Who is your least favorite artist among your most played?

According to Last.fm, my most played artists are:
1 Claude Debussy 769
2 Glenn Gould 736
3 Igor Stravinsky 458
4 The Beach Boys 447
5 Harry Nilsson 433
6 Robert Schumann 429
7 Randy Newman 397
8 Steve Reich 368
9 Eva Quartet 326
10 Fleetwood Mac 312
11 Olivier Messiaen 305
12 Emmylou Harris 304
13 Maurice Ravel 301
14 Deerhoof 288
15 Cardiacs 277
16 György Ligeti 270
17 Bob Drake 268
18 Pom Pom 257
19 Judee Sill 249
20 Erik Satie 241
20 Paul McCartney 241

...and I don't understand how Erik Satie is here. I like his music, and I listen to it sometimes, but would hardly call him one of my favorite artists. As far as classical composers go, I'd much sooner consider Bach, Prokofiev or Shostakovich. And among all music, there are tons of artists I'd pick first. He's taking someone else's valuable spot!!

[/i]17 Bob Drake 268[/i]

goddamn I need to get on this ASAP [/derail]

My answer would probably be something like Of Montreal, although I still like them

1. Neon Indian (lol this must've been on repeat by accident some day or something)
2. John Lennon (specifically the song "Crippled Inside")
3. Richard Hawley
4. The Band
5. Alex Chilton
6. Badfinger
7. The Bee Gees
8. John Cale
9. Little Richard
10. Bo Diddley
11. George Jones
12. Ghostface Killah
13. Hall & Oates
14. Peter Schilling
15. Raekwon
16. XTC
17. Broadcast
18. Cat Stevens
19. Charlie Feathers
20. Dion

this list is kinda laughable/not reflective at all in a lot of ways (Cat Stevens?!) - fuck you iTunes playcount!

I will post as soon as I figure out how to neatly export or c/p last.fm charts

1 The Smiths 552
2 Spacemen 3 382
3 Pavement 316
4 Blur 279
5 Kraftwerk 270
6 The Dandy Warhols 215
7 Massive Attack 204
7 Pixies 204
7 Aphex Twin 204
10 Radiohead 196
11 ADULT. 184
12 Joy Division 183
13 Björk 175
14 Optimo 169
15 The Brian Jonestown Massacre 150
15 808 State 150
17 LCD Soundsystem 147
18 M.I.A. 143
19 Primal Scream 138
20 Spiritualized 131

Well, I mean, I love all of these, but least favorite is probably ADULT. since the entirety of those plays are from a phase 4 years ago where I more or less listened to Resuscitation on repeat for a few months. It's the only album of theirs I really like (but boy do I really like it!). All those others I could accurately refer to as "one of my favorite bands"

1 Nurse With Wound 475
2 Tom Waits 432
3 The Mountain Goats 383
4 Klaatu 339
5 The Cure 320
6 mclusky 311
7 Foetus 306
8 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 298
9 Firewater 287
10 Beck 280
11 Beastie Boys 245
12 The Residents 228
13 Eels 226
14 Swans 225
15 Sparks 216
16 The Suburbs 208
17 Modest Mouse 199
17 Elvis Costello 199
17 Ulver 199
20 Aphex Twin 183

if were talking how i feel about their current incarnations, its a 3 way tie between beasties/beck/modest mouse. if its career spanning, then the beasties

Stevie D, you look like a fella who might enjoy the new 90's poll

1 New Order 360
2 The Fall 310
3 Minutemen 244
4 Steinski 188
5 Aphex Twin 184
6 Boards of Canada 149
7 Wire 139
8 The Hold Steady 134
9 Hüsker Dü 130
10 Black Sabbath 127
10 The Jesus Lizard 127
10 Kraftwerk 127
13 Neu! 121
13 The Juan Maclean 121
15 Brian Eno 116
16 Raekwon 115
17 Zomby 111
17 Smog 111
19 Earth 110
20 Nas 109

Probably Zomby as least fave, but I love that album.

