Now, I'm sure topic of this sort have been posted multiple times, but....well...too bad, becuase I felt like making one and, so far, there hasn't been a topic specifically like this. You can name singers, bands, composers, or any other musical artists. Just curious to see what everyone's opinions are.

Oh, yes , and here are my top five (Not in any paricular order)
Boards of Canada
DJ Shadow
µ-Ziq
Amon Tobin
Four Tet

Iron Maiden
Queen
Cliff Richard
Rammstein
A Perfect Circle

Here's mine:

1.Pink Floyd
2.Led Zepllin
3.Jean Michelle Jarre
4.U2
5.Mike Oldfield

1. Rolling Stones
2. Prince
3. Bjork
4. Kate Bush
5. Abba

Abba and you slate madonna?

i never said they looked good - just good at crafting pop songs - hey it wasnt me who used the words madonna, butch and dog in the same sentence remember? :-)

Meow!

** retracts claws **

Good as bulldog would rip you to bits.

1: The White Stripes
2: Black Sabbath
3: Rasputina
4: System of a Down
5: Sage Francis

Good 5.

Abba
System of a Down
kd lang
James Last
Jools Holland

Abba and System of a Down....that's an interesting combonation.

It's a knack

1. Our Lady Peace
2. Maroon 5
3. Bryan Adams
4. Queen
5. Pink Floyd

Rock fav 5,

1 Machine Head
2 Velvet Revolver
3 Queens of the Stoneage
4 Stone Temple Pilots
5 Pink Floyd

1.Stevie Ray Von
2.Bono
3.Bruce Springstien
4.Ray Charles
5.Bach

I thought we are talking artist, not groups. But if it where groups.
1.Stones
2.U2
4.Pink Floyd
3.The Moody Blues
5.Croby,Still,nash and young

Right here's the classical list...
5. Ravel (Bolero)
4. Mozart (requiem)
3. Gustav Holst (the planets)
And for a tie... (first one on this thread...
1. Strauss (4 seasons)
1. Edvard Greig (Peer Gynt suite)

Mine are:

1. Ashlee Simpson
2. Kelly Clarkson
3. Martina McBride
4. Faith Hill
5.?????

I have allot of favorite artists, probably to the hunderds, and you want me to narrow it down to 5? Crazy. . .I like to many different artist of to many different genres of music to just pick 5 but, I suppose if I had to, it would be:

1.) Delerium
2.) Enya
3.) Gorillaz
4.) Paul Oakenfold
5.) Evanescence

1 - Enigma
2 - ELO
3 - Status Quo
4 - The Shadows
5 - Elton John

The five I listen to most are:
Rusted Root
Rush
Bjork
Indigo Girls
the Cure

Melissa Etheridge
Lynard Skynard
Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac

But I could go on...and this list is in random order.

No question in my mind:

Jimi Hendrix
Pink Floyd
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Deep Purple

Here's some of mine......

Annie Lennox
Ry Cooder
Any Motown Oldie
Bob Seegar & The Silver Bullet Band
Foghat

Contempories

1. Sander Kleinenberg
2. Nick Warren
3. Sasha
4. John Digweed
5. Laurent Garnier

Pioneers and philosophers in their own synthersised way. X

Faithless
KLF
Jean Michel Jarre
Queen
N'Trance

Oh yeah...Queen. Good one. I watched the DVD of Live Aid '85 and Queen steals the show. Freddie Mercury had the crowd in the palm of his hand. No one else was close. Good stuff.

The Doors
Natacha Atlas
Tindersticks
PJ Harvey
Chris Whitely

Yea... 5 is pretty much too short to even come close to naming my favourites... Close runner-ups: Depeche Mode, Lamb, Aphex Twin, Daniel Lanois, JJ Cale, Biosphere, The Fleashquartet, Hedningarna, The Progidy, Björk... And that's just the start. (No absolute ranking as they are written...)

(I can't believe no one said The Doors before me... :P)

I remember staying up all night to watch the live feed of it...I ditched school for 2 days to watch...and I also had my radio on so I could record the radio broadcast...and hell yeah...Freddy Mercury DID steal the show...but then he was one of the great performers...and one I still miss. Ever notice that there are certain musicians that when they die, the music dies...and even if the band tries to go on, the music is never, ever the same