Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2008
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2008
1 Neil Young (including Buffalo Springfield & CSNY) Canada (N - more old live shows, but still no Archives box!)
2 Sonic Youth / Free Kitten / Solo USA (N - Free Kitten, SYR release)
3 Miles Davis USA (N - Miles From India: various artists play Miles Davis)
4 Brian Eno UK (N - collaboration with David Byrne)
5 Frank Zappa / The Mothers (of Invention) USA
6 Pavement / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks USA (N - Malkmus album, Pavement reissue)
7 Amon Duul II (and Amon Duul I) Germany
8 Parliament / Funkadelic USA
9 The Guess Who Canada
10 Kraftwerk (including Organisation) Germany
11 The Velvet Underground and/or Nico USA/Germany
12 Earthling Society UK (N)
13 Pink Floyd UK
14 Stereolab UK (N)
15 Rahsaan Roland Kirk USA
16 Melvins USA (N)
17 Jimi Hendrix USA
18 Unio & Petitio UK (N)
19 Crosby Stills & Nash (with or without Young) USA/UK
20 Can Germany
21 Black Sabbath UK
22 Sly & The Family Stone USA
23 Killdozer USA
24 Talking Heads / David Byrne USA (N - Byrne solo album, collaboration with Brian Eno)
25 The Stooges USA
26 Jefferson Airplane USA (N)
27 The Who UK
28 Mission Of Burma / Birdsongs of the Mesozoic USA (N - CD single with old demos, Birdsongs reissue)
29 Black Moth Super Rainbow / Solo USA (N - "Tobacco" and "Power Pill Fist" solo albums)
30 Beatles / Solo UK
31 The Mars Volta / Omar Rodriguez-Lopez USA (N)
32 Spectrum UK (N)
33 The Animals / Eric Burdon UK
34 Santana Mexico/USA
35 NEU! Germany
36 Emerson Lake & Palmer UK
37 Van der Graaf Generator UK (N)
38 MC5 USA
39 Lunar Dunes UK
40 Man UK (Wales)
41 James Brown USA
42 Black Tempest UK (N)
43 Gong France/UK
44 Boris Japan (N)
45 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA
46 Chrome USA
47 The High Places USA (N - debut album, compilation of early tracks)
48 Scott Walker USA/UK
49 Matmos USA (N)
50 Yoko Ono Japan
51 Meat Puppets USA
52 Black Mountain Canada (N)
53 Mahavishnu Orchestra / John Mclaughlin UK
54 Unimother 27 Italy (N)
55 The Black Angels USA (N)
56 Flower Travellin' Band Japan
57 The Pink Fairies UK
58 Yes UK
59 Spirit / Randy California USA
60 The Rick Ray Band USA (N)
61 Blue Cheer USA
62 Banana Slidewhistle USA (N)
63 Sonny Bono USA
64 Cluster Germany
65 Butthole Surfers USA
66 Royal Trux / RTX / Neil Haggerty USA
67 Stevie Wonder USA
68 Dinosaur jr USA
69 Dungen Sweden (N)
70 Big Block 454 UK (N)
71 Beatallica USA (N)
72 Husker Du USA
73 The Monkees USA
74 The Byrds USA
75 Wire UK (N)
76 James Last Germany
77 The Breeders / Kim Deal USA (N)
78 Pharoah Sanders USA
79 Isaac Hayes USA
80 Bob Dylan USA
81 Archie Shepp USA
82 Phil Manzanera (including collaborations) UK
83 Herbie Hancock USA
84 Hawkwind UK
85 Far East Family Band Japan
86 Caravan UK
87 Sonny Sharrock USA
88 The Fiery Furnaces USA (N - double live album!)
89 Grand Funk Railroad USA
90 Vangelis / Aphrodite's Child Greece
91 The Stark Reality USA
92 Blue Oyster Cult USA
93 Old Time Relijun / Arrington de Dionyso USA (N - solo album)
94 The Seeds USA
95 Dzyan Germany
96 Judas Priest UK (N)
97 Kraan Germany
98 Rufus Thomas USA
99 The Last People On Earth UK (N)
100 The Doors USA
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 The Nice UK
102 Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV UK
103 Faust Germany
104 The Red Plastic Buddha USA (N)
105 National Lampoon USA
106 Metallica USA (N)
107 Vampire Hands USA (N)
108 XTC / The Dukes of Stratosphear UK
109 Curtis Mayfield USA
110 The Groundhogs UK
111 Journey USA
112 Boredoms Japan
113 The Dirtbombs USA (N)
114 Gedo Japan
115 Dead Meadow USA (N)
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