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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(1) MTV Unplugged (Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots (Hard To Find CD), Alice In Chains, 10,000 Maniacs, Lauryn Hill, Alanis Morissette, Oasis, Neil Young, The Cure (Only on YouTube), Florence and The Machine, Ricky Martin, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton)

(2) Little Feat

(3) 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant

(4) Rolling Stones

(5) Lynyrd Skynyrd

(6) The Cure

(7) The Eagles

(8) Pink Floyd

(9) Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler

(10) Talking Heads

The Eagles

Bruce Springsteen

The Beatles

Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits

Emmy Lou Harris

Jackson Browne 

Charlie Haden

Keith Jarrett

Diana Krall

Mozart

That's ten - and I'm just getting started!

 

I spent 10 min composing this nice list and since I made a great comment about the old days , the starched shirts didn't print it. Pound sand

The all-time most listened to artist in my collection are the Motown house band, The Funk Brothers.  Similar to that, some combination of Chick Corea/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette are on a large number of my post 1965 jazz recordings.

At different times I've immersed myself in any number of artists, but I might not listen to them that much anymore.  I still like them, but they are not in heavy rotation.  Jimi Hendrix, McCoy Tyner, Santana, Wes Montgomery, Dwight Yoakam, Larry Coryell, Jack Bruce and Lush fall into this category.

With the above said, here's my list:

The Band/Robbie Robertson

The Beatles

Elvis Costello

Marshall Crenshaw

Miles Davis

Bob Dylan

Duke Ellington

Stan Getz

John McLaughlin

Joni Mitchell

Rolling Stones

Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry

Steely Dan

Swing Out Sister

Tears For Fears

I would also give a shout out to David Baerwald.