What are your top ten favorite musical acts?

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:35 am

It can be of all-time or it can be of only artists that are still making music today. Just specify.

Those two are probably pretty much the same for me.

south pacific · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:57 am

Dude, I can't do that. It's too hard.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:59 am

alongwaltz Wrote:

It can be of all-time or it can be of only artists that are still making music today. Just specify.

Those two are probably pretty much the same for me.

Well, what are they?

Mick · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:04 am

someone should make this a sticky that gets reset/wiped clean every week, since someone starts this exact thread every week anyway...

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:10 am

County
The Starkville Motel
Attica
Sing Sing
Alcatraz
Rykers
Folsom
San Quentin
Supermax
That Plastic Prison Radcliffe Posts from

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:51 am

mclusky
faith no more
jeff buckley
sam cooke
jawbreaker
slayer
public enemy
del
guitar wolf

and after tonight...

jamie lidell

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

My badly wounded brain has other things to think about right now but top would be Sonic Youth with King Creosote, Belle & Sebastian, Lightning Bolt, Mogwai, Morrissey, Nina Nastasia, Radiohead, Roots Manuva and The White Stripes all up there.

daystar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 pm **Posts:** 3298

ani difranco
wilco
pavement
the grateful dead
the talking heads
bob dylan
the beatles
phish
the beastie boys
prince
built to spill

gauchebag · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:55 am

wilco
radiohead
talking heads
brian eno
beatles
i'll come up with more later

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:45 am

Wire
The Clash
Velvet Underground
The Kinks
Built to Spill
Neil Young
The Feelies
Miles Davis
Sonny Rollins
Bill Evans

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:47 am

I've been trying to think it over lately because I always come up with what I feel is my definitive list and then I realise I forgot someone.

I think it would be:

1. Belle And Sebastian
2. Guster
3. Eels
4. Rilo Kiley
5. The Lowest of The Low
6. The Smiths
7. Lisa Loeb
8. The Weakerthans
9. Stars
10. Hawksley Workman

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:

Sing Sing

<===lived in Ossining for five years. Rode through "the yard" twice a day when I commuted to the city.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:48 am

Bobbing for Turds
Denimenema
Johnny Taint and the Cans of Piss
The Christ Punchers

Borg166 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:02 pm

New Radicals
Massive Attack
Peter Gabriel
Timbaland
Brian Eno
Basement Jaxx
Prince
Steve Roach
Kanye West
Mansun

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:06 pm

Oh all-time, in no particular order (off the toppa me head):

Beatles
Kinks
Hank Williams
Nick Lowe
Shrimp Boat
Wire
Prince
Gram Parsons
Los Lobos
Hüsker Dü

and... Willie Nelson's gotta be in there somewhere, too.

Modem · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:40 pm

Fu Wrote:

The Christ Punchers

After some beers and a game of pool, the club gets down to business.

Homer: The first meeting of Hell's Satans is called to order.
Ned: I move we reconsider our club name. Make it something a
little less blasphemous. After all, [chuckles] we don't
want to go to Hell.
Lenny: How about the Devil's Pals?
Ned: No.
Moe: The Christ Punchers.
Ned: The Christ ... I, I don't think you understand my
objection.
Homer: I'm the president the decision is mine. We're Hell's
Satans! Besides, I already made our club jackets. [holds
up a light blue windbreaker with "Hell's Satans" crudely
written on it, then passes them out to the gang]

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I'm surprised to see Prince on 4 lists so far. Surprised both because while he's good, he ain't that good plus the pick seems like a strange token r&b pick (and not a really great one) when looking over the rest of the list.

Its kind of like seeing a list:

Marvin Gaye
Curtis Mayfield
Funkadelic
Al Green
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Sly & the Family Stone
Mavis Staples
Syl Johnson
Rancid

Again, not that Rancid isn't a good band but it doesn't really fit on that list and if someone were to like only one punk band, why would it be Rancid?

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

billy g Wrote:

I'm surprised to see Prince on 4 lists so far. Surprised both because while he's good, he ain't that good plus the pick seems like a strange token r&b pick (and not a really great one) when looking over the rest of the list.

Its kind of like seeing a list:

Marvin Gaye
Curtis Mayfield
Funkadelic
Al Green
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Sly & the Family Stone
Mavis Staples
Syl Johnson
Rancid

Again, not that Rancid isn't a good band but it doesn't really fit on that list and if someone were to like only one punk band, why would it be Rancid?

being a fan of prince is more like being a fan of Frank Zappa than Al Green.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

jewels santana Wrote:

being a fan of prince is more like being a fan of Frank Zappa than Al Green.

I don't really buy that although I don't think there is much similar to most al green and prince and wasn't trying to imply there was with my own made up list

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

billy g Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

being a fan of prince is more like being a fan of Frank Zappa than Al Green.

I don't really buy that although I don't think there is much similar to most al green and prince and wasn't trying to imply there was with my own made up list

Prince is very very much a soul artist (i'm not trying to "steal" him as hip hop fans used to say of tribe called quest) but the way he acts as an artist with jumping around different sounds, being an eccentric, having a huge library of songs and such . . . i think that draws non-soul fans in.

and he's amazing, and i think many would argue that he's better than everyone on your list (though neither me or prince would argue that)
and also he is an amazing live performer and i can never see Otis Redding live because god is a jerk.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

and your comment just remeinded me of something that cracks me up.
whenver interviewers ask rappers if they listen to rock, they always say stuff like:

"aw hell yeah, i love all that shit. Staid is my band man."

paladisiac · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:47 pm

genesis
radiohead
prince
nirvana
bowie
pumpkins
wilco

that's a good start

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

as for my list (in no order)

beatles
rolling stones
wilco
pavement
otis redding
jay z
bob dylan
neil young
cam'ron
brand nubian

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

jewels santana Wrote:

and he's amazing, and i think many would argue that he's better than everyone on your list (though neither me or prince would argue that)

Apparently there's 4 people here who would. I didn't put much thought into my list. While I personally think they are all better than Prince, it was intended to be soul/funk/r&b names that people would recognize more than the absolute best or ones similar to prince.

I'm just surprised that people dig prince that much and then there seems to be so little interest in soul and funk in general. I kinda get that he would be a gateway act with more automatic appeal/exposure to indie rock fans, but to like him that much? and even more to like him that much and then not really dig that deep into soul/funk/r&b? I don't get it.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:29 pm

Senator NMI LooGAR Wrote:

County
The Starkville Motel
Attica
Sing Sing
Alcatraz
Rykers
Folsom
San Quentin
Supermax
That Plastic Prison Radcliffe Posts from

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