How many bands would you consider yourself a hardcore fan of?

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there are 4, but I am not a completeist about any of them

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm... bands/artists where I own just about every record and then some:

Bob Dylan *
Neil Young
Rolling Stones *
Led Zeppelin *
Miles Davis **
John Coltrane **
Quicksilver Messenger Service *
Prince
George Clinton and projects ***
Fred Anderson
Ornette Coleman **
Anthony Braxton ****
Art Ensemble of Chicago *****
Sun City Girls ******

* I own at least 6 bootlegs each by all these artists.
** yes, I really do have just about everything, thanks to the glory of boxsets. Got both artist's Prestige sets, Miles's complete Columbia and Capitol sets, John's Atlantic and Impulse sets, Miles's Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud and various 80s sessions, John's Bethlehem recordings and various Blue Note appearances as leader and sideman... Even a few Coltrane boots. Oh, and I'm pretty sure I own close to every note Ornette Coleman has played.
*** got just about everything. All the Parlet albums, all the Horny Horns albums, the Eddie Hazel lp, the Godmomma lp, the George Clinton "Family Recordings" series of CDs ... sheesh, even the "By the Way of the Drum" 12" and the freakin' Jimmy G and the Tackheads lp.
**** I've got everything up until about the mid-80's
***** Ditto (basically, everything up until their stint on DIW)
****** Yeah, I am a collector scum. I really do have just about every note these guys have officially released.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I'm a completist about anything these days. I guess if I had to pick a few artists I'd say I really loved, it'd be;

Talk Talk
Orbital
Outkast
Disco Inferno
The Stone Roses
Bark Psychosis

But that's totally subject to change every five minutes, and doesn't take into account all the artists who I love one and a half albums or a few singles or just one damn song by. I really wouldn't want to never be able to hear "Groove Is In The Heart" or 3ft High & Rising or "Lazarus" or Dig Your Own Hole or "I Want You Back" or In A Silent Way again, but there are big chunks of each of those artists' output that I'm not arsed about in the slightest.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 29 February 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

soul coughing is about the only band i've ever gone head over heels for and even that has faded since they broke up

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Now - Belle and Sebastian.

Back in the day - the Manic Street Preachers

Also the Boo Radleys, Teenage Fanclub, the Trash Can Sinatras, Jesus and Mary Chain to some fair extent as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots and none. You know how it goes.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh...you got a while?
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 29th, 2004

HAHAHHA...yeaaah...gonna have to think for a bit...

Stooges/Iggy Pop
Replacements/Paul Westerberg
Beat Happening
Clash
Ramones
Stone Roses
The Smiths
Velvet Underground
Cheap Trick
The Clean
X-Japan
Guitar Wolf
Fall
MBV
Pixies
Pavement
GBV
Augustus Pablo/King Tubby
Desmond Dekker
Willie ColÃ³n/Hector Lavoe/RubÃ©n Blades
Mano Negra/Manu Chao
Soda Stereo
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
A Tribe Called Quest
DJ Shadow
Boards of Canada
Husker Du
Devo
The Police (NUT teh Sting!!!)
Men At Work
Misfits
Nirvana

...that's as close to definitive as you're likely to get from me.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

none : (

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably the only _real_ contender would have been Low, but I've kind of lost interest since "Trust".

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"bands": none
genres: plenty

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

labels: even more

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew I was going to forget a few...

T. Rex
Selena
Black Sabbath
Buzzcocks
The Jam
Angelo Badalamenti

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm somewhat of a completist for the following bands/artists:

Metal:

Countess
Ildjarn
Burzum
Darkthone
Iron Maiden
Katatonia (at least the pre-2000 stuff)

Dance:

M.I.K.E.
Ural 13 Diktators
Legowelt

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 29 February 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Beach Boys, Pavement, Danielson Famile and, wierdly, most Dave Pajo projects bar Zwan.

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Sunday, 29 February 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with the completist requirement. Therefore:
David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Radiohead
Pulp
Blur
Nirvana
Bjork
PJ Harvey

― d. powers (popmatters devon), Sunday, 29 February 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Richard Hell/The Voidoids. And Foreigner.

