almost all American music styles have been developed, especially blues and jazz. The amount of songs on AM that can be traced back to this influence is staggering.

[Holden]

1. Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Soundgarden
4. Modest Mouse
5. Fiona Apple
6. D'Angelo
7. Spoon
8. Alice in Chains
9. Rod Stewart
10. Interpol

Backstage wing
1. James Murphy
2. Todd Rundgren
3. Andy Warhol

[Live in Phoenix]

The suggestion list is mostly Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performers (generally with an Acclaimed Music artist rank in the top 1,000), and AM Top Artists from the all-time top 200 or the top 10 of each decade from the 1950s-onward (though it's pre-2020 update), the top finalists from the AMF All Time Artists List 2019 poll, plus some ancient legends or big sellers, and just some other names I threw in. I've wondered if the list is more trouble than it's worth, because it carries the "Where's so-and-so?" factor. I created it for myself as much as anything, when I started to wonder who still urgently needed induction. (On a side note, I've sometimes wondered if we should ever switch from 4 annual performer finalists to 3, though maybe people still think that 4 is the magic number.)

[Krurze]

I'd just like to cast two backstage wing votes to DJ Premier and Giorgio Moroder, if that's possible

[Live in Phoenix]

I'd just like to cast two backstage wing votes to DJ Premier and Giorgio Moroder, if that's possible

No problem

[Live in Phoenix]

And we are CLOSED for 2020's voting. It will take me a few days or so to double-check everything and put together a presentation. I'm pretty sure that there aren't any ties this time.

[Live in Phoenix]

OK, here's an easy one:



Fiona Apple

"She can take six or seven years between albums and return to even-more-rabid followers. Unguarded honesty doesn't go out of style ... [E]ven after being thrown into the media spotlight at a young age, and having to deal with crippling doubt, Fiona Apple didn't go boom. She's still here, brave enough to indulge in raw emotion and smart enough to make those feelings carry." (Pitchfork)

Top Acclaimed Music albums:
1. The Idler Wheel...
2. Tidal
3. Extraordinary Machine
4. When the Pawn...
***Fetch the Bolt Cutters is not yet ranked on the Acclaimed Music site.

(If you'd like to know, Fetch the Bolt Cutters is rated Apple's #3 album on Rate Your Music; and When the Pawn... is ranked at the very top instead of the bottom. There are not Fetch the Bolt Cutters songs that are ranked yet on the Acclaimed Music site, but Rate Your Music does not fill in any blanks there either.)

Top Acclaimed Music songs:
1. Criminal
2. Every Single Night
3. Paper Bag
4. Sleep to Dream
5. Shadowboxer
6. Werewolf
7. Hot Knife
8. Fast As You Can

[Live in Phoenix]

2pac

"What Pac showed me was, really, not being scared to show vulnerability in your music, because that makes the biggest connection with the audience." "To be human is to be many things at once: strong, and vulnerable; hard-headed, and intellectual; courageous, and afraid; loving, and vengeful; revolutionary, and -- oh yeah, don't get it fucked up -- gangsta ... as he's rightfully enshrined amongst the greatest musicians to ever do it, I'm here to make sure that Pac is remembered the way he would have wanted to be: a strong black man that stood for his." [Kendrick Lamar / Snoop Dogg, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction]

Top Rate Your Music albums, 3.00 rating or higher (only four solo albums and a group album were released during his lifetime)

1. (Posthumous) Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
2. Me Against the World (#2 Acclaimed Music)
3. All Eyez on Me (#1 Acclaimed Music)
4. Thug Life - Volume 1
5. 2Pacalypse Now
6. Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
7. (tie) (Posthumous) R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
7. (tie) (Posthumous) Better Dayz
9. (Posthumous) 2Pac & Outlawz - Still I Rise

Top rated best-of: Greatest Hits (1998)

Top Acclaimed Music songs:
1. California Love
2. Dear Mama
3. Hail Mary
4. I Get Around
5. Keep Ya Head Up
6. I Ain't Mad at Cha
7. How Do U Want It
8. Brenda's Got a Baby

[Live in Phoenix]

The Isley Brothers

"First formed in the early '50s, the Isley Brothers enjoyed one of the longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of popular music ... Over five decades and 30 albums, [the Isleys] developed into a cross-genre juggernaut, using a sound that combined rock, soul, funk, gospel and R&B to deliver their message of spiritual enlightenment and racial harmony ... The Isleys began as a slightly garden-variety Motown act, but after they left the label in 1968, they released a string of sophisticated 1970s gems: The Heat Is On, Harvest for the World, and Go for Your Guns." (Allmusic / Vinyl Me, Please)

