Which bands are guaranteed to buy from?

[FinnDave]

28 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

But less so Babe Ruth?😂

Let's not go there!

[bassbiscuits]

AC/DC, Ginger Wildheart, Virginmarys, Del Amitri, Aerosmith. 

[Eldon Tyrell]

• Tool
• Alice in Chains
• Karnivool
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Soundgarden
• Pearl Jam
• Rage against the Machine
• The Tea Party
• Matthew Good
• Moist
• The Afghan Whigs
• Dredg
• Soen
• Tindersticks
• Queens of the Stone Age

[BigRedX]

In the past:

Black Lab
Cabaret Voltaire
Comsat Angels
Danse Society
Fra-Foa
Freur/Underworld
Furniture
Pizzicato Five
Plus-Tech Squeezebox
Polysics
Shiina Ringo
Supercar

 

These days:

The Birthday Massacre
The Last Cry
The Pretty Things (with the passing of Phil May I don't expect there to be any new releases, but I can always hope that something previously unreleased turns up)
 

[Ed_S]

I’m quite happy that somebody else has heard of House of Lords!

...but I think the only band I’d be willing to buy a CD from without hearing it first is Amorphis.

[Delberthot]

Disco Biscuits

Mr Jangles

VII

Tormented Aplenty

Seymour Butts & the High Jass Ensemble

Doomed to Failure

Queequeg

Hulk Hogan's Royd Rage

Mrs Miggins Pie Shop

[Combed20]

The Who 

Motorhead 

The Wildhearts 

Alice Cooper

Iron Maiden

The Supersuckers 

The Damned 

 

[stewblack]

1 hour ago, Delberthot said:

Seymour Butts & the High Jass Ensemble

Wasn't that the Hugh Jass Ensemble? 

[Delberthot]

9 hours ago, stewblack said:

Wasn't that the Hugh Jass Ensemble? 

Yes it was - with Mike Rotch on keys

[stewblack]

3 hours ago, Delberthot said:

Yes it was - with Mike Rotch on keys

Timeless. 

Rotch replaced Hunt didn't he? 

[doomed]

Subhumans

Culture Shock 

Citizen Fish 

Peter And The Test Tube Babies

High On Fire 

Orange Goblin

 

[thodrik]

I would say Tool, but given that rounds out to three purchases in twenty years it is hardly a big commitment. 

At the moment: 

- High on Fire; 
- Mastodon
- Inter Arma
- Yob
- Karnivool (though on the basis of the Tool comment above)
- Metallica, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, The Cult, Baroness (out of habit rather than devotion);
- Red Fang
- Summoner
- Graveyard
- Lowrider
- Truckfighters (though now on hiatus-ish)
 

[BassedinBucks]

I think I need to get out more! I haven't heard of the majority of these bands, and that's the problem with working from home, I had a very enjoyable few hours pasting the names into You Tube to have a listen and there are some great bands listed that I have made a note of. Thanks all!

[madshadows]

 

Blackberry Smoke

Ian Hunter/Mott The Hoople

Amanda Shires

Jason Isbell

Hands Off Gretel/Lauren Tate/Delilah Bon

Avatarium

Thunder

The Eagles

Richie Kotzen

The Winery Dogs

Ricky Warwick

Taylor Swift

The Bros. Landreth/Joey Landreth/Ariel Posen

Miley Cyrus

 

There is probably more but these come to mind !  

 

John 😎 

 

[NancyJohnson]

I don't buy so much now so essential purchase bands would be Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, XTC (reissue series).

In the unlikely event of new product, I'd extend this to Ludo, Charlie Sexton, Tears For Fears, Jellyfish, Stevie Salas/Colorcode, 3 Colours Red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bolo]

Bolt Thrower

The Reverend Horton Heat

 

[Cliff Edge]

On 25/05/2021 at 19:15, JapanAxe said:

Rodney Crowell

Dwight Yoakam

Steve Earle

Steve Earle is too up himself these days. The other two are thankfully still entertaining. 

[stewblack]

Oh God. I just realised my favouritest band right now, Lake Street Dive is not on my list. 

I think I will put Tadeschi Trucks and Cory Wong on it soon. 

[FinnDave]

I'm sure some of you are familiar with the Illuminati trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and someone else who's name escapes me right now. Somewhere  about half way through the third volume, there is a long list of all the (made-up) bands that are going to play at a festival. 

Reading the lists of people's bands who's music they always buy reminds me of this list - great names but complete fiction.

Come on, admit it, most of you are making up these band names, aren't you?

Edited May 27, 2021 by FinnDave

[stewblack]

16 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

Come on, admit it, most of you are making up these band names, aren't you?

I've looked through and yeah, one guy even listed The Greatful Dead - which has to be made up. 

[FinnDave]

23 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I've looked through and yeah, one guy even listed The Greatful Dead - which has to be made up. 

Absolutely, they're my favourite invisible friends!

Edited May 27, 2021 by FinnDave

[BigRedX]

1 hour ago, FinnDave said:

I'm sure some of you are familiar with the Illuminati trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and someone else who's name escapes me right now. Somewhere  about half way through the third volume, there is a long list of all the (made-up) bands that are going to play at a festival. 

Reading the lists of people's bands who's music they always buy reminds me of this list - great names but complete fiction.

Come on, admit it, most of you are making up these band names, aren't you?

So which bands do you think are made up?

[BreadBin]

Devin Townsend 

[FinnDave]

5 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

So which bands do you think are made up?

Pretty much all of them. I really don't have enough spare time to go through the entire thread and pick them out. I don't really thing they are made up, but the lists of names I have never heard of has a very similar to that of reading the lists in the trilogy. Quite a few of the band names in the book would make good names in the 'real world' as well.

[BigRedX]

3 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

Pretty much all of them. I really don't have enough spare time to go through the entire thread and pick them out. I don't really thing they are made up, but the lists of names I have never heard of has a very similar to that of reading the lists in the trilogy. Quite a few of the band names in the book would make good names in the 'real world' as well.

Probably at least half of them already are real bands.