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Your Favorite Artists of All Time!

Rank	Artist	Buy Music
1	Radiohead
2	The Beatles
3	The Clash
4	Pixies
5	Bob Dylan
6	Led Zeppelin
7	Arcade Fire
8	David Bowie
9	Nirvana
10	The Smiths
11	Johnny Cash
12	Bob Marley and the Wailers
13	The Cure
14	The Rolling Stones
15	Wilco
16	Neil Young
17	R.E.M
18	U2
19	Modest Mouse
20	Pink Floyd
21	Elliott Smith
22	Pearl Jam
23	Jimi Hendrix
24	Beck
25	Talking Heads
26	Tom Waits
27	Joy Division
28	The Velvet Underground
29	Beastie Boys
30	The White Stripes
31	Death Cab For Cutie
32	Neko Case
33	The Replacements
34	Built To Spill
35	The National
36	New Order
37	Bjork
38	Pavement
39	The Ramones
40	Miles Davis
41	The Flaming Lips
42	Sonic Youth
43	Prince
44	The Decemberists
45	Depeche Mode
46	Sigur Ros
47	Belle & Sebastian
48	Sufjan Stevens
49	Neutral Milk Hotel
50	Elvis Costello
51	Queen
52	LCD Soundsystem
53	Michael Jackson
54	Bruce Springsteen
55	Jeff Buckley
56	The Who
57	Iggy and the Stooges
58	Yeah Yeah Yeahs
59	Public Enemy
60	The Beach Boys
61	Animal Collective
62	The Shins
63	James Brown
64	Yo La Tengo
65	The Kinks
66	Fugazi
67	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
68	Spoon
69	The Black Keys
70	My Morning Jacket
71	Nine Inch Nails
72	A Tribe Called Quest
73	The Doors
74	Smashing Pumpkins
75	Marvin Gaye
76	Leonard Cohen
77	Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst
78	Iron & Wine
79	Band of Horses
80	PJ Harvey
81	X
82	Daft Punk
83	Stevie Wonder
84	XTC
85	Nick Drake
86	Fleet Foxes
87	Willie Nelson
88	Bon Iver
89	Soundgarden
90	The New Pornographers
91	Ella Fitzgerald
92	Nina Simone
93	Massive Attack
94	Brian Eno
95	John Coltrane
96	Jane's Addiction
97	John Lennon
98	Phoenix
99	Broken Social Scene
100	Wu Tang Clan
101	The Police
102	Elvis Presley
103	Morrissey
104	Aretha Franklin
105	Andrew Bird
106	Van Morrison
107	Portishead
108	Otis Redding
109	Paul Simon
110	Beirut
111	Yeasayer
112	Weezer
113	Guided By Voices
114	TV on the Radio
115	Interpol
116	The Roots
117	Magnetic Fields
118	Ryan Adams
119	Husker Du
120	Sleater-Kinney
121	AC/DC
122	My Bloody Valentine
123	Sunny Day Real Estate
124	Outkast
125	Cloud Cult
126	Gorillaz
127	Echo & The Bunnymen
128	The Mountain Goats
129	The Avett Brothers
130	Big Star
131	Violent Femmes
132	They Might Be Giants
133	Cat Power
134	Blue Scholars
135	Silversun Pickups
136	Kraftwerk
137	Coldplay
138	Cocteau Twins
139	Woody Guthrie
140	Vampire Weekend
141	The Tallest Man on Earth
142	Sam Cooke
143	Black Sabbath
144	The Sex Pistols
145	The Band
146	The Strokes
147	The Jam
148	The Hold Steady
149	Billy Holiday
150	Simon and Garfunkel
151	Patti Smith
152	M.I.A.
153	Jay-Z
154	Hank Williams
155	Drive-By Truckers
156	Curtis Mayfield
157	Billy Bragg
158	The Thermals
159	Television
160	Kings Of Leon
161	Buddy Holly
162	Metallica
163	The XX
164	Stereolab
165	Kate Bush
166	Peter Gabriel
167	Michael Franti & Spearhead
168	Postal Service
169	Queens of the Stone Age
170	Muse
171	Grizzly Bear
172	DeVotchKa
173	Fela Anikulapo Kuti
174	David Byrne
175	Bonnie “Prince” Billy/ Will Oldham/Palace Music
176	Cat Stevens
177	The Knife
178	Okkervil River
179	Gang of Four
180	Ween
181	Frightened Rabbit
182	Black Angels
183	Wolf Parade
184	Ray Charles
185	Oasis
186	Nada Surf
187	Devo
188	The Fall
189	Dandy Warhols
190	The Notorious B.I.G.
191	Buzzcocks
192	Jesus and Mary Chain
