As long as there first album was release post 1989, It'll count!

1)Radiohead
2)TV On The Radio
3)Grizzly Bear
4)Nirvana
5)Pavement
6)Yo La Tengo
7)Bill Callahan
8)Wilco
9)Godpseed You Black Emporer
10)Animal Collective
11)Bjork
12)Arcade Fire
13)Sigur Ros
14)Beck
15)Pj Harvey
16)Sufjan Stevens
17)Belle and Sebastian
18)The White Stripes
19)Elliot Smith
20)LCD Soundsystem

Radiohead
Nirvana
White Stripes
Wilco
Bjork
Beck
Portishead
Sufjan Stevens
Joanna Newsom
Flaming Lips
The Knife
Prima Scream
Sleater-Kinney
Nine Inch Nails
PJ Harvey
TV On The Radio
Arcade Fire
Pavement
MIA
Outkast

"bands" interpreted liberally...

1. Drive-By Truckers
2. The Magnetic Fields
3. Smashing Pumpkins
4. Ryan Adams
5. Nas
6. Wu-Tang Clan
7. Guided by Voices
8. Kool Keith
9. Eminem
10. Queens of the Stone Age
11. Daft Punk
12. Gang Starr
13. The Lemonheads
14. Beck
15. Richard Hawley
16. Suede
17. Pulp
18. The Notoriouis B.I.G.
19. Ghostface Killah
20. Ice Cube
21. Dr. Dre
22. Oasis
23. Jay Dee
24. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
25. Wilco
26. PJ Harvey
27. Mobb Deep
28. Mastodon
29. Radiohead
30. Antony & the Johnsons

Wow Greg! You couldn't call your list cliche. Putting the Drive-By Truckers at number 1.

1. Elliott Smith
2. Beck
3. Pavement
4. Radiohead
5. Belle and Sebastian
6. Dandy Warhols
7. Weezer
8. Decemberists
9. Wu-Tang Clan
10. Badly Drawn Boy
11. Nirvana
12. Notorious BIG
13. Jay-Z
14. Mason Jennings
15. Sleater-Kinney
16. Destroyer
17. Bjork
18. Elastica
19. Minus 5
20. Magnetic Fields

nobody else quite stirs me up like the truckers. and re: late for the sky - it's just one of those albums. it spoke to me a great deal in high school, and it still does. browne's lyrics are disarmingly honest and lindley's slide guitar - don't even get me started. i'm assuming you've seen taxi driver? when trav bickle kicks over the tv and the title track starts playing? magic.

I'm not sure who you're responding to regarding Late for the Sky, but I agree--a remarkable album. I have seen Taxi Driver and the song is used to great effect.

i was indeed responding to you, chris. sorry i didn't do it sooner and in the appropriate thread

My top 20, derived by Henrik's formula.

1. Björk 16.50
2. Annie Lennox (solo) 19.36
3. LCD Soundsystem 19.95
4. Annie 19.99
5. Aaliyah 20.66
6. The Strokes 20.68
7. Arcade Fire 20.80
8. Franz Ferdinand 20.99
9. Chromeo 21.19
10. !!! 21.26
11. Missy Elliott 21.28
12. Busta Rhymes 21.40
13. Gorillaz 21.41
14. Dannii Minogue 21.68
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 21.69
16. Bat for Lashes 21.81
17. RES 22.04
18. N.E.R.D. 22.08
19. Peaches 22.16
20. Duffy 22.20

Since no one is actually doing bands, I'll present my T20 artists, based on work from 1989-2009. Interestingly enough, the allowance of 89 albums allow Pixies and MBV to slip in.

1. Radiohead
2. Nirvana
3. Beck
4. The White Stripes
5. Pixies
6. OutKast
7. Arcade Fire
8. R.E.M
9. Oasis
10. The Notorious B.I.G
11. My Bloody Valentine
12. Wilco
13. The Strokes
14. Nas
15. Bob Dylan
16. Pulp
17. Jay-Z
18. LCD Soundsystem
19. Franz Ferdinand
20. Pavement

My 1 and 2 are pretty obvious, but whatever. Maybe I have R.E.M a bit too low, but I'm not as huge a fan of their mainstream stuff.

1. Radiohead
2. Björk
3. Belle and Sebastian
4. Nirvana
5. PJ Harvey
6. Blur
7. Wilco
8. Goran Bregovic
9. The White Stripes
10. Elliott Smith
11. Suede
12. Eminem
13. Massive Attack
14. Rufus Wainwright
15. The Strokes
16. OutKast
17. Arcade Fire
18. Beck
19. Portishead
20. The Magnetic Fields

1. Radiohead
2. Blur
3. Oasis
4. Nirvana
5. LCD Soundsystem
6. Beck
7. The White Stripes
8. Smashing Pumpkins
9. Massive Attack
10. OutKast
11. Arcade Fire
12. The Flaming Lips
13. Coldplay
14. Franz Ferdinand
15. Pavement
16. Eminem
17. TV on the Radio
18. The Strokes
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers
20. Nine Inch Nails
21. Pulp
22. Dr. Dre
23. Primal Scream
24. Wilco
25. Daft Punk
26. Kanye West
27. M.I.A.
28. Jay- Z
29. Portishead
30. The Notorious B.I.G.



