Top 500 Kosmik Artists 2005 - 2010
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
1 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention USA
2 Jimi Hendrix USA
3 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
4 Sonic Youth USA
5 Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield/CSNY Canada
6 Miles Davis USA
7 Pink Floyd UK
8 Sly & The Family Stone USA
9 Mission Of Burma USA
10 Kraftwerk Germany
11 Can Germany
12 The Beatles UK
13 Jefferson Airplane USA
14 Earthling Society UK
15 Melvins USA
16 Meat Puppets USA
17 Van der Graaf Generator UK
18 Brian Eno UK
19 Amon Duul 1 & 2 Germany
20 The Guess Who Canada
21 Black Sabbath UK
22 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band USA
23 The Velvet Underground/Reed & Cale solo USA/UK(Wales)
24 Pavement/Stephen Malkmus USA
25 Stereolab UK/France
26 The Grateful Dead USA
27 James Brown USA
28 The Who UK
29 Liars USA
30 The Stooges/Iggy Pop USA
31 Love USA
32 Scott Walker USA/UK
33 Spirit/Randy California USA
34 Emerson Lake & Palmer UK
35 Yes UK
36 Hawkwind UK
37 The Fiery Furnaces USA
38 Flower Travellin' Band Japan
39 Magma France
40 Caravan UK
41 Faust Germany
42 Dinosaur Jr USA
43 Killdozer USA
44 Husker Du USA
45 The Pink Fairies UK
46 Yoko Ono Japan
47 King Crimson UK
48 Black Oak Arkansas USA
49 The Byrds USA
50 The Monkees USA/UK
51 Black Moth Super Rainbow USA
52 Budgie UK(Wales)
53 Cluster/Harmonia/Moebius & Roedelius Germany
54 Santana Mexico/USA
55 Curtis Mayfield USA
56 MC5 USA
57 Vangelis/Aphrodite's Child Greece
58 The Animals/Eric Burdon UK
59 Gong UK/France/Australia
60 Led Zeppelin UK
61 Chrome USA
62 Deep Purple UK
63 The Mars Volta/Omar Rodriguez-Lopez USA(Puerto Rico)
64 Boredoms Japan
65 Sun Ra & His Arkestra USA
66 NEU! Germany
67 Grand Funk Railroad USA
68 Talking Heads/David Byrne USA
69 Tom Jones UK(Wales)
70 The Soft Machine UK
71 DMBQ Japan
72 Speed Glue & Shinki Japan
73 Television/Verlaine & Lloyd solo USA
74 Iron Butterfly USA
75 The Silver Apples USA
76 Blue Cheer USA
77 Bob Dylan USA
78 Guru Guru Germany
79 Metallica USA
80 Von LMO USA
81 Bobby Conn USA
82 The Mahavishnu Orchestra/John McLaughlin UK
83 The Amboy Dukes/Ted Nugent USA
84 Judas Priest UK
85 Blue Oyster Cult USA
86 Creedence Clearwater Revival USA
87 The Butthole Surfers USA
88 The Fall UK
89 Os Mutantes Brazil
90 Sir Lord Baltimore USA
91 Second Family Band/Davenport USA
92 Isaac Hayes USA
93 The Stark Reality USA
94 Klaatu Canada
95 Traffic UK
96 Uriah Heep UK
97 Royal Trux/RTX/Neil Haggerty USA
98 Dungen Sweden
99 Jade Warrior/July UK
100 Moby Grape USA
101 The Minutemen USA
102 Egg UK
103 Herbie Hancock USA
104 Chicago USA
105 Dr. John USA
106 Stevie Wonder USA
107 KISS USA
108 Slayer USA
109 The Jimmy Castor Bunch USA
110 Flaming Lips USA
111 Scorpions Germany
112 The Cosmic Jokers Germany
113 Quicksilver Messenger Service USA
114 Genesis UK
115 Kraan Germany
116 Wooden Shjips USA
117 OOIOO Japan
118 The Chambers Brothers USA
119 Black Dice USA
120 The Band Canada/USA
121 Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV UK
122 Gentle Giant UK
123 Unio & Petitio UK
