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[elcorazon]

Great list, elco. We have like zero bands in common, but I like how you put personal faves above the obvious. And the blurbs are a nice touch. You're one of the few sombies I believe actually loves all the canon rock in his list as opposed to thinking he should love it.

thanks yancy. don't let slackmo hear you say that though. He might get all angry and stuff.

[Huckle]

Labored and thought hard about placement of 1-25, the rest I just listed and shuffled around as appropriate but didn't get into a big anxiety bag about it. 1. Minutemen 2. Jesus & Mary Chain 3. Meat Puppets 4. The Verve 5. The Smiths 6. Miles Davis 7. Melt-Banana 8. Iron Maiden 9. Charles Mingus 10. Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy (if you need just one, I’d say Palace) 11. Metallica 12. Talking Heads 13. Canyon 14. Erykah Badu 15. Public Image 16. Husker Du 17. John Coltrane 18. Stooges 19. Muse 20. Guided By Voices 21. Comets on Fire 22. The Beatles 23. Butthole Surfers 24. Roxy Music 25. Slayer 26. Sex Pistols 27. PJ Harvey 28. David Bowie 29. Flipper 30. Scratch Acid 31. Jane's Addiction 32. Boris 33. Johnny Cash 34. Felt 35. Thelonious Monk 36. Sun Kil Moon 37. Elvis Costello 38. Blonde Redhead 39. Wilco 40. Steely Dan 41. Ladytron 42. Luna 43. Eric Dolphy 44. Oasis 45. Hawkwind 46. The Primitives 47. Kent 48. Belle & Sebastian 49. Rocket from the Crypt 50. Public Enemy

[arkin]

So narrowing it to 50 is damn near impossible and there's about 100 #51s but whatever. I'm not losing sleep over it, I'm happy with this 50. 1.Elliott Smith 2.Jawbox 3.My Bloody Valentine 4.David Bowie 5.The Dismemberment Plan 6.Tom Waits 7.Broadcast 8.Joy Division 9.The Smiths 10.Wire 11.Os Mutantes 12.Elvis Costello 13.New Order 14.Stevie Wonder 15.The Clash 16.The Cure 17.Talking Heads 18.The Beatles 19.Roxy Music 20.Radiohead 21.Sleater-Kinney 22.PJ Harvey 23.Curtis Mayfield 24.The Pixies 25.Depeche Mode 26.The Kinks 27.The Velvet Underground 28.Spoon 29.A Tribe Called Quest 30.Love 31.DJ Shadow 32.Mission of Burma 33.Les Savy Fav 34.Jeff Buckley 35.Neutral Milk Hotel 36.Q & Not U 37.Sonic Youth 38.Wu-Tang Clan (just going for general because I don’t want to count all solo artists individually) 39.Brainiac 40.Bauhaus 41.Bruce Springsteen 42.Miles Davis 43.The Birthday Party 44.Scott Walker 45.Can 46.LCD Soundsystem 47.Prince 48.Built to Spill 49.Charles Mingus 50.Unwound EDIT: Forgot Prince - #47

[6ome 9irl]

1. PJ Harvey
2. Antonín Dvořák
3. Public Image Ltd.
4. Béla Bartók
5. X

You need 5 more to be official. Lazy girl

How dare you. If my list won't be included in this poll, I have to challenge it. My personal criteria for favorite was 'flawless' and 'no qualms with.' Example: while I love Madonna and consider her a great, she has made music that is not up to the quality she can put out. She has done things as an 'artist' that aggravate me even though some of her work amazes me. So I would not include her in one of the golden slots.

I answered the thread question, "Who are your favorite artists of all time?" Isn't it hard to rank after 10? I don't have 10 favorites of any one thing. I don't have 10 favorite shoe brands. I don't have ten 'favorite' candy bars. Favorite implies being discerning and selective, to me at least.

[elcorazon]

1. PJ Harvey
2. Antonín Dvořák
3. Public Image Ltd.
4. Béla Bartók
5. X

You need 5 more to be official. Lazy girl

How dare you. If my list won't be included in this poll, I have to challenge it. My personal criteria for favorite was 'flawless' and 'no qualms with.' Example: while I love Madonna and consider her a great, she has made music that is not up to the quality she can put out. She has done things as an 'artist' that aggravate me even though some of her work amazes me. So I would not include her in one of the golden slots.