And that's my list. Some of these artists released albums BEFORE 1989, but I figured I'd only count them if they got famous after 1989. So R.E.M., and the Pixies don't count, because they achieved success BEFORE 1989, but bands like Pulp, Flaming Lips, and Red Hot Chili Peppers count because their music they're remembered for came after 1989.

1. Massive Attack
2. Björk
3. Radiohead
4. Portishead
5. Low
6. Sufjan Stevens
7. PJ Harvey
8. The White Stripes
9. Anouar Brahem
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. The KLF
12. Beck
13. Blur
14. Nirvana
15. OutKast
16. Erykah Badu
17. The Prodigy
18. Suede
19. Sigur Rós
20. The Cardigans

Mine is more of a "here are 20 of my favorite artists who debuted in the past 20 years."

1. Pavement
2. Beck
3. Nirvana
4. Queens of the Stone Age
5. Fugazi
6. A Tribe Called Quest
7. PJ Harvey
8. The White Stripes
9. The Breeders
10. The Streets
11. Built To Spill
12. The Jesus Lizard
13. Sleater-Kinney
14. Sebadoh
15. MIA
16. The Libertines
17. LCD Soundsystem
18. Franz Ferdinand
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. Blur

01. Chemical brothers
02. Underground resistance
03. System of a down
04. Wu-tang clan (+ solo projects)
05. Tortoise
06. Radiohead
07. Outkast
08. Sufjan Stevens
09. Autechre
10. Beck
11. Kanye West
12. Krüder & Dorfmeister
13. Queens of the stone age
14. PJ Harvey
15. Gnarls barkley
16. Will Oldham (Palace/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
17. Madlib
18. Stereolab
19. Benga
20. Timbaland
21. Blur
22. Amy Winehouse
23. Miss Kittin (& the Hacker)
24. Aphex twin
25. Nine inch nails
26. Franz Ferdinand
27. Maurizio/Basic channel
28. Carl Craig
29. LCD Soundsystem
30. Jon Spencer blues explosion
31. Lauryn Hill
32. Alice in chains
33. Animal collective
34. Deus
35. Missy Elliott
36. Jeff Mills
37. Tindersticks
38. Alec Empire
39. Guided by voices
40. White stripes
41. Arctic monkeys
42. Orlando Voorn
43. Mercury rev
44. Mars volta/At the drive-in
45. Björk
46. TV on the radio
47. Gang starr/Guru
48. Underworld
49. Jeff Buckley
50. Ghost

1) Lush
2) Belle and Sebastian
3) Camera Obscura (UK)
4) Sleater Kinney
5) Ride
6) Super Furry Animals
7) Supergrass
8) Apples in Stereo
9) Guided by Voices
10) Trashcan Sinatras
11) the Divine Comedy
12) Doves
13) Pulp
14) the Boo Radleys
15) Manic Street Preachers
16) Curve
17) Teenage Fanclub
18) Spiritualized
19) Mull Historical Society
20) Saint Etienne

My list. Probably too mainstream for a lot of folks but if I'm gonna be honest this is probably how they fall. Bands interpreted as "artists":

1. Aimee Mann
2. Barenaked Ladies
3. Fiona Apple
4. The White Stripes
5. Muse
6. Drive-by Truckers
7. Cake
8. Nirvana
9. Weezer
10. Garth Brooks
11. Coldplay
12. Tom Petty (solo)
13. Beck
14. Dixie Chicks
15. Eminem
16. Sarah McLachlan
17. Ben Folds Five
18. Morphine
19. Green Day
20. Death Cab for Cutie

1. Sigur Ros
2. Radiohead
3. Jeff Buckley
4. Animal Collective
5. Modest Mouse
6. Portishead
7. Teenage Fanclub
8. Fugazi
9. Belle & Sebastian
10. Elliott Smith
11. PJ Harvey
12. Yo La Tengo
13. Massive Attack
14. The Jayhawks
15. Godspeed You Black Emperor!
16. Slint
17. The Afghan Whigs
18. Interpol
19. Spoon
20. Wilco

01. Radiohead
02. Wilco
03. Nirvana
04. Beck
05. Pavement
06. Elliott Smith
07. PJ Harvey
08. Animal Collective
09. TV on the Radio
10. OutKast
11. Bjork
12. Blur
13. Portishead
14. The Smashing Pumpkins
15. Massive Attack
16. The Arcade Fire
17. LCD Soundsystem
18. The White Stripes
19. Magnetic Fields
20. Neutral Milk Hotel

1 Nirvana
2 Blur
3 Oasis
4 R.E.M.
5 Stone Roses
6 The Strokes
7 Primal Scream
8 Arctic Monkeys
9 Supergrass
10 Soundgarden
11 Pulp
12 Radiohead
13 The Libertines
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers
15 The Hives
16 The Coral
17 Public Enemy
18 Queens of the Stone Age
19 Happy Mondays
20 Suede

1. radiohead
2. the arcade fire
3. animal collective
4. nirvana
5. wilco
6. sufjan stevens
7. portishead
8. tv on the radio
9. beck
10. neutral milk hotel
11. kanye west
12. fleet foxes
13. white stripes
14. lcd soundsystem
15. belle and sebastian
16. nine inch nails
17. mars volta
18. strokes
19. los campesinos!
20. pavement