{"id":912,"date":"2004-01-22T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-912.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"favourite-artists-from-a-to-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/01\/22\/favourite-artists-from-a-to-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite artists, from A to Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to Keith’s challenge<\/a> over at Thiamin Trek<\/a>, I’ve come up with a list of my favourite artists from each letter of the alphabet. The challenge is to only pick one<\/em> from each letter. In some cases that was easy (I, O, X), in other cases it was teeth-gnashingly hard (B, M, R). And if I were to put this list together again in a year’s time, it would probably look quite different. Make of it what you will…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Letter<\/th>\nArtist<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
A<\/td>\nThe Art of Noise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
B<\/td>\nBarenaked Ladies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/td>\nColdplay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
D<\/td>\nDoves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
E<\/td>\nExtreme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
F<\/td>\nFalco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
G<\/td>\nGorillaz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
H<\/td>\nHall & Oates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I<\/td>\nNatalie Imbruglia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J<\/td>\nBilly Joel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
K<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
L<\/td>\nLive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
M<\/td>\nSarah McLachlan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N<\/td>\nNirvana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
O<\/td>\nOutkast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P<\/td>\nGlen Phillips<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Q<\/td>\nQueens Of The Stone Age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R<\/td>\nRadiohead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
S<\/td>\nSupergrass<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
T<\/td>\nToad The Wet Sprocket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U<\/td>\nU2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
V<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W<\/td>\nPaul Weller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
X<\/td>\nXTC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Y<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Z<\/td>\nZero 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

(In the interests of cheating, here are some very close runners-up: Badly Drawn Boy, The Bluetones, Gomez, Lifehouse, Branford Marsalis, Dave Matthews, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sheà Seger, Talking Heads, The White Stripes.)<\/p>\n

(Update: under the letter Q, “Queen” should have been “Queens Of The Stone Age”. I highlighted the wrong entry while cut-and-pasting from the spreadsheet I based this list on…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Keith’s challenge<\/a> over at Thiamin Trek<\/a>, I’ve come up with a list of my favourite artists from each letter of the alphabet. The challenge is to only pick one<\/em> from each letter. In some cases that was easy (I, O, X), in other cases it was teeth-gnashingly hard (B, M, R). And if I were to put this list together again in a year’s time, it would probably look quite different. Make of it what you will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}