Substantial Musicmaker Eco-sphere

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Aarrghh. I couldn't resist starting this thread since I think music equipment is second only to music composing and songwriting. This thread is of course inspired by the "Music software eco-sphere" thread.

So, here are some songwriters and bands that I like, just the ones I remember (without checking my CD/Mp3 collection). In context, the word substantial is of course subjective. Also, I have not Googled to double check anything and so I may be wrong in some cases about what countries the bands/songwriters are factually from.
In my own music collection, for sure I must have not remembered many bands/songwriters from the UK and America and elsewhere but I am pretty sure the UK stuff dominates my music collection and so it's okay if not many software developers are from the UK. No?
List your favourite songwriters/bands/instrumentalists here... strictly from memory. Can you?

United Kingdom:
Pink Floyd
Beatles
Cure
David Bowie
Rolling Stones
New Order + Joy Division
Radiohead
Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Police
Ride
Sinead O'Connor
Fall
Def Leppard
Thin Lizzy
Black Sabbath
Yes
Depeche Mode
Bauhaus
Oasis
Blur
U2
Deep Purple
Sex Pistols
Clash
Mutton Birds
Shadows

United States:
Pixies
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Jimi Hendrix
Beach Boys
Bob Dylan
Byrds
Jefferson Airplane
Heart
Fleetwood Mac (I prefer the Americanized version, the one that has Stevie Nicks in it.)
Doors
Prince
Iggy Pop
Ministry
Metallica
Frank Zappa (I only have three songs/tunes from him: Peaches En Regalia, Willie The Pimp, The Slime(might not be the right title))
Earth, Wind & Fire
Ramones
Talking Heads
Cars
Blondie
Van Halen
Cat Power

Australia:
AC/DC
Midnight Oil
Nick Cave

Germany:
Kraftwerk
Nena
Trio (I only know their song Da da da and nothing else from them and I should probably not have included them here but hey I love that song.)
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven

Canada:
Rush
Triumph
Guess Who
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Sarah MacLachlan
Leonard Cohen
Arcade Fire
April Wine
Neil Young
Metric
Glen Gould

Sweden:
Abba
Ace Of Base
Cardigans

New Zealand:
Split Enz

[harryupbabble]

I remembered some more.

United Kingdom:
Fixx
Japan
Echo & The Bunnymen
Killing Joke
Queen
Verve
Smiths
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Charlattans
Jesus & Mary Chain
Cold Play

United States:
Weezer
Bruce Springsteen
REM
Beck
Eagles
Strokes
Steely Dan
Guns 'N Roses
Guided By Voices
Kansas
Boston

Australia:
Church

France:
Daft Punk

Jamaica:
Bob Marley