Shortlist of bands you've more or less obsessed over

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Shortlist of bands you've more or less obsessed over, appreciating even say, B-sides, everything, over your years?

Here's 'my five,' alphabetically;

The Mary Chain
Primal Scream
Saint Etienne
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Stereolab

― bkjj40a, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

thompson twins/kajagoogoo ( and limahl)

i keep buying boxed sets by beach boys

― teter pork, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I suspect the answers will be similar to those on this thread (I know mine are):

How many bands would you consider yourself a hardcore fan of?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Swans
Red House Painters
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Low
Ulan Bator
The Flaming Lips
Poster Children
Three Mile Pilot

That looks about right.

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

alice coltrane
pharoah sanders
robert wyatt
talking heads
pfunk
tim buckley
Jay Dillah
Kraftwerk
VU
Lee Hazlewood

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Saint Etienne
Curve
Portishead
Mojave 3

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen
Aerosmith
Husker Du
Ride
the Replacements
The Descendents
the Kinks
The Who
Frank Zappa
Cheap Trick
Big Black

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and Joy Div/New Order

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth
Pavement
Stereolab
Tortoise

Then I became a hopeless dilettante: THE END.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

super furry animals
mary chain
smiths
beulah
the keys/murry the hump

though nowadays I'm find it pretty hard to justify shelling out a couple of odd quid just for one song that I haven't yet got.

― Louie_Strychnine, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Eurhythmics, Depeche Mode age 13
Art of Noise age 14
Misfits / Samhain age 15
Throbbing Gristle, Pussy Galore, Neubauten age 16
Sonic Youth, Swans age 17
Nurse With Wound, 808 State age 18
Enoch Light age 19
Warp label techno age 20

then it kind of fans out into a promiscuous delta of lots of infatuation but nothing definitive

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I love music

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone Roses, Orbital, Embrace, Bloc Party.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Disco Inferno, Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Very few. I tend to obsess over records.

dEUS and related bands (which uquals a zillian side-projects)
Madonna
Massive Attack
Dead Man Ray

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(zillion)

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

13-15 - Chili Peppers, RATM
16-19 - Stereolab, The Jesus Lizard, Mogwai
19-now - Shellac and Big Black

but I think it's a pretty low-level "obsession" these days

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana - 16
The Orb - 17
Bis - 20
My Bloody Valentine -20

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur
Boo Radleys
Pearl Jam
Aphex Twin
Beach Boys
Tom Waits

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana
Pavement
Beck
Guided by Voices
Belle and Sebastian
The Magnetic Fields
Steely Dan

― bprofane (AaronHz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, i forgot:
REM
Sonic Youth
The Flaming Lips

― bprofane (AaronHz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, there's the fucking embarrassing "F" shelf, namely Fugazi, the Fall, Flying Saucer Attack, Fantomas, the Flirts, Fuxa, Future Sound of London, and Robert Fripp. "A" had Anti-Pop, Autechre, Aphex, Adam Ant, and Laurie Anderson. Bands I've truly heard every studio recorded lick of nonsense ever ever? I think it's just The Velvets (sans squeeze, wanna armwrestle?), Sonic Youth, and Patience & Prudence. Summat completist in re to Pave, Orb, France Gall, but come on can't have every b-side or remix, there's girls to drink and beers to fondle.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Chronologically:

Gary Glitter
The Damned
Buzzcocks
Killing Joke
Theatre Of Hate
The Smiths
Aztec Camera
Prefab Sprout
Captain Beefheart
Tom Waits

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Furry Animals were the only band I've bought all the singles of as well as the albums (although I think I've missed some now). I also bought a couple of their T-shirts.

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL forgot the "S" shelf, besides the aforementioned SY - Sparks, Maps, Silver Jews, Nina Simone, Slant 6, Scanner, Slug, Slint, Superchunk, Sebadoh, Sly and the goddamn Family Stone, Sexual Harrassment, Jake Slazenger Roffle

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

10-12 Queen!
12-15 Beatles
13-14 Nirvana
13-16 REM
15-16 Radiohead, Manics
16-19 Beck, Beastie Boys
19- Outkast
20- Flaming Lips
Since then (24 now) there's been loads of bands I've hugely into, but I wouldn't say I get obsessed in the way you do as a teenager, where I'd buy every magazine, every single etc. I certainly have my favourites who I love with a passion, but maybe there's too much
I want to hear to get so stuck into one band these days. Most of those bands above are like old friends. I've drifted apart from some, but still cherish the memories, others I still love.

