User blog comment:MEffect Fan/The Music, The Noise and the Pop./@comment-217683-20100705232939

Yeah, the wiki links were making it pretty difficult for me as well. I agree with pretty much all the bands/acts you just named, minus Yes, Cream, and the Cars (nothing against them, just not that big into them) and minus the (pre-Zakk Wylde), as any Ozzy is good Ozzy to me!

I'd also throw in as my two cents here... Pantera, Hatebreed, ZZ Top, John Mellencamp/Johnny Cougar/John Cougar/John Cougar Mellencamp/whatever the hell else he's called himself (!), and just to shake things up a bit, a couple of my favorite crooners, Jimmy Buffet and Gordon Lightfoot (the last of the great balladeers, Lightfoot is!).