Top 10 Artists

malec2b · Postby **malec2b** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:24 pm UTC

Yes
David Bowie
T. Rex
Modest Mouse
Gong
The Beatles
Procol Harum
Mott the Hoople
The Doors
Genesis

limb · Postby **limb** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:56 pm UTC

Tom Waits
Lee Perry
DJ Shadow
Sidney Betchett
The Clash
Toots and the Maytals
Godspeed You Black Emperor
The Pogues
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan

That's a hard and pointless question to answer, I've gone for people who've made most consistently flawless records, but there could have been any of a dozen others up there too.

Special Agent Dale Cooper · Postby **Special Agent Dale Cooper** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:42 pm UTC

limb wrote:Tom Waits

I feel that, in terms of consistency, no-one can touch Waits. 22 albums and none of them bad. An incredible talent.

bambi_ · Postby **bambi_** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:14 am UTC

Go on, then.

Bon Iver
Kings of Convenience
Nirvana
Show of Hands
Electric Six
Metric
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Eisley
The xx
múm

Brawls · Postby **Brawls** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:23 pm UTC

Top 10 being artists I listen to the most and rate highly.
1) Yoko Kanno
2) Yoko Kanno
3) Yoko Kanno
4) Yoko Kanno
5) Yoko Kanno
6) Vladimir Vysotsky
7) Tom Waits

Istao Nakagawa
9) Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
10) Layne Staley (Alice in Chains)

Fedechiar · Postby **Fedechiar** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:35 pm UTC

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Radiohead
4. Rory Gallagher
5. Cream
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. Rush
9. The Doors
10. The Who

And yeah, it's a bit skewed but I'm a big fan of classic rock

Bartimaeus · Postby **Bartimaeus** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:14 am UTC

Radiohead / Jonny Greenwood / Thom (I could make that my top three, but why exclude?!)
Joy Division
The Smiths
At The Drive In
The Beatles
The Strokes
Regina Spektor
The Mars Volta
Led Zeppelin
Grizzly Bear

I'd also like to mention Emil Gilels, Glenn Gould, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Though obviously they are a different kind of artist than the type intended, my adoration for their interpretations never ceases.

The Moomin · Postby **The Moomin** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:06 am UTC

Duran Duran
A-Ha
Kelli Ali
Goldfrapp
Air
They Might Be Giants
Bruce Dickinson
Megadeth
Bjork
Guns N Roses

FFORG · Postby **FFORG** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:10 am UTC

Tom Waits
Flaming Lips
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
Meshuggah
Jane's Addiction
Pearl Jam
Billie Holiday
Minor Threat

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:40 am UTC

1. XTC
2. Pink Floyd
3. The Beatles
4. They Might Be Giants
5. The Velvet Underground/Who/Kinks/Rolling Stones/Yes/Led Zeppelin/Crosby, Stills & Nash/Neil Young/Elton John/Bob Marley
6. The Clash/The Buzzcocks/Devo/Pere Ubu/X/Mission Of Burma/Guided by Voices
7. Bob Dylan/The Ramones/Violent Femmes/Sonic Youth/Bad Religion/Thermals/Frank Turner
8. Belle and Sebastian
9. Captain Beefheart/King Crimson/Talking Heads/Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush/REM/U2/Deep Freeze Mice/Ween/Weezer/Super Furry Animals/Arcade Fire/Midlake
10. The Dukes of Stratosphear

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:29 pm UTC

Top 10 is wicked hard, ain't it? The second time through should be easier though, as it becomes the top ten that I can't believe I forgot about...

