Criteria: - Artists are ranked by their influence, impact, and popularity. List includes alternative rock, post-punk and new wave artists, as well as artists in the various alternative rock subgenres (including - but not limited to - indie rock, Britpop, grunge, shoegazing, post rock, emo, alternative dance, goth rock and dream pop).
Edited By: piper
Last Updated: 04-13-2012
1. R.E.M. 2. Nirvana 3. Talking Heads 4. The Smiths 5. Radiohead 6. Sonic Youth 7. Joy Division 8. U2 9. Pixies 10. Elvis Costello & the Attractions 11. The Cure 12. Pearl Jam 13. Hüsker Dü 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. Fugazi 16. Nine Inch Nails 17. New Order 18. The Replacements 19. The Smashing Pumpkins 20. Beck 21. Soundgarden 22. Pavement 23. My Bloody Valentine 24. Depeche Mode 25. The Jam 26. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 27. The Fall 28. Flaming Lips 29. Kate Bush 30. The Jesus & Mary Chain 31. Wire 32. Green Day 33. Dinosaur Jr. 34. The Stone Roses 35. Cocteau Twins 36. Oasis 37. Blur 38. Bjork 39. Siouxsie and the Banshees 40. Public Image Ltd. 41. Manic Street Preachers 42. Bauhaus 43. Mudhoney 44. Jane's Addiction 45. Alice in Chains 46. XTC 47. Echo & The Bunnymen 48. Weezer 49. Pulp 50. Foo Fighters
51. They Might Be Giants 52. Suede 53. The White Stripes 54. Violent Femmes 55. Gang of Four 56. The Strokes 57. Yo La Tengo 58. Morrissey 59. Belle and Sebastian 60. Guided by Voices 61. Talk Talk 62. Meat Puppets 63. Jeff Buckley 64. Minutemen 65. Squeeze 66. Primal Scream 67. Stereolab 68. The Go-Betweens 69. Wilco 70. Elliott Smith 71. Coldplay 72. No Doubt 73. PJ Harvey 74. Sleater-Kinney 75. Beat Happening 76. Killing Joke 77. Midnight Oil 78. Beat Happening 79. Modest Mouse 80. Godspeed You! Black Emperor 81. Love and Rockets 82. The Verve 83. Mission of Burma 84. The Dismemberment Plan 85. Stone Temple Pilots 86. Swans 87. 10,000 Maniacs 88. Camper Van Beethoven 89. Phish 90. The Cranberries 91. The The 92. Mogwai 93. Throwing Muses 94. The Specials 95. The Feelies 96. The Soft Boys 97. Tortoise 98. Sebadoh 99. Madness 100. Galaxie 500
101. Morphine 102. fIREHOSE 103. Arcade Fire 104. The Jesus Lizard 105. This Mortal Coil 106. Built to Spill 107. Neutral Milk Hotel 108. Muse 109. The Birthday Party 110. Red House Painters 111. The Psychedelic Furs 112. The Church 113. The Pogues 114. Placebo 115. Sigur Ros 116. Low 117. Superchunk 118. Robyn Hitchcock 119. Happy Mondays 120. The Mekons 121. Mother Love Bone 122. Ride 123. TV on the Radio 124. The Housemartins 125. Butthole Surfers 126. The Chameleons 127. Gorillaz 128. Magazine 129. Liz Phair 130. The Killers 131. The Sugarcubes 132. Super Furry Animals 133. Eels 134. Franz Ferdinand 135. Phoenix 136. Death Cab for Cutie 137. Big Black 138. Screaming Trees 139. Ben Harper 140. Bonny 'Prince' Billy/Will Oldham 141. Lush 142. Half Man Half Biscuit 143. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 144. James Chance & The Contortions 145. Young Marble Giants 146. Spiritualized 147. Spoon 148. Slint 149. Interpol 150. Arctic Monkeys
