Famous bands with whom you couldn't name a single member of them

Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch

Which band do they belong to?

you don't know who don henley is?

oh jeez what am i doing?

Hahahah!

Canned Heat
Chicago
Incredible String Band

A few more:

Boston
Chicago
WASP

peter paul and mary

(x-post)

So they weren't actually called Peter, Paul and Mary?

Ohio Players

Average White Band

Sadly I can name members of all of these bands

Even Chicago?

Peter Cetera

Oh. I'm sorry.

No, I am

Green Day
Offspring

Yeah, sadly I can name some members of nearly all of these from memory, and in some cases I can name all of them. I hate my stupid brain.

WASP

someone should watch Decline and Fall of Civilizatoin Part II: The Metal Years

Like, why should I be able to name multiple members of Deep Purple, Chicago or Toto? Why don't I instead know, like, the quadratic formula?

Blue Öyster Cult
OMD

Procol Harum
Lovin' Spoonful

The O'Jays

Temptations

Tuomas doesn't know much about old groups

The O'Jays has a Levert in them, but that's all I know

quit while you're ahead Tuomas

Aphex Twin

Yeah, I only know the name of one of them

OK, I can't name anyone in OMD. But I can name two members of BOC.

I can name all the members of both!

I'm mostly listing old groups because they have a legendary enough status that people should theoretically know names of the band members even if they don't care about their music. I wouldn't expect the same with new groups, I mean who besides their fans could actually name the members of Linkin' Park or A*Teens?

Procol Harum

Famously, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher.

Lovin' Spoonful

Zalman Yanowski!

OMD Andy McCluskey!

XPOST!!

Right!

THE RESIDENTS!!!

The Residents

x-post!

Snap!

Homer Flynn, Hardy Fox and, until 1981-82, Jay Clem, John Kennedy

And Turbo P was in Snap!

Lovin Spoonful's John Sebastian is pretty famous/well-known

Milli Vanilli!

Snap!'s original rapper was Turbo B and one of the two producers behind the project was called Bellotti, I think.

(xxx-post)

Up With People

Is that a famous band?

Boyz II Men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_With_People

The Dooleys

The Eagles - Don Henly, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Bernie Leadon, Timothy Schmit, Don Felder
Deep Purple - Ian Gillian, Richie Blackmore
Toto - David Paich, Steve Lukather . . . some other guys
Def Leppard - Joe Eliott, Phil Collen, RIck Allen, Viv Campbell
Boston - Brad Delp, Tom Scholz, Fran Sheehan
Chicago - Peter Cetera, Walt Parazaider . . . some other guys

Do you really know none of these names, Tuomas?

No. I've heard the name Steve Lukather, but I thought he was a solo artist.

And Richie Blackmore sounds a bit familiar too... Has he done some solo stuff?

the Eagles is really kinda uh waht

Blackmore was in Rainbow w/Dio

Jan & Dean

Slipknot
Emerson Lake & Palmer

And Richie Blackmore sounds a bit familiar too... Has he done some solo stuff?

Any excuse:

http://www.blackmoresnight.com/photos/promo/RichCand2L.jpg

Short little feller, isn't he?

Well he is trying very hard for the Hobbit look these days

Tuomas you never saw this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGgCraSvbo

Chicago had Terry Kath. Awesome dude.

Around 5 p.m., late afternoon of January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie Don Johnson's home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath — being a gun enthusiast — took a .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Picking up a semiautomatic 9mm pistol, Kath put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, infamously saying, "Don't worry, it's not loaded." (After showing the empty magazine to his friend.) However, one bullet remained in the chamber, killing him instantly — a week shy of his 32nd birthday.

I know very few of the ones suggested early on in the thread, shitty cock-rock ain't my scene.

Oh, jeez, I forgot about Kath.

"And oh how they danced, the little children of Stone 'enge..."

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/bn_promo_2003.jpg

No. I've heard the name Steve Lukather, but I thought he was a solo artist. And Richie Blackmore sounds a bit familiar too... Has he done some solo stuff?

