What are all your favorite artists that you would have never discovered without this fantastic website? I'll post some of my personal favorites below.

Radiohead
David Bowie
Blur
The Smiths
The Velvet Underground
Talking Heads
LCD Soundsystem
Pixies
Joy Division
New Order
Massive Attack
Elvis Costello
Neil Young
Tom Waits
Sonic Youth
Public Enemy
Arcade Fire
Van Morrison
The Flaming Lips
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Frank Zappa
Roxy Music
The Jam
Pavement
Portishead
The Cure
The Band
Pulp
Wilco
Primal Scream
TV On the Radio
Bjork
Parliament/ Funkadelic
Lou Reed
The Stooges
Joni Mitchell
Kraftwerk
Television

And all of these artists are in my current top 100 artists of all time!! That means 39 out of 100 artists on that list I would have never found out if it wasn't for AM.
Thanks Henrik!!!

Tim Buckley
Os Mutantes
The Happy Mondays
De La Soul
Eric B & Rakim
Suicide
Pere Ubu
Wire
Beth Gibbons
St Etienne
Devo
Bridgette Fontaine
Serge Gainsbourg
The Millennium
Gram Persons

David Bowie (not that I did not know him at all before, but I had not listened to the right albums)
Jimi Hendrix (id.)
The Cure (id.)
The Pixies (id.)
The Velvet Underground
Ride
Built to Spill
Violent Femmes
Television
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wilco
Wire

Well, there are not that much band I have "discovered" with AM but tons that I know better or that I have learned to appreciate thanks to this site !

Wow Nick! Your list is pretty basic. You must have discovered AM pretty early in life! Good for you though.

I discovered tons of songs through the forum polls:

Spiritualized-"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"
The Beta Band-"Dry the Rain"
The Cure-"A Forest"
Oasis-"Live Forever"
Big Star-"September Gurls" and "Thirteen"
The Beach Boys-"Til I Die" and "Surf's Up"

From the lists on the main site, I got:

The Undertones-"Teenage Kicks"
The Breeders-"Cannonball"
Primal Scream-"Loaded"
Massive Attack-"Unfinished Sympathy"
Roxy Music-"Virginia Plain"

...and many others...

I'd actually been trying to do something like AM before I found it.


Basically anything that's more respected internationally than in the United States, I picked up from acclaimed. This includes:


Roxy Music
The Jam
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Robert Wyatt
The Libertines

My turn! Yay!

Lily Allen
Tori Amos
Joan Armatrading
The Avalanches
Battles
Bauhaus
Belle & Sebastian
Jeff Buckley
Kate Bush
The Chemical Brothers
Dead Kennedys
Dizzee Rascal
DJ Shadow
Echo & the Bunnymen
Elastica
Fleet Foxes
Fugazi
Happy Mondays
PJ Harvey
Hercules & Love Affair
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Joy Division
King Crimson
Kraftwerk
The La's
LCD Soundsystem
Jens Lekman
Manic Street Preachers
Mazzy Star
Mercury Rev
M.I.A.
Mission of Burma
My Bloody Valentine
New Order
Orbital
Phoenix
Portishead
Primal Scream
Pulp
Steve Reich
Röyksopp
Sparks
The Specials
Sébastien Tellier
Tool
TV on the Radio
Underworld
The Verve (only previously knew them by "Bittersweet Symphony")
The Waterboys
XTC
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Almost all of my new discoveries over the past few years have come from reading lots of music blogs.

AM caused me to re-evaluate (and substantially upgrade) Radiohead. I knew about them but wasn't paying much attention until I read all of the testimonials on the forum.

There might be a few others, but they don't come to mind. I wish there had been a website like this when I was 20. If so, my list of discoveries would be much longer (and I would have gotten to all of the classics a lot sooner). But, alas, there was no internet when I was 20.

radiohead
my bloody valentine
neutral milk hotel
portishead
tom waits
wilco
animal collective


and many more but those are some biggies

Oh wow. There are lots! For some of these artists, I had a limited knowledge, but I can honestly attribute most of my interest in the following artists to this website.

In the AM top 200:
Can
Chic
Elvis Costello
Echo and the Bunnymen
Franz Ferdinand
Grandmaster Flash
Al Green
Jesus and Mary Chain
LCD Soundsystem
Radiohead
Otis Redding
Lou Reed
Patti Smith
T. Rex
Television
The Velvet Underground
Tom Waits
Wire

Discovered :

outkast
Eminem
Antony & The Johnsons
Drive-by Truckers
NWA

Re-discovered

Björk
REM
Cure
Radiohead
Specials
Wu Tang
Public Enemy

London Calling: at the time I was too young to appreciate it.
Can: I had heard of them and I saw them popping up in the early seventies lists; I really like the Babaluma album
Steve Reich - Music for 18 musicians: quite high on the 1978 list, and the only "modern classical" album on the site - so I had to check it out
Neu!: another Krautrock band, very influential for punk Johnny Rotten once said.
The Getz/Gilberto album (1963), because "Girl from Ipanema" is on it, I listened to the whole album, and bingo!
Call of the Valley album (1967): simply beautiful Indian tradional sitar music
M83: french shoegaze band