124 The Rolling Stones UK
125 Steely Dan USA
126 Gang Of Four UK
127 William Shatner Canada
128 Alice Cooper USA
129 Queen UK
130 Pere Ubu USA
131 The Troggs UK
132 Karlheinz Stockhausen Germany
133 Crosby Stills & Nash/Solo (without Neil Young) USA/UK
134 Rush Canada
135 Robert Wyatt/Matching Mole UK
136 The Deviants UK
137 The Doors USA
138 Zolar X USA
139 db pedersen USA
140 Rahsaan Roland Kirk USA
141 Lunar Dunes UK
142 The Fifty Foot Hose USA
143 Attila USA
144 The Human Instinct New Zealand
145 The Seeds USA
146 The United States Of America/Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies USA
147 Rufus Thomas USA
148 Black Flag USA
149 Muddy Waters USA
150 Kool Keith USA
151 Deerhoof USA
152 Psychedelic Horseshit USA
153 Hampton Grease Band USA
154 The Far East Family Band Japan
155 Archie Shepp USA
156 Sun Araw USA
157 Todd Rundgren/Nazz USA
158 Public Image Ltd. UK
159 Van Morrison/Them UK(Northern Ireland)
160 Phil Manzanera/Quiet Sun/801 UK
161 Man UK(Wales)
162 Thin Lizzy Ireland/UK
163 Elephants Memory USA
164 Jethro Tull UK
165 The Pretty Things UK
166 Captain Beyond USA/UK
167 Boris Japan
168 XTC/The Dukes of Stratosphear UK
169 Madlib/Quasimoto/Lootpack USA
170 Rocket From The Tombs USA
171 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band USA
172 Camper Van Beethoven USA
173 Beatallica USA
174 Wire UK
175 Chico Magnetic Band France
176 Bad Brains USA
177 Cream UK
178 The Breeders/Kim Deal USA
179 Les Rallizes Denudes Japan
180 U.F.O. UK
181 Sonny Sharrock USA
182 Steve Hillage UK
183 War (without Eric Burdon) USA
184 Hatfield & The North UK
185 Curved Air UK
186 Simply Saucer Canada
187 NoMeansNo Canada
188 Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops/Lightning Dust Canada
189 Patti Smith USA
190 The Black Angels USA
191 Cornershop UK
192 Suicide/Vega & Rev Solo USA
193 Old Time Relijun USA
194 The Moody Blues UK
195 The Godz USA
196 Nico Germany
197 Big Brother & The Holding Company/Janis Joplin USA
198 Atomic Rooster UK
199 Lothar & The Hand People USA
200 Strawberry Alarm Clock USA
201 The Edgar Broughton Band UK
202 John Coltrane USA
203 Tomita Japan
204 Landing USA
205 Herbie Mann USA
206 Blues Control USA
207 Dzyan Germany
208 Patrick Gleeson USA
209 Matmos USA
210 Eric Dolphy USA
211 Sonny Bono USA
212 Oneida USA
213 Yo La Tengo USA
214 The Rick Ray Band USA
215 The Grodeck Whipperjenny USA
216 Tiger B. Smith Germany
217 David Bowie UK
218 The Sex Pistols UK
219 Ghost Japan
220 Socrates Drank The Conium Greece
221 Serge Gainsbourg France
222 The Groundhogs UK
223 The Nice UK
224 Steve Miller Band USA
225 Pentagram USA
226 The Move UK
227 Jeff Beck UK
228 The Dirtbombs USA
229 The Rogers Sisters USA
230 Flo & Eddie/The Turtles USA
231 Blonde Redhead Italy/Japan
232 Dick Hyman USA
233 Wooden Wand/Wand USA
234 The Monks USA/Germany
235 Big Black/Rapeman USA
236 Bongwater USA
237 The Small Faces UK
238 The Kinks UK
239 The Suit USA
240 Ramsey Kearny USA
241 Vermonster USA
242 Nektar UK/Germany
243 Ash Ra Tempel Germany
244 Hintergedanken/Karen Eliot USA
245 Spectrum UK
246 Motorhead/Lemmy Kilmister UK
