Well my top 3 favourite are the top 3. Does that mean I have great taste?. Yep...lol. But I hope Radiohead wins.
Like the previous guy stated. Radiohead would have record of the decade two decades in a row if the Decade ended tomorrow. Seeing how I think KidA is the greatest album ever made, I doubt anything in the next few years is gunna change my mind of that fact.

1990's
OK COMPUTER (1)
THE BENDS (6)
PABLO HONEY (112)

2000'2
KID A (1)
IN RAINBOWS (3)
AMNESIAC (6)
HAIL TO THE THIEF (11)

Don't get me wrong, The beatles and dylan both hold Decade bests (Rubber Soul, Blood on the tracks) they just havent got the body of work to match Radiohead, and radiohead are still going. In Fact, they still have a chance at taking the number 1 spot in 2010'S if they dont retire.

Prediction

3 Dylan (A great career, but likely overshadowed by the long running popularity of the beatles, and the recent surge of interest in Radiohead)

2 radiohead (On the heals of a great record, popularity may have pushed them passed dyaln. But like I've always said. "Everybody LIKES the beatles, but only lots of people LOVE RADIOHEAD)

1 The Beatles (Just too many fans But like I've always said. "Everybody LIKES the beatles, but only lots of people LOVE RADIOHEAD"

No predictions from my side, but what a fantastic list of 100 artists that is!

I think you might be right Kevin.

I hope that Kevin's rankings are right. I like Dylan, but I don't think he's as good as the other two.

I'm rooting for Dylan, but I don't think he's as popular on this board as Radiohead.

Kevin, not everybody likes The Beatles.

Just to take one example, Pop hates the Beatles.

From the 1960s U.S. comedian Allan Sherman, best known for the fluke hit novelty summer-camp single "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh", here are the lyrics to "Pop Hates the Beatles", recorded during the first flush of Beatlemania in 1964. Sung to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel", of course. This one's for you, Moonbeam:

My daughter needs a new phonograph.
She wore out all the needles.
Besides, I broke the old one in half.
I hate the Beatles.

She says they have a Liverpool beat.
She says they used to play there.
Four nice kids from offa the street.
Why didn’t they stay there?

What is all the screaming about?
Fainting and swooning.
Sounds to me like their guitars
Could use a little tuning.

The boys are from the British Empire.
The British think they’re keen.
If that is what the British desire,
God Save The Queen.

No daughter of mine can push me around.
In my house I’m the master.
But when the British came into town,
Gad, what a disaster!

Little girls in sneakers and jeans.
Destroyed the territory.
‘Twas like some of the gorier scenes
From West Side Story.

Of course my daughter had to go there.
“The tickets are cheap!” she hollers.
I was able to pick up a pair
For forty-seven dollars.

When the Beatles come on the stage,
They scream and shriek and cheer them.
Now I know why they’re such a rage,
It’s impossible to hear them.

Ringo is the one with the drum,
The others all play with him.
It shows you what a boy can become
Without a sense of rhythm.

There’s Beatle books and T-shirts and rings,
And one thing and another.
To buy my daughter all of these things,
I had to sell her brother.

Back in 1776
We fought the British then, folks.
Parents of America,
It’s time to do it again, folks.

When they come back, here’s how we’ll begin,
We’ll throw ‘em in Boston Harbor.
But please, before we toss ‘em all in,
Let’s take ‘em to a barber!

(NOTE: As you might guess, in 1964 $47 was a considerable amount of money.)

lol

#6-4

All of them made my own personal list somewhere with the Stones closest (they landed at #3 for me).

Bowie was my #24 (I like a lot of his songs but so far the only album I want to add to my collection is ZIGGY STARDUST) and R.E.M. lands at #13 (mostly because I'm not as into early R.E.M. as I am GREEN and later.)

