PRINCE
THE JACKSON
MICHAEL JACKSON
TEENA MARIE
ANITA BAKER
ARETHEA FRANKLIN
EWF
KOOL & THE GANG
STEVIE WONDER
ALEXANDER O'NEAL
THE TIME
PARLIMENT/FUNKEDELIC
ROD STEWART
EN VOUGE
MARVIN GAYE
THE TEMPTATION
LUTHER VANDROSS
ISLEY BROTHERS
NEW EDITION
RUN D.M.C.
SALT-N-PEPA
TUPAC

#1 Prince

In no particular order:

Sade
Stevie Wonder
Isley Brothers
George Michael
Rick James
Minnie Riperton
Ohio Players
Michael Jackson
Teena Marie
James Brown
Tina Turner
Marvin Gaye
Chaka Khan
Public Enemy
SOS Band
EWF
The Gap Band
Madonna
Luther Vandross

No Particular Order

Prince
Micheal Jacksons/The Jacksons
Tina Turner
Patti Labelle
P-Funk
Rod Stewart
The Time
Rick James
Chaka Kahn
Whitney Houston
Peter Gabriel
Sting
Duran Duran
New Edition
Ohio Players
Phyllis Hyman
Cameo
Lenny Kravitz
Sade

Based on how I'm feeling at the moment...

Prince
Duran Duran
Backstreet Boys
Depeche Mode
Rolling Stones
The Police
Sting
The Cure
Madonna
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
Billy Idol
INXS
Led Zeppelin
Simple Minds
U2
Thompson Twins
No Doubt
Roxy Music
Sarah McLachlan

Slayer
Man O War
Slipknot
Cliff Richard
Black Sabbath
Tool
Anal Cunt
Children Of Bodum
Megadeth
Daniel O'Donnell
Pantera
Opeth
Charles & Eddie
Judas Priest
AC/DC
WASP
David Hasselhoff (the early stuff)
Anthrax
Napalm Death
Michael Bolton

Number23 said:

Anal Cunt, huh?

Number23 said:

yeah.. I didn't like too when he crossed over... what a sellout

Dancelot said:

The Bible shows us another way to prove a person is the AntiChrist, namely through numerology. Rev 13:18 says: "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

That's a bit cryptic, to be sure. One score is twenty, so threescore is 60, the number of the beast is 666.

Now, the way biblical scholars and numerologists usually convert the names of men into their numbers is through a simple numerical code. Let's assign the 26 letters of the alphabet the numbers 1 through 26. It looks like this:

a 1 i 9 q 17 y 25
b 2 j 10 r 18 z 26
c 3 k 11 s 19
d 4 l 12 t 20
e 5 m 13 u 21
f 6 n 14 v 22
g 7 o 15 w 23
h 8 p 16 x 24

Now, we take the letters from Mr. Hasselhoff's name, assign numbers to them, and calculate his number.


D A V I D H A S S E L H O F F
4 1 22 9 4 8 1 19 19 5 12 8 15 6 6


Now, since thirteen is such a fitting number for evil, let's multiply the first 13 numbers together. The total (65,874,124,800) is approximately 6.6 billion. Tack on the remaining 6's from the end of his name, and you've got yourself the mark of the beast.



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[This message was edited Sun Aug 15 8:05:36 2004 by Number23]

Number23 said:

We seem to have a lot of New Edition fans here.

But not a lot of Jam fans though.

Roughly in order, I guess...

1. Prince
2. Bowie
3. Sonic Youth
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5. Johnny Cash
6. Laurie Anderson
7. Talking Heads
8. The Residents
9. Saint Etienne
10. Swans
11. Stereolab
12. High Llamas
13. Grace Jones
14. Beck
15. Diamanda Galas
16. The Beatles
17. The Pixies
18. Jimi Hendrix
19. Bauhaus/Love & Rockets/Peter Murphy (yes, I consider them to be all one big blob)
20. The Cure

Number23 said:

Nobody can phuck with that list.

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[This message was edited Sun Aug 15 21:26:01 2004 by Supernova]

i'm a child of my bodum, i couldn't live without it.

Supernova said:

[This message was edited Sun Aug 15 21:45:54 2004 by sinisterpentatonic]

Okay here goes!

Excluding Prince of course!

Fishbone
Sonny Boy Williamson
Bjork
George Clinton and crew
John Coltrane
Sun Ra
Fela Kuti
Meshell Ndegeochello
Jimi Hendrix
Charles Mingus
Aphex Twin
Curtis Mayfield
Stereolab
Kate Bush
Nick Drake
Bob Marley
Moloko!
Bill Frisell
Lee Perry
Frank Zappa!!


