500 bands
A test of memory, patience and plucky perseverance to start a new week.
There may have been a completely innocuous comment in the chatroom a few chats back about there being 500 better bands than Radiohead. I shall name no names, but those present may then have listed about 100 such bands, squabbled a little about the inclusion of Bon Jovi (you don’t think?), and agreed to return to the list at a later date. Retrieving that list, or more to the point, muggins here extracting the bands from a lengthy chat transcript, may sound to you like too much hard work for a Monday, as indeed it does to me. And maybe, I happily concede, it would be kinder to drop all mention of “better” in search of 500 bands that maybe you just so happen to like more than Radiohead. Maybe. If you like. I don’t mind.
Want to play? I still don’t think we can do it, but I love a challenge. Besides, it would be dandy to be reminded of those under-rated and often forgotten bands whose work some of us can return to and others discover for the very first time. Suggestions, as ever, would be warmly appreciated.
Here’s a band for you, do let me know if you know of them already: The Salamanders, from Liverpool.
As they’d almost certainly feature among the first quarter of any sane person’s list (do sane people attempt to put a long list of bands in order of preference?), nobody need mention the following dozen giants of music, for it’s a given that they’re in. Whether you like them more than Radiohead, though, is a matter of opinion and I do enjoy chewing over an opinion, so please do not hold your tongue or bite your fingers if you find any contentious references.
The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Cream, The Doors, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Who
The chatroom will be open tomorrow; I like to think we’ll still be discussing this matter by then, so if you care to pop in, please do so any time after 2pm (UK). Everything you need to know about the chatroom can be found here, newcomers are very welcome, just please don’t be too disappointed to find that David does not participate.
Dire Straits and the Eagles were both mentioned and when I mentioned The Doors everyone else remembered they’d forgotten them.
I’d also like to add Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, Be Bop Deluxe and 10cc.
I can’t believe I left out the Eagles and put Metallica in their place. Where did I leave my pills?
Better bands than Radiohead, eh? Well, aside from those listed above already…
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, Squeeze, The Moody Blues, Focus, Rush, Genesis (up to about Duke), The Soft Boys, The Bees, Aberfeldy, Yes, Toto, Lone Star (Welsh band not the country-esque band), XTC, King Crimson, Thin Lizzy, The Move, The Stranglers, The Raspberries, The Doobie Brothers, The Byrds, The Shazam, They Might Be Giants, Steely Dan, Porcupine Tree, It Bites…
…that’s just for starters, really. I could go on, some would say I frequently do, but I won’t. This time.
Would that include ABBA FEd?
No. Well, maybe.
Memory is like a sieve at the moment – recall some but not others so I’ll try my hand at the risk of being repetitive (an in no particular order):
Oasis
Tin Tin
Splinter
Rare Earth
Fields of the Nephilim
Rabbitt
Kraftwerk
Van Halen
Audience
Fleetwood Mac
Uriah Heep
Eagles
Nazareth
Apocalyptica
Stone Temple Pilots
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Tool
Smashing Pumpkins
AC/DC
Seether
Nickleback
Yello
Rage Against the Machine
The Hollies
Supertramp
Scorpions
Allman Brothers Band
Guns ‘n Roses
The Verve
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Grateful Dead (so don’t care for them but their following was huge and undeniable)
Blondie
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Thin Lizzy
Golden Earring
Electric Light Orchestra
Yes
Journey
Faith No More (granted I think of them more as a “one hit wonder” but the one hit was wonderful!)
Carolina Liar (same as above)
Ramones
Animals
Judas Priest
ZZ Top
Eurythmics
Lynyrd Skynrd
Bee Gees
Procul Harum
Chicken Shack
Manfred Mann
The Yardbirds
I feel robbed! Had never heard of The Salamanders and really, really enjoy.
We can absolutely come up with 500 – perhaps even more …
On the Radiohead topic, I’m so not qualified to comment on whether they’re good or not since the only song of theirs I’m even remotely familiar with is “Creep” and it was just okay – nothing that grabbed at me to entice me to want to hear more.
“That’s all she wrote” (for the moment anyway).
Yes, I’d even include Oasis. We do need 500.
Think I listed Blue October during that chat — can’t leave them off!
Then there’s:
Gov’t Mule
The Thomas Oliver Band (although still too new to judge longevity — perhaps they don’t count)
Ummm, I think I may need to remind everybody that the game (futile as it may be) is to think of 500 bands BETTER than Radiohead, not just 500 bands, period.
If some of these are judged by popular opinion to be better than Radiohead I will have to pack up my little bag and go and live in a hole somewhere. (Not the one with Courtney Love in it, by the way).
P.S. What on earth is this emoticon?
It’s a light bulb. You must have had a bright idea at some point during writing that comment.
Futile indeed…
I too was wondering about that emoticon and hoped that someone else would ask! It’s visually quite disturbing except now that it’s been explained.
Am so loving the horned devil emoticon.
A list of Canadian bands (better than Radiohead
) to celebrate Frank’s birthday today:
- Steppenwolf
- Rush
- The Guess Who
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse, or CSN, or Buffalo Springfield…
- Arcade Fire
- Prism
- Simple Plan
- Chilliwack
- Saga
Happy Birthday, Frank!
Three more – just because I like their names
:
- The Arrogant Worms
- Cats Can Fly
- Femme Fatale
Happy Birthday, Frank!
Yes indeed, have a very Happy Birthday, Frank. Enjoy your day.
Belated Birthday greetings Frank, hope you had a good one.
Thank You so much Michèle. Merci, Merci. You too Fed.
It’s so hot here right now that we are probably the warmest place on Earth other than Texas. We expect 36 deg. C. even as we speak. Bring it on.
It’s so hot here that I’m going to our quarry for a cool dip. 34 deg. C. And lovin’ it!!
Pavlov, my dear girl, you have a world of joyous discovery ahead of you. “Creep” is from the barely recognisable first album (Pablo Honey). If you don’t love “The Bends” and “OK Computer” I will eat my cycle helmet.
Next time there’s a chat I’ll point you along the path of light.
Don’t pay any attention to F’ed by the way, he/she suffers from a rare condition of the ears whereby Bob Dylan sounds like a Nightingale and Thom Yorke like chalk screeching on a blackboard.
Love you, Bob.
Just listened to a bit of the track “Exit Music” — not half bad. I totally understand the “rare condition” though — there are, I am sure, dozens of artists/bands that, despite their musical talent/genius and obvious success, absolutely rub my grain the wrong way — it could be something as seemingly innocuous as a chord progression or too much/little vibrato in a voice. One of my musical pet peeves is Celine Dion – don’t know her from a bar of soap, she never did anything to me, is super successful, a lot of people ‘love’ her but I cringe at the sound of her voice and can find no redeeming qualities.
By the way Tim, congratulations on your successful ride for such a noble cause.
Bob Dylan sounds to my ears like a set of rusty door hinges that really need oil.
I saw Radiohead live in 2008 in Victoria Park, East London. There was a great atmosphere at the show, particularly for an outdoor concert.
Talking of great shows, I saw Richard Thompson at the Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy (am sure you know it, FEd
). RT performed a solo acoustic set that was simply awesome!!!
Love Treorchy and Treherbert.
Stereophonics
Dandy Warhols
Travis
Green Day
The Charlatans
Simple Minds
Deep Purple
The Doors
The Drifters
The Clash
Modest Mouse
Echo and The Bunnymen
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Elbow
The Killers
B52′s
MGMT
Motorhead
Human League
Paul McCartney and Wings
The Lemonheads
Pet Shop Boys
Village People
Mamas & Papas
The Travelling Wilburys
Love Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
How about The Blue Van?