3. Radiohead

AM Rank: 19
Survivor Rank: 5
Polls Rank: 3

Total Points: 1410.53
Appears on: 26 ballots:

Kevin (1)
Mitchell Sterling (1)
Pop Elton (1)
BillAdama (3)
Harold Wexler (3)
Michel (3.5)
Anthony (4)
Honorio (4)
Penguin (4)
Jonah (5)
Lonesome Panda (5)
Andre (9)
Daniel (10)
Henrik (13)
Stammer (13)
Rocky Raccoon (16)
John (17)
Vgrd (19)
Slush (21)
Depeche Mode (27)
Toni (27)
Sonofsamiam (2
Dumbangel (53)
Tim (6
Nicolas (79)
Fred (9

Quotable:

Mitchell Sterling: ...In Rainbows which reminded me with it's simultaneous worldwide listening and people experiencing a record coming out like in the old days how much this band means to me. The literal hundred of pounds I've spent on their music across multi formats, concerts, t-shirts, magazines with features in and so on. It helped that the album was a return to form following the disappointing elements of HTTT (not that bad an album when it comes down to it, still top 20 for the year in my book.) Anyway looking back more historically this band is the reason I love music so much, the amount of things I've been turned onto by being aware of their influences and how many of us would have dipped to far into the Warp back catalogue without Thom Yorke's exuberance over it. Same goes for Jeff Buckley, DJ Shadow, Magazine, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Sirgue Ros and many many more. Good band.

Penguin: The ultimate grower. At first, Radiohead is almost certain to annoy just about everyone. When I first heard "OK Computer", I thought it was absolute tuneless garbage with a singer who couldn't sing. After many, many listens, my opinion has been revised over and over again, although I maintain that "Fitter Happier" is still pretty terrible. Perhaps even more than U2, opinion on Radiohead is steeply divided. If you dislike them today, however, I would urge you to reconsider. After a few more listens, the intricate guitar work of Johnny Greenwood becomes more noticeable, and Thom Yorke's voice sounds tremendous. After "Pablo Honey", they haven't produced a single bad album.

Lonesome Panda: I'm a bit surprised that when I compile my song, album and listening lists they arrive 5th… but thinking of it, it is just pure logic, they are brilliant…3 huge albums and great songs in all the others. Favourite Album: OK Computer, Favourite Song: Fake Plastic Trees

John: OK Computer and Kid A are the two most important albums since 1990.

Albums in the Top 1000 Poll:

OK Computer (1)
Kid A (14)
The Bends (43)
In Rainbows (146)
Amnesiac (202)
Hail to the Thief (255)

Songs in the Top 1000 Poll:

Paranoid Android (24)
Let Down (37)
No Surprises (59)
Fake Plastic Trees (77)
How to Disappear Completely (81)
Idioteque (12
Pyramid Song (141)
Everything in Its Right Place (22
Karma Police (281)
Subterranean Homesick Alien (332)
Lucky (392)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (417)
Creep (41
The National Anthem (707)
Airbag (710)
Optimistic (749)
High and Dry (837)
There There (86

Path to the Top 100:

2. Bob Dylan

AM Rank: 3
Survivor Rank: 2
Polls Rank: 2

Total Points: 1549.29
Appears on: 27 ballots:

BillAdama (1)
Stephan (1)
Damosuzuki (2)
Kevin (2)
Harold Wexler (2)
Honorio (2)
Paul (2)
Sonofsamiam (2)
Rocky Raccoon (3)
John (4)
Mitchell Sterling (5)
Andre (6)
Nicolas (6)
Schleuse (6)
Fred (9)
Slush (10)
Daniel (13)
Stammer (1
Henrik (25)
Jonah (27)
Michel (39)
Penguin (41)
Rune (45)
Vgrd (56)
Greg (5
Tim (61)
Miguel (80)

Quotable:

John: To tell you the truth I only love one of his albums. But I also love about 100 of his songs.

