This is the loophole thread. Here, please post five artists not in the top 100 you want on the “Island”, and five artists in the top 100 you want off the “Island”. Please see the Rules Thread for the complete set of rules. Remember that one artist get 5 points, the next gets 4, and so on.

The top 100 (vote five out):
AC/DC, The Band, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Chuck Berry, Björk, Black Sabbath, Blur, David Bowie, James Brown, The Byrds, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Ray Charles, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke, Elvis Costello, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Miles Davis, The Doors, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Brian Eno, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Grateful Dead, Al Green, Guns N’ Roses, PJ Harvey, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Michael Jackson, The Jam, Elton John, Joy Division, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Little Richard, Madonna, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Massive Attack, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, New Order, Nirvana, Oasis, OutKast, Parliament/Funkadelic, Pavement, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Police, Portishead, Elvis Presley, Primal Scream, Prince, Public Enemy, Pulp, Radiohead, Ramones, Otis Redding, Lou Reed, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Run-D.M.C., Sex Pistols, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Sly and the Family Stone, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, The Stooges, Talking Heads, T. Rex, U2, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention

101-200 (vote five in):
ABBA, Aerosmith, The Allman Brothers Band, Archade Fire, Big Star, Blondie Jackson Browne, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush, John Cale, Can, The Chemical Brothers, Chic, Jimmy Cliff, Coldplay, Ornette Coleman, Cream, Crosby Stills Nash (& Young), Daft Punk, Deep Purple, De La Soul, Depeche Mode, Derek and the Dominos, Bo Diddley, Dr. Dre, Eagles, Echo and the Bunnymen, Duke Ellington, Missy Elliot, Eric B. & Rakim, The Everly Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Peter Gabriel, Serge Gainsbourg, Grandmaster Flash, Happy Mondays, Herbie Hancock, Hüsker Dü, Jay-Z, Jefferson Airplane, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company, Carole King, King Crimson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Love, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manic Street Preachers, Curtis Mayfield, M.I.A., Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Morrissey, Motörhead, My Bloody Valentine, Randy Newman, Nico, Nine Inch Nails, N.W.A, Roy Orbison, Gram Parsons, Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop, Pretenders, The Prodigy, Public Image Ltd., Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Sonny Rollins, Sigur Rós, Santana, Paul Simon, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, The Specials, Dusty Springfield, Rod Stewart, The Stone Roses, The Streets, The Strokes, Suede, The Supremes, Television, The Temptations, A Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, Van Halen, The Verve, Muddy Waters, Weezer, Kanye West, Hank Williams, Wire, XTC

-5 Grateful Dead
-4 LCD Soundsystem
-3 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
-2 Run-D.M.C.
-1 The Band

+5 Depeche Mode
+4 Curtis Mayfield
+3 Hank Williams
+2 ABBA
+1 The Supremes

-5 The White Stripes
-4 LCD Soundsystem
-3 The Beastie Boys
-2 Patti Smith
-1 T. Rex

+5 The Smashing Pumpkins
+4 Hank Williams
+3 Jackson Browne
+2 The Replacements
+1 Big Star

-5 Queen
-4 Black Sabbath
-3 Sex Pistols
-2 Run DMC
-1 Eminem

+5 Tim Buckley (Everyone look shocked!)
+4 TV On The Radio
+3 XTC
+2 Flaming Lips
+1 Nine Inch Nails

Day 1 on Acclaimed Music Island, and some artists are already turning against the most famous, acclaimed and popular group The Beatles.

-5 The Beatles
-4 Run-D.M.C.
-3 Guns N' Roses
-2 U2
-1 Leonard Cohen

+1 Queens of the Stone Age
+2 Derek and the Dominos
+3 Chic
+4 TV on the Radio
+5 Arcade Fire

-5 Velvet Underground
-4 Frank Zappa
-3 Brian Eno
-2 Captain Beefheart
-1 Grateful Dead

+5 Nine Inch Nails
+4 The Stone Roses
+3 Manic Street Preachers
+2 Arcade Fire
+1 Pearl Jam

+5 Elliott Smith
+4 Queens of the Stone Age
+3 Kanye West
+2 Arcade Fire
+1 The Replacements

bubbling unders : The Chemical Brothers, Wire, TV on the Radio, Red Hot, Television

-5 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
-4 John Lennon
-3 Elvis Costello
-2 Steely Dan
-1 Roxy Music

-5 Sex Pistols
-4 The Cure
-3 Sonic Youth
-2 John Lennon
-1 The Smiths

+5 Cream
+4 The Stone Roses
+3 The Allman Brothers Band
+2 Can
+1 Red Hot Chili Peppers

+5 Arcade Fire
+4 Curtis Mayfield
+3 The Replacements
+2 A Tribe Called Quest
+1 Daft Punk

-5 Captain Beefheart
-4 Grateful Dead
-3 Oasis
-2 AC/DC
-1 The Doors

Really hope LCD doesn't get kicked out of the T100.

