My top favorite artists

Cafe Society
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Okay, since it so hard for me to pick my top albums of all time, I will list my top artists. They are in alphabetical order. My favorite changes from day to day.

  1. Tori Amos
  2. Barenaked Ladies
  3. The Beatles
  4. The Clash
  5. Coldplay
  6. Counting Crows
  7. The Doors
  8. Eminem
  9. Jay Farrar
  10. The Flaming Lips
  11. Peter Gabriel
  12. Incubus
  13. Korn
  14. Led Zeppelin
  15. Dave Matthew’s Band
  16. No Doubt
  17. The Offspring
  18. Pear Jam
  19. Pink Floyd
  20. Radiohead
  21. R.E.M.
  22. The Smashing Pumpkins
  23. Bruce Springsteen
  24. Matthew Sweet
  25. Toad the Wet Sprocket
  26. Tool
  27. U2
  28. Paul Westerberg
  29. Wilco
  30. XTC
  31. Frank Zappa
  32. Rob Zombie
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  1. Pablo Picasso
  2. Art Chagal
  3. Henri Matisse
  4. Chuck Jones
  5. Salvador Dali
  6. Claude Monet
  7. Winslow Homer
  8. Norman Rockwell
  9. Frank Frazetta
  10. Boris Vallejo
  11. …oh.

You mean musicians. :slight_smile:

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LOL
Actually, my favorite artist, to use the term the correct way, is Salvadore Dali.
It’s cool 'cos we have a museum of his work not too far from where I live.

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Let’s go for a hundred:

ABBA
Alan Parsons Project
Alice Cooper
Amos, Tori
Beatles
Beck
Belle & Sebastian
Bjork
Bocelli, Andrea
Bowie, David
Bush, Kate
Camel
Carpenters
Chapman, Tracy
China Crisis
Clannad
Cockney Rebel (with Steve Harley)
Cockteau Twins
Cohen, Leonard
Coldplay
Cranberries
Croce, Jim
Die Toten Hosen
Dire Straits
Doors
Duran Duran
Eagles
Earth and Fire
ELO
Eno, Brian
Enya
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Ferry, Bryan
Fischer Z
Fleetwood Mac
Focus
Gabriel, Peter
Garbage
Gathering
Genesis
Golden Earring
Groot, Boudewijn de
Harvey, PJ
Hot Chocolate
Ian, Janis
Jackson, Joe
Japan
Joel, Billy
John, Elton
Kayak
Lighthouse Family
Long, Robert
MacCartney, Paul (+Wings)
Madness
Manfred Manns Earth Band
Marillion
Martha and the Muffins
McKennit, Loreena
McLachlan, Sarah
McLean, Don
Meatloaf
Merchant, Nathalie
Nena
Oasis
O’Connor, Sinead
Pink Floyd
Placebo
Portishead
Queen
Radiohead
REM
Renaissance
Roxy Music
Rush
Sade
Sailor
Simon and Garfunkel
Simon, Paul
Slade
Smiths
Spandau Ballet
Steely Dan
Stewart, Al
Sting
Suede (London Suede)
Supertramp
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Ten CC
Ten thousand maniacs
Tengger
The The
U2
Uriah Heep
Volumia!
Waits, Tom
Waterboys
Wong, Faye
Yes

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I’ll do my top few musicians (or groups) (in no particular order, except for the first one) because I could go on, and on, and on…

the four boys of U2
Tori Amos
Joan Osborne
Stevie Wonder
The Beatles
Fiona Apple
B.B. King
Anita Miller-Reider (flutist)
Patsy Cline
Roberta Flack
Paula Robison (flutist)
Gil Shaham (violinist)
Matt Chamberlain

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  1. Tool
  2. A Perfect Circle
  3. Pearl Jam
  4. Pink Floyd
  5. REM

After that, it gets pretty difficult to narrow it down. And since someone else mentioned arts, no one can touch Van Gogh in my mind.

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And speaking of art:

  1. My wife :slight_smile:
  2. Marc
  3. van Gogh
  4. Monet
  5. Sisley
  6. Munch
  7. Macke
  8. Pissarro
  9. Lempicka
  10. Turner
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May we mix genres?

Marc Chagall
Duke Ellington
Vladimir Nabokov
Miles Davis
Ludwig van Beethoven
Pieter Brueghel
Wallace Stevens
André Kertesz
Thelonious Monk
Steve Lacy
Branford Marsalis
Ani DiFranco
Edward Tufte
Eric Dolphy
Johann Sebastian Bach
Elliott Erwitt
Mary Ellen Mark
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Music!

Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel
Happy Rhodes
Jane Siberry
Jeff Buckley
Tori Amos
Sarah McLachlan
Mary Margaret O’Hara
Noe Venable
Sheila Chandra
Eddi Reader
Kirsty MacColl
Victoria Williams
Rufus Wainwright
Cocteau Twins
Dead Can Dance
(among others)