1 The Cure 1,064
2 The Knife 710
3 Diplo/Santogold 690
4 Depeche Mode 601
5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 534
6 Nine Inch Nails 444
7 Boards of Canada 407
8 Bat for Lashes 396
9 King's Chapel Choir 377
10 Siouxsie and the Banshees 363
11 The Prodigy 354
12 Kenna 292
13 Massive Attack 288
14 Modeselektor 287
15 Fever Ray 283
16 The Mountain Goats 256
17 Santigold 253
18 Portishead 242
19 Moderat 239
20 M.I.A. 237

so massive lol because my least favorite is the group I actually sing with (King's Chapel Choir); assuming that doesn't count, my next entry is a Kleiber recording of "Ernani" that I played to death attempting to memorize it, which also ranks as a least-favorite

once you remove the entries that are only there because I was trying to learn some music, I think my answer is probably Modeselektor

1
Lil' Wayne 1,224
2
Gucci Mane 717
3
The-Dream 592
4
Los Campesinos! 560
5
Bloc Party 535
6
Clipse 518
7
Spoon 481
8
The Beatles 457
9
Girl Talk 418
10
DJ Drama & Lil Wayne 409
11
Kanye West 396
12
Hot Chip 382
13
The Fiery Furnaces 377
14
Jay-Z 376
15
Wolf Parade 369
16
Tokyo Police Club 368
17
Vampire Weekend 355
18
Phoenix 343
19
Be Your Own Pet 312
20
No Age 304

definitely fiery furnaces -- they got a good number of albums tho

argh i was scrollin' down your list and saw fiery furnaces and thought 'i hope he doesn't say fiery furnaces' ;_;

haha -- in reality i haven't listened to tokyo police club in probably three years but i'm not as interested in the mystique of the furnaces like i was when i was a youg'n -- i still think 'blueberry boat' is killer tho

xp bbb - If you drop The Knife at King's Evensong I'll be there in a second.

Em...

1 Arthur Russell 651
2 Animal Collective 463
3 The Beach Boys 340
4 Michel Polnareff 296
5 Eels 279
6 Neil Young 240
7 Paavoharju 233
8 Burial 220
9 Les Rita Mitsouko 219
9 Marissa Nadler 219
11 Girl Talk 201
12 Paul White 188
13 Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou 179
14 Serge Gainsbourg 176
15 Kelley Polar 169
16 Malajube 168
17 Onra 167
18 Jackson and His Computer Band 165
19 Sam Cooke 160
20 Tindersticks 159
20 Jonquil 159

Most of it is pretty representative. I don't like Eels or J+HCB as much as their ranking suggests. Onra and Paul White are there because they put 30 60-second tracks on an album. Suprised not to see Dilla there for the same reason (he's down at 30).

j0rdan i am not as obsessed by them as i once was but yeah BB is mad killer. i am also a huge fan of bitter tea and widow city but BB is the one that'll last

i like bitter tea a lot, but to me it's like 50% all time d-_-b and 50% these fukkin ruminants

...and I don't understand how Erik Satie is here. I like his music, and I listen to it sometimes, but would hardly call him one of my favorite artists. As far as classical composers go, I'd much sooner consider Bach, Prokofiev or Shostakovich. And among all music, there are tons of artists I'd pick first. He's taking someone else's valuable spot!!

I would attribute it to the short length of his compositions

Roxy Music 501
XTC 460
Coil 384
Randy Newman 346
Kate Bush 345
Peter Gabriel 324
David Bowie 306
Harry Nilsson 296
The Residents 290
Stevie Wonder 265
M.I.A. 265
The Beatles 258
The Police 253
Wall of Voodoo 250
Siouxsie and the Banshees 242
Nellie McKay 241
Cardiacs 234
Pet Shop Boys 232
Prince & The Revolution 221
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 201

I like all these guys...hard to pick a least favorite. I will say Roxy Music was a holdover from when I had a 20 gig hard drive & only a few albums on my compy, mostly by Roxy Music. I'll still put on their stuff, tho. Prince wld be a lot higher if it wasn't split between Prince and '& the Revolution.'