― stew, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

In order...

Kiss
Pink Floyd
Devo
Ramones
Sex Pistols
Circle Jerks
Buzzcocks
KILLING JOKE
the Stranglers
The Mission
The Wonder Stuff
The Wedding Present
Cop Shoot Cop
Firewater

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Trux, of course.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

no surprises here : age of chance

prior to them it was Madness.

go figure ..

now .. i suspect Joy Zipper is getting damn close ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth
Yo La Tengo
The Byrds
Pavement

...I found myself buying a CD-R promo of The Sebadoh from a market stall in Ipswich a week before it came out - i think it was after listening to that i stopped obsessing.

― maracas (maracas), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

10 - Michael Jackson
12 - Falco
16 - PWEI
17 - Art of Noise
18 - They Might Be Giants
19 - XTC
20 - King Crimson, XTC
22 - Blur, XTC
23 - Yello, XTC
24 - Belew, XTC
25 - XTC, Stereolab, XTC
26 - Paul McCartney, XTC
27 - ELO, XTC
28 - Aphex Twin, XTC
29 - Kinks, XTC
30 - TISM, XTC

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinks
Steely Dan
Big Star
Beach Boys

― supercub, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and A Tribe Called Quest

― supercub, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

pink floyd
syd barrett
r.e.m.
radiohead

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

pearl jam (wanted to marry stone gossard)
blur (wanted to marry graham coxon)
super furry animals (wanted/want to marry huw bunford - may have to divorce current husband to do this)

kind of a crap list compared to all the music i love. which leaves me wondering why do we obsess over some bands and not others? do i only obsess over a band when i want to shag their guitarist? am i that sad? i'm depressed now.

― Molly, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink Floyd
R.E.M.
U2
My Bloody Valentine
Saint Etienne

Unfortunately as my taste in music has grown 'cooler,' my income has grown 'smaller.'

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, if we're talking just the past 20 years or so:

The Go-Betweens
The Clash
The Replacements
Husker Du
The White Stripes
The Pogues
X

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

queen
u2
manic street preachers
mansun

those would be my big obsessions, as i was quite young when i developed them. i've been big into other bands, but not quite with the same level of fervour. here are some more recent ones.

massive attack
tricky
pavement
my bloody valentine
low
aphex twin
dmx
geto boys

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur
Bluetones/Shed 7 (I was young...)
Wonderstuff
XTC
Octopus
Half Man Half Biscuit
Radiohead
Hefner
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five/Folk Implosion
Go-Betweens
Bloc Party
The Fall

...and a thousand others.

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins
Wilco

that's all I obsess over...

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

808 State
N.W.A.
The Prodigy
Goldie
Chemical Brothers
Basement Jaxx
Daft Punk & Alan Braxe
Fila Brazillia (!)
Broadcast
Annie

weird

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Feelies
Mission of Burma
The Clean
Albert Ayler
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
more, I think

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mainly local bands that are easy to get to billions of gigs of. Of other bands

Ooberman
Hefner
Flaming Lips
Radiohead

and I guess Super Furry Animals, if you go by the owning every album thing, but until recently I didn't realise I was that big a fan.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're going to include every band / artist by whom we own every album then I - and I suspect an awful lot of othere people here - are going to be producing an extremely long list!

In my book it doesn't start to become "obsessing" until you've started buying all the singles in all the different formats too; even when you've already got all the tracks on them; and buying bootlegs and swapping live tapes....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

In chronological order:

ABBA
Queen
Blondie
Beatles
Marc Almond
Prince
Marc Almond (again)
Pulp
The Divine Comedy
The Magnetic Fields

These days, no-one and everyone. Marc Almond is the only artist whose entire oeuvre I own in just about every format imaginable. I don't really buy albums anymore, but when I do discover someone, I'll obsessively download everything I can find and sort the wheat from the chaff.

― davidsim (davidsim), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Actual bands I've been OBSESSED with?

Wire
Nirvana
Aphex Twin
Pixies
NIN
Tool
Misfits

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

all at different points in my life, but i still love them all dearly.

