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purple





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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 02:04
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Sure, we've got a website where we can show everyone else our favorite albums, but I want to see everyone's top 10 favorite artists. I can tell alot of people's favorites from their charts obviously, but I'm interested in the not so obvious artists that will show up in people's top 10.

My main motive for this is to explore artists that are grouped with artists I like in peoples' charts here. Please put the full ten (and no more, so you really have to narrow it down) so everyone's chart doesn't look like "The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, The Clash." And, doesn't have to be in order.

My Top Ten (in no order)
The Stooges
Joy Division
Nirvana
Sonic Youth
Velvet Underground
The Clash
Black Flag
PJ Harvey
Wire
The Pixies
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purple





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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 02:08
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Fuck, that looks like a generic alternative chart. Hopefully your charts will have some lesser known acts.
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Mr. Shankly



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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 03:22
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Well, all of mine are represented on my chart, but they are as follows:

The Beatles
The Who
The Kinks
R.E.M.
The Smiths
The Velvet Underground
Elvis Costello
Guided by Voices
Belle and Sebastian
Bob Dylan

mostly mainstream too.
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40footwolf



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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 04:28
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My ten favorite? That's tough, but I gotta say:

The Who
Modest Mouse
The Kinks
Black Sabbath
Motorhead
Rage Against The Machine
Led Zeppelin
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
King Crimson
Bob Dylan

Notable runners-up include Judas Priest, Genesis, The Pogues, The Flaming Lips, The Replacements, Talking Heads, Metallica, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. To answer your next question, yeah, I'm kind of big classic rock guy Razz
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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 05:02
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A list, or, My 3 eternally favorite.
NIRVANA Applause
GARBAGE Drool
SMASHING PUMPKINS Dancing

B list. Question
FRANK SINATRA Boo hoo!
DINOSAUR JR.
SCREAMING TREES
CHERI MAGILL
JEWEL
HEART
PINK FLOYD Brick wall

LEAST favorite d'oh!
Tom Petty
David Byrne.
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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 05:36
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Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
The Beatles
The Clash
The Kinks
The Rolling Stones
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Norman Bates



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  • Posted: 11/21/2009 06:16
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Nick Drake
The Beatles
The Smiths
Will Oldham (a.k.a Palace Brothers, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
Robert Wyatt
Cat Power
The Velvet Underground
John Coltrane
Portishead
Leila


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Only recently have I heard of Wilham, and then I saw his album I see a Darkness" on pitchfork's 90s list. What does that album sound like, Bates, and is that one your favorite?
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Norman Bates



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Well, purple, I See A Darkness sounds a little bit like this :


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My favourite song from the album, which is not my favourite LP, but still is excellent. Oldham's music is generally very melancholy, but at times he can rock as well (as on "Work Hard/Play Hard" on Palace Music's Viva Last Blues).


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When I have to explain what Oldham sounds like, I generally say he's the Neil Young of my generation, his americana covers pretty much the range Neil's does. Country, folk, blues or rock at times, generally lo-fi in the 90s, more orchestrated these days.

My favorite Will Oldham albums :

The Palace Brothers, There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1993)
The Palace Brothers, Days In the Wake (1994)
Will Oldham, Joya (1997)
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Superwolf (2003)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, The Letting Go (2006)
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Mine's easy. In chronological order:

Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Genesis (with Gabriel only)
Midnight Oil
Tragically Hip
Cotton Mather
Negro Problem

Those acts were my faves at those times even tho other bands might have come in second or third.

Now, maybe Andrew Bird.
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