Got to go with the Rolling Stones.
The White Stripes
I’m going to change my answer to Hans Zimmer.
I’ll go with Paul Simon as well.
Although I gave strong consideration to Elvis Costello.
mmm
I mean,if the objective is to be bored to death by easy listening elevator music,I could understand the Pink Floyd and Paul Simon choices.
The very question is a ridiculous one.There isn’t a single artist/band who’s work I could listen to over and over and never get tired of,because eventually you will grow tired of it and even wind up hating it.
Both songs?
Curtis Lowe was the finest picker to ever play the blues.
Vienna Philharmonic.
or Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Miles Davis
His large varied catalogue and assortment of talented players make it a no brainer.
So many excellent choices in so relatively few posts.
It’s made me change my mind. If I can only listen to one artist – just kill me. That would be preferable.
I agree. I’ve been trying to answer this question for a while, but I can’t. In the last week I’ve listened to everything from Skrillex to Hank 3 to Damien Marley to Amon Amarth to the Berlin Philharmonic. I cannot answer this question.
Joni Mitchell.
Second and third choices: Diana Krall and Carol Wellsman.
Carol Who? Well, I fell in love with her.
There would appear to be a certain sameness in my choices.
Jimmy Buffett
I rarely come across anyone who has heard of The Church, letalone likes them. I agree with you about the lyrics; particularly the ones that seem to be about other beings. I love The Disillusionist - very creepy:
They say that he’s famous from the waist down
But the top half of his body is a corpse
His gold won’t buy him sleep
His poverty runs so deep
In winter he cracks, in summer he warps
Without question, The Smiths. A decent size catalogue. The only band I’ve never wavered on even once. I can throw on a Smiths album right now and know that I would be happy to throw another one on right after.
The Cure is my only runner-up.
Tough one, but if it’s “artists”, I think I’d have to say Bernard Sumner as that gets me both Joy Division and New Order with Electronic as a nice bonus. That or Blixa Bargeld, which gets me both Bad Seeds and Einsterzende Neubauten. Robert Smith would get me The Cure and my favourite Siouxie album…
If I had to stick to one group, it’d be Swans.
Their 1988 album, Starfish, was pretty big in the US. “Under The Milky Way” was even a Top 40 hit. I heard a lot of Church on the college radio station back then (WVUA 90.7 ‘The Voice of The Univ. of Alabama!’) 
“Reptile” and “Antenna” were two other great songs on that album. Gold Afternoon Fix is another great album from The Church.
Isn’t it, though? I didn’t want to even answer it, and I haven’t even heard all of The Magnetic Fields’ music yet. They were introduced to me by someone not too long ago. It has been interesting reading all of the responses.
Prince, no question.
John Zorn – incredibly prolific, encompasses a wide range of styles, and leans primarily to the avant garde end of the musical spectrum. Of course it also helps that I’ve been listening to him for 15 years and not only have I not scratched the surface of collecting all the music he has put out, but I also have not NEAR listened to the stuff I do have enough to appreciate all of its multiple levels.