Bands sucking other entire bands into themselves

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does this count, though, if Stipey sat the collaboration out? (I could never understand why there wasn't a proper duet on Sentimental Hygiene, since Stipe was at his most duet-happy at the time. Must be some personal reasons).

i thought of that but since stipe shows up to sing harmony on one track on sentimental hygiene ("bad karma"), i figured that qualified for a complete sucking of the entire band. i always assumed the reason stipe wasn't around otherwise was that the whole project was just something for the rest of the band to do when stipe wasn't around. not that i ever really thought about it that much.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

rollins band ate mother superior. and then, thankfully, spat them out again.

Rollins also ate Scornflakes.

― mike a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Alex Harvey ate Tear Gas

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Parliament ate the JBs.

... and United Soul

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Guided By Voices ate Cobra Verde.

― goldmatt, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Heaven 17 ate B.E.F

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

10cc ate Hotlegs

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

And Yes ate the Buggles, of course.

Yes have done this a lot. In 1980 they ate Buggles, in 1983 they ate Cinema, and in 1991 they ate Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a difference between eating another group and becoming another group. Hotlegs became 10cc, 10cc didn't exist before Hotlegs. And BEF was a spin off from Heaven 17, so that doesn't count either.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Henry Cow ate Slapp Happy and spat out the Art Bears

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Hotlegs became 10cc

Graham Gouldman became a member the moment 10cc were formed.

And BEF was a spin off from Heaven 17

Wrong. Heaven 17 was a spin off from BEF that proved to last.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Was there a more recent iteration of this thread notion?

Anyway -

Cardiacs fully assimilated a group called Ad Nauseam IIRC.

― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link

I think they only grabbed 2/4 of AN tbh - there was also a bassist and a saxophonist which they passed over!

They also nicked 2/3 of Sidi Bou Said to be their backing vocalists, lol

― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link

Love drank Baby Lemonade.

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link

Soft Machine slowly ate Nucleus until there were no original Soft Machiners left.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link

Didn't the Moray eels eat the Holy Modal Rounders?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link

the circulatory system wound up eating the olivia tremor control, but then bill doss died

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link

in 1973 a German band called Dawn Road ate the Scorpions but then decided to use the name Scorpions since they had an album out already and some renown

― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link

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