Supremely grateful to discover The Blue Van here – a new ‘favourite’ to add to my ever expanding list … “Woman of the Wrong Kind”. So much music to discover and oh, so little time…
Seeing that Ken is feeling very lazy today (mentioning only one band, Abba
), this is my A to Z list of better bands than Radiohead, apart from the obvious twelve:
A – AC/DC
B – Black Sabbath
C – (The) Cure
D – Deep Purple
E – Eels
F – Flobots (for Julie)
G – Gerry And The Pacemakers (for FEd)
H – Hawkwind
I – INXS
J – Jethro Tull
K – Kiss
L – Louise Attaque (French band)
M – Muse
N – Nirvana
O – (The) Orb
P – Pendragon
Q – Queens Of The Stone Age
R – Roxy Music
S – Soundgarden
T – Téléphone (French band)
U – UFO
V – (The) Verve
W – Wings
X – XTC (OK, I cheated for this one)
Y – (The) Yardbirds
Z – ZZ Top
Now, Ken, 500/26 = about 19, so… Bon courage!
Oh, surely the Manic Street Preachers are better than Muse…
Ah! Ah!… And also Magenta, perhaps?
That works for me. Christina Booth is a fine singer.
I didn’t want to be greedy and go for the full 500 Michele, need to give others a chance to contribute…
ha! Didn’t even know who RadioHead were.
Had to run and YouTube and Google. It turns out, yes, I do know them, well in fact. Theirs was the music blaring out of my sons’ rooms in the 90s. I really enjoyed them: CREEP!!
They are really being buried on this page; they are quite a talented bunch of kids really. Tough crowd! They could almost be the Kinks’ musical grand-kids… almost.
Thanks for making me realize who they are. A lifetime is not long enough to learn everything one wants to know.
Bella x
Can’t help myself — we absolutely have to reach 500!
Queensrÿche (I’m embarrassed to admit that before I even heard them I was curious because I thought they were pronounced queen-screech
)
Suicidal Tendencies
The Supremes
The Four Tops
The Temptations
Commodores
The Jackson 5
America
Aphrodite’s Child
Magna Carta
Pavlov’s Dog (this was definitely mentioned during the chat)
Limp Bizkit
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bad Company
Bread
Jethro Tull (it’s criminal that I didn’t mention before)
Motorhead
Ramases
Ultravox
Tear for Fears (oh yuck – I can’t believe I’m putting them on my list!)
Pearl Jam
Lindisfarne
Edgar Broughton Band
War
Hawk
Budgie
The Cure
Danzig
Snow Patrol
Talk Talk
Wishbone Ash
XIT
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (try saying that quickly after a few cocktails!)
Roxy Music
Tangerine Dream
Van der Graaf Generator
Coldplay
Travis
Tremeloes
Herman’s Hermits
Supermax
Slade
Styx
Shriekback
The Sweet
Cinderella
Bad English
Def Leppard
Mötley Crüe
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Wuthering Heights
Toad the Wet Spocket
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
INXS
The Police
Crowded House
Midnight Oil
Men at Work
Alphaville
I’d love to keep going but I’m afraid I won’t stop …
My ears say they’re definitely better than Radiohead.
I used to crawl up into a small ball on the sofa every time I saw them on MTV singing Everybody Wants to Rule the World — their hair, their clothes, their voices but mostly their teeth used to make me cringe – talk about fingernails on a blackboard.
What about A-Ha and Flock of Seagulls for the list? I’m really digging in the trenches now …
Here’s another 291 which weren’t on the Blog prior to 16:14 yesterday, so apologies if any appear in the intervening period (I’m not psychic, although I could be a psycho
)
ABC, Alan Parsons Project, Alarm, Alice Cooper, Amen Corner, Argent, Asia, Atomic Rooster, Average White Band, Aztec Camera.
Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bad Company, Bad Manners, Badfinger, Barclay James Harvest, Beautiful South, Bellamy Brothers, Big Country, Blur, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Boomtown Rats, Bread, Bryan Adams, Buzzcocks.
Camel, Canned Heat, Carpenters, Cars, C.C.S., Chicago, Clannad, Clash, Climax Blues Band, Cockney Rebel, Coldplay, Commodores, Creedence Clearwater Revival, C.S.N & Y, Cure, Curved Air.
Damned, Darts, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Dio, Dr.Feelgood, Dr.Hook, Drifters, Duran Duran.
Earth Wind & Fire, Easybeats, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddie & The Hotrods, ELP, Europe.
Faces, Fairground Attraction, Fairport Convention, Family, Farm, Fine Young Cannibals, Flock Of Seagulls, Flowerpot Men, Flying Pickets, Foreigner, Foundations, Four Seasons, Four Tops, Fourmost, Fox, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Freddie & The Dreamers, Free, Frijid Pink, Fun Boy Three.
Gallagher & Lyle, Generation X, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Gillan, Girlschool, Glitter Band, Godley & Creme.
Hall & Oates, Hawkwind, Heaven 17, Herman’s Hermits, Hot Chocolate, Hotlegs, Housemartins, Human League.
Ian Drury & The Blockheads, Icehouse, INXS, Iron Maiden, Isley Brothers, Ivy League.
Jacksons, Jam, James, Jamiroquai, Japan, Jefferson(Starship), Jethro Tull, J.Geils Band, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jon & Vangelis, Joy Division, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
Kajagoogoo, Katrina & The Waves, KC & The Sunshine Band, Kiss, Kursaal Flyers.
Level 42, Lindisfarne, Liverpool Express, Lovin’ Spoonful.
M-People, McGuinness Flint, Madness, Magnum, Mama’s & Papa’s, Man, Manhatten Transfer, Manic Street Preachers, Marbles, Marmalade, Massive Attack, Meatloaf, Medicine Head, Men At Work, Men Without Hats, Mental As Anything, Merseybeats, Mike & The Mechanics, Mindbenders, Mink De Ville, Morris Minor & The Majors, Mr.Bloe, Mr.Mister, Monkees, Motley Crue, Motorhead, Mott The Hoople, Mud, Mungo Jerry.
Nashville Teens, Nena, New Order, New Vaudeville Band, Nice.
Ocean Colour Scene, Odyssey, O’jays, Orb, OMD, Osmonds.
Pet Shop Boys, Pilot, Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours, Pirahnas, Platters, Prefab Sprout, Pretenders, Primal Scream, Proclaimers, Prodigy, Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., Python Lee Jackson.
Queensryche, Quireboys.
Radha Krishna Temple, Rainbow, Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Right Said Fred, Rockin’ Berries, Roxy Music, Rubettes, Run DMC, Rutles.
Don’t forget Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Sad Cafe, Santana, Saxon, Scaffold, Scorpions, Searchers, Selecter, Sex Pistols, Shadows, Sham69, Shamen, Shangri-Las, Showaddywaddy, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Slade, Slik, Slits, Sly & The Family Stone, Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Smokie, Soft Cell, Soft Machine, Spandau Ballet, Sparks, Specials, Spencer Davis Group, Spinal Tap, Splodgenessabounds, Springfields, Status Quo, Stealer’s Wheel, Steeleye Span, Stiff Little Fingers, Stone Roses, Strawbs, Stray Cats, Style Council, Suede, Sweet, Swing Out Sister, Swinging Blue Jeans.
Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tavares, Teardrop Explodes, Tears For Fears, Temptations, Ten Pole Tudor, Ten Years After, Texas, Thompson Twins, Three Dog Night, Thunder, Tornados, T’Pau, Traffic, Transvision Vamp, Traveling Wilburys, Travis, Tremeloes, T.Rex, Troggs, Turtles, Twisted Sister, Typically Tropical.
UB40, UFO, Ultravox, Undertones, Union Gap, Unit Four Plus Two.
