DU favorite music artist poll

[mvd]

Please limit your favorites to 50 for purposes of the poll. If you don't have a large music collection, it would be best to pick fewer of course.

Here are mine, by genre. I enjoy some artists as much as these, but I tried to go by overall body of work (like has been doing great stuff for a while, has a special style, or I know the artist better:)

Big Band -

Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, Bing Crosby

Country/alt-country -

Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Alan Jackson, Steve Earle, Alison Krauss, Dixie Chicks, Kasey Chambers, George Strait

Pop -

The Corrs, Abba, Michelle Branch, Madonna, Elton John

Folk -

Peter Paul & Mary

Motown/soul -

Smokey Robinson, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes

Rock -

The Beatles, Elvis, Rolling Stones, Simon And Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Beach Boys, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, The Bangles, The Go Gos, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M, U2, Jayhawks, Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, Barenaked Ladies, New Pornographers, Kay Hanley/Letters To Cleo, Abra Moore, Sarah McLachlan, Hole/Courtney Love

New Age -

Loreena McKennitt

[mvd]

1. kick

It's been a while since everyone participated. :kick:

[MAlibdem]

2. Ok...

Weezer

The Clash

The Strokes

The Hives

Dispatch

Dropkick Murphys

Social Distortion

FenixTx

Black 47

Green Day

Less Than Jake

Phantom Planet


many more...all I can think of at the moment (in a serious weezer phase at the moment)

[terrya]

3. Mine:

Diana Krall

Pat Metheny

David Sanborn

Barbra Streisand

Josh Groban

Joni Mitchell

ABBA

Classical: Mahler, Mozart, Copland, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, Vaughn Williams

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. I think Loreena is more "Celtic" than "New Age"

Just for purposes of classification....

I've never figured it out-- is it pronounced "Seltic" or "Keltic"?

[mvd]

5. She always struck me as a mixture

So I put her as new age. I think it's pronounced Keltic. :shrug:

[bif]

6. Either way is acceptable.

Althopugh I usually say "Keltic." I think the ancient people called themselves "Kelts".

[derby378]

7. Here's some of mine

Rock
Baboon, Pearl Jam, Nirvana

Metal/Punk
Metallica (pre-90s), Black Flag, Minor Threat, Ozzy Osbourne (especially with Randy Rhoads)

Rap/Hip-Hop
Public Enemy, Run-DMC

Techno (all genres)
Chemical Brothers, Lenny Dee, Ed Rush & Optical, Disciples of Annihilation, Richie Hawtin, Future Sound of London, DJ Narotic vs. UVC, Ultraviolence vs. Hellsau, almost anything on SoundCore (Total Science, Black Sun Empire, etc.)

Jazz
Dave Brubeck, Jacky Terrason, Naked City, Norah Jones

Country/Folk
Dixie Chicks, Amy Rigby, Robert Earl Keen, Josh Alan Friedman, John Gorka, Cooder Graw

Classical
Bartok, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mosolov, Barber, Varese

Everything Else
Negativland, Laibach (older stuff), Boredoms, Skinny Puppy

[Catholic Sensation]

8. mine

Hip-Hop/Rap: Eminem and Snoop Dogg
Classic Rock: Queen
Modern Rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Folk: Bob Dylan

[Whitacre D_WI]

9. Here's fifty.

It was tough paring it down. Anyway, alphabetically:

Mose Allison, Bassholes, The Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Big Star, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, James Brown, Can, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, any Billy Childish effort (Milkshakes, Mighty Caesars, Headcoats, Buff Medways), The Clash, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, John Fahey, The Fall, Freakwater, Serge Gainsbourg, Marvin Gaye, Gibson Bros., The Gories, Great Plains, Skip James, Jane's Addiction, Love, The MC5, Charles Mingus, Mott the Hoople, My Bloody Valentine, Yoko Ono, Charley Patton, The Pixies, Elvis Presley, The Pretenders, Prince, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Jim Shepard, Sly and the Family Stone, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Television, Doris Troy, The Velvet Underground, Hank Williams (*ahem*. SENIOR), Wire, Stevie Wonder.

[mvd]

10. I admit that my list can change..

just like my crush list and my other lists I do in my leisure time can, and I admit that I had ties (I also love Dido, Cindy Alexander, Cheap Trick, and Alanis for example.) But 50 is a good sample without going on and on. :-)

[sarahbellum]

11. fairly small

the beatles, the rolling stones, the clash, the who, the velvet underground, pink floyd, nirvana, elliot smith, csny, neil young, the ramones, solo john lennon, weezer...

there are probably others but i have an exceedingly poor memory.

