A thread about bands that you love

[gavroche]

Bands that I really loved and tried to track down everything:

16 Horsepower (Woven Hand)
Algiers (Partisan/Lyonnais)
Bob Dylan (I'm missing a couple of the new ones but I easily have over 100 Dylan discs)
Fishbone
Fugazi
Leonard Cohen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Birthday Party/Grinderman/Einstürzende Neubauten...)
Morphine
Portishead
Tom Waits

interesting.. I definitely think Dylan/Cave/Cohen/Waits are very related...love them all ... all amazing in so many ways...today I tried to get the new Nick Cave at the record store and then target.. no dice....yet

missing that cohen show at MPP was one of the more stupid things i've done and i've done some really stupid things..

I think Nick Cave and later Tom Waits has a gospel thing which 16 HP and Algiers both have.  They fill a similar space for me. 

I'm kicking myself for the Cohen MPP show as well.  I had gone up to NYC to see him at the Beacon and got snobby about the venue and the price.  Now though, I'd be thrilled to go out there to see him.

I loved Fugazi middle school to high school.  I like a lot of punk, but just haven't ever felt the need to be a completest about most of it.

I'm not loving the new Nick Cave.  Along with Boatman's it is one of my two least favorite NC albums.

[chaz]

Spacemen 3
Spiritualized
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Misfits
13th Floor Elevators
Velvet Underground
Love

[hutch]

Grateful Dead....

There are other bands?

[bob72]

So if I "love" a band, but I don't own every single legal/illegal recording that means I don't really love them?

[killsaly]

The thread title and purpose was edited.  Post whatever you want...

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So if I "love" a band, but I don't own every single legal/illegal recording that means I don't really love them?

I was never a complete-ist
I love music and there is a long list of bands that I'm very well acquainted with
turns into quality not quantity, very few bands can really keep up the diversity and continue to kill it with each new release.

[challenged]

Probably an REM and Elvis Costello near-completist. Lots of 12" singles, rarities, etc.

[Yada]

So if I "love" a band, but I don't own every single legal/illegal recording that means I don't really love them?

I was never a complete-ist
I love music and there is a long list of bands that I'm very well acquainted with
turns into quality not quantity, very few bands can really keep up the diversity and continue to kill it with each new release.

I agree with mr side hutch... There are a few bands that I'd consider myself a completist, however, I know the quality of many of the later albums has fallen off, but I feel obligated to keep the spirit alive.

also, and please don't be senisvite about this mr. sally, but why do we care about your feelings on our favorite bands?

Edit: Wrong thread, but still wondering...

Additionally, Elliot Smith has one of your favorite songs ever, but you never considered exploring the remainder of his catalog?

[Relaxer]

I'm a voracious reader of books about rock music so I feel like there's lots of bands for which I know their histories through and through, such as:
Beatles
Grateful Dead
Bowie
Zeppelin
Stones
Queen
Sabbath
Nirvana
Metallica
Streisand
Ramones
Jesus and Mary Chain
Allmans
Aretha

All of those artists are ones that I've read at least three books about (except for JAMC and Aretha; only read two about them). And what happens is that I usually deep-dive into the artists' music while I'm reading the book so I ended up listening to everything by them with a critical ear.

[killsaly]

also, and please don't be senisvite about this mr. sally, but why do we care about your feelings on our favorite bands?

Edit: Wrong thread, but still wondering...

Additionally, Elliot Smith has one of your favorite songs ever, but you never considered exploring the remainder of his catalog?

I try to create threads, and spur discussions about music on here.  I never said anybody cares about my opinions on anything.  Why would anybody care about anything?   If my opinions entertain you, good; if they piss you off; good. 

RE: Elliot Smith.  I started to get into his music around 2002, due to the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack... During the next couple of years I bought Figure 8 and From a Basement on the Hill...  I do not know why I did not ever go back on his catalog.  To start liking an artist and then a year or so later they take their own life... One of these days I will go back to his older stuff, and the rest of the posthumous releases; i just have not yet. 

[Relaxer]

For the record, I'm interested in everybody's opinions on bands. This is ostensibly a music chatboard so its fun to talk about music.

[hutch]

ha ha i did a search on Lush- they really fell apart at the end it seems- and ran into this oldie but goodie thread courtesy of killsally.. here goes my attempt to pick a few that come quickly to mind of bands i love that i think i could have a good conversation about with someone..bands that i sort of am a fanatic about...i'm not going to include jazz musicians who died 50 years ago or something..


joy division/new order
love and rockets
andres calamaro
bob dylan
luna
ween
guided by voices
the cure (this is a bit of a stretch maybe...cause i don't like the post-bloodflowers stuff)

i am sure i'm forgetting a few and might come back and add one or two..

some acts i used to be a fanatic.. like i was a smiths/moz fanatic until about 1996 or so and then not so much...the above are bands that i keep returning to..

[walkie,talkie]

I thought you only cared about, the dead.

[hutch]

I thought you only cared about, the dead.

dude that was an alter ego...

[walkie,talkie]

I actually liked rereading this thread.  it was pointless and dumb, and boy could kill,sally get upset.