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Portishead (longest standing)
Phoenix (in the past four years)
!!! (not the ablum...only the live shows)
Belle & Sebastian
Sufjan Stevens
Grizzly Bear (since, like, two weeks ago)
Elliot Smith

― Brad Seethe, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

R.E.M.
The Smiths
New Order
Vulgar Boatmen
Soul Asylum
Stone Roses
Galaxie 500
Unrest
Fleetwood Mac
Neil Young

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Gabriel
The Beatles
Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry
David Bowie
Hüsker Dü
ABC
Pavement
Bob Dylan
A Tribe Called Qwest

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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who's this nicole simone? I like her taste and she reminds me I forgot to mention S-K and Neko.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Going with bands who I tried to get everything they'd released up to a certain date (as in, I've given up on some of these now), in alphabetical order

Aztec Camera
Belle and Sebastian
Jesus and Mary Chain
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Oasis
Radiohead
Suede
~~not admitting to owning the entire Supernaturals back catalogue~~
Teenage Fanclub
Trash Can Sinatras

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and the Boo Radleys. And I tried really hard with the Orchids, but struggled to get a lot of their stuff.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

These are all so indie.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I am the indiest person in the world! (I could have added Bucks Fizz, Wham, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw and A-ha if you want stuff from when I was a youngster)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Devo
Talking Heads
Big Black
Six Finger Satellite
Swans
Einsturzende Neubauten
Brainiac

― MattR (MattR), Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Underground
MC5
Stooges
NY Dolls
Parliament/Funkadelic
Cheap Trick
The Clash
Talking Heads
Pere Ubu
Joy Division/New Order
The Cure
Sonic Youth
Kraftwerk
The Beach Boys

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I took "bands" literally. If individual obsessions count...

Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Lou Reed
Patti Smith
George Jones
Merle Haggard
Charlie Rich
Elvis Presley
MILES DAVIS (lifelong)
JAMES BROWN (lifelong)

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 12 March 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Chic
Roxy Music
Steely Dan

now I'm done

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 12 March 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Professor Longhair
The Clash
Minutemen
Husker Du
A Tribe Called Quest
Fugazi
Big Audio Dynamite
Stereolab

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

major obsessions:
New Order
Pixies

minor obsessions:
Stone Roses
My Bloody Valentine
The Charlatans
The Verve
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth (long since finished - haven't heard their last 2 records)
Suede

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, yes, (the) Verve, for a while - post-A Northern Soul, didn't give a shit to the point where I totally forget all about them. And Ride. I used to be horribly obsessive about a lot of people until a few years ago, then I just ~~stopped caring~~ became more selective.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

smiths
wedding present
wu tang clan
goodie mob / outkast etc
plastic city tech-house label

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, since I'm not feeling listy, I'll go with the most exorbitant and unhealthy "for the love of all that is holy!?" example.

Foetus/related projects.

I have (shudder) 72 items specifically related to foetus, not counting T-shirts, posters and magazines containg articles/interviews. I own a Red Hot Chili Peppers remix CD purely due to a foetus remix. I have 10 subtly different copies of the album "Hole", all available formats represented.

This is not so much a boast, as a frightening cry for help, i fear...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Locust
Racebannon
The Mae-Shi

― chadly con queso (chadly con queso), Sunday, 13 March 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

god, too many. Here are just a few:
The Beatles
Devo
R.E.M.
Aztec Camera
Young Marble Giants
The Raincoats
Scrawl
Stereolab
Dolly Mixture
The Feelies
Spiral Jetty
Versus
Beat Happening/Go Team
The Chills
Belle & Sebastian
Magnetic Fields
Unrest
The Pastels
Yo La Tengo

Belle & Sebastian was probably the last all-encompassing obsession.

