The much more ambitious task of selecting artists for a century, requires the use of a slightly different classification system. Why use many critics would “most influential” as the primary measure of artistic value, could not give a rat’s ass is all. While the kind that helps define innovation, originality is difficult to define. Even the first artists on this list, King Oliver, Fats Waller, borrowed from other factors. Are no longer with the amount of music artists have created, we can enjoy. That’s what it is, right? Of course I’m not talking about volume. If so, then the hour + 5000 is generated by the spreading of pure shit Grateful Dead would put high on the list when in fact they have not done (I have only two contiguous enjoyable album, and even these were not so great). The best artists to enter a “zone”, when a series of classic albums that define unambiguously determine their nature. I did my best to spread some of the artists of the first half of the century, based on the much shorter 78 rpm records, and a prolific songwriter whose works all over the place, such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter belong Johnny Mercer and Kurt Weill. Some artists are among the others, who have released albums less space. For example, the prince has published more Beatles records, and four times as many albums of Jimi Hendrix, but also put them in, because while most of his brilliant album contains some songs, they are usually spotted. It ‘interesting that the top ten are all people of color. This suggests that white kids are lazy or are too busy tearing non-white people for inspiration. Speaking of kids, there is the obvious lack of women near the top. While the male-centric culture of most of the century most of the album explains the surprising collapse of the great female artists this year is alarming. We hope that the 21 century by a different story. Others are able to handle music so great consistency, that seem superhuman. Not surprisingly, claim that many of the artists have different world connections, such as Sun Ra (who created over 100 albums), Lee Perry, George Clinton and Hendrix. Others, like John Coltrane, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and were managed by a very intense spiritual fervor. It ‘easy to see that everything that had metaphysical, spiritual motivations, creative or political, these are without doubt the most passionate and most serious of Century 20 cats.
- Sun Ra
- John Coltrane
- Fela Kuti
- Tito Puente
- Duke Ellington
- Charles Mingus
- Lee “Scratch” Perry
- Miles Davis
- James Brown
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- Bob Dylan
- David Bowie
- Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Funkadelic/Parliament
- The Rolling Stones
- Iggy Pop & The Stooges
- The Velvet Underground
- King Sunny Ade
- Dizzy Gillespie
- John Lennon & The Beatles