I guess the one on here I'm most lukewarm abt is The Beatles...I think they got so high from trying to figure out if the remasters actually sounded all that different. (Actually, at that time, I was getting off a medication & the v v v weird side effect was music did not sound like 'music,' just a bunch of jangling sounds that never coalesced into sound. Beatles = most familiar music to me, probably, and I was just sitting around waiting for it to make sense again.)

good idea for a thread!

1. Steely Dan 1153
2. Autechre 828
3. John Fahey 685
4. Harvey Milk 669
5. Circle 624
6. Notorious B.I.G. 594
7. Fleetwood Mac 570
8. 2Pac 505
9. Koenjihyakkei 497
10. Neurosis 473
11. Meshuggah 429
12. Converge 427
13. Misfits 415
14. Ruins 412
15. Three 6 Mafia 406
16. Iron Maiden 403
17. New Order 400
18. Harmonia 390
19. Sir Richard Bishop 389
20. UGK 377

probably converge or sir richard bishop. though (obv.) I like them both a bunch.

funny because I could easily swap out the next five for stuff in my top 20 if I were compiling a more personal ranking:

21. Keith Fullerton Whitman 363
22. Judas Priest 360
23. Led Zeppelin 351
24. Thin Lizzy 349
25. Depeche Mode 346

also, I've probably listened to sabbath more than anything over the last year (besides steely dan) but I just haven't gotten around to ripping most of their stuff.

1 Grouper 170
2 Alog 141
3 Broadcast and The Focus Group 138
4 Mordant Music 126
5 Zelienople 124
6 The Sight Below 122
7 Autistic Daughters 118
8 Björk 115
8 David Sylvian 115
10 Brian Eno 112
11 The Legendary Pink Dots 108
12 Stars of the Lid 106
13 Fennesz 103
13 Disco Inferno 103
13 Alva Noto 103
13 David Bowie 103
17 Erik Satie 102
17 Red House Painters 102
19 Popol Vuh 99
20 Animal Collective 98

Holy balls, It's the Erik Satie effect. This is only my six-month list, but I've got Erik in about the same position. One of the CDs of his that I have has got 44 tracks on it, play that a couple of times and there you go. OTOH the other Satie CD I have (42 Vexations) has just one track, so maybe that evens things out a bit.

Broadcast & the Focus Group has more plays than I feel it deserves, but that was my falling asleep music for a couple of weeks.

ruins are def. the band benefiting most from the satie effect on my list. I have their live album from 2000 on my ipod and the short improv tracks always come up on shuffle.

xp didn't falling asleep to that Broadcast record totally freak your mind?

I keep forgetting about the last.fm normaliser:

http://www.normalisr.com/?user=djperry1973&chart=artist

1. The Cure
2. The Knife
3. Depeche Mode
4. Nine Inch Nails
5. Carlos Kleiber
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. The Prodigy
8. Boards of Canada
9. Massive Attack
10. Bat for Lashes
11. Siouxsie and the Banshees
12. Fever Ray
13. Modeselektor
14. Kenna
15. Underworld
16. New Order
17. Moderat
18. Portishead
19. Basement Jaxx
20. Pet Shop Boys

lol, THERE'S that Kleiber recording I mentioned!

1 Bob Dylan 963
2 The Beatles 900
3 Elvis Presley 817
4 Neil Young 662
5 The Rolling Stones 484
6 The Cure 449
7 R.E.M.418
8 Steely Dan 400
9 Depeche Mode 362
10 The Jesus and Mary Chain 360
11 The Byrds 348
12 Roxy Music 343
13 New Order 337
14 David Bowie 309
15 Fleetwood Mac 290
16 Kanye West 281
17 Dolly Parton 227
18 Al Green 226
19 Big Star 218
19 Merle Haggard 218

Of these, I guess the Cure is my least favorite. I'm embarked on an OCD "project" of listening to everything I have on this laptop (170+ gigs) and that includes every Cure album through Wild Mood Swings, including all the 2-disk editions presently available plus Join The Dots. It was good but I'm not really that much of a fan; I just wanted to see if I'd missed something along the way that would conjure an obsession the way they have for some friends of mine. It didn't (I love the first two albums a lot, though; and dug Blue Sunshine more than other mid-period Cure).

