[danmarzella]

1. The Beatles
2. Michael Jackson
3. OutKast
4. Kate Bush
5. Pink Floyd
6. Electric Light Orchestra
7. Billy Joel
8. Prince
9. Jamiroquai
10. Matchbox Twenty

What about you guys?

[badseed]

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2. The Birthday Party
3. Grinderman
4. Einstürzende Neubauten
5. Mick Harvey
6. Rowland S. Howard
7. Dirty Three
8. The Boys Next Door
9. Die Haute & Nick Cave
10. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

11. (tie) Radiohead / Matchbox 20

[AfterHours]

Probably:

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Johann Sebastian Bach
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Dmitri Shostakovich
5. Franz Schubert
6. Johannes Brahms
7. Gustav Mahler
8. Charles Mingus
9. Olivier Messiaen
10. John Coltrane

Note: Rock artists would start appearing a little bit further down.
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[AfterHours]

Top 10 Artists (Rock and Jazz only) would go something like:

1. Charles Mingus
2. John Coltrane
3. Captain Beefheart
4. The Velvet Underground
5. Anthony Davis
6. Tim Buckley
7. Klaus Schulze
8. Miles Davis
9. Cecil Taylor
10. Robert Wyatt

Several others that could be on there instead of some of those listed, such as (for Rock) Bob Dylan, Faust, Pere Ubu, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Lisa Germano, Can, Popol Vuh, Van Morrison, Red House Painters, Joanna Newsom, and (for Jazz) Sam Rivers, Roscoe Mitchell, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, Keith Jarrett, Albert Ayler, Marion Brown, Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Spring Heel Jack...
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[Fischman]

ROCK:
Rush
Moody Blues
Kinks
Kansas
Dream Theater
Black Sabbath
Jethro Tull
Blackfoot
Blue Oyster Cult
Triumph

JAZZ:
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Wes Montgomery
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Pat Martino
Grant Green
John Coltrane
Mahavishnu Orchestra
McCoy Tyner
Oscar Peterson

BLUES:
Buddy Guy
Albert Collins
Son Seals
Johnny Winter
Albert King
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Muddy Waters
Jimmy Johnson
Howlin' Wolf
Michael Burks

CLASSICAL:
F. J. Haydn
Beethoven
J. S. Bach
Dvorak
Brahms
Mozart
Martinu
Piston
Janacek
Neilsen

[Jimmy Dread]

Monet
Manet
The bloke who painted The Scream
Liechtenstein (not the country)
Rothko
Rembrandt
Russellbrandt
Boney M
and both Proclaimers

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[craola]

Adam Taylor
Balam Acab
Bjork
The Blue Nile
Burial
Charles Mingus
Cocteau Twins
Greg Simkins
Inka Essenhigh
Radiohead
Robin Yannoukos
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Slowdive
Susanne Sundfor
Telefon Tel Aviv
Venetian Snares

maybe today anyway.
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[AfterHours]

Aha!

Well then:

1. Michelangelo Buonarroti
2. Hieronymus Bosch
3. Gustav Klimt
4. Salvador Dali
5. Werner Tubke
6. Max Ernst
7. Leonardo Da Vinci
8. Pieter Bruegel
9. Rembrandt van Rijn
10. Vincent Van Gogh

(Also, each of the following were strongly considered and could be convincingly argued to replace some of those: Peter Paul Rubens, Pablo Picasso, Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Piero della Francesca, Diego Velazquez, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Claude Monet, Jan Van Eyck ... Several others would fall just below those as well)

And, to preempt the inevitable film lists:

1. Orson Welles
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Fritz Lang
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Theo Angelopoulos
7. Bela Tarr
8. Lars Von Trier
9. David Lynch
10. Akira Kurosawa

(Also, each of the following were strongly considered and could be convincingly argued to replace some of those: Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Sam Peckinpah, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Robert Altman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Peter Greenaway, Elia Kazan, Jean Renoir, F.W. Murnau, Josef Von Sternberg, Yasujiro Ozu ... Several others would fall just below those as well)
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