RM Top 87 Artists-COMPLETE OFFICIAL LIST ANNOUNCED

[Ello Sailor]

I had to cut Kyuss. And Portishead. And Arcade Fire.

This was actually quite a heartbreaking exercise.

[JuanHamm]

Fuuuuck I'm such a normie.

At least you didn't put Pearl Jam on your list

[Ello Sailor]

35th. Maybe. I've been digging some Code.

[Jorge]

In all seriousness, and without trying to be provocative, Pearl Jam is nowhere near my top 20. Maybe 10 years ago. But for the last several years there's only been about a dozen Pearl Jam songs I ever want to listen to, total (and even then it's a rare impulse). Looking at these March Madness rounds has really made that clear for me

[Ello Sailor]

I don't really talk about PJ because I've upset people in the past by declaring their mediocrity, and we're on a PJ message board so the negativity is better left out.

[Jammer XCI]

Ween
Smashing Pumpkins
Faith No More
Talking Heads
Grimes
Pixies
Radiohead
David Bowie
Soundgarden
Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Queens of the Stone Age
Mark Lanegan
Primus
Daft Punk
Outkast
Mastodon
Charles Mingus
TV on the Radio
Nirvana

Good list, several of these were on mine as well.

Pearl Jam is coming up on 20 years without a good album, no way they were making my list. Probably wouldn't even be in my top 100 artists.

[Ello Sailor]

Listening to Massive Attack and feeling terrible about my list.

[BurtReynolds]

Look even though I don't listen to them now, I listened to The Pearl Jammers a whole lot like 10 years ago so get off my back about it.

[Kevin Davis]

I started on this a few times but ultimately ended up agonizing way more than I ought to have over whether this should have been an exercise dedicated to "all time favorites" or "favorites right now." I couldn't settle on a satisfying compromise so I gave up.

No way PJ wouldn't be on any list of artists that have been most special to me over the course of my whole life. But, of the artists on that list (which gets pretty wishy-washy after the first 12 or 13), they're probably among the 2 or 3 that I'd be least likely to listen to on any given day. They wouldn't be on the list at all if the list was tailored to more recent tastes, say the past 5 years or so.

I still revisit PJ in spurts and enjoy them a lot when I do -- it's foundational, happy-place stuff for me. But I've listened so exhaustively to their catalog that it's hard to take anything new from it. Like a lot of other stuff from that era.

[Jorge]

I was counting on you to be the second EC vote. You failed me

[Kevin Davis]

Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Duke Ellington
Sonny Rollins
Brad Mehldau
Bill Frisell
Keith Jarrett
Frank Sinatra
Billie Holiday
The Beatles
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
REM
Grateful Dead

Just for you, buddy!

[Ello Sailor]

Coltrane and Pumpkins. This guy fucks.

[Bammer]

I listen to Pearl Jam a lot

[Ello Sailor]

Read the room, Bammer.

[Kevin Davis]

Coltrane and Pumpkins. This guy fucks.

Pumpkins from 1991-1996 is probably the alt-rock-era stuff I'm most likely to reach for on any given day, at this particular point in time anyway

[The Argonaut]

I'm logging the last minute lists. Countdown tomorrow

[Bammer]

Read the room, Bammer.

While we’re talking about has been ‘90s artists, Fiona Apple just won a Grammy

[Norah]

Read the room, Bammer.

While we’re talking about has been ‘90s artists, Fiona Apple just won a Grammy

bammer i swear to god

[Jorge]

Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Duke Ellington
Sonny Rollins
Brad Mehldau
Bill Frisell
Keith Jarrett
Frank Sinatra
Billie Holiday
The Beatles
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
REM
Grateful Dead

Just for you, buddy!

We share 7 artists. Pretty good

[Simple Torture]

KD and I share just 1 artist.

I would love to find out whom I share the most with, but I'm sure it would end up being some RMer I hate.