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

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I don't mean "oh yeah they're good, I have two of their CDs", but something bordering on obsession. If you were to whittle down your collection to those bands that you literally couldn't live without, who would be left??

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the Fall-ah
Morphine
Richard Buckner
Jayhawks

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan
Beatles
Van Morrison
Neil Young
Todd Rundgren

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

new order/joy division
show + ag (back before with their latest wack 12-inch.stilla fan though.)
curtis mayfield
slick rick
james brown
biggie
marvin gaye
bowie
prince

― sirus (sirus), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh...you got a while?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

got nothin' but time here, son

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm more of a generalist when it comes to music so the only one I can think of in terms of being obsessive about is R.E.M.

For everything else, I'm pretty much content to just own the essential recordings and leave it at that.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Just the prime ones, now...

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Gary Numan
Judas Priest
SPK

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 29 February 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I would interpret 'hardcore' as 'artists about whom I am completist'.

PJ Harvey
Helium/Mary timony
Lida Husik
Geraldine Fibbers/Carla Bozulich
Shannon Wright

I have to be completist about at least one band/artist at any given time, or my life is less fulfilling.

Lots of stuff i consider essential, like old REM or Echo and the Bunnymen, I wouldn't say I'm hardcore about. I'm less hardcore currently about PJH but I love her old stuff enough to never get rid of it, and own enough that it still looks sort of obsessive.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the Old 97's
the Buzzcocks
the Descendents
Mazzy Star
The Jesus & Mary Chain

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

to answer my own question:

U2
Handsome Family
Low
Neko Case
Steely Dan
Yo La Tengo
Stereolab
Underworld

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I couldn't live without Fugazi or Nina Nastasia.

Or Jean Micheal Jarre's "Oxygene".

― billislord, Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry, that was truly atrocious)

― billislord, Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

go-betweens
bardo pond
bowie
sloan
prince
polvo
kool keith

but i could manage without them.

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

james brown
david bowie
the ramones
the make-up

― twelve, Sunday, 29 February 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths
Patrick Adams
Arthur Russell
My Bloody Valentine
Prince
Sly Stone
P-Funk (up until 82 or so)
Tricky (up until 2000)
Joy Division

Those are the artists I'd act the completionist with.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't include acts that are too recent for me to know yet ("I have all their albums!" "They've only released one."

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

And add Levan remixes (although that's mostly in mpeg form).

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young (especially with Crazy Horse) begins and ends all things for me. There is no record I'd rather hear than ANY of his records at any given time, and there is never a mood that doesn't allow me to listen to ANY of his records. He's why I play guitar, why I love music.

Now that that's out of the way, I can mention the second-placers: Royal Trux and Drive By Truckers.

Past obsessions include Morrissey / Smiths, Whiskeytown, The Fall, and Slayer.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

parliafunkadelicmentthang

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

dEUS (I know far too much about'em. if Tom Barman ever needs to relive his past, he can come to me.)
fleetwood mac (i know little trivia, but i know their music far too good.)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

none!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

none!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Velvet Underground
The Flaming Lips
Radiohead
Nirvana
My Bloody Valentine
Pixies

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

nonions.

― russignol, Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Spacemen 3/Spectrum/Spiritualized
The Church

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 29 February 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

Wow. The Slickee Boys! Whatever happened to them?

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

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-two years ago)

oh, and The Divine Comedy.

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

Musical Youth

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

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-two years ago)

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

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

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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