there are times i genuinely believe this to be the best configuration for a band.
so, let's do this.
are there 100 decent bands that fill this criteria ?
10001. carter usm.100. sisters of mercy.99. the three johns...
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:04 (ten years ago)
98. Big Black
― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:05 (ten years ago)
97. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:06 (ten years ago)
yes !
i need more reminders.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:07 (ten years ago)
i would say age of chance, as jan just basically hit trigger pads, but if she found out i had dissed her, she would wooop my arse.she was always one scary fucker.in all the years i lived in leeds and knew them, she never once smiled.so, instead i will say :
96. sigue sigue sputnik.
i realise that people probably think they had the whole dual drummerz thing, but when they reformed and toured priatespace, it was a drum machine.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:11 (ten years ago)
95. Godflesh
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:28 (ten years ago)
94. earl brutus
don't recall them having a drummer ?
and no point in asking them as they were always beyond the state of recollection.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:56 (ten years ago)
93. The Hunters Club
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:01 (ten years ago)
never heard any of their stuff.
guess i need to revise that situation then.
― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:02 (ten years ago)
Everything before Gimme Your Soul has a drum machine.
92. Clan of Xymox91. Cocteau Twins
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:06 (ten years ago)
March Violets!
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)
xp Didn't Jesus & Mary Chain have a drum machine period?
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)
89. Metal Urbain
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)
88. Stupid Set
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:17 (ten years ago)
87. Morsüre (the Metal Urbain of thrash metal)
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:19 (ten years ago)
86. Young Marble Giants85. Cocteau Twins84. Bis83. Echo & The Bunnymen (very early on)82. The Field Mice81. The XX80. Arab Strap79. The Jesus Lizard (very early on)78. The Cassandra Complex77. Shock Therapy76. Trisomie 2175. Screaming Trees (UK)74. Cabaret Voltaire73. Psychic TV72. W.M.T.I.D.71. Clair Obscur70. New Order (Blue Monday)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:03 (ten years ago)
some of those obviously only on certain releases, ie Nag, Nag, Nag for Cabs, Pagan Day (and a few others) for PTV.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:06 (ten years ago)
69. Ministry68. Die Krupps
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:13 (ten years ago)
Most ebm bands use both real drummers and machines + real guitars and sampled ones, imho?
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:14 (ten years ago)
67. The Young Gods
66. The Prodigy
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:15 (ten years ago)
Maybe you should have explicitly excluded keyboards, dunno?
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:16 (ten years ago)
65. The Manics circa Generation Terrorists.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:18 (ten years ago)
no guitar in the young gods. :-)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:20 (ten years ago)
No real guitar, no, loads of sampled ones...
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:21 (ten years ago)
of course! i was just being an uber pedant.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:25 (ten years ago)
64. Agoraphobic Nosebleed63. Mortician
― theboyqueen, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:27 (ten years ago)
62 Days Of Static
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:34 (ten years ago)
61. The Cure60. My Bloody Valentine
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:38 (ten years ago)
59. The Gist
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (ten years ago)
58. Darkspace \m/
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (ten years ago)
57 The Glove56 Wall of Voodoo55 Timbuk 3
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:50 (ten years ago)
54. Wire
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:56 (ten years ago)
53. Hot Chip
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:57 (ten years ago)
This Heat? (feels right but not 100% sure)
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:00 (ten years ago)
charles hayward IS a machine but no drum machine in this heat.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:04 (ten years ago)
52. ciccone youth
― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (ten years ago)
51 Butthole Surfers (circa Widowermaker)
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (ten years ago)
no bass but who cares
50 Octis49 Noism
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:06 (ten years ago)
No number because it's only one thing: David Byrne doing Psycho Killer in Stop Making Sense
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:10 (ten years ago)
48. yes the Jesus & Mary Chain did have a drum machine period.
― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (ten years ago)
That lone Palace album with acoustic gtr + drum machine. Arise Therefore?
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (ten years ago)
47 Palace Music (lol)
― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:16 (ten years ago)
46. Grandaddy
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:25 (ten years ago)
45. Portion Control
― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:14 (ten years ago)
oh wait, the guitar thing
more albini related stuff: breaking circus, bastro, arsenal
― cgi bubka (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:15 (ten years ago)
Very few bands that can resist the temptation to throw in more electronics than just the drum machine.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 March 2015 08:52 (ten years ago)
89. Cafe tacvba
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:07 (ten years ago)
46. Chromatics
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:08 (ten years ago)
did not know that re the manic street preachers.
― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:22 (ten years ago)
45. war on drugs
― nostormo, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:15 (ten years ago)
Micachu (sans Shapes)
― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:22 (ten years ago)
Wait, 44. HTRK
― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:23 (ten years ago)
Bis had keyboards too
have they ever recorded anything in this formation?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:53 (ten years ago)
I thought that there was an era of Prong where this was the case, but wikipedia has proven me wrong.
― how's life, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:12 (ten years ago)
Am I mixing up Hot Chip with another dance/rock act? xp
― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:54 (ten years ago)
Sisters of Mercy should be #1 tbrr
― example (crüt), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:42 (ten years ago)
Tho I think a lot of the basslines on their records were played by sequencers? At least on Floodland.
― example (crüt), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:44 (ten years ago)
i agree they should ..
― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:55 (ten years ago)
only a half entry because local bands who "released" 4 songs on a CD-R probably don't count, but,
43.5 RIP my once-favourite local band Elapse-O
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:20 (ten years ago)
43 Algebra Suicide
― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:22 (ten years ago)
Am I mixing up Hot Chip with another dance/rock act?
I don't know, are you? You've named a band that used to tour with five keyboard players and no other members, and have three live drummers in their current line-ups, though. (Only two at a time; one is for US visa reasons.)
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2015 20:53 (ten years ago)
42. The Austerity Program
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:33 (ten years ago)
41. westworld !
can't believe I forgot about them until now
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:14 (ten years ago)
40. red lorry yellow lorry
saw them live with this set up and they were immense
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)
RLYL are already at 97.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:32 (ten years ago)
I tried to check .. but on my phone so missed it.sorry.as you were
― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)
39. The KVB
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:00 (nine years ago)