Atlas's Favorite Musician/Band - Nomination Thread

[Leinad]

After the TV show contest, by popular demand^{[citation needed]} I am making a similar contest for music!

Everyone can nominate 5 musicians or bands. No rules on what you can't nominate, although try not to pick ones that have already been nominated. I'll leave nominations open for a week or so.

[Leinad]

Nominees list:

Lady Gaga
Jason Isbell
Kacey Musgraves
Bruce Springsteen
Kanye West
Stan Rogers
Credence Clearwater Revival
Waylon Jennings
Hank Williams Sr.
The Who
Aerosmith
Nirvana
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
Jack Johnson
The Beatles
Eminem
The Weeknd
Ed Sheeran
AC/DC
Three Days Grace
NF
Guns 'N' Roses
Queen
Simon and Garfunkel
Diana Ross
Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson
Frank Zappa
Rush
Rick Astley
Stanley Clarke
Adam Ben Ezra
George Strait
Alison Krauss
Elvis Costello
Bruce Springsteen
Sarah McLachlan
Iron Maiden
The White Stripes
Coheed and Cambria
Kendrick Lamar
Between The Buried and Me
Rites of Spring
Mineral
Rainer Maria
Lifetime
The Wonder Years
Michael Jackson
Kendrick Lamar
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Motorhead
The Head and the Heart
Of Monsters and Men
Macklemore/Ryan Lewis
Fun.
The Shins
The Angels
INXS
Gary Moore
Dave Matthews Band
Widespread Panic
R.E.M.
B-52s
Sonic Youth
Earth, Wind, & Fire
The Beach Boys
Chuck Berry
Louis Armstrong
Beethoven
Sufjan Stevens
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Grizzly Bear
Iron & Wine
Yes
U2
Black Sabbath
The Killers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Outkast
Wu-Tang Clan
Jay-Z
Alice in Chains
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Jethro Tull
The Alan Parsons Project
Frederic Chopin
New Order
Frank Wildhorn
John Williams
Stephen Sondheim
Ramin Djawadi
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lindsey Stirling
The Pretty Reckless
Elton John
Shakira
Smashing Pumpkins
The Rolling Stones
Adele
America
Murray Gold
Yuki Kajiura
The Band
Tears for Fears
Electric Light Orchestra
Dr. John
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Celine Dion
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Radiohead
Imagine Dragons
Blink-182
The Cure
Dead Kennedys
Hawthorne Heights
Burzum
Tom Petty
Eric Clapton
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
Simple Minds
John Denver
The Carpenters
Arcade Fire
Sturgill Simpson
Pearl Jam
Neil Young
Metallica
Tom Petty
Rush
Genesis

^Ctrl+F this list to avoid nominating things twice!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Gaga
Jason Isbell
Kacey Musgraves
Springsteen
Kanye

This shall be even more biased towards the mainstream than TV:'( if you can't beat em, join em

[White Trash]

Stan Rogers
Credence Clearwater Revival
Waylon Jennings
Hank Williams Sr.

[dead0man]

The Who
Aerosmith
Nirvana
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin

[The Other Castro]

Jack Johnson
The Beatles
Eminem
The Weeknd
Ed Sheeran

[Enduro]

AC/DC
Three Days Grace
NF
Guns 'N' Roses
Queen

[Mr. Smith]

Simon and Garfunkel
Diana Ross
Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson

[Mike Thick]

Frank Zappa
Rush
Rick Astley
Stanley Clarke
Adam Ben Ezra

[Santander]

Tentative list:

George Strait
Alison Krauss
Elvis Costello
Bruce Springsteen
Sarah McLachlan

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Iron Maiden
The White Stripes
Coheed and Cambria
Kendrick Lamar
Between The Buried and Me

[they don't love you like i love you]

Rites of Spring
Mineral
Rainer Maria
Lifetime
The Wonder Years

[diptheriadan]

Michael Jackson
Kendrick Lamar
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Motorhead

[Crumpets]