247 The Isley Brothers USA
248 Agitation Free Germany
249 Of Montreal USA
250 Kieren Hebden/Four Tet UK
251 Shuggie Otis USA
252 Prince USA
253 Mouse On Mars/Lithops Germany
254 The Incredible String Band UK
255 Wayne Shorter USA
256 White Noise UK/USA
257 Styx USA
258 Me'shell Ndegeocello USA
259 The Blues Creation Japan
260 Aguaturbia Chile
261 The Human Equation USA
262 Califone/Red Red Meat USA
263 Senor Coconut Germany/Chile
264 SRC USA
265 Quasi USA
266 Nina Hagen Germany
267 MF Doom USA
268 The High Places USA
269 The Monotonix Israel
270 Joni Mitchell Canada
271 Bob Marley Jamaica
272 The Modern Lovers/Jonathon Richman USA
273 Manfred Mann UK
274 James Last Germany
275 The Black Lips USA
276 Cactus USA
277 T-Rex UK
278 The Association USA
279 The Blues Magoos USA
280 Cows USA
281 The Free Design USA
282 The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band UK
283 Jack Jones USA
284 Perrey & Kingsley France/USA
285 Taj Mahal Travellers/Takehisa Kosugi Japan
286 Pharoah Sanders USA
287 The Orb UK
288 Algarnas Tradgard Sweden
289 Secret Saucer/Antrilon USA
290 Christmas Canada
291 Randy Holden/The Other Half USA
292 Ornette Coleman USA
293 Sleep USA
294 Return To Forever USA
295 Eternal Elysium Japan
296 Supersister Netherlands
297 The Free Pop Electronic Concept Belgium
298 Venom UK
299 Steppenwolf Canada/USA
300 Trad Gras Och Stenar Sweden
301 Buffalo Australia
302 William B. Fischer USA
303 Quill USA
304 Bebop Deluxe UK
305 Cheer-Accident USA
306 Thelonious Monk USA
307 The Vanishing Kids USA
308 Six Organs Of Admittance USA
309 Dust USA
310 The 13th Floor Elevators USA
311 Black Tempest UK
312 eX-Girl Japan
313 Loop Ret@rd USA
314 The Feelies USA
315 T.O.N.T.O.'s Expanding Headband USA
316 Dead Meadow USA
317 Highway Robbery USA
318 The Earthling Invasion USA
319 Public Enemy USA
320 The Litter USA
321 Turn Me On Dead Man USA
322 The Clash UK
323 Wolfmother Australia
324 Ananda Shankar India
325 Vampire Hands USA
326 Bent Wind Canada
327 The Zombies/Argent UK
328 Procol Harum UK
329 De La Soul USA
330 The Big Sleep USA
331 Big Block 454 UK
332 Viva Voce USA
333 Spinal Tap USA
334 Qui USA
335 Elvis Presley USA
336 The Tar Babies USA
337 The Jesus Lizard USA
338 Sodom Germany
339 Les Georges Leningrad Canada(Quebec)
340 Experimental Dental School USA
341 The Replacements USA
342 Gonjasufi USA
343 DNA/Arto Lindsay USA
344 Rhys Chatham USA
345 Serpentina Satelite Chile
346 Anal Magic featuring Rev. Dwight Frizzell USA
347 The Flock USA
348 Silvester Anfang/Sylvester Anfang II Belgium
349 Tangerine Dream Germany
350 Robert Fripp UK
351 Charles Mingus USA
352 Spiritualized UK
353 Julian Cope UK
354 Unimother 27 Italy
355 Fat Freddy's Drop New Zealand
356 Peaking Lights USA
357 Armageddon (UK) UK
358 Bloodrock USA
359 People Japan
360 Diamond Head UK
361 The Purple Image USA
362 Blood Sweat & Tears USA
363 The Masters Apprentices Australia
364 The Heads (UK) UK
365 Black Widow USA
366 Ultimate Spinach USA
367 MV & EE USA
368 The James Gang USA
369 The Red Krayola USA
370 The Misteriosos USA
371 The Residents USA
372 May Blitz UK
373 The Beastie Boys USA