Top 10 rated studio albums (Rate Your Music)
1. Go for Your Guns
2. 3 + 3 (#1 Acclaimed Music)
3. The Heat Is On
4. Brother, Brother, Brother
5 (tie). Givin' It Back
5 (tie). It's Our Thing
7 (tie). The Brothers: Isley
7 (tie). Live It Up
9. Harvest for the World
10. Showdown

Top compilation picks (Allmusic)
The Isley Brothers Story, Vol. 1: Rockin' Soul (1959-68) (1991)
The Isley Brothers Story, Vol. 2: The T-Neck Years (1969-85) (1991)
Ultimate Isley Brothers (2000)

Top 10 Acclaimed Music songs:
1. Shout (Parts 1 and 2)
2. That Lady
3. It's Your Thing
4. Twist and Shout
5. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
6. Between the Sheets
7. Fight the Power (Part I)
8. Summer Breeze
9. Caravan of Love
10. Footsteps in the Dark

[Live in Phoenix]

Modest Mouse

"Modest Mouse is both an acquired taste and an endorsement for creative integrity ... With Modest Mouse, a verse-chorus-verse approach does not constitute a song. Instead, a series of tangents interchange, while Isaac Brock’s vocals shout, plead, beg and whine with soulful angst ... Songs flash past [on The Lonesome Crowded West], one remarkably catchy riff followed suddenly by another equally memorable phrase ... We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is stunning ... [Johnny] Marr reinvigorated Brock, who delivers tireless vocal acrobatics and cutting couplets like never before." (Trouser Press)

Albums, ranked (1/2 Acclaimed Music, 1/2 Rate Your Music)
1. The Moon & Antarctica
2. The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Good News for People Who Love Bad News
4. This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
5. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
6. Strangers to Ourselves

Top Acclaimed Music songs:
1. Float On
2. Dashboard
3. 3rd Planet
4. Dramamine
5. The World at Large
6. Trailer Trash
7 (tied-ish, Bubbling Under). Broke
7 (tied-ish, Bubbling Under). Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

[Live in Phoenix]

Top Twelve point total:

1. Fiona Apple -- 33 points
2. 2pac -- 27
3. The Isley Brothers -- 25
4. Modest Mouse -- 23
5. Muse -- 19
6 (tie). Interpol -- 18
6 (tie). Soundgarden -- 18
8 (tie). Built to Spill -- 17
8 (tie). Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) -- 17
10 (tie). Dead Can Dance -- 16
10 (tie). Dire Straits -- 16
10 (tie). Frank Ocean -- 16



Backstage Wing:
The Funk Brothers -- 10 points
Giorgio Moroder -- 9
Thomas Edison -- 5
Todd Rundgren -- 5

[Live in Phoenix]

Number of Performer inductees: 244

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Of our non-inductees:

Artists in the top 100 of the AMF All Time Artists List 2019 poll:
Bee Gees (#72)

Nine more names (ranked among #102-138):
Gorillaz, Swans, Muse, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney (and Wings), Stereolab, Lana Del Rey, Spiritualized

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Artists with a top 100 all-time album, main page:
Frank Ocean (#66 album Channel Orange)
Derek and the Dominos (#89 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs)

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The Top Artists of the Decade, main page:
Top 1890-1949: Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Dizzy Gillespie
(1890s: #1 decade | Sousa's Band)
(1900s: #1 decade | Fisk Jubilee Singers)
(1910s: #1 decade | Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
(1920s: #3 decade | Jelly Roll Morton)
(1930s: #4 decade | Benny Goodman)
(1940s: #5 decade | Louis Jordan)
Top 1950s: Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Count Basie
Top 1960s: Nico, Stan Getz, Buffalo Springfield
Top 1970s: Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Jackson Browne
Top 1980s: Eric B. and Rakim, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dexys Midnight Runners
Top 1990s: The Prodigy, The Verve, Soundgarden
Top 2000s: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Streets, Amy Winehouse
Top 2010s: Frank Ocean, Drake, Lana Del Rey

Top 10 decade acts with an Acclaimed Music artist rank in the top 1,000:
Al Jolson (1910s, #8 decade)
Jelly Roll Morton (1920s, #3 decade)
Paul Whiteman (1920s, #4 decade)
Blind Lemon Jefferson (1920s, #5 decade)
The Carter Family (1920s, #6 decade)
Jimmie Rodgers (1920s, #7 decade)
Al Jolson (1920s, #9 decade)
Fats Waller (1920s, #10 decade)
Benny Goodman (1930s, #4 decade; also 1890-1949 -- #5 rank)
Count Basie (1930s, #5 decade)
Fred Astaire (1930s, #6 decade)
Glenn Miller (1930s, #8 decade)
Judy Garland (1930s, #9 decade)
Louis Jordan (1940s, #5 decade)
Dizzy Gillespie (1940s, #6 decade)
Bing Crosby (1940s, #8 decade; also 1890-1949 -- #8 rank)
Sonny Rollins (1950s, #9 decade)
Frank Ocean (2010s, #3 decade)
Drake (2010s, #5 decade)
Lana Del Rey (2010s, #6 decade)
Tame Impala (2010s, #7 decade)
Vampire Weekend (2010s, #8 decade)

