Malky
Trent
Kurt
Thurston
Kim
Lee
Thom
Jack White
Lou
Moz

10 yoko ono
9 june tyson
8 jim o'rourke
7 nina simone
6 jaap blonk
5 francoise hardy
4 spencer yeh
3 christina carter
2 iggy
1 lou
edit - can't leave off Miguel Tomasin, Darby Crash, Henri Chopin & Neil Young

Deron Miller (CKY)
Grant Hart
Bob Mould
Patti Smith
Mike Patton
Lee Ranaldo
Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun)
June Tyson (Sun Ra)
Iggy Pop
Thurston Moore

Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Nina Simone
Laura Nyro
Scott Walker
Thom Yorke
Björk
Paul McCartney
Liz Fraser
An Pierlé

yvonne kenny
nick cave
lee ranaldo
mjk
blixa bargeld
thalia zedek
and three others can't think drunk

Bump because I like this thread

syd barrett
mark e. smith
captain beefheart
phil oakey
john lennon

can't think of 5 others right now.

Mark Arm
Gibby Haynes
Brian Chippendale
Lemmy Kilmeister
Ozzy (Sabbath era)
King Buzzo
that guy from Ruins
Steve Albini
Kat Bjelland
Pete Shelley

Kurt Cobain
Thom Yorke
Lou Reed (his singing is terrible but his voice is so incredibly raw)
Neil young (Same reason as LR except for the rawness part)
Thurston Moore
Justin Trosper (Unwound)
Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu, Because the man has fucking grade a class)
Tom Barman (dEUS)
Iggy Pop
Kim Gordon
Lydia Lunch

Oh and of course Courtney Love and Kat Bjelland(Thanks for reminding me Kegmama)

Re-reading all of these lists in a row makes me think SY Gossip is a rather grunge-obsessed forum.

antony (antony and the johnsons)
thom yorke
morrissey
craig B (aereogramme)
andrew mears (youthmovies)
mark e smith
joanna newsom
cat power
jake bannon (converge)

Sonic Youth is a band from in the grunge-era. What did you expect? Justin Timberlake?

and kate bush!

Do you know when and where SY formed?

It wasn't Seattle, and it wasn't 1991.

Nico
Robert Hampson
Diamanda Galas
John Cale
Lee Ranaldo
Glen Campbell
Abba
Dionne Warwick
Morrisey
Nina Simone

Too right.I didn't even bother replying.

John Lennon
Lou Reed
Thurston Moore
David Bowie
Kate Bush
Michael Stipe
Robert Johnson
Elvis Presley
Ray Davies
David Byrne

All the Kate Bush mentions were a welcome surprise, as was finding nobody's Allison Krauss mention.

Yeah sure I know but isn't it natural that most fans of SY would listen to grungy bands? What I ment was they reached their peak in the grunge-era I didn't mean they were formed then.

Whatever who cares, right?

I was going to put Lou Reed on the list too.The only thing is tha up to Coney Island Baby that voice was mighty and then it just went a bit so so for the most part.