artists that were on VH1's 1998 "Greatest Artists of All Time" list but not the 2010 list

I'm most surprised that the Jackson 5 were not in the list this time. Michael Jackson's fans always seem to come out in force for these kind of lists and especially since he died I would have expected them and him solo to both be top ten.

As for my favourite on the list that would be either Devo or The Four Tops. It's a shame that all the Motown artists seem to have been forgotten this time round, I imagine Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder would be the only Motown artists representing this time round.

no worries, pimp ship

:)

it's pretty bullshit that CCR got dumped, and Paul Simon dropped off the list twice. Grateful Dead isn't that surprising in retrospect but it still feels weird. also kinda sad that Whitney/Mariah/Alicia Keys/Beyonce/Mary J. have completely supplanted Diana Ross.

Is there any jazz or blues left in the list?

I guess Duke will still be there?

And Ella or Billie?

I don't know if I could name a single song by Traffic.

Hole In My Shoe as covered by Neil from the Young Ones?

i suppose i should link each list

1998 - http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/vh1artists.htm

2010 - http://www.newsopi.com/showbiz/vh1-top-100-artists-of-all-time-list-of-greatest-artists-of-all-time/4177/

no jazz at all this time

Bobby Rivers must be pissed.

I voted for Coltrane, and I suspect many will vote for him or Miles Davis, but after seeing the list, it's clear that there were probably specific instructions not to vote for jazz. This is a pop/rock list.

yeah, i don't know if there were instructions but obviously the voter base was younger this time and a little less concerned with token picks outside the popular music canon. a few times they showed famous musicians' ballots with Frank Sinatra on them, so i was a little surprised he wasn't on the list but in retrospect it makes sense.

I voted for CCR

I think the 00s list should be LEAST deserving? Or maybe most? Idk but that's more interesting to me than favorite

I was gonna try and not get aggro over this list by then I was watching and they had pink Floyd almost 50 spots better than biggie

fuck taking off miles and trane.

well i already did the other poll as favorites. maybe i can do a least deserving later.

imo all the hip hop acts on the spot got as high as they could possibly go, higher than would've expected.

100 Alicia Keys
99 Hall & Oates
98 Depeche Mode
97 Pretenders
96 Journey

lol stopped reading after this. worst artists of all time amirite?

I picked Buddy Holly because he's personal all-time desert island shit for me, but any of these really:

Sam Cooke
Bo Diddley
The Jackson Five
Smokey Robinson
Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Temptations
The Four Tops
Diana Ross & The Supremes

xp fuiu don't like hall & oates

Is Clapton dead yet? If not, he should be.

i like traffic but wtf they are not at all top 100 material.

yeah lmao @ alicia keys. idk i don't really look at any of these and think OMG THANK GOD they're now being appreciated

The elimination of all pre-rock and jazz artists is pretty annoying, but I suppose inevitable. And the downfall of Clapton, the Eagles, Crosby Still & Nash, Sting (!), James Taylor, the Allman Brothers & Stevie Ray Vaughan is worth celebrating. And as much as I love/like the Four Tops, Paul Simon, Sex Pistols, CCR, Roy Orbison, B.B. King, the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Rod Stewart, Devo, Carole King, Tom Waits, Traffic and Gladys Knight, they almost certainly wouldn't make my list of the 100 greatest artist, so I can't complain too much. And I'll give them a pass on the Jackson 5 omission given Michael Jackson's #2 placement. And Iggy Pop wasn't really omitted at all. That leaves me feeling varying degrees of resentment and outrage over the ouster of Buddy Holly, the Byrds (especially considering REM did place), Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, Bo Diddley, T. Rex. the Temptations, and Fats Domino. As influential all those figures have been, Sam Cooke strikes me as the most extraordinary figure on that list, a performer who irrevecably changed the course of popular music, something I don't think anyone would claim about Journey or Alice Keys. Not only that, but he's amazingly great. So yeah, that's the exclusion that most surprises and annoys me the most.

fuck alice keys

wait. this list is insane. who the hell replaced these people?

*irrevocably* and, oh yes, *Alicia.* And I forgot to list Diana Ross and the Supremes as being among the most dismaying omissions. I mean, I love love love the Pretenders, but it would be nuts to suggest that Chrissie Hynde was more important than Diana Ross.

Bo Diddley, the Byrds, CCR, the Dead, Sam Cooke & the Allmans seem like the biggest omissions to me.

the byrds & ccr rank among my favorite arteests of all time, so ymmv.

re: 2000 list, british invasion division: Sir Paul "greater" than the Kinks. nuff said.

Miles Davis. Stopped looking down the list after that.

― van smack, den 10 september 2010 15:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol did this too. fuck a vh1 honestly.

Dropped like eight Motown artists from the chart and put Justin Timberlake in at #66.

Bo Diddley. Full stop.

I feel like if I were going to try to be objective about it and make it more a matter of most important artists, I'd have to go with Miles, but I really don't care for his music. So I will take Coltrane, though Paul Simon, Diana Ross,and Gladys Knight are all tempting.

I like Tapestry a lot but I'm always surprised to see best-of lists with Carole King, because it's really just that one album that's she's known for as a performer, & that album is good but doesn't justify in itself inclusion on such a list. You could vote for her based on her songwriting but then why not include other songwriters and like, Phil Spector or Berry Gordy?

Tom Waits. Zappa, Paul Simon runners up.

wait. this list is insane. who the hell replaced these people?

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, September 10, 2010 8:52 PM (Yesterday)

yeah this is what i was thinking

I'm surprised nobody's upset about Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison getting kicked to the curb...
Not surprised 80% of posts are Davis worship.

poor buddy holly. first that plane crash, now this.

Wow, the `Pistols didn't make the cut?

I watched part of it. Fuckin' Def Leppard made the cut. Def Leppard beats out the `Pistols???

ccr imo

wait. this list is insane. who the hell replaced these people?

Seriously. MILES FUCKING DAVIS. CC FUCKING R. I don't even like the Grateful Dead but if you make a Top 100 and don't drop them in a token spot you are high. Fuck this list. I didn't even look at both lists but seriously you dropped the Temptations? Fuck you/die/etc. Even for a VH1 crowd...*puke*

Tell us how you really feel.

Line in the sand, man. By looking at the list of artists not included you can tell this list is fucked from the start.

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poor Smokey