Wake me up when ‘Mo’vember ends

A comically over-sized two part post:

1) The alphabet series (and digits 0-9): finito!

Though I guess never fully complete(ly) done until the summary Top 5.

At the risk of being too meta, the Top 5 artist letters from the Top 5 alphabet series:

5. The Letter “J”

4. The Letter “R”

3. The Letter “S”

2. The Letter “B”

1. The Letter “P”

Going in, I would have assumed B, no contest.  But thanks in part to a pair of excellent & new-to-me records by The Pogues and The Pretenders, “P” takes the cake, for now!

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2) The post subject

For me, half the fun of the alphabet series was hearing from you fine folks about other deserving artists.

At the bottom of this post, check out the 444(!) artists that did not make my Top 5s but were declared list-worthy by the good people who commented at some point in the past 7 months.*

And I have every intention of checking out these recommendations!

Therefore, for the month of November, I’m going to attempt to take a break from 2 things:

i) Shaving below my nose & above my lip, happy Movember!

ii) The 1001 albums project.  To make sure I keep enjoying it (it’s like a marathon, I have to pace myself) I’m going to spend the month with your recommendations & some purely recreational listening.  Maybe even something released after 2005, we’ll see!

I’ll inevitably be doing some sort of a time travel tribute to Back to the Future II (Marty traveled to the year 2015 in the film) when I return in December.

Looking forward to keeping the great music discussions going at that time, talk to you all soon!

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*Appendix A, the 444 additional artists courtesy of my blogosphere friends:

 

10 minute warning

13th floor elevators

21 Hertz

38 Special

8mm

Amos the Transparent

Anvil

Arcade Fire

Auteurs, The

Bad Religion

Band of Horses

Band, The

Barenaked Ladies

Beastie Boys

Beck, Jeff

Bee Gees

Belle & Sebastien

Bjork

Black Crowes

Black Kids

Black Sabbath

Bowwowwow

Bright Eyes

Cale, JJ

Can

Candlemass

Carcass

CCR

Celtic Frost

Cheap Trick

Clash, The

Cobham, Billy

Cocteau Twins

Cooper, Alice

Cosmic Rough Riders

Daft Punk

Dandy Warhols

Decemberists

Deep Purple

Depeche Mode

Dire Straits

Doobie Brothers

Doors

Doves

Duran Duran

EGG

Elbow

Emerson Lake and Palmer

Evans, Bill

Faith No More

Fall, The

Fatboy Slim

Faust

Fine Young Cannibals

Fitzgerald, Ella

Five Finger Death Punch

Flaming Lips

Fleet Foxes

Flying Burrito Brothers

Focus

Foreigner

Fountains of Wayne

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Free

Frou Frou

Fugees

Funkadelic

Garbage

Garfunkel, Art

Gelb, Howe

Genesis

George, Lowell

Ghostface Killah

Giant Sand

Gibbons, Beth

Gillan

Gotan Project

Govt Mule

Grand Drive

Gutter Twins, The

Gwar

Hackett, Steve

Hall & Oates

Hammill

Hanson

Harding, John Wesley

Harper, Ben

Harper, Roy

Harris, Emmylou

Harrison, George

Harvey, PJ

Hawkwind

Healey, Jeff

Heart

Helix

Hiatt, John

Hinton, Eddie

Hold Steady, The

Hole

Holly, Buddy

Hooker, John Lee

Human League

Hunter, Ian

Icicle Works

Interpol

Iron & Wine

Jackson, Jo

James

James, Etta

Jamiroquai

Jane’s Addiction

Jayhawks

Jefferson Airplane

Jellyfish

Jennings, Waylon

Jethro Tull

Johnson, Eric

Johnson, Robert

Jones, George

Jones, Rickie Lee

Joplin, Janis

Journey

Judas Priest

July Talk

Keys, Alicia

Killing Joke

King Cobb Steelie

King Curtis

Kiss

Korn

Kraftwerk

Kristofferson, Kris

Kyuss

Lamb

Levellers

Lewis, Huey

Lhasa

Lightfoot, Gordon

Little Feat

Little Richard

Little River Band

Living Colour

Look People

Los Fabulous Cadillacs

Los Lobos

Love

Loverboy

Lovett, Lyle

Lowe, Nick

Lush

Lynne, Shelby

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Madness

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Mann, Aimee

Manowar

Marillion

Marley, Bob

Mars Volta

Martyn, John

Max Q

Max Webster

Mayall, John

McLachlan, Sarah

Megadeth

Mellencamp, John

Men At Work

Mercyful Fat

Michaels, Bret

Midnight Oil

Mingus, Charlie

Misfits

Mitchell, Joni

Montrose

Moody Blues

Morbid Angel

Morrison, Van

Motorhead

Mott the Hopple

Mr. Mister

Muse

My Bloody Valentine

My Morning Jacket

Napalm Death

Nash, Graham

National Health

Nazareth

Nazz

Nektar

Nelson, Willie

Neu!

