Your top 5 favorite artist

One artist you would want to perform at your funeral.

Autechre and Secret Chiefs 3 (at least live) are probably my top 2 but the rest is impossible to reduce to a list, soz

1. Animal Collective
2. Future Islands
3. The Knife
4. The Field
5. Sunn O)))

hmm, maybe something like:

RDJ

BOC

Mark Guiliana

Jonathan Richman

Velvet Underground

  On 4/14/2014 at 9:10 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 5/27/2013 at 6:29 PM, joshuatx said:

Aphex Twin

Autechre

Boards of Canada

Radiohead I guess*

Tied between like a dozen artists**

Beatles

Swans

 

*Hard to pick but I could easily put Seefeel, Burial, Menomena, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Boris, The Doors, Butthole Surfers, Fly Lo, Bjork and a ton of other artists who I love but Radiohead just manages to top all of them.

 

**Many of my favorite albums are by artists who had mediocre later careers or who morphed into something I could never get into even if I was a huge fan: Weezer, U2, Smashing Pumpkins are a few examples.

 

 

*updated*

 

We have similar tastes, brah.

  On 4/15/2014 at 3:09 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

1. Animal Collective

shit, forgot about that one

  On 5/27/2013 at 5:19 PM, Deer said:

Right Now in no order

 

The Beach Boys/The Beatles Tied!!!!

Jimi Hendrix

The Doors

Aphex Twin

Black Dog (original line-up)

fixeddd updated

I feel like I should have put Liars in mine.

Not in order

Autechre

Radiohead

Tom Waits

Boards of Canada

Pink Floyd

1.Bauhaus

2.Cocteau Twins

3.Tool

4.The Cramps

5.Probably Aphex

(as of now)

Actually, I think I can only really name my top 3.

Oneohtrix Point Never, Death Grips, and Animal Collective

And not really even Animal Collective because I haven't listened to them enough, but everything I've heard from them strikes me as being above and beyond what other artists put out. There are other artists I like a ton (arguably even more than AC), but these three sound more significant to me in a way; they're different, not just good.

Prince

Brian Eno

Kate Bush

Aphex

Mike Patton

  On 4/15/2014 at 3:26 AM, NorthernFusion said:

 

  On 4/14/2014 at 9:10 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 5/27/2013 at 6:29 PM, joshuatx said:

Aphex Twin

Autechre

Boards of Canada

Radiohead I guess*

Tied between like a dozen artists**

Beatles

Swans

 

*Hard to pick but I could easily put Seefeel, Burial, Menomena, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Boris, The Doors, Butthole Surfers, Fly Lo, Bjork and a ton of other artists who I love but Radiohead just manages to top all of them.

 

**Many of my favorite albums are by artists who had mediocre later careers or who morphed into something I could never get into even if I was a huge fan: Weezer, U2, Smashing Pumpkins are a few examples.

 

 

*updated*

 

We have similar tastes, brah.

 

Sweet.

I need to give Swans a good listen then.

At the moment, judging by what I've been listening to for the last couple years, John Fahey has definitely made my top 5.

Updated from my previous top 5:

-Miles Davis

-Steve Roach

-Robert Rich

-Autechre

-Gas

Nice thread, it reminds me of some artists I've been wanting to listen to for a while.
My top 5, in no particular order are:
Burial
Pink Floyd
Brian Eno
Boards of Canada
Flying Lotus

Swans are quickly making their way up in my personal list, I think in a few months or so I might even include them in my list
another honorable mention for me are Bohren & der Club of Gore, best late-night soundtrack I can think of

My Bloody Valentine

Boards of Canada

Pinback

Plaid

Broadcast

prolly

idk

my top handful always changes

right now, these are the artists that have had the most lasting emotional impact on me.

afx

labyrinthine

solomon angelo

lindrum larry cocopipe

the florist

Aphex

Autechre

Boards of Canada

Plaid

Vibert

Top 3 are definite. Other two could of been anything.

Pure Electronic, Modern Electronics.

too many good ones now, must wait a few hundred years to really know.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

Antonio Vivaldi

JS Bach

AFX

Kurosawa

DJ Darude

DJ Tiesto

Hardwell

Deadmau5

Skrillex

no particular order

If i had to take 5 bodys of work with me on a desert island:

1. Autechre

2. Nine Inch Nails

3. Brian Eno

4. Steve Reich

5. RDJ/Aphex

Hmmm... there's no accurate way for me to measure this. Any list I could come up with now I would disagree with next week. But here are some artists that would be considered:

Beatles

Ennio Morricone

Autechre

Ween

Wilco

Radiohead

Portishead

Sonic Youth

Elliott Smith

Tom Waits

Beck

Queens of the Stone Age

Parliament

Melvins

GYBE

The Kinks

Queen

Aphex Twin

Strapping Young Lad

Pantera

Merzbow

Early Metallica

Tool

Secret Chiefs 3

wow, one year later and my taste has kinda changed a lot. Ive been back on track with electronica this past year adn have convered a lot of ground. The thread rate the person music is mind blowing for me. how do you guys know so much different electronica artist.

Anyways, that was my list a year ago:

1-Kettel

2-Miles Davis

3-Gil Scott Heron

4-John Coltrane

5- Tie position here: Aphex Twin and Dinosaur JR.

now my list would be:

1- kettel

2- Dinosaur Jr/ J mascis (everything j mascis has done basically)

3- Aphex Twin

4- Coltrane

5- Proem

@ logakght : I would love to see a list from you!

1.Autechre

2.Aphex Twin

the rest alternates every few days and I can't be bothered to create a post I'd have to update that often ^^

Here are some contenders: John Coltrane, Swans, Vaetxh, Tortoise, Iannis Xenakis, Radiohead, Russian Circles, Squarepusher, Gastr del sol, Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, Boards of Canada, Mort Garson

quite a colorful mix, i know