Famous bands with whom you couldn't name a single member of them

Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch

Which band do they belong to?

you don't know who don henley is?

oh jeez what am i doing?

Hahahah!

Canned Heat
Chicago
Incredible String Band

A few more:

Boston
Chicago
WASP

peter paul and mary

(x-post)

So they weren't actually called Peter, Paul and Mary?

Ohio Players

Average White Band

Sadly I can name members of all of these bands

Even Chicago?

Peter Cetera

Oh. I'm sorry.

No, I am

Green Day
Offspring

Yeah, sadly I can name some members of nearly all of these from memory, and in some cases I can name all of them. I hate my stupid brain.

WASP

someone should watch Decline and Fall of Civilizatoin Part II: The Metal Years

Like, why should I be able to name multiple members of Deep Purple, Chicago or Toto? Why don't I instead know, like, the quadratic formula?

Blue Öyster Cult
OMD

Procol Harum
Lovin' Spoonful

The O'Jays

Temptations

Tuomas doesn't know much about old groups

The O'Jays has a Levert in them, but that's all I know

quit while you're ahead Tuomas

Aphex Twin

Yeah, I only know the name of one of them

OK, I can't name anyone in OMD. But I can name two members of BOC.

I can name all the members of both!

I'm mostly listing old groups because they have a legendary enough status that people should theoretically know names of the band members even if they don't care about their music. I wouldn't expect the same with new groups, I mean who besides their fans could actually name the members of Linkin' Park or A*Teens?

Procol Harum

Famously, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher.

Lovin' Spoonful

Zalman Yanowski!

OMD Andy McCluskey!

XPOST!!

Right!

THE RESIDENTS!!!

The Residents

x-post!

Snap!

Homer Flynn, Hardy Fox and, until 1981-82, Jay Clem, John Kennedy

And Turbo P was in Snap!

Lovin Spoonful's John Sebastian is pretty famous/well-known

Milli Vanilli!

Snap!'s original rapper was Turbo B and one of the two producers behind the project was called Bellotti, I think.

(xxx-post)

Up With People

Is that a famous band?

Boyz II Men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_With_People

The Dooleys

The Eagles - Don Henly, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Bernie Leadon, Timothy Schmit, Don Felder
Deep Purple - Ian Gillian, Richie Blackmore
Toto - David Paich, Steve Lukather . . . some other guys
Def Leppard - Joe Eliott, Phil Collen, RIck Allen, Viv Campbell
Boston - Brad Delp, Tom Scholz, Fran Sheehan
Chicago - Peter Cetera, Walt Parazaider . . . some other guys

Do you really know none of these names, Tuomas?

No. I've heard the name Steve Lukather, but I thought he was a solo artist.

Singer from Snow Patrol obv. unaware of the fact that pony is rhyming slang for crap... or is he?

I thought the one with glasses was the one with glasses from Depeche Mode for a moment, but it isn't.

Soundgarden
Belle and Sebastian (unless they have members called "Belle" and "Sebastian", which I doubt)
The Trammps
Stone Temple Pilots
Pussycat Dolls
Franz Ferdinand
Jefferson Airplane
The Killers
Talk Talk

You've got me with Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, I can never tell any of those bands apart. I'm afraid I don't know any Trammps either :(

A new ILX, a new compendium of our intreped hero Tuomas staring into the vast seas of mystery.

What age is Tuomas these days?

I can scarcely believe even Tuomas has never heard of Nicole Sherzinger.

The name does sound familiar... But I couldn't have come up with it by myself.

Steeleye Span
Gentle Giant
Status Quo
Sweet
Travis
Stereophonics
Badfinger (though I think there was a guy named Ham or something)
Climax Blues Band
Be Bop Deluxe
The Outlaws
Thompson Twins

the wurzels (post adge cutler)
the barron knights
the brotherhood of man
the dooleys
oingo boingo
mental as anything
skrewdriver

you don't know who don henley is?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:43 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh jeez what am i doing?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:44 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Train

Warrant

MARRS = A.R. Kane + Colourbox, and I can't name a member of either, so that's a 3-in-1 combo. And I even have an A.R. Kane LP, and "Pump Up the Volume" on cd, tape, and record.