― mike a, Sunday, 13 March 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Numan
Akiko Yano
Curtis Mayfield
Magazine
Japan

bassists:
Parcy Jones
Mick Karn

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 13 March 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

high school- XTC, Go-Betweens, 1/2 Man 1/2 Biscuit, the Fall, Orange juice, Scritti Politti
college- Guadalcanal Diary, Happy Mondays, Wonder Stuff, the Fall
now-Elliott Smith (not a band but I don't care), the Fall, Manic Street Preachers (this last ongoing and really annoying to everyone I know)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles
Depeche Mode
New Order
The Smiths
Cymande
Eddie Bo
Eric B. & Rakim
James Brown
The Smiths
Masters At Work
Todd Terry
Kevin Saunderson
Armand Van Helden

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

pearls before swine
palace
olneyville sound system
codeine

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles
Ramones
REM
Husker Du
The Replacements
Mekons
Yo La Tengo
The Magnetic Fields

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the only band I have obsessed over, to the level of collecting b-sides, remixes etc. was Depeche Mode. Also bought several Oasis singles, but that was mainly because the b-sides were usually better than the album tracks anyway.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Beatles, Monkees, 3 Dog Night, Queen, Black Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Clash, Flaming Lips, Fushitsusha, Bevis Frond, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Acid Mothers Temple, High Rise, Ramones, BIrchville Cat Motel

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

In order:

Frank Zappa
Led Zeppelin
Miles Davis
The Minutemen
John Zorn
Yo La Tengo
Parker/Brotzmann/Oxley/Bailey — European free improv

Kinda omnivorous lately, not obsessed with any one thing.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Before: Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Red House Painters, Songs: Ohia

Now: None

― Marc-, Monday, 30 May 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Aged 15-16 I loved Radiohead but after that I gradually went off them as my tastes broadened and I didn't really have any favourite till I discovered John Fahey, who I really couldn't like any more.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Monday, 30 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In order

Foo Fighters (still obsessed)
Nirvana (no longer obsessed with the BAND)
Killing Joke (still obsessed)
David Bowie (this was short live but very fun. still love him)
Psychedelic Furs (still and very much obsessed)

― Aja (aja), Monday, 30 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the smiths
the chills
the stone roses
ride
field mice
bailter space
alastair galbraith
lilys
cloudboy
moonshake
pram
long fin killie/bows
gorky's
pas/cal

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatles
Velvet Underground
Teenage Fanclub
The Smiths
The Cure
Joy Division/New Order
Howlin' Wolf
Captain Beefheart
The Fall
Pavement
The Clean
My Bloody Valentine
Steely Dan
Thin Lizzy
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Jack Rose

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy Music
The Replacements
Kate Bush
The Black Heart Procession

― dame Aunt Sally (dameauntsally), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

in the past:
Kate Bush
Steely Dan
Hall and Oates
Duran Duran
Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould
Neil Young
Tom Petty
Peter Gabriel
palace brothers/will oldham etc.-though they suck
Michael McDonald

currently:
Red House Painters

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe that only one person had the balls to say "M.I.A."
I'll be No. 2.
(Man, she was awful on "Letterman" the other night. Or "Leno" or "Conan." Whatever it was. When is she going to learn to dance?)

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

in recent times: outrageous cherry, the pipettes, for against, new rhodes

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

vaguely chronological, starting from around age 12

Yes
King Crimson
XTC
Simple Minds
Roxy Music
Brian Eno
Husker Du
Replacements
Velvet Underground
John Cale
Fairport Convention/Richard Thompson/Sandy Denny
Gram Parsons
Byrds
Big Star
Gene Clark
Love
Teenage Fanclub
Stereolab
High Llamas
Beach Boys
Lee Hazlewood
Francoise Hardy
Curt Boettcher
Astrud Gilberto
Judee Sill
Bonnie Prince Billy

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Monday, 5 February 2007 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

Radiohead
Beastie Boys
Weezer
The Beatles
R.E.M.
The New Pornographers
Wu Tang
Xiu Xiu

― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Monday, 5 February 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

Mini-Moni

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Monday, 5 February 2007 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall
Current 93
Nurse With Wound
Legendary Pink Dots
Muslimgauze
Coil
John Fahey
Velvet Underground
Captain Beefheart
Crass

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

dolly mixture
cocteau twins

Priors:
semi-obsession with Hood
attempted obsession: Look Blue Go Purple. The Resources & opps to scour were just too scarce.
early hs: Dance Hall Crashers (acquired all records)
pre high school: No Doubt & Fiona Apple (bootlegs, unlistenable (quality of recording) live performances, everything I could find)
latter elementary school days: Ace of Base, even though my bff was all Nirvana and mourning for Kurt.
But I just wasn't feeling for anything much without a blip, yet. Then The Bridge came out.
I was so disappointed when I got the tape
and there were no lyrics. So, what I recall, I retreated to my room
took my fisher price tape player to my ear
and sat there,
rewind.
pause. play a little...wait, go back. pause. "The belly looming eighteen?"
It was an almost tedious task, plus I knew I'd risk wearing out the tape with all this overexposure and repetition but
several pages of Notebook paper and tiny cramp handed later
I did it.
Or, at least I now had what I thought they were saying through those thick accenteds. It would be a few more year before I found out they were actually saying "barely blooming 18."

