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

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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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Boredoms
Unwound
Wolf Eyes
Lightning Bolt
Mindflayer
XTC

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

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

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

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

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

yea, Neu! for me too!

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

low

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

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

acid mothers have way more than enough stuff out.

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

No one anymore.

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

Shellac
Big Black
Fugazi
McLusky

I don't have *complete* collections of any of those in fact. like someone said there is far too much stuff out there.

People who get obsessive over labels - why? (I'm not being rude, I want to know)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link

People who get obsessive over labels - why?

after a while you get used to a certain quality of output. there's at least several labels in existence now where i know i'm more than likely to really get into every new release they issue

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

Oh there are probably a dozen of them for me - but to obsess over them, as opposed to just looking out for stuff they release, seems a bit remiss

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link

i guess that might depend on how you define 'obsess'. i mean, does checking the label's website weekly to see what their upcoming releases are and then buying them on the day of release count as obsessed?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

none really - but the closest would be Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers and a few years back The Prodigy and 808 State

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link

Minor Threat
The Makeup
Nation of Ulysses
Slickee Boys
State of Alert
Ignition

― lucas (lucas), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago) link

Wow. The Slickee Boys! Whatever happened to them?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

The Cure
Pulp
The Smiths
Saint Etienne
Pixies
Blur
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Suede (til Head Music anyway)
New Order/Joy Division
Spiritualized
The Flaming Lips
Belle & Sebastian
Stereolab

fuck, what a tedious canon.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

oh, and The Divine Comedy.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

Musical Youth

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

Joy Division/New Order
Chic
Augustus Pablo
Bowie
Stockholm Monsters
Abba
A Certain Ratio
Kraftwerk
World Of Twist
Dusty Springfield
X-Ray Spex
The Kinks
King Tubby
Subway Sect
The Zombies
The Jam
D.Ross/Supremes
Human League
Magazine

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

Replacements / Westerberg
Husker Du / Mould
Bad Religion
Atmosphere
Walt Mink
Jayhawks

― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

+ Black Dice
+ Xiu Xiu

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

-- 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 years ago) link

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