You get extra points because both marrs and ar Kane made their names out of band member initials

how do you not know Danny Elfman = Oingo Boingo?

Loverboy

Godspeed You Black Emperor

You get extra points because both marrs and ar Kane made their names out of band member initials

― real orgone kid (NickB)

Didn't know that about MARRS and A.R. Kane!! Also having difficulty grappling with the information I've learned that a member of MARRS was also in... Skullflower?! *MIND BLOWN*

The National
Muse
Built to Spill
Galaxie 500
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Arctic Monkeys
The Go! Team
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Wrens
The Hold Steady

basically, if you can think of a popular indie-ish band from the past 30 years, chances are I know little to nothing about them

You've never heard of Matthew Bellamy, Bryce Dessner (a decent composer), or Damon & Naomi?

(I'll admit that I can't name members of #s 5-10, even though I own a SDRE album. I don't consider any of those bands famous, though. I doubt most people on a Worcester city bus could name those bands.)

the first two no, Damon & Naomi I have heard of, but couldn't tell you which band they belong to (actually I thought they were a band)

The Beatles.

They are but they used to be in Galaxie 500. xp to Dominique

You've got me with Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, I can never tell any of those bands apart.

Come on, Scott Weiland's death was big news about six months ago.

Beyonce

I don't know who is in this band, but I know they are famous

I'll be sad if Tuomas doesn't know of Don 'n Glenn by now

Beyonce

I don't know who is in this band, but I know they are famous

maybe they call brands different names in Canada?

Come on, Scott Weiland's death was big news about six months ago.

Indeed, I knew he was in one of 'those' bands, didn't know which one.

Kings of Leon

The Dixie Chicks

I couldn't name members of those two either, nor e.g. Imagine Dragons, but I wouldn't have thought that there's a strong reason why non-fans would know the names of individual members in these cases. Grace Slick, on the other hand, should be familiar to anyone with a passing interest in rock history.

Btw, Dominique, you could try out Dessner's _St. Carolyn by the Sea_. It's a pleasant contemporary tonal piece for orchestra and electric guitar. I never really listened to the National but I enjoy this piece.

(xp) Tuomas does not have a passing interest in rock history.

Well, yeah, that's evident from this thread.

Loverboy

You have obviously not read the greatest ilx thread of all time, which got to the heart of the question of whether the cover of Loverboy's Get Lucky features a man's ass or woman's ass. Unfortunately, I can't find the thread.

It took me a minute to remember Jani Lane.

I wanted to say Dani Filth first but I knew that had to be wrong.

Kings of Leon

― MarkoP, Thursday, June 2, 2016 7:32 PM

this is very OTM.
and i read mojo, and they have done massive features re this lot !

I just meant it's likely he's encountered the "Well, yeah" ilx-meme a few times on various threads, whether or not he knows they're former Eagles

xp

You have obviously not read the greatest ilx thread of all time, which got to the heart of the question of whether the cover of Loverboy's Get Lucky features a man's ass or woman's ass. Unfortunately, I can't find the thread.

Deleted in some Google beef iirc

Just remembered that Mike Reno is the lead singer of Loverboy, so that doesn't count.

I did realize today that I couldn't name a single member of the band Slayer, but I think I'm in the minority on that.

I sometimes introduced myself as Mike Reno when I worked in call centres. (I'd try to use a different name each call some nights. You take your kicks where you can with that job.) No one ever questioned that one. My supervisor in Montreal and I had kind of a post-xhuxk fascination with Loverboy.

Pretty sure I couldn't name anyone in Harlequin

Lol, I couldn't either.

I'll be sad if Tuomas doesn't know of Don 'n Glenn by now

I watched the Netflix documentary on Eagles a while ago, so yeah, I know those names now.

Thompson Twins

― henry s, 2. kesäkuuta 2016 19:50 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thomson and Thompson, duh!

And yeah, I'd come across the name "Don Henley" on ILM before, I even recognized his hit tune when it played in the documentary, I just didn't know he used to be in the Eagles. The doc also taught me that catchy "Heat is On" tune from my childhood was also by a former Eagle.