Velvet Underground, Vibrators, Village People, Violinski, Visage, Voice Of The Beehive.
Wah, Walker Brothers, Wang Chung, War, WASP, Waterboys, Wet Wet Wet, Wham, Whitesnake, Wild Cherry, Wings, Wizzard, Wonder Stuff, Wurzels.
X-Ray Spex.
Yazoo, Yazz, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Young Rascals.
Zephyrs, Zombies.
We can’t be too far off now…
Whoops, make that 290, I copied Ramones, sorry Pavlov.
Village People? Yes, I suppose I do like them more than Radiohead.
Do you mean the real Ultravox with John Foxx or the ’80s electro-abomination they became with Midge Ure?
On a recent visit to my hometown of New York, my wife and I attempted to visit Katz’s, one of those legendary NY delicatessens and the location for films like “When Harry Met Sally.” I was hoping to get a nice sandwich. I say “attempted” to visit because as soon as we saw the PRICES they were charging, we left and went someplace else. Online, I see that the NY delis are all very expensive now. Oh the times, they have a-changed!!
Great bands.
- Bob Dylan, for his songwriting but NOT for his singing.
- Yes, especially the classic Yes lineups with Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman. Wow!
- Miles Davis (who revolutionized jazz about eight different times in his long career).
- The Byrds. The Eagles. The Animals. The Crickets (with Buddy Holly).
- R.E.M. In their classic years, they were extraordinary.
- Suzanne Vega. She was really sexy without humiliating herself.
- Laura Love. Not well known, but she blends musical styles that don’t usually go well together.
- Elton John. Gosh, what can you saw about him?
- CCR. What powerful songwriting!
- Drivin’ and Cryin’. Check THEM out!
- Robert Johnson. Okay, musicians, I defy you to dislike HIM!!
Tell me about it Dan. Even just the daily commute is a King’s ransom! Yet, someone, somewhere is spending the money … hotels are booked solid (at their “new and improved rates” — try getting anything decent for under $300 per night … exclusive of city and state taxes) and restaurants in midtown seem to be thriving!
Don’t be shocked about the prices in New York, gentlemen. The New York Times had an article about the fact that the middle class is leaving New York in droves because they can’t afford living there anymore. The Prices are so high because New York is home to the Wall Street and Bankster crooks who have money to burn, and shopowners and restaurant owners find they are willing to pay absurd prices for food, clothing, etc. (as well as ludicrous salaries for their employees). It’s really the most evil city in America, though. Where most of the high level thinking about how to scam the rest of us gets done. The Hedge Fund Billionaires only pay a MAXIMUM 15% tax rate (I am not making this up, I am not kidding) on profits that vary between a few hundreds of millions to a few billion a year (all made on illegal inside trading info).
New York is awash in money in the same way that pirate city Port Royale was awash in money during the pirate days. It’s all dirty money stolen from the middle class and the poor, though.
Yet again, DQ, the idiots who got us into the economic mess we’re in are being amply rewarded while the rest of us labor our lives away without gain. Lovely!
Even if I’m here for the first time I think I can throw something in:
Aerosmith
B.B. King
Beck
Boris (Flood is brilliant)
Camel (of course!)
Coldplay (why not?)
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Eric Clapton
Foo Fighters
Frank Zappa
Helloween
Herbie Hancock
Iron Maiden
Jean-Michel Jarre
Leonard Cohen
Louis Armstrong
Megadeth
Metallica
Miles Davis
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Nightwish
Norah Jones
Okkervil River
Pearl Jam
R.E.M.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Police
U2
Van Morrison
Warren Zevon.
Yep, there’s a lot of artists in this list but hey, didn’t they play in a band with the same name?
I hope I helped.
Thanks for that, mate. Another vote for Camel, good to see.
I don’t really know about better than Radiohead, but here’s a few that I listen to:
The Alan Parson’s Project
Jefferson Airplane
Collective Soul
Widespread Panic
Gov’t Mule
Rush
Happy Birthday Frank.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Joker’s Wild. Are we forgetting whose blog this is?
Hermann’s Hermits DEFINITELY. They’re great. Kind of Hush. Mrs. Brown. No Milk Today. They’re so uncool they are beyond cool. No apologies or hesitation tolerated.
Hermann’s Hermits are GREAT! Hah!
I agree Mr. Kelly. Joker’s Wild!!!
I listened to Gilmour’s first solo album all the way through the other day for the first time in a while while driving around the little city I live in. It’s really, really, good. I’d forgotten just how friggin’ good that thing is. Inspired, effortless and smooth. I really, really, really love, “I Can’t Breathe Anymore.” Fabulous.
Hermann’s Hermits DEFINITELY. They’re great. Kind of Hush. Mrs. Brown. No Milk Today. They’re so uncool they are beyond cool. No apologies or hesitation tolerated.
Hermann’s Hermits are GREAT! Hah!
Nice one Michael.
Continuing in the same vein, perhaps we should also include Sutherland Brothers & Quiver.
Country Joe and the Fish been mentioned? Hermans Hermits maybe?
Belated Birthday Greetings Frank!
I decided to hang back, watch what bands came out and then try to fill in a gap with bands from way back that people may have forgotten. We certainly forgot a lot of them at the time! Not because they weren’t good, mind you! I’ve also had a really interesting couple of days looking at the line ups of festivals in the seventies. Especially some that I attended.
Some bands I think haven’t been mentioned yet:
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Quintessence
Faces
Mothers of Invention
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Stone The Crows
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Them
Herd
Country Joe MacDonald
Blodwyn Pig
Groundhogs
The Tubes
Principal Edwards Majic Theatre
Curved Air
Family
Dr John And The Nightrippers
Utopia
Tin Machine
Spirit
Vinegar Joe
The Pretenders
Portishead
INXS
Heart
The Wailers
Toots and The Maytals
Temptations
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
It’s A Beautiful Day
The Commitments
Astral Cars Band
I hope Radiohead fans don’t get wind of this topic, we could start a major flame war.
The Cars
Have the following already been mentioned?
The Band
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Band Of Gypsy’s
Finally, I’d like to dispute the inclusion of ABBA, Black Sabbath and the Bee Gees.
Real test of memory, I didn’t know I’d seen the Beach Boys… twice!
ash
(I just want to use this while we’ve still got it)
Blodwyn Pig. Well remembered, Ash.
Have some ‘Same Old Story’ for your trouble.
You just don’t see that on stage anymore, eh?
ash
Also remembering. . .
Taste
Nice
Yum (just invented that. . . get it. . . nice taste???)
Lovin’ Spoonful
(Hmm. . . eat my words?
)
Marmalade
The Jam
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Cranberries
Humble Pie
ash (off to get Tangerine Dream(s) )
The Krankies
I really, really, really hate the Krankies to the point where I could smash the TV or radio up immediately I recognise it’s them.
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Fellow Krankies hater here. God, they’re annoying.
Agreed… but better than Radiohead.
That’s why I laughed Paul, my turn to make you laugh. . .
How about The Bay City Rollers? Though thankfully we don’t hear much of them.
I’ll tell you other voices that incur the same desire to smash my sound equipment, Chris Evans and sorry to say this because I was a fan of Yes way back, Jon Anderson. His speaking voice reminds me very much of that damned annoying actor Joe Pesci. (Sorry Fed, went off on one then.)
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Gong. Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band. America. Rick Wakemann. Gordon Lightfoot. Clearlight Symphony. Peter and Gordon. Chad and Jeremy. Tommy James and the Shondells. Faust. Can. Neu. Focus. It’s a Beautiful Day. The Standells. The Troggs. Petula Clark. Linda McCartney (she had a solo album). Mary Hopkin. Maria Muldar. The Youngbloods. The Lemon Pipers. Julie London. Tina Louise. Anton Karas. Strawberry Alarm Clock. The Cyrcle. OMD.
