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Top Music Artists of All Time

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Best Musicians Ever

Rated 390 points - posted 15 years ago by kris in category Music.
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Best Christian Band ever.
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I Dare You to Move, Meant to Live...
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Best Ever!!! (:
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Guitarist for his own band as well as Deep Purple, James Gang, Energy, Zephyr. Also guest guitarist for Billy Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, Moxy, Dr. John and Rainbow Canyon. Played every genre equally well. Excellent lyricist and singer. Master of the EchoPlex! His anthem, Post Toastee, was an anti drug song. Too bad he died of an drug overdose.
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Very beautiful and strong voice
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Juts listen thier wonderful and poetic songs, their progressive rock and their inspired poetry from Andalucia. Just listen "Abre la Puerta", for instance.
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One of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of all time. Has an incredible ability to infuse raw emotion into music and lyrics like nobody else before or since.
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Al Jolson Report Abuse
23 # 1 hits, 87 Top 40 hits, Star of Broadway, radio and the big screen. Acknowledged by all his contemporaries as "The World's Greatest Entertainer." The most electric performer on stage in history. Starred in the most important and revolutionary motion picture of all time - 1927's "The Jazz Singer" - the first "talking picture." Voted most popular singer in 1948 when he was 62 years old (!) First to entertain the troops in WW2, Korea. As an aside, the Classical composers do not belong in the same category with singers.
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Supreme composer of ballet music including La Bayadere and Don Quixote. With Tchaikovsky, he is the foremost composer for ballet music.
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One of the best MCs ever
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The best producer
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Legend of underground hip hop
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Best hip hop duo ever
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He only say the truth
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Best flow
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The best Portuguese band!! You should listen "a minha maneira", "Chuva Dissolvente", "Gritos Mudos", all good musics. Their musics are in portuguese, that's why the majority of listen don't listen them.
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Just absolutely beatiful music written from the heart
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Incredible guitarist who makes some of the most emotional music I've ever heard, and I listen to almost every genre.
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Duh! Where do all the AMAZING musicians of today go on this list? Hello? Bruno Mars wrote Forget You, Billionare, all of the songs he sings and sooooo much more...DUH!
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Phish Report Abuse
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Ummmm. Phish is the best besides maybe most of the top 10 and some classical composers ect. wtf people. LOL.
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Family Force 5 Report Abuse
must i really explain! they are just amazing!
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they are a alternative/metal/rap/dance band they are actualy pretty good i have 2 of there albums and i usualy hate rap and things like them
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An explanation might help, yeah. Never heard of them.
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WTF 206?! They are better!
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A great christian band
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the best pop punk band of Canada
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Great pop music, the have a great story and great music.
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aka Hannah Montana
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hell nah man
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no.
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the best music..its beautiful life really rocks..
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Rise Against Report Abuse
We needed some modern punk rock on here...
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We already got some of that, but thanks.
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Best hip hop group ever
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Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He is considered to be one of the best and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history
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Yes, he is an artist. The best to do it in HipHop.
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Hiphop is not music. Please leave.
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Only slightly shadowed by Eminem, but close...
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Even if he's the second best rapper he's still too high on the list.
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the second best rapper of all time
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actually a great band..should be in the top hundread....
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Skilled and talented musicians, who continue to reinvent themselves which each release. Original sound, and songs about everything from Azwethinkweiz to Zee Deveel.
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Mesmerizing, hugely talented pianist.
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BEST GERMAN BAND EVER
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Whereas Tupac was the King of hip hop from the West, Biggie was the King from the east. Through his unfortunate death along with Tupac, his soul will always be with Hip Hop.
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AMEN!
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The idea of an all black heavy metal band may sound weird but once you first hear them you will be amazed.
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