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/echoguitar/the_more_you_know2.jpg

aren't slipknot dudes all just numbers anyway?

Milli Vanilli is a joke, right? Everyone knows Rob Pilatus (RIP) and Fabrice Morvan.

MOODY BLUES

I can name all of them, at the drop of a hat

Ouch!

At the drop of a pointy Blackmore hat I hope.

"Short little feller, isn't he?"

I really really laughed hard reading this.

Milli Vanilli is a joke, right? Everyone knows Rob Pilatus (RIP) and Fabrice Morvan.

*sigh* Dan the joke is that they weren't actually "in" the band

(ie the people that actually made the music, I can't name them.)

Wang Chung

yeah was going to say moody blues. blood sweat & tears, too, if we're talking about the second iteration after kooper left.

They were the faces of the band! They also did the band's dancing!

Um.

they were the cute chinese national anthem girl to the studio musicians' ugly chinese national anthem girl

Ace of Base

War
Tower of Power
Lighthouse
The Dells
Gentle Giant
Steeleye Span
The Five Stairsteps
Girls Aloud
Ready For The World

War - Gary Burdon
Steeleye Span - that guy that joined the Pogues lolz

er Eric Burdon... and then there's that Oskar guy...

Was the Blood Sweat and Tears vocalist dude called David Clayton?

Tower of Power have no names. It's just 'the Tower of Power horns'.

that does actually sound familiar gnarly sceptre

playing fast & loose with "famous" i suppose:
interpol
yeah yeah yeahs
liars
belle & sebastien
beta band (& i love these dudes)

more famous:
3 doors down
nickelback

carlos D has herpes
YYYs = Karen O
B&S = Stuart Murdoch (they namedrop themselves in their songs, come ON!)

Status Quo
Slade
Cake
Climax Blues Band
Crazy Horse
The Chiffons
Spooky Tooth
Wishbone Ash
The Beta Band seconded (and there's been been a recent thread about the leader and I STILL can't remember his name!)

interpol - Carlos D
yyy's - Karen O

heh xx-post

Was the Blood Sweat and Tears vocalist dude called David Clayton?

close: David Clayton Thomas

Crazy Horse - Danny Whitten, Ralph Molina, and uh, that other guy

(they namedrop themselves in their songs, come ON!)

while i certainly don't hate these guys, i've never listened much or paid that much attn when i did

oh yeah, Whitten...always mix him up with Danny Gatton...(Three Dog Night?)

if not, then:

Three Dog Night

arcade fire

Isn't Chad Kroger the Nickelback guy?

Barenaked Ladies

(the singer was all over the news recently, but his name didn't stick...wish I could say the same for their music)...

Arcade Fire = Winn something (butler?) I don't even like them.

^^^Winn Dixie

TV On The Radio

pre-"Skunk" Baxter & Michael McDonald Doobies

Steeleye Span - Ashley Hutchings, Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Terry Woods, some other dudes

I've heard of Maddy Prior...didn't know she was in the Span, though...

Bad Company (though I know one dude came from Free and another from Mott, right?)
Foghat

Amon Duul 1

...Or was Don Henley with them?

REO Speedwagon
Kansas
Goo Goo dolls

Bad Company (though I know one dude came from Free and another from Mott, right?)
Foghat

1. correct...(Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs)
2. "Lonesome" Dave Peverett RIP

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

duh!...Neil Young

Crazy Horse - Danny Whitten, Ralph Molina, and uh, that other guy
FRANK SAMPEDRO! He replaced Whitten. There's still another guy, I think.

Could be wrong.

Talbot

annie from norway
madonna

Billy Talbot (just read Shakey a couple of months ago)

xpost

Goo Goo Dolls has whatsisname Rzeznik.
BNL = Steven Page, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Jim Creegan and... and... another guy. But I live in Toronto.
OMD = Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphries.
TVOTR has a singer named Tunde, a beard named Kyp and a ScarJo producer named Dave Sitek.

