EWB's Favourite Artist 2009

[Cactus Drags]

Reuben

65daysofstatic

Gaslight Anthem

Frank Turner

Coheed and Cambria

Brand New

Hell Is For Heroes

A Wilhelm Scream

Crystal Method

The Police

[GRIFT]

1. Townes Van Zandt

2. Tom Waits

3. Ween

4. Bruce Springsteen

5. The Libertines

6. Pearl Jam

7. The Misfits

8. Andrew Jackson Jihad

9. Gogol Bordello

10. Little Joy

[RPS]

Ripped directly from last.fm, which just takes the most listened to bands over the last 12 month period.

1. Hercules and Love Affair

2. Antony and the Johnsons

3. Kanye West

4. Michael Jackson

5. M.I.A.

6. Of Montreal

7. Peaches

8. Grizzly Bear

9. Daft Punk

10. Lady GaGa

2008

1. Daft Punk

2. Blur

3. M.I.A

4. The Clash

5. Justice

6. Rufus Wainwright

7. Of Montreal

8. Hercules & Love Affair

9. Nine Inch Nails

10. Hot Chip

2007

1. Bloc Party

2. Blur

3. Justin Timberlake

4. The Format

5. Kanye West

6. Daft Punk

7. M.I.A

8. My Chemical Romance

9. Final Fantasy

10. Babyshambles

Edited September 10, 2009 by RockPaperScissors

[yakka]

Death

Wintersun

At the Drive-In

Mars Volta

Made Out of Babies

Oranssi Pazuzu

Burzum

Agalloch

Summoning

Wolves in the Throne Room

[DFF]

Bugger me, this is going to be tough.

1. Turisas

2. Wintersun

3. Iron Maiden

4. Queen

5. Dream Theater

6. Opeth

7. Muse

8. David Bowie

9. Sabaton

10. Rush

Close but no cigar: Metallica, Ensiferum, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Within Temptation, Blind Guardian, Hanoi Rocks, Sonata Arctica, Lynyrd Skynrd, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Rick Wakeman, Between The Buried And Me, KISS, Coheed & Cambria.

EDIT: Forgot Rush

[Captain Eo]

1. Utada

2. Michael Jackson

3. Duran Duran

4. Will.I.Am

5. Blaqk Audio

6. Chromeo

7. Cobra Starship

8. Lostprophets

9. Haystak

10.White Tie Affair

The sad thing is only a few of them did anything worthwhile this year.

[lari]

1. Savatage

2. Iron Maiden

3. Judas Priest

4. Blind Guardian

5. Dio

6. Iced Earth

7. Blaze (Bayley)

8. Axxis

9. Impellitteri

10. Angel Dust

2008:

1. Savatage

2. Iron Maiden

3. Judas Priest

4. Blind Guardian

5. Dio

6. Iced Earth

7. Helloween

8. Black Sabbath

9. Gamma Ray

10. Angel Dust

2007:

1. Savatage

2. Iron Maiden

3. Judas Priest

4. Black Sabbath

5. Dio

6. Blind Guardian

7. Gamma Ray

8. Iced Earth

9. Angel Dust

10. Chris Caffery

[LittleDaniel]

1. Los Campesinos!

2. Andrew Jackson Jihad

3. Mountain Goats

4. Sage Francis

5. Minor Threat

6. Defiance, Ohio

7. Modest Mouse

8. Regina Spektor

9. Ghost Mice

10. The World/Inferno Friendship Society

Edit: Fuck, goodbye Neutral Milk Hotel, I want Regina in your spot.

[METALMAN]

1. Utada

2. Michael Jackson

3. Duran Duran

4. Will.I.Am

5. Blaqk Audio

6. Chromeo

7. Cobra Starship

8. Lostprophets

9. Haystak

10.White Tie Affair

The sad thing is only a few of them did anything worthwhile this year.

Only Michael Jackson.

[Lowerdeck]

10. Bruce Hornsby

9. Jimi Hendrix

8. Steely Dan

7. Ronnie Earl

6. Ryan Adams

5. R.L. Burnside

4. Drive By Truckers

3. Rush

2. Johnny Cash

1. Dave Matthews Band

[Big Tuna]

10. Puddle of Mudd

9. Megadeth

8. Rush

7. DevilDriver

6. Demon Hunter

5. The Beatles

4. Led Zeppelin

3. Mastodon

2. Metallica

1. Dream Theater

[thuganomic]

1. The Beatles

2. The Killers

3. Green Day

4. Muse

5. Queen

6. Bruce Springsteen

7. Jack's Mannequin

8. Weezer

9. The Bravery

10. Our Lady Peace

I'm very happy that I've seen 6 of these in the last year....considering only 8 are active, that's even better.

[DFF]

Edited mine as I had forgotten Rush.

[Liam]

1. Mastodon

2. In Flames

3. Faith No More

4. Pearl Jam

5. Dizzee Rascal

6. Stone Temple Pilots

7. Dillinger Escape Plan

8. Depeche Mode

9. Deftones

10. My Dying Bride

Could have thought about it a bit more, as this is mostly what I did last year, with the odd exception. I've heard stuff by other really good bands this year, but as its based on a general favouritism, then its hard to knock some of these off their perches.

2008:

1. In Flames

2. Faith No More

3. Deftones

4. Pearl Jam

5. Muse

6. Depeche Mode

7. David Gray

8. Dillinger Escape Plan

9. My Dying Bride

10. Jesu

[BuddyAwesome]

1. KISS

2. Judas Priest

3. Alice Cooper

4. Little Richard

5. Heaven & Hell

6. Ike Turner & The Kings of Rythem

7. Motley Crue

8. Buddy Holly

9. Tina Turner

10. Children of Bodom

Edited September 12, 2009 by BuddyAwesome

[SeanDMan]

1. Matthew Good

2. Rammstein

3. Radiohead

4. Muse

5. Metric

6. M.I.A.

7. Pendulum

8. Crystal Method

9. Peaches

10. Rolling Stones

Hooray randomness. This might be a bit more composed if it weren't 4 am on my sixth straight night of work.

[Mr Evil Guy]

1 - magnetic fields

2 - wolf parade

3 - phoenix

4 - arcade fire

5 - wavves

6 - sunset rubdown

7 - animal collective

8 - atlas sound

9 - the smiths

10 - the cure

[supergrass]

1. The Libertines

2. Rilo Kiley

3. Lightspeed Champion

4. Bob Dylan

5. The Cribs

6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

7. She & Him

8. Emmy The Great

9. Jeffrey Lewis

10. Supergrass

I've just gone with what's being played on the ipod regularly right now, seems to work out mostly the same year on year. Number 10 could've been any number of bands, felt I should give the nod to the namesakes.

[YI]

You cannot run

And you cannot hide

Yeah, you gotta face it, baby

Things go bump in the night

[NobBe Nobbs]

1) Rush

2) The Who

3) Coheed and Cambria

4) Metallica

5) Rammstein

6) Pearl Jam

7) Muse

8) Soundgarden

9) Iron Maiden

10) Nine Inch Nails

2008:

1) Iron Maiden

2) The Who

3) Coheed and Cambria

4) Metallica

5) Muse

6) Spinal Tap

7) HorrorPops

8) Blue Oyster Cult

9) System of a Down

10) LIMOZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

I find it interesting that the Who, Coheed and Metallica are all in the same spots completely by chance.