Hey. Did you folks see that Rob Grill of the “Grass Roots” died last week? He sang “Midnight Confession” and “Temptation Eyes” and some other 60s hits?
When I was a little boy I had this orange transistor radio that I would secretly slip under my pillow and fall asleep listening to. “Midnight Confession” was a favorite songl Was it 1968?
Just a few more:
Mostly Autumn
Marillion
Karnataka
Breathing Space
Touchstone
Did anyone mention these ones?
- Caravan
- The Creation
- The Pretty Things
- Gentle Giant
- The Pogues
- The Cranberries
- Blind Melon
- Screaming Trees
- Sonic Youth
- Bad Religion
- The Offspring
- Primus
- System of a Down
- Stiltskin
- Counting Crows
- Placebo
But you must admit that there are not 500 ‘better’ dancers than Thom Yorke.
I would also add:
- Love
- The 13th Floor Elevators
- Tomorrow
- Jane’s Addiction
- Mudhoney
- Living Colour
- The Cult
- Bauhaus
- Nine Inch Nails
A few more:
Marshall Tucker
Cream Cheese Incident
Phish
James Brown
Little Richard
Elvis (TKB)
Wide Spread Panic
Leon Russell
Derek Trucks
John Meyer
ZZ Top
Beware! I keep my eyes on you!!
Obviously I didn’t say that there are 500 better bands than Radiohead. There are maybe 100 or so, but surely not 500.
A voice of sanity from the past.
I’m trying my best to fight the good fight here, Mate, but it seems some people’s ears are beyond repair.
Dear Tim, you are a brave warrior, I know. But not always right justice wins, in this world.
Anyway, to be honest and let Fed gloat, I didn’t like very much Radiohead’s last album. Anyway, to be also honest, I listen to Radiohead every day since I was 19 years old (now I am 33) and yesterday I was listening to a live track from a new show (this one) and I was moved… as I should shame to admit I was!
There is not story. There are a lot of great bands. There are a lot of great songs. But there is only one Thom’s voice! And Fed, don’t comment that this is lucky!!!!
Hello again Lucia.
We’re only joking. We started naming bands who were worse than Radiohead too. . . and a suggestion was made that the same lists could be posted. 
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Another one for the 80s Glasgow bands beginning with the letter ‘D’ sub-section:
Deacon Blue.
Mustn’t forget them. I quite liked them back then.
I was looking at all the lists carefully, and being thrilled when I saw a band I hadn’t thought of, and I was thinking about the fact that what I love about this site is that so many people really CARE, PASSIONATELY about music.
Music is one of my favorite things about being alive, and nowadays you meet so many people who just don’t care about it. And I don’t understand that. Music is like the air we breathe. I mean I NEED it. I can’t imagine not living without music and thinking about it all the time.
I mean, I’ll meet highly intelligent people and casually ask them, “So what have you been listening to lately,” and you get a pause and a reply like, “Ngaaah. I dunno…”
Or you meet people who have NO music collections whatsoever and you think, “I couldn’t live like that. I don’t understand…”
Anyway. I love all the lists.
p.s. Did someone list Nico or John Cale? I can’t remember. I really love John Cale’s “Fear Album” and most of all “Paris 1919.” “Paris 1919″ is one of my all time favorite albums. Definitely in my top ten albums somewhere after Dark Side and Pepper.
We’d better include John Miles, in that case D.Q.
D.Q.,
You took the words right out of my soul. You wrote the post I was composing in my head! And Gong’s on your list!
When I lived in Texas, I transcribed “Oily Way” in its entirety to the paper covers of my college textbooks! Having once lived in what’s become the epicenter of the United States’ worst oil spill, the title has become prophetic!
Recently, I found an original single, “In the Year 2525″!
It looked like the time capsule that it was, and plays perfectly! I also found “The Best of Blondie” and The Police’s “Synchronicity”.
My earliest memory of a record is “Scarborough Faire” by Simon and Garfunkel. That one resonates deep in the DNA.
I found these Paul Simon lyrics from “My Little Town”:
And after it rains, there’s a rainbow,
And all of the colors are black.
It’s not that the colors aren’t there,
It’s just imagination they lack.
Everything’s the same back
In my little town.
COLOSSAL news!!! For my birthday, we are going to see ARLO GUTHRIE! I’m so excited, I’m tearing up just thinking about it!
Good stuff, Sharon. Hope you enjoy. How many sleeps?
2 weeks, and believe me when I say that time will drag like Dali clock!
Hey Ken, I don’t know why, but I’ve never heard “Rebel.” I’ve never heard John Miles. He’s great!!! Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the kind words Sharon. You have fabulous tastes!!!
You’re one of the only people I know of who knows about Gong. When I was 17 and finished high school I hitchhiked across America and Highway 1 in Canada (back when I was a bit more wild and reckless). While riding over the Canadian Rockies I got a ride by a former roadie for Gong. I can’t tell you how much fun that was. Listening to unbelievable music, seeing the crystaline lakes glowing purple and turquoise with glacial flour–something out of a Maxfield Parrish illustration. And the Roadie had wonderful goodies to share at his fingertips… Hah!!!
In the words of Phil Collins, “Pleaaasse, take me baaack!!!” Hah!!!
D.Q.,
You hitched a ride with one of the Octave Doctors from the Planet Gong?
Their quirky rhymes and jazzy music are still so much fun, aren’t they?
Cant see…
Yes
Genesis
Soft Machine
Van der Graaf Generator
…on anybody’s lists.
500 bands better than Radiohead, huh?
Would 500 elastic bands count?
Happy Days,
Simon J
O how I wish I could have made that chat session but I didn’t. So Lucia, it wasn’t me who made that suggestion but it is good one. I bet it was Michèle.
Anyway, here are some to add to the list.
38 Special
After the Fire
Arc Angels
The Blues Brothers
Buckcherry
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Damn Yankees
The Dead Boys
Foghat
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Graham Parker & the Rumor
Head East
Henry Rollins Band
Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds
James Gang (FEd, how could you forget the band Joe Walsh was in prior to the Eagles?)
Jeff Beck Group
Jet
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
L.A. Guns
Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade (c’mon, they covered PF Animals)
Loverboy
Metal Church
Michael Schenker Group
Molly Hatchet
Mountain
Mr. Big
The Outlaws
Oysterhead
Pantera
Poison
Red Rider (Lunatic Fringe is their only hit but RH only had CREEP)
The Runaways
Silverchair
Skid Row
Slash’s Snakepit
Slaughter
The Specials
Staind
Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes
Tesla
Testament
Type O Negative
Ugly Kid Joe
Violent Femmes
Warrant
Weezer
The White Stripes
Zebra
Did I dig deep enough??
Thanks.
Andrew
That’s some good digging.
We did mention The White Stripes, actually. As for forgetting the James Gang, I’m shaking my head in disbelief and disappointment as I type this. I also forgot Jet.
Well, I still have my doubts.
I do hope you Philistines are going to put your money where your mouths are and pay to watch some of these bands. Those that are still alive that is. Oh, and those that actually have enough fans to fill a church hall of course.
James Gang!!! Absolutely. I LOOOOOVE the James Gang. “Midnight Man.” “Walk Away!” Yaaaaaah!!!
Joe Walsh’s “Barnstorm” would also make my top ten album list of all time. Most people have never heard of it, but it’s this incredible album. It’s got spacey, melodic, magical guitar. The lyrics are really nice. He looks backwards towards childhood with longing in some of the songs, in a wistful, honest way. The guitar work is understated but brilliant. More than once I’ve thought, “Gilmour would like this album. I wonder if he’s ever heard it.”
