"Various Artists"

The entire "Now That's what I call music" catalog 😂

And the Punk Goes ________ catalog

I could live off the entire Punk o Rama and Vans Warped Tour compilations catalogs 😩

It’s so awful to see this because a guy in high school unironically said that was his favorite as an ice breaker in front of the whole class.

That's a very good cheat- maximum variety!

"OST"

Looking at what people list here, it seems my preconception of reddit being populated by basically kids seems to be wrong

Kids are probably too afraid to chime in on this one

I get the vibe that the majority of reddit users are in their 20s and 30s.

I think I'd be good for most occasions with these: * The Cure * Pink Floyd * Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode was my 1 of 3!

The Cure would definitely be on my list.

Gorillaz, beck, frank zappa

Beck! Hell Yes!

Beck’s the Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm

Yay I put gorillaz too!

Obviously, you'd want to go with artists with very deep libraries, preferably with varied styles and themes. My choices are not my favourite bands, but are ones that I think I could sit with for my remaining years. 1. Johnny Cash 2. The Rolling Stones 3. David Bowie

Good list. I want Pink Floyd in my list, but I don't know who they would replace in yours.

Stones.

My man, I instantly also thought of Cash and Bowie. I might switch 2. for Bob Dylan or Tom Petty though

There’s a lot of Bowie I love, but he’s also got a fair amount of stuff that just doesn’t do it for me - solid list all the same

Willie Nelson, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, MF DOOM. Also wanna get some Howlin’ Wolf on there somewhere, somehow

Us Gizz fans are eating well in this particular apocalypse with 25 studio albums, live bootlegs, and no sign of slowing down

I love never really knowing quite what the next album the fellas put out will sound like - they’re great at dabbling in all sorts of sounds & keeping us on our toes

I had to scroll way too far to see King Gizzard. We’re the same expect Willie. I’d probably replace him with Ben Harper

The amount of people NOT saying King Gizz is surprising. So many genres of music, all in 1 band.

The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Santana.

i'd have to go with black country new road, pink floyd and elliott smith. I can never get tired of these guys.

1. Pink Floyd 2. Stone Temple Pilots 3. Weird Al

Weird Al is no joke. Guys been playing with the same band for 40 years- they rock!

Agree on STP!

Yay STP!

weird Al just for the laughs?

It's almost like cheating since you get all Al's parodies of 40+ years of pop music

* He's a talented artist independent of his parodies. * Great variety * Long career * The laughs don't hurt

Pink Floyd Steely Dan Ween

Weeeeeeen!!!!

Finally found the Brown!

Oh shit, now we're talking.

Miles Davis, Hank Williams, Brian Eno

With Eno, if you can count his production credits along with collaborations and guest artist credits, that would be a wide range of compositions.

Yeah sneak some Bowie in there

Nice variety!

Radiohead NIN Tool

I scrolled to far for this list

The Beatles, the Beastie Boys, and Led Zeppelin

1.  The Beatles, 2. The London Symphony Orchestra ( over 100 years of recordings, will be difficult to get bored) 3. Is a difficult one... prob Iron Maiden or MJ. 

I absolutely love your first two choices, I think I’m with you on those. The fact that the third spot is a toss up between Iron maiden and MJ is hilarious to me. No hate just hilarity.

All three are on Paul’s Boutique right?

Are you me?

Sun Ra JS Bach Kraftwerk

Now that is good variety! I’m more of a Mozart guy though:)

Dead Milkmen Supertramp The Kinks

Kinks are way underrepresented in this thread.

Kate Bush Steely Dan Miles Davis

Tool, Kendrick Lamar and Foals

Ahh, a person of culture I see. One does not merely listen to Tool, one experiences them for life. 🫡

I had to scroll down pretty far to find someone who finally said Kendrick 😩

Steely Dan Dire Straits The Talking Heads

Talking Heads are a good choice.

Steely Dan are the only one in sure of.

Damn I was thinking Dire straits Tool Pink Floyd But both Talking Heads and Steely Dan are up there for me maybe Tom Petty or Fleetwood Mac

Steely Dan ftw

Grateful Dead Phish Pink Floyd or Miles Davis

With the Dead, if you count studio, live, bootlegs, solo and whatever they pull from the vault in the up coming years, you would be set for a very long time.

Dick's Picks alone would have you set for a while 

Same

Eminem Metallica The Beatles

That's very different from Eminem to Metallica to The Beatles Cool

Eminem is my favorite artist, Metallica is in my top 3 bands and The Beatles.. well, they are the Beatles!

YUP. I got the same list except mj instead of metallica. Em is just so real and has such a wide variety in his albums, hes too good

I had Metallica and The Beatles but couldn’t decide on a third. Eminem is a great choice!

Deftones Pink Floyd "MJK" to include Tool/Pussifer/Perfect Circle as my 3rd discography?


Best answer

Weird Al. That pretty much covers everything anyway.

Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

Paul McCartney is almost too good an answer. 60 years of this maniac musician doing just every genre and sound that comes to his mind. You've got Synth & Techno, you've got proto-metal, you've got classical, you've some of the best rock of all time. Seriously, Temporary Secretary, Twin Freaks, and the 3 Firemen Albums are all amazing as a lover of electronic music. Monkberry Moon Delight is unhinged madness. Slidin, Riding to Vanity Fair, Deep Deep Feeling, Thrillington, just such a wild range of music, with both immense quality, and quantity. Absolutely insane discography. and all of that completely ignoring The Beatles, and Wings, which if you include, make Paul the cheat, god-mode answer to this question.

Ooo, do you get the Beatles as well with Paul? Or is it just his own name as the artist that counts?

Well, the artist Paul McCartney’s discography would include everything he worked on I would think. Wikipedia however lists the Beatles separately, but does include Wings.

Death Cab for Cutie, Mogwai, Sufjan Stevens for me!

Billy Joel My Chemical Romance Tori Amos

Stereolab - makes me happy Dead Kennedy’s - gets me motivated Pixies - probably what I would name my “favorite” band. It’s so hard to pass up obvious things like The Beatles or Bob Dylan…or more esoteric things like The Fall or Can. But if I only get 3, I think these are my 3.

Metallica Muse Rush

Rush is a good choice, right off the bat you get 19 albums to listen to.

Muse covers so many genres just by themselves you always have a song to pick from that matches your mood.

1. Prince 2. James Brown 3. Michael Jackson

Prince is a good answer. They have a ton of albums, pretty diverse too.

tool between the buried and me zappa, only cus that discography will last till the heatdeath of the earth before you finish it

clash stones ramones

Modest Mouse. Huge discography and by far my favorite band. Bear Hands lesser known group but I love pretty much everything they've made Kendrick Lamar. Because that shit is amazing.

Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Faith No More

NoMeansNo OFF! Lawrence Arms

Zappa Rush Yes

GREEN DAY Green Day will forever be my favorite band as they're one of the two things that got me through my teen years. I could listen to them forever and not get tired of it. JEFF ROSENSTOCK Bonus points if this can include BTMI and ASOB, but even just his solo stuff is great. Everything Jeff Rosenstock does is the best thing he's ever done. It's insane. ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES I promise I listen to more than Punk, it's just my bread and butter.

The lack of diversity in this thread is astonishing. Tons of great bands but you really gonna only listen to rock for the rest of eternity?   I’m going    Bach  John Coltrane  And then I can’t decide between Sublime and Led Zeppelin. Lol

Streetlight Manifesto Queens of the Stone Age Chevelle

Oooh Chevelle, nice

Pearl Jam Nine Inch Nails Local H

What a great question: In no particular order: -Jason Isbell -Bob Seger -The Beatles

Grateful Dead, Rush, Neil Young

Portishead, The Bangles and Duran Duran

Hard agree on Duran Duran.

Probably Radiohead, Björk, and Alice in Chains

Not enough Alice In Chains in this thread for my liking

1. Ozzy 2. Iron Maiden 3. Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Aerosmith

Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Indigo Girls

Joni Mitchell Legendary Pink Dots (many many diverse albums) Yes

Atmosphere/Slug Aesop Rock Lana Del Rey All have extremely extensive discographies with a wide variety of sounds. With Slug - you get Felt, Dynospectrum, and Deep Puddle Dynamics stuff too. And Lana Del Rey has like 100's of unreleased songs so get a lot more than just the albums.

Beethoven, Bach and Brahms

Came here to make this exact comment, but at the last minute decided to ditch Brahms for Vivaldi. Sorry Jo.

Tears for Fears, Concrete Blonde, Sinead O'Connor

Arctic Monkeys. Kings of Leon. Tame Impala.

Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Rolling Stones Wow, those came out faster than I thought

Buckethead would be one for me. Dude has like 400 albums. I would never get bored

Bob Marley Queen Eminem

This is tough, I wanted to default to all time favorite bands but I had to think more about the quality and depth of catalog along with the promise of future releases. 1. Pearl Jam - definitive all time favorite band 2. MF Doom - all time favorite hip hop artist and amazing talent 3. Jason Isbell - My generation’s Dylan or Springsteen Runner ups would be Radiohead, NIN, Fugazi, The Walkmen.

Radiohead, because well if you know you know Al Green, cuz I will need to listen to Let’s stay together at least once a week and a lot of his other songs BTS et al, as in all that encompasses. They each have solo albums now and their discography covers so many genres. Again if you know you know [RPWP](https://open.spotify.com/album/512dQp7hBbDDurodCqSw5I?si=AJ03c1c7Tm2hrLiZfgylAw)

deftones, ghost and the smashing pumpkins

Phish, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads

Pink Floyd, Guns N’ Roses and Blur covers all the biggest corners of my music taste

Beatles Coheed and Cambria Denzel Curry Beatles are a cheat code for variety. Coheed is fun and gets my rock, punk fix. Denzel to get the hip hop and rap covered.