I answered the thread question, "Who are your favorite artists of all time?" Isn't it hard to rank after 10? I don't have 10 favorites of any one thing. I don't have 10 favorite shoe brands. I don't have ten 'favorite' candy bars. Favorite implies being discerning and selective, to me at least.

waaaaa!!!!
how dare you set up rules that I don't agree with and not count my vote. I hope your legal team is prepared for this "challenge." I mean this poll may wind up meaning nothing at all... oh wait...

[6ome 9irl]

I find it ridiculous to call for favorites and then ask for at least 10.

I mean this poll may wind up meaning nothing at all... oh wait...

What kind of heart for SOMB is this? I don't think it means nothing. It's a gauge of the overall taste of our little mini-society.

[Duff.]

I don't have 50 favorite shoe brands or candy bars, but I sure have 50 favorite musical acts.

[pong]

Well, there you go then!

[The Luscious Phil]

Just looking at the first few lists, and man, it would be totally tits if Rush was anywhere near the top 10.... they are on so many lists!

[vurt]

too obsessed with his current wife Allison Moorer –

can you blame the guy?



I'll spare everyone a picture of what steve looks like in comparison.

I first saw what Steve Earle looked like on The Wire and it was sorta surprising. I've never really seen/heard anything by Alison Moorer until now (and only knew of her as Shelby Lynne's sister) but good on Mr. Earle.

[54cermak]

I have the sinking feeling I'm forgetting someone obvious, but the sooner I post this the less I'll fret over it: 1. Wilco 2. R.E.M. 3. Fleetwood Mac 4. Pavement 5. The Beatles 6. Neil Young 7. Prince 8. Curtis Mayfield 9. Robyn Hitchcock 10. Beach Boys 11. Todd Rundgren 12. Hall & Oates 13. Talking Heads 14. CCR 15. Neko Case 16. Emitt Rhodes 17. Bob Dylan 18. The Sea & Cake 19. Steely Dan 20. The Byrds 21. Led Zeppelin 22. Kanye West 23. The Band 24. Stevie Wonder 25. The Smiths 26. Lloyd Cole 27. Marvin Gaye 28. New Order 29. Big Star 30. Chi-Lites 31. Replacements 32. Jens Lekman 33. Flying Burrito Brothers 34. Bruce Springsteen 35. Talk Talk 36. Howlin Wolf 37. Joni Mitchell 38. Spoon 39. Nick Drake 40. Pharoah Sanders 41. Al Green 42. Elvis Costello 43. Velvet Underground 44. Jimmy Cliff 45. The Embarassment 46. Elvis Costello 47. The Notwist 48. the dBs 49. The Jayhawks 50. Bill Withers

[elcorazon]

my favorite list so far 54 (translation: has most artists on my list as well)

[throughsilver]

01) Pieter Bruegel the Elder
02) Egon Schiele
03) Jake Chapman
04) Dinos Chapman
05) M. C. Escher
06) Hieronymus Bosch
07) James Ensor
08) Francisco Goya
09) René Magritte
10) Tony Hart

more of a neil buchanan man myself.

and re: eras of bands. a vote for metallica sure as fuck isn't a vote for st anger. working on mine.

clue: metallica is on it

[6ome 9irl]

02) Egon Schiele

Ok, curious. My #2 fav artist as well, haha. Artist artist, never heard the music.

[tager]

1. The Rolling Stones 2. The Grateful Dead 3. Pavement 4. Radiohead 5. The White Stripes 6. Neil Young 7. The Beatles 8. Little Feat 9. Led Zeppelin 10. Sleater Kinney 11. Buddy Guy 12. The Who 13. PJ Harvey 14. Wilco 15. The Doors 16. The Allman Brothers 17. Cracker 18. Bob Dylan 19. Pearl Jam 20. Phish 21. The Kinks 22. Steve Earl 23. Velvet Underground 24. Lucinda Williams 25. The Ramones 26. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 27. Blur 28. Guns n' Roses 29. Arcade Fire 30. Modest Mouse 31. Pink Floyd 32. Jane's Addiction 33. Stevie Wonder 34. Bruce Springsteen 35. ELO 36. Pulp 37. U2 38. Talking Heads 39. The Black Crowes 40. Van Halen 41. Gomez 42. Franz Fernidand 43. Screaming Trees 44. Nirvana 45. Ray Charles 46. Jimi Hendrix 47. Built to Spill 48. The Cars 49. John Lee Hooker 50. David Bowie

[yancy]

My problem with Metallica goes much further back than St. Anger. Really wish I could vote for them, but at this point in their career I'm a fan of less than half their output. Time wise it's even less. Only about five of their twenty-five years qualify for favorite status. I'm still not over Load. Just can't bring myself to cast a vote for Metallica in 2008.

