[kj] Top 10 bands

[James Osborne]

Top 10 (+55) Artists/Bands

Killing Joke
Aphex Twin, AFX/Boards of Cananda/Machine Drum/Nobukazu 
Takemura/GOTH-TRAD (grouping electro-idm shit together)
Boredoms/Vooredoms/DJ PICA PICA PICA/DJ EYE/ROVO/OOIOO/Hanatarashi 
(pretty much anything Boredoms related)
Genesis
Ryuichi Sakamoto/YMO (I'll count this as one)
Fishmans/Bonobos/Bob Marley/Mad Professor/Lee Perry/Augustus 
Pablo/Sublime/The Specials/Max Romero/Rebel Familia/Dry&Heavy/Adrian 
Sherwood/Audio Active (grouping anything dub/reggae/ska as one)
Sonic Youth (haven't cared much for some of their newer stuff though)
The Mad Capsule Markets (favorites being 1990-1994 stuff)
Big Black
Frank Zappa
Public Image Ltd (only up to Flowers of Romance, although I did like 
"Album" a bit)
Koenji Hyakkei/Ruins/Bondage Fruit/Magma (I'll put all the zeuhl stuff 
as one)
Mono/Walrus/Mogwai/Sigur Ros/Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc., (i'll put 
the post-rock shit as one)
Fred Frith/John Zorn/Evelyn Glennie/Otomo Yoshihide/Aburadako 
(Improv/Experimental Yabbage)
Zazen Boys/Mo'some Tonebender/Kuroyume/hide-zilch/Dip/Bazra/Nil (random 
japanese-ness)
Brahms/Stravinsky/Rachmaninoff/John Cage/Edgard Varese/Carl Orff 
(classical garbage)
Dead Kennedys/Misfits (punk vomit)


Man....10 just isn't enough. Should have a Top 100 artists thing going 
on. This was all I could think of off the top of my head.

-- 
James Osborne
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