1. David Bowie (Lifetime achievement/most influential award)
2. Brian Eno (For 1st two albums primarily, and producing)
3. Radiohead
4. Tom Waits
5. The Adverts/Bad Brains/Television/Richard Hell/X-Ray Spex/Gang of Four/Minutemen/Dead Kennedys/Zero Boys/Offspring/Green Day
6. Can/Frank Zappa/Alice Cooper/Black Sabbath/Queen/Elvis Costello/Joy Division/New Order/Thomas Dolby/Adrian Belew/The Smiths/The Cure/Pavement
7. The Band/Creedence Clearwater Revival/Grateful Dead/Moody Blues/America/Bread/Cat Stevens/Supertramp (trying to be honest here even showing my uncool faves...)
8. Stereolab/Ben Folds/Wilco/Flaming Lips/Yo La Tengo/Fountains of Wayne/Death Cab for Cutie/Of Montreal/The Decemberists/Mumford&Sons
9. Jesus Christ Superstar
10. Nuggets

Adam H · Postby **Adam H** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:52 pm UTC

Lol your top ten list has 75 artists in it. Nice.

What I'm listening to right now:
1. Manchester Orchestra
2. Mumford and Sons
3. The Decemberists
4. Muse
5. Yes
6. Belle and Sebastian
7. Death Cab For Cutie
8. Coldplay
9. Silversun Pickups
10. The Weepies

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:46 am UTC

No, it really is just my Top 10, plus a measurement error due to a high standard deviation. (Or in this case perhaps a 'high standards' deviation...?)

Fedechiar · Postby **Fedechiar** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:00 pm UTC

With 90 bands instead of 10, your experiment has 800% relative error; if I were you, I'd work on my systematic error

Anyhow, most of them are among my favorites too (maybe even in the top 10 sometimes, mine tends to float a lot)

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:07 pm UTC

Fedechiar wrote:With 90 bands instead of 10, your experiment has 800% relative error; if I were you, I'd work on my systematic error

Good suggestion! It turns out I didn't notice the scrollbar, and sure enough there were 10 more hiding below. At a nice round Adrian Monk 100 it became easy to spot the misplaced decimal... operator error again, for which I humbly apologize.

1. Harry Nilsson
2. Camper Van Beethoven
3. Steely Dan
4. The Mekons
5. Pixies
6. Cheap Trick
7. The Beach Boys
8. Cardiacs
9. The Pogues
10. Robyn Hitchcock

Scotto123 · Postby **Scotto123** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:51 pm UTC

Top 10: (This is hard for me but here goes)

10. Iron Maiden
9. Tool
8. The Beatles
7. Opeth
6. King Crimson
5. Porcupine Tree
4. Tom Waits
3. David Bowie
2. Rush
1. Dream Theater

(Honourable Mentions: Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Meshuggah, Pink Floyd)

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:35 am UTC

Scotto123 wrote:Top 10: (This is hard for me but here goes)

10. Iron Maiden
9. Tool
8. The Beatles
7. Opeth
6. King Crimson
5. Porcupine Tree
4. Tom Waits
3. David Bowie
2. Rush
1. Dream Theater

(Honourable Mentions: Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Meshuggah, Pink Floyd)

What's with the extra "mentions"? This is clearly supposed to be just your Top Ten. Sure, others might have bent the rules slightly, but they actually listened to all of Floyd's albums before placing them below Iron Maiden. Take your time....

Edit: Sorry, it was totally unfair to judge like that, especially after listening to Meshuggah which made me realize I was asking way too much.... Kidding, I'm kidding. Seriously though I respect you since obviously I wasn't even able to commit to a proper Top Ten. I'm only up to Top Five after thinking on it for weeks. Deciding on the other five would ignore so many more that remain important to me.

Annihilist · Postby **Annihilist** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:05 am UTC

Marilyn Manson
Nine Inch Nails
Tool
The Tea Party
The Cure
Slipknot
Opeth
Rammstein
Dream Theater
Metallica

Chewbaccawacca · Postby **Chewbaccawacca** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:42 am UTC

The Dubliners
Emiliana Torrini
Mum
Spoon
The Pogues
The Decemberists
The Real McKenzies
Kings of Convenience
Thievery Corporation
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

No particular order, but that's what I'm listening to these days.

philsov · Postby **philsov** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:49 pm UTC

In alphabetical order: complete with youtube links of my arguably favorite songs. IN YOUR FACE ETHER.

