Agreed! I'm not a big Bee Gees fan, but I agree they should be way higher on this list than 88. Are they serious? They should be in the top 25-30!!Prince is GORGEOUS. I'm inspired. GOD is GREAT. Is there anything else to say? lol | |
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"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with" - Michael Jackson | |
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I disagree with the arrangement of this entire list, especially the top 20. "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD | |
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Whatever positive there is... | |
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HA!!! whatever,MJ did that shit. | |
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Whatever helps you sleep at night. | |
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All of them above Depeche Mode !!! These people need to get their ears checked!
Depeche Mode is one of the greatest electro-rock bands, have 30 years career, survived alcoholism and drugaddictions (and a leadsinger who died .. TWICE and can tell the story) ... massive fan following, a great live act, and also get a lot of credit from other artists eg. Moby, Smashing Pumpkins, and let's not forget Johnny Cash 's version of 'Personal Jesus'.
Now that I see DM is on 98, I declare: this list is bollocks.
Oh and Prince on 7 ... poetic | |
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Nevermind their massive songwriting successes from the mid 70s and beyond, their body of work from 1967-72 alone should place them higher than most on this list. They wrote more classics in those few short years than most writers manage in a lifetime.
What a crock of shit this list is. "The Pentagon controls every word and image the American people reads or sees in mass media."
Richard Perle 2004, at a press conference in the Pentagon. ![]() | |
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Per VH1........."The list was determined by hundreds of musicians and music experts, many of whom appear on the show."
Maybe, just maybe, some of you folks' favorite artists or groups just didn't have the impact among their contemporaries that you wish that they did.
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Did i fucking say he didn't or something? | |
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I generally don't pay lists much attention, but with that said, this is a poor compilation of 100 greatest artists. The problem is with the sample group of "hundreds of musicians and music experts." It was obviously made up of people who were not heavily "impacted" by non-white or female arists who weren't mainstream, especially with regard to R&B. And where are the Latin artists? The Jazz artists? The Blues artists? This is a pretty lousy list overall. Of course I think Prince should be higher, but what about Frank Zappa, Carlos Santana, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke? They're not even on the list.
I don't know what the criteria was for determining the people on the list. Were respondents given this list of 100 "artists" then given categories and asked to rank the artists in those categories? Is that the reason for some of these glaring absences? perfection is a fallacy of the imagination... | |
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Justin and Beyonce don't inspire the same level of anything for me. They might be good performers for people who enjoy what they do, but I don't consider either of them a great artist. perfection is a fallacy of the imagination... | |
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Just because someone is a musician doesn't mean they know music history. Learn the history of the Bee Gees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees
They quite clearly should be in the top 20, if not the top 10. As singer/songwriters they're right there with Prince. As for being influential, Michael Jackson cited them as being his biggest influence. [Edited 9/6/10 10:51am] | |
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Mayte is one of the commentators..wonder if she'll comment on Prince.. | |
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I know as much about MJ as anyone else. He was a cute talented child star, no one will deny that. He is the Shirley Temple and Menudo of our time.
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....or the Justin Bieber of yesteryear. | |
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I know the history of the Bee Gees. I like the Bee Gees. But they clearly shouldn't be top 20 on this list, because the hundreds polled didn't deem them top 20 (or even 50) material.
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I saw Hour 2 of this show, and they interviewed Neil Diamond and they asked him who were his greatest artists of all time and he replied "Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra" and the reporter said "Why them?" My beef with this list is that it doesn't include jazz music or gospel music. Jazz is the only original American musical artform so it's only right to include artists whose music greatly contributed to the aural performing arts. Where's John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bird, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson? for example. That's why I got so much respect for Andy Stewart, Sting, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsten,Prince, Hall and Oates and musicians like that, who readily acknowledge music and performers who may not be contemporary but their contributions directly and indirectly shaped the musical landscape past, present and future. [Edited 9/6/10 21:35pm] 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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Thanks for the co-sign bboy87. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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Yes, I know Stevie influenced Prince!! | |
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Prince at #7!! Another 10 years and he'll b in the top 5!! "Just like the sun, the Rainbow Children rise."
"We had fun, didn't we?" -Prince (1958-2016) 4ever in my life | |
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You may not like or appreciate Elvis' music, but Elvis was far from lame! | |
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The Bee Gees suffer an unfair and undeserved stigma because of the disco backlash. Because of that, they have had minimal airplay in the last 30 years. So if a significant portion of the hundreds polled is under 30 years old, they don't have proper perspective of the bee gees unless they are a student of music history.
50s - Elvis 60s - Beatles and Rolling Stones 70s - Bee Gees 80s - Michael Jackson and Prince
For their peak decade they were right there with the others I just listed. THey had as many #1 songs in the 70s (9) as Michael Jackson did in the 80s. And they had quite a career before Main Course launched their R&B sound which has unfairly been lumped in with throw away disco music.
New York Mining Disaster 1941 To Love Somebody Masachusetts I've Got To Get A Message To You Words Lonely Days How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Run To Me Jive Talkin Nights on Broadway You Should Be Dancing Love So Right How Deep Is Your Love Stayin' Alive Night Fever Grease Too Much Heaven Tragedy Heartbreaker Islands In The Stream You Win Again One For Whom the Bell Tolls Alone
These songs are some of the all time classics in pop music. The should quite clearly not just be higher than 88. They are #12 on billboard's list of the all time top artists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100_50th_Anniversary_Charts#All-Time_top_artists
and that excludes the vast success they have had writing for other artists - Andy Gibb, Dionne Warwick, Barbara Streisand, Kenny Rogers, etc. Andy Gibb is #82 on the billboard list and they wrote every hit he ever had. Barbara Streisand is #26 and her best selling album of all time by far (20 million copies sold) was written and produced by the bee gees. And even further, the all time top country songs list include Islands In the Stream at #11.
At their absolute peak there was a 37 week period where 7 songs they wrote hit number 1 for a total of 27 weeks including 1 week where they wrote 5 of the top 10 songs, one of which (Emotion) didn't make it to #1 because their other songs were in the way. This includes a 15 week stretch where Sayin' Alive was #1, which was replaced by (Love Is) Thicker than Water, which was replaced by Night Fever, which was replaced by If I Can't Have You.
They ended up writing 8 of the top 19 songs that year, including 5 of the top 8. Not just for a given week, but for the entire year.
http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1978.php
As far as I can tell, nobody else has even remotely come close to 5 of the top 8 before or since. [Edited 9/6/10 23:26pm] | |
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