Mitchell Sterling: There are people who go through a Led Zeppelin phase when they are younger, the kind where the burn out on their decade of studio output. Dylan has a much larger studio output and I've done it more than once, it sometimes felt like six months where all I wanted to do is listen to a Dylan album. I couldn't deny him a place on in the top 5 on account of owning all of his albums on CD and a growing collection on vinyl now as well. Like Bowie, SFA and Pixies in the top ten there is a different Dylan for each day of the week from the Greenwich Villages days, the thin wild mercury sound, country crooner, bitter divorcee etc etc. He stands as a colossus in popular music and I can't imagine how different the music world would have been without his influence on three generations of singer-songwriters.

Albums in the Top 1000 Poll:

Highway 61 Revisited (3)
Blonde on Blonde (10)
Blood on the Tracks (25)
Bringing It All Back Home (30)
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (10
Desire (187)
Live 1966- The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (235)
Time out of Mind (352)
John Wesley Harding (365)
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (369)
Live 1975 (43
Slow Train Coming (547)
Love and Theft (57

Songs in the Top 1000 Poll:

Like a Rolling Stone (2)
Tangled up in Blue (19)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (51)
Desolation Row (89)
Hurricane (205)
The Girl from North Country (222)
Blind Willie McTell (245)
It’s All Right Ma (I’m Only Bleedin’ (247)
Visions of Johanna (262)
Stuck Inside of Mobile with Memphis Blues Again (33
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (42
Ballad of a Thin Man (490)
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (514)
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (524)
Highway 61 Revisited (543)
Mr. Tambourine Man (561)
Idiot Wind (576)
Blowin’ in the Wind (674)
Just Like a Woman (70
I Want You (736)
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (866)

Path to the Top 100:

1. The Beatles

AM Rank: 1
Survivor Rank: 1
Polls Rank: 1

Total Points: 2260.61
Appears on: 32 ballots:

Anthony (1)
Daniel (1)
Harold Wexler (1)
Henrik (1)
Honorio (1)
John (1)
Miguel (1)
Penguin (1)
Rocky Raccoon (1)
Andre (2)
Dumbangel (2)
Mitchell Sterling (2)
Toni (2)
Jonah (3)
Damosuzuki (3)
Kevin (3)
Nicolas (3)
Schleuse (3)
Michel (3.5)
BillAdama (4)
Georgie (6)
Sonofsamiam (
Depeche Mode (11)
Rune (22)
Lonesome Panda (23)
Paul (23)
Slush (25)
Fred (27)
Stephan (32)
Tim (35)
Pop Elton (41)
Stammer (6

Quotable:

John: Undisputed champions.

Penguin: What is there to be said about this band that hasn't already been mentioned? I hate adding hyperbole, but this is the band that got me into music. It says a lot that even now, I'm still not tired of these tunes. While their songs don't always blow you away, their albums often are more than the sum of its parts. Both "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" are such examples of perfectly crafted albums. It could be said that if they had come 10 years later, they wouldn't have been as unique or influencial, but in many ways, that's a flawed argument. I only need to say that they're my most listened to artist today, over three decades after they dissolved, to show that they have been and are timeless.

Mitchell Sterling: Because they are The fucking Beatles basically. If they don't win this then basically we have failed. They'd have been my personal number one if it wasn't for the recent release of....(Radiohead’s In Rainbows)

Lonesome Panda: Favourite Album: Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Favourite Song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Slush: Yeah, I do like The Beatles, I just don't obsess over them. They really were a great pop music band and the world was richer for them. Now I'm off to listen to the Stones.

Albums in the Top 1000 Poll:

Revolver (2)
The White Album (4)
Abbey Road (
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (9)
Rubber Soul (23)
Magical Mystery Tour (115)
Help (229)
Beatles for Sale (276)
Let It Be (300)
A Hard Day’s Night (476)

Songs in the Top 1000 Poll:

