130 - DMX - One of the millennium's best and most successful rappers, DMX's rough vocals and clever lyrics propelled him to the top of his game.
129 - Outkast - One of the most successful rap groups of all time, Outkast made a huge crossover to the pop charts with their Stankonia album and had one of the biggest pop songs ever with "Hey Ya".
128 - The Ponys - One of the best indie rock bands ever, The Ponys are probably on the radar of about 5 percent of music fans. Obscurity notwithstanding, the band has released great album after great album in the last decade and deserve a breakout in the near future.
127 - The Dave Matthews Band - A hugely successful adult-contemporary / rock band from the 90's, the DMB cranked out hit after hit (and still do to this day) with a mix of jam band techniques and pop hooks.
126 - Public Enemy - The greatest rap group of all-time was also the most political, as Chuck D, Flava Flav and The Bomb Squad pulled no punches in who they went after or what they were willing to say and do to get their point across.
125 - The Arcade Fire - Among the hottest bands in all of indie rock, The Arcade Fire made a huge splash with their debut LP Funeral, which featured several of their best songs. Their follow-up bucked the trend of indie buzz bands by not just being as good as their debut, but even better. Expectations for their third album can only be described as unachievable.
124 - Pavement - Possibly the greatest band that never became popular, Pavement deserves to be measured along their indie rock cohorts like Nirvana, Radiohead and Pearl Jam, but due to lousy sales numbers will always be viewed as a strictly underground band that hipsters appreciate but average rock fans are completely unaware of.
123 - Tori Amos - One of the most dynamic voices of indie rock in the 90's, Tori Amos released a string of outstanding albums providing the indie rock cred to the Lillith Fair scene that was lacking in other artists in the genre.
122 - Jethro Tull - An acquired taste to be sure, if you can get past the weird instruments and strange lyrics, Jethro Tull is a great band with a lot of fun and interesting things to contribute to classic rock.
121 - James Brown - Without James Brown, their might not even be genres such as R&B, funk and hip hop. It's said that there isn't a single note of any of James Brown's songs that hasn't been sampled at some point. The reason for that? Brown's music is among the most exciting and innovative of all-time.
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