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Feel free to post the list you submitted in the AMF 2016 artists poll.

Here's mine:

1 | King Crimson
2 | David Bowie
3 | Brian Eno
4 | Robert Wyatt
5 | Bob Dylan
6 | Scott Walker
7 | The Velvet Underground
8 | Jimi Hendrix
9 | The Beatles
10 | The Beach Boys
11 | Radiohead
12 | Frank Zappa
13 | Captain Beefheart
14 | The United States of America
15 | Can
16 | Mercury Rev
17 | Yes
18 | Prefab Sprout
19 | Bruce Springsteen
20 | Tom Waits
21 | Tim Buckley
22 | John Cale
23 | Super Furry Animals
24 | Leonard Cohen
25 | Nick Drake
26 | Joni Mitchell
27 | Nico
28 | Elvis Costello
29 | Neu!
30 | R.E.M.
31 | Talking Heads
32 | Sonic Youth
33 | My Bloody Valentine
34 | Roxy Music
35 | The Who
36 | The Stooges
37 | Os Mutantes
38 | Genesis
39 | Rush
40 | The Rolling Stones
41 | The Kinks
42 | The Zombies
43 | Love
44 | The Smiths
45 | The Sound
46 | Talk Talk
47 | Led Zeppelin
48 | The Clash
49 | Nick Cave
50 | Faust
51 | The Millennium
52 | Blur
53 | Steely Dan
54 | Prince
55 | Amon Düül II
56 | Gene Clark
57 | Sigur Rós
58 | Neil Young
59 | Gong
60 | Saint Etienne
61 | Disco Inferno
62 | The Band
63 | Hüsker Dü
64 | Cluster
65 | Townes Van Zandt
66 | Sufjan Stevens
67 | Peter Gabriel
68 | Pixies
69 | Metallica
70 | Wilco
71 | Cocteau Twins
72 | The Cure
73 | Queens of The Stone Age
74 | Joy Division
75 | New Order
76 | The Ramones
77 | Swans
78 | Wire
79 | Magazine
80 | The Fall
81 | Sparks
82 | Judee Sill
83 | Sleater-Kinney
84 | The Raincoats
85 | The Divine Comedy
86 | Belle and Sebastian
87 | Stereolab
88 | Spiritualized
89 | Pavement
90 | XTC
91 | Primal Scream
92 | Bill Fay
93 | Laura Nyro
94 | The Monkees
95 | They Might Be Giants
96 | This Heat
97 | The Flaming Lips
98 | Julia Holter
99 | Laurie Anderson
100 | Shiina Ringo
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Alternatively, someone could go through and post each ballot as listed in the spreadsheet.
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My one rule in assembling this was that each artist had to have at least two works that I was very familiar with, which meant no Jeff Buckley, no Kate Bush, and no Prince, alas. And no Avalanches, whereas had Wildflower come out a month or so earlier, they would have placed and quite highly.

Also, I found it fascinating to discover that many forumers had mathematical processes for ranking their lists. I suppose I must be old-fashioned, because this was my process and has been my process for every big list submission I've done:
AMF Artist Pic.JPG
It's quite inefficient, which is why my lists are never particularly long, but it's the best way my mind sees these things.

1| Joni Mitchell
2| The Beatles
3|Led Zeppelin
4| Pink Floyd
5| Modest Mouse
6| Simon and Garfunkel
7| The Velvet Underground
8| Weezer
9| Julia Holter
10| Sharon Van Etten
11| Leonard Cohen
12| Van Morrison
13| Godspeed You! Black Emperor
14| Julianna Barwick
15| Kanye West
16| Nick Drake
17| Portishead
18| Kaki King
19| Bob Dylan
20| Fiona Apple
21| The Beach Boys
22| David Bowie
23| Mogwai
24| Radiohead
25| Pavement
26| Frank Sinatra
27| Tom Waits
28| Boards of Canada
29| Bright Eyes
30| Japandroids
31| DJ Shadow
32| Death Grips
33| Yeah Yeah Yeahs
34| Mitski
35| St. Vincent
36| Sigur Ros
37| Vampire Weekend
38| Aphex Twin
39| Steve Reich
40| The Rolling Stones
41| Alabama Shakes
42| Daft Punk
43| LCD Soundsystem
44| Neil Young
45| A Tribe Called Quest
46| Creedence Clearwater Revival
47| Queen
48| Green Day
49| Johnny Cash
50| Blink-182
51| Fleetwood Mac
52| Lucinda Williams
53| Burial
54| OutKast
55| Miles Davis
56| Tortoise
57| Cake
58| Arcade Fire
59| The Caretaker
60| Explosions in the Sky
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acroamor wrote:My one rule in assembling this was that each artist had to have at least two works that I was very familiar with, which meant no Jeff Buckley, no Kate Bush, and no Prince, alas. And no Avalanches, whereas had Wildflower come out a month or so earlier, they would have placed and quite highly.

Also, I found it fascinating to discover that many forumers had mathematical processes for ranking their lists. I suppose I must be old-fashioned, because this was my process and has been my process for every big list submission I've done:
AMF Artist Pic.JPG
It's quite inefficient, which is why my lists are never particularly long, but it's the best way my mind sees these things.