A Day in the Life (1)
Strawberry Fields Forever (6)
Tomorrow Never Knows (39)
I Am the Walrus (6
Eleanor Rigby (85)
Yesterday (110)
Blackbird (111)
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (175)
Revolution (180)
And Your Bird Can Sing (193)
Dear Prudence (217)
Rain (260)
Hey Jude (274)
Ticket to Ride (313)
Norwegian Wood (316)
Getting Better (324)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (337)
She’s Leaving Home (357)
She Said She Said (386)
Penny Lane (40
Nowhere Man (427)
Come Together (431)
You’ve Gotta Hide Your Love Away (489)
Savoy Truffle (521)
The Long and Winding Road (522)
In My Life (540)
With a Little Help from My Friends (703)
Rocky Raccoon (743)
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (744)
Here Comes the Sun (777)
Let It Be (784)
For No One (82
Helter Skelter (829)
You Never Give Me Your Money (867)
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (899)

Path to the Top 100:

And just for fun, I thought I'd make a graph of the ultimate grudge match between The Beatles and Bob Dylan, a battle so sacred that its mere mention can bring bouts of nervous tics in internet posters worldwide!

Dylan sprinted out to a good lead, but the consistent running of The Beatles proved to be far too much in the end. What started off as a hotly contested race turned out to be a blowout in the end.

And that, dear AMers, concludes the unveiling of the list! It has been my great pleasure to care for and reveal the list, and I'd like to thank all of those who participated. I will send Henrik the master Excel file so that he can post it if he wishes.

Well done Moonbeam. I expected it to be closer than that but never doubted the results.

Awesome stuff, Moonbeam. The graphs were a nice touch, and the overall presentation was terrific.

Just kinda upset that NKOTB didn't show up...

Maybe their new album The Block will lure more voters next time...

Big thanks Moonbeam, you have done a lot of good work. I must admit that Dylan today would be my number 1! I know it's strange but he passed Depeche Mode really quickly!

Great work, 'beam.

Fantastic work, Moonbeam. Really stellar.

Yes, really impressive work. Thanks!

So, for the Dylan fans, next time you should just shorten the time for sending in those ballots.

Thanks a lot, Moonbeam. Fantastic job!

The Beatles blowout in the end proves that those who do a more thorough analysis realise that Beatles were greater than Dylan.

I think Dylan's career of work is more impressive, but it was inevitable the Beatles would win. I'm just happy Dylan beat Radiohead.

But I have no use for the Mophead period. I saw Hard Day's Night, it was like a live action Animaniacs.

You say that as if it were a bad thing...

I knew what that video was before I even clicked play Nicolas!

Thanks, Moonbeam! Can't say I'm surprised by these showings, but really, there's a reason why these artists are acclaimed, right?

And here are the top 10 correlations again. The values have become closer to 1, since the agreement between voters is stronger in the top of the list.

1. Daniel & Stephan (r=0.62)
2. Daniel & Nicolas (0.57)
Stephan & Nicolas (0.57)
4. Nicolas & Honorio (0.50)
Harold Wexler & Rocky Raccoon (0.50)
6. Penguin & Slush (0.49)
7. Daniel & Rocky Raccoon (0.47)
8. Stephan & Miguel (0.45)
9. Stephan & Greg (0.44)
Jonah & Slush (0.44)
Harold Wexler & Kevin (0.44)

Looks like a group with a very similar taste!

However, I have also inluded Greg Rumpff in my stats, and then it looks like this...

1. Daniel & Stephan (r=0.62)
2. Daniel & Greg Rumpff (r=0.59)
3. Daniel & Nicolas (0.57)
Stephan & Nicolas (0.57)
Greg Rumpff & Nicolas (0.57)
6. Stephan & Greg Rumpff (0.53)
7. Nicolas & Honorio (0.50)
Harold Wexler & Rocky Raccoon (0.50)
9. Penguin & Slush (0.49)
10. Daniel & Rocky Raccoon (0.47)
Greg Rumpff & Greg (0.47)

Now, that's a really tight group! It would be easy to think that Daniel, Stephan & Co. are the most correlated with the overall list, but they're not. Here are the voters with most artists in the overall top 100.

1. Harold Wexler (73 artists)
2. Honorio (67)
3. BillAdama (64)
Kevin (64)
5. Henrik (61)
6. Greg (50)
7. Mitchell Stirling (48)
8. Fred (47)
Jonah (47)
Rocky Raccoon (47)

I've also made an attempt to show our tastes in a two-dimensional graph. I have used a method to find the two dimensions that best describe our different tastes (of course it's not possible to show all relationships between 36 voters with only two dimensions)

If you can't see the symbols proberly in the image below, you can click it to view it in a bigger size.