[This message was edited Sun Aug 15 22:02:26 2004 by sinisterpentatonic]

oh hell, i completely forgot about bjork...my apartment is only like a bjork museum.

Anxiety said:

I was wondering where she fit in.

Janet Jackson

(the remaining nineteen in no particular order)

Tori Fixx
Joan Armatrading
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Chic
Sade
Prince
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
Chaka Khan
James Brown
Parliament Funkadelic
Meshell Ndegeocello
Ella Fitzgerald
Patti Labelle
Queen Latifah
Anita Baker
Zapp & Roger
Rick James
Run-DMC

1.Prince
2.Meshell N'degeocello
3.The Stylistics
4.Pink Floyd
5.Rush
6.Led Zepplin
7.Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks
8.Angela Bofill
9.Boogie Down Productions
10.Jill Scott
11.Luther Vandross
12.Heart
13.Sade
14.Jean Grae
15.Stevie Wonder
16.Miki Howard
17.Patti Labelle
18.Kenny G.
19.Bahamadia
20.The Roots

honorable mention: Floetry,Jaguar Wright,Jeffery Osbourne,Freddie Jackson,
David Bowie,Mary J.Blige,Elton John,TLC,R.Kelly,Bruce Hornsby,Bobby Caldwell,
Annie Lennox,MC Lyte,Queen Latifah,Bob Marley.....ok as u can see this is my attempt to name more then 20.....so many more....

Sometimes I hate these lists because I make it harder than it should be or I take it too seriously. Now it's keeping me awake. I know I won't be penalized for life for my choices.

(Not in order)

Sade
Duran Duran (incl. splinter projects Arcadia and Power Station)
Maxwell
Earth Wind & Fire
Third Eye Blind
India.Arie
The Police / Sting
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
New Edition
Walter, Edwin, and Tremaine Hawkins
U2
Bobby Caldwell
The Bee Gees
The Beatles
The Stylistics
Fleetwood Mac
Prince
The Isley Bros.
Toni Braxton (that was hardest addition, just wanted toss in an unlikely choice)

Imminent Starvation.

The rest is crap.

sinisterpentatonic said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Hey!! your 20-40 rocked!!

Make that 40-60
[This message was edited Mon Aug 16 11:41:50 2004 by sinisterpentatonic]

sinisterpentatonic said:

Thanks.

Yeah, I always think that I have a very narrow selection of artists that I actually like, but when I had to actually think about it, I came up with quite a lot. The majority is all stuff that's pretty old though. I just don't like new music much. Well, how could I? (or anyone else for that matter) It pretty much sucks nowdays.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah, I find myself traveling back in time when I want to hear something new.

Every now and then some new artist will seduce me, but more times than not it's just a one night stand.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Exactly!!

1. Prince (w/ The Revolution and NPG )

2.
3. Madonna
4. Sade
5. Tina Turner
6. Janet Jackson
7. Micheal Jackson
8. Patti Labelle
9. Queen
10. Stone Temple Pilots
11. Jimi Hendrex
12. Maze and Frankie Beverly
13. The Junk Yard Band (go-go)
14. James Brown
15. Minnie Ripleton
16 INXS
17 U2
18 Chaka Khan
19 Motley Crue
20 Guns and Roses
21. Rick James (R.I.P.)

hmmm....Well, these are that artists that have had the greatest influence on me...


Miles Davis
Jimi Hendrix
Claude Debussy
Aaron Copland
Maurice Ravel
Prince
Stevie Wonder
George Clinton/Parliament/ Funkadelic
Thom Bell
Charles Stepney
Rufus/Chaka Khan
Carlos Santana
Steely Dan
Todd Rundgren
Pat Metheny Group
Earth Wind and Fire
Weather Report
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Narada Michael Walden
Dori Caymmi

1. Prince & Early Protegees
2. Rick James & Protegees
3. The Barkays
4. Roger & Zapp
5. Lakeside
6. Cameo
7. Midnight Star
8. The Dazz Band
9. Bill Summers & Summers Heat
10. The Isley Brothers
11. Michael Jackson & The Jacksons
12. The Gap Band
13. The S.O.S. Band
14. Shalamar
15. Raydio
16. Brick
17. Con-Funk-Shun
18. The Brothers Johnson
19. Donna Summer
20. Sylvester

Not necessarily the most talented by no means but my own personal favorites based on the quantity of material that I like or how strongly I like it.