After that, my second least favorite would be Depeche Mode, for whom the same OCD explanation of that play count applies...though I found a lot more to love in their stuff than I'd expected to. But compared to the others on my list, they're still a lesser love.

Sisters of Mercy or Bauhaus

(just ftr, The Glove s better than other mid-period Cure)

yeah even the second disk was chock full of goodies (re. the Glove)

xp didn't falling asleep to that Broadcast record totally freak your mind?

Sadly not, once I've dozed off, nothing seems to infiltrate my brain. I do try and keep listening right up to the cusp of sleep, wish I could prolong that weird half-asleep state for longer tbh.

mighty white and kind of ridiculous, probably mahavishnu orchestra or microphones

1. Circulatory System
2. Vincent Gallo
3. Microphones
4. Elliot Smith
5. Royal Trux
6. Tom Waits
7. Django Reinhardt
8. Harry Nilsson
9. Deerhoof
10. The Kinks
11. Big Star
12. Gun Club
13. Caetano Veloso
14. Steely Dan
15. Faust
16. John Fahey
17. Pere Ubu
18. Serge Gainsbourg
19. John Lennon
20. Mahavishnu Orchestra

some expected stuff jumps way up when normalized:
3. Morton Feldman +34
5. Keith Fullerton Whitman +16
11. Terry Riley +33

pretty weird that lastfm don't roll something like this into their own site.

laughably low play count per week because most (all?) of her albums are just one track per disc:

http://www.last.fm/music/Eliane+Radigue

1 The-Dream 687
2 Erykah Badu 681
3 Stevie Wonder 621
4 Lil' Wayne 462
5 Prince 453
6 DJ Quik & Kurupt 434
7 The Juan Maclean 415
8 Electrik Red 381
9 The Foreign Exchange 379
10 Me'Shell NdegéOcello 354
11 OutKast 337
12 Ghostface Killah 327
13 Jay-Z 312
14 Maxwell 290
15 Pill 276
16 Solange 260
17 Calle 13 250
18 Gucci Mane 243
19 T.I. 234
20 Big K.R.I.T. 233

Of these, Solange, Pill, and Big K.R.I.T. don't quite feel like they've earned their spots (hell, neither of the latter two even have a commercially released album). I think Pill has released the least high-quality material of the three, so I'll pick him.

1. Olivier Messiaen
2. Radiohead
3. Dmitri Shostakovich
4. Morton Feldman
5. Joanna Newsom
6. Alice Coltrane
7. Alfred Schnittke
8. Tori Amos
9. Piano Magic
10. Sofia Gubaidulina
11. Thom Yorke
12. Autechre
13. Cocteau Twins
14. Diamanda Galás
15. Talk Talk
16. This Heat
17. Björk
18. Claude Debussy
19. PJ Harvey
20. Jonny Greenwood

I love all of these people but I suppose Tori is the most embarrassing, considering she was substituted by an evil, musically awful botoxed twin after her first four albums. Also, Joanna Newsom exclusively means Ys. The rest, I will def. stand for.

1 Nurse With Wound
2 The Fall
3 Wire
4 Kate Bush
5 Severed Heads
6 Coil
7 Disco Inferno
8 Uton
9 Section 25
10 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
11 The Fauves
12 Seaworthy
13 Bernard Parmegiani
13 Genesis
15 Roy Orbison
16 Faust
17 Men's Recovery Project
18 This Heat
18 Windy & Carl
20 People Like Us

Of the top, Uton is there because I have a sleep mix of about 500+ tracks that I put on shuffle to sleep to occasionally, and there are about four CDs worth of relatively short songs that come up.

Don't know why Genesis are so high, and The Fauves are up there since electricsound and I listened to a large portion of their back catalogue while driving interstate.

Still, it's relatively early day for my scrobbling, errors will get borne out eventually.

