Do I really have to list lots of them? Here's ten:

Nick Cave
Cowboy Junkies
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Girls Aloud
The Gun Club
Larsen
Loop
Sisters of Mercy
Sonic Youth
Swans (mid to late period) / Angels of Light

I can't possibly list all of them but here are some:

Loop
Sonic Youth
La Monte Young
John Cale
Dizzie Rascal
Sugarhill Gang
Timabaland
Os Mutantes
Broadcast
The Jesus And Mary Chain
MIA
Missy Elliott
Kaffe Matthews
Vashti Bunyan
Konono No 1
Pussy Galore
New Christs
The Goslings
The Velvet Underground
Joe Meek
Raymond Scott
Delia Derbyshire
John Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Duran Duran
Sun Ra
Nurse With Wound
Einstuerzende Neubauten
The Charlatans
Spacemen 3
Low
Mogwai
Angus Mclise
Overhang Party
Boredoms
Ruins
Boris
Death In June
Current 93
Serge Gainsbourg
Ennio Morricone
Fabrizio De Andre'
Maria Carta
Captain Beefheart
Chris Corsano
Dat Politics
Fennesz
Philip Jeck
Pauline Oliveros
Kraftwerk
Neu
Can
Guru Guru
Eve
Kelis
Public Enemy
Sensational
All Saints
Merzbow
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan



The list could go on and on and on and on.........

some people just want to look like they're better at being a music fan though

Oh but that's an old and tedious story.People who think that they are better than someone else just because of their taste in music should be shot on the spot.There couldn't be a worse trait in a person than that(apart from nicking someone else's pie and murdering small children).

negative approach
void
slugfuckers
sleep
om
the replacements
wolf eyes
die like a dog quartet
boris
repulsion
mammatus
grey daturas

i meant the band yaphet kotto, but i am a big fan of the actor as well.

(((microwaves))), 16 bitch pile-up, 1345, 7 year bitch, a silver mt. zion, abyssic hate, acid mothers temple, the adverts, the arcade fire, agoraphobic nosebleed, AIDS wolf, amp, an albatross, and you will know us by the trail of dead, animal collective, aphex twin, arab on radar, at the drive-in, autechre, bardo pond, beck, belle & sebastian, big black, bikini kill, birthday party, black dice, black eyes, black flag, black forest/black sea, black heart procession, black rebel motorcycle club, bleak (non goth), blonde redhead, blood brothers, blur, brian eno, broadcast, bob dylan, boredoms, boris, cat power, cccc, cigar, comets on fire, crass, the cure, curtains, d yellow swans, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deerhoof, deftones, depeche mode, dEUS, dinosaur jr, dj shadow, drive like jehu, earth, the editors, electric wizard, elliott, erase errata, the evens, experimental dental school, explosions in the sky, flying saucer attack, fog, fugazi, gang gang dance, giant drag, girls against boys, glenn branca, godheadsilo, godspeed you black emperor, goldfrapp, hair police, head wound city, hole, husker du, i am kloot, i love you but i've chosen darkness, iggy pop, interpol, jawbreaker, jesus and mary chain, the jesus lizard, jim o'rourke, joanna newsom, john cale, john zorn, joy division, the kinks, KK rampage, lcd soundsystem, lee ranaldo, lightning bolt, the locust, locust toybox, lou reed, lydia lunch, magik markers, melt banana, melvins, merzbow, millionaire, minor threat, modest mouse, mogwai, mono (japanese), morrissey, mountain goats, mudhoney, murder city devils, my bloody valentine, my cat is an alien, my morning jacket, neil young, neu!, neutral milk hotel, nick cave, nirvana, ooioo, pavement, pixies, pj harvey, point lin plane, polvo, primal scream, prodigy, radiohead, the raincoats, refused, rites of spring, say hi to your mom, scissor shock, sebadoh, the shins, siouxie and the banshees, the skaters, sleater-kinney, slint, the slits, slowdive, smegma, the smiths, smog, sonic youth, soulwax, spell, stereolab, sun ra, sunn o))), swans, swing kids, the swirlies, teenage jesus and the jerks, television, thom yorke, thurston moore, tool, tv on the radio, union of knives, unwound, velvet underground, verve, violent femmes, white stripes, wire, wolf eyes, xasthur, xbxrx, xiu xiu, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo, yowie