Henrik, I could not see the image, even after clicking on it. Perhaps this works:

I'm not sure if that graph made any sense to you. The question you would like to ask is probably "what are those two dimensions?" and to answer that I have - based on each voter's votes and position in the graph above - plotted the top 100 artists as well.

By looking at the images below the x-axis looks almost like a timeline, from Elvis Presley to LCD Soundsystem. The y-axis is a little harder, but I think that if you move upwards in the graph the artists become less and less guitar-based rock. However, this trend does not include jazz, as Miles Davis and John Coltrane are both in the lower region of the chart. An alternative interpretation is that the higher y-value the more the artists become dependent on other personnel, such as backing musicians and producers.

Perhaps you can come up with a better interpretation of the charts, but if I'm correct than the voters to the left are the biggest fans of "old music" while the the voters to the right prefer more recent music. The voters in the bottom (nothing wrong with that) prefer guitar bands while voters in the top are bigger fans of other genres/styles such as soul, rap, synth, etc.

The 10 artists with lowest values on the x-axis:
1. Elvis Presley
2. Chuck Berry
3. The Byrds
4. Van Morrison
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. Neil Young
7. Johnny Cash
8. Hank Williams
9. The Rolling Stones
10. Elvis Costello

The 10 artists with highest values on the x-axis:
1. LCD Soundsystem
2. Massive Attack
3. The Strokes
4. Arcade Fire
5. New Order
6. Portishead
7. Blur
8. The Flaming Lips
9. Pulp
10. Joy Division

The 10 artists with lowest values on the y-axis:
1. R.E.M.
2. Pavement
3. The Clash
4. Talking Heads
5. Pearl Jam
6. Pixies
7. Wilco
8. Beck
9. Nirvana
10. Neutral Milk Hotel

The 10 artists with highest values on the y-axis:
1. Michael Jackson
2. Scott Walker
3. James Brown
4. Steely Dan
5. Prince
6. Kraftwerk
7. The Cure
8. Brian Eno
9. Super Furry Animals
10. Wu-Tang Clan






That's all for now...

Ooops, turn out very big, sorry about that.

I like this purple sun in the centre, that's me very nice. But what does this graph actually mean?

And oops again, there's already the answer to my question.

Andre, if you click on the image and a new window opens. There you need to click on the image again to maximize it.

(Or I've could have posted the images without resizing, just like you did, but they are too big for my screen...)

Henrik, it doesn't seem to work with Firefox. I just checked with IE, both image in the thread itself as well as popup works there...

My position in the graph matches perfectly, Henrik. I like both old and new music, but the peak lies in the 80's. And as you said, there is nothing wrong with guitar rock.

Thanks Andre!

I'd like to mention again that I'm really interested to hear if anyone has any other interpretation of the chart patterns.

Off to bed.

Hmm... Your interpretation seems pretty good to me, Henrik. It makes a lot of sense; I favor new music a lot more and am slightly on the guitar-based rock side. Cool.

Awesome graphs, Henrik! Could I ask in a little more detail how the x-axis and y-axis positions are determined? You say that the x-axis is a sort of timeline running from oldest to newest, based on artist. How are these artists ranked? Also, is the x-coordinate of each of the poster's positions based on a weighted average of his/her lists? That seems pretty cool.

I'm more unsure of how to interpret the y-axis. It seems to be based on genre, somewhat. How do you quantify something like that?

I'll send you the master list soon, Henrik. You don't have to, of course, but I think it would be really cool to see how it worked out if you included all of the artists rather than those who managed a top 100 place!

Moonbeam, I didn't go into any details of my method since it's a bit complicated, but I knew that you would ask me about it.

