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    Default Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)

    One thing I’ve noticed recently is the wide range of musical tastes that Borderers have. For example, I know that there are quite a lot of fans of Keith Urban here, yet we also have quite a few fans of old school rock and roll bands like Guns N Roses. On a personal level, I’m not the only big fan of Pink Floyd here, and I’m not the only person who tends to prefer the ‘classic’ bands, but there’s also plenty of people who listen to a lot of contemporary music. I think it’s pretty great how the Eagles and their music can bring together people with such different tastes!

    What I’d really love to know is which other artists are most popular on The Border and I’ve been wondering about how best to measure this for a while. So my idea is to ask people for their top 10 (non-Eagles) artists. This can include bands and solo artists.

    I really want this to be inclusive as possible, so you can list your favourites in order of preference, but you don’t have to put them in any order at all. The scoring system is very simple and will hopefully be fair – each mention of an artist is worth one point, and I’ll keep a record and tally up the number of mentions to create a list of the most popular artists. If enough people post I’d be happy to put this list up. If you feel ten is too many, you don’t have to name ten, although I think any list should have at least 5-6 artists at the very least. If you find it difficult to decide you can give honourable mentions if you wish, although only the top ten will be counted as I think this is fairer.

    This list is open to all artists except for the Eagles and their solo works. This is partly because I think the results might be a bit predictable! More importantly though, it wouldn’t really answer my question. Having said this, it’s absolutely fine to include bands that Eagles members played in like Poco or The Flying Burrito Brothers. I’d love to hear from as many people as possible, as this will provide a better and more complete picture of our collective tastes. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I will post my own list later!

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    The Association
    The Beach Boys
    The Beatles
    Bread
    The Byrds (Clarence White era)
    The Doors
    Joni Mitchell
    The Monkees
    Simon and Garfunkel
    Spanky and Our Gang

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    Jackson Browne
    Joni Mitchell
    CSNY-including them as solo artists
    Traffic/Steve Winwood
    The Strawbs
    JD Souther
    Linda Ronstadt
    Judy Collins
    Emmylou Harris
    Dan Fogelberg

    in no particular order

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    Beatles
    Rolling Stones
    Led Zeppelin
    Dire Straits
    Mark Knopfler
    Genesis
    Peter Gabriel
    Bob Dylan
    Elton John
    Van Morrison

    Apologies to Phil Collins who just missed the cut. Note: mine are all British. It didn't seem right to just say Knopfler/Gabriel/Collins were band members. Their work, especially Knopfler's, is too important to me to do that.

    My other honourable mentions are Pink Floyd, the Bee Gees & Queen.

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    1. Guns N Roses
    (Including Chinese Democracy which with Slash and Duff playing it makes it even better for me as it is my favorite album of all time. Some great songs on there. My Favorite is Madagascar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wZFYfqMAE)

    2. The Beatles

    3. Lynyrd Skynyrd

    4. Eric Clapton

    5. Gary Clark Jr

    6. George Harrison Solo

    7. AC/DC(Axl introduced me to the band and let me tell you he sounds so much like Bon Scott).

    8. Foo Fighters

    9. ZZ Top

    10. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

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    George Strait x 10

    Woo hoo, he's in the lead!

    JK, I'll have to really think about this. I enjoy music from different genres and what I favor depends on my mood.

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    Pink Floyd
    The Doors
    The Beatles
    Supertramp
    Led Zeppelin
    The Who
    Steely Dan
    ELO
    David Bowie
    Rolling Stones

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    Meant to post here over the last couple of days but just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the great response so far! I've really enjoyed reading through all your lists and with 17 lists so far (16 excluding my own) the table is beginning to take shape. If we get just a few more lists I will put it up - although I can say for now that there is a very impressive breadth of different artists and styles. Cheers!

    AT, I haven't heard Glenn Hughes' new album. I must admit Deep Purple Mk3 is fairly new to me apart from the title track from Burn, although I've liked what I've heard (the Burn album is on my Christmas list). The only Purple records I own at present are the 'big three' Mk2 studio albums: In Rock, Fireball and Machine Head.

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    Bob Seger
    Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks
    Journey/Steve Perry
    Hall&Oates
    Jennifer Nettles
    Foreigner
    George Strait
    CSN
    Chris Stapelton
    Vince Gill

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    Default Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)

    Top Ten
    1: Genesis
    2: Van Morrison
    3: Warren Zevon
    4: Elbow
    5: Peter Gabriel
    6: David Lindley / El Rayo-X
    7: Tom Waits
    8: David Gray
    9: Richard Marx
    X: Status Quo



    In the last Century, making a list of my top ten artists would have been straight forward. The criteria being the albums and singles I'd listened to, plus the live performances I'd attended or seen in a rare TV appearance.
    I had to give a current top ten quite a lot of thought.

