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I would like to add Blondie, the Cars, and Tom Petty to my favorites. Would have loved to see any of them live. Maybe with Tom there's a chance, still. I've probably seen Tom Petty four or five times. He always puts on a solid no frills jam session.
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I would like to add Blondie, the Cars, and Tom Petty to my favorites. Would have loved to see any of them live. Maybe with Tom there's a chance, still. You can at least see him embalmed and animated!
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You still have a chance for Blondie too. Debby Harry was playing close by at a casino not long ago, much to my surprise.
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I struggled with this all day. No way I can pick 10. There are too many types of music to listen too. Since the themes seems to be rock and it's predecessors, I tried to mix up a few styles in that focus to keep my mind from exploding with names. I bet if you asked me an hour from now I'd make changes but here goes.
1 Collective Soul
For sheer musical talent and ability to diversify within their own style.
2 GreenDay
For their extremely addictive mix of simple, energetic punk but often with much more complex musicality.
3 Pink Floyd Again, again a sheer musical talent that practically invented their own style of music.
4 Stevie Ray Vaughn
An epic artist that simply makes you feel good.
5 AC/DC
Call it what you will, but when you just plain need it, it's pure energy.
6 The Dave Matthews Band
Self Explanatory
7 Rush
Although I now officially hate Neil Peart for effortlessly being immeasurably better than I will ever be.
8 Loreena McKennitt
OK, not rock but I'd feel guilty leaving her out. I love Celtic music and her voice is the closest to you can hear to angels singing without actually dying. "The Mummers Dance" still hypnotizes me.
9 The John Butler Trio
Nice Pick Zero. I didn't expect anyone else to catch it. I'm always impressed by artists not afraid to mix and match genres in new ways.
10 BB King
I know there are more talented blues artists but after seeing him put on a better show sitting down than most can do standing up, he holds an honorable spot on my top ten that will be hard to knock out of place.
I penciled out winners in over a dozen or more other categories because I'm totally bored at work today. Everything from classical to World to Nu Metal. It became too long a list to post here without destroying the top 10 theme.
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Just wanted to commend Murph for sticking to 10 and for the great annotations.
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it was difficult, very very difficult.
Edit:
I originally typed "It was Hard, very hard." but then I figured I risked a string of "That's what she said." Jokes.
Last edited by Murph; 12/30/09 06:00 PM. Reason: for all our sakes
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I would like to add Blondie, the Cars The late 70's were probably the last time for rock/pop innovation on a wide scale level. Sadly, things only go down from there... Grunge? Emo? NuMetal? Give me an f'n break. After Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, we got boy bands and underage pop tarts singing (er... lip synching) in their underwear. Good music is still being made, you just have to wade through a ton of mediocre crap. Anyway, enough rant, here's my New Wave top 10: Cars Devo Blondie The dB's Talking Heads Television Squeeze Joe Jackson The Knack Elvis Costello Now where did I put my skinny tie...
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For Jazz:
1) Miles Davis
2) John Coltrane
3) Charlie Parker
4) Louis Armstrong
5) Charles Mingus
6) Thelonius Monk
7) Dave Brubeck
8) Sonny Rollins
9) Stanley Turrentine
10) Joshua Redman
For Rock - I will go with the best acts that I have seen live (in no particular order):
1) The Rolling Stones
2) The Who
3) Queen (with Freddie Mercury)
4) Heart
5) Tori Amos
6) Sarah MacLachlan
7) Bob Seger
8) Tom Petty
9) Natalie Merchant
10) AC/DC I forgot that I had seen AC/DC and they were much better than Styx.
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I'd add the Clash, Flock of Seagulls, Platinum Blonde, and Roxy Music to the late 70s early 80s (alternate)list.
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A great, great band that is vastly underrated. You have pretty good taste in music for someone living in Georgia!  (I'm in Atlanta btw.) Kinda wish I lived in Canada lately though... Mellow, friendly people, great loudspeakers, socialized medicine, quasi legal cannabis... Sounds like paradise, 'eh?
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