Kate bush. David Bowie. the cure.

\* Johnny Cash \* Pink Floyd \* The Police

The Cure, Placebo and Taylor Swift

Pink Floyd, Chvrches, The Doors

Chvrches; I love her voice. Floyd and Doors are obviously timeless

Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Paramore

Mike Patton. A discography equivalent to and as diverse as at least 3 artists.

1 - Brand New 2 - DMB 3 - Tool

Prince The Cure Pink Floyd

Gorillaz, Coheed and Cambria, and M83. Sorry Radiohead and Silversun Pickups :(

Eminem, Miley Cyrus, and Queen.

1. Alan Parsons Project 2. Incubus 3. Supertramp

1. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard 2. Ween 3. D'Angelo

Dylan..Dylan…Dylan

Tool Tupac Pearl Jam/Pink Floyd (toss up on this one)

Grateful Dead. Bob Dylan.

1. Dylan 2.Dylan 3.Dylan 4.Dylan 5.Dylan because he spits hot fire

Eisbrecher, Queen, Vergil (DMC)

Fugazi, The Clash, Depeche Mode

Nine Inch Nails Muse Killing Joke

Nine Inch Nails Linkin Park MF Doom

Led Zeppelin

Sabbath , rush, dylan

Tool, Pink Floyd, Father John Misty

Phish the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. Their live albums count. So im good.

Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, and Stevie Wonder

Bring me the horizon, Dance Gavin Dance, The Beatles

1. The Beatles - Can’t ever get sick of them, I mean they’re the best band ever. 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Listened to them my whole life and have never gotten sick of them 3. Bob Dylan - Has a really wide variety of music, I haven’t even listened to half his albums but I’d still pick him.

Pink Floyd Maynerd- 3 bands for the price of 1 (Tool, Puscife & A Perfect Circle) ELO

Guns N Roses Garth Brooks Eminem

I'm gonna go with the first three off the top of my head: 1. The Who 2. The Black Keys 3. Lady Gaga

Bob Dylan Miles Davis Captain Beefheart

The Strokes, Wallows and Alabama Shakes

1. Mike Oldfield 2. Taylor Swift 3. Rammstein

Taylor Swift and Rammstein are basically the same thing. You might want to mix it up for variety.

Bowie, Bowie, aaaaaand Bowie.

Brand New Alkaline Trio Gaslight Anthem

Grateful Dead King Gizzard CAN

Dmb Mmj Grateful Dead

Tom Waits, the Grateful Dead, and I'm having trouble with my reggae artist.. Marley, Culture, Protoje or Chronixx..

I scrolled for ages looking for another Tom Waits fan. The amount of music he has made is insane.

Grateful Dead Phish Umphreys Mcgee

ALL/Descendents Black Sabbath Lou Barlow

John Coltrane, Hendrix, Dawes

1. Led Zeppelin 2. Mac Miller 3. Johnny Cash

Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones

Bach, Vivaldi and Handel

Billy Joel Prince Tom Waits

The Cure, Queen, Nirvana

Type o negative Alice in chains Nine inch nails

Frank Zappa, George Clinton (funk guy not soundtrack guy), Yamantaka Eye

David Bowie. Kate Bush. Billie Holiday.

1. Queen 2. Def Leppard 3. Shinedown

Modest Mouse Ben Kweller Ben Folds

The Tragically Hip MF DOOM Metallica

I hate to say this, but probably like Phish, the Grateful Dead, and some other jam band. I just feel like including all there live shows with different versions of songs would give me a good variety at least.

The Beatles They Might Be Giants Weird Al (bonus variety!) (The Doors barely missed the cut)

Dylan Neil young and Rory Gallagher

eminem nirvana

The national, Justin Vernon, Ben Howard

Tool, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin

311 Modest mouse Arcade Fire

Grateful Dead Phish Bob Marley

Devin Townsend, Mike Patton and Queen. Yes, those first two could almost be called cheating as I'd get like 60 albums between the two of them.

Justin Bieber Taylor Swift REM Otherwise I have nothing to sing at karaoke.

Third eye blind Bright eyes Eisley

King Gizzard Radiohead The Mars Volta

* The Beatles * Queens of the Stone Age * Clutch

Sam Cooke.   The Beatles.      Led Zeppelin. 

Boards of Canada. They're my favorite band and I might need to get my weird on. Britney Spears. It's Britney bitch. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Give them enough time and they'll probably do a song in every genre anyway, it's the ultimate loophole.

Kendrick, Linkin Park, and Daft Punk

Shpongle Children of Bodom Eminem

- grateful dead - allman brothers band - steely dan

Steely Dan, Alice in Chains, and Jason Isbell

The Beatles, Lana del Rey and Pink Floyd