    Where I used to enjoy browsing through record shops, now I enjoy browsing through the internet, picking up information rather than vinyl.
    The number of artists I'm familiar with and the knowledge I have of them is beyond anything I could have conceived when I first became a music fan so narrowing it down to ten took a bit of application.

    One thing hasn't changed. I'm still unable to call myself a fan of any artists I've got to know in retrospect, even if, like the The Beatles and The Stones, their back catalog is outstanding in any comparison.

    My criteria now, would still be based on how much I enjoy listening to the music but I suppose, how much I enjoy reading and following someone on the internet, comes into it too.

    With so many artists showing a dependency on their back catalog, I think it's also important for artists to aspire to make new music. I still get great enjoyment listening to new music from artists that I like.

    1: Genesis
    My favorite band. The more I've discovered, the more I've loved them. Their evolution from prog to pop was a fantastic journey. When I first heard the single, Mama on the radio, I loved it so much, I became a double Genesis fan! If you split the Gabriel and Collins eras, both would make my top ten, with the later stuff top.
    I'm sure their story has a chapter or two more to come.

    2: Van Morrison
    Van was just someone I heard a lot about, without hearing any of his music. I saw a cut price Van Morrison LP, (Common One) on sale and bought it, liked it, bought another.. and so it continues. Always enjoyable, consistently good, sometimes great.

    3: Warren Zevon
    I discovered Warren the same way I discovered Eagles, via Joe Walsh. There's no prospect of me hearing any new Zevon music but like Morrison and Genesis, I still really enjoy listening to the music they produced over several decades. Many of his songs have an endearing hint of mischief.

    4: Elbow
    Local indie band hit the big time in 2008. Thought I should check them out. Great band, hugely popular amongst their peers. A warm and funny front man with a lovely voice. Heartwarming songs, unpretentious production and they're unabashed big Genesis fans too. They're not apologetic about playing loads of quiet songs either.

    5: Peter Gabriel
    Started off in Genesis but the further he moved away from them, the more I liked him. I was indifferent to Peter until I heard his So album being played in constant rotation in a record shop. I must've been in there quite a while. I've been a huge fan ever since. You can hear his journey of exploration of sounds, rhythms and textures through his albums, while never dulling his abilities as a singer, musician and songwriter.

    6: David Lindley / El Rayo-X
    I've never been a fan of rock guitarists, with the mega-sized exceptions of Joe Walsh and David Lindley. Like Gabriel, David Lindley has immersed himself in ethnic music throughout his career without entirely leaving the mainstream. El Rayo-X only made a handful of albums in the 80s before
    Lindley downsized to lower budget productions. His singing voice is an acquired taste but the music he plays, through his multitude of stringed instruments is a joy to listen to. His bootlegs are worth searching out too.

    7: Tom Waits
    I heard Tom Traubert's Blues in a fairly well populated record shop. Everybody present was just like me, in stunned attentive silence. "In the moment" so to speak. Tom's another voice that's an acquired taste but he's also on the esteemed list of artists who have written and performed loads of great music over a period of several decades... often with great imagery and a touch of the unusual about them.

    8: David Gray
    Another artist with local connections. I thought he'd make one great hit album (White Ladder) and then disappear back into obscurity but I dug deeper when I heard that, as well as being acknowledging by Glenn Frey as an influence on No More Cloudy Days, Henley had covered a few of his more obscure tracks in concert.
    I was impressed with his post, "trying to recreate the hit album", albums and listen to him quite a lot, particularly his most recent stuff.

    9: Richard Marx
    Joe Walsh played on his hit first record. Richard had incredible success in his first few years but's his later stuff that I'm most fond of. After falling from pop sensation into adult/contemporary obscurity, he's still continuing to put out great recordings. His clutch of loss/grieving songs are exceptional. His voice and production values are better than ever.

    10: One spot left and I still haven't mentioned, much loved, Phil Collins, Electric Light Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, REM, Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, and a load of other mainly 70s, white, male rock stars.

    I was tempted to include somebody contemporary but, as much as I love First Aid Kit, three progressively accomplished albums doesn't really compare with 40 years worth of hits, so, although their talent is obvious and I look forward to new First Aid Kit material with much anticipation, I plump for old timers, Status Quo, who's future looks diametrically, grim.

    During a five decade career in which they've veered from ok, to brilliant, to awful, embarrassing and great again, with an ugly break-up and glorious reunion thrown in, Quo are now on a definite downturn again, ditching their guitar rock roots and going multi instrument, acoustic pseudo folk pop.
    I doubt whether they'll make my next top ten list but they were great in their time and over the years I guess I've been there, done that and bought the T-Shirt where the Quo are concerned.

    Thanks for the stimulating topic JCL
    Last edited by Funk 50; 11-27-2016 at 07:41 PM.

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