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

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

da croupier, Saturday, 11 September 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Bo Diddley. Full stop.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 11 September 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

_Rudipherous_, Saturday, 11 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link

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?

Euler, Saturday, 11 September 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Tom Waits. Zappa, Paul Simon runners up.

rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 11 September 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link

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

max skim (k3vin k.), Saturday, 11 September 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Mr. John "Manalishi" Abbott (Viceroy), Saturday, 11 September 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link

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

max skim (k3vin k.), Saturday, 11 September 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link

ccr imo

swagula (Lamp), Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link

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*

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Tell us how you really feel.

EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 11 September 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 16 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link

poor Smokey

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 17 September 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link


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