1 Super Furry Animals 2,670
2 Phoenix 2,254
3 J.J. Cale 1,978
4 The National 1,830
5 Diefenbach 1,775
6 Sufjan Stevens 1,162
7 Hot Chip 1,010
8 King Creosote 927
9 Cut Copy 916
10 Jens Lekman 899
11 Blitzen Trapper 895
12 Junior Boys 851
13 Air 813
14 Arctic Monkeys 729
15 Brendan Benson 643
16 We Are Scientists 639
16 Peter Bjorn and John 639
18 Mungolian Jet Set 632
19 The Earlies 625
20 Devendra Banhart 610

Probably Diefenbach from that list. Haven't listened to them or Devendra Banhart for a good few years.

And doesn't that normaliser thing just give bias towards artists with longer tracks. Looking at my "normalised" list, it's no surprise to see the big climbers are the likes of Lindström, Studio, Stars of the Lid and Kaito - all of who regularly clock in tracks at 12+ minutes

1 Aphex Twin
2 AFX
3 Lindstrøm & Christabelle
4 Shimura Curves
5 Broadcast and The Focus Group
6 Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas
7 Flying Lotus
8 Erkin Koray
8 Lindstrøm
10 New Order
11 Laurie Spiegel
12 Goldfrapp
13 Stereolab
14 Memory Tapes
15 Electric Bubblegum Arkestra
16 Annie
16 Little Boots
18 Ellen Allien
19 Ursula Bogner
20 Phantogram

Ha ha I dunno who those Electric Bubblegum Arkestra people are or why they placed so high. Or Shimura Curves, get that out of there!

Of the real bands, erm, well, I love all of them. It's pretty skewed list though by the people who have multiple projects (Aphex/AFX and Lindstrom being the worst offenders there.) I'd probably drop one of them. In fact, drop AFX as that isn't even my favourite RDJ solo project, it's just the one that I have the most material.

1 Play
Caetano Veloso

587
2 Play
João Gilberto

522
3 Play
Steely Dan

520
4 Play
Miles Davis

517
5 Play
Ornette Coleman

485
6 Play
Ricardo Villalobos

419
7 Play
Metallica

405
8 Play
Boredoms

356
9 Play
Animal Collective

344
10 Play
Lil' Wayne

340
11 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven

334
12 Play
Fleetwood Mac

333
13 Play
The Beatles

267
14 Play
Charlie Parker

258
15 Play
Talking Heads

249
16 Play
Weather Report

243
17 Play
Can

233
18 Play
Joy Division

215
19 Play
Aphex Twin

207
20 Play
Skream

203

pretty sure that just c&p'd horribly. Skream would be my least favourite, though Beatles is probably the least representative (i have a lot of plays through falling asleep with their discography playing).

1 Mariah Carey 989
2 Gucci Mane 912
3 Tori Amos 895
4 Ciara 860
5 The-Dream 755
6 Rihanna 754
7 Electrik Red 641
8 Cassie 628
9 Beyoncé 625
10 Lil' Wayne 608
11 Taylor Swift 593
12 T.I. 571
13 Erykah Badu 552
14 Aaliyah 530
15 Britney Spears 529
16 Madonna 517
17 Sade 503
18 Teedra Moses 442
19 Jay-Z 427
20 Junior Boys 408

huh, i love them all. tori amos, madonna and jay-z are all kinda embarrassing in their current incarnations, but at the same time probably among the very best if you look at the good bits of their careers. might be either gucci mane or rihanna - the former is here because of the sheer volume of stuff he's released over the past couple of years, while i'm definitely a fan i never feel like i'm as enthusiastic as jordan and deej. rihanna's released a ton of classic material (again, her prolific nature helps her last.fm-wise) but i don't feel the same ~connexion~ to her that i do to teedra, ciara or cassie...