1| Joni Mitchell
2| The Beatles
3|Led Zeppelin
4| Pink Floyd
5| Modest Mouse
6| Simon and Garfunkel
7| The Velvet Underground
8| Weezer
9| Julia Holter
10| Sharon Van Etten
11| Leonard Cohen
12| Van Morrison
13| Godspeed You! Black Emperor
14| Julianna Barwick
15| Kanye West
16| Nick Drake
17| Portishead
18| Kaki King
19| Bob Dylan
20| Fiona Apple
21| The Beach Boys
22| David Bowie
23| Mogwai
24| Radiohead
25| Pavement
26| Frank Sinatra
27| Tom Waits
28| Boards of Canada
29| Bright Eyes
30| Japandroids
31| DJ Shadow
32| Death Grips
33| Yeah Yeah Yeahs
34| Mitski
35| St. Vincent
36| Sigur Ros
37| Vampire Weekend
38| Aphex Twin
39| Steve Reich
40| The Rolling Stones
41| Alabama Shakes
42| Daft Punk
43| LCD Soundsystem
44| Neil Young
45| A Tribe Called Quest
46| Creedence Clearwater Revival
47| Queen
48| Green Day
49| Johnny Cash
50| Blink-182
51| Fleetwood Mac
52| Lucinda Williams
53| Burial
54| OutKast
55| Miles Davis
56| Tortoise
57| Cake
58| Arcade Fire
59| The Caretaker
60| Explosions in the Sky
Yay I'm not alone in my Luddite/old-school style! I cut out bars of flash cards similar to the ones you have, and yeah, I just pit one-on-one until I have a list where A>B>C for every three adjacent artists A,B,C. It's pretty fun, and gets me away from the computer :D (Of course, this would be nearly impossible for albums and *shudder* songs.

I'd be down for someone else to post my list from the spreadsheet, like BleuPanda said, but I would be down to post my new list that I made after June 31st, if someone wants to see it.
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1. Kanye West
2. The Beatles
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. Bob Dylan
5. Exuma
6. Paul Simon
7. Kraftwerk
8. Bob Marley
9. The Who
10. Paul McCartney
11. Daft Punk
12. The Zombies
13. Captain Beefheart
14. The Smiths
15. The Beach Boys
16. The Rolling Stones
17. Public Enemy
18. Radiohead
19. Elton John
20. John Lennon
21. Otis Redding
22. Oasis
23. Randy Newman
24. Jimmy Cliff
25. Bruce Springsteen
26. ABBA
27. Gorillaz
28. U2
29. The Everly Brothers
30. Eels
31. The Velvet Underground
32. David Bowie
33. Black Sabbath
34. Queen
35. Harry Belafonte
36. Willie Nelson
37. The Notorious B.I.G.
38. Sigur Ros
39. Beck
40. The Clash
41. Neil Young
42. Fleetwood Mac
43. Elvis Presley
44. Chuck Berry
45. Michael Jackson
46. Lou Reed
47. Tears for Fears
48. Future
49. Hank Williams
50. Buddy Holly
51. Arcade Fire
52. Ice Cube
53. Drake
54. Kid Cudi
55. Vampire Weekend
56. Sex Pistols
57. The Verve
58. Brian Eno
59. M.I.A.
60. Weezer
61. Pink Floyd
62. Kate Bush
63. Robbie Williams
64. Rodriguez
65. The Police
66. R. Kelly
67. Jay Z
68. Nirvana
69. Mac DeMarco
70. Jimi Hendrix
71. Frank Zappa
72. Marvin Gaye
73. Stevie Wonder
74. Mikko Alatalo
75. Yuzo Koshiro
76. The Weeknd
77. Sun Ra
78. Miles Davis
79. Talking Heads
80. Bon Iver
81. Popcaan
82. The Pogues
83. J. Karjalainen
84. Swans
85. Juice Leskinen
86. Lorde
87. Leevi and the Leavings
88. Hamza el- Din
89. Kendrick Lamar
90. Tyler, the Creator
91. PMMP
92. NEU!
93. Coldplay
94. Ghostface Killah
95. Joan Baez
96. Beyonce
97. Pearl Jam
98. The Kinks
99. Billy Joel
100. Jamie xx
...
101. Tame Impala

I might have forgot or maybe just chose not to include:

2pac
Madonna
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1| Kanye West
2| Joanna Newsom
3| John Coltrane
4| Tom Waits
5| Bruce Springsteen
6| David Bowie
7| Kendrick Lamar
8| Van Morrison
9| Björk
10| Prince

11| Radiohead
12| Red House Painters
13| The National
14| The Rolling Stones
15| Jeff Buckley
16| Brian Eno
17| Fleetwood Mac
18| LCD Soundsystem
19| Bob Dylan
20| Miles Davis

21| Grizzly Bear
22| Frank Ocean
23| King Crimson
24| The Smashing Pumpkins
25| Bon Iver
26| Beach House
27| Interpol
28| Drake
29| Autechre
30| Sufjan Stevens