151. Broken Social Scene 152. Prefab Sprout 153. Dream Syndicate 154. Swervedriver 155. The Magnetic Fields 156. of Montreal 157. The Charlatans 158. Sunny Day Real Estate 159. Catherine Wheel 160. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 161. Royal Trux 162. The Wedding Present 163. The Pop Group 164. Television Personalities 165. Afghan Whigs 166. Sisters of Mercy 167. Orange Juice 168. Pylon 169. The Decemberists 170. Bright Eyes 171. Mercury Rev 172. The Blue Nile 173. The New Pornographers 174. Gene Loves Jezebel 175. The Microphones/Mount Eerie 176. World Party 177. Olivia Tremor Control 178. The Libertines 179. The Breeders 180. Redd Kross 181. The dB's 182. Daniel Johnston 183. Green River 184. Jimmy Eat World 185. Peter Bjorn and John 186. The Shins 187. Liquid Liquid 188. Let's Active 189. Don Caballero 190. Jawbox 191. Bloc Party 192. The National 193. Kings of Leon 194. Doves 195. Ween 196. Redd Kross 197. The Beautiful South 198. Catatonia 199. Unwound 200. The Sundays
100 Greatest Influences on Alternative Music
Criteria: Includes which perform non-alternative genres (including some artists which pre-date the genre) which have had a noticeable and long-lasting influence on alternative rock music. Includes pre-alternative, 1970's punk, 1960's garage rock, protopunk, psychedelic rock, experimental music, alternative hip-hop, trip-hop and electronica artists. Artists are ranked by influence on alternative music, critical acclaim from alternative music publications and popularity within the alternative music culture and community. The list includes artists that predate the alternative music, as well as artists that are contemporaneous with the genre.
1. David Bowie 2. Velvet Underground 3. The Stooges 4. MC5 5. Patti Smith 6. Frank Zappa 7. Brian Eno 8. Scott Walker 9. Tom Waits 10. Ramones 11. The Sex Pistols 12. The Clash 13. Lou Reed 14. Iggy Pop 15. Television 16. Roxy Music 17. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers 18. Pere Ubu 19. Blondie 20. The Sonics 21. New York Dolls 22. Big Star 23. Suicide 24. Can 25. Leonard Cohen 26. Kraftwerk 27. Captain Beefheart 28. Sparks 29. Love 30. Warren Zevon 31. Richard & Linda Thompson/Richard Thompson 32. Nick Drake 33. Glenn Branca 34. The Stranglers 35. Syd Barrett 36. Throbbing Gristle 37. Cheap Trick 38. Devo 39. Silver Apples 40. Black Flag 41. Buzzcocks 42. Beastie Boys 43. Dead Kennedys 44. The 13th Floor Elevators 45. Robert Wyatt 46. Nick Lowe 47. Portishead 48. This Heat 49. Sparks 50. T. Rex
51. Richard Hell and the Voidoids 52. The Residents 53. The Seeds 54. Swell Maps 55. Cabaret Voltaire 56. The Damned 57. Todd Rundgren 58. Massive Attack 59. John Cale 60. The Red Crayola/Red Krayola 61. X 62. NRBQ 63. Stiff Little Fingers 64. The Undertones 65. Dr. Feelgood 66. Radio Birdman 67. The Slits 68. Hawkwind 69. The Cramps 70. Bad Brains 71. John Cooper Clarke 72. Graham Parker 73. Henry Cow 74. The Adverts 75. Brinsley Schwarz 76. John Cage 77. Herbie Hancock 78. The Prodigy 79. Laurie Anderson 80. Moby Grape 81. Squarepusher 82. Public Enemy 83. The Selecter 84. Negativland 85. Fatboy Slim 86. Tricky 87. De La Soul 88. Billy Bragg 89. Kirsty MacColl 90. DJ Shadow 91. The KLF 92. Faithless 93. Vic Chesnutt 94. The Pharcyde 95. The Art of Noise 96. Boards of Canada 97. Victoria Williams 98. Amy Winehouse 99. The Chemical Brothers 100. The Avalanches
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