- Charlie Daniels
- Doc Watson, Randy and Earl Scruggs (for the best banjo pickin' you'll hear, ever)
- BeeGees
- Cherry Poppin' Daddies
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Madonna
- Michael Jackson (seriously messed up, but a freakin' musical genius)
- Prince (don't get me started about that name thing. Same note as Michael J.)
- Soft Cell
- Bill Cosby
- George Carlin
- Barenaked Ladies
- Enya
- Tom Jones, of course
- Men of the Deep (Nova Scotia miners - if you've been to see the mines, you'll probably find this stuff quite moving)
- various artists playing Bach
- various artists playing Chopin
- various artists playing Beethoven (killer 7th symphony, dude)
- Glen Gould's renditions of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier
- various artists playing Debussy
- various artists playing Mozart
- Stevie Wonder
- various artists playing Rachmaninoff
- Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Supertramp
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Stompin' Tom Connors, but not Tommy Hunter
- Arrogant Worms
- B52's
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuanna Brass
- James Brown, the hardest working man in music
- John Denver and the Muppets
- Moxy Fruvous
- Quincy Jones
- The Odds (and I know someone who is a friend of a relative of a guy who used to be the drummer!)
- Beatles
- Buddy Holly
- Johnny Horton (if you gotta ask, you really should get out more)
- Dean Martin
- Doris Day
- Elvis
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Ian Tyson
- John Lee Hooker (lots of old stuff *and* that delicious duet he did with Bonnie Raitt)
- Semisonic
- Taj Mahal
- The Supremes
- The Turtles
- Everlast
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Foofighters
- Dandy Wharhols
- Travelling Wilburys (but just those two good songs they did)
- Talking Heads
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Queen
- Sex Pistols
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads (including my personal favorite, F*cking Ada)
- Boomtown Rats
- Payolas (some of their earlier stuff, when they were still a high-energy Ska band)
- Tragically Hip (of course)
- Matthew Good Band
- Burton Cummings
- Kinks
- Clash
- REM
- Lenny Kravitz
- Jesus Jones
- Counting Crows (their songs helped me through some very dark times - thanks guys)
- Spirit of the West
- Black Crowes
- Adam Ant (hailing back to a time when he was radical and cool - that's how *old* I am)
- Aerosmith
- Foreigner
- Peter Gabriel
- Annie Lennox (pre- and post-Eurythmics - what a sultry voice)
- Grateful Dead
- Jim Croce
- Sarah McLachlan
- Jan Arden
- Billy Joel
- Blue Rodeo
- Alan Parson's Project
- Eagles
- Green Day
- Chemical Brothers
- Propellerheads
- Devo, Devo, and more Devo
- Thomas Newman (no relation to Alfred E.)
- Moby
... and that's just MP3s - never mind the stuff I have on CD, cassette and vinyl.
So, was it what you expected? Any surprises?
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