Neutral Milk Hotel

Neville Brothers

New Pornographers

Nice, The

Nile

Nilsson, Harry

Nine Inch Nails

Nuclear Assault

NUGE, The

Numan, Gary

Ocean Colour Scene

Ochs, Phil

October Project

Old 97s

Oldfield, Mike

Opeth

Orange Juice

Orbison, Roy

Orme, Le

OSI

Osibissa

Owen, Judith

Owsley

Ozric Tentacles

Perversor

Pete & The Pirates

Postal Service

Power From Hell

Power Trip

Pulled Apart By Horses

Q, Stacey

Q-Tip

Quad City DJs

Quarterflash

Quartermass

Quatro, Michael

Quatro, Suzie

Quebec, Ike

Question Mark and the Mysterians

Quiet Sun

Quill

Rage Against the Machine

Raging Slab

Rainbow

Raitt, Bonnie

Rammstein

Ramones

Rancid

Red Fang

Redd Kross

Redding, Otis

Reed, Lou

Reid, Terry

Renaissance

Renbourn, John

Replacements

Return to Forever

Reverend Bizarre

RHCP

Rheostatics

Ride

Riot

Rise to Remain

Rishloo

Riverside

Rockpile

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rollins Band

Ronstadt, Linda

Roots

Roxy Music

Rubinoos

Rufus ft. Chaka Khan

Rundgren, Todd

Runrig

Rutles, The

Saga

Sam & Dave

Santana

Saxon

Secret Machines

Seger, Bob

Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Setzer, Brian/Stray Cats

Shankar, Ravi

Shins, The

Sigur Ros

Silversun Pickups

Simple Minds

Simply Red

Sinatra, Frank

Skids

Slayer

Sly and the Family Stone

Small Faces

Smashing Pumpkins

Smithereens

Soft Machine

Solas

Solas

Sonic Youth

Soundtrack of Our Lives

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

Spandau Ballet

Specials, The

Spirit of the West

Spiritualized

Split Enz

Spock’s Beard

Spoon

Springfield, Dusty

Squeeze

Stars

Steely Dan

Stereophonics

Stevens, Cat

Stewart, Al

Stewart, Rod

Sting

Styx

Suede

Supertramp

Sweet, Matthew

Swervedriver

Talk Talk

Talking Heads

Tangerine Dream

Taylor, James

Tears For Fears

Television

Testament

Texas

The Easybeats

They Might Be Giants

Thin Lizzy

This will Destroy You

Thompson, Richard

Thorogood, George

Thunder

Tokyo Blade

Tool

Tosh, Peter

Toto

Townshend, Pete

Traffic

Transatlantic

Trews

T-Rex

Triptykon

Triumph

Trouble

Trower, Robin

Trucks, Derek

Truly

Tubes, The

TV on the Radio

Twilight of the Gods

Twilight Singers

Twisted Sister

Tygers of Pan Tang

Type O Negative

U.F.O.

UB40.

UK

Ultravox

Ulver

Underworld

Univers Zero

Universal Congress Of

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unthanks

Upchurch, Phil

Urge Overkill

Uriah Heap

Utopia

Vai, Steve

Vampire Weekend

Van Der Graaf Generator

Van Zandt, Townes

Vandross, Luther

Vangelis

Vanilla Fudge

Vaughan, Stevie Ray

Veils

Vella, Rosie

Velvet Underground

Vetiver

VietNam

Vincent, Gene

Viola, Mike

Vio-Lence

Violent Femmes

Visage

Voices

Voivod

Vollenweider, Andreas

Wainright, Loudon III

Wainright, Rufus

Waits, Tom

Warrior Soul

WASP

Waterboys, The

Waters, Muddy

Watson, Patrick

We are Wolves

Weakerthans

Weather Report

Weber, Eberhard

Ween

Weller, Paul

Whiskeytown

White Stripes

White, Jim

Whitesnake

Wildhearts (The)

Williams, Hank

Williams, Lucinda

Williams, Tony

Wilson, Jackie

Wilson, Steven

Winger

Winter, Johnny

Winwood, Steve

Wishbone Ash

Witch Cross

Wolfsbane

Wonder, Stevie

Wonderstuff, The

Wood, Ron

Wooden Sky

Wu-Tang Clan

Wyatt, Robert

X Japan

X Ray Spex

X, Generation

Xcnn

Xenedis, Phil

Xeno & Oaklander

Xentrix

Xerath

XS, IN

XYMOX, Clan of

Y & T

Yardbirds

Yello

Yokota, Susumu

Young Galxy

Zawinul, Joe

Zebra

Zee

Zevon, Warren

Zombies

Zwan