193	Blondie
194	Bloc Party
195	Stone Roses
196	Chemical Brothers
197	The Grateful Dead
198	Ben Harper
199	Lou Reed
200	Siouxie and the Banshees
201	Beach House
202	Bauhaus
203	The The
204	Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
205	The Pogues
206	Chuck Berry
207	The B-52s
208	Metric
209	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
210	Afghan Whigs
212	Menomena
213	Uncle Tupelo
214	M. Ward
215	Thievery Corporation
216	Gnarls Barkley
217	Roxy Music
218	Teenage Fanclub
219	DJ Shadow
220	Gillian Welch
221	Duran Duran
222	Lucinda Williams
223	The Byrds
224	Dinosaur Jr.
225	The Wedding Present
226	Louis Armstrong
227	De La Soul
228	Moby
229	Muddy Waters
230	Mark Lanegan
231	The Posies
232	Luna
233	Joseph Arthur
234	Dolly Parton
235	Pela
236	MGMT
237	Funkadelic
238	The Head and the Heart
239	The Long Winters
240	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
241	Superchunk
242	Throwing Muses
243	Modern Lovers/ Jonathan Richman
244	The Kills
245	Tegan and Sara
246	Franz Ferdinand
247	Stevie Ray Vaughan
248	Dead Kennedys
249	Mudhoney
250	Regina Spektor
251	Mark Kozelek/ Red House Painters/ Sun Kil Moon
252	Al Green
253	Air
254	Hot Chip
255	Townes Van Zandt
256	The Cave Singers
257	The Wrens
258	Aimee Mann
259	Bob Mould
260	Kings of Convenience
261	Joni Mitchell
262	Howlin' Wolf
263	Snoop Doggy Dog
264	Elbow
265	The Specials
266	Gram Parsons
267	Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
268	Minutemen
269	Arctic Monkeys
270	Cake
271	Of Montreal
272	Blonde Redhead
273	Wire
274	Cold War Kids
275	Whiskeytown
276	The Walkmen
277	Damien Jurado
278	Catherine Wheel
279	At the Drive In
280	Aphex Twin
281	Rufus Wainwright
282	Pinback
283	NAS
284	The Frames
285	David Bazan
286	The English Beat
287	The Dead Weather
288	The Chameleons UK
289	Feist
290	Theloniuous Monk
291	INXS
292	Red Hot Chili Peppers
293	Gang Starr
294	Explosions in the Sky
295	Passion Pit
296	Pulp
297	Visqueen
298	J Dilla
299	Underworld
300	Caribou
301	Frank Zappa
302	Foo Fighters
303	Steve Earle
304	The Old 97's
305	Gomez
306	Florence and the Machine
307	Soul Coughing
308	Godspeed You! Black Emperor
309	The Helio Sequence
310	Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis
311	Bad Brains
312	Ghostland Observatory
313	Sparklehorse
314	Spiritualized
315	The Sonics
316	The Misfits
317	Black Flag
318	T. Rex
319	Suede
320	The Dismemberment Plan
321	Loretta Lynn
322	Run-DMC
323	Charlie Parker
324	Calexico
325	Bobby Bare Jr.
326	Eels
327	She & Him
328	Atmosphere
329	Los Campesinos!
330	James
331	Toots and the Maytals
332	Vic Chesnutt
333	Dead Can Dance
334	The Orb
335	Flight of the Conchords
336	Screaming Trees
337	Camper Van Beethoven
338	Carissa's Weird
339	Damien Rice
340	The Cars
341	Manu Chao
342	Parliament
343	Crowded House/ Neil Finn
344	The Zombies
345	Love and Rockets
346	Ray Lamontagne
347	Kristen Hersh
348	Sly and the Family Stone
349	M83
350	NWA
351	The Moondoggies
352	Galaxie 500
353	The Killers
354	Joe Jackson
355	Tokyo Police Club
356	Earth Wind and Fire
357	Can
358	The Psychedelic Furs
359	Grandaddy
360	Peter Tosh
361	Duke Ellington
362	Presidents of the United States of America
363	Robyn Hitchcock
364	The Church
365	Roy Orbison
366	Travis
367	Jose Gonzalez
368	Robert Johnson
369	Melvins
370	Etta James
371	Foals
372	Cheap Trick
373	Talk Talk
374	Antony & the Johnsons
375	Lee "Scratch" Perry
