The Music World Cup/GOAT

I'm going to put together a Music GOAT/World Cup in the coming weeks dependent upon interest on it.
Every day 4/5 random acts will be drawn together with the top two going through to the next round, eventually it will be whittled down to a final and the winner decided by you the v2 collective.

Here are my original thoughts on musical artists to take part, I have tried to make it a broad sweep of musical genres but obviously there will be ones I've missed, please feel free to add your own thoughts below so I can amend the list prior to commencing (the list is in alphabetical order):

ABBA
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Al Green
Alice in Chains
Amy Winehouse
Andy Williams
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Aretha Franklin
B.B. King
Barbara Streisand
Barry Manilow
Barry White
Basement Jaxx
Beastie Boys
Beck
Beck
Bee Gees
Beyonce
Billy Bragg
Billy Joel
Bjork
Black Eyed Peas
Black Sabbath
Blondie
Blur
Bo Diddley
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Bryan Adams
Buddy Holly
Carlos Santana
Cast
Chemical Brothers
Cher
Chicago
Chuck Berry
Cliff Richard & the Shadows
Coldplay
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Curtis Mayfield
Daft Punk
David Bowie
De La Soul
Dead Kennedys
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Diana Ross & the Supremes
Dinosaur Jr
Dire Straits
Dolly Parton
Donna Summer
Dr Dre
Duran Duran
Dusty Springfield
Eagles
Echo & the Bunnymen
Elbow
ELO
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Eminem
Enya
Eric Clapton
Faith No More
Fat Boy Slim
Fats Domino
Fleetwood Mac
Foo Fighters
Foreigner
Frank Sinatra
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Fugees
Garth Brooks
Genesis
George Michael
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Guns n Roses
Haim
Hank Williams
Ian Brown
Iggy Pop
Inspiral Carpets
INXS
Iron Maiden
Jackie Wilson
Jam Master J
James
James Brown
Jane's Addiction
Janis Joplin
Jay Z
Jeff Buckley
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
John Mayer
Johnny Cash
Joni Mitchell
Joy Division
Kanye West
Kasabian
Kate Bush
Katy Perry
Kenny G
Kings of Leon
Kiss
Korn
Kraftwerk
Lady Gaga
Led Zeppelin
Leftfield
Leonard Cohen
Lionel Richie
Little Richard
Lloyd Cole
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Madness
Madonna
Manic Street Preachers
Mariah Carey
Marilyn Manson
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Meat Loaf
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Miles Davis
Moby
Morrissey
Motley Crue
Muddy Waters
Muse
N.W.A.
Nas
Neil Young
New Order
Nick Drake
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Norah Jones
Notorious BIG
Oasis
One Direction
Otis Reading
Outkast
Paul McCartney
Paul Weller
Pearl Jam
Pet Shop Boys
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Police
Portishead
Prefab Sprout
Primal Scream
Prince
Prodigy
Public Enemy
Pulp
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Ray Charles
Ray Lamontagne
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rihanna
Rod Stewart
Rodriguez
Rolling Stones
Roy Orbison
Run DMC
Sade
Sam Cooke
Sex Pistols
Shania Twain
Simon & Garfunkel
Simple Minds
Sisters of Mercy
Slipknot
Sly and the Family Stone
Smashing Pumpkins
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Snoop Dogg
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Spandau Ballet
Stevie Wonder
Take That
Talking Heads
Taylor Swift
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Buzzcocks
The Byrds
The Carpenters
The Charlatans
The Clash
The Cure
The Doors
The Drifters
The Eurythemics
The Everly Brothers
The Flaming Lips
The Four Tops
The Hives
The Jam
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Killers
The Kinks
The Libertines
The Offspring
The Pixies
The Pogues
The Ramones
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
The Streets
The Strokes
The Temptations
The Troggs
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
The White Stripes
The Who
The Yardbirds
Tina Turner
Tom Jones
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
T-Rex
Tupac
U2
UB40
Ultravox
Van Halen
Van Morrison
Vera Lynn
Wham
Whitney Houston
Willie Nelson
Woody Guthrie
Wu-Tang Clan
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
ZZ Top

HAIM need to be on there. They're good and I'd also bone each one of them although I had to make a decision on the lead singer as I wouldn't want a family fall out.

Sorry, also Pearl Jam and The Smashing Pumpkins.

The Verve.

Good shout. Rowley will be spitting blood when he sees Ian Brown and The Stone Roses missing.

Echo and the Bunnymen

Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, ELO

The Pogues.

Willie Nelson. Country music is bit under represented on that list.

The Troggs.

Tom Jones is a big exclusion in my opinion.

Jeff Buckley.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:The Pogues.

Willie Nelson.  Country music is bit under represented on that list.

Hank Williams? Woody Guthrie?

Ray LaMontagne.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:The Pogues.

Willie Nelson.  Country music is bit under represented on that list.

Hank Williams? Woody Guthrie?

Dolly Parton

UB40

Jimmy Somerville, Erasure, Bronski Beat, The Fine Young Cannibals.........

Fat Boy Slim, Moby, Massive Attack, The Prodigy

seanmichaels wrote:Jimmy Somerville, Erasure, Bronski Beat, The Fine Young Cannibals.........

Fat Boy Slim, Moby, Massive Attack, The Prodigy

What about them?

The Offspring

JuliusHMarx wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:Jimmy Somerville, Erasure, Bronski Beat, The Fine Young Cannibals.........

Fat Boy Slim, Moby, Massive Attack, The Prodigy

What about them?

Not massively in to the bottom 4 but would have thought them worthy.

Reminds me, Underworld and Leftfield.