[Huckle]

and re: eras of bands. a vote for metallica sure as fuck isn't a vote for st anger. working on mine.

clue: metallica is on it

This was an issue for me, specifically with Metallica. I look and listen to them now and I just shake my head. Everything past the Black Album, and even kind of including that one, is just not for me at all. But Kill'em All - Ride the Lightning - Master of Puppets - And Justice for All are untouchable. Those were major records for me and my circle of mid-80s high school buddies, and nothing can discount them.

Interestingly enough, I did not feel that way about Radiohead. I've been so bored with everything post Kid A that even my love for Bends and OKC couldn't save them.

Also struggled with what to do about a band like Suede. I obsessed over their debut for years after it came out, but never got into any of their other albums. I surely spent more time loving that album than I did, say, Erykah Badu or Roxy Music, but the fact that my Suede love was limited to one album knocks them off. I mean, I really dug I Am A Bird Now but not enough to give them historical cred. One exception: Jesus & Mary Chain. Psychocandy is my all-time #1 and has been pretty much since 1985. I love Darklands, and I like Barbed Wire Kisses, but I feel like the rest of their albums are generic and milky.

Meanwhile, I'll never include a single Steely Dan album in my top 50 albums of all time, but there's no fucking with their string of 70s albums and as a band, I find myself listening to them all the time. It's just that I switch all over the place from Katy Lied to Pretzel Logic to Aja or whatever.

[throughsilver]

My problem with Metallica goes much further back than St. Anger.

known, but all i really mean is i'm not voting for the entirety. if i vote for megadeth, it's not going after 1994, for maiden after 1988. like sabbath. every man and his dog votes for sabbath, but who liked technical ecstasy? the eternal idol? etc

also: person who voted a perfect circle over tool. please tell me why as i am intrigued. apologies for not remembering who you are

[chingram]

and re: eras of bands. a vote for metallica sure as fuck isn't a vote for st anger. working on mine.

clue: metallica is on it

This was an issue for me, specifically with Metallica. I look and listen to them now and I just shake my head. Everything past the Black Album, and even kind of including that one, is just not for me at all. But Kill'em All - Ride the Lightning - Master of Puppets - And Justice for All are untouchable. Those were major records for me and my circle of mid-80s high school buddies, and nothing can discount them.

Interestingly enough, I did not feel that way about Radiohead. I've been so bored with everything post Kid A that even my love for Bends and OKC couldn't save them.

Also struggled with what to do about a band like Suede. I obsessed over their debut for years after it came out, but never got into any of their other albums. I surely spent more time loving that album than I did, say, Erykah Badu or Roxy Music, but the fact that my Suede love was limited to one album knocks them off. I mean, I really dug I Am A Bird Now but not enough to give them historical cred. One exception: Jesus & Mary Chain. Psychocandy is my all-time #1 and has been pretty much since 1985. I love Darklands, and I like Barbed Wire Kisses, but I feel like the rest of their albums are generic and milky.

Meanwhile, I'll never include a single Steely Dan album in my top 50 albums of all time, but there's no fucking with their string of 70s albums and as a band, I find myself listening to them all the time. It's just that I switch all over the place from Katy Lied to Pretzel Logic to Aja or whatever.

yea i had metallica on there, took em off. after thinkin bout it for a while.

[pong]

Metallica is a lame duck after Master of Puppets. And, even the albums up until then aren't that great, IMO. But, they had all the makings of becoming truly great when Cliff died. Then, they just eliminated bass altogether and that never made any sense to me. I enjoyed Enter Sandman a couple times drunk but everything else is pretty much: eh. Not horrible, but kind of over-rated.