376	Boards of Canada
377	Liz Phair
378	Janis Joplin
379	Low
380	Ministry
381	Ratatat
382	Bo Diddley
383	Gogol Bordello
384	Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
385	Mission of Burma
386	Everything But the Girl
387	David Grey
388	Surfer Blood
389	Common Market
390	Bill Withers
391	Citizen Cope
392	Butthole Surfers
393	Crystal Castles
394	Smog
395	Goldfrapp
396	Zero 7
397	The Fugees
398	Bomba Estereo
399	Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
400	Shellac
401	Archers of Loaf
402	Stars
403	Peter Murphy
404	Serge Gainsbourg
405	Royksopp
406	The Dead Milkmen
407	Mazzy Star
408	Mogwai
409	Lily Allen
410	Del The Funkee Homosapien
411	Le Tigre
412	Heart
413	Jeremy Enigk
414	Doves
415	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
416	Dr. Dog
417	Harvey Danger
418	Django Reinhardt
419	Bill Monroe
420	Deer Tick
421	Camera Obscura
422	Badly Drawn Boy
423	Swervedriver
424	Caetano Veloso
425	Public Image Limited
426	MC5
427	Van Halen
428	Big Black
429	Buffalo Tom
430	Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
431	Kiss
432	The Small Faces
433	The Heavy
434	The Gossip
435	The Beta Band
436	The Avalanches
437	Taj Mahal
438	Mos Def
439	Super Furry Animals
440	Rocket From the Crypt
441	Snow Patrol
442	!!!
443	Shearwater
444	Ra Ra Riot
445	Head Like a Kite
446	Pedro the Lion
447	Dusty Springfield
448	John Lee Hooker
449	Mike Doughty
450	Miike Snow
451	Ozomatli
452	Scissor Sisters
453	Fever Ray
454	Deerhunter
455	Love
456	Lemonheads
457	Daniel Johnston
458	Kanye West
459	Paul Westerberg
460	Broken Bells
461	Herbie Hancock
462	The Clean
463	Donovan
464	Fruit Bats
465	Elvis Perkins in Dearland
466	Cracker
467	Buena Vista Social Club
468	Charles Mingus
469	Clem Snide
470	Buffalo Springfield
471	Descendents
472	Born Ruffians
473	13th Floor Elevators
474	Califone
475	Blitzen Trapper
476	Alejandro Escovedo
477	The Raveonettes
478	American Music Club
479	The Libertines
480	Adam and the Ants
481	A Place To Bury Strangers
482	Fresh Espresso
483	Ventures
484	The Verve
485	Waylon Jennings
486	Temple of the Dog
487	The Breeders
488	Sugarcubes
489	The Meters
490	The Streets
491	The Raconteurs
492	The Jesus Lizard
493	Sugar
494	The Gits
495	Supersuckers
496	We Were Promised Jetpacks
497	Pere Ubu
499	Slint
500	Peter Bjorn and John
501	St. Vincent
502	Sleigh Bells
503	School of Seven Bells
504	Frank Black/ Black Francis
505	McLusky
506	Rancid
507	Basement Jaxx
508	The Supremes
509	Link Wray
510	Lloyd Cole
511	Ladytron
512	Joan Jett
513	Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5
514	Leadbelly
515	Young Fresh Fellows
516	Erykah Badu
517	Fatboy Slim
518	Eagles of Death Metal
519	Dick Dale
520	Matt & Kim
521	The Pretenders
522	Devendra Banhart
523	Bat For Lashes
524	Common
525	Tricky
526	Bikini Kill
527	Best Coast
528	Beat Happening
529	Captain Beefheart
530	Brian Jonestown Massacre
531	16 Horsepower
532	The Jayhawks
533	Murder City Devils
534	Unrest
535	And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead
536	Art Brut
537	The Damned
538	The Wailers
539	Killing Joke
540	Battles
541	Rogue Wave
542	Cream
543	The Feelies
544	Son Volt
545	The Horrors
546	The Chills
547	The Charlatans UK
548	Squeeze
549	Ride
550	Sky Cries Mary
551	Airborne Toxic Event
552	R.L.Burnside
553	The Delgados
554	Ned's Atomic Dustbin
555	Jackson 5

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