Most listened to artist


If you had to guess, which 10 artists have you listened to the most in your lifetime?

Meaning every time you've selected a particular artist's 8-Track, Cassette, LP and CD at home, in your car, at a party, at the beach, wherever.

Mine, in no particular order, would be: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, XTC, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, King Crimson, David Bowie, Brand X.

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In no particular order:

The Cure

Depeche Mode

Delerium

Alex Cortiz

Bob Marley

Skinny Puppy

Steely Dan

Eagles

Bob Seger

Eagles

 

 

 

Lester Young

Duke Ellington

Sun Ra

Miles Davis ( esp. electric stuff)

Bill Evans

Chet Baker

Eno (Mostly 70’s stuff including early Roxy)

Velvet Underground/Lou Reed

BOWIE

Stones

 

 

Genesis (old stuff )

 Pink Floyd

Jethro Tull

Dire Straights / Mark Knopfler

Yes

Grateful Dead

CSNY and their before and afters

Steely Dan

Moody Blues

Jackie Greene

 

 

 

 

 

I will have a very hard time narrowing it down to just 10, since I listen to 3 main genres of music, and each one has bands, musicians, composers that I have probably listened to at nearly equal rates. 

So, I am going to "cheat" (one list per genre):

Prog:

Yes
King Crimson
PFM
Magma
Banco
Gentle Giant
Genesis
Frank Zappa
Univers Zero
Pain of Salvation

Jazz:
John Coltrane
Allan Holdsworth
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Return to Forever
Steve Coleman
Anthony Braxton
McCoy Tyner
Keith Jarrett
Oregon
Jean Luc Ponty


Classical:
Elliott Carter
Joan Tower
Bruno Maderna
Charles Wuorinen
Arnold Schoenberg
Gyorgi Ligeti
Krzysztof Penderecki 
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Kaija Saariaho
 

 

 

 

Pink Floyd

Nirvana

CSN&Y

The Who

Jethro Tull

Smashing Pumpkins

The Doors

Jimi Hendrix

Yes

Aerosmith