Your favourite artist for every letter of the alphabet

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Your favourite artist for every letter of the alphabet

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As the subject says... (took this idea from another forum)

Here's mine:

Aphex Twin
Banco De Gaia
Chemical Brothers
Daft Punk
Etnica
Future Sound of London
Global Communication
Hybrid
Infusion
Juno Reactor
Kraftwerk
Leftfield
Meat Beat Manifesto
N.R.G.
Orbital
Prodigy
Quinoline Yellow
Röyksopp
Squarepusher
Transglobal Undeground
Utah Saints
Vangelis
Way Out West
X?
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Z?

I tried to keep my list electronic, but that's no rule. For some of the letters I had to really stretch it and others seemed to just have too many good artists associated with them. :)
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Post by Hexaphim »

Well this was hard...

A-ha (Aphex Twin close second... :))
Boards of Canada
Chemical Brothers (first album only)
Depeche Mode
Empirion
Front Line Assembly
Global Communication
Hybrid
Instrumental (can't really think of anyone else - that is, I have no other artists starting with "i" in iTunes. :P)
Juno Reactor (I guess. Only other candidate is Jaga Jazzist)
KLF
Leftfield
Massive Attack
New Order
Orbital
Prodigy (first two albums, Pet Shop Boys and Primal Scream in hard pursuit)
¿Qué? I have no idea. Queen, I guess, although I don't like them. :)
Röyksopp (Rammstein in close second)
Schnauss, Ulrich
Tenacious D
Ugress
Various Artists (no idea)
Way Out West
Xploding Plastix
Yello
Zetlitz, Bertine
The Hex

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Autechre
Bent
Chemical Brothers
Depeche Mode
Erasure
Front242
Garbage / Global Communication
Hexstatic / Hybrid
Information Society
Jesus Jones
KLF / Korn / Kraftwerk
Lemon Jelly
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails / New Order
Orbital / Orb
Pop Will Eat Itself / Pet Shop Boys / Plump DJs / Pendulum / Plaid / Prodigy
Quick & Brite
Revenge
Shamen / System 7 / System F
Thompson Twins
Underworld
Vangelis / Visage
Way Out West
X-Men
Yazoo
Zoot Woman
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I went through my iPod and came up with this list:

Aphex Twin
Bent
Chemical Brothers
David Bowie (are we going on first or last names here?)
Eurythmics (not many artists beginning with E)
Future Sound of London
Global Communication
Hybrid
? I (absolutely nothing beginning with I)
Joy Division
Kraftwerk
Lemon Jelly
Massive Attack
New Order
Orbital
Plaid
Queen
Royksopp
Stranglers
Tears for Fears
Underworld
Visage (see note for E)
? W (nothing on my iPod for W apart from "Size of a Cow" by The Wonderstuff)
Yazoo (hmm. Nothing much begins with Y)
Zero 7 (Nothing begins with Z either)
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Autechre
Beastie Boys
Calexico
Dabrye
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fourtet
Gong
David Holmes
Icebreaker International
Jape
Christian Kleine
Led Zeppelin
Massive Attack
Ninety Degrees South
Ozric Tentacles
Pink Floyd
Quantic
Rjd2
Stiff Little Fingers
the Tycho Brahe
Ultravox
Vangelis
the Waterboys
XTC
Susuma Yokata
Zero 7

There you go now :P
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Ok... I've had enough Port and muzak to sit down and list my list, so to speak...

I'm gonna be slightly different and list the names of the artists that I have most in my collection and not necessarily be my favourite. I recently alphabetispaghettisised my cds so this might not be representative of my favourites at the moment. Blah blah blah.

Aphex Twin
Beatles / Beastie boys / Blur (even amount of albums!!)
Cure / Chemical brothers
Dodgy
Brian Eno
Fatboy slim
Guns n Roses / Goldfrapp
Herbaliser
Isley Brothers
Jurassic Park, whoops, i meant Five
Kraftwerk
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Nirvana / Nightmares on wax
Orbital
Plaid
Queens of the Stoneage
Radiohead
Super Furry animals / Steely Dan
Teenage Fanclub
Underworld
V - Hmm, looks like I dont have any v's
Wagon Christ / White Stripes
X - Hmm, looks like I dont have any x's
Y - Hmm, looks like I dont have any y's either
Zero 7
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I forgot to add Plaid too!
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legspin wrote:Ozric Tentacles
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A quick braindump which will change every day!

Apollo 440
Blancmange
China Crisis
Digitonal
Eat Static
Fila Brazillia
Groove Armada
Kirsty Hawkshaw
Its Immaterial
Japan
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Lush
Minotaur Shock
Nightmares On Wax
OMD
Phil N Dog
Quantic Soul Orchestra
Ride
System 7
Talk Talk
Underworld
Vice Squad
Wedding Present
X-Ray Spex
YMO
Zero 7
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Using my Mp3 player as a guide....

