top 100 : drum machine, guitars, bass. go.

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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 (eleven years ago)

98. Big Black

― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:05 (eleven years ago)

97. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

― StanM, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:06 (eleven years ago)

yes !

i need more reminders.

― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:07 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

95. Godflesh

― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 22:28 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

93. The Hunters Club

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:01 (eleven years ago)

never heard any of their stuff.

guess i need to revise that situation then.

― mark e, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

Everything before Gimme Your Soul has a drum machine.

92. Clan of Xymox
91. Cocteau Twins

― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:06 (eleven years ago)

March Violets!

― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:09 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

89. Metal Urbain

― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:15 (eleven years ago)

88. Stupid Set

― Sanpaku, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:17 (eleven years ago)

87. Morsüre (the Metal Urbain of thrash metal)

― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:19 (eleven years ago)

86. Young Marble Giants
85. Cocteau Twins
84. Bis
83. Echo & The Bunnymen (very early on)
82. The Field Mice
81. The XX
80. Arab Strap
79. The Jesus Lizard (very early on)
78. The Cassandra Complex
77. Shock Therapy
76. Trisomie 21
75. Screaming Trees (UK)
74. Cabaret Voltaire
73. Psychic TV
72. W.M.T.I.D.
71. Clair Obscur
70. New Order (Blue Monday)

― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:03 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

69. Ministry
68. Die Krupps

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:13 (eleven years ago)

Most ebm bands use both real drummers and machines + real guitars and sampled ones, imho?

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:14 (eleven years ago)

67. The Young Gods

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:14 (eleven years ago)

66. The Prodigy

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:15 (eleven years ago)

Maybe you should have explicitly excluded keyboards, dunno?

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:16 (eleven years ago)

65. The Manics circa Generation Terrorists.

― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:18 (eleven years ago)

no guitar in the young gods. :-)

― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:20 (eleven years ago)

No real guitar, no, loads of sampled ones...

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:21 (eleven years ago)

of course! i was just being an uber pedant.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:25 (eleven years ago)

64. Agoraphobic Nosebleed
63. Mortician

― theboyqueen, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:27 (eleven years ago)

62 Days Of Static

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:34 (eleven years ago)

61. The Cure
60. My Bloody Valentine

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:38 (eleven years ago)

59. The Gist

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (eleven years ago)

58. Darkspace \m/

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:46 (eleven years ago)

57 The Glove
56 Wall of Voodoo
55 Timbuk 3

― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:50 (eleven years ago)

54. Wire

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:56 (eleven years ago)

53. Hot Chip

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 04:57 (eleven years ago)

This Heat? (feels right but not 100% sure)

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:00 (eleven years ago)

charles hayward IS a machine but no drum machine in this heat.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:04 (eleven years ago)

52. ciccone youth

― stirmonster, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (eleven years ago)

51 Butthole Surfers (circa Widowermaker)

― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:05 (eleven years ago)

no bass but who cares

50 Octis
49 Noism

― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:06 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

48. yes the Jesus & Mary Chain did have a drum machine period.

― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (eleven years ago)

That lone Palace album with acoustic gtr + drum machine. Arise Therefore?

― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (eleven years ago)

47 Palace Music (lol)

― cock chirea, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:16 (eleven years ago)

46. Grandaddy

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:25 (eleven years ago)

45. Portion Control

― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:14 (eleven years ago)

oh wait, the guitar thing

― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:14 (eleven years ago)

more albini related stuff: breaking circus, bastro, arsenal

― cgi bubka (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2015 06:15 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

89. Cafe tacvba

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:07 (eleven years ago)

46. Chromatics

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 March 2015 09:08 (eleven years ago)

did not know that re the manic street preachers.

― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:22 (eleven years ago)

45. war on drugs

― nostormo, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:15 (eleven years ago)

Micachu (sans Shapes)

― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:22 (eleven years ago)

Wait,
44. HTRK

― MatthewK, Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:23 (eleven years ago)

Bis had keyboards too

53. Hot Chip

have they ever recorded anything in this formation?

― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2015 11:53 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

Am I mixing up Hot Chip with another dance/rock act? xp

― StanM, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:54 (eleven years ago)

Sisters of Mercy should be #1 tbrr

― example (crüt), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:42 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

i agree they should ..

― mark e, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:55 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

43 Algebra Suicide

― sleeve, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:22 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

42. The Austerity Program

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:33 (eleven years ago)

41. westworld !

can't believe I forgot about them until now

― mark e, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:14 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

RLYL are already at 97.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:32 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago)

six months pass...

39. The KVB

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)

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