Iggy And The Stooges, The Slits, Jane's Addiction, REM, The Dresden Dolls, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Peaches, John Frusciante, The B-52's, Charlie Parker, Porno For Pyros, Flea, The Clash, The Cure, The Detroit Cobras, Tinariwen, X-Ray Spex, The Tiger Lillies, The Velvet Underground, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Janis Joplin, Elliott Smith, Eels, The Kinks, David Bowie, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Who, John Fahey, The Minutemen, Robert Johnson, Boss Hog, Lou Reed, Mike Watt, Butthole Surfers, Syd Barrett, Antony And The Johnsons, Brian Eno, Kurt Weill, Sonic Youth, Huggy Bear, Afrirampo, papercranes, Bjork, Sneaker Pimps, The Go! Team, Ladytron, The Boredoms, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Nico, Regina Spektor, Selfish Cunt, Devo, Pixies, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Fishbone, DeVotchKa, Gogol Bordello, T-Rex, The White Stripes, The 5-6-7-8's, The Ramones, The Cramps, The Polyphonic Spree, The Arcade Fire, John Cale, Frédéric Chopin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jacques Brel, Pussy Galore, Ex-Girl, Public Image Ltd, Devics, MC5, Leonard Cohen, Jandek, Public Enemy, Nina Hagen, The Doors, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Television, Madness, Kodo, Rufus Wainwright, Neu, Two Ton Boa, The Stray Cats, Pat Smear, Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson, Bob Forrest, Jeff Buckley, Arthur Lee And Love, The Beach Boys, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Raconteurs, Beastie Boys, Talking Heads, Bob Marley And The Wailers, The Legendary Pink Dots, Air, OOIOO, Scissor Sisters, The Mamas And Papas, PJ Harvey, Cyndi Lauper, The Smiths, !!!, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Kate Bush, Eva Cassidy, The Zombies, Hole, Grace Jones, Antonio Vivaldi, Jayne County, George Clinton, Funkadelic/Parliament, Sigur Ros, Beatles, Erase Errata, Negative Approach, Portishead, Miss Kittin, Diamanda Galas, Igor Stravinsky, Aphex Twin, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, Suicide, MIA, The Kill For Kicks, Adam And The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, The Distillers, Billie Holiday, Fursaxa, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bad Brains, Johnny Cash, Sergei Prokofiev, Ministry, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sparks, Bang On!, The Space Agency, Gene Serene, Pink Steel, StinkMitt, Texas Terri, Bardo Pond, The Bicycle Thief, Nurse With Wound, Fischerspooner, Django Reinhardt, Kiki And Herb, Neko Case, Plasmatics, Giacomo Puccini, Kimya Dawson, Dmitri Shostakovich, Beth Orton, Dos, Bubble Puppy, Fifty Foot Hose, Bearsuit, Nikolai Haas, Awesome Color, Blood On The Wall, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piero Umiliani, AIDS Wolf, Weird War, CocoRosie, Klaus Nomi, Blood Stereo, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Voices Of The Seven Woods, Ani DiFranco, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dolly Parton, Rubén González, Lene Lovich, DJ Shadow, The Puppini Sisters, Johann Sebastian Bach, ABBA, Francoise Hardy, Alexander Tucker, Odetta, Islaja, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, CSS, Comets On Fire, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Six Organs Of Admittance, Hang On The Box, Beirut, Dirty Three, Josephine Foster, Harry Partch, Vladimir Vysotsky, Edith Piaf...

(not really in any order..'cept Iggy.)

I prefer Katy's list to Trasher's. Trasher's looks like a brick wall, while Katy's has random shapes appear from it if you stare at it for a while.

i see what you mean, i thought i saw a dinosaur inbetween the spaces

Thanks for your answers about Yaphet Kotto.