Could not name anybody in REO Speedwagon, Kansas or Amon Duul I.

Styx? Herman's Hermits? This Heat? Candlebox? Drive Like Jehu? Midnight Oil?

Slade - Noddy Holder! Always struck me as a fantabulous name.
Spooky Tooth - Mick Jones. No, not that one, the other one. The one who was in Foreigner.
pre-"Skunk" Baxter & Michael McDonald Doobies: Patrick Simmons and that other guy, the lead singer . . . Tom Johnson? Johnston?
REO Speedwagon - Kevin Cronin, Gary Richrath, Alan Somethingorother . . . I think there's a Bruce in there too.
Kansas - Kerry Livgren

All former born-again Christians of a certain age know Kerry Livgren because he went on to form A.D. The same reason we know Mark Farner of Grand Funk, because he went all Jesus-y.

Styx - Tommy Shaw, Dennis DeYoung
Herman's Hermits - Peter Noone!
Midnight Oil - Peter Garrett
Candlebox - beats the hell outta me

i would submit that doing the dances for milli vanilli was more important than doing the singing

Drive Like Jehu?

john 'speedo' reiss!!

Rick Fork

Styx - Tommy Shaw, Dennis DeYoung

Also James "JY" Young and the Panozzo brothers, Fhuck and John. (John is deceased, Chuck is HIV+.)

Yes, I spent a lot of time reading my sister's "Paradise Theater" record jacket as a kid.

Jesus christmas, did I just type "Fhuck?"

I think I know no members of most bands.

Midnight Oil?

Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Rob Hirst, Andrew James (bass 1978-1981), Peter Gifford (bass 1982-1988), Bones Hillman (bass 1989-whenever they broke up)

But I used to be a ridiculously huge fan of these guys.

Drive Like Jehu?

ERIC FROBERG
JONATHAN REIS
MARCUS TROMBINO
MICHAEL KENNEDY

*ahem* JOHN REIS, JR.

boggling at tuomas not recognizing any of the eagles

Live, 3 Doors Down, and their ilk.
Chi-Lites and the Four Tops
Avalanches
Stone Roses
Jesus and Mary Chain
The Bar-Kays
Pet Shop Boys

On tour last week, I asked all 3 of my band mates to name the members of Metallica. They could only come up with Lars.

I wanted to fire them all on the spot.

Pet Shop Boys = Neil Tennant
Live = Ed Kowalczyk

I second Chicago, in the current guise, after Cetera left.

But isn't there a Lamm and a Pankow? I believe those are still in the group...

big sellers in the mall cd shop i worked in as teenager-

toad the wet sprocket
rembrandts
gin blossoms
crash test dummies
counting crows (the lead singer is Dave something, maybe?)

big head todd, unless "todd" was th singer

counting crows = adam durst

jaymc you just went down a few pegs in my book for known someone from Live. However, knowing someone from Pet Shop Boys put you right back where you started.

Gin Blossoms = Jesse Valenzuela?

I could probably identify Jigsaw from a photograph before I could pick out Supertramp.

"Todd" was the singer in Toad the Wet Sprocket. Todd Phillips, maybe?

Two of the guys in Live are named "Chad," and I only know this because of a hilariously biting review that appeared, I think, in SPIN.

Gin Blossoms also have a Robin, I think.

counting crows = adam durst

duritz

for some reason i know that;_;

This thread would be a lot more interesting if we named famous bands we actually LIKE (and even own recordings by) yet can't name any of 'em. Like, say, the Chemical Brothers. (Oh wait, one of 'em's named Simon, isn't he?)

(Has this been suggested already? Sorry, didn't see it.)

^^ good point. all i got is The Beta Band.

oh and Foghat. but now I know one guy's name.

Famous bands with whom you couldn't name a single member of them, although some other poster will name-check a member of a band in your answer for reasons unknown

Jesus & Mary Chain = Jim + William Reid

South
Ratatat
The Liars
Yeasayer
The Walkmen

^^^ Damn, that's almost embarrassing.