31| Death Grips
32| Against Me!
33| Pixies
34| The Cure
35| Lady Gaga
36| Nine Inch Nails
37| Fugazi
38| The Knife
39| Animal Collective
40| Stevie Wonder

41| Danny Brown
42| Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
43| Ghostface Killah
44| Pearl Jam
45| Chance the Rapper
46| PJ Harvey
47| Miguel
48| Amy Winehouse
49| Grimes
50| The Velvet Underground

I forgot to vote for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, who should be at around #23
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1. My Bloody Valentine
2. Underworld
3. Prince
4. David Bowie
5. Parliament-Funkadelic
6. Grimes
7. Sly & the Family Stone
8. The Velvet Underground
9. Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
11. Alain Bashung
12. Arcade Fire
13. LCD Soundsystem
14. Gorillaz
15. Massive Attack
16. M83
17. Aphex Twin
18. Orbital
19. The Smiths
20. Sonic Youth
21. The Beatles
22. Miles Davis
23. Tim Buckley
24. Pet Shop Boys
25. The Knife
26. Public Enemy
27. Blur
28. Madonna
29. Étienne Daho
30. Bruce Springsteen
31. New Order
32. Jeff Buckley
33. Pink Floyd
34. Marvin Gaye
35. David Sylvian
36. The Sisters of Mercy
37. Todd Terje
38. Depeche Mode
39. Soda Stereo
40. Daft Punk
41. Björk
42. Neil Young
43. PJ Harvey
44. Kraftwerk
45. The Who
46. Nine Inch Nails
47. Patti Smith
48. Peter Gabriel
49. Kate Bush
50. Sigur Rós
51. The Kinks
52. Phoenix
53. The Rolling Stones
54. The Stone Roses
55. Prefab Sprout
56. Blondie
57. Lou Reed
58. Jimi Hendrix
59. Siouxsie and the Banshees
60. Primal Scream
61. A Tribe Called Quest
62. Beck
63. The Cure
64. Talk Talk
65. Can
66. Joy Division
67. Red Hot Chili Peppers
68. Eminem
69. The Flaming Lips
70. Ride
71. John Lennon
72. Fela Kuti
73. Silver Apples
74. Kendrick Lamar
75. Cocteau Twins
76. XTC
77. Michael Jackson
78. Elvis Costello
79. M.I.A.
80. The Doors
81. Beyoncé
82. The United States of America
83. The Jungle Brothers
84. Duke Ellington
85. Serge Gainsbourg
86. Beastie Boys
87. The Beach Boys
88. Sun Ra
89. LFO
90. R.E.M.
91. Gang of Four
92. Animal Collective
93. The Slits
94. Kanye West
95. Jefferson Airplane
96. Television
97. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro
98. Iron Butterfly
99. Mercury Rev
100. Françoise Hardy

My advocacy of Underworld seems to be going nowhere fast, so I won't bother. However, I highly encourage people who have not done it yet to try Parliament/Funkadelic (their influence on modern music is so important that I shouldn't have to do that), Sly & the Family Stone and Frank Zappa (I know his discography is intimidating, but Acclaimed Music provides a perfect sample as a starting point for exploring it). Also Tim Buckley, David Sylvian and Siouxsie and the Banshees as secondary recommendations for people who like idiosyncrasic artists.

Like Bleupanda, I believe someone should go ahead and copy all the personal lists from the spreadsheet here; this would be more simple and this way lurkers' lists would be posted as well.
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My voting system was done by looking at my favorite songs and taking the artists who had the most amount of songs on the list. Along the way I must have overlooked certain artists because I left about 5 of them off my top 100 list.

My top songs list https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zombeels ... e_songs/1/

Top 100 Artists


1.The Kinks
2. The Beatles
3. Small Faces
4. The Zombies
5. The Rolling Stones
6. Jack Drag
7. Paul Revere & The Raiders
8. Built To Spill
9. Girls In Hawaii
10.The Monkees
11. The Easybeats
12. Heartless Bastards
13. Eels
14. Brian Jonestown Massacre
15. Dandy Warhols
16. Radiohead
17. Animals (Eric Burdon & The Animals)
18. Electric President
19. Moonbabies
20. The Byrds
21. Flaming Lips
22. Neil Young
23. Submarines
24. The Turtles
25. Simon & Garfunkel
26. The Who
27. Led Zeppelin
28. David Bowie
29. Blue Öyster Cult
30. Buffalo Springfield
31. Wilco
32. Tom Petty (& The Heartbreakers)
33. White Stripes
34. Pepe Deluxé
35. Yes
36. Paul McCartney/Wings
37. Beck
38. Kingsbury Manx
39. Grandaddy
40. Radical Face
41. Spinto Band
42. Cloud Cult
43. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
44. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
45. John Lennon
46. Delgados
47. Johnny Cash
48. New Pornographers
49. Augie March
50. Queen
51. Klaatu
52. Cat Stevens
53. Creedence Clearwater Revival
54. Badfinger
55. Jethro Tull
56. R.E.M.
57. Kate Bush
58. The Move
59. Fleetwood Mac
60. Cat Power
61. Moody Blues
62. Pretenders
64. Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)
65. Velvet Underground
66. Modest Mouse
67. Deep Purple
68. Uriah Heep
69. Jimi Hendrix Experience
70. Steve Miller Band
71. Black Sabbath
72. The Police
73. Big Star
74. Sparklehorse
75. Cream
76. Donovan
77. Belle & Sebastian
78. Say Hi (To Your Mom)
79. Ween
80. Bob Dylan
81. Blur
82. Calla
83. Lynyrd Skynyrd
84. Travis
85. Supertramp
86. Rilo Kiley
87. T. Rex
88. Spoon
89. Jimmy Smith
90. Manfred Mann's Earth Band
91. Robyn Hitchcock (& The Egyptians)
92. Spencer Davis Group
93. Traffic
94. Pink Floyd
95. Underground Lovers
96. Smashing Pumpkins
97. Doors
98. Buddy Holly (& The Crickets)
99. Sigur Rós
100. The Black Keys
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For my list I looked at the number of top albums and songs the artist had in my lists. I also included points for live concerts, to help artists like Courtney Barnett who put on an amazing show (one I have seen 5 times) but not much material. I did give the list a look to see if I was happy with the rankings and changed a few small things.

