Anything Jack White
Radiohead
Grandaddy
The Velvet Underground
The Thermals
BRMC
My Bloody Valentine
DJ Shadow
LCD Soundsystem
Caribou

Saw them at the Grand Pavillion.



Now then.


I'm guessing 81-ish.

BRMC. Saw them at Leeds Met about three years since and they played 2 1/2 hours, they didn't wanna go off, fantastic band!

There are many bands I like, some I like a lot.

But I only love the Rolling Stones, they give me all I need musically. If I never heard another band again I'd not care one jot.

I'm very contented in that respect

Played Hull last year I think with the Lambretta's

Aye, them came to the coast, down the road from you, back in the day.

The Pogues
Men They couldnt hang
Easterhouse
Sinead O Connor
Christy Moore
Smiths
Pulp
Radiohead
REM
Cocteau Twins
The Who
David Bowie (pre 1981)
Specials
Ini Kamoze
Les Negresses Verte
New Model Army
Levellers
The Who
The Rolling stones ( pre 1981)
Buzzcocks
the dead kennedys
Jon Lydon
Green Day
Stiff Little Fingers
That Petrol Emotion / Undertones
Half Man Half Biscuit
Black Sabbath
Rush
Blizzard Of OZ
Iron Maiden
Thin Lizzy

Everly Brothers
Kate Bush
Bob Dylan
the Watersons/ Carthy groups

I love a lot of female vocalists
Annie Haslam
Maddy Prior
Vashti Bunyan

That is for starters

I think I was there. Did Black Angels support them? Also a great band
I also went to see BRMC in New York a few years later and they played few acoustic song outside after the gig, was pretty special. Going to Manchester this month to see them. I prefer the Ritz to the Academy in leeds.

REM
The Decemberists
Woodpigeon
Shearwater
Talk Talk
The Unthanks
My Morning Jacket
The Velvet Underground
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

As with most people on here I am damn sure I've forgotten a few.

I've seen both bands on a few occasions. Secret Affair went through a patch of reliving old days, but have recently released an album (one that is on my wants list... One day, along with the City Of Dreams bootleg).
The Lambrettas are a joke now, their original lead singer died about ten years ago and, IIRC, was hardly cold in the ground when the band suddenly decided to reform without him. They're now more of a punk band.

Mind you, they always were a novelty/cash in band.

Above & Beyond
The Gaslight Anthem
Manic Street Preachers
Mat Zo
Tegan And Sara
The Beta Band
Bruce Springsteen
Daft Punk
Gabriel & Dresden
The Beach Boys
BT
Armin Van Buuren
Paul Van Dyk
Swedish House Mafia

I thought Dance was a decent song by them, Page 3 another but I thought the chords were a better band .

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Moonsorrow
Finntroll
Korpiklaani
Rammstein
Oomph!
Heimataerde
Tanzwut
Leonard Cohen
Aurelio Voltaire
DropKick Murphy's
Flogging Molly
Laibach
Cathedral
My Dying Bride
Anaal Nathrakh
Devin Townsend
Sisters of Mercy
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Wonderstuff
Nine Inch Nails
Sabaton
Wumpscut
Subway to Sally
Electric Six
Tyr
KMFDM
Motorhead
Fear Factory
The Meads of Asphodel

And here's some more

Drive By Truckers
Willard Grant Conspiracy
Janis Joplin
Calexico
Great Lake Swimmers
Black Mountain
Elf Power
Golden Smog
Curtis Mayfield
Eloy
W.A.S.P
Cinderella
Grateful Dead
Judas Priest
Funkadelic
Stevie Wonder
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Joe Cocker (pre 79)
Tim Buckley
Nina Simone
Miles Davis
Donovan Frankenrieter
The Wailing Jennys
First Aid Kit
Arlo Guthrie
Grand Funk Railroad
James Gang
John Martyn
ZZ Top (pre 80's)
Kiss
The Cult
Van Halen
Jim Croce
Nick Drake
Aerosmith (pre 80's)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Leo Kotke

Too many to mention but here's just a few ...

Classic Rock ... Whitesnake, AC/DC (Bon Scott era), UFO, Budgie, Alice Cooper, Crown of Thorns.

More modern stuff ... Foo Fighters, Shinedown, Bullet For My Valentine, Halestorm, Stone Sour.

The diversity is great to see, from Curtis Mayfield to Whitesnake, Above & Beyond to Judas Priest!!

They wanted to be a ska band but couldn't manage it. The Chords were indeed a great band. Lead singer Chris Pope's new band 'Pope' is well worth investigating.


Oh, did I mention The Skints on the original list?

Is it me or is there an element of one upmanship on this thread!

Every post seems to bring forth an ever longer and more obscure list of bands no one has heard of or really cares about. No need I'm sure you're all cool dudes. This need to show how far on the fringes you really are is not required unless you're still at college.

Someone must like the Beatles, Dire straights and U2 because they sell more in a week than most of these bands combined sell, ever!

So I'll start, I quite like the Bee Gees!

Abba are very good too.

It would appear the Beatles , Dire Straights and U2 ar`nt very relevant to the people posting on the thread.
Here`s a few of bands / musicians who are at the top of ny list.

Kevin Coyne
PJ Harvey
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa
Alternative TV
Cpt Beefheart
The Fall
Cornershop
Motorhead
Julian Cope
The Slits

It depends on what your brought up on , I grew up with New wave and 2tone and just followed that road rather than sink into the mainstream stuff .

Pretty much agree.
It's a bit hard to get away from if you had to share a bedroom with your older brother.
It was all [iThe Jam[/i, [iThe Clash[/i, and [iCostello[/i blasting out of our bedroom when I was a yoof.

Mind you, I took a few beatings for scratching his records when I used to sneak them on when I was home alone.

The Gargoyles.
and
Love.

The thing is people tend to be passionate about fringe bands more than anything because they support smaller acts from the ground up.

My sister stood no chance with the speakers I had

. They completely drowned out the Bay City Rollers with ease.