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If you had to choose your #1, your 'default', your comfort, your ultimate wax of nostalgia... the one that no bad album or death of a member could ever change- the act that you know when you're old and grey you're still going to go back and rock out to...

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I really need to answer this one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know Destiny's Child really meant that much for you.

I'm sorry, I meant Sugar Ray.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

You know us NY'ers love our Sugar Ray.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

The Beatles

Weezer

The Zombies

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I honestly don't think I have one. Or it changes very regularly.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Hang on. Maybe Van der Graaf Generator, they've been with me a very long time.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

From the look outside the NBC studios this morning, there are likely some kids that someday will be answering Hillary Duff to this question.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead
David Bowie
Bjork

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

This guy I met once signed up for life when he got the CREED logo inked on his arm. Ouch!

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I go back and forth between Funkadelic and Spacemen 3. And the Beach Boys.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 17 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Kinks

― Huk-L, Friday, 17 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I know a guy who has the QUEENSRYCHE emblem tattood on his arm. And his truck has a license plate that says "Q-RYCHE".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I like that dude. That's gusto.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Depeche Mode.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

The Smiths.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan. Love and Theft pushed him ahead of the Stones for me (I dislike everything they did post-Exile)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

This guy I met once signed up for life when he got the CREED logo inked on his arm. Ouch!

Winter `85. My friend Rob wins tix to go see Twisted Sister at Radio City Music Hall (on the Come Out & Play tour). Due to prior-to-show misbehavior, we're drunk. Stumbling later into the huge-apartment-sized men's room of Radio City (seriously, it's fucking huge), I end up standing -- doin' my business -- at a stall adjacent to one being used by a huge, hirsute metalhead in a denim vest. The burly bicep nearest to me boasts a lovingly detailed RUSH tatoo (featuring the pentagram/naked guy motif from 2112). "Hey dude," I ill-advisedly offer, "what's gonna happen when Rush puts out an album you think sucks, eh? You're gonna feel foolish then, I betcha!" Before the gent has the opportunity to rightfully pound me into blubbering submission, I am mercifully ushered out of the men's room with great stealth by two of my friends --- neck undeservedly saved once again.

Still, this many years and changes in stylistic trajectory, I'm sure Rush did let that guy down at some point....to which I say: HA!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

You're asking for a number one and the answer to that's always The Beatles.

It's much more interesting asking for a number two. I've many of them, also untouchable!

― Ismael, Friday, 17 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

alex: ahahahaha

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

The Pet Shop Boys

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

sonic youth, although I go through phases of being a bit bored with them from time to time.

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

KISS might just be the world's most popular answer for a thread like this. My guess is there are quite a few KISS tattoos out there.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Tom Waits

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm not getting a sonic youth tattoo though

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

either bach or beethoven.

yeah, yeah, i know.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

bump

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Prince

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Queen

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I think a proper poll should be done. I find this just as interesting as the year-end and decade threads.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

er.. last word in the last post should be "polls."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Foetus

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

The Dustdevils

― dlp9001, Friday, 17 June 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Bowie. No question. I go through phases with everything else but i can listen to bowie any time of the day or night, and i can find something to appreciate in all of his records (although he made it pretty hard for a while).

― tonyD (noiseyrock), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Smog

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Joan of Arc and/or Boyd Rice

― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Stealing my answer from Ismael above, I can't not say the Beatles at #1, but the Jefferson Airplane/Starship are my #1-A.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

i guess i have to look at which artists i'm a "completist" of, or ones that I have an inordinate number of recordings by AND that I listen to regularly

saint etienne
handsome family
low
royal trux/rtx/neil michael hagerty
neil young
tom waits
underworld
U2
bjork
sleater-kinney
miles davis
oblivians/compulsive gamblers/reigning sound
ellen allien
parliament/funkadelic
al green
willie nelson
white stripes
sonic youth
jay-z
howlin' wolf
lightnin' hopkins

one of those, I suppose.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

miles davis

runners up: james brown, beach boys, chic, kraftwerk, elvis prezley

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

nice job narrowing it down to one, gear!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

you should have seen my shortlist!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

P.Funk

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Probably Cocteau Twins as that's the only band I've really been close to completist about. Maybe The Birthday Party, too. I don't have enough Comsat Angels' mid-Eighties albums or The Glamour, and I don't have more than half of Breathless' output.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

I'll second The Kinks, even if it wasn't always so.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

At one point it was Tool, but cut me some slack; I was in high school.