Dispatch
Guster
Infected Mushroom
Alison Krauss
Party Ben
Pendulum
REM
Third Eye Blind
Say Anything
Streetlight Manifesto

messy · Postby **messy** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:33 pm UTC

1. metallica
2. morbid angel
3. opeth
4. devin townsend (band/project/solo/etc.)
5. my dying bride
6. 1349
7. the gathering
8. meshuggah
9. testament
10. dream theater

Adam H · Postby **Adam H** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:23 pm UTC

I'm bored. How bored? This bored:

Top Ten
The Beatles (32)
Pink Floyd (29)
Radiohead (27)
Led Zeppelin (21)
Tool (18)
Bob Dylan (17)
Muse (17)
Opeth (16)
Queen (16)
Dream Theater (15)

8-13:

Spoiler:

5-7:

Spoiler:

2-4:

Spoiler:

Only 1:

Spoiler:

Plenty of errors and fudges are in there, with people submitting main people from bands, abbreviations, last names vs. first names, etc. Also I ignored XTCamus and a couple people that went off on a tangent focusing only on composers.

ArchaicHipster · Postby **ArchaicHipster** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:57 pm UTC

In no order at all,

The xx
Nirvana
Leonard Cohen
The Wombats
Laura Marling
Miles Davis
Amanda Palmer
Alice in Chains
Arcade Fire
Hole

Sort of a mix between grunge, indie-ish and folk. Oh, and jazz from nowhere with Miles.

no-genius · Postby **no-genius** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:15 pm UTC

1 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2 The Fall
3 British Sea Power
4 Deerhoof
5 Mogwai
6 Guided By Voices
7 Grandaddy
8 Do Make Say Think
9 A Silver Mt. Zion
10 Sonic Youth

Also: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pixies, Wire, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine. And Implodes, whose new album I got last week.

Adam H wrote:I'm bored. How bored? This bored...

You've probably got some duplicates, I noticed Flaming Lips and The Flaming Lips.

Adam H · Postby **Adam H** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:32 pm UTC

no-genius wrote:
Adam H wrote:I'm bored. How bored? This bored...
You've probably got some duplicates, I noticed Flaming Lips and The Flaming Lips.

Yeah, I think I caught 95% of those kind of errors.

cplns · Postby **cplns** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:16 pm UTC

Whoo, boy, super hard. In no order:

The Decemberists
Death Cab for Cutie
Stars
Green Day
Sufjan Stevens
Silversun Pickups
Phoenix
The Beatles
The Shins
Arctic Monkeys

Honorable Mention: Interpol, Sam Cooke, Passion Pit, Milo Greene, and at this point I had to stop going through my music library, or you all would have had a list of about fifty artists just floating around.

Bloopy · Postby **Bloopy** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:26 am UTC

1. Bloodhound Gang
2. Anti-Nowhere League
3. Metallica
4. Danzig
5. Black Sabbath
6. Headless Chickens
7. Sticky Filth
8. The Runaways
9. Budgie
10. Megadeth

My list is just about set in stone, doesn't change very often.

XTCamus · Postby **XTCamus** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:59 pm UTC

Top 10 Artists - That I am currently enjoying the most.

(Still working on that lifetime-weighted-average one that usually starts with some combination of XTC/Beatles/Pink Floyd/They Might Be Giants/The Clash.)

In no particular order...

Belle and Sebastian
Neil Young
Super Furry Animals
Van Morrison
Cheap Trick
Grand Funk
Jefferson Airplane
Radiohead
Devo
Leonard Cohen

Voekoevaka · Postby **Voekoevaka** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:26 pm UTC

My own top 10 ;

1 - Nosfell
2 - Thee Silver Mount Zion
3 - An Lár (Celtic folk music)
4 - Oneira 6tet (Greek/Iranian folk music)
5 - Ez3kiel (Electronic, ambiant)
6 - АукцЫон (Russian rock band)
7 - Godspeed You ! Black Emperor
8 - The Booze Brothers (Irishezed rock band)
9 - Moriarty
X - Warsaw Village Band (Remixed traditionnal polish music)

And yes, I put X instead of ten to have all the columns the same length.