Sonic Youth, The Slits, The Fall, TV Personalities, The Creation, Flamin' Groovies, The Cramps, The Detroit Cobras, The Tough & Lovely, The Minutemen, Nick Drake, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Phoenix, Gitogito Hustler, Can, Liars, The Launderettes, The Halo Benders, Thee Headcoatees, The Headcoats, The Buff Medways, The Libertines, The Saints, The Clash, The Adverts, The Nerves, TFLU 282, Big Star, T. Rex, Jonathan Richman, The Cure, Built To Spill, Gavin Bryars, Edith Nylon; to which I'd add Tu Seras Terriblement Gentille but honestly, all I've heard till now was from their myspace page, and I won't see them til march

Sonic Youth
Iggy & The Stooges
Velvet Underground
Butthole Surfers
Swans
Angels Of Light
Melvins
Negative Approach
Godflesh
Einsturzende Neubauten
The Minutemen
Liars
Can
Jesus Lizard
Tom Waits
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Arab On Radar
Big Black

all these musicians have at various times and for various reasons had a big impact on me...
kan mikami, keiji haino/fushitsusha, sam cooke, albert ayler, don cherry, elizabeth cotten, acid mothers temple, eric dolphy, hank williams, sun ra, kevin coyne, nnck, francoise hardy, velvet underground, skip james, boredoms, theater of eternal music and all those involved

pretty much everything on everyone elses list.

