Can't really put them in order, but these five:
Brian Wilson [The Beach Boys]
Norman Blake [Teenage Fanclub]
Alex Chilton [Big Star]
Gordon Gano [The Violent Femmes]
Jim Reid/William Reid [Jesus and Mary Chain]
Sorry for going with a tandem as one of my picks, but J&MC were massively influential to my tastes, introducing me to the great pop merits of wrapping catchy guitar pop in noise.
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