There are so many great bands I want to include in this list : Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Archive, Astor Piazzolla, The Beatles, Black Ox Orkestar, Bob Marley, Broken Social Scene, C2C, The Chieftains, Chinese Man, The Clash, Color Tango Orquesta, The Cure, DAAU, Dayazell, Deluxe, Djal, Do Make Say Think, The Doors, Dropkick Murphys, The Dubliners, Eddie Vedder, Ekova, Explosions in the Sky, Familha Artús, Flobots, Fly Pan Am, Georges Brassens, Hrsta, Jacques Brel, Janis Joplin, John Butler Trio, Keziah Jones, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Leo Ferre, Loreena McKennitt, Mango Gadzi, Morcheeba, Old Blind Dogs, Pink Floyd, Revolver, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Rolling Stones, Sigur Rós, Soha, Solas, Staff Benda Bilili, Supertramp, Them Crooked Vultures, Urban Folk Quartet, Venetian Snares, Vic Chesnutt, and Yann Tiersen.

Bean7 · Postby **Bean7** » Fri May 10, 2013 2:16 am UTC

Nirvana
Hole
Beastie Boys
Joan Baez
Bob Dylan
The Carpenters
Kate Bush
The Offspring
Pj Harvey
Frank Sinatra

Bartimaeus · Postby **Bartimaeus** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:18 am UTC

Two years later.

How things (don't) change.

Bartimaeus wrote:Radiohead / Jonny Greenwood / Thom (I could make that my top three, but why exclude?!)
Joy Division
The Smiths
At The Drive In
The Beatles
The Strokes
Regina Spektor
The Mars Volta
Led Zeppelin
Grizzly Bear

Radiohead / Jonny Greenwood / Atoms for Peace
Joy Division
Autechre
Sonic Youth
The Smiths
Grizzly Bear
Grimes
PJ Harvey

Yablo · Postby **Yablo** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:28 pm UTC

Lemme see ...

And now for the top 10 artists I've actually seen in concert:

frankh · Postby **frankh** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:24 pm UTC

Impossible. But I love doing impossible things.

(Are bands allowed too?)

1. David Bowie
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Jeff Beck
4. Kim Larsen
5. Pink Floyd
6. Miles Davis
7. Pantera (Yeah, I know. Still, though.)
8. Thin Lizzy
9. Iron Maiden (Yeah, I know. Still, though.)
10. Tom Waits

The order is defintely correct. Not sure if the contents are, either. But it's pretty close.

patzer · Postby **patzer** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:19 pm UTC

This is such a difficult question. Doing a top ten seemed way too restrictive, so I did a top 100. I still had to miss out loads of really good bands though, took ages deciding which bands had to be omitted from the list simply because there wasn't enough space :/