― d. powers (popmatters devon), Sunday, 29 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Although some of these I no longer obsess too much over since I have most of their stuff already and/or they split up but:

The Boo Radleys
The Beach Boys
Aphex Twin
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
Plaid
Autechre

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 29 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Velvets
Clash
Go-Betweens
Replacements
X
Ramones
White Stripes

Wow, how utterly white of me.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Just Radiohead.
But that's because I'm so hardcore about them that in comparison nothing else could possibly qualify.
If hardcore just meant "I own all their albums and would definitely try to see them live if they played nearby," then there would be a lot more bands on the list.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

far too much out there to be a 'hardcore' fan of anything.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, ok.

We all know my answer.

Foo Fighters and Killing Joke.

I've been fine without Nirvana. Really. But I've got to listen to Killing Joke on vinyl at least once a day. And I'm a huge Foo Fighter fan and have to have those cds.

I'm more of a 'hardcore' Dave Grohl fan than anything else, really.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ferenc

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Completist? None, I'm too fucking old for that sort of thing anymore.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I guess the only bands that I'm a hardcore fan of are

Yes
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
Blur

but if we stick to the completist rule, please add:

Throwing Muses
Fugazi
...Trail of Dead
Appliance
Anathema (post-Darren White)
Ben Harper
Pixies
Breeders
Dandy Warhols
Dream Theater
Genesis (Steve Hackett era)
Eels
Foo Fighters
Girls Against Boys
Gomez
Led Zeppelin
Long Fin Killie
Madrugada
Manic Street Preachers
Mogwai
Placebo
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM
Monster Magnet
Muse
My Dying Bride
Pearl Jam
Porcupine Tree
Poster Children
Red House Painters
Shellac
Shihad
Stone Temple Pilots
Super Furry Animals
Tea Party
Tool
Tori Amos
Type O Negative
Verve
etc....

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Numan
Japan
Magazine
Curtis Mayfield
Prince
Roxy Music
Herbie Hancock
Yellow Magic Orchestra

and I own basically everything bassists Mick Karn or Percy Jones have played on

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke
Firewater
Cop Shoot Cop
Stranglers
Devo

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bunnymen
killing joke
replacements
numan
gbv
ramones
pixies
brian jonestown massacre
cheap trick
pernice brothers

― notfazed (notfazed), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I'd consider myself a hardcore fan of some tiny bands. In the way that I go to watch their gigs whenever I can, and that they are a bit scared of me. but the most hardcore one is probably Black Nielson.
I went as far as buying shares in their record company just before the release of their second album, so that there was some money to try and promote the album. Obviously that money I put in wasn's spent on promotions.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I should also add..

the Ramones
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
XTC
Cocteau Twins
...though not all with the same zeal as my afore-mentioned list.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yeah.

And Scream, maybe? I'm not sure. But I've got to have the DC punk!

harDCore!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

There are lots of bands I love, but above all - the living band that I hardcore worship is without a doubt...

http://www.bizzazz.net/photo/sticker/weezer.gif

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My criteria are 1) completist (or near completist), 2) highly rated by me right now (this eliminates Orbital, Stereolab, and many others)

MBV
Drugstore
Spacemen 3 + their descendents
Phil Spector
Pulp
Joy Division + their descendents
Basic Channel + their descendents

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

die hard fan???
probably
The Velvet Underground
Elliott Smith
Death by Chocolate
Cure
Royal Trux
Beatles
Donovan

― mick pack, Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Boredoms
Unwound
Wolf Eyes
Lightning Bolt
Mindflayer
XTC

― BICICLETA EMOCIONAL!!! (Jon Williams) (ex machina), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Roxy Music
Joy Division/New Order
Pavement
Underworld
Wire
Pre-"Blur" Blur

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

And Neu! Neeeeeuuuuu!! I knew I'd leave someone important out.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yea, Neu! for me too!

― BICICLETA EMOCIONAL!!! (Jon Williams) (ex machina), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

low

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, how utterly white of me.
-- Jazzbo (jmcga...), February 29th, 2004.

Is that SUCH a crime?!! I also forgot the White Stripes and Weezer, although I really do hate most Weezer fans.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

sonic youth
will oldham
lightning bolt/olneyville sound system/mr. brinkman, etc.
bardo pond

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

although I really do hate most Weezer fans.
this is the main reason I didn't go to their concert when they played here. A sea of thick rims, tight t-shirts and W hand signs...shudder...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i get hardcaw about:

joy division
my bloody valentine
captain beefheart
spacemen 3
slowdive
jesus and mary chain
royal trux

and startin to get hard over:

the make up/scene creamers/weird war

and hope to one day be the hardest at:

interpol
dead meadow
acid mothers temple

well, soon as they have enough stuff out there to be hardcaw over.