374 Clear Blue Sky UK
375 Banana Slidewhistle USA
376 Faghat USA
377 Droids Attack USA
378 Patto UK
379 Gedo Japan
380 Bachman-Turner Overdrive Canada
381 The Au Pairs UK
382 White Witch USA
383 The Plastic Cloud Canada
384 Ariel Pink USA
385 Hairy Chapter Germany
386 Vanilla Fudge USA
387 Exuma Bahamas
388 Richard Hayman/The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine USA
389 Solus 3 UK
390 The Digital Underground USA
391 The Churls Canada
392 The Moog Cookbook USA
393 Blossom Toes UK
394 Exmagma Germany
395 Gil Evans USA
396 Iron Maiden UK
397 Brigade USA
398 The Temptations USA
399 Duchess Says Canada(Quebec)
400 Bonnie Prince Billy USA
401 Toe Fat UK
402 Die Die Die New Zealand
403 Tortoise USA
404 The Unfolding USA
405 Jackson 5/Michael Jackson USA
406 The Yardbirds UK
407 The B-52's USA
408 Yat-Kah Russia(Tuva)
409 Okko Netherlands
410 Frost USA
411 Broth USA(Puerto Rico)
412 The Soft Boys UK
413 Fever Tree USA
414 Dragonfly USA
415 Sparks USA
416 Leaf Hound UK
417 Shonen Knife Japan
418 Donovan UK(Scotland)
419 Cypress Hill USA
420 The Fifth Dimension USA
421 Skintones USA
422 Nirvana USA
423 The Shocking Blue Netherlands
424 Nancy Sinatra USA
425 The Osmonds USA
426 The Pixies USA
427 fIREHOSE/Mike Watt USA
428 The Bubble Puppy USA
429 Rodriguez USA
430 Pierre Henry France
431 The Plastic Cow (Mike Melvoin) USA
432 MF Lunch/The Little Cotton Woolies USA
433 Trin-Tran USA
434 Drunjus/Lens USA
435 Masahiko Satoh Japan
436 Ram USA
437 John Abercrombie USA
438 Toshi Ichiyanagi Japan
439 Sweet Smoke USA/Germany
440 Green Milk From The Planet Orange Japan
441 Armand Schaubroeck Steals USA
442 The Absinthe Minds/Varlet Tarsod USA
443 A.R. & Machines Germany
444 Fela Kuti Nigeria
445 Alrune Rod Denmark
446 Acid Mothers Temple Japan
447 Popol Vuh Germany
448 Om USA
449 Silberbart Germany
450 Jean-Luc Ponty France
451 Alice Coltrane USA
452 Hapshash & The Coloured Coat UK
453 Love Live Life + 1 Japan
454 Sand Germany
455 Morton Subotnick USA
456 Zapp USA
457 Picchio Dal Pazzo Italy
458 Circle Finland
459 Titan USA
460 Sleater-Kinney USA
461 Bill Bruford/UK UK
462 Tony Williams Lifetime USA
463 Magical Power Mako Japan
464 Charlie Parker USA
465 The Undisputed Truth USA
466 Timothy Leary USA
467 Comets On Fire USA
468 Jex Thoth/Sabbath Assembly USA
469 The Last People On Earth UK
470 Sebadoh USA
471 Witch USA
472 Babe Ruth UK
473 Crime In Choir USA
474 The Psychic Paramount USA
475 Flied Egg Japan
476 The Red Plastic Buddha USA
477 National Lampoon USA
478 Joan Of Arc USA
479 Prasanna India/USA
480 Lee Scratch Perry Jamaica
481 Ween USA
482 The Brian Jonestown Massacre USA
483 Kimio Mizutani Japan
484 Larry Coryell USA
485 Blodwyn Pig UK
486 Journey USA
487 Blood Ceremony Canada
488 The Apryl Fool Japan
489 Hot Tuna USA
490 Caribou Canada
491 Tomorrow UK
492 Three Man Army UK
493 Silverhead UK
494 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists USA
495 Clipd Beaks USA
496 Bruce Haack Canada
497 Lydia Lunch USA
498 The Sweet UK
499 Dan Deacon USA
500 The Lemon Pipers USA
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