The Head and the Heart
Of Monsters and Men
Macklemore/Ryan Lewis
Fun.
The Shins

[Meclazine for Israel]

The Angels

Marseilles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIIZhWCtKHw
Face the Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0-4FzoNgw

INXS

Original Sin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTULqzrhBWA
What You Need - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEPrbdfmT4

Gary Moore

Out in The Fields - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt06PFWkJ1I
The Loner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcPdeL4Dnc

[Del Tachi]

Dave Matthews Band
Widespread Panic
R.E.M.
B-52s
Sonic Youth

[Xing]

Earth, Wind, & Fire
The Beach Boys
Chuck Berry
Louis Armstrong
Beethoven (had to include at least one Classical musician)

[Leinad]

Sufjan Stevens
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Grizzly Bear
Iron & Wine

Honorable Mentions: Andrew Bird, The Beta Band, Radiohead, Dry The River, and many others but I'd rather not go overboard

[7,052,770]

Yes
U2
Black Sabbath
The Killers
Red Hot Chili Peppers

[heatcharger]

Outkast
Wu-Tang Clan
Jay-Z
Alice in Chains
Daft Punk

Honorable Mentions: The Notorious B.I.G. (RIP), Raekwon, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Marvin Gaye, and a bunch of others.

[mencken]

David Bowie
Jethro Tull
The Alan Parsons Project
Frederic Chopin
New Order

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Composers and lyricists are musicians too

- Frank Wildhorn (Musicals include Jekyll & Hyde, Bonnie & Clyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Dracula: The Musical, The Civil War, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Cyrano de Bergerac: The Musical)

John Williams (Film scores include Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, E.T., the first three Harry Potter films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Home Alone, JFK, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, and Munich)

- Stephen Sondheim (Musicals include Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, Company, Into the Woods, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies, A Little Night Music, Passion, Assassins, and Sunday in the Park with George; Musicals in which Sondheim only wrote the lyrics include West Wide Story and Gypsy; Film scores and songs include The Birdcage [the 1996 movie], Reds, and at least one of the songs in Dick Tracy)

- Ramin Djawadi (TV shows whose music is/was composed by Djawadi include Game of Thrones, Prison Break, and Westworld; Film scores include Iron Man and Pacific Rim)

- Andrew Lloyd Webber (Musicals include Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard [yes, this was made into a surprisingly good musical staring Glenn Close and George Hearn, among others], Evita, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Note: while he's a terrible person and some of his stuff is pretty awful and/or uninspired, I really some of his musicals [namely the first three listed, as well as the song "Memory" from Cats] even if admitting this makes me feel like I need a shower )

Honorable mentions:

- Jason Robert Brown (Musicals include Parade [which is easily one of the best musicals of all time, he gets an HM for this alone] and The Bridges of Madison County)

- Lin-Manuel Miranda (Musicals include Hamilton and In the Heights, Miranda also wrote some of the songs for Moana and seems like a pretty decent, down-to-earth guy)  

- Hans Zimmer (Film scores include The Lion King, The Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, Inception, Gladiator, 12 Years a Slave, Rain Man, The Last Samurai, Sherlock Holmes [the 2009 film], Interstellar, The Thin Red Line, and Crimson Tide; he also did the music for The Pacific mini-series)

- Claude-Michel Schönberg (Musicals include Les Miserables and Miss Saigon)

- Jóhann Jóhannsson (Film scores include Sicario, The Theory of Everything, Prisoners, and Arrival)

Note: As always, I try to only include folks who weren't already nominated

[Anna Komnene]

Lindsey Stirling
The Pretty Reckless
Elton John
Shakira
Smashing Pumpkins

Honorable mention: Billy Joel, Garbage, Nightwish

[Mr. Smith]

HM: J.S. Bach, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Hermann, Elvis Presley, Mozart.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Most of those I wanted to nominate have already been. I guess that gives me more choice.

The Rolling Stones
Adele
America
Murray Gold
Yuki Kajiura