Bet he has.
Hey Everybody,
David’s old friend Roger has a box set of solo records that is finally available over here in America this week. Included is “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”–which is my favorite of his. I’ve read that Roger originally presented it to his pals along with “Wall” saying he would make a solo album out of whatever they rejected and the Floyds opted for the “Wall.” Ever since I’ve read that, I’ve always wondered what “Hitchhiking” might have morphed into if the full Floyd had done it instead of the Wall or the Final Cut.
I wish that things had been “sweeter” in the band at that point. I wish David could have told Roger, “These lyrics need reworking” maybe helped him with the rougher parts. I wish David and Rick could have thrown in a few songs–inspired by the concept. When you listen to it, you really get the feeling that the ghost of something really interesting lurks in the themes and the lyrics. Eric Clapton tries channelling David’s guitar in some parts, but only David Gilmour can play with that David Gilmour magic–yet you get an idea of the “what might have been.” I really wish they’d all tried working this up to Floyd standards before Waters left, but of course–in reality–at that point it would have been impossible. Sigh. When I listen to the thing I feel it’s a missed opportunity. An impossible wish, that could never have been. Hearing it I always feel a twinge of regret. It’s interesting though.
Have a wonderful weekend…
Amused to Death is my favourite of his. What an album that is.
D.Q.
I hear every word you say, my friend. How many hours over the past decades have some of us spent day-dreaming of Floyd situations which would magically result in more Floyd music?
Everything that could be said about this unfortunate karmic situation has been said; every angle explored; every tear wept.
It amuses me when I hear Nick Mason express surprise that fans don’t mind having 50 different versions of the same song. HE STILL DOESN’T GET IT!! Maybe none of them get it.
At least after Sept. 26 we’ll be able to add a few more versions to our already mile-long play-lists of “same songs”.
Twinge of regret? How about gut-wrenching pain.
Bella
Ditto that FEd — just brilliant actually.
DQ, it is really instructive for the musician and songwriter in me to listen to “Hitch-hiking” for many of the reasons you mentioned. The first thing that took me was listening to Clapton play guitar riffs that were obviously written for Gilmour. It doesn’t work. Next, lyrically, some of it should really have been reigned in. Some of the lyrics are “out there” and even some 27 years later I still have no idea what those lyrics are about. Finally, Waters did not have the skills to make a great record on his own (not at that point). By rejecting any input from others, he lowers the quality of the finished product. I remember this in my own work, my own life. As I’m writing songs with my band and they suggest things I don’t like at first, I have to remember that they may be onto something and that I need to listen to them. I should be open and try things before rejecting any idea because it was not my idea.
Hey New York Dan,
You hit some nails on the head. Bands–especially–don’t work when things get too autocratic. The only one I was ever in was making some incredibly nice music, and it broke up simply because the alpha member in the band got too dictatorial. The songs we had were really good. It could have been a really wonderful band. Oh well.
Good luck with yours. Bands are like getting married, in a way… All the triumphs, tragedies and complexities…
Hey Bella,
I agree with your amusement with Nick Mason not understanding why fans would want so many multiple versions. I love them. They all have their own stories–the different versions. There’s this one bootleg versions of “Us and Them” that just about knocked me down when I heard it some time back. It had some chilling/spine tingling–Richard Wright improv, right at the beginning that made me think I was in a Gothic Cathedral. I LOVE some of the singing David does on the live versions of “Green is the Color”–I actually like them better than the officially released versions.
There’s so much really neat stuff out there. Give me 500 versions. Give me 1000.
I also have had those moments of “Gut Wrenching Pain.” I know exactly what you are talking about. It goes with loving music as much as the people at this site do. When you really love music as much as we do, stuff can hurt. Particularly when you hear unfinished song fragments, or some of the bootleg tapes and you’re thinking, “WHY DIDN’T THEY….!!!? Jeezzzus, they could have done something with this!!!” And you want to go back in time, like that fan does in that science fiction book “Glimpses” where he talks Brian Wilson into finishing “Smile” and the Doors into finishing and polishing up “Celebration of the Lizard.” (Apparently this Summer a Beach Boys version of “Smile” is actually coming out. And 80+ year old Doris Day has a brand new record out in September that I will actually buy. Yaaaah Go Doris!!! Hah!!!)
I would have to say Quicksilver Messager Service, Grateful Dead, Mothers of Invention, Lee Micheals, Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Bryds, Buffalo Springfield, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Country Joe and The Fish and of course Frank Zappa are so much better than Radiohead.
Take care,
Thomas
I’m hoping someone already mentioned these and I just overlooked them but….
The assorted acts of Mr. Maynard James Keenan
Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer (pronounced PUH-SUH-FUR, in case you have troubles)
…and also again I may have just overlooked it if somebody said it but,
Peter Gabriel (Okay, technically solo artist and not a band but whatever)
Other bands/solo artists I enjoy infinitely more than Radiohead….
Adele
AFI
Alice in Chains
Audioslave
Bad Company
Bon Iver
Breaking Benjamin
Brendan Benson
Cee Lo Green
Corinne Baily Rae
Death Cab For Cutie
Dido
Disturbed
Evanescence
Everlast
A Fine Frenzy
Finger Eleven
Fleet Foxes
Foreigner
Glen Hansard
Marketa Irglova (both of them seperately and as The Swell Season)
Gnarls Barkley
Godsmack
Gorillaz
Iron & Wine
James Blunt (Thats right HE is better than Radiohead)
Keane
Linkin Park
Lenka
Lykke Li
Mad Season
Maroon 5
Modest Mouse
Motorhead
Mudvayne
Muse
Mute Math
My Morning Jacket
The Offspring
OneRepublic
Outkast
The Postal Service
The Raconteurs
Rage Against the Machine
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Stevie Wonder
Sting
Stone Sour
Styx
Sublime
Supertramp
System of a Down
The Temptations
311
…and it goes on and on and on, many of the more famous groups have already been mentioned.
The basic point is, in my opinion, almost anyone is better than Radiohead.
I’ve just thought about these bands. I’m not sure, but I can’t see any of them in the comments above.
Iron Butterfly
Blind Faith
Incredible String Band
Extreme
Dream Theater
Mogwai
The Mars Volta
Dave Matthews Band
Did we really leave out Dream Theater? Oh dear. They’re miles better than Radiohead.
(Sorry.)
I can’t even think now, all bands are generally covered, so for Michéle, I’ll add Trooper, Saga, and The Kings to the Canadian list.
Here’s a little something for the weekend…
Aqualung
Blackfoot Sue
Climax Blues Band
Darkness
Extreme
Flaming Lips
Garbage
Happy Mondays
Ides Of March
Jilted John
Kings Of Leon
Little Feat
Modern Lovers (Jonathan Richman & The)
Nouvelle Vague (Just for you Michele)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Poison
Quiver
Radio…. REO Speedwagon
Starsailor
Tubeway Army
Usher
Velveteens
Walls Of Jericho
Xtreme
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
(Frank) Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
(How am I doing, Michéle?) Detention, I fear…
Well if the White Stripes were mentioned then it must have been during the chat cause I’m having a heck of time finding the mention in this string.
Here are a few more and I don’t know how some these were missed:
Anthrax
Beastie Boys
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Blind Faith
Charlie Daniels Band
Derek and the Dominoes
Devo
Dave Edmunds
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Fabulous Poodles
Humble Pie
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Joe Jackson Band
Nick Lowe
M (yes, I rather listen to Pop Musik)
The Plasmatics
Prince
Rockpile
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
The Vapors (how many would rather be Turning Japanese?)