BOARDS OF CANADA.

The Coral
Korn/Slipknot/etc (maybe I'm showing my age here)
Pussycat Dolls

The River Bottom Nightmare Band

I think some of you are stretching the definition of "famous"...

a-ha

Bomfunk MCs

Wasn't the A-Ha singer called Morten? Or Torsten?

Anyway...

Basement Jazz
Chemical Brothers
En Vogue

the roots
sleater-kinney (unless that's their name)
the chemical brothers (^^)
rage against the machine
stone temple pilots
big & rich

the roots
sleater-kinney (unless that's their name)
the chemical brothers (^^)
rage against the machine
stone temple pilots
big & rich

^^ Really? I mean, ?uestlove, Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Zach de la Rocha, Scott Weiland ...

xp
Roots = Amir "?uestlove" Thompson
Sleater-Kinney = Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss
Rage Against the Machine = Tom Morello, Zach de la Rocha
Stone Temple Pilots = Scott Weiland
Big & Rich = John Rich

Basement Jaxx dudes are named like Felix Burton and Simon Ratliff or something.

(Close enough.)

(I guess Weiland and Zach are the mega-famous ones there, but for some reason it seems weird to me that one would have much awareness of Sleater-Kinney without knowing at least one of the three names, given that they're so often talked about as individuals, and not just some faceless unit.)

I'm just treating this thread as if it were a trivia contest.

That makes me want to drop some kind of quiz on you

At this point, I would've figured Questlove is almost as famous as the Roots are as a whole.

Cameo

The Beatles
The Troll Steady
Kimi & the Babywankers

questlove Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Zach de la Rocha, Scott Weiland

I've heard or read these names over the years but never remember them, so I think oh the roots - guy with funny name, s/k - teh women, rage - rich communists, stp -- rehab guy, chemical bros - those two palookas and so on

Village People
Earth, Wind & Fire
Iron Maiden
Alabama

To be fair, the Village People were really, really working against you knowing any of their names

Though I am totally going to have to swallow that commend when Chuck 3ddy comes in here and names two of them and recommends their early-80s metal solo records

Bob Marley & The Wailers

This would be a better thread if it was Bands you like with whom..."

The Shangri-las

I expect the professional journalists among you to be more informed than the rest of us illiterati!

you mean big & rich aren't their real names??
mary weiss from the shangri-las put out a good solo record like two years ago maybe.

i wonder what it would be like if i posted on a finnish message board about not knowing the names of famous finnish musical artists.

Big & Rich are their real names, near enough.

Chi-Lites and the Four Tops - Levi Stubbs!
Avalanches - Darren Seltmann, Robbie Chater, Tony DiBlasio, Gordon McQuilten, Dexter Fabay, James DeLaCruz. First three are still in the band. There was the Japanese MC before they had records out, and the old bloke who played percussion when they toured the album too, Peter "Snakey" something.
Stone Roses - Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary "Mani" Mounfield, John? "Reni" Wren?
Pet Shop Boys - Chris Lowe not named yet. Sylvia Mason-James probably just about counts as a member for touring purposes.
Chemical Brothers - Ed Simon (not Simon something) and Tom Rowlands
the roots - Black Thought, Scott Storch, Rahzel and a bunch of dudes who are still in the band.
rage against the machine - Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk, the The Nightwatchman bloke. Tom Morello!
Village People - the Indian's name was Felipe.
Iron Maiden - Bruce Dickinson, Nicko McBrain, and some dudes who haven't written bad Tom Sharpe knockoffs or been hit in the face with a pan. Possibly a Steve Harris? And Eddie.

Is it outside the spirit of this thread to name some '80s-'90s girl groups?

Expose
Sweet Sensation
Divine
Jade
SWV
(someone upthread said En Vogue; me too)

I remember learning one En Voguer’s name when she quit but don’t remember it now

Gin Blossoms - Doug Hopkins (whom I know only because he's the one that wrote all the songs and committed suicide)

So no one has yet been able to name any members of Offspring or Green Day?