U2 -5
Eminem -4
Pet Shop Boys -3
The Police -2
Madonna -1

Big Star +5
Elliott Smith +4
The Replacements +3
Serge Gainsbourg +2
Kate Bush +1

Oh, crap, I assumed Queen was in the top 100. Then...

-5 Black Sabbath
-4 Sex Pistols
-3 Run DMC
-2 Eminem
-1 The Police

+5 Queen (#1 All Time)
+4 Aerosmith (#2 All Time)
+3 Van Halen (#6 All Time)
+2 Blondie
+1 Pearl Jam

-5 Eminem
-4 Beefheart
-3 Pet Shop Boys
-2 John Lennon
-1 Madonna

-5 Eminem
-4 Metallica
-3 Madonna
-2 Guns n' Roses
-1 Elton John

+1 Jerry Lee Lewis
+2 The Specials
+3 Charles Mingus
+2 Can
+1 Herbie Hancock

-5 AC/DC
-4 Guns N'Roses
-3 Metallica
-2 Run DMC
-1 Grateful Dead

+5 The Flaming Lips
+4 Queen
+3 Big Star
+2 Morrissey
+1 XTC

Holly cow! A lot of votes in 8 hours!
Check point.

Tough to limit it to 5 for both lists!

-5 AC/DC
-4 Oasis
-3 John Lennon
-2 Grateful Dead
-1 Pink Floyd

+5 Blondie
+4 Depeche Mode
+3 The Strokes
+2 Missy Elliott
+1 Can

-5 Frank Sinatra
-4 The Cure
-3 Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
-2 Frank Zappa / The Mothers of Invention
-1 Nick Drake

I went for the lowest ranked artists that I didn't like...we'll see if that works.

+5 The Eagles
+4 ABBA
+3 Blondie
+2 Peter Gabriel
+1 Queen

I like Queen, but they don't seem to need much help

The top 100 (vote five out):
-5 Bob Dylan
-4 Run-D.M.C.
-3 Van Morrison
-2 Sex Pistols
-1 Public Enemy

101-200 (vote five in):
+5 Serge Gainsbourg
+4 The Temptations
+3 Cream
+2 Depeche Mode
+1 Elliott Smith

-5 Pet Shop Boys
-4 Sex Pistols
-3 New Order
-2 Ramones
-1 Guns 'N Roses

+5 Sigur Ros
+4 Cream
+3 Paul Simon
+2 King Crimson
+1 Pearl Jam

-5 John Lennon
-4 Black Sabbath
-3 The Jam
-2 Run-D.M.C.
-1 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

+5 Coldplay
+4 Curtis Mayfield
+3 Eagles
+2 Van Halen
+1 Queen

-5 Captain Beefheart
-4 Frank Zappa
-3 Patti Smith
-2 Grateful Dead
-1 The White Stripes

+5 The Smashing Pumpkins
+4 Elliott Smith
+3 Arcade Fire
+2 Sigur Ros
+1 The Flaming Lips

Apologies to The Replacements, TV on the Radio, Peter Gabriel and many others - they're just as deserving.

timmywing, you gave 2 artist +2 and 2 artists +1. I'm not sure which you meant to give 5 and 4, please tell me.

Check point.

-5 Grateful Dead
-4 The Doors
-3 Metallica
-2 Steely Dan
-1 Creedence Clearwater Revival

Waaay too many deserving candidates from the 101-200 group, but I'll go with:

+5 Big Star
+4 Hank Williams
+3 Arcade Fire
+2 Wire
+1 Pretenders

(What's this "check point" business?)

Am I the only one here that loves Beefheart? His album Safe As Milk cracked top 15 for 1967; I assume those voters aren't voting here (and that most of those who voted against him have only tried Trout Mask Replica).

Eminem -5
Guns 'N Roses -4
Frank Sinatra -3
Grateful Dead -2
Bob Marley -1

Wire +5
Elliott Smith +4
My Bloody Valentine +3
King Crimson +2
Can +1

Figuring out who to vote in was incredibly difficult. But I couldn't escape how great some of those jazz artist were in the 2d 100

Out:
Black Sabbath (-5)
Primal Scream (-4)
Captain Beefheart... (-3)
Joy Division (-2)
Joni Mitchell (-1)

In:
Ella Fitzgerald (+5)
Duke Ellington (+4)
Daft Punk (+3)
A Tribe Called Quest (+2)
Thelonious Monk (+1)

-5 Parliament/Funkadelic
-4 AC/DC
-3 The Cure
-2 Jimi Hendrix
-1 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

+5 Coldplay
+4 M.I.A.
+3 Arcade Fire
+2 The Stone Roses
+1 TV On the Radio

Very difficult not to vote for Elliott Smith!

-5 The Police
-4 Joni Mitchell
-3 Eminem
-2 Sex Pistols
-1 Guns N’ Roses

+5 Charles Mingus
+4 Curtis Mayfield
+3 Wire
+2 TV on the Radio
+1 Big Star

Spekaing of beefheart, he has 10 more points accumulated than the second to lat place artist.

Checkpoint

With a little over 9 voting hours left, we have 13 artists fighting for 4 spots on the island.

Loophole Week is now over.