there are times i genuinely believe this to be the best configuration for a band.
so, let's do this.
are there 100 decent bands that fill this criteria ?
10001. carter usm.100. sisters of mercy.99. the three johns...
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
98. Big Black
― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
97. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
yes !
i need more reminders.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
i would say age of chance, as jan just basically hit trigger pads, but if she found out i had dissed her, she would wooop my arse.she was always one scary fucker.in all the years i lived in leeds and knew them, she never once smiled.so, instead i will say :
96. sigue sigue sputnik.
i realise that people probably think they had the whole dual drummerz thing, but when they reformed and toured priatespace, it was a drum machine.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
95. Godflesh
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
94. earl brutus
don't recall them having a drummer ?
and no point in asking them as they were always beyond the state of recollection.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
93. The Hunters Club
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
never heard any of their stuff.
guess i need to revise that situation then.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Everything before Gimme Your Soul has a drum machine.
92. Clan of Xymox91. Cocteau Twins
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
March Violets!
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
xp Didn't Jesus & Mary Chain have a drum machine period?
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
89. Metal Urbain
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
88. Stupid Set
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
87. Morsüre (the Metal Urbain of thrash metal)
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
86. Young Marble Giants85. Cocteau Twins84. Bis83. Echo & The Bunnymen (very early on)82. The Field Mice81. The XX80. Arab Strap79. The Jesus Lizard (very early on)78. The Cassandra Complex77. Shock Therapy76. Trisomie 2175. Screaming Trees (UK)74. Cabaret Voltaire73. Psychic TV72. W.M.T.I.D.71. Clair Obscur70. New Order (Blue Monday)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
some of those obviously only on certain releases, ie Nag, Nag, Nag for Cabs, Pagan Day (and a few others) for PTV.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:06 (nine years ago) link
69. Ministry68. Die Krupps
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
Most ebm bands use both real drummers and machines + real guitars and sampled ones, imho?
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
67. The Young Gods
66. The Prodigy
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
Maybe you should have explicitly excluded keyboards, dunno?
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
65. The Manics circa Generation Terrorists.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
no guitar in the young gods. :-)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:20 (nine years ago) link
No real guitar, no, loads of sampled ones...
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link
of course! i was just being an uber pedant.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
64. Agoraphobic Nosebleed63. Mortician
― theboyqueen, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
62 Days Of Static
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:34 (nine years ago) link
61. The Cure60. My Bloody Valentine
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:38 (nine years ago) link
59. The Gist
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
58. Darkspace \m/
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
57 The Glove56 Wall of Voodoo55 Timbuk 3
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
54. Wire
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:56 (nine years ago) link
53. Hot Chip
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
This Heat? (feels right but not 100% sure)
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:00 (nine years ago) link
charles hayward IS a machine but no drum machine in this heat.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:04 (nine years ago) link
52. ciccone youth
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (nine years ago) link
51 Butthole Surfers (circa Widowermaker)
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (nine years ago) link
no bass but who cares
50 Octis49 Noism
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
No number because it's only one thing: David Byrne doing Psycho Killer in Stop Making Sense
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:10 (nine years ago) link
48. yes the Jesus & Mary Chain did have a drum machine period.
― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
That lone Palace album with acoustic gtr + drum machine. Arise Therefore?
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
47 Palace Music (lol)
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:16 (nine years ago) link
46. Grandaddy
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
45. Portion Control
― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:14 (nine years ago) link
oh wait, the guitar thing
more albini related stuff: breaking circus, bastro, arsenal
― cgi bubka (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
Very few bands that can resist the temptation to throw in more electronics than just the drum machine.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 March 2015 08:52 (nine years ago) link
89. Cafe tacvba
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:07 (nine years ago) link
46. Chromatics
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:08 (nine years ago) link
did not know that re the manic street preachers.
― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:22 (nine years ago) link
45. war on drugs
― nostormo, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
Micachu (sans Shapes)
― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:22 (nine years ago) link
Wait, 44. HTRK
― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
Bis had keyboards too
have they ever recorded anything in this formation?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
I thought that there was an era of Prong where this was the case, but wikipedia has proven me wrong.
― how's life, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Am I mixing up Hot Chip with another dance/rock act? xp
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Sisters of Mercy should be #1 tbrr
― example (crüt), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Tho I think a lot of the basslines on their records were played by sequencers? At least on Floodland.
― example (crüt), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
i agree they should ..
― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
only a half entry because local bands who "released" 4 songs on a CD-R probably don't count, but,
43.5 RIP my once-favourite local band Elapse-O
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
43 Algebra Suicide
― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Am I mixing up Hot Chip with another dance/rock act?
I don't know, are you? You've named a band that used to tour with five keyboard players and no other members, and have three live drummers in their current line-ups, though. (Only two at a time; one is for US visa reasons.)
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
42. The Austerity Program
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
41. westworld !
can't believe I forgot about them until now
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
40. red lorry yellow lorry
saw them live with this set up and they were immense
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
RLYL are already at 97.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
I tried to check .. but on my phone so missed it.sorry.as you were
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
39. The KVB
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link