Somehow I've always thought the lead of Offspring is called "Chad", but that's just because he feels like a Chad, I have no actual evidence for this.

"lead singer"

DEXTER HOLLAND
NOODLES

BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
TRE COOL
SHUT UP

otherwise known as mike dirnt

Sigur Ros

But no one knows any names of Icelandic musicians besides Bjork.

Dave Sigur
Barry Ros

what about einar

and Kerry Katona?

Sister Sledge
Alphabeat
Tatu
Snow Patrol
Altern 8

snow patrol dude is gary lightsomething innit

"y'all forgot Einar Orn?"

i don't know the names of band members unless i'm a BIG fan, and i only know a name otherwise if i've heard something notable about him/her.

Them, after Van left.

The Sonics
Neu!

Sister Sledge
Alphabeat
Tatu
Snow Patrol
Altern 8

-- Ismael Klata, Friday, August 22, 2008 12:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Best grouping in this thread yet.

Dave Sigur
Barry Ros

Surely Bob Sigur and Edmundo Ros?

TS : taking 20 seconds to type out "dave whatsisface, oh whatwas it I can't remember oh yes and the drummer was called podgycock" vs taking 10 seconds to look it up on wikipedia?

the former

TS : taking 20 seconds to type out "dave whatsisface, oh whatwas it I can't remember oh yes and the drummer was called podgycock" vs taking 10 seconds to look it up on wikipedia?

I thought the idea was that we were doing it from memory.

Sister Sledge
Alphabeat
Tatu
Snow Patrol
Altern 8

-- Ismael Klata, Friday, August 22, 2008 12:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Stumped!

Neu? really? You can't remember a drummer who's name is KLAUS DINGER

Barclay James Harvest

Pure Prairie League
Atlanta Rhythm Section
The Outlaws
Molly Hatchet
Little River Band
Atlantic Starr
Midnight Star

Air Supply

Even tho I can name at least two of them, Supertramp always seems like an especially anonymous band. Also Camel.

I thought the idea was that we were doing it from memory.

yeah but that's like playing Scrabble on facebook isn't it - you don't know if someone's cheating.

I do know the names of some of the Incredible String Band though.

Procol Harum
Uriah Heep
Deep Purple
Arctic Monkeys
Strokes
Ohio Players
The Kinks
Spin Doctors
Boyzone

No wait, Ohio Players' singer was called "Sugarfoot" something, right? Don't know his real name though.

this thread shd be retitled

I bet you Chris Martin doesn't even know what the rest of the guys in Coldplay are called... or look like.

Arcade Fire

This thread should only be for Tuomas, and we, in turn, can help with members of e.g. The Kinks.

Deep Purple

― Tuomas, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:41 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Deep Purple

― Tuomas, Friday, May 9, 2014 5:27 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sort of like with Lost it takes about 6 years to unravel the mysteries of the Deep Purple roster

Deep Purple

this thread shd be retitled

yeah, "Famous bands with whom you couldn't name a single member of them" sounds more like Tuomas was hanging out with David Coverdale and Ray Davies saying, "Dan Morrison? No, that's not it."

Ronan Keating's popularity far outweighs that of boyzone's at this point

Ronan Keating sounds like bizarro world's Ronan Farrow

Oh, Ronan Keating was in Boyzone? I know who he is, but somehow I thought he was in that other boyband.

And speaking of boybands:

Backstreet Boys

I think one of them was called "AJ", or am I wrong?

I would have figured Robin Trower would be the name that people would know in Procol Harum.

Once you know the name Sugarfoot Bonner, it's a hard one to forget in the Ohio Players. P-Funk alumni Junie Morrison was also in the Ohio Players in the early days too.

Mick Box is another good rock and roll name being the guitarist for Uriah Heep.

What about the singer guy from Roxy Music?

Bryan Eno?