-!!!
-2 many djs
-10 in the swear jar
-13 & god
-a perfect icrcle
-a tribe called quest
-acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo
-adam beyer
-adult
-air
-alice in chains
-alter ego
-animal collective
-animals on wheels
-annexus quam
-aphex twin
-apples in the stereo
-architecture in helsinki
-art brut
-arthur brown
-ash ra tempel
-at the drive in
-atmosphere
-autechre
-avenue d
-azure ray
-basement jaxx
-bauhaus
-beach boys
-beastie boys
-beck
-belle and sebastian
-birth control
-bjork
-black dice
-black flag
-black sabbath
-blind lemon jefferson
-bloc party
-blondie
-blur
-boards of canada
-bob dylan
-bob marley
-bonobo
-boredoms
-brainticket
-brian eno
-brian jonestown massacre
-bright eyes
-brightblack
-broken social scene
-bush
-caetano veloso
-cafe tacuba
-caifanes
-calexico
-can
-caribou
-carl cox
-caural
-chemical brothers
-chicks on speed
-clap your hands say yeah!
-coldcut
-cosmic jokers
-crass
-crazy penis
-cream
-crosby still nash and young
-cursive
-cut chemist
-daft punk
-damian marley
-datarock
-david bowie
-david guetta
-dead kennedys
-death from above 1979
-deftones
-del the funkee homosepian
-depeche mode
-devin the dude
-DFA
-dinosaur jr
-diplo
-diplomats of solid sound
-dj ayres
-dj eleven
-dj cosmo baker
-dj danger mouse
-dj emile
-dj food
-dj hell
-donald glaude
-donovan
-the doors
-dr israel
-dungen
-eagles of death metal
-elliot smith
-elvis costello
-embryo
-eric clapton
-explosions in the sky
-fatboy slim
-fc kahuna
-feist
-felix da housecat
-fiona apple
-fischerspooner
-frank zappa
-funki porcini
-gal costa
-gandalf
-gang of four
-ghostland observatory
-gilberto gil
-godspeed! you black emperor
-gorillaz
-grandaddy
-grandmaster flash
-grateful dead
-groove armada
-herbie hancock
-hole
-hollertronix
-hombres g
-hot chip
-husker du
-ice cube
-iggy pop
-isis
-jaco pastorious
-jagga jazzist
-jammin' unit
-jandek
-janes addiction
-janis joplin
-jazzy jeff
-jefferson airplane
-jethro tull
-jimi hendrix
-john digweed
-john lee hooker
-johnny cash
-jorge ben
-joy division
-jurassic 5
-kid koala
-king crimson
-kings of leon
-kinky
-KLF
-kraftwerk
-kyoto jazz massive
-kyuss
-ladytron
-laurent garnier
-lcd soundsystem
-le tigre
-leadbelly
-led zeppelin
-lightning hopkins
-m ward
-marilyn manson
-massive attack
-mazzy star
-mc chris
-meat beat manifesto
-medeski martin & wood
-mf doom
-mf grimm
-m.i.a.
-mice parade
-miles davis
-minor threat
-misfits
-miss kittin
-mississippi john hurt
-moby
-moe
-my bloody valentine
-my morning jacket
-mylo
-nas
-nat king cole
-neu!
-neutral milk hotel
-new order
-nine inch nails
-notorious b.i.g.
-nwa
-of montreal
-olivia tremor control
-OOIOO
-os mutantes
-ottmar liebert
-out hud
-pantera
-paul simon
-peaches
-peanut butter wolf
-pearl jam
-people under the stairs
-peter frampton
-pharcyde
-pink floyd
-pixies
-plantlife
-plastic people of the universe
-polyphonic spree
-portishead
-prefuse 73
-primus
-prodigy
-queen
-queens of the stone age
-radio 4
-radiohead
-rage against the machine
-ratatat
-raveonettes
-red hot chili peppers
-robert johnson
-rolling stones
-roxy music
-royksopp
-rufus wainwright
-savas pascalidis
-scratch perverts
-seu Jorge
-sex pistols
-sigur ros
-simon garfunkel
-slayer
-slightly stooped
-slowreader
-smashing pumpkins
-snoop dogg
-son, ambulance
-sondre lerche
-sonic youth
-soul coughing
-sound tribe sector 9
-soundgarden
-spankrock
-sphongle
-spinbad
-stereolab
-stevie ray vaughan
-stone temple pilots
-subhumans
-sublime
-subtle
-sufjan stevens
-suicidal tendencies
-sven vath
-syd barrett
-system of a down
-talking heads
-the afghan whigs
-the avalanches
-the beatles
-the black crowes
-the cramps
-the cure
-the dandy warhols
-the flaming lips
-the golden shoulders
-the grates
-the hacker
-the jesus and mary chain
-the jesus lizard
-the juan maclean
-the knife
-the moldy peaches
-the orb
-the stooges
-the stranglers
-the strokes
-the unicorns
-the zombies
-thievery corporation
-thomas schumacher
-tiefschwarz
-tiga
-tilly and the wall
-tom petty
-tom waits
-tom ze
-tommie sunshine
-tool
-tricky
-tv on the radio
-underworld
-u.n.k.l.e.
-velvet revolver
-velvet underground
-vincent gallo
-wagon christ
-ween
-weezer
-white stripes
-white zombie
-who
-wolfmother
-woody guthrie
-wu tang clan
-xiu xiu
-yeah yeah yeahs
-z-trip

I could have a long list, but I reckon my taste is pretty much covered if I say The Shaggs, the Fall and Girls Aloud.

Autechre
Boredoms
Mr. Bungle
Polvo
Slowdive

Five favorites.

Haha, oh yeah, points to Trasher for a (((microwaves))) shout out... love those dudes.

I can't be arsed because anyone who cares has a decent idea of what I like and anyone who doesn't care...well, doesn't care.

An Pierlé
Björk
Blonde Redhead
Bob Dylan
Can
Cocteau Twins
David Bowie
Françoise Hardy
Iggy Pop
Jacques Brel
Jeff Buckley
Joy Division
Laura Veirs
Leonard Cohen
Lift to Experience
Marvin Gaye
Michel Polnareff
My Brightest Diamond
Neil Young
Neu!
Nick Drake
Nina Simone
Radiohead
Scott Walker
Serge Gainsbourg
Sigur Ros
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Television
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Cure
The Notwist
The Smiths
The Stooges
Tim Buckley
U2 (up to and including Achtung Baby)
Van Morrison