Arovane with Ae a close second
Brothemstates
CiM
Dntl
Echobelly tied with Esem
Faith No More with Front 242 & Fugazi close behind
Guns 'N Roses
Helmet or Hum
Isan
Jesus Jones
Kim Hiorthoy
Lackluster but I can't leave out Living Colour or Lemon Jelly either
Ministry this was a hard one, m83 & Mr Projectile also get mentions
Nine Inch Nails
Orbital but Ochre is way up there too
Plaid
Quick & Bright
Revolting Cocks
Suicidal Tendencies
Tool but don't forget Tears For Fears
Underworld but I've been listening to lots more Ulrich Schnauss lately
Violet Vision but I don't have many 'V's to choose from
Wauvenfold & I'm surprised not to see this as other peoples 'W' as well
Xela & Xploding Plastix
Yasume
Zero 7 it's the only 'Z' in my player at the moment
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Post by ali »

Don't post much on these forums but can't resist this sort of thing.
Anyway, here's my list. It'll probably have changed by tomorrow.

AC/DC
Banco de Gaia
The Charlatans
DJ Shadow
EgeBamYasi
Flaming Lips
Green Velvet
Hardfloor
Inspiral Carpets
Julian Cope (slight cheating??)
Kraftwerk
Luomuhappo (mental Finnish techno)
Ministry
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Orbital
Pixies
Quirk
Richie Hawtin
Slayer
Throbbing Gristle
Underworld
Vitalic
Wizzy Noize
X-Dream
Youth
Zoot Woman
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Post by Loopz »

I should really do this when i am at home so i can look at my mp3s/cd collection! Will bold my fave later today...

Arovane / Autechre / Aphex Twin / Adamski
Brothemstates / Boards of Canada / Biosphere
Christ / CiM (thank PLA!)
Depeche Mode / Dntl / Dep.Art.Ment
Esem / EU
Fizzarum / Faskil / FSOL (old)
Gescom / Geiom / Global Communication
Higher Intelligence Agency / Hermann and Kleine
Isan (Thanx PLA again!)
Joy Division
Kraftwerk / Kim Hiorthoy / Christian Kleine (legspin did it!) / K-Formation
Lackluster / LFO
Mr Projectile / Meat Beat Manifesto / Massive Attack
Nirvana / New Order
Orbital / Ochre / Orb (old)
Plaid / Pemalas / Prodigy / Pop Will Eat Itself / Plone
Quinoline Yellow
Radiohead / Röyksopp
Shamen / Scanner / Squarepusher / Schematix / System 7
Talk Talk / Tears for Fears (old) /
Ulrich Schnauss / u-ziq / Underworld / Ugress
Vim /
Wauvenfold
Xploding Plastix
Yasume / YMO
Z...erm come back to that one.
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davemacfrombath wrote:
legspin wrote:Ozric Tentacles
You on the wrong board mate...
I would have thought that Orbital would be taken as given :roll:.
Also to be honest, it was the discovering of the Ozrics that took me away from being a rock and metal head and led down the road of what I listen to now. So in terms of pure influence they would be much more important to me, 'coz without them there would be at least a lot less of the electronica and mellowness that inhabits my cd collection than there is :)
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This'll probably change - just a brain dump at the moment...

A Guy Called Gerald / Aphex Twin / Art Of Noise
Bent / Boards Of Canada / Biting Tongues / Bomb The Bass / Black Dog / Edward Barton
Chemical Brothers / Carl Craig / Carter USM
Depeche Mode
808 State
FSOL / The Fall
Global Communication
Homelife / Happy Mondays / Hybrid / Hexstatic
Inspiral Carpets
Joy Division / James
Kraftwerk / KLF
Lemon Jelly / Leftfield / Longrange
Mylo / Derrick May / Bob Marley / Massive Attack
New Order
Orbital / Orb / One Giant Leap
Plaid / Prodigy / Plump DJ's / Pixies / Pet Shop Boys / Primal Scream
Finley Quaye
REM
System 7 / The Stone Roses
Tricky / Toolshed
Ulrich Schnauss / Underworld / u-ziq
Velvet Underground
Wedding Present / Was (Not Was)
X
Yellow Magic Orchestra / Yello / Neil Young
Z
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Post by RickySteamBoat »

This is me from A to Z.

Aphex Twin/Ae/Astrobotnia
Boom Bip/Boards of canada/Bola/Butthole Surfers/Bauhaus
the CLash/Capitol K/Cocteau Twins/Crass
Depeche mode/DJ Producer/Depth charge
Esem/Echo & the bunnymen
Fugazi
Goldfrapp/Gimmik
Happy Mondays
Iron Maiden/Inspiral carpets
Joy Division/Jesus & Mary Chain
kraftwerk/Kid 606
Lackluster/LFO/Lemon Jelly
My bloody valentine
Nine inch nails
Orbital/Ovuca
Plaid/Public Enemy/Phase Mojo/Posthuman
Queens of the StoneAge
the Ramones
the Smiths/the Stooges/Sigur-Ros/String Theory
Two lone swordsmen
Ulrich Schnauss
V
stevie Wonder
X
Yellotone
Zero 7[/b]
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