Well I guess I post my own list of artist but also ranked.

I put an asterisk next to the artist that I haven't completed a discography listen and hence the juries still out and they could be ranked higher if I was more familiar with their output. It's quite possible I underrate a lot of the asterisk artist simply because I haven't heard enough of their career (alot of the asterisk for the one star artist I only heard one album that I liked enough for them to become a one star artist on the strength of a single album but I haven't had time to listen the rest of their career. aka I only heard a single Joe Cocker and Dave Brubeck album and I think both of them are great.)


*****
1 The Beatles
2 Sparks
3 Genesis
4 The Beach Boys
5 Radiohead
6 Charles Mingus*
7 The Who
8 The Kinks
9 Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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10 The Rolling Stones
11 Paul McCartney
12 King Crimson
13 U2
14 Kate Bush
15 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
16 Yes
17 Midnight Oil
18 Roxy Music
19 Crowded House
20 Joy Division
21 Bob Dylan
22 Split Enz
23 Pink Floyd
24 Blur
25 Hank Levy
26 PJ Harvey
27 Neil Finn
28 The Doors
29 Buddy Holly*
30 The Zombies
31 Mike Oldfield
32 R.E.M.
33 Steve Hackett
34 Jimi Hendrix
35 John Lennon

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36 Gentle Giant
37 The Flaming Lips
38 Brian Eno
39 Ben Folds Five
40 Jethro Tull
41 Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso*
42 Harmonium
43 10cc
44 Pet Shop Boys
45 AC/DC
46 Elvis Presley*
47 Stevie Wonder*
48 Can*
49 The Smiths
50 Deep Purple
51 Renaissance
52 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
53 Peter Gabriel
54 Television
55 David Bowie
56 Alice Cooper
57 The Jam
58 Nirvana
59 Graham Coxon
60 Blondie
61 Caravan*
62 Black Sabbath
63 Led Zeppelin
64 Jerry Lee Lewis*
65 Nine Inch Nails
66 Van Der Graaf Generator*
67 Electric Light Orchestra
68 Joe Jackson
69 The Triffids*
70 Spirit*
71 Little Richard*

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72 Neil Young
73 St. Vincent
74 The Clash
75 Fleetwood Mac
76 Bruce Springsteen
77 Michael Jackson
78 The Aliens
79 Patti Smith*
80 Talking Heads
81 The Temptations*
82 Procol Harum
83 The Moody Blues
84 Aretha Franklin*
85 Jeff Buckley
86 Tears For Fears
87 The Band*
88 Ramones
89 Bjork
90 The Allman Brothers Band
91 The Smashing Pumpkins
92 New Order
93 Cheap Trick
94 Morrissey
95 Pixies
96 Willie Nelson
97 Argent
98 Queen
99 Elvis Costello*
100 ABBA
101 Franz Ferdinand
102 Gomez
103 Bill Haley & His Comets
104 George Harrison
105 Mahavishnu Orchestra*
106 The Easybeats
107 XTC*
108 Elton John
109 Oasis
110 Parliament-Funkadelic
111 Hank Williams*
112 The Supremes*
113 Oingo Boingo
114 Living Colour
115 The Sugarcubes
116 Dennis Wilson
117 Pulp
118 Arcade Fire
119 Kraftwerk
120 The Monkees
121 Daryl Hall & John Oates
122 Simon & Garfunkel
123 The Animals
124 Joni Mitchell

*
125 Brian Wilson
126 The Alan Parsons Project*
127 The Cars*
128 Premiata Forneria Marconi*
129 Muse*
130 The Byrds
131 Small Faces
132 The Cure
133 Creedence Clearwater Revival
134 Otis Redding
135 Dire Straits
136 Captain Beefheart
137 Cream*
138 The Finn Brothers
139 Miles Davis*
140 The Darkness
141 Family*
142 FFS
143 Joe Cocker*
144 801*
145 Robbie Fulks
146 Big Star
147 Frank Zappa*
148 Blue Oyster Cult*
149 Faces
150 Weezer
151 The Police
152 Chuck Berry*
153 The Left Banke
154 Pearl Jam
155 Paul Simon
156 Pavement
157 Cocteau Twins*
158 Jellyfish
159 Johnny Burnette And The Rock 'N Roll Trio
160 Rocket From The Tombs
161 Manic Street Preachers
162 Nick Drake
163 Erroll Garner*
164 Steely Dan
165 Metallica*
166 The Hollies*
167 Del Shannon
168 Gorillaz
169 The Jackson 5
170 Talk Talk
171 Van Halen
172 Old 97's
173 Adele
174 Syd Barrett
175 Meat Loaf
176 Supertramp
177 Stephen Stills*
178 The Duckworth Lewis Method
179 Van Morrison*
180 Johnny Cash*
181 The Dave Brubeck Quartet*
182 The Pretty Things*
183 Heart*
184 Squackett
185 Beck
186 Dolly Parton*
187 The Buggles
188 Stevie Wright
189 Kanye West*
190 Ringo Starr
191 ABC*
192 Marvin Gaye*
193 Robert Johnson
194 Coldplay*
195 Randy Newman
196 Ben Folds
197 Colin Blunstone
198 The Highwaymen
199 Herman's Hermits
200 Foo Fighters
201 Earth, Wind & Fire*
202 Powderfinger
203 The Velvet Underground
204 Santana*
205 Ted Leo And The Pharmacists
206 Bee Gees*
207 Arthur Alexander
208 Eagles