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

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Groups I'm most fanatical about:

Morphine
Ween
Outkast
Talking Heads
The Roots

Soloists I'm most fanatical about:

Tom Waits
Cee-Lo
Bjork

Only group I might be willing to kill whilst defending the honor of:

Fishbone

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If I listed every band that I've ever been a fanatical fan of, my fingers would fall off.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I came near to this was Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, four or five years ago. I can't see it ever happening again to be honest, my listening is too atomised now.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

In a league of their own:
Captain Beefheart

Under control by comparison:
The Damned
Tom Waits

Mere passing adolescent flirtations:
Aztec Camera
Bauhaus
Buzzcocks
Nick Cave
Chumbawamba
Ornette Coleman
The Cure
Miles Davis
The Fall
Flaming Lips
Joy Division
Killing Joke
Magazine
Charles Mingus
Monochrome Set
Penetration
Pere Ubu
Pixies
Prefab Sprout
The Slits
The Smiths
Theatre Of Hate
The Vibrators
Frank Zappa
XTC

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

At the moment, not completist or anything, off the top of my head:

Shellac
Fugazi
PJ Harvey
Tool
Nirvana

― mei (mei), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

used to be with Prince, Moby, Pavement years ago. none anymore though.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (anthonymicci...), March 1st, 2004.

You know, it's funny, 'cuz I was so apalled by this unrepentant fanboy behavior when I first encountered it my first year of college that I actually dared to investigate further, and thus, the rest is history. As they say!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

+ Black Dice
+ Xiu Xiu

― BICICLETA EMOCIONAL!!! (Jon Williams) (ex machina), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

def. Radiohead, borderline obsessive with the Drive-By Truckers, recovering REM-aholic

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Royal Trux/Neil Michael Hagerty
Pavement
Red Crayola
Grateful Dead (more and more all the time!)
Bob Dylan (though I'm a little burned out)
Unrest
Sebadoh
Aphex Twin
Lync (even though they just made one album)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and the one Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers album... nuts, I couldn't live without that, either.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe I forgot to mention Saint Etienne and Skynyrd and Al Green and War

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

HI:

PITCHBLENDE (own a portion of the original cover art to their last record, take a guess which one!)
BOREDOMS (played first super aRe era material in the united states live at my radio station when i was in the booth)
MY BLOODY VALENTINE (getting my copy of loveless signed by all 4 members)
PAVEMENT (saw them live over 25 times between 1991-1996)
DRIVE LIKE JEHU (own original LPs/7" with custom artwork, saw them live over 12 times)
FURTHER (words can not say)

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Spoon
Pixies
Wire
Yo La Tengo
Marvin Gaye
Tribe Called Quest
Massive Attack
Bowie
Joy Division
Stevie Wonder
The Byrds
Gram Parsons
The Kinks
De La Soul
Velvet Underground
The Clash
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Ultramagnetic MCs/Kool Keith
Elvis Costello
Run DMC
(kind of boring really)

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm embarassed to admit that I used to have a Sebadoh collage covering the door to my room. Ah, 1996.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

By "embarrassed," I hope you mean proud as hell!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my serious answer after my hilarious ferenc joke

daft punk, jacques lu cont. maybe just daft punk really though. or maybe even just thomas bangalter.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Not necessarily (though very probably) my favorite bands, but I would probably be considered a hardcore fan of:
My Bloody Valentine
New Order
Jesus and Mary Chain
Avalanches
Daft Punk
Todd Edwards
Galaxie 500
House of Love
Loop
Phoenix
KLF

there are tons of bands I like equally but know that there are WAY more hardcore fans out there:
Pulp
Roxy Music
Spacemen 3
many more.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

-- Bruce Urquhart (burquhart...), March 1st, 2004.

YOU CALLING ME BORING, BIYATCH?!1

Uhmmm...nice choices, dude...

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel overjoyed to meet anyone who is hardcore about..

disco inferno
galaxie 500
kendra smith
the clientele
love as laughter
the fall
the marine girls
the stockholm monsters

and many i forget!

― chomi2004, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose i'm hardcore about galaxie 500, but they don't release much these days

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Queens of the Stone Age?
Iced Earth?

It almost surprises me, that I'm not that hardcore fan of that many bands. Yet, my obssesion for Soundgarden its almost to the point of religious fanatism; you know, ala Alex in NYC with Killing Joke.

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Emmylou Harris
Madonna
Royal Trux
Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers
Hank Williams
Hole/Courtney
Sonic Youth
the Kinks

― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

autechre
Bardo Pond
Cocteau Twins
Mirah
Mogwai
Sleater-Kinney

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

elliott smith
wilco
tom waits
opeth
radiohead

got all the above's records and have played them all to death, have seen them live numerous times (except waits :( ), have dug out most of the rarer stuff, etc.

i'd like to include other bands like the cure, my bloody valentine, katatonia, fugazi, but i'm not quite there.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

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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