Ok. By "be brave!!" I meant the following:

a) Try to avoid unnecessary explanations — for instance, it's obvious we often like an album a lot and listen to it quite a bit for a while and then 'move on'; it's obvious we like different artists/music at different periods of our life (sometimes we actually go back to something we were not able to fully appreciate back in the day!). Whether an artist is dead or alive is irrelevant…a cop-out.

b) Try and think of 3 bands/musicians you think are truly your favourites at this point in time and feel that that will be so for a good while, ie imagine you were forced to choose 3 artists before a long trip (3-5 years?) and only given the choice to take, say, 5 CDs by each of these artists (no boxsets allowed, or boxsets, depending on the number of discs, count as individual albums).

Then, of course, you can, if you like, add extra information such as what it is you like so much about those particular artists, your favourite albums by them, and, perhaps, add other artists you also like (but not quite as much), BUT PLEASE try and stick to your 3 favourites in order of preference.

Maybe some of you could post again, quoting your previous posts, and come up with just 3 bands/musicians/composers.