Re-adjusting the Zeitgeist
3December 14, 2007 by gaughin
I wrote a blog post last year about my attempt to classify the 100 greatest artists of the 21st century. You can review the criteria here
https://gaughin.edublogs.org/2006/12/09/reading-the-musical-zeitgeist/
I am going to try to update that list every year in December. Here’s the updated list from 1 through 100, along with each artist’s position on the chart from last year.
Apologies in advance to “The Kid.”
1-Tom Waits-1
2-Iron and Wine-7
3-Spoon-9
4-The White Stripes-5
5-David Holmes-2
6-Super Furry Animals-3
7-Low-14
8-Radiohead-40
9-Lambchop-4
10-Sleater-Kinney-6
11-LCD Soundsystem-new
12-Ghostface Killah-49
13-Sufjan Stevens-8
14-Outkast-10
15-Basement Jaxx-11
16-The New Pornographers-13
17-Dizzee Rascal-26
18-Of Montreal-37
19-Wilco-16
20-Elliott Smith-61
21-Bob Dylan-15
22-The Streets-17
23-PJ Harvey-82
24-Mogwai-18
25-Ron Sexsmith-19
26-Arab Strap-20
27-Sigur Ros-29
28-Drive-By Truckers-22
29-My Morning Jacket-21
30-Kanye West-41
31-Missy Elliott-24
32-Four Tet-25
33-Bruce Springsteen-23
34-Blur-27
35-Boards of Canada-28
36-Bjork-47
37-The Decemberists-32
38-The Hold Steady-30
39-Bonnie Prince Billy-33
40-The Arcade Fire-new
41-Talking Heads-35
42-Blood Brothers-36
43-Devandra Banhart-31
44-MIA-new
45-Animal Collective-81
46-Neko Case-39
47-Les Savy Fav-new
48-J Dilla-12
49-The National-new
50-Nas-99
51-Elbow-45
52-The Flaming Lips-42
53-The Go-Betweens-44
54-Wire-43
55-Broadcast-46
56-Nick Cave-48
57-Bill Frisell-50
58-Cat Power-53
59-NERD-51
60-Oneida-52
61-The Clash-54
62-Jay-Z-new
63-OOIOO-55
64-The Pernice Brothers-57
65-Queens Of the Stone Age-84
66-The Roots-56
67-The Mendoza Line-new
68-Smog-58
69-System of a Down-59
70-Books-62
71-Franz Ferdinand-60
72-Built To Spill-65
73-Hayden-64
74-M Ward-63
75-David Kilgour-66
76-Lightning Bolt-68
77-Los Lobos-69
78-Candi Staton-70
79-TV On the Radio-67
80-The Clientele-new
81-Ted Leo-new
82-Stephen Malkmus-71
83-Richard Thompson-new
84-Xiu Xiu-72
85-Lucinda Williams-38
86-Led Zeppelin-74
87-Loretta Lynn-73
88-Vince Gill-75
89-Junior Boys-76
90-Nick Lowe-new
91-Okkervil River-new
92-Solomon Burke-77
93-Damien Jurado-78
94-Steve Earle-88
95-Dungen-new
96-Richard Hawley-79
97-Hood-83
98-The Magnetic Fields-80
99-The Shins-new
100-Broken Social Scene-86
Of course, with so many new adds to the list, the same number of bands/artists must have fallen out. Those are Akron/Family (fallen to 112), Joseph Arthur (130), The Bad Plus (123), Beulah (104), Califone (109), The Constantines (106), Destroyer (107), Matmos (101), Mission of Burma (120), Mr Lif (108), Josh Rouse (103), Saint Etienne (114), The Strokes (111), and Ali Farka Toure (115).
Better luck in 2008, artists struggling to be significant!!!
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I am fond of the Clash. Talking heads blow, the rest of it, is it in English?
Could you maybe work in some links?
this band’s top song is probably toxicity. I have heard they previously had a different band named soil which most people dont know. this is when Tankian, Odadjian, and Malakian formed system of a down but originally named victims of a down… I dunno why though. Their roulette track isnt about playing roulette at all which is a bit disappointing as I’m a huge fan of roulette. but still it’s a very chilled out song in contrast to toxicity. still though I love both songs.