1. Marvin Gaye
2. The Beatles
3. Prince
4. The Supremes
5. Stevie Wonder
6. Fleetwood Mac
7. Smokey Robinson (as a writer)
8. Aretha Franklin
9. Annie Lennox/Eurythmics
10. David Bowie
11. The Police
12. Donna Summer
13. Madonna
14. Blondie
15. Bee Gees
16. Sam Cooke
17. Roxy Music
18. Kate Bush
19. Janet Jackson
20. Queen
[Edited 1/21/05 5:19am]

Cloudbuster said:

Cheesy-weesy! Her nipples are actually bigger than her breats!

Rancid

1. David Bowie
2. U2
3. Beastie Boys
4. Roxy Music
5. Public Enemy
6. Beatles
7. Elvis
8. Beck
9. Black Crowes
10. Prince
11. Van Halen (with DLR)
12. Prodigy
13. Adam and The Ants
14. Blur
15. Rolling Stones
16. Queen
17. The Doors
18. Robbie Williams
19. Madonna
20. Rod Stewart

1. Tori Amos
2. George Michael
3. Janis Ian
4. Prince
5. Maxwell
6. Annie Lennox
7. Anastacia
8. Janet
9. Donna Summer
10. Alanis Morissette
11. India Arie
12. ABBA
13. Cyndi Lauper
14. Sting
15. Pat Benatar
16. Queen
17. Kenny Loggins
18. Olivia Newton-John
19. Madonna
20. Whitney Houston

Lots of variety but i still don't See
Bob Marley on anyones List

1 Pat Metheny Group
2 Weather Report
3 Isley Brothers
4 The Yellowjackets
5 Earth Wind And Fire
6 Marvin Gaye
7 Jimi Hendrix
8 P-Funk
9 Joni Mitchell
10 Jean Paul Bourelly
11 Prince
12 Narada Michael Walden
13 Stevie Wonder
14 the Jamaica NY Kats( Marcus Miller, Don Blackman, Bernard Wright, Tom Browne)
15 Ryuichi Sakamoto
16 Level 42
17 Todd Rundgren
18 Aaron Copland
19 Maurice Ravel
20 Prefab Sprout
[Edited 1/22/05 11:03am]

My top 20 favorite/ most influential (on me) artists are:


1) Picasso (what can I say, I'm a painter)
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Prince
4) Ani Difranco
5) Stevie Wonder
6) Miles Davis
7) Bob Dylan
8) Salvador Dali
9) Frida Kahlo
10) James Baldwin
11) Marc Chagall
12) Charles Mingus
13) Van Gogh
14) Curtis Mayfield
15) Boticelli
16) Outkast
17) De Chirico
18) Hemingway
19) Terence Trent D'arby
20) Radiohead

I didn't just pick the obvious choices or ones that sound good. These are artists whose works I respect and consistently go back to for inspiration.

Oops. Gotta get TTD in there.
[Edited 1/22/05 12:57pm]
[Edited 1/22/05 13:02pm]

#1 Prince
#2 David Bowie
#3 Annie Lennox
#4 Björk
#5 Kate Bush
#6 Tori Amos
#7 Madonna
#8 Peter Gabriel
#9 Beck
#10 Sheryl Crow
#11 Grace Jones
#12 Debbie Harry (Blondie)
#13 U2
#14 Iggy Pop
#15 Lou Reed
#16 ABBA
#17 Roisin Murphy (Moloko)
#18 Bruce Springsteen
#19 Sinéad O' Connor
#20 George Michael


[Edited 1/22/05 13:08pm]

Good idea whodknee

My top 20 writers

1. T.S. Eliot
2. Robert Frost
3. Gordon Sumner (Sting)
4. Steveland Judkins (Stevie Wonder)
5. E.A. Poe (read Annabelle Lee and see why)
6. Juan Ramon Jimenez
7. Roger Waters
8. Langston Hughes
9. Kafka
10. Marx
11. Plato
12. Don Juan Matus
13. Mark Twaine
14. J.R. Tolkien
15. Voltair
16. E.E. Cummings
17. William Wordsworth
18. Miguel de Cervantes
19. Lao te Zang
20. Confusious

Luv4oneanotha said:

Stevie Wonder and Sting have actually written things other than songs?

jacktheimprovident said:

nots sure about stevie but i believe sting published a book of poetry, under a different name though

Top 20 movie directors

Ingmar Bergman
Frederico Fellini
Ernst Lubitch
Buster Keaton
Stanley Kubrick
Jane Campion
Jim Jarmusch
Abbas Kiorastami
Charlie Chaplin
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Goddard
Nagisa Oshima
Bernardo Bertolucci
Fritz Lang
Michael Moore
Alan Berliner
Bela Tarr
David Lynch
Lois Weber
[Edited 1/23/05 3:50am]

JONI MITCHELL

INGMAR BERGMAN

PRINCE

FEDERICO FELLINI

STEELY DAN

P.J.HARVEY

BJORK

SINEAD O'CONNER

ALMODOVAR

KATE BUSH

ME'SHELL N'DEGEOCELLO

TARKOVSKY

NINA SIMONE

BECK

WOODY ALLEN

TIM BUCKLEY/JEFF BUCKLEY

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

PETER GABRIEL

thanks2joniandu said:

I forgot about Woody Allen and Tarkovsky. Good catch. I didn't put Hitchcock on my list because it's just a given.