Name the 50 bands or solo artists in this image

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Since the idea seems to be that people will do the searching in this thread, that makes this a Thread Game. Moving.

Well, there is:

War
Men At Work
Barenaked Ladies
A Flock of Seagulls
Black Crowes
The Zombies
Pet Shop Boys
New York Dolls
Crash Test Dummies
Bread
Def Leopard
The Animals
T. Rex
The Commodores

I also see:

Arcade Fire
The War on Drugs
Danger Mouse
Kings of Leon
The Guess Who

The couple fixing the roof on the manger – The Carpenters

-“BB”-

License plate: Van Halen

Oops sorry, always forget about Thread Games! Thanks for moving.

Since I haven’t seen a list of the answers I can also join in…

Level 42 - elf playing on handheld device
Danger Mouse - I think though it’s among other cartoon characters so could be something else
Wet Leg - lady near the front
Embrace
Elbow - the wet legged lady gets albowed by the guy
Doves
Crowded House - at the back

Definitely Danger Mouse; along with Gnarls Barkley, he is half of the band Gnarls Barkley.

Oh and Santas Grotto has a 7 taped to it and the grotto looks like a shed. So: Shed 7

Snoop Dogg (the sign in the pet shop door)

And I assume the Robin is for the singer Robyn

Either or both of which could also be The Byrds

Taylor Swift
Salt-N-Pepa

The line for Santa says “Queue this way only”. In other words, One Direction.
And there’s also a guy eating an ear of Korn.

Is Running with Scissors a band?

I see a lot of Men Without Hats.

Oh, and Santa is the guy in the wanted poster, who appears to have a vulva in place of a nose, but I’m not sure what either of those things means.

They were an early '90s band, though I don’t think they were particularly big.

That’s Tailor, (Swift).

Grateful Dead (dead guy with thank you note)

Or, White Zombie.

Oh, and if we’re going to count Men Without Hats, then I should point out that all of these People appear to be in a Village.

There’s also arguably Madonna, though that usually refers to Mary actually holding Jesus.

And all the assorted birds have Wings. I don’t see any Beatles, though.