― jess s (too much for my mirror), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

acid mothers have way more than enough stuff out.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.acidmothers.com/Cgi-bin/amt/_graphics/amt_photo/amt_98.1.jpg

― BICICLETA EMOCIONAL!!! (Jon Williams) (ex machina), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur (all the albums, UK versions where there are different songs from the US, a lot of recentish singles)
Beach Boys (but most of that is inherited from my dad's record collection)

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 1 March 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

acid mothers have way more than enough stuff out.
-- Ian Johnson (johni72...), March 1st, 2004.

i guess. i just don't have it all at this stage... add them to the attempting-to list.

― too much for my mirror (too much for my mirror), Monday, 1 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck, Chemical Brothers, P-Funk, Van Halen (through 1984), Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, RJD2, Lifter Puller, The Clash and Outkast (as a duo, damn it). And the Strokes. And fifty other groups that escape me at the moment.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 1 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I also have more cash-in mid '70s LPs of Jimi Hendrix outtakes than I really should

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 1 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No one anymore.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 1 March 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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Q and not U
Liars
Belle and Sebastian
Fugazi
Animal Collective
Bjork
sigur ros

working my way up to:
Beach Boys
Love
Eno

― Cap'n Guthrie (Digestion is Easy!), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i own almost everything stephin merritt has ever done, save one future bible heroes e.p. and the showtunes stuff. just met him a month or so ago at a gothic archies performance with lemony snikett, which was great. i don't think there is anyone except maybe pavement that i hold in such high esteem, and alas i am too young to have been around to see them, although i have seen malkmus with the jicks.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

deus, fleetwood mac and dead man ray.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

none

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Yes
Husker Du/Sugar

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

happy to say that these days, none

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Genesis
Depeche Mode
XTC
Crowded House
The Beatles

And that's about it, I think.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

beau brummels
royal trux
sightings

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

how can you consider yourself a hardcore fan of the beatles, geir if you don't like revolution #9?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Grifters
Philistines Jr
My Bloody Valentine (Strwby wine doesn't count)
Cocteau Twins
Flipper
Fila brazillia
Squirrel Bait
Husker Du ( reproduce and remaster)

and 1000 others

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall.
Shihad.
Talking Heads.

― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

how can you consider yourself a hardcore fan of the beatles, geir if you don't like revolution #9?

There are considerably more Genesis tracks that I dislike (OK, I could have said Genesis 1970-1980 to make it more accurate)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

But generally put, I love Beatles whenever they sounded like The Beatles (i.e. mostly, at least through 1967)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

the bands i own the most stuff by and listen to the most are probably the red hot chili peppers, talking heads, and depeche mode. if you count people, also give me theo parrish and carl craig (productions and deejay mixes) and im good to go.

― pipecock (pipecock), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

mahogany, outrageous cherry, rainer maria (RIP), for against. the only one of those i don't have everything by is OC (missing their first album and two 45s)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

about 4 bands

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

Give or take the occasional mediocre live album or unauthorized collection of middling outtakes, I would not want to be without the complete recorded works of:

MX-80 (Sound)
Led Zeppelin
Beatles
Love
John Coltrane Quartet (and, eventually, Quintet)
Velvet Underground
P-Funk
Captain Beefheart
minutemen

Black Sabbath, Pere Ubu, Van Halen, Motorhead all coulda made this list but for unfortunate changes in personnel that altered 'em forever. (My support for most bands is mile-wide/inch-thick.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Melt-Banana
Aretha Franklin

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

different collections were built up at different points in my life . . .

high school:

The Misfits/Samhain
Throbbing Gristle
Velvet Underground
Swans
Sonic Youth
Einsturzende Neubauten

college:

Nurse With Wound
Enoch Light
Borbetomagus
Autechre
AMM

grad school:

Iannis Xenakis

In terms of sheer number of releases owned it is a tie between Nurse WIth Wound and Enoch Light.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

for me, most of the bands around the mr bungle axis - faith no more, fantomas, secret chiefs 3, trevor dunn's trio convulsant, lovage, ASVA, tomahawk, etc. not only do I have all the official releases, but I'm also awash with bootleg audio and video. I suppose that qualifies as 'hardcore'.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

2.5

― chad (chad), Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

ever since file-sharing got easy i haven't had the displeasure of being obsessed with any band to the point of buying every crappy album, thank god.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

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