I haven't actually turned my audioroffler on in a couple years but here is mine, normalized. So sad to see Bob Drake fall way out of his rightful place due to the normalization as I listen to him on my ipod all the time. My least favorite of these is probably a tie between Hank Williams (past breakup music) and Sugar Plant (past sleepytime music). The rest is almost completely indicative of my tastes.
1. Boredoms
2. Esplendor Geométrico
3. Suicide
4. A Frames
5. Fleetwood Mac
6. Burt Bacharach
7. The Knife
8. Junior Boys
9. John Cale
10. Mort Garson
11. Belong
12. Tetuzi Akiyama
13. Made In Mexico
14. Hank Williams
15. Sugar Plant
16. Butthole Surfers
17. Gary Numan
18. Electric Light Orchestra
19. LCD Soundsystem
20. Amon Düül II

Guided by Voices 253
Disclose 197
The Clean 184
Ildjarn 147
The Cure 137
Blank Dogs 135
The Byrds 133
Howlin' Wolf 120
The Jesus and Mary Chain 117
Wire 114
T. Rex 112
New Order 104
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 103
Sebadoh 97
Los Crudos 89

GBV are only the top artist because they've released so many songs - I was going through their albums looking for the good ones, not because I'm much of a fan.

But they're probably the 2nd least favourite because the honour goes to Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - I was trying to work out what this one song they played when I saw them back in '97 was called and had to listen to several albums before I found it. Of course now I've forgotten what song it was again.

Without normalisr:

1. Nikaidoh Kazumi
2. The Focus Group
3. The Butterflies of Love
4. The Chemistry Experiment
5. Doddodo
6. Yellow Magic Orchestra
7. The Go-Betweens
8. Art Bears
9. wolfram wire
10. Ensemble Pittoresque
11. The Fugs
11. Tujiko Noriko
11. Paavoharju
14. The Plastic People Of The Universe
15. Axemen
16. Team Brick
17. Slapp Happy
17. Jandek
19. Carambolage
19. (Ed.) Morgan Fisher
19. Je Suis Animal

As well as having to discount my own band (because we are awesome, obviously), this list suffers highly from the short song effect (further confirmed by the Conet Project being just outside the top 20), but I do love the Focus Group so have no problems with them being right up near the top. The mysterious (Ed.) Morgan Fisher, however, is what all the songs on the Miniatures album were tagged as before I changed them, so I would have to say that was my least favourite of these, even though I love most of the songs on it.

With normalisr:

1. Yellow Magic Orchestra
2. The Chemistry Experiment
3. The Butterflies of Love
4. The Go-Betweens
5. Tujiko Noriko
6. Doddodo
7. This Heat
8. The Focus Group
9. Ensemble Pittoresque
10. Art Bears
11. Jandek
12. The Plastic People Of The Universe
13. OOIOO
14. The Fugs
15. Matmos
16. Paavoharju
17. HALCALI
18. Slapp Happy
19. Je suis Animal
20. Comet Gain

It's probably going to be Halcali here, as even though they are quite absurdly joyful, I could probably live without them in a way that I couldn't do with most of the rest of these guys. There are only so many times that you're in the mood for manufactured Japanese teen hip-hop. Those times are great, mind you.

Also, I think something went wrong with Nikaidoh Kazumi going missing from the normalised list - her songs are not that short. The name does get corrected in last.fm to be a Japanese font, so it might have borked the normalisr.

Plus, Colonel Poo, Gorky's are brilliant. Pah.

Yeah, wtf? Let's duff him up! (ps Awesome list e.mily!)

e.mily, emil.y

to quote lil wayne

Haha, I'm not sure if Gorky's fans are really going to be able to duff anyone up.

Oh shit yeah! *runs away*

1 New Order 360
2 The Fall 310
3 Minutemen 244
4 Steinski 188
5 Aphex Twin 184
6 Boards of Canada 149
7 Wire 139
8 The Hold Steady 134
9 Hüsker Dü 130
10 Black Sabbath 127
10 The Jesus Lizard 127
10 Kraftwerk 127
13 Neu! 121
13 The Juan Maclean 121
15 Brian Eno 116
16 Raekwon 115
17 Zomby 111
17 Smog 111
19 Earth 110
20 Nas 109

If that is your least favorite, how good is your best???