Out of all correlations, I took the most negative one (I didn't plan to reveal this, but what the heck, it was between you and Paul (r=-0.25)) and this was the start of the creation of three heterogenous groups; the Moonbeam group, the Paul group and the Inbetween group. The Inbetween group included the remaining 34 voters to begin with. Next step was to move 11 of them into the Moonbeam group and 11 others into the Paul group, so that each group had 12 voters. I moved one voter at a time to each of the groups, using the highest and lowest value of the difference between the 'mean correlation with the voters in the Moonbeam group' and the 'mean correlation with the voters in the Paul group'. When each group had 12 voters, the x-variable was complete; it's these difference values that are plotted in the graphs. And as you can see, in the end Moonbeam and Paul didn't have the most extreme x-values.

For the y-axis I went over this procedure almost in the same way, but I started by looking at negative correlations between voters within the Moonbeam group, within the Paul group and within the Inbetween group. Then I forced the three new y-axis groups to include 4 from each of the former x-axis groups.

I guess this is similar to factor analysis and there's probably a program that could have done this for me, but it was quite fun to do this manually...

What about the artist graphs then? Again I used the difference between the 'mean of the voters in the Moonbeam group' and the 'mean of the voters in the Paul group'. However, this time I used the mean position in our lists. For example, the mean position for Elvis Presley was much lower in the Paul group than in the Moonbeam group, which gave a negative value on the x-axis.

Uhmmm, did anyone understand anything?

I love it! "The Moonbeam Group"- awesome! Maybe I can sway a few more over to my side. Come to the Moonbeam Group.... Come....

I'm in the middle! Next to Sonofsam!

I've loved these graphs!
Now we have a map of all the member's distribution per musical taste. I totally agree with my position, and I'm actually next to people whose taste I consider a bit similar to mine.

As for the artists images, there are some interesting things to note. See that, while all the '60s acts are together (except VU, but that's quite obvious), The Beatles are in the alternative rock group. Maybe that occured because people with all different tastes like them, putting them in the exact middle of the list (and this would be the same case of U2).

Also, note that all the "white" music singer-songwrites are altogether, even though I see not so much similarities between, say, Costello and Dylan, for exemple.

I think that's me almost perfectly in the middle.

I was looking at the full 1,000 artists in order, and saw Curtis Mayfield somewhere in the 700s because it shows Vgrd spelling it Cutis, so Curtis Mayfield is really #97 instead of #101.

Georgie- you're right! Sorry, everyone, and Mr. Superfly!

#3 Radiohead. Does not appear in my list...at all. While I confess that repeated listens to OK COMPUTER and some of their albums have given a BIT more appreciation for Yorke and the lads..and I now actually like "Karma Police", "Fake Plastic Trees" and "House of Cards" (as well as "Creep" which I always liked) I still feel they're VASTLY overrated. Maybe IN RAINBOWS is the album that changes that for me...I'm liking it more than I have any other Radiohead so far.

#2 Dylan was my #11. Right now I only own compilations by him but a copy of BLOOD ON THE TRACKS and HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED (or is it HIGHWAY 51?) are in my future. It seems I like a LOT of his songs.

#1 The Beatles were my #2 just behind the Beach Boys. If you think that's sacrilege, ask Paul McCartney what the best album ever made was. Hint: He will NOT say it was a Beatles album.

The leap from OK Computer to Kid A is possibly the greatest change in the direction of a band, ever. Each of the guys in Radiohead basically had to re-learn their role within the band, which I can't imagine gives a warm-and-fuzzy feeling after you've just struck artistic gold with an album of such immense popularity and acclaim. If that's overrated... well, shit... where does that put all of the bands of the last 15 years who HAVEN'T released a seminal piece of dystopian pop art and then have done a complete one-eighty into apocalyptic electronica?

The Curtis Mayfield correction unfortunately means that LCD Soundsystem gets pushed out of the top 100. So it goes. "When someone great is gone..."

I'm so pleased that Curtis (belatedly) made it! Though it's too bad an important '00s artist like LCD gets dropped? Maybe we can just agree to asterisk Queen out of the list.