My list skews very modern, only 17 or so acts were active before the turn of the century. I tend to only "look back" at one classic artist at a time, so it is taking me a while to get through them all.

1. Bjork
2. White Stripes, The
3. David Bowie
4. Beatles, The
5. Goldfrapp
6. Joanna Newsom
7. Arcade Fire
8. Radiohead
9. St. Vincent
10. Rolling Stones, The
11. Kate Bush
12. Courtney Barnett
13. Pixies
14. Gorillaz
15. Florence + The Machine
16. M.I.A.
17. Grates, The
18. Beck
19. Julia Holter
20. Kills, The
21. Coldplay
22. Lana Del Rey
23. Smiths, The
24. Peaches
25. Villagers
26. Janelle Monae
27. Sufjan Stevens
28. Santogold
29. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
30. Daft punk
31. Arctic Monkeys
32. B52s, The
33. Damian Jurado
34. Velvet Underground
35. Kanye West
36. Vampire Weekend
37. Bat For Lashes
38. PJ Harvey
39. Hot Chip
40. John Grant
41. Jack White
42. Scissor Sisters
43. Metronomy
44. Grizzly Bear
45. Franz Ferdinand
46. Flight Of The Conchords
47. Little Dragon
48. Grimes
49. LCD Soundsystem
50. Avalances, The


For what it's worth, if the list had been made today, The Avalanches would have made the Top 25.
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1 | The Kinks
2 | The Beach Boys
3 | Brian Eno
4 | My Bloody Valentine
5 | Swans
6 | Black Sabbath
7 | Bob Dylan
8 | King Crimson
9 | The Velvet Underground
10 | David Bowie
11 | Stereolab
12 | Mercury Rev
13 | Burial
14 | Can
15 | John Coltrane
16 | Radiohead
17 | Wu-Tang Clan
18 | Public Enemy
19 | Spiritualized
20 | TV On the Radio
21 | Charles Mingus
22 | Pixies
23 | The Clash
24 | The Stooges
25 | Yes
26 | PJ Harvey
27 | Wire
28 | Disco Inferno
29 | Portishead
30 | Julia Holter
31 | Captain Beefheart
32 | Primal Scream
33 | Robert Wyatt
34 | Love
35 | The Zombies
36 | Super Furry Animals
37 | Faust
38 | Talking Heads
39 | Aphex Twin
40 | The Flaming Lips
41 | Curtis Mayfield
42 | Boards of Canada
43 | The Boo Radleys
44 | Miles Davis
45 | Andy Stott
46 | Sleater-Kinney
47 | The Beta Band
48 | Ween
49 | The Beatles
50 | Sufjan Stevens
51 | The Avalanches
52 | Blur
53 | Neutral Milk Hotel
54 | Tortoise
55 | Elliott Smith
56 | Joy Division
57 | Actress
58 | Leonard Cohen
59 | Daft Punk
60 | Queens of the Stone Age
61 | Nirvana
62 | Massive Attack
63 | Hüsker Dü
64 | Nick Drake
65 | Van Morrison
66 | The Smiths
67 | Built To Spill
68 | Fucked Up
69 | The Roots
70 | Johnny Cash
71 | Kendrick Lamar
72 | Roxy Music
73 | The Rolling Stones
74 | Ride
75 | LCD Soundsystem
76 | Pere Ubu
77 | Tim Buckley
78 | Ramones
79 | Broadcast
80 | Slint
81 | Deep Purple
82 | Dean Blunt
83 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
84 | The Gun Club
85 | Philip Glass
86 | Fugazi
87 | Liars
88 | Tricky
89 | Slowdive
90 | Deerhunter
91 | Neil Young
92 | Os Mutantes
93 | The Fiery Furnaces
94 | New Order
95 | Caribou
96 | Wilco
97 | Ennio Morricone
98 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
99 | Rodriguez
100 | Björk