Think you need to specify or narrow the parameters, comparing hip hop to rock or pop is pretty much impossible. Also if this is going to be everything certain genres such as folk, country or jazz are woefully under represented. The likes of Miles Davis and Willie Nelson deserve to be on if everything is permitted.

Rowley wrote:Think you need to specify or narrow the parameters, comparing hip hop to rock or pop is pretty much impossible. Also if this is going to be everything certain genres such as folk, country or jazz are woefully under represented. The likes of Miles Davis and Willie Nelson deserve to be on if everything is permitted.

Yeah, if only someone had mentioned him earlier.

Never heard of Willie Nelson. Was he Grizzly Adams' mate?

seanmichaels wrote:The Offspring

Tino will vote for The Offspring and The Flaming Lips.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:The Offspring

Tino will vote for The Offspring and The Flaming Lips.

Very good.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:Think you need to specify or narrow the parameters, comparing hip hop to rock or pop is pretty much impossible. Also if this is going to be everything certain genres such as folk, country or jazz are woefully under represented. The likes of Miles Davis and Willie Nelson deserve to be on if everything is permitted.

Yeah, if only someone had mentioned him earlier.

I rarely read the bulk of what you post, thought that would be glaringly clear by now.

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:Think you need to specify or narrow the parameters, comparing hip hop to rock or pop is pretty much impossible. Also if this is going to be everything certain genres such as folk, country or jazz are woefully under represented. The likes of Miles Davis and Willie Nelson deserve to be on if everything is permitted.

Yeah, if only someone had mentioned him earlier.

I rarely read the bulk of what you post, thought that would be glaringly clear by now.

You don't fool me, Jeff.

The Cure
Ultravox
Simple Minds

Sorry Tina, am already in a bad mood and am being pre-emptively grumpy about this quiz as the Beatles will almost certainly win and for reasons I don't fully comprehend they have always left me a little underwhelmed.

Rowley wrote:Sorry Tina, am already in a bad mood and am being pre-emptively grumpy about this quiz as the Beatles will almost certainly win and for reasons I don't fully comprehend they have always left me a little underwhelmed.

I'm not arsed by them either.

Me neither. Most of their stuff sounds too tinny. Almost like a one man band.

Can I run a betting ring with odds on how long until the competition is marred in scandal, and the first Poster to be caught with multiple IDs? I joke I joke I kid I kid.

I nominate
John Mayer
Snoop Lion
Jam Master J
Notorious BIG

I've updated it with a lot of the choices included thanks.
Rowley I agree with you that it's nigh on impossible to compare certain musical genres but it's the same with any of these GOATs as it was with the Sporting GOAT and it was nailed on from the start that it was going to be a certain 3 or 4 that made it to the semis from the beginning. I think though for most people that it's the journey of the competition rather than the destination which is the enjoyable part.

Just noticed that Dusty Springfield isn't in there.

Get on it, Hero.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Just noticed that Dusty Springfield isn't in there.

Get on it, Hero.

Nigh on nine and a half thousand posts and you have finally said something worth listening to. This is almost like being there when the infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters theory was proven correct.

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Just noticed that Dusty Springfield isn't in there.

Get on it, Hero.

Nigh on nine and a half thousand posts and you have finally said something worth listening to. This is almost like being there when the infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters theory was proven correct.

Thanks Jeff. I am quite moved by that.

Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet.
 
Get it on, Hero. That reminds me - T-Rex? Oh, they're already there.

MONO should be in there. If we can't celebrate Japan's finest instrumental prog rock 4 piece then how we can celebrate at all?

There seems to be a lack of modern male solo artists?

Justin Trousersnake*
Bruno Mars*
Will Young*
Robbie Williams*

Those sorts of chaps?

*Disclaimer: I don't like this stuff but in the interests of getting a broad scope of music then some should appear?

superflyweight wrote:MONO should be in there.  If we can't celebrate Japan's finest  instrumental prog rock 4 piece then how we can celebrate at all?

Bit disappointed by the lack of late sixties obscure pshychedelia myself Super. The absence of Oliver Klaus and Dantalian's Chariot is suggestive of an agenda to me.

The lack of Andy Williams and Vera Lynn suggests an age-ist bias as well. My participation is in doubt.

No Limp Bizkit, Machine Head or Slipknot but the destroyer on ear drums Mariah Carey get in?

JuliusHMarx wrote:The lack of Andy Williams and Vera Lynn suggests an age-ist bias as well. My participation is in doubt.

I did make the case for some jazz earlier Julius, assumed that was the kind of thing folk of your years listened to, am all about the inclusiveness me.

Slipknot.... :sigh:

 

kingraf wrote:Slipknot.... :sigh:

Used the wrong emo - Surely you meant Slipknot

Rowley wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:The lack of Andy Williams and Vera Lynn suggests an age-ist bias as well. My participation is in doubt.

I did make the case for some jazz earlier Julius, assumed that was the kind of thing folk of your years listened to, am all about the inclusiveness me.

Easy listening, if we are still able to hear.

Norah Jones? Come Away With Me is a hella album, I still bump to it when I'm with the homies.

kingraf wrote: I still bump to it when I'm with the homies.

?

Sound Garden
Iron Maiden
The Pixies

Sorry Jeff - Julius made jazz sound really old... So I had to speak like a juvenile to justify listening to Norah... She be hustling on that Nu Jazz vibe

Made a horrendous mistake in calling MONO "prog rock". They are, of course, "post rock".

I'm grateful hip hop doesn't have so many sub-divisions.... It falls into two camps
Hip hop
That weak a55 5hit