Favorite music artists A-Z

[ButterflyBlood]

pick your favorite that begins with every letter of the alphabet

As Friends Rust
Blink 182
Cadillac Blindside
Death Cab For Cutie
Evergreen
Fugazi
Grade
Hot Cross
Indian Summer
Jimmy Eat World
Khayembii Communique
Lifetime
Modest Mouse
Nirvana
Orchid
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Q and not U
Rites of Spring
Slint
Thursday
Under a Dying Sun
Vida Blue (I'm actually cheating here because they changed their name after some Phish guy started a side project called the same thing, but I can't think of another V)
Waxwing
xLimpWristx
You and I
Zann

[bbernardini]

1. Mine:

I might need one or two per letter (yes, it's cheating, but I'm all about pushing the envelope):

Asia, Atom and His Package
Beatles, Jim Boggia
Cheap Trick
Stuart Davis, Dogbowl
ELP
Robert Fripp
Kevin Gilbert, Genesis
The Hooters
Joe Jackson
Mike Keneally, Kramer, King Crimson, King Missile
Liquid Tension Experiment
Bob Mould, Moxy Fruvous
Negativland
Parliament-Funkadelic, Pink Floyd, Primus
Queensryche
Radiohead, Todd Rundgren, Rush
The Samples, Status Quo
The Tubes, Trout Fishing In America
Utopia, U.K., Rick Wakeman, The Who
XTC
Yes
Frank Zappa

[tigereye]

2. wow took a while to think of a Q!

Geri Allen
Beatles, Don Byron
Clash, Elvis Costello
Miles Davis, Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
Ella Fitzgerald, Fugazi
Go-Gos, Green Day
Billie Holiday
Indigo Girls
Joe Jackson
KRS-1
L-7, Luna
Midnight Oil, Carmen McRae, Moxy Fruvous
New York Dolls
Sinead O'Connor
Police, Tom Petty
Queen Ida (zydeco)
Ramones, REM
Patti Smith, Scrawl
Talking Heads
U2
Velvet Underground
Lucinda Williams, The Who
X (the band)
Neil Young, Yes
Zap Mama

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Hm.

Afghan Whigs
Bassholes
John freakin' Coltrane
Bob Dylan
Ego Summit
The Fall
Great Plains
Mississippi John Hurt
Ice-T
Jane's Addiction
Kraftwerk
Love
MC5
Neutral Milk Hotel
Yoko Ono
The Pixies
Suzi Quatro
The Rolling motherfuckin' Stones
The Stooges
Television
The United States of America
The Velvet Underground
Wire
X
The Yardbirds
John Zorn

[ForrestGump]

4. Hmmmm....

Louis Armstrong
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Doobie Brothers
Eagles
Aretha Franklin
Al Green
Lightnin' Hopkins
The Isley Brothers
Elton John
KC & The Sunshine Band
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Randy Newman
Roy Orbison
Elvis Presley
Queen
Otis Redding
Bob Seger
Three Dog Night
U2
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jackie Wilson
Weird Al Yankovic
ZZ Top

Missing just the 'X'...always good to have an X-factor.

[Rationality]

5. My, like, favorite bands, and stuff

hmm...

311
40 Below Summer
American Head Charge
Cold
Deftones
Dry Kill Logic
Finger Eleven
Jane's Addiction
Korn (shaddup, I don't care what you say!)
Massive Attack
Ministry
Mushroomhead
Nine Inch Nails
Nothingface
Orbital
Queens of the Stone Age
Rob Zombie/White Zombie
Skrape
Soil
Stone Temple Pilots (Glide is one of my favorite songs, all-time)
The Crystal Method
Tool