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Blue October
Buckcherry
The Doors
Guns n’ Roses
The Hold Steady
Kings of Leon
Micah P. Hinson
My Chemical Romance
Okkervil River
The Racontuers

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The Sword
Rammstein
Alice in Chains
Buckethead
Metallica
Nirvana
Stone Temple Pilots
Shinedown
Rob Zombie
Sevendust

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Nirvana
Pink Floyd
Dinosaur Jr.
Alice in Chains
Tool
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys
Sunny Day Real Estate
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against the Machine

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Iron Maiden
Faith No More
Primus
Devo
Talking Heads
Billy Joel
Anthrax
Helloween
Clash
Meat Puppets

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The Master List is updated through here. Keep the lists coming!!!

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Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Pearl Jam
Oasis
Pink Floyd
Bruce Springsteen
The Who

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U2
Tom Waits
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Arcade Fire
Talking Heads
Depeche Mode
The Clash
Neko Case
Pearl Jam

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Do you think you should raise it to people's Top 20 or 25 so you get a larger pool and more variety to choose from?

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Personally, I think expanding the number of contributions will only dilute the final ballot. Every year since 2001, I have organized a retrospective CD for my friends. Basically, I keep a running list of released singles through the year, and older songs that have a connection to something during the year that resonates with someone get nominated. For instance, a song played at a wedding might be nominated. Anyway, I have everyone cast no fewer than ten and no more than twenty votes from the master list, with the stipulation that only one song be chosen per artist. (There is a loophole for duets.) It might seem haphazard with nine of us voting, but once you actually tally up the votes there are typically only about 20 songs that receive three or more votes.

When you're doing something like this for a collective, you end up seeing true democracy in action. Our typical master list will have nearly 200 songs on it, and out of those 200 only 20 will resonate with a third or more of our group. Those 20, then, really are the songs that were the soundtrack for our group's year. Having more songs on the master list would only result in more songs not making the final cut.

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Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Prince
Micheal Jackson
Guns N’ Roses
Johnny Cash
Metallica
Nirvana
Bee Gees
Stevie Wonder

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The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Elvis Costello
Elliott Smith
Ani DiFranco
Bob Dylan
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Smashing Pumpkins
Elvis Presley

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Tori Amos
They Might Be Giants
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Ravi Shankar
Lucinda Williams
Juliana Hatfield
Brian Eno
Tortoise
The Muffs
The Magnetic Fields

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A larger pool is good to an extent. Once we get too many in, we will end up a lot of early round matchups where people only know one side of the ballot and really probably shouldn't vote. We are running into that a little now in the TV Character Tourney. We did lists of only 10 for that tourney and their ended up being 168 entries into the tourney.

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The Beatles
The Stones
Bruce Springsteen
The Who
The Ramones
The Clash
David Bowie
Queen
The Foo Fighters
Public Enemy

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Rush
Iron Maiden
Kiss
The Doors
Black Sabbath
AC/DC
Dream Theater
Joe Satriani
Frank Zappa
Run DMC

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Tom Waits
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Harry Partch
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
John Prine
Mississippi John Hurt
T-Bone Burnett
Liszt
Jolie Holland
The Beatles

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I have a question. If I mention a single person, can it include a group he was in before, or does it have to count as only the solo career?

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I would think each "identity" would be unique. I mean, Beatles fans might not necessarily care for Ringo's solo career but would nominate the Beatles and Paul separately because each era really is distinct.

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Bob Dylan
Beatles
Pixies
Pavement
Elvis Costello
REM
Radiohead
Tom Waits
Velvet Underground
Bjork

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Eagles
Beatles
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
KISS
Allman Brothers Band
Cream
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
John Coltrane

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I hate trying to whittle it down to only 10 artists. I like too damn many, and there's any number of which that I like just as equally as another. There are quite a few artists already listed, of whom, I own most (if not all) of their respective catalogs (i.e. The Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, U2 or Pearl Jam...etc). However, that doesn't necessarily qualify them as my "favorite", or any less than those in my 10 picks. With that in mind, I guess these will do as good as any for me. And just for the hell of it, I'm going to pick a few bands no one else has yet, either...

The Beatles
Alice Cooper
KISS
Thin Lizzy
Cheap Trick
AC/DC
INXS
Stone Temple Pilots
Superdrag
Nada Surf

...of course tomorrow, at least half that list could change.

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No particular order...

Iron Maiden
AC/DC
Metallica
Ozzy Osbourne
Journey
Eagles
Van Halen
KISS
Judas Priest
Megadeth

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Sunny Day Real Estate
Metallica
Queen
Iron Maiden
Billy Joel
Journey
Weezer
Social Distortion
Dinosaur Jr.
Jimi Hendrix

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This is correct. Paul as a solo artist is a seperate entry from The Beatles.

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Dream Theater
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Prince
The Corrs
Shakira
Van Halen
Rush
Extreme
Metallica