HERE IS ANOTHER CRITICS LIST TO GET YOU ALL TALKING...THE 40 GREATEST MUSICIAL
ACTS OF ALL TIME....



1 The Beatles

2 The Rolling Stones

3 Bob Dylan

4 David Bowie

5 Led Zeppelin

6 Bruce Springsteen

7 Prince

8 The Who

9 Elvis Presley

10 Jimi Hendrix

11 The Beach Boys

12 R.E.M.

13 The Velvet Underground

14 Marvin Gaye

15 U2

16 The Clash

17 Nirvana

18 Radiohead

19 Neil Young

20 Stevie Wonder


21 Pink Floyd

22 Elvis Costello

23 Bob Marley and The Wailers

24 Van Morrison

25 Aretha Franklin

26 Talking Heads

27 The Smiths

28 The Byrds

29 Public Enemy

30 The Doors

31 Miles Davis

32 James Brown

33 The Kinks

34 Beastie Boys

35 Creedence Clearwater Revival

36 Otis Redding

37 Michael Jackson

38 Beck

39 Sex Pistols

40 Sly and the Family Stone


www.acclaimedmusic.net

No Bootsy or P-funk?.....that makes this list invalid already.

Mostly men on that list. Not sure what the criteria is for this list (again Nirvana )

WHere is Bjork or Madonna. Surely their music has been more influential or as influential (certainly have MORE material) than Michael Jackson (sorry he's overratted too).

James Brown should be a little higher than where he is too.

Where's REGINA SPEKTOR???

superspaceboy said:

Definitely.

MikeMatronik said:

and Juice Newton???


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MikeMatronik said:

Where is Peter Gabriel?

worse...where's KATE???

MikeMatronik said:

why is aretha franklin always on these lists? all she did was sing,she is so overrated in my opinion

Another boring b00lshit list with exactly the same picks as every other goddamn "TEH BESTEST ARTIIISTSS EVER" list I've seen...

GangstaFam said:

superspaceboy said:

F*ck off.

MikeMatronik said:

Nirvana I will never understand this goddamn fascination with Nirvana. Above Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, ALL the greats? W. T. F.

VoicesCarry said:

As for the rest of the list....

Absolutely.

VoicesCarry said:

Do we actually agree on something? I feel the same way about them. Never understood how they rank so high in ALL lists yet having a very small catalog. I have similar issues with Jimi and Janis as well, but not as much.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

One of the most misinformed statements I've read on here in a while....Wrong joint homie..I meant to get at a cat for saying Aretha didn't belong on the list...
[Edited 12/22/06 8:11am]

Who did this one? Is this from a poll?

And man, even if we're talking pop artists, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Rosemary Clooney, et al. are gonna be mighty steamed.

And that's assuming this poll isn't supposed to include classical, jazz, blues and soul artists.

I get tired of seeing the same names on these Best of music lists.

hank williams? Johnny Cash? frank sinatra? stevie ray vaughan?

the top 6 are white male (has been) rockers??? LAME! James Brown belongs in the top 3 (and Tina Turner in the top 10).

First of all, get Pink Floyd out of there, and please enough with Nirvana already. I saw a poll the other day and Cobain ranked higher than John Lennon? Next INXS goes over U2 anyday, I love U2, but they were followers of Inxs experiments and Bono knows that. Not only is James Brown and SLy way too low, where the hell is Elton John, you can take out Velvet Underground and Van Morrison, theyre good but top 40 all time, sorry.
[Edited 12/21/06 11:17am]

um Joni Mitchell? Anyone anyone? Carole King?

lastdecember said:

Yes but U2 preservered longer and IMO created better music. Just because they followed the INXS path doesn't make INXS better.

How did Prince outrank Jimi? I guess this list is not in order of importance.

Well, it's just silly.

I like most of these artists, but REM & Public Enemy over James Brown?

I have no problem with their choices, but the order is what's bound to cause the most arguments.