Every member of the band, a frontman!

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Reading the inlay booklet for the Damned first album, Capt. Sensible mentioned that every member of the group was yearning to be the 'frontman' and that's how they performed.

So, how many bands thesedays are like this? Or is this a "started in the sixties, ended when punk did" phenomenon, i.e. when record labels stopped signing all the band members?

nb for the purposes of this, Hayzee Fantayzee do not count as their main songwriter basically slumped in a side of the stage with his melodica, so was avoiding being a frontperson.

― Mark G, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

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― gershy, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Can I assume you're about to start a ModRequest thread asking this to be moved to ILM?

― Matt DC, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

ahem, Q on ILE, s/be on ILM, ta in adv.

-- Mark G, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:19 (16 minutes ago)

― Mark G, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Sloan to thread.

― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Eagles

― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

the grindcore band Ed Gein has all three members do equal amounts of vocals.

― rebelwordsmith, Saturday, 5 May 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sloan!

― derrrick, Saturday, 5 May 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

10cc

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Take That

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

interpol.
first band that came to mind.

http://receptionista.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/interpol_hattem_1.jpg

great idea for a thread can't believe no one's ever asked this.

― pisces, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Band
Buffalo Springfield
Fairport Convention

― m coleman, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

the rapture

― cutty, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kiss!

― Veronica Moser, Saturday, 5 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Heh. When I saw this I thought "Please welcome to the stage... Sloan!"

Aside from that, I had a neighbor whose band was big in Japan (I can't remember the name of it though) in the '80s because while they played, they all switched instruments without missing a beat. Like, the keyboardist would run over and grab the drummer's sticks and the drummer'd run off to grab the keyboards. In every set, they'd all rotate through all of the instruments.

I never got to see them play— the drummer fell off a cliff (seriously!) and paralyzed his left arm (he was a lefty).

― I eat cannibals, Saturday, 5 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

yo la tengo?

― jonathan - stl, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Cafe Tacuba (everyone writes except the lead singer; no drummer; other members besides lead singer occasionally sing lead)

Blood Oranges (early 90s Boston alt-country band, three writers, all of whom subsequently fronted bands)

Slo-Mo (current Philly hybrid band; at full complement 5 of 8 people in the band have fronted this or other bands)

Relatively common in hip-hop: Wu-Tang, Fugees, Black Star

Various indie-s/s supergroups: Cry Cry Cry, Tres Chicas, Golden Smog

Come to think of it, Wilco, where everyone has seemed to front a band at one time or another except Rasputin-in-chief Glen Kotche.

― Vornado, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Several boy/girlbands: New Kids On The Block, Take That, Spice Girls, Boyzone (OK, so maybe there were 2-3 who were more frontmen than the others).

A bit in doubt about Take That, who have been mentioned upthread. I mean, Jason Orange wasn't exactly a frontman, was he?

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

(In the first paragraph, I meant A1, not Take That)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

New Pornographers?

― Zeno, Saturday, 5 May 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Yo La Tengo count, the bass player is not a frontman.

― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 5 May 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

ABBA!

― Zeno, Saturday, 5 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Yo La Tengo count, the bass player is not a frontman.

nor is the drummer. singing a few songs while playing the drums doth not a frontman make.

the traveling wilburys - THAT was a band of all frontmen.

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 May 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Monkees were 3/4 frontmen.

The Three Tenors (sorry)

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 5 May 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

― goldmatt, Saturday, 5 May 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oblivians

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Kong, whose 4 members would play on individual stages at each corner of a venue.

― blunt, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.texassports.com/images/scimages/2004_05/003/wham_174.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

As Stephen and Katrina are the only permanent members, The Pastels.

― Stew, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Beatles. I mean, at least if you count Ringo Starr as a frontman.

Also, Teenage Fanclub (I mean, I guess equal share of songwriting/lead vocals must count here)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

um, i thought this was a thread about the band. as in the band. where every member was a master in his own right. except the frontman, some would argue. (he he)
can it be that there is no thread for them? i will search again.
maybe it was, and i'm the only one who got it?

― ramblin rose, Friday, 25 January 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

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