And a couple I could understand why they were missed:
Dread Zeppelin (reggae covers of Zeppelin music with a lead singer who sounds like Elvis)
Gwar (maybe not for the music but certainly an entertaining stage show)
Are we at 500 yet? If not, how close? I’ll rack my brain some more.
Thanks.
Andrew
You know, I think I’ve gone full circle. There really could be 500 bands that I like more than Radiohead.
I don’t believe we mentioned, and can’t believe that we may not have mentioned, Humble Pie or Derek and the Dominoes. (Yes, when it came up originally in the chatroom, I meant.) We left out so many supremely talented artists. Suddenly “500″ doesn’t seem to be such an outrageous figure to throw around.
Did we mention Blind Faith the first time ’round? Here’s ‘Do What You Like’, anyway. What a band, what a song. Thanks for including them, Andrew (and Alessandra).
Let’s not forget Mr. Buddy Guy.
Will be seeing him this weekend at Red Rocks.
Enjoy, Jan.
This song came to my mind this morning. I liked Soul Asylum some years ago, then I completely forgot them.
Listening to that song again made me think about Spin Doctors, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just because I was listening to these bands in the same time.
This topic is definitely a test of memory.
I haven’t heard that song in ages or seen the incredibly powerful promo video.
I can’t help but smile; these songs take me back to happy times. I don’t remember the kind of hat the singer’s wearing in the ‘Two Princes’ video being ‘in fashion’ in 1992/3, though.
Remember this one from 4 Non Blondes? I’d be very surprised if you don’t, but they certainly deserve a place on our list.
FEd,
Thanks so much for reminding me of the 4 Non Blondes song. I got chills listening to it. That is such a great song and I love her vocal delivery.
Hearing it again it also reminded me of The Bangles, particularly their cover of the Simon & Garfunkel song “Hazy Shade of Winter” – here.
And a few other girl bands you may add to the list, The Go-Gos and Bananarama.
Thanks.
Andrew
“What’s Up” was what I chose as the backdrop music to the video of my one and only skydiving experience at Blue Sky Ranch in down-State New York in June 1993. Oh my, what a memory … Got me thinking about the Stereo MC’s (did we mention them?) – dimly lit places, dancing and a bit of fun.
“What’s Up?” is another nice song I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me of it. 4 Non Blondes singer is also wearing a strange hat in the video, by the way.
About Spin Doctors singer’s hat: I’ve always thought he’s wearing it (and those clothes) in “Two Princes” to play his part, according to the lyrics he’s singing, but maybe it’s just a hat and my speculation is completely useless. I like that hat anyway.
Oh yeah, did someone mention Arcade Fire yet? Well there it is in case they haven’t, they’re definitely much better than Radiohead as well.
OK GO as well.
Hi all,
I was trying not to publish any duplicates, but that wasn’t easy, so I made a list of all comments until #47, removed all single artists and added my few. The result was 761 bands. Enjoy…
Best regards
Taki
10cc
13th Floor Elevators THE
38 Special
4 Non Blondes
A Fine Frenzy
A Perfect Circle
A-Ha
ABBA
ABC
AC/DC
Aberfeldy
Accept
Aerosmith
After the Fire
Agonist THE
Alan Parson’s Project THE
Alarm
Alice Cooper
Alice in Chains
All American Rejects
Allman Brothers Band
Alphaville
Alter_bridge
Amen Corner
America
Amon Düül II
Animals THE
Anthrax
Aphrodite’s Child
Apocalyptica
Aqualung
Arc Angels
Arcade Fire
Argent
Arrogant Worms THE
Asia
Asking_alexandria
Astral Cars Band
Atomic Rooster
Audience
Audioslave
Avantasia
Average White Band
Aztec Camera
B.B. King
B52′s
BBM
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Bad English
Bad Manners
Bad Religion
Badfinger
Band Of Gypsy’s
Band THE
Band of skulls
Barclay James Harvest
Bauhaus
Be Bop Deluxe
Beach Boys THE
Beastie Boys
Beatles THE
Beatsteaks
Beautiful South
Beck
Bee Gees
Bees THE
Bellamy Brothers
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Big Country
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Billy Talent
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Sabbath
Black Veil Brides
Blackfoot Sue
Blind Faith
Blind Melon
Bloc Party
Blodwyn Pig
Blondie
Blood Stain Child
Blood, Sweat Tears
Bloodhound Gang THE
Blue Öyster Cult
Blues Brothers THE
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Bon Iver
Bonaparte
Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band
Boomtown Rats
Boris
Boston
Bread
Breaking Benjamin
Breathing Space
Bryd THE
Buckcherry
Budgie
Buffalo Springfield
Bullet For My Valentine
Bush
Buzzcocks
Byrds THE
C.C.S.
C.S.N & Y
CSN
Caesars THE
Caliban
Camel
Can
Canned Heat
Caravan
Carolina Liar
Taki,
You’ve done a great job.
You did a great job Taki.
I thought about how the counting could be done, it fried my brains trying to think it through never mind actually doing it! 
ash
Carpenters
Cars THE
Cats Can Fly
Chad and Jeremy
Charlatans THE
Charlie Daniels Band
Chicago
Chicken Shack
Children Of Bodom
Chilliwack
Cinderella
Clannad
Clash THE
Clearlight Symphony
Climax Blues Band
Cockney Rebel
Coldplay
Collective Soul
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Commitments THE
Commodores
Counting Crows
Country Joe and The Fish
Cranberries THE
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Cream
Cream Cheese Incident
Creation THE
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crickets THE
Crowded House
Cult THE
Cure THE
Curved Air
Cyrcle THE
Damn Yankees
Damned
Dandy Warhols
Danzig
Darkness
Darts
Dave Edmunds
Dave Matthews Band
Deacon Blue
Dead Boys THE
Dead Weather THE
Death Cab For Cutie
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Derek and the Dominoes
Devo
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Dick Dale And His Del-tones
Dio
Dire Straits
Disturbed
Donots
Doobie Brothers THE
Doors THE
Dr Feelgood
Dr Hook
Dr John And The Nightrippers
Dread Zeppelin
Dream Theater
Drifters THE
Drivin’ and Cryin’
Dropkick Murphys
Drowning Pool
Duran Duran
ELP
Eagles THE
Earth Wind & Fire
Easybeats
Echo & The Bunnymen
Eddie & The Hotrods
Edgar Broughton Band
Eels
Ektomorf
Elbow
Electric Light Orchestra
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Eläkeläiset
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Empire Of The Sun
Eskimo Joe
Etna
Europe
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Everlast
Extreme
Fabulous Poodles THE
Faces
Fairground Attraction
Fairport Convention
Faith No More
Fall Out Boy
Family
Farm
Faust
Femme Fatale
Fields of the Nephilim
Fine Young Cannibals
Finger Eleven
We did leave out quite a few, didn’t we? I’m glad you mentioned The Charlatans, Coldplay (we forgot Coldplay?!), Counting Crows, The Cranberries, Cream (Cream! I’m sure we mentioned them in the chatroom), The Creation, Extreme… Oh, so many good ones.
I think that with very effort we could reduce the list to 500 real good groups an leave out some, as I had to do with Nena.
It was a real pleasure to got through the list and do some work for the blog after the many weeks I rather read than co-wrote.
Regards
Taki
FEd,
In your introduction you told us to leave out Cream. Were you sneaking a listen to some Radiohead and got a bit confused?
Thanks.
Andrew
So I did.
A ball of confusion, Andrew, that’s what my head is today.
Did we mention The Temptations, or are they more of a group than a band?
I think we also left out:
Melvins
Meat Puppets
Crash Test Dummies
Pixies
My Bloody Valentine
Hope your day is going better, FEd.
