Your favorite bands A to Z
 

It's pretty pointless. and time consuming. But fun to do.
I had to make some tough decisions here

Animal Collective
The Beatles
Cat Power
Daniel Johnston
Elliot Smith
Fugazi
Glassjaw
Howlin Wolf
Iggy & The Stooges
Jimi Hendrix
The Kinks
Leadbally
Meat Puppets
Nirvana
Outkast
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
REM
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Telavision
Unwound
Violent Femmes
Weezer
X
Yo La Tengo
ZZ Top

Antioch Arrow
Big Black
The Clash
Diet Cola
Eric's Trip
Fugazi
Gorilla Biscuits
Huggy Bear
Iggy Pop
Japanther
Ken Nordine
Lighting Bolts
Minor Threat
Nation Of Ulysses
OutKast
Pavement
Queen
The Residents
Sonic Youth
T-Rex
Unwound
Velvet Underground
The Wipers
Xex
Youth Brigade
Zonic Youth

I like the idea, I just don't have the time right now to compile a list.

Hell yes. I shoulda though of that. Zonic Youth > ZZ Top

At the Drive-In (AIDS Wolf/Arab on Radar)
Blood Brothers, the (Broken Social Scene)
Cursive
do make say think (Doers)
Ex Models
Flying Luttenbachers, the (Fugazi+the Fall)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hella
Interpol
Joy Division
King Crimson
Lake of Dracula (The Ladies, The Locust)
My Bloody Valentine (Mogwai+Mindflayer)
Nirvana (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Orthrelm
Pavement or the Pixies
Quasi Mépris
[Refused] (Radiohead)
Sonic Youth (Silver Mt Zion...)
Tortoise
US Maple (Upsilon Acrux)
Varge! (Velvet Underground)
Wolf Parade (Wolf Eyes)
Xiu Xiu
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Zach Hill & Mick Barr

(all the bracketed ones are runners-up.. it's hard!)

AA Bottom
ZZ Top

Animal Collective
Brainiac
cLOUDDEAD
Devo
Eno, Brian
Fantomas
Guided By Voices
Hendrix, Jimi
Johnston, Daniel
Kid Koala
Liars
Melvins
Nirvana
Olivia Tremor Control
Primus
Queens Of The Stone Ahe
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
They Might Be Giants
Unwound
Velvet Undergound
Ween
XTC
Yo La Tengo
Zorn, John

Melvins

at the drive-in
beatles
cursive
dinosaur jr.
elliott smith
flaming lips
guided by voices
hot snakes
iron and wine
jimi hendrix
kinks
led zepplin
misfits
neutral milk hotel
operation ivy
pixies
queen
radiohead
smiths
thermals
unwound
velvet underground
weezer
X
yo la tengo
zounds

too many prefrences with just one letter.... for example. e = explosions in the sky, erase errata, elysian fields, ex models, ex girl ...i'll have to think a bit bout it.

I started one in my head but at the B from Boris, Bardo Pond, Boredoms, Big Black and Birthday Party it already got too tricky for me.

American Analog Set (or A Silver Mt.Zion)
Broken Social Scene
Cocteau Twins
Deupree, Taylor (or Drumm, Kevin)
Einsturzende Neubauten (or Einleitungszeit)
The Fall
Girls Against Boys (or GY!BE)
Hermit
Incapacitants (or I.S.O.)
Joy Division (or Jeck, Philip)
Kate Bush (erm...hahaha)
Labradford
Mogwai
Neu!
OOIOO
Polvo (or Poirier, Ghislain)
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tortoise
Unwound
Vex'd (or Von Bebber, Claus)
Wolf Parade
Xiu Xiu
Yoshihide, Otomo
Zimatrix (shit, it's the last letter of the alphabet and I ran out of ideas, so I made up this one)

Way too hard, so I'll go by favorite jazz artist:

Ayler, Albert
Blakey, Art
Coltrane, John
Davis, Miles
Ellington, Duke
Frith, Fred
Gilmore, John
Hampton, Lionel
Ibrahim, Abdullah
Joplin, Scott
Krupa, Gene
La Roca, Pete
Mingus, Charles
Newman, David
O'Connell, Bill
Parker, Charlie
Quebec, Ike
Rollins, Sonny
Silver, Horace
Taylor, Cecil
Ulmer, Blood
Vega, Al
Williams, Tony
X - I don't know of any
Young, Reggie
Zorn, John

Animal Collective
The Beatles
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Dungen
brian Eno
Fennesz
Gang Gang Dance
Head Wound City
Interpol
Jimi Hendrix
the Kills
Liars
My Bloody Valentine
Nine Inch Nails
Omar Rodriguez
Panda Bear
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tool
Unwound
Velvet Underground
Wolf Parade
Xiu Xiu
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
robert Zimmerman

it pains me to leave off modest mouse and pj harvey, but i owe mbv and panda bear my life, so....also, i don't have a U, so i just decided to fit in...

