You're in a time machine and you have to eliminate 10 artists from existence, who do you pick?

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You get big phaser gun which makes the person go 'Yergggghhhhaaaarghh' when aimed at their bum and they suddenly vanish never to appear again. The God of music gives you this when you discover it hidden in an old abandoned locker in the local train station. Given a time machine and a new haircut you are told to eliminate 10 dastardly bands from times past and present.

1) Limp Bizkit
2) Guns n Roses
3) Coldplay
4) Travis
5) U2
6) Stereophonics
7) ABBA
8) Spice Girls
9) Metallica
10) Cliff Richard

Go forward and destroy my friends...

― Calum, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Calum
2. Calum
3. Calum
4. Bob Dylan
5. Calum
6. Saliva
7. Puddle of Mudd
8. Calum
9. Calum
10.Hole

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty basic choices, really
1.Creed
2.Journey
3.Styx
4.Backstreet Boys
5.Insane Clown Posse
6.Debby Boone
7.Olivia Newton John
8.Michael Boltan
9.Celine Dion
10.Whitney Houston

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

1.Louis Armstrong
2.WC Handy
3.Elvis Presley
4.The Beatles
5.The Stones
6.Muddy Waters
7.Robert Johnson
8.Kool Herc
9.Kraftwerk
10.James Brown

Just cuz I'd love to hear what music would sound like w/o them.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

good answer oops

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

damn oops just beat me

More out of curiosity than spite (y'know to see what would happen without 'em):

1) George Harrison (would P & J been able to stick it out as long as they did w/o peaceful G?)
2) Bob Ezrin (who would've produced 70s/80s artrock histrionics?)
3) Brian Wilson
4) Muddy Waters
5) Elton John (okay, spite)
6) John Cale (would the VU have just been the East Coast Doors?)
7) Neptunes (would there have even been a Top 40 in the last two years?)
8) Billy Gibbons
9) Billy Idol
10) Billy Squier

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

1. MISSY "LARDASS" ELLIOTT

THATS ENOUGH

― , Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ted Nugent
Charlie Daniels

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

some of these I will eliminate not because of their own music, but for the others they influenced to create musical bowel movements.
1.Mariah Carey
2.The Pixies
3.Bob Dylan
4.Eminem
5.Weezer
6.Modest Mouse
7.Jawbreaker
8.The Eagles
9.Nine Inch Nails
10.~~Kraftwerk~~ Depeche Mode

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet without Paul The Beatles would've never broken up.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

...and would've been coolerX10

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Stravinsky
Arnold Shönberg
Stockhausen
Terry Riley
James Brown
Sly & The Family Stone
U-Roy
Sugarhill Gang
Sex Pistols
Led Zeppelin

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw. several of these acts probably would never have happened if I eliminated Stravinsky, Schönberg, Stockhausen, Terry Riley and James Brown at first. So it is possible I might have been able to eliminate other acts instead.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd put all of my ten bullets in Lulu. Just to make sure, like.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Sonic Youth
2. The Smiths
3. Bob Dylan
4. Patti Smith
5. Tori Amos
6. Liz Phair
7. Tracy Chapman
8. Mariah Carey
9. Good Charlotte
10. Creed

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

1) Coldplay
2) Sum41, Blink182, Good Charlotte, Avril...
3) The Beatles
4) The Vines, The Libertines, The Strokes, The Hives
5) Not Calum
6) Linkin Park
7) Limp Bizkit
8) Nirvana
9) Rammstein
10) Creed, Metallica...
...and so many more.

― arc-de-ciel, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Primal Scream
2. Primal Scream
3. Primal Scream
4. Primal Scream
5. Primal Scream
6. Primal Scream
7. Primal Scream
8. Primal Scream
9. Primal Scream
10. Primal Scream

― Dadaismus, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Amazingly enough, every single one of Geir's choices are great, in their own way - how can one individual get it so completely wrong? Ha ha.

― Dadaismus, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Dadaismus - are you saying you like the world exactly as it is, with no changes whatever? Heh heh

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Amazingly enough, every single one of Geir's choices are great, in their own way - how can one individual get it so completely wrong? Ha ha.

Each one of my choices have been innovative - in the wrong way. They have helped move music away from what was great about 60s and early 70s music. Good music is supposed to be highly melodic, highly harmonic, and preferrably musically complex as well.
James Brown, hip-hop and all those avante garde composers have been disasters to music because they have helped move music away from melody/harmony. Sex Pistols are bad because they helped kill prog rock (which was one of the best things ever to happen to music). Led Zeppelin are bad because they created metal.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"prog rock which was one of the best things ever to happen to music"

Snigger. Which part of Middle Earth do you live in Geir? Wake up, it's 2003 not 2112.

"Dadaismus - are you saying you like the world exactly as it is, with no changes whatever? Heh heh"

I'd answer that question if I actually knew what the question meant....

― Dadaismus, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, I think it's Black Sabbath and Cream you'd rather have disappear. Led Zeppelin didn't create anything much that went beyond their own records, and besides "Stairway"'s got some pretty changes, even if it is a load of shit

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Re Scream: have...had...no...discernible...impact...on...anything...ever. (How could they, their whole career was like leaning out a moving car window and spraying aerosol air)

― dave q, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, the question does not actually mention "influence" just the elimination of artists from existence. But as it stands, one of the reasons I abhor Primal Scream, and Bobby Gillespie in particular, is that they were one of the first bands you were expected to applaud because of their RECORD COLLECTION. Something that has become endemic since...

― Dadaismus, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Backstreet Boys
NSync
98 Degrees
Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
Mandy Moore
Savage Garden
Matchbox 20
Dave Matthews Band
Journey

I would be very happy indeed if the above individuals (and in some of these cases, I'm using that word loosely) were to disappear off the face of the planet. Bye-bye.

An "I don't care -- i'm cheating here" addendum:

Avril Lavigne (the biggest poser!)
Eminem (overrated)
Celine Dion (schlock and the BAD kind of musical cheese, as opposed to the GOOD kind of musical cheese, which is exemplified by groups such as K.C. & the Sunshine Band)
The Strokes (once again, overrated)
Madonna (not '80s Madonna -- the Madonna of today)
Faith Hill
Brooks & Dunn (they should be severely punished just for the "Boot Scootin' Boogie" debacle)
Chicago
Atlantic Starr
Aerosmith (sorry -- I just CANNOT stand them)

― Dee the Lurker, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, I think it's Black Sabbath and Cream you'd rather have disappear.

The most annoying thing about Metal - the vocal style - was invented by Robert Plant.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the one person who should be eradicated from the past would be Puff Daddy.
Both so-called R 'n B and so-called hip hop wouldn't have taken over the music scene as it did back in about 1997/1998.

― Tijn, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Would have been better to eliminate James Brown, Sly Stone, U-Roy and Sugarhill Gang to prevented all hip-hop and "contemporary R&B" from happening.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Take That
2. Mel & Kim
3. Offspring
4. Whitney Houston
5. Celine Dion
6. Hear Say
7. Oasis
8. Mike Love
9. Mike Love
10. Mike Love

― bert (bert), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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