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Remaining Top 200 Artists of All Time, main page:
69. Frank Ocean
84. Vampire Weekend
103. Bon Iver
113. Drake
126. Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
136. Lana Del Rey
140. Robyn
144. Tame Impala
161. Paul McCartney [and Wings]
173. Rihanna
175. Grimes
179. Spoon
180. Rod Stewart
187. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
188. Angel Olsen
189. FKA twigs
191. Herbie Hancock
192. D’Angelo
197. Solange

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Genres/Eras

Here are a few top-ranked names from the main page's top 500, in certain categories (though you’re stuck with my understanding, and sometimes broad definition, of who belongs in each one).

Alternative: Frank Ocean, Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, Drake, Lana Del Rey

Blues: John Lee Hooker, Louis Jordan, Bobby Bland

Country: Lucinda Williams, Taylor Swift, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ryan Adams, Dolly Parton

Dance: Robyn, Rihanna, Grimes, FKA twigs, Bee Gees

Experimental/Avant-Garde: Tim Buckley, Public Image Ltd., Pere Ubu, Neu!, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Folk/Singer-Songwriter: Bon Iver, Lana Del Rey, Rod Stewart, Angel Olsen, Jackson Browne

Foreign/World Music: João Gilberto, Rosalía, Manu Chao

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal: Alice Cooper, Soundgarden, Motörhead, MC5, Iron Maiden

Jazz: Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie

Punk: Gang of Four, Dead Kennedys, The Undertones

Rap/Hip-Hop: Drake, The Streets, Eric B. and Rakim, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill

Rock & Roll/Doo-Wop/R&B 1950s-early ‘60s: The Drifters, The Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner, Etta James, Dion

Show Tunes/Pre-Rock Popular Music: Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Louis Jordan

Soul/R&B: Frank Ocean, Drake, Rihanna, FKA twigs, D’Angelo

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The "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" Inductees
There are 140 performers and "early influences" not inducted by us. Whatever you think of the R&R HOF, there are some worthwhile names here.

1986: early influences Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Yancey
1987: The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bill Haley (and the Comets), Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson, Carl Perkins, Big Joe Turner, Jackie Wilson; early influences Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker
1988: The Drifters; early influence Les Paul [we've inducted him into our Backstage Wing]
1989: Dion; early influences The Ink Spots, The Soul Stirrers
1990: Hank Ballard (and the Midnighters), Bobby Darin, The Four Seasons, The Platters; early influences Charlie Christian, Ma Rainey
1991: LaVern Baker, John Lee Hooker, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Reed, Ike and Tina Turner
1992: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Sam & Dave, The Yardbirds; early influences Elmore James, Professor Longhair
1993: Ruth Brown, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Etta James; early influence Dinah Washington
1994: The Animals, Duane Eddy, Rod Stewart; early influence Willie Dixon
1995: The Allman Brothers Band, Martha and the Vandellas; early influence The Orioles
1996: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Willie John, The Shirelles; early influence Pete Seeger
1997: Bee Gees, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Jackson 5, The (Young) Rascals; early influence Mahalia Jackson
1998: The Mamas & the Papas, Lloyd Price, Gene Vincent (and the Blue Caps); early influence Jelly Roll Morton
1999: Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, The Staple Singers; early influences Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Charles Brown
2000: Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor
2001: Solomon Burke, The Flamingos, Ritchie Valens
2002: Isaac Hayes, Brenda Lee, Gene Pitney
2003: The Righteous Brothers
2004: Jackson Browne, The Dells, George Harrison, Bob Seger, Traffic, ZZ Top
2005: Buddy Guy, The O'Jays, Percy Sledge
2007: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Ronettes
2008: The Dave Clark Five, John Mellencamp, The Ventures
2009: Jeff Beck, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Bobby Womack; early influence Wanda Jackson
2010: Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies
2011: Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love
2012: Donovan, Laura Nyro, The Small Faces / Faces; early influence Freddie King
2013: Heart, Albert King, Rush, Donna Summer
2014: Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens
2015: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Bill Withers; early influence The "5" Royales
2016: Cheap Trick, Chicago, Steve Miller
2017: Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez, Journey
2018: Bon Jovi, The Cars, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues; early influence Sister Rosetta Tharpe
2019: Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, The Zombies
2020: The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston
2021: The Go-Go’s, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner; early influences Charley Patton, Gil Scott-Heron