SJ.com's Greatest Musical Artists of All-Time List

Greatest (as in influential) - not favorites. I think Grand Master Flash as the start of rap/hip hop - even though it sounds nothing like what he did. Patsy Cline in part because I wanted another woman on the list and another genre.

 

I have yet to see Fergie mentioned.

 

Favorite is much more fun than greatest/influential. Where's the fun in putting together the kind of list you would compile at work. Yawn.

 

Problem with doing one of favorites is there wouldn't be much diversity. I listen to classic rock, with occasional forays into blues and alt rock, to the exclusion of most everything else. Here's how a list of my 20 favorite artists would look:

1. Grateful Dead
2. The Who
3. Rolling Stones
4. The Beatles
5. Neil Young
6. The Doors
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Jimi Hendrix
9. Allman Brothers Band
10. REM
11. Pink Floyd
12. Bob Dylan
13. Bruce Springsteen
14. Stevie Ray Vaughan
15. The Byrds
16. Cream
17. Little Feat
18. Traffic
19. Pearl Jam
20. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

 

Well, I have similar tastes, albert, but my list would look pretty different. Plus, you have posters who gravitate toward all kinds of music. I'm pretty sure I'd discover a number of bands if we went down the favorites road. The other road? Repetitive and boring. Like driving down 75 and seeing the same adult bookstore billboards for 8 straight hours.

 

YGTHRMEW wants to make sure there is no hip-hop in this.

 

Since it's 20 greatest, including all of the 20th century, all genres, and setting personal tastes aside, I'm going to have to sleep on it and compile a list sometime tomorrow.

 

Actually, dipshit, by doing lists of favorites, you'd get bands/artists across the musical spectrum. Much less diversity the other way.

 

God bless you.

 

Bob Marley? Dammit. I might have to revise my list.

 

I don't think I could a rank a top 20 by favorites.

 

Includes solo careers of band members...

1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Beatles
3. Rolling Stones
4. Pink Floyd
5. The Who
6. Guns N Roses
7. Bob Dylan
8. Pearl Jam
9. Metallica
10. U2

Not in order...

11. Beastie Boys
12. Jay-Z
13. Tom Petty
14. Bruce Springsteen
15. Eric Clapton
16. Nirvana
17. Jimi Hendrix
18. The Pixies
19. White Stripes
20. Rush
21. AC/DC
22. Black Sabbath
23. NWA
24. Aerosmith
25. The Ramones
26. Queen
27. The Kinks