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wilco
Phoenix
Britney Spears
Animal Collective
Mclusky

― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Blame My Parents For:
Fleetwood Mac
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan

Embarrassingly:
Disturbed (Only "Sickness")
Bright Eyes

Now:
Thursday
Jewlia Eisenberg

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

in order:

Alice Cooper
ELO
Blue Oyster Cult
Prince
MBV
Scott Walker
Laura Nyro
Epic Soundtracks

I pretty much don't obsess over musicians anymore...

― hank (hank s), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Motorpsycho
Sonic Youth
Weezer
My Bloody Valentine
Idlewild
At The Drive-In
Bright Eyes
Meshuggah
The Posies

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

tool and mr bungle (middle school)
melvins (high school)
smog (now)

― Tom Hatton (kl0pper), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

ALL OF THEM

except maybe black sabbath

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Pre-High School:
Metallica

High School:
Pink Floyd and BAD Pop/Rap

College:
Massive Attack
Kraftwerk
Modest Mouse
Talking Heads
Boards of Canada

Now:
David Bowie
Beck
CloudDead (including all the solo stuff by OddNosdam, Why?, and Dose One)

― MaGoGo (FirstBass), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Early Childhood:
“Sgt. Pepper’s”
“Hot Rocks”
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
“Abba’s Greatest Hits”

Later Grade School:
C.W. McCall
“Star Wars” and “Grease” soundtracks
Kiss
ELO

Jr. High:
Adam & the Ants/Adam Ant
Cheap Trick
“Rocky Horror” soundtrack
AC/DC

High School:
Talking Heads
Rush
Tangerine Dream
Yaz
The Violent Femmes
King Crimson

College:
Sonic Youth
XTC
Big Black
The Stooges
Big Star
The Vaselines
The Melvins
Mudhoney
Chrome

Mid-to-late 20s:
Blue Oyster Cult
Tall Dwarfs
The Saints
Billy Childish (etc.)
Pavement
Stereolab
Monster Magnet
Guided By Voices
Boredoms

30s:
The Kent 3
The White Stripes
Turbonegro
Black Sabbath
Magic Hour/Major Stars
Mick Collins (etc.)
Boris
Flower Travellin Band
John Fahey
Hollertronix/Diplo (etc.)

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie
Iggy Pop
Fugazi/everything Ian Mackaye/Dischord in general
Bob Dylan
Joanna Newsom
The Damned
Led Zeppelin
Everything Kieran Hebden has done, including Fridge and the Steve Reid collab
Sufjan Stevens
Dismemberment Plan
MF Doom
Patrick Wolf
Sleater-Kinney
The Books
Nine Inch Nails
The Dresden Dolls
Fiona Apple
Jeff Buckley
Tori Amos
The Smiths
Ween

Most of these still hold true for me, though the Led Zep, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple and Nine Inch Nails were definitely a high school thing (still love 'em, though).

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Grade School:
Nirvana
the Cranberries
Rancid
the Dead Kennedy's

Middle School:
The Boils
Spazz
Charles Bronson
Los Crudos
Kill the Man Who Questions

High School:
Belle & Sebastian
Wilco/Uncle Tupelo
REM
The New Pornographers
New Order
Sonic Youth

College (not done yet):
Destroyer
Devendra Banhart
No-Neck Blues Band

and then i stopped listening to a lot of bands and dance music consumed my life, which is where i am now. still into a lot of noise and older experimental stuff, though.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division
Chrome
Simple Minds
Savage Republic
The Byrds
Free
Talk Talk (weirdly, before they went quiet & acclaimed, but not after)
Black Flag*
Nice Strong Arm (during period of 1st album only)
The House of Love
Dexy's Midnight Runners*
The Who*
The Small Faces

* = Cannot reconcile with current self

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bah! Forgot Gang of Four

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

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