My list, as it's been every year I've voted, is a combination of my all-time songs and albums lists using a simple points system, then adjusted manually to eliminate outlier results. This makes the results top-heavy from my lists (resulting in the inclusion of artists with small but great discographies like The Zombies, The Avalanches, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Slint), but on the other hand, artists with extensive discographies aren't punished for music I've heard and don't like. The Wu-Tang Clan's high placement takes into account the group members' solo albums (many of which are Wu-Tang albums in all but the name on the cover).
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Pierre wrote:
Frank Zappa (I know his discography is intimidating, but Acclaimed Music provides a perfect sample as a starting point for exploring it).
And to then get to Uncle Meat, one of his (if not the) most complex and diverse works. And I also take this opportunity to promote Phish, and encourage everyone to check out A Picture of Nectar. Phish seem to end up typecast as a jam band (which they generally are), but A Picture of Nectar is definitely not a jam album. If it was, then Phish are probably the greatest and most focussed musicians to have existed, to be able to improvise something like this, and judging by their other jam albums, that's probably not true. This album seems to draw more Zappa influence than Grateful Dead, and is as diverse as the best of his albums, as the swims through a large variety of styles and genres from song to song, all done with a stroke that is undeniably Phish.
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Here is mine, the list of "not necesarely great but whatever, I like it so much, I will put it on the list":

1. Serge Gainsbourg
2. David Bowie
3. Prince
4. Georges Brassens
5. The Beatles
6. Stevie Wonder
7. Lou Reed
8. The White Stripes
9. Ennio Morricone
10. Radiohead
11. Les Rita Mitsouko
12. Brian Eno
13. Björk
14. Alain Bashung
15. Jacques Brel
16. Gorillaz
17. Jimi Hendrix
18. Hubert-Felix Thiefaine
19. The Divine Comedy
20. The Kills
21. The Black Keys
22. Blur
23. The Velvet Underground
24. The Rolling Stones
25. The Kinks
26. Renaud
27. Nirvana
28. Portishead
29. Kaiser Chiefs
30. The Doors
31. Charles Aznavour
32. Depeche Mode
33. The Temptations
34. Astor Piazzolla
35. Barbara
36. Benjamin Biolay
37. Lana Del Rey
38. Franz Ferdinand
39. Portugal.The Man
40. Beck
41. Parliament/Funkadelic
42. Alain Souchon
43. Sigur Rós
44. Jacques Higelin
45. Janis Joplin
46. Kraftwerk
47. MGMT
48. Led Zeppelin
49. Michel Polnareff
50. Robert Wyatt
51. Aretha Franklin
52. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
53. Mano Negra
54. Ólafur Arnalds
55. Sufjan Stevens
56. The Who
57. Ben Harper
58. Otis Redding
59. Tom Waits
60. Dionysos
61. Miles Davis
62. Lhasa
63. François de Roubaix
64. Nancy Sinatra
65. Kasabian
66. Richard Gotainer
67. Air
68. John Williams
69. Angelo Badalamenti
70. Eels
71. Cat Stevens
72. Rufus Wainwright
73. The Strokes
74. Jacques Loussier
75. The Specials
76. Devendra Banhart
77. Mark Lanegan
78. Joe Hisaishi
79. Django Django
80. Chilly Gonzales
81. Madrugada
82. Louis Armstrong
83. Mattafix
84. M (Matthieu Chédid)
85. Asaf Avidan
86. Moodoid
87. Philippe Sarde
88. Cream
89. Ty Segall
90. Arctic Monkeys
91. Michel Legrand
92. Eric Truffaz
93. Edith Piaf
94. Antony And The Johnsons
95. Vladimir Cosma
96. Dusty Springfield
97. Maurice Jarre
98. Jean-Michel Jarre
99. Max richter
100. Michael Giacchino
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Romain wrote:Here is mine, the list of "not necesarely great but whatever, I like it so much, I will put it on the list":
Well, I don't see anything particularly outrageous on your list :D What are you ashamed of? Renaud? Souchon? Gotainer? They all got occasional acclaim from critics (Gotainer maybe a little less than the two others, but still). Besides, that's a list of our favourite acts in the first place so there's no reason to justify anything ;)

Something I've been thinking to ask you for sometimes: are you indifferent to Léo Ferré? Aside from posting "Avec le temps" in your French music topic, you've never really talked about him... Personnally, I like him more than Brassens, that's why I'm asking. :)
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Yes, except two or three songs, he let me on the side of the road. I have no "atomes crochus" with him, I don't know why (too much of pathos maybe)

Maybe you can recommand me some songs I can like (I think you know my tastes) ?
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Hey Pierre and Romain, would any of the following artists from the golden age of Chanson Française and Yéyé movement be included in your top 101-200 artists: Charles Aznavour, Juliette Greco, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Alain Barrière, Johnny Hallyday, France Gall, Sheila, Sylvie Vartan, Jacques Dutronc, Claude François?
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Dexter wrote:Hey Pierre and Romain, would any of the following artists from the golden age of Chanson Française and Yéyé movement be included in your top 101-200 artists: Charles Aznavour, Juliette Greco, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Alain Barrière, Johnny Hallyday, France Gall, Sheila, Sylvie Vartan, Jacques Dutronc, Claude François?
Charles Aznavour is my 31. :happy-partydance:

But on all your list, except Dutronc maybe, they are all far from be included in my top 200. Maybe Becaud, Greco and Gall in my top 1000.
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Romain wrote:Yes, except two or three songs, he let me on the side of the road. I have no "atomes crochus" with him, I don't know why (too much of pathos maybe)

Maybe you can recommand me some songs I can like (I think you know my tastes) ?
I see... Well, I'm not sure, since you like Barbara, whom I think is even more into pathos or melodrama than Ferré... Let's say you like more playful songs?

