pop, 2500 or so
1963-1966: the Beatles, the Bobby Fuller Four, the Byrds, the Turtles, the Left Banke, the Dave Clark Five, the Searchers, Four Jacks and a Jill, the Seekers, Herman's Hermits, Monkees, the Outsiders, Them, the Yardbirds, Peter & Gordon, Petula Clark, the Supremes, Dusty Springfield, the Guess Who, the Kinks, the Vogues, We Five, the Who and the Zombies, for example.
80s to present: Trash Can Sinatras, the Railway Children, Ghost of an American Airman, the Chills, the Bats, the Church, the Bible, Lloyd Cole, Prefab Sprout, Grapes of Wrath, Steve Kilbey, Beautiful South, Belle & Sebastian, Blab Happy, Cinerama, the Connells, David Steinhart, drive, Echo & the Bunneymen, Julian Cope, the Cure, the Smiths, the Go-Betweens, the Housemartins, Ivy, Jack Frost, Josh Joplin Group, Ladybug Transistor, House Of Love, Oysterband, Spirit of the West, Lick the Tins, Midnight Oil, Jesus & Mary Chain, the Ocean Blue, the Lucy Show, the Orange Peels, Pete Yorn, Placebo, Pop Art, the Silencers, Smart Brown Handbag, the Steinbecks, the Apartments, Death Cab For Cutie, the Stone Roses, the Dylans, the Mock Turtles, Third Eye Blind and Tommy Keene to name a few.