POX: Only ten bands or artists for the rest of your life

Funkadelic

Isaac Hayes

The Stooges

Bl'ast!

Eric B & Rakim

Brand Nubian

Notorious B.I.G

Slick Rick

Wu-Tang from '93 - '96.

Led Zeppelin
The Fall
Guided By Voices
Miles Davis
Bob Dylan
Robert Wyatt/Soft Machine
Captain Beefheart
Leonard Cohen
Velvet Underground
Bjork

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Miles Davis
ABBA
LV Beethoven (not actually totally familiar with most Beethoven, but I figure I need someone that's good and I can take a long time to get to know)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Claude Debussy
Steve Reich
Beach Boys
Randy Newman
Magma
Funkadelic

Ozzy Osbourne - includes Black Sabbath
Frank Zappa - includes Mothers
Jerry Garcia - includes Grateful Dead, LOM, etc.
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Buckethead - includes everything he ever worked on
Bill Laswell - includes everything he ever worked on
Helios Creed - includes Chrome
Trey Anastasio - includes Phish, etc.
Buddy Guy - includes all performances with other blues guys

All of these include all bootlegs, so that should be enough hours of music to last me for life with enough variety to keep me mostly happy. It kills me that I could never hear Led Zeppelin again, but Phish, Buckethead and Zappa all do covers.

2. Amoebic Dysentery

3. Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition

4. Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis

5. Soldered Poon

6. Feculent Goretomb

7. Catasexual Urge Motivation

8. Cock And Ball Torture

9. Lymphatic Phlegm

10. Torsofuck

love
gun club
new pornographers
wilco
birthday party
guided by voices
the fall
cheap trick
neil young
roxy music

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Genesis including solo material (Peter's mainly)
Depeche Mode
XTC
The Beatles including solo material
Neil Finn in general
David Bowie
Yes
10cc
Super Furry Animals
Frank Zappa

Zappa isn't really among my favourite acts, but he has released lots and lots of records, plus they are kind of "difficult", not too accesible at first listen, and I would discover something new with each listen.

I don't know a whole lot of Dave Brubeck, but what I do know is sublime, and there are like a hundred albums or so, including classical as well as jazz. I'd want something new to discover.

Björk
The Cure
Pet Shop Boys
Madonna
Cocteau Twins
Prince
David Bowie
Donna Summer
Nine Inch Nails
Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont/Thin White Duke/Les Rythmes Digitales/Man With Guitar/Paper Faces/Zoot Woman, etc)

I like Brooker's list.

Melissa W's gay husband? If so, you thought right.

Assuming that's cheating and I'm not:

Captain Beefheart (inc. The Magic Band witout Don)
Miles Davis
Bob Dylan
The Fall
Charles Mingus
Sun Ra
David Thomas (inc. Pere Ubu and all solo / side projects)
Tom Waits
XTC
Frank Zappa

Things I’d like to get the chance to know and love:
Mahler
Beethoven
Elgar
Debussy

The predictable but inevitable:
Miles Davis

The list is obviously tilted towards artists with large discographies.

Oum Kalthoum
Farid el Atrache
Shaykh Ahmad Al Ajamy
Sun Ra
El Gran Combo
Willie Colon (including all major collaborations thnx!)
Cheo Feliciano
Stelios Kazantzidis
J.S. Bach
Ella Fitzgerald (I'll grow into it--and I need songs in English, ones with good lyrics--I like Billie Holiday more, but I already have so much melancholy material on this list)