Rank the Artists Discographies You Can't Live Without

[epilogue]

1. The Beatles
2. Pearl Jam
3. Tom Waits
4. St. Vincent
5. The Decemberists

[epilogue]

6. The Mynabirds
7. HoneyHoney
8. Dixie Chicks
9. Neil Young
10. Garth Brooks

[surfndestroy]

1/ Led Zeppelin
2/ Pink Floyd
3/ U2
4/ The Rolling Stones
5/ The Band

6/ Roxy Music
7/ The Beatles
8/ Smashing Pumpkins
9/ Genesis
10/ Motley Crue

11/ Sam The Astronaut

[Iholdthepain]

There's no possible way I could do this!

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

Not exactly what the thread asks for, but not long ago I did a count of my collection by artist, mainly out of curiosity over whether any artist's prominence in my music collection correlates with (a) how much I actually listen to them, and (b) how much I anecdotally say that I like them. These numbers reflect actual albums, not individual discs. It's not an exact ranking (some artists I really like just have small discographies) but directionally it's pretty close. It was a fun geek experiment in any case. Everything 10 and above:

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Pearl Jam - 109
Miles Davis - 63
Neil Young - 55
Bob Dylan - 53
Grateful Dead - 47
John Coltrane - 33
Elvis Costello - 30
Bruce Springsteen - 29
Brad Mehldau - 26
Van Morrison - 24
Thelonious Monk - 23
Tom Waits - 23
Frank Sinatra - 22
The Beatles - 19
Leonard Cohen - 18
Mogwai - 18
REM - 18
U2 - 18
Sonny Rollins - 17
Sonic Youth - 16
Johnny Cash - 15
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 14
Pink Floyd - 14
Wilco - 14
Nick Cave - 13
Bill Frisell - 13
The Decemberists - 12
Duke Ellington - 12
Paul Weller - 12
David Bowie - 11
Death Cab for Cutie - 10
Led Zeppelin - 10
Nirvana - 10
The Who - 10

[wease]

1) The Allman Brothers Band
2) Pearl Jam
3) Led Zeppelin
4) Lynyrd Skynyrd
5) Stevie Wonder
6) Aretha Franklin
7) KISS
8) Frank Sinatra
9) Eric Clapton
10) Muddy Waters

[Bammer]

Pearl Jam
Alice In Chains
Counting Crows
Silverchair
Various members of the PJ family tree (MLB, Mad Season, TotD...)

[E.H. Ruddock]

Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
The Beatles
Talking Heads
The Ramones
The Clash
Pixies
Run DMC
Wellwater Conspiracy
Sigur Ros

[epilogue]

Man, I love Talking Heads.

[LoathedVermin72]

Pearl Jam
Alice In Chains
Counting Crows
Silverchair
Various members of the PJ family tree (MLB, Mad Season, TotD...)

this is also my list

[Kaius]

That list makes me ill

[E.H. Ruddock]

Man, I love Talking Heads.

[guestT]

dylan
pj
drive-by truckers
neko case
hiss golden messenger
petty
wilco
felice bros
trampled by turtles
stones

[PHATJ]

Pearl Jam
STP
Pink Floyd
Beck
The National / El Vy
U2 (middle years)

Honorable Mention: Led Zeppelin, REM

[Bammer]

U2 (middle years)

Is this allowed? Because if so, I'll add:

Jimi Hendrix (everything of his that I'm familiar with, though I'm sure there's way more out there that I don't know)

[LoathedVermin72]

I feel like this list would be very short for me right now. Would I be able to live without hearing my favorite "legacy" artists like Pearl Jam or Radiohead or Led Zeppelin again? Yes. I love them, but it's not like I need to listen to them all the time anymore.

Also, a lot of my most essential listening these days is album specific. I don't need the artist's full catalog.

So, all of that considered, I think that leaves me with a total of three artists I feel like I really need:

Kanye West
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Acid Bath

[PHATJ]

Somehow I totally forgot Ween.

Fixed:

Pearl Jam
STP
Pink Floyd
Beck
The National / El Vy
U2 (middle years)
Ween

Honorable Mention: Led Zeppelin, REM

[Bammer]

I feel like this list would be very short for me right now. Would I be able to live without hearing my favorite "legacy" artists like Pearl Jam or Radiohead or Led Zeppelin again? Yes. I love them, but it's not like I need to listen to them all the time anymore.

Also, a lot of my most essential listening these days is album specific. I don't need the artist's full catalog.

So, all of that considered, I think that leaves me with a total of three artists I feel like I really need:

Kanye West
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Acid Bath

Well in THAT case...

Imagine Dragons