Which letters do the best bands start with?

If you have 1 minute, V: Various Artists.

I venture that there are more good bands whose names start with 'S' than with any other letter.

i think that "S" thing is true. it might be the case that more bad bands start with "S" than any other letter too tho.

The second hand section in Sonic Boom, Fremont.

i would say check "t" for "the.." and hope you get a dumb rekkid store

Having perused my record collection, B and S seem to be most common.

as in belle and sebastian

No, Barbra Streisand.

W was always a favorite place of mine to start...

Tom Waits Scott Walker Robert Wyatt

Seriously, what is bulking up your B section? Billions of Bowie bootlegs? The Bee Gees box set?

W is something I think I can get behind: Waycross, Waco Brothers, Wedding Present, the half-late Who...

S&M

Bacharach, Burt ‘The Look Of Love, The Classic Songs Of’, Polygram TV Badly Drawn Boy ‘The Hour Of Bewilderbeast’, Twisted Nerve Beach Boys, The ‘Pet Sounds’, Capitol Records Beach Boys, The ‘Smiley Smile / Wild Honey’, Capitol Records Beach Boys, The ‘Summer Dreams’, Capitol Records Beastie Boys ‘Licensed To Ill’, Def Jam Beastie Boys ‘Paul’s Boutique’, Capitol Records Beastie Boys ‘Check Your Head’, Capitol Records Beastie Boys ‘Ill Communication’, Capitol Records Beastie Boys ‘Hello Nasty’, Capitol Records Beatles, The ‘Help!’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Rubber Soul’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Revolver’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Magical Mystery Tour’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘The Beatles’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Abbey Road’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Let It Be’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Past Masters – Volume 1’, Parlophone Beatles, The ‘Past Masters – Volume 2’, Parlophone Beck ‘Mellow Gold’, Geffen Beck ‘Odelay’, Geffen Beck ‘Mutations’, Geffen Beck ‘Midnite Vultures’, Geffen Belle And Sebastian ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’, Jeepster Recordings Belle And Sebastian ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’, Jeepster Recordings Beta Band, The ‘Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos’, Regal Beta Band, The ‘The Three EPs’, Regal Beta Band, The ‘The Beta Band’ (Promotional Use Only Copy), Regal Beta Band, The ‘To You Alone / Sequensizer’, Regal Beta Band, The ‘Hot Shots Part 2’, Regal Beulah ‘When Your Heartstrings Break’, Shifty Disco Beulah ‘Coast Is Never Clear’, Shifty Disco Big Star ‘#1 Record’, Stax Big Star ‘Third / Sister Lovers’, Rykodisc Bjork ‘Debut’, One Little Indian Bjork ‘Post’, One Little Indian Bjork ‘Vespertine’, One Little Indian Blackalicious ‘Nia’, Mo’Wax Black Grape ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah!’, Radioactive Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ‘BRMC’, Virgin Bluetones, The ‘Slight Return’, Superior Quality Bluetones, The ‘Expecting To Fly’, Superior Quality Bluetones, The ‘Marblehead Johnson’, Superior Quality Bluetones, The ‘Return To The Last Chance Saloon’, Superior Quality Blur ‘Leisure’, Food Blur ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’, Food Blur ‘Parklife’, Food Blur ‘The Great Escape’, Food Blur ‘Blur’, Food Boards Of Canada ‘Music Has The Right To Children’, Warp Boards Of Canada ‘Geogaddi’, Warp Boo Radleys, The ‘Giant Steps’, Creation Boo Radleys, The ‘Wake Up!’, Creation Boo Radleys, The ‘C’Mon Kids’, Creation Boo Radleys, The ‘Kingsize’, Creation Bowie, David ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, EMI Bowie, David ‘Hunky Dory’, EMI Bowie, David ‘Ziggy Stardust’, EMI Bowie, David ‘Diamond Dogs’, EMI Bowie, David ‘Station To Station’, EMI Bowie, David ‘Low’, EMI Bowie, David ‘”Heroes”’, EMI Breakbeat Era ‘Ultra-Obscene’, XL Brown, Ian ‘My Star’, Polydor Brown, Ian ‘Unfinished Monkey Business’, Polydor Brown, Ian ‘Music Of The Spheres’, Polydor Brown, James ‘Godfather Of Soul’, Spectrum Buckley, Jeff ‘Live At Sin-É’, Big Cat Buckley, Jeff ‘Grace’, Columbia Buckley, Jeff ‘Live From The Bataclan’, Columbia Buckley, Jeff ‘So Real’, Columbia Buckley, Jeff ‘Grace EP’, Columbia Buckley, Jeff ‘Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk’, Columbia Buckley, Jeff ‘Mystery White Boy’, Columbia Buckley, Tim ‘Happy Sad’, Elektra Buckley, Tim ‘Dream Letter Live In London 1968’, Manifesto Buckley, Tim ‘Greetings From LA’, Warner Music International Byrds, The ‘Mr Tambourine Man’, Columbia Byrds, The ‘Fifth Dimension’, Columbia Byrds, The ‘Younger Than Yesterday’, Columbia

See above.

M is always a fun letter to look through for me; melvins, mayhem, morgion, mortiis, mortician, morgoth, mission, morrissey, megadeth, motorhead, some stuff i boughtfrom bands i never heard of...

Nick: no Bertrand Burgalat in your B section??

Beach Boys Beatles Blondie Bowie

Need one say more? (yes: avoid anything by Bowie not released in the '70s)

B-but '60s Bowie is lovely...

best bands start with numbahs fewls.

Oh right, I always forget them Beatles.

I feel like I've spent years of my life flipping through 'M' sections but really I don't have much to show for it besides my exhaustive collections of the Minutemen and the Mekons. Miracle Legion/Mark Mulcahy too.

i have a shitload of Ss, a bunch of Bs but the one that always surprises me is how many cds i have that begin with P (a plethora if you will)...

pastels, pale saints, pram, plastikman, pole, plaid, plone, pilote, pixies, poohsticks, primal scream...

andy

I'll put a vote in for C and maybe D since you're in the neighborhood but S is indeed big time rock and roll.

Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Berlioz, Boccherini, Brahms, Britten, Bruckner, Byrd

E: EAR, Earth, Einsturzende Neubauten, Eno, Ethiopians, ESG, Exuma, Eric B. & Rakim, Electric Prunes, Excepter