AR Kane
Bitch Magnet
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Can Dance
Einstuerzende Neubauten
The Fuzztones
Gun Club
High Rise
Iron Maiden
Jesus and Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Larsen
Motorhead
New Order
Orange Juice
Primal Scream
Queens of The Stone Age
Rollins Band
Sonic Youth
The Triffids
Undertones
Violent Femmes
Walkabouts
Xmal Deutschland
Young Gods
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

Aphex Twin
Bleak (the non-goth band)
Cat power
Death From above 1979
Erase Errata
Flying saucer attack
Giant drag
Hole
Interpol
Joy Division
Kyuss
Locust Toybox
Modest Mouse
Nirvana
PJ Harvey
Qotsa
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tod Pole
Unwound
Velvet underground
Wolf eyes
Xiu Xiu
Yo la tengo
Zzz

Acid Mothers Temple
Bardo Pond
Current 93
Death In June
Echo and the Bunnymen
Felt
Gong
High Rise
Joy Division
Kraftwerk
Loop
Mainliner
Nurse With Wound
Overhang Party
Psychic TV
Quintron
Residents
Spacemen 3
TVBC
UN
Velvet Underground
White Heaven
Xhol Caravan
Ya Ho Wha 13
Z'ev

Adolescents
Black Flag
C
Dinosaur Jr.
Elvis Costello
Flipper
The Germs

Hawkwind
Iggy & The Stooges
Jimi Hendrix
K
L
Mudhoney
N
O
P
Q
Rapeman
Sonic Youth
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

thats all i can do for now, i cant be bothered to do any more

Albert Ayler
Backstreet Boys
Elizabeth Cotten
Eric Dolphy
Duke Ellington
Fushitsusha
Al Green
Keiji Haino
Shuji Inaba
Judas Preist
Kemialliset Ystavat
LSD March
Kan Mikami
No Neck Blues Band
Os Mutantes
Charlie Patton
Q is so not a letter
Sam Rivers
Sun Ra
Jun Togawa
United States Of America
Caetano Veloso
Robert Wyatt
Xhol Caravan
ZZ Top

BAlls! I can't believe I just waisted all that time!

Edit: I put LSD March instead of Les Rallizes Denudes? I'm so stufpid.

Edit again: This is all wrong. wrong wrong wrong. disregard.

Animal Collective/Arab on Radar/At the Drive-in(Can't choose)
Bunyun, Vashti
Cat Power
Drive Like Jehu
Erase Errata
Frog Eyes
Gang of Four
Hockey Night
I
Jewel
Kk Rampage
Lightning Bolt
Modest Mouse/mewithoutYou
Norma Jean
Os Mutantes
Postal Service
Quasimoto
Radiohead
Smith, Elliott
T
Unicorns, the
Violent Femmes
Wolf Eyes
Yellow Swans
Xiu Xiu
Z

without thinking much:

animal collective
boredoms
caroliner
dead kennedys
espers
the fall
guided by voices
happy mondays
islaja
the jesus and mary chain
kraftwerk
liimanarina
my bloody valentine
new order
omoide hatoba
pussy galore
quickspace
reynols
sun city girls
thinking fellers union local 282
ultravox
vaselines
wu-tang clan
x-ray spex
yellow swans
zoffy

Technically, "Les" is an article anyway, and they would be filed under "R."
Unless you decided to go the other route and file them under "Hadaka No Rallizes."

Now you may understand why I just went with the Residents for my "R" spot.

great choice!

ABBA
Beatles
Coltrane, John
Dinosaur Jr
Ex, The
Fleetwood Mac
Gang of four
Hell, Richard & the Voidoids
Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Jimi Hendrix
Kinks, The
Lightning Bolt
Minutemen
Nirvana
Outkast
Patti Smith
Queen
Ramones
Sonic Youth
Television
Ultralyd
Velvet Underground
Who, The
X
Young, Neil
ZZ Top

Aphex Twin