Flaming Lips
Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac
Flobots
Flock Of Seagulls
Flowerpot Men
Flying Burrito Brothers THE
Flying Pickets
Focus
Foghat
Foo Fighters
Foreigner
Foundations
Four Seasons
Four Tops THE
Fourmost
Fox
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Franz Ferdinand
Freddie & The Dreamers
Free
Frijid Pink
Fugazi
Fugees
Fun Boy Three
Gallagher & Lyle
Garbage
Generation X
Genesis
Gentle Giant
Gerry & The Pacemakers
Gillan
Gipsy Kings
Girlschool
Glitter Band
Gnarls Barkley
Godley & Creme
Godsmack
Gojira
Golden Earring
Gong
Good Charlotte
Gorillaz
Gov’t Mule
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Graham Parker & the Rumor
Grant Green
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Gris
Groundhogs
Guano Apes
Guess Who THE
Guns ‘n Roses
Gwar
Hall & Oates
Happy Mondays
Hawk
Hawkwind
Head East
Heart
Heaven 17
Heaven Shall Burn
Helloween
Henry Rollins Band
Herd
Herman’s Hermits
Hives THE
Hole
Hollies THE
Hot Chocolate
Hot Hot Heat
Hotlegs
Housemartins
Human League
Humble Pie
INXS
Ian Drury & The Blockheads
Icehouse
Ides Of March
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
In Flames
Incredible String Band
Iron & Wine
Iron Butterfly
Iron Maiden
Isley Brothers
It Bites
Itchy Poopzkid
It’s A Beautiful Day
Ivy League
Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds
J.Geils Band
Jackson 5 THE
Jam
James
James Gang
Jamiroquai
Jane’s Addiction
Japan
Jeff Beck Group
Jefferson Airplane
Jet
Jethro Tull
Jilted John
Jimi Hendrix Experience THE
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Page And Robert Plant
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Joe Jackson Band
…Band
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Joker’s Wild
Jon & Vangelis
Journey
Joy Division
Judas Priest
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
K Naan
KC & The Sunshine Band
Kaiser Chiefs
Kajagoogoo
Karnataka
Katrina & The Waves
Killers THE
King Crimson
Kings Of Leon
Kinks THE
Kiss
Korn
Kraftwerk
Krankies THE
Kula Shaker
Kursaal Flyers
L.A. Guns
Lacuna Coil
Led Zeppelin
Lee Micheals
Legion Of The Damned
Lemon Pipers THE
Lemonheads THE
Lenka
Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade
Level 42
Limp Bizkit
Lindisfarne
Linkin Park
Little Feat
Liverpool Express
Living Colour
Lone Star
Lostprophets
Louise Attaque
Love
Loverboy
Lovin’ Spoonful
Lykke Li
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
M-People
MGMT
Mad Season
Madness
Magna Carta
Magnum
Mamas & Papas
Man, Manhatten Transfer
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Manic Street Preachers
Marbles
Marillion
Marmalade
Maroon 5
Mars Volta THE
Massive Attack
McGuinness Flint
Medicine Head
Megadeth
Men At Work
Men Without Hats
Mental As Anything
Merseybeats
Metal Church
Metallica
Michael Schenker Group THE
Midnight Oil
Mike & The Mechanics
Mindbenders
Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Molly Hatchet
Monkees
Monty Python
Moody Blues THE
Morris Minor & The Majors
Mostly Autumn
Mott The Hoople
Mountain
Move THE
Mr. Big
Mr. Bloe
Mr. Mister
Mud
Mudhoney
Mudvayne
Mungo Jerry
Muse
Mute Math
My Chemical Romance
My Morning Jacket
Mötley Crüe
Mötörhead
Nashville Teens
Nazareth
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Nektar
Neu
New Order
New Vaudeville Band
Nice
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Nickleback
Nightwish
Nikitaman
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Nouvelle Vague
OMD
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Odyssey
Offspring THE
Okkervil River
One Republic
Orb THE
Osmonds
Outlaws THE
Oysterhead
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
O’jays
Pantera
Papa Roach
Parlor Mob THE
Patti Smith Group
Pavlov’s Dog
Pearl Jam
Pendragon
Pet Shop Boys
Peter and Gordon
Phish
Pilot
Pink Floyd
Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours
Pirahnas
Placebo
Plasmatics THE
Platters
Pogues THE
Poison
Police THE
Porcupine Tree
Portishead
Postal Service THE
Prefab Sprout
Pretenders THE
Pretty Things THE
Primal Scream
Primus
Prince
Principal Edwards Majic Theatre
Prism
Proclaimers
Procul Harum
Prodigy
Psp
Psychedelic Furs
Public Image Ltd.
Puddle Of Mudd
Puscifer
Queen
Queens Of The Stone Age
Queensrÿche
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quintessence
Quireboys
Quiver
R.E.M.
REO Speedwagon
Rabbitt
Raconteurs THE
Radha Krishna Temple
Rage Against the Machine
Rainbow
Ramases
Ramones
Rare Earth
Rasmus THE
Raspberries THE
Razorlight
Reamonn
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Rider
Reo Speedwagon
Reply
Right Said Fred
Rise Against
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Rockin’ Berries
Rockpile
Rolling Stones THE
Roxy Music
Rubettes
Run DMC
Runaways THE
Rush
Rutles
Sad Cafe
Saga
Salamanders THE
Samson
Santana
Saxon
Scaffold
Scorpions
Screaming Trees
Searchers
Seether
Selecter
Semisonic
Sensational Alex Harvey Band THE
Sepultura
Sex Pistols
Shadows
Sham69
Shamen
Shangri-Las
Shazam THE
Showaddywaddy
Shriekback
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Silverchair
Simon And Garfunkel
Ocean Colour Scene. I’m ashamed to have forgotten so many talented bands.
Here they are with ‘The Riverboat Song’. What a great riff.
… that entry was KenF’s, FEd. Can’t tell about the video, since I can’t view it here in good ol’ Germany (due to copyright reasons).
Best regards
Taki
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
Simple Minds
Simple Plan
Simply Red
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Skid Row
Skindred
Skunk Anansie
Slade
Slash’s Snakepit
Slaughter
Slik
Slipknot
Slits
Sly & The Family Stone
Small Faces
Smashing Pumpkins
Smiths
Smokie
Snow Patrol
Soft Boys THE
Soft Cell
Soft Machine
Sonic Youth
Soulfly
Soundgarden
Spandau Ballet
Sparks
Specials
Specials THE
Spencer Davis Group
Spin Doctors
Spinal Tap
Spirit
Splinter
Splodgenessabounds
Springfields
Squeeze
Staind
Standells THE
Starsailor
Status Quo
Stealer’s Wheel
Steeleye Span
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Stereophonics
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiltskin
Stone Roses
Stone Sour
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone The Crows
Stranglers THE
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawbs
Stray Cats
Style Council
Styx
Sublime
Suede
Suicidal Tendencies
Sum 41
Supermax
Supertramp
Supremes THE
Sweet
Sweet THE
Swing Out Sister
Swinging Blue Jeans
System of a Down
T-Rex
Talk Talk
Talking Heads
Tangerine Dream
Tavares
Tear for Fears
Teardrop Explodes
Tears For Fears
Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes
Temptations THE
Ten Pole Tudor
Ten Years After
Tesla
Testament
Texas
Them
They Might Be Giants
Thin Lizzy
Thomas Oliver Band THE
Thompson Twins
Three Days Grace
Three Dog Night
Thunder
Tin Machine
Tin Tin
Toad the Wet Spocket
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tommy James and the Shondells
Tomorrow
Tool
Toots and The Maytals
Tornados
Toto
Touchstone
Traffic
Transvision Vamp
Travelling Wilburys THE
Travis
One of my favourite videos: Talk Talk’s ‘Life’s What You Make It’.