His early 50s output is more similar to how people picture him, just a piano and a voice, and therefore less accessible, although I believe there are already great songs, in particular "La Vie d'artiste" is one of the most essential songs ever written in the chanson style, at least to me. His arrangements become much more streamlined in the early 60s, and his "Paname" and "La Chanson française" albums are more similar to Aznavour's approach, with many fantastic and upbeat songs like "Paname", "Jolie môme", "Comme à Ostende", "La Chanson française", to which I would add "Thank You Satan" as a non-album track...

Personnally, the most fascinating albums he produced to me (as a reminder, I'm more an album than a song person) are the ones from the early 70s, where he's basically creating a style of his own, that you could dub free or progressive chanson. "Le Chien", "Poètes, vos papiers !", "La Mémoire et la Mer", "La Solitude", "Richard", "Et... basta !"... Everything there is dazzling, with his lyrics getting either excessively litterate or absolutely innovative, according to your viewpoint, and Ferré experimenting a lot with the arrangements. Sometimes, when I think about it, I consider "Amour Anarchie" the greatest chanson album ever written.
Dexter wrote:Hey Pierre and Romain, would any of the following artists from the golden age of Chanson Française and Yéyé movement be included in your top 101-200 artists: Charles Aznavour, Juliette Greco, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Alain Barrière, Johnny Hallyday, France Gall, Sheila, Sylvie Vartan, Jacques Dutronc, Claude François?
In terms of ranks, I can't answer.
- Charles Aznavour is frankly a classic, from the 50s to the early 70s he has published a lot of masterpieces. I have yet to listen to full albums from him though.
- Juliette Gréco is a divisive case: some people think her singing is flat and unimpressive, while others, like me, like her indolent and sometimes erotic singing. She has really great songs here and there.
- Mireille Mathieu is rubbish. She's popular abroad because of her singing which reminds some people of Piaf but her material is pretty bad, I don't like any songs from her.
- Gilbert Bécaud is interesting. Some of his songs, in particular "Et maintenant", are fantastic, but he is mostly popular for his explosive live performances. Therefore, his star has faded a bit since his death.
- I don't particularly know nor like what I've heard of Alain Barrière.
- Johnny Hallyday, to me, really becomes interesting after his yéyé period, by 1966 when he begins to fully blooms as a rock artist. His albums "La Génération perdue" or "Rivière... ouvre ton lit" are fantastic, and by 1970 he becomes something of a French John Fogerty. After the mid-70s, however, I lose interest.
- The yéyé girls are peculiar cases. In my opinion, aside from having had bigger hits than others, Sheila and Vartan are not that different from the crowd of faceless and forgotten yéyé acts from the time. I can't think of a single song I like by Sheila, while the only song I like by Sylvie Vartan is "La plus belle pour aller danser", which was written by Aznavour. France Gall is better, and some of her Gainsbourg-penned tunes sometimes put her almost on an equal level with Françoise Hardy (who remains the yéyé giant, who no other act ever reached). I personnally prefer her more straight pop period, when she began to collaborate with Michel Berger by the late 70s, which was her (HUGE) commercial comeback in France.
- Jacques Dutronc's output from the 60s is fantastic. Among the artists you've mentioned he's the only one I would probably put in my 101-200 range, with perhaps Aznavour and France Gall. His combination of the playful Jacques Lanzmann-penned lyrics and nonchalant singing is unparalleled in French rock history.
- I could talk at length about Claude François, both about the few songs I like from him ("Comme d'habitude" or "Alexandrie Alexandra") or the reasons why I think his style and mastery of marketing had the French rock, pop and chanson devolve into the reviled "variété" or the 70s. I think that the musical monster he created in the 70s far outshadows his few real achievements, and frankly he's not very far from getting into the group of French acts I frankly hate, like Michel Sardou or Serge Lama. I'd better not get started about him.

