Bands sucking other entire bands into themselves

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Like when Fleetwood Mac ate Buckingham Nicks or more recently, The Melvins sucked up Big Business. Any other examples?

― filthy dylan, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

Cerberus Shoal subsumed Tarpigh for a while.

― lurker #2421, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

And Yes ate the Buggles, of course.

― lurker #2421, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

field music ate both new tellers and electronic eye machine

― electricsound, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

Three out of four Turtles (including the core "Flo and Eddie" duo) joined Zappa's band.

― lurker #2421, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:19 (eighteen years ago)

Jimmy Eat World ate the World.

argh sorry

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

melvins ate Big Business

― UncleTomfly, Monday, 9 April 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Parliament ate the JBs.

― The Reverend, Monday, 9 April 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

7 8 9

― latebloomer, Monday, 9 April 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow chewed up then spat out Elf.

― Matt #2, Monday, 9 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Did Bob Dylan suck the Hawks, the Band and the Heartbreakers into himself?

― StanM, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Earth Wind & Fire ate the Pharaohs

― mulla atari, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

and if the Bob Dylan thing is accepted: Neil Young/Crazy Horse?

or is that a whole other thread?

― StanM, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

I think this tends to happen more when bands are still forming. Don't know if you'd count it but didn't Noel Gallagher join Oasis then turn them into his backing band?

― Matt #2, Monday, 9 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

The Loud Family ate This Very Window.

― mike a, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Henry Cow ate Slapp Happy.

― bendy, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

didn't the fall just do this with some american band? I can't keep up with the fall lineup changes anymore

― akm, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Sparks devoured Bates Motel (singer aside) for their 80s live/studio lineup.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Jessica Simpson / John Mayer

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

oh nabs no

― gff, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

( :~,/\-)

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Blink 182 ate Green Day, and shat them out 4 years later.

― billstevejim, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

(That's the emoticon for "a bald Frenchman with a soul patch saying 'amirite? guys? guys?'")

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Chris Cornell :o Rage against the Machine.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Red Crayola ate Pere Ubu.

― dad a, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

^^other way around? [insert girth joek here]

― m coleman, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

rollins band ate mother superior. and then, thankfully, spat them out again.

― m the g, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

...i believe the Fall ate the Cairo Gang on tour last year...

― stephen, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

The most recent example I can think of - Michael Gira ate Akron/Family

― Erroneous Botch, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

His Name Is Alive swallowed The Dirt Eaters whole.

― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

warren zevon ate r.e.m. and spit them back out after one great album and one meh high-concept side project.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Wilson has more or less eaten The Wondermints these days.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Fugs ate the Holy Modal Rounders for a while there.

― ian, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

warren zevon ate r.e.m. and spit them back out after one great album and one meh high-concept side project.

Does this count, though, if Stipey sat the collaboration out? (I could never understand why there wasn't a proper duet on Sentimental Hygiene, since Stipe was at his most duet-happy at the time. Must be some personal reasons).

― Erroneous Botch, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

AoA had every member of modern Boredoms except Y. Seiichi

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

which could be said of most of the non-Seiichi boredoms sideprojects.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Wilson has more or less eaten The Wondermints these days.

Serves the Wondermints right for "eating" the Dukes of Stratosphear (who in turn ate XTC before purging themselves).

Now where's that 'am i rite' emoticon nabisco used?

― Cunga, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

beck ate the flaming lips

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

does this count, though, if Stipey sat the collaboration out? (I could never understand why there wasn't a proper duet on Sentimental Hygiene, since Stipe was at his most duet-happy at the time. Must be some personal reasons).

i thought of that but since stipe shows up to sing harmony on one track on sentimental hygiene ("bad karma"), i figured that qualified for a complete sucking of the entire band. i always assumed the reason stipe wasn't around otherwise was that the whole project was just something for the rest of the band to do when stipe wasn't around. not that i ever really thought about it that much.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

rollins band ate mother superior. and then, thankfully, spat them out again.

Rollins also ate Scornflakes.

― mike a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

Alex Harvey ate Tear Gas

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Parliament ate the JBs.

... and United Soul

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Guided By Voices ate Cobra Verde.

― goldmatt, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Heaven 17 ate B.E.F

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

10cc ate Hotlegs

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

And Yes ate the Buggles, of course.

Yes have done this a lot. In 1980 they ate Buggles, in 1983 they ate Cinema, and in 1991 they ate Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

There's a difference between eating another group and becoming another group. Hotlegs became 10cc, 10cc didn't exist before Hotlegs. And BEF was a spin off from Heaven 17, so that doesn't count either.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Henry Cow ate Slapp Happy and spat out the Art Bears

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hotlegs became 10cc

Graham Gouldman became a member the moment 10cc were formed.

And BEF was a spin off from Heaven 17

Wrong. Heaven 17 was a spin off from BEF that proved to last.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Was there a more recent iteration of this thread notion?

Anyway -

Cardiacs fully assimilated a group called Ad Nauseam IIRC.

― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:39 (six years ago)

I think they only grabbed 2/4 of AN tbh - there was also a bassist and a saxophonist which they passed over!

They also nicked 2/3 of Sidi Bou Said to be their backing vocalists, lol

― imago, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 11:51 (six years ago)

Love drank Baby Lemonade.

― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 12:07 (six years ago)

Soft Machine slowly ate Nucleus until there were no original Soft Machiners left.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 12:17 (six years ago)

Didn't the Moray eels eat the Holy Modal Rounders?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:16 (six years ago)

the circulatory system wound up eating the olivia tremor control, but then bill doss died

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:33 (six years ago)

in 1973 a German band called Dawn Road ate the Scorpions but then decided to use the name Scorpions since they had an album out already and some renown

― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 14:48 (six years ago)

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