Right now it's Songs: Ohia, or any other name Jason Molina chooses to go by.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

The Fall

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Bowie. PJ Harvey.

I saw a fancy little sports car in my hometown with a leopard print steering wheel and fuzzy dice and a bumper sticker that said Bret Micheals on it. Then I looked closer, and it also had a Poison sticker on the back, and another bumper sticker that said "and on the 8th day, God created Bret Micheals." ???? I took a picture of it but it turned out kind of shitty, otherwise I'd post.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 18 June 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

i think it will be will oldham and related projects for a while.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Sting ... Sylvian is a very close second

― bahtology, Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

pavement.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Because I'm weak ...I'm going to succumb to predictability.....

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Um, is it pretty well known who I'd pick in this thread? Yeah, thought so.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

prince, without a doubt

― peter smith (plsmith), Saturday, 18 June 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

Al Green. Definentely Al Green.

― short Circuit in third person, Saturday, 18 June 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Nick Cave
Pearl Jam

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Tough call. For nostalgia: REM (but they kinda suck so hard now, it's hard to hang tough). I think it's easier to go with someone who's output is over and done with, in which case I'd go....Zep. They're like the perfect cocktail: broad range, formative years, a deep and abiding love for hobbits.

Unless, of course, we just forget everything REM did after New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

viable contenders:

frank zappa
david bowie
wu-tang clan
gary numan
brian eno
kraftwerk
my bloody valentine
echo and the bunnymen

... ALL of whom having broken my heart at least ONCE (except for, maybe, my bloody valentine) :,(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Saint Etienne.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

technasia

maurizio/basic channel/rhythm & sound/main street

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

dEUS and Madonna. Probably Neneh Cherry at some point but it wasn't meant to be. This was probably due to her collaborations with Eagle-Eye and Youssou.Actually you can scratch Madonna off the list as well, with her kabbalah mumbo jumbo she kinda lost me as well. So uh...

dEUS.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Saturday, 18 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

I'd pick Popol Vuh, Human League, Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis and Magazine. The k-suction of the later Genesis rekkids does not detract one iota from the mighty goodness of "Nursey Cryme" and "Trespass". OTOH, a couple of years ago, King Crimson would have been on the list, but they seem to have, I dunno, weakened in some way in the last few years.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Shirley Collins as well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

What's all this multiple names bullshit? The question asked for ONE, people!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

BRAVO ALEX!

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Saturday, 18 June 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. Picking a bunch of artists that you love = Easy. Choosing your number 1 foreva = Very Hard (unless you're, ooh, a Killing Joke fundamentalist?)

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Alex, I was *typing out loud*. :-)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't narrow it down to one, sorry.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Well, OK, Genesis, probably, though if you'd asked me last month it'd have been Popol Vuh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Wu Tang

*OR* a style: dubby techno / microhouse

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 18 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Damn. This is hard.

Galaxie 500

(!?)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 18 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

This one was easy for me- Blur. Lots of bands that I like quite a lot, but none that I always love like them. Maybe it's because I first started listening to them in college when I started taking red eyes across the US, and since I'm completely unable to sleep on any airplace ever, I have all these memories of sitting up all night, looking out the plane window, listening to Parklife or Modern Life.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 18 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

any airplace ever
any airplane ever... :-P

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 18 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Husker Du

(but Ween follows closely...if it just wasn't for that damned Quebec.)

― Christian, Saturday, 18 June 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Ween, Nirvana, Beatles, in that order

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 19 June 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins

― Roadkill Bingo (Roadkill Bingo), Sunday, 19 June 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Walter Gibbons

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 19 June 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Yasujiro Ozu

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 20 June 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Him.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 20 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

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