[tigerbeat]

12. ok, no particular order

xtc, the beatles, talking heads, elvis costello, the who, the loud family, bob mould, rem, the db's, let's active, semisonic, liz phair, prince, david bowie, todd rundgren, joni mitchell, the police, the b-52's, tori amos, pavement, roxy music, the clash, ella fitzgerald, the disposable heroes of hiphoprosy, billy bragg, radiohead, badfinger, pink floyd, marvin gaye, bob dylan, the dream syndicate, jellyfish, the posies, yes, neil young, teenage fanclub, public enemy, stereolab, cat stevens, new order, the raspberries, led zeppelin, the beach boys, george clinton, the pixies, nirvana, the flaming lips, queen, sinead o'connor, the velvet underground

[Insider]

13. forty-something

dance/house/club -
sylvester, eddy grant, peech boys, colonel abrams, joycelyn brown, first choice, cece peniston, gwen guthrie, sharon brown, sharon redd, loleatta holloway, loose ends, soul II soul, grace jones, ten city, gino soccio, giorgio moroder

female vocals -
anita baker, phyllis hyman, patti austin, patti labelle, rachelle ferrell, chaka khan, phoebe snow, vanessa williams, mary j. blige, india arie, mikki howard

??? -
stevie wonder, michael jackson, quincy jones, sounds of blackness, the mills brothers, ashford & simpson, steel pulse, third world

jazzy -
earl klugh, bob james, wes montgomery, donald byrd, george benson, joe sample, wally badarou, level 42

rap/hiphop -
eric b. & rakim, kool moe dee, lauryn hill

[Cursive_Knives512]

14. I love anything KRS

My faves:

Anti-Flag, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, the Distillers, the Donnas, Elliott Smith, Heavens to Betsy, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre, Poe, Save Ferris, Sleater-Kinney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Anything with powerful and "big" female vocals, really (my two exceptions being Anti-Flag and Elliott Smith).

[tigereye]

15. wow tough call

Jazz: Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughn, Don Byron, Geri Allen, Marian McPartland, Dexter Gordon, Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Thelonius Monk

Folk: Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, Lucinda Williams,Leonard Cohen, Garcia and Grisman, Dylan, Odetta

Punk/Rock: The Clash, Ramones, Yo La Tengo, Green Day, Robyn Hitchcock
Joan Jett, REM, Rolling Stones (early stuff), Patti Smith, Scrawl, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Moxy Fruvous, Midnight Oil, Chris Stamey, Brian Eno, B-52s, Bad Religion

Eclectic: Captain Beefheart, Tuvan singing, Bulgarian State Women's Choir, Ofra Haza,Zap Mama, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Brave Combo

Rap/Jamaican Linton Kwesi Johnson, KRS-1, Bob Marley, The Skatalites

Blues: Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Dylan

New and trendy: The Dandy Warhols, Jet ( guilty pleasure and all the 70s hooks you can stand)

Renaissance: Anonymous 4, Paul Odette

[jus_the_facts]

16. here's a sample o'my cd's...in no particular order....

Black Sabbath
Ozzy solo
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Rainbow
Pink Floyd
Metallica
Tesla
Ratt
Cinderella
Cheap Trick
Fleetwood Mac
Heart
Rollin'Stones
Gov't Mule
April Wine
Guns'n'Roses
Great White
Aerosmith
Queensryche
Van Halen
NickelBack
Prince
Alice Cooper
Triumph
Beastie Boys
Elvis
Dio
Iron Maiden
Helix
Dokken
Slaughter
Robin Trower
Badlands
The Gap Band
Cameo
Earth Wind 'n'Fire
Oasis
ELO
Motorhead
AC/DC
Steely Dan
Bread
John Lennon
Beatles
Black Crowes
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
ZZTop
Nazareth

....eh that's a few of the artists in my collection! :headbang:

[jus_the_facts]

17. AND.....my essential...JIMI HENDRIX......

.....how could I forget my JIMI?! x(

[mvd]

18. You just reminded me of CCR

They should be in my top 50.. but it's late and I don't feel like tinkering with the list. I could also live with Tom Petty being in. The list is really more of a sample anyway. Thanks for the reminders! :hi:

[jus_the_facts]

19. Anytime sweetie...

.....sweet dreams!! :*