choose one or add your own:

1. Beyonce

2. Eminem

3. Usher

4. Maroon 5

5. Chingy

6. ?

6. Prawn Cocktail

hey, I'm not the one putting these people on the charts

If I had to choose one, i'd go for ?

Me taking a shit after eating Mexican.

...not being hired to design album covers.

LittlePill said:

gabeez said:

Well Maroon 5 aren't too bad... I think I like 'em cos their albums called 'Songs About Jane' or something like that

1. E (lead singer/songwriter from the band eels)

2. Jason Little (I think that's his name...the lead guy from the band Grandaddy)

3. Kimya Dawson (who needs to get her butt in gear and make a bigger name for herself cuz she's kindasorta super brilliant, mmmkay)

4. Thurston Moore (the only living guitarist who moves me as much as Prince)

5. I'm sure there's others, but I sure can't think of em right now...

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Ok I'll shut up about the romance our lions are sharing together now!

Anxiety said:

The top two I'd second without blinking. The Eels and Grandaddy are two of the best bands around. I don't know the other peeps...

I also think Bill Jones (who's a young British folk singer) is an outstanding talent. As is Eric Bibb, a folk/bluesman.

I'm feeling Joss Stone. Love Res, Erykah Badu, The Roots, fucking... too many to mention. Outkast.

I really see E winding up as a songwriter for musicals when he gets older - his stuff with eels is like Cole Porter by way of Kurt Cobain. I'm amazed at how well he writes.

Usher plucks my fucking nerves.

JaneyPoos said:

U sure theyre sharing romance Janey???

Your lion looks like he's trippin on some puff and Anxeity's lion looks pissed off....

Get yo hairy asses back in that pride and get some counsilling.

starkitty said:

The Roots are fantastic

I also like Outkast ...

Think both have been around for a good many years though

JaneyPoos said:

The Roots i really like, yeah. Things fall apart in particular I thought was outstanding. Though that's going back several years of course. When's Erykah coming out with a new album...

Ani DiFranco
Meshell Ndegeocello
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Radiohead

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a little bit of new.. and a little bit of old

Prince
Beck
Wilco
Ben Folds
Thom Yorke
Paul McCartney
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gabeez said:

oof...
We might as well throw in one one of the America Idol winners.
In playing this game and putting on my 14 year old hat, I guess I would be most excited about Christina & Justin. Judging from their live appearances over the years, these cats seem to be reinventing themselves and moving forward musically. It looks like they are standing still in todays pop world but I think they'll be around for a long, long time.

Thank God I had Prince, Michael & Madonna when I was 14!
[This message was edited Tue Apr 20 19:47:42 2004 by marcdeondotcom]

gabeez said:

Lord save us all.....THIS is what we are left with after P??? I thought it said "Today's BEST TALENT"????

I would love to add Outkast to this list, but really - they're very talented and all, but they haven't learned to take it to the next level yet. Compared to their contemporaries maybe they have, but if I see Andre3000 do one more rehashed "Hey Ya" karaoke performance, I'm going to throw my TV out the window. Same with Big Boi's performances over the past year. They both seem so careful and choreographed, there's no spontaneity or fun in what they do that doesn't seem planned down to the last twitch. If they could take a lesson from the performers who always knew to have something wild up their sleeves for their appearances, I can't even imagine how freakishly brilliant Outkast could be.

Eh, just a rant du jour...

OH...and really....CHINGY?!?

Today's best talent is still unsigned. Take my word for it.

ThreadBare said:

And what's even more tragic, probably never will be (by a major anyway).
Tribal Disorder

prince, tori amos, ani difranco, ben harper, norah jones, & the list goes on!

Are we talking just the charts or artists in general? and how new? if we were talking the last ten years or so, my list would look more like:

Rashaan Patterson,
Ani Di Franco,
D'angelo
John Mayer,
Jill Scott,
Van Hunt,
Ben Folds
Dwele
Jonatha Brooke
Meshell Ndegeocello
Ben Harper
Donnie
Hefner(Lee Jones)
4Hero
Tori Amos
Beck
Radiohead

But if we just Have Eminem, Beyonce, Usher, Chingy, Maroon 5 and ? to choose from,
then I agree with TheFrog: I'd Choose "?"

ThreadBare said:

Very good point.