I’d forgotten about Transvision Vamp. Thanks for bringing them back to me, Taki.
This really did turn out to be a test of memory, didn’t it?
You’re very welcome, and yes, it did test my memory, FEd.
My list of records that I need to buy is now significantly longer, but there are some rarities I need to buy in September.
Best regards
Taki
Treherbert
Tremeloes
Treorchy
Troggs
Troggs THE
Trooper
Tubes THE
Tubeway Army
Turtles
Twisted Sister
Type O Negative
Typically Tropical
Téléphone
T’Pau
U2
UB40
UFO
Ugly Kid Joe
Ultravox
Undertones
Union Gap
Unit Four Plus Two
Uriah Heep
Utopia
Van Halen
Van der Graaf Generator
Vapors THE
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Underground THE
Velveteens
Verve THE
Vibrators
Village People
Vinegar Joe
Violent Femmes
Violinski
Visage
Voice Of The Beehive
Volbeat
WASP
Wah
Walker Brothers
Walls Of Jericho
Wang Chung
War
Warrant
Waterboys
Wayne Toups And Zydecajun
Weezer
Wet Wet Wet
Wham
White Stripes THE
Whitesnake
Who THE
Widespread Panic
Wild Cherry
Wings
Wishbone Ash
Wizzard
Wolfmother
Wombats THE
Wonder Stuff
Wurzels
Wuthering Heights
X-Ray Spex
XIT
XTC
Xtreme
Yardbirds THE
Yazoo
Yazz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yello
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yes
Young Rascals
Youngbloods THE
ZZ Top
Zebra
Zephyrs
Zombies
The total amount had be reduced to 759 because of two duplicates I oversaw.
Best regards,
Taki
…what a start to the weekend.
First an idiot killed 100 people in Norway, then Amy Winehouse joined Club 27.
I can’t find words…
Taki
Oh Amy, Amy, Amy.
RIP
I just read that Amy Winehouse was found dead today, July 23, in her apartment. She was 27.
Scary, another music talent who died at 27 and I believe all the others had issues with drugs/alcohol/life.
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Kurt Cobain
Janis Joplin
Brian Jones
Ron “Pigpen” McKernen (Grateful Dead)
There are others but these are some of the best known. Of course in the case of the Grateful Dead, the last job you want is to play keyboards, I think it was four of them that died and Ron was the first. And I believe Bruce Hornsby is the only one who survived the curse.
Thanks.
Andrew
2 weeks! And believe me, that time will drag past like a handless clock!
My family’s utterly flabbergasted! How do I even begin to describe how much this means to me? My father, a pianist, music teacher, builder, and gardener, had an irregularly ingenious head like Woody Guthrie! In tribute, my ‘ukulele case is inscribed, tongue in cheekily, “This machine kills fascists.”
The Mojo magazine article at the beginning of RW’s announcement of the tour? I bought it just as much for the Woody Guthrie article!
The local folk band jams we go to see every week always include Guthrie songs! Not to mention reading his autobiography and biographies, the Lomax recordings, Arlo’s albums, Sarah Lee Guthrie’s recent children songs, Marjorie Guthrie’s past writings, etc…
And next year is Woody Guthrie’s 100th Birthday! His hometown, Okemah, OK celebrate annually in early July with a free annual folk music festival! See woodyguthrie.org.
I have a dear decrepit bayou friend, another Floydian who in his colorful past was a for-hire chef for many great musicians (The Doors and Janis Joplin), including one party at Alice’s Restaurant! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen his pictures! The church is still there!
Alice’s Restaurant is great!!! I love Arlo. He’s one of very few artists that actually speaks out publicly against America’s Banks. He sees them as a force of great evil.
Of course his dad did as well.
What an amazing voice he has! It’s a pure shock of white electric voltage to hear that lightning bolt live!
… Disappointingly, I made my husband memorize the “Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Masacree Movement” all for nought, as Arlo Guthrie without explanation didn’t perform it! Now we wanna kill, kill, kill (I’m only joking)!
I’m not joking when I say this, that I was in fact the only person wearing a “This Machine Kills Fascists” T-shirt, I must be getting a bit old fashioned!
NO matter: “This Land is Your Land”, “The City of New Orleans” and “Goodnight Irene” were sung heartily by all!
Huddie Ledbetter aka “Leadbelly” is the author of “Goodnight Irene.” Was this song as popular overseas? Arlo mentioned a statue of Leadbelly in Shreveport, LA, which is a stone’s throw from MY hometown “In The Pines”!
Sorry FEd, I’m off topic.
I’m so sad about Amy Winehouse. She was only 27 years old!!
I think she was a great artist, really. I loved her beautiful and amazing black voice. So, I would share my thoughts about her with you.
Thanks.
Hydrea
And one that is always forgotten(dont know why): UFO.
Also Pallas and The Enid for those who were at High Voltage this weekend.
No, it was not.
One of my all time favourites is “Lights out”:
Wind blows back and the batons charging
It winds all the way
Right to the butt of my gun
Maybe now your time has come
From the back streets there’s a rumbling
Smell of anarchy
No more nice time, black boy shoe shines
Pie in the sky dreams
Lights out, lights out in London, hold on tight till the end
Better now you know we’ll never wait till tomorrow
Lights out, lights out in London, hold on tight till the end
God knows when I’m coming on (my) run…..
Hey You Lovers Of Fine Music!!! Did you folks see the new “official” Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon teasers that have been posted onYouTube? They are really, really, wonderful. The Dark Side Immersion Box Set Trailer includes some of the original film that was shown behind them on their tours. It looks like they have better prints than those that are on the “PULSE” DVD. The color and clarity are wonderful. (I can barely wait for that box set. I’ve ordered two copies. One to look at and play and one to stash away–in case something happens to the first copy, once the thing eventually goes out of print.)
There’s a really brief cut showing young Mr. Gilmour singing, during “Us and Them.” Cheeezus, I miss having long hair like that. Remember hoisting yourself out of a pool and feeling it all stuck up against yer back?
Hi David!
This is Luis Martins from Portugal, I’m a big fan of you and I wonder if you may visit a small village in Portugal: Santo Antão do Tojal (Loures).
There is a Plaza called Monumental Plaza from XVI century, that probably is a nice place to make a “small concert” and a nice opportunity to know better our country.
Keep making good music as always!
What an amazing job Taki!
There’s a special edition MOJO 60′s issue finally available in the U.S. this week. It’s got a picture of Mr. Gilmour’s old Busking buddy Syd with two sugar cubes in his mouth. Also one of early Pink on a fire escape on the side of their hotel in California.
As usual Pink Floyd doesn’t get a section in the retrospective. The mainstream rock press has always done a horrible job of writing/notwriting about the Floyd and Gilmour. (I get so mad about that sometimes.) I mean–during the sixties–in a couple of years Floyd had gone from Piper to Ummugumma. Ummugumma is friggin’ amazing. Particularly the live stuff. Astronomy… Set the… and Careful… WOW!!! I’m always stunned when I listen to it.
The Mojo special issue is still amazing though. Packed with fabulous stuff. A lot of it focuses on Brian Wilson’s “Smile.” And there’s a wonderful interview with Eric Burdon who talks about Hendrix, Hendrix’s manager who died in a plane accident, and Hendrix’s money, that washed up on some beach somewhere when the manager died.
The Amazing Taki left out “the Left Banke.” A CD/Vinyl crisp reissue of their best is out now too. “Pretty Ballerina” “Walk Away Rene.”
Love that stuff.
Fabulous job Taki! Wow!
I forgot Little Barrie. They’d be on my list of 500 bands preferred to Radiohead.