ILX scammed me on that one. In that thread you told me the singer guy was Brian Eno, but a couple of weeks later Mandee posted a pic on Facebook with herself and some old geezer, and I asked who the geezer was, and it turned out he was the singer guy from Roxy Music, except that he wasn't Brian Eno!

(xpost)

It was Brian Ferry

Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Crosby Stills and Nash

The Walker Brothers

Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
Schicke, Fuhrs & Frohling

Beck, Bogert & Appice

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank

ABBA

Bon Jovi

John Dummer's Oobleedooblee Band

Tuomas, in all seriousness the singer from Roxy Music is Bryan Ferry. Brian Eno started out in the band and played on their first few records before becoming famous for everything else he did.

i.e. producing "Lucky Leif and the Longships" by Bob Calvert

Not everything.

As Andy Warhol said, "In fifteen minutes time, everyone will have worked with Brian Eno"

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

This is brilliant.

Boyz II Men

Alphaville
Manhattan Transfer
Black Lace
Venom
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Venom: Mantis, Cronos and Abaddon as any fule kno

aka Dave, Geoff and Pete

the Chemical Brothers. are they really brothers? do we know?

Mantis, Cronos and Abaddon - all currently in the runnings for the renaming of Royal Mail.

Jake Bugg
Max Webster

the Chemical Brothers. are they really brothers? do we know?

― frogbs

Dave and Pete Chemical AFAIK

Spin Doctors

sorry to hear that ilx scammed Tuomas

Proper answer: Snow Patrol

Can anyone here name a member of Imagine Dragons?

Does Alex Da Kid count as a member?

Max Webster

― Mark G

I thought Max Webster was pretty commonly known as that group Kim Mitchell was in.

I just googled Snow Patrol to remind myself what there names were and one of them is apparently marrying Courteney Cox next month? (not the singer)

If duos like the Chemical Brothers count then:

Brewer & Shipley
Peters & Lee
Millican & Nesbitt

Iron & Wine

the singer from Snow Patrol has started a supergroup called 'Tired Pony', I don't think I could name anyone in this photo

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/music/article3413739.ece/alternates/s615/Tired-Pony.jpg

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/music/snow-patrol-front-mans-new-super-group-3413743

one of those dudes is the drummer for belle & sebastian

Certainly not the guy in the top left hand corner, Holger Czukay is in the bottom right hand corner though (xp)

Michael Sarrazin bottom left hand corner

its the guy with the beard

Singer from Snow Patrol obv. unaware of the fact that pony is rhyming slang for crap... or is he?

I thought the one with glasses was the one with glasses from Depeche Mode for a moment, but it isn't.

Soundgarden
Belle and Sebastian (unless they have members called "Belle" and "Sebastian", which I doubt)
The Trammps
Stone Temple Pilots
Pussycat Dolls
Franz Ferdinand
Jefferson Airplane
The Killers
Talk Talk

You've got me with Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, I can never tell any of those bands apart. I'm afraid I don't know any Trammps either :(

A new ILX, a new compendium of our intreped hero Tuomas staring into the vast seas of mystery.

What age is Tuomas these days?

I can scarcely believe even Tuomas has never heard of Nicole Sherzinger.

The name does sound familiar... But I couldn't have come up with it by myself.

Steeleye Span
Gentle Giant
Status Quo
Sweet
Travis
Stereophonics
Badfinger (though I think there was a guy named Ham or something)
Climax Blues Band
Be Bop Deluxe
The Outlaws
Thompson Twins

the wurzels (post adge cutler)
the barron knights
the brotherhood of man
the dooleys
oingo boingo
mental as anything
skrewdriver

you don't know who don henley is?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:43 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh jeez what am i doing?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:44 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Train

Warrant

MARRS = A.R. Kane + Colourbox, and I can't name a member of either, so that's a 3-in-1 combo. And I even have an A.R. Kane LP, and "Pump Up the Volume" on cd, tape, and record.

You get extra points because both marrs and ar Kane made their names out of band member initials

how do you not know Danny Elfman = Oingo Boingo?

