Neil Young

I love his acoustic guitar work.
I love his electric stomp skronk
I love his harmonica playing, my favorite rock n roll harmonica ever
I love his singing

I love neil young and his grizzled canadian self.

shit i cant believe i forgot neil young and albini!

more: john lennon, john cage, john cale, lou reed, lydia lunch, fuck it i saying it, beefheart.

I haven't heard all of his work, but it seems to me everything Will Oldham does is golden.

not everything, trust me on that. he has a very lax way of recording, he basically just picks whatever of his musician friends are availible and record. sometime the spontanaity of this recording style makes for some beautiful songs (i see a darkness, viva last blues, etc..) and sometimes its pretentious bullshit (lots and lots and lots of stuff).

Sun Ra
John Cage
Brian Eno
Glenn Branca
Chrix Knox (Tall Dwarfs, solo)
Laurie Anderson
Amy Denio
Crank Sturgeon
Michael Griffen (Noggin, Behead the Profit No Lord Shall Live, Arty Smudges Trio)
Lou Reed (give or take a couple records, but I love close to 90%)
Edward Ka-spel

Nice choice, he was also in Toy Love, and was responsible for recording a lot of the Flying Nun bands.

Yeah, I know he was in Toy Love, I just haven't heard that material despite having several Tall Dwarfs and solo albums. His painting is also mind-blowingly good. He stayed in my apartment in Olympia when he was on tour in the late '90s and we hit it off pretty well. He's a fun guy if you can handle some massively strong personal opinions (he hates Alex Chilton for instance, which I thought was really odd).

two more:
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weasel walter

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Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett

Billy Childish. John MacIntyre. Mike Watt. Nels Cline. Jerry Lee Lewis. Son House. Charly Patton. DJ Primier

As much as I love Syd Barrett, he doesn't have a huge body of work - only an album plus a few more songs with Pink Floyd, and two solo albums and a rarities album, so I didn't think he would be be appropriate for this thread.

Again I agree with you Death, he recorded fewer than 20 tracks with Pink Floyd, and the rest is just solo stuff. Its not really a very broad output yet, however in '06 a lost live recording of Syd Barrett and The Stars was unearthed, and a release was discussed. Maybe if that surfaces we'll have more of a body of work to talk about. But y'know, I still love him, as my avatar suggests...

mine

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Nick Drake only released 3 albums and people have mentioned him

Neil Young & Lucinda Williams.
I more or less love everything that these two solo artists have done.

I enjoy other solo artists of course... David Bowie, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, etc... but they have spotty catalogues that I'm not consistently crazy about.

Neil Young and Lucinda Williams on the other hand manage to please me time and again. In fact, thinking about them in this context makes me realize how great it would be to see them collaborate somehow together!

YIKES!!! BIG EDIT:::

Nina Simone..... the late great......... can't believe I forgot her as a third mention.

Sun Ra
Tony Conrad
John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane
Ennio Morricone
Beethoven
Diamanda Galas
Coil
Sonic Youth
Afrika Bambata
Loop
Current 93
Throbbing Gristle
Paganini
ESG
Merzbow
Mo Tucker (modest output but made only decent records)
John Barry
Burt Bacharach
Joe Meek
Nico
Nina Simone
Delia Derbyshire
Nurse With Wound
Angus Maclise (Ok, I just want to believe that one day more of his music will surface)


and on and on and on and on and on and on................................................ ...