Anyway, the list.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
The Polyphonic Spree
fun.
Nakho and Medicine for the People
Arcade Fire
The Magnetic Fields
The Beautiful South
Beans on Toast
A Fine Frenzy
Gogol Bordello
Al Stewart
AJJ
The Mountain Goats
MIKA
Kitaro
Eric Bogle
Regina Spektor
The Killers
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mischief Brew
Plastic Mermaids
Billy Bragg
Peter, Paul, and Mary
múm
Westlife
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Passenger
Owl City
Enya
Matisyahu
Die Antwoord
Simon & Garfunkel
David Bowie
Foster and Allen
Dragonforce
The Doubleclicks
Daniel Powter
Txarango
Against Me!
Rod Stewart
Pink Floyd
Frank Turner
Christina Perri
Mike Oldfield
The Cog Is Dead
Alestorm
The Seekers
Taylor Swift
Blackmore's Night
The Cat Empire
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
James Blunt
Smokie
The Houghton Weavers
Birdy
Boyzone
The Eagles
My Chemical Romance
Garrison Ulrich
Mr B. The Gentleman Rhymer
The Kinks
Dolly Parton
The Dubliners
Meat Loaf
Keane
The Carpenters
Ed Sheeran
Neil Diamond
Pet Shop Boys
Britney Spears
Garfunkel and Oates
ABBA
Derdian
Victoria Wood
Harry Belafonte
Johnny Cash
Sex Pistols
McFly
Scorpions
Train
Bob Dylan
Robbie Williams
Bellowhead
Elton John
Busted
S Club 7
Vera Lynn
Joan Baez
Belle and Sebastian
Don McLean
Freedom Call
Val Doonican
Bee Gees
Petula Clark
Paul Robeson
Denny Schneidemesser
Andrew WK
Sleaford Mods
Michael Bublé
The Tossers

bantler · Postby **bantler** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:43 pm UTC

You all have the worst taste.
Open your Spotify and click Artists.
List the bands with the MOST songs in your playlist in descending order.
Break your own ties.
No cheating to be cool.

1. Talking Heads
2. The Clash
3. New Order
4. Nirvana
5. Grateful Dead
6. The Smiths
7. Beastie Boys
8. Violent Femmes
9. MGMT
10. Lorde

Ginger · Postby **Ginger** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:59 pm UTC

LOL you are being wrong again dude... and personally attacking. Lorde is good though. So Lorde, Eminem, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Rage Against the Machine, Paramore, Alanis Morisette, Avril Lavigne, Maroon Five and Evanescence are my top ten artists.

freezeblade · Postby **freezeblade** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:21 pm UTC

Difficult! Um. no order, of course.

1. Pink Floyd
2. Sigur Rós
3. Broken Bells
4. Streetlight Manifesto/Catch-22/BOTAR (All pretty much because of Toh Kay)
5. Opeth
6. Agalloch
7. the Who
8. Sol Invictus
9. the Clash
10. the Mars Volta

Of the moment, off the top of my head. Ask me again later...you'd likely get a different list, in a different order.

Mikeski · Postby **Mikeski** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:49 am UTC

bantler wrote:You all have the worst taste.
Open your Spotify and click Artists.
List the bands with the MOST songs in your playlist in descending order.
Break your own ties.
No cheating to be cool.

I do not spotify, so I'll use my iTunes' contents. Lots of recency bias, since I've had CDs a lot longer than I've had iTunes, and I generally rip as I buy.

1. Yuki Kajiura/Kalafina
2. Dream Theater
3. Marillion
4. Nana Mizuki
5. Within Temptation
6. Kokia
7. Epica
8. The Gathering
9. King Crimson
10. Opeth

Looking at my CD collection, if I ripped everything into iTunes, some of the bottom 4 bands might be replaced by Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Caravan, Genesis, Kansas, Magma, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, or Rush. Dream Theater would move to #1 due to repeat songs on various concert bootlegs, but the top 4 would otherwise remain in place in that order. 5 and 6 might drop lower, but wouldn't fall out of the top 10.

Yablo · Postby **Yablo** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:35 pm UTC

Mikeski wrote:Dream Theater would move to #1 due to repeat songs on various concert bootlegs, but the top 4 would otherwise remain in place in that order. 5 and 6 might drop lower, but wouldn't fall out of the top 10.

Oh, man. If we use the Spotify/iTunes method and allow bootlegs, my Top 10 artists are probably all Pearl Jam.

Aiwendil · Postby **Aiwendil** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:29 pm UTC

Restricting this to 'popular' music:

1. The Beatles
2. The Beach Boys
3. Focus
4. Miles Davis
5. The Zombies
6. The Doors
7. Cream
8. John Coltrane
9. The Moody Blues
10. Simon and Garfunkel

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