Loverboy

Godspeed You Black Emperor

You get extra points because both marrs and ar Kane made their names out of band member initials

― real orgone kid (NickB)

Didn't know that about MARRS and A.R. Kane!! Also having difficulty grappling with the information I've learned that a member of MARRS was also in... Skullflower?! *MIND BLOWN*

The National
Muse
Built to Spill
Galaxie 500
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Arctic Monkeys
The Go! Team
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Wrens
The Hold Steady

basically, if you can think of a popular indie-ish band from the past 30 years, chances are I know little to nothing about them

You've never heard of Matthew Bellamy, Bryce Dessner (a decent composer), or Damon & Naomi?

(I'll admit that I can't name members of #s 5-10, even though I own a SDRE album. I don't consider any of those bands famous, though. I doubt most people on a Worcester city bus could name those bands.)

the first two no, Damon & Naomi I have heard of, but couldn't tell you which band they belong to (actually I thought they were a band)

The Beatles.

They are but they used to be in Galaxie 500. xp to Dominique

You've got me with Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, I can never tell any of those bands apart.

Come on, Scott Weiland's death was big news about six months ago.

Beyonce

I don't know who is in this band, but I know they are famous

I'll be sad if Tuomas doesn't know of Don 'n Glenn by now

Beyonce

I don't know who is in this band, but I know they are famous

maybe they call brands different names in Canada?

Come on, Scott Weiland's death was big news about six months ago.

Indeed, I knew he was in one of 'those' bands, didn't know which one.

Kings of Leon

The Dixie Chicks

I couldn't name members of those two either, nor e.g. Imagine Dragons, but I wouldn't have thought that there's a strong reason why non-fans would know the names of individual members in these cases. Grace Slick, on the other hand, should be familiar to anyone with a passing interest in rock history.

Btw, Dominique, you could try out Dessner's _St. Carolyn by the Sea_. It's a pleasant contemporary tonal piece for orchestra and electric guitar. I never really listened to the National but I enjoy this piece.

(xp) Tuomas does not have a passing interest in rock history.

Well, yeah, that's evident from this thread.

Loverboy

You have obviously not read the greatest ilx thread of all time, which got to the heart of the question of whether the cover of Loverboy's Get Lucky features a man's ass or woman's ass. Unfortunately, I can't find the thread.

It took me a minute to remember Jani Lane.

I wanted to say Dani Filth first but I knew that had to be wrong.

Kings of Leon

― MarkoP, Thursday, June 2, 2016 7:32 PM

this is very OTM.
and i read mojo, and they have done massive features re this lot !

I just meant it's likely he's encountered the "Well, yeah" ilx-meme a few times on various threads, whether or not he knows they're former Eagles

xp

You have obviously not read the greatest ilx thread of all time, which got to the heart of the question of whether the cover of Loverboy's Get Lucky features a man's ass or woman's ass. Unfortunately, I can't find the thread.

Deleted in some Google beef iirc

Just remembered that Mike Reno is the lead singer of Loverboy, so that doesn't count.

I did realize today that I couldn't name a single member of the band Slayer, but I think I'm in the minority on that.

I sometimes introduced myself as Mike Reno when I worked in call centres. (I'd try to use a different name each call some nights. You take your kicks where you can with that job.) No one ever questioned that one. My supervisor in Montreal and I had kind of a post-xhuxk fascination with Loverboy.

Pretty sure I couldn't name anyone in Harlequin

Lol, I couldn't either.

I'll be sad if Tuomas doesn't know of Don 'n Glenn by now

I watched the Netflix documentary on Eagles a while ago, so yeah, I know those names now.

Thompson Twins

― henry s, 2. kesäkuuta 2016 19:50 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thomson and Thompson, duh!

And yeah, I'd come across the name "Don Henley" on ILM before, I even recognized his hit tune when it played in the documentary, I just didn't know he used to be in the Eagles. The doc also taught me that catchy "Heat is On" tune from my childhood was also by a former Eagle.