From the "golden age of chanson-yéyé" French singers, I'd recommend Henri Salvador, Boris Vian, Mouloudji, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, the Jacques Brel-Georges Brassens-Léo Ferré trio, Jean Ferrat, Boby Lapointe (even though I think his charm is totally lost if you don't understand the lyrics, so maybe it's not such a great recommendation), Claude Nougaro, Barbara, Nino Ferrer, Michel Polnareff, Eddy Mitchell (though he gets better by the 70s), Antoine, Ronnie Bird (a bit of an obscurity today) or in the late 60s Brigitte Fontaine if you can stand a more experimental approach to chanson, to name artists you didn't mention.
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Pierre wrote: From the "golden age of chanson-yéyé" French singers, I'd recommend Henri Salvador, Boris Vian, Mouloudji, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, the Jacques Brel-Georges Brassens-Léo Ferré trio, Jean Ferrat, Boby Lapointe (even though I think his charm is totally lost if you don't understand the lyrics, so maybe it's not such a great recommendation), Claude Nougaro, Barbara, Nino Ferrer, Michel Polnareff, Eddy Mitchell (though he gets better by the 70s), Antoine, Ronnie Bird (a bit of an obscurity today) or in the late 60s Brigitte Fontaine if you can stand a more experimental approach to chanson, to name artists you didn't mention.
I can not be more agree, it's a perfect summary. :romance-kisscheek:
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Thanks Romain and Pierre. "Golden age of chanson-yeye" is actually a playlist I'm still filling up, thus, my earlier question. Brel, Hardy, Gainsbourg & Brassens I'm familiar with and are actually included in my Top 100 artists and they have multiple songs in my playlist. I also have "La Boheme", "Ca plane pour moi", Laisse Tomber Les Filles", "Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi" and some other songs too. Barbara and Polnareff are in one of your Top 100 (I've overlooked Aznavour) so I didn't ask. Most of the rest I've heard a song or two thanks to Romain's France thread but I'll listen to some more since you've singled them out. I appreciate for your time and effort to answer my query. Merci beaucoup.
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My list:

1 | The Beatles
2 | Jacques Brel
3 | Bob Dylan
4 | Radiohead
5 | Bruce Springsteen
6 | Tom Waits
7 | Arcade Fire
8 | David Bowie
9 | Charles Mingus
10 | The Rolling Stones
11 | Björk
12 | Nina Simone
13 | Johnny Cash
14 | Elvis Presley
15 | Sufjan Stevens
16 | Vampire Weekend
17 | Astor Piazzolla
18 | Bob Marley
19 | Fleet Foxes
20 | ABBA
21 | R.E.M.
22 | Madonna
23 | Simon and Garfunkel
24 | Prince
25 | The Beach Boys
26 | The Velvet Underground
27 | The Smiths
28 | Beck
29 | Kate Bush
30 | OutKast
31 | Creedence Clearwater Revival
32 | Kanye West
33 | Fela Kuti
34 | Portishead
35 | The White Stripes
36 | Nirvana
37 | Hank Williams
38 | Cesária Évora
39 | Massive Attack
40 | Jorge Ben
41 | Antony and the Johnsons
42 | Buena Vista Social Club
43 | Roy Orbison
44 | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
45 | Neil Young
46 | Wilco
47 | Billie Holiday
48 | The National
49 | Stevie Wonder
50 | Depeche Mode
51 | PJ Harvey
52 | U2
53 | Ella Fitzgerald
54 | Doc Watson
55 | Michael Jackson
56 | Daft Punk
57 | Orchestra Baobab
58 | The Roots
59 | Kraftwerk
60 | Arctic Monkeys
61 | The Divine Comedy
62 | John Coltrane
63 | Toumani Diabaté
64 | Frank Sinatra
65 | Patsy Cline
66 | Belle and Sebastian
67 | Chico Buarque
68 | Ray Charles
69 | Elliott Smith
70 | Joanna Newsom
71 | Leonard Cohen
72 | The Byrds
73 | LCD Soundsystem
74 | Paul Simon
75 | Sam Cooke
76 | Lead Belly
77 | Cartola
78 | Jimi Hendrix
79 | Howlin' Wolf
80 | Aretha Franklin
81 | Joni Mitchell
82 | Chuck Berry
83 | Nick Drake
84 | Gillian Welch
85 | Georges Brassens
86 | Nat King Cole
87 | Louis Armstrong
88 | Édith Piaf
89 | Townes Van Zandt
90 | Steve Earle
91 | The Clash
92 | João Gilberto
93 | Blur
94 | The Chemical Brothers
95 | The Who
96 | Jay-Z
97 | Public Enemy
98 | Los Lobos
99 | Goran Bregović
100 | Paulinho da Viola

I probably contributed to the poorer performance of soul in our poll this time round. Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin are on my list, but Marvin Gaye, Sly & The Family Stone, Otis Redding, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, and the Supremes all narrowly missed out. It's hard to limit favourite artists to just 100!
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Dexter wrote:Thanks Romain and Pierre. "Golden age of chanson-yeye" is actually a playlist I'm still filling up, thus, my earlier question. Brel, Hardy, Gainsbourg & Brassens I'm familiar with and are actually included in my Top 100 artists and they have multiple songs in my playlist. I also have "La Boheme", "Ca plane pour moi", Laisse Tomber Les Filles", "Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi" and some other songs too. Barbara and Polnareff are in one of your Top 100 (I've overlooked Aznavour) so I didn't ask. Most of the rest I've heard a song or two thanks to Romain's France thread but I'll listen to some more since you've singled them out. I appreciate for your time and effort to answer my query. Merci beaucoup.
Hello Dexter, I put a totally BreloGreco-ish song for you today. And if you search chanson and yéyé-girls, this youtube chanel is relly a gold mine.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGXf0 ... HSw/videos
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1| Blur
2| The Beatles
3| Arcade Fire
4| Elvis Costello
5| Talking Heads
6| Stevie Wonder
7| R.E.M
8| Pixies
9| Beck
10| Wilco
11| Prince
12| LCD Soundsystem
13| Oasis
14| Coldplay
15| U2
16| Jorge Ben
17| Vampire Weekend
18| The Beach Boys
19| The Police
20| Bruce Springsteen
21| The Flaming Lips
22| Smashing Pumpkins
23| Gorillaz
24| Arctic Monkeys
25| M. Ward
26| Fleet Foxes
27| M.I.A
28| Radiohead
29| Elliott Smith
30| Sondre Lerche
31| The Band
32| Michael Jackson
33| Beastie Boys
34| Daft Punk
35| Janelle Monáe
36| The Stone Roses
37| Mac DeMarco
38| Sufjan Stevens
39| James Morrison
40| Panda Bear
41| Justin Timberlake
42| Erykah Badu
43| Ibrahim Ferrer
44| James Blake
45| Tom Waits
46| Neutral Milk Hotel
47| Cassiano
48| The Hold Steady
49| Ali Chukwuma
50| White Denim
51| Os Mutantes
52| Washed Out
53| Los Lonely Boys
54| Matthew E. White
55| Fionna Apple
56| Beto Guedes
57| Weezer
58| The Fratellis
59| Nirvana
60| Outkast
61| Paul Simon
62| Manic Street Preachers
63| TV On the Radio
64| The National
65| Julia Holter
66| Graham Coxon
67| Calexico
68| Caetano Veloso
69| The Strokes
70| Beach House
71| Celia Cruz
72| Massive Attack
73| Real Estate
74| Siba
75| Mercury Rev
76| Grimes
77| Kanye West
78| Peter Gabriel
79| Public Enemy
80| Fat Boy Slim
81| Jeff Buckley
82| Kendrick Lamar
83| Jamiroquai
84| Marvin Gaye
85| David Bowie
86| Amy Winehouse
87| Air
88| New Order
89| Lô Borges
90| Velvet Underground
91| Chico Buarque
92| Animal Collective
93| Promised Land Sound
94| Green Day
95| The Smiths
96| The Clash
97| Nelly Furtado
98| Wild Nothing
99| Portishead
100| Toro Y Moi
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1 Stevie Wonder
2 Nas
3 Michael Jackson
4 Kanye West
5 Public Enemy
6 A Tribe Called Quest
7 Outkast
8 James Brown
9 Marvin Gaye
10 The Notorious B.I.G.
11 Miles Davis
12 Eric B. & Rakim
13 John Coltrane
14 Pink Floyd
15 The Roots
16 Mary J. Blige
17 D'Angelo
18 Jay-Z
19 2Pac
20 Radiohead
21 Run-DMC
22 David Bowie
23 Beastie Boys
24 Ghostface Killah
25 Sade
26 Wu-Tang Clan
27 Ice Cube
28 Prince
29 Gang Starr
30 Talking Heads
31 Raekwon
32 Boogie Down Productions
33 NWA
34 Parliament-Funkadelic
35 Janet Jackson
36 The Beatles
37 Common
38 Beck
39 The Police
40 Jodeci
41 Al Green
42 Curtis Mayfield
43 Big Daddy Kane
44 Maxwell
45 Madonna
46 Jim Hendrix
47 Bob Dylan
48 The Smiths
49 Kraftwerk
50 Daft Punk
51 Erykah Badu
52 J Dilla
53 Eminem
54 Scarface
55 The Rolling Stones
56 De La Soul
57 EPMD
58 Nirvana
59 Missy Elliott
60 Kendrick Lamar
61 LL Cool J
62 Flying Lotus
63 The Jacksons
64 Tony! Toni! Toné!
65 Aphex Twin
66 Otis Redding
67 Robyn
68 Björk
69 Depeche Mode
70 Massive Attack
71 Bon Iver
72 Arcade Fire
73 Bruce Springsteen
74 Janelle Monáe
75 Portishead
76 Bob Marley
77 Mos Def
78 The Isley Brothers
79 Bill Withers
80 Charles Mingus
81 The Beach Boys
82 Ol' Dirty Bastard
83 Donny Hathaway
84 MF Doom
85 George Michael
86 James Blake
87 Elton John
88 The O'Jays
89Jill Scott
90 Moby
91 Tears For Fears
92 Gorillaz
93 Thelonius Monk
94 Madvillain
95 Lupe Fiasco
96 Sam Cooke
97 Soul II Soul
98 Led Zeppelin
99 Nine Inch Nails
100 M.I.A.
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Romain wrote:Hello Dexter, I put a totally BreloGreco-ish song for you today. And if you search chanson and yéyé-girls, this youtube chanel is relly a gold mine.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGXf0 ... HSw/videos
Grecoesque indeed. I agree, the youtube chanel is a goldmine (I didn't know Sophie Marceau sang!), this gives me a sense of joie de vivre :D Thanks so much Romain!
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