Nirvana - Kurt Cobain mentioned Freddie Mercury in his suicide note. I love Queen.
Cyndi Lauper - The song “Time After Time.”
Elvis, he’s dead.
I don’t like Led Zeppelin that much, but I gotta give em props - they knew how to rock out at times. And that kick-ass drum beat the Beastie’s sampled in Rhymin’ and Stealin’.
Justin Timberlake’s response to getting water bottles thrown at him at ‘SARS-Stock’: ‘Hey, I don’t blame you…If I was here to see AC/DC, I wouldn’t want to see me, either.’
Avril Lavigne… hmmm, nope, to hard. Nevermind
Prince, while I view him as a pretentious mincing wanker, I’ve heard that he directs a substantial portion of his profits towards discovering and developing new talent. Does anyone have confirmation of this?
Eminem - I can’t help it, I dig his voice and the rhythm and, dare I say, intelligence (when he’s not being a misogynistic homophobic advocate of violence) of his lyrics.
Brian May of Queen built his own guitar as a school project…and he still plays it today…
Gene Simmons was born in my home town of Haifa, Israel.
I may hate Barry Manilow, but we both like jazz.
The Grateful Dead often serve as a gateway to introduce people to music that is much better than their own.
Avril Lavigne is less annoying than the Spice Girls were (I know, damning with faint praise.)
The White Stripes - I hate everything about them but their music.
A lot of “smooth jazz” musicians were great session musicians.
Avril Lavigne and I share French ancestry (and, possibly, French-Canadian ancestry).
Michael Jackson had one great song IMHO, “Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough”.
REO Speedwagon are the biggest wimp-rock top-40 pussies ever! But “You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish” is hilarious!
“Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat. When I heard this on the radio for the first time, I thought it was a new Cure song, and that, “Damn, The Cure sure are Rockin’ these days”. Well, I later found out who it was, so I bought the album. FUCK…this is the biggest piece of shit album I’ve bought since the Buttholes’ Electric Larryland. “Bandages” still rocks though. If I was Robert Smith, I’d sue the bastards:dubious:
Jon
I detest Rush – but the drummer was exceptional.
Ditto on Prince. Not my cup of tea, but there is something about that beat…
I’d do Avril Lavigne.
What’d Cobain say about Freddie Mercury?
My official policy is that I don’t like the Rolling Stones, but they’ve got more good songs than any other band I don’t like, and more than some bands I do like (I’m especially fond of Gimme Shelter and Can’t You Hear Me Knocking). 
Marley, I know what you mean! Every Stones album has like two or three really great songs. The other twelve bite the big one!
Avril Lavigne’s pathetic lost-little-teen-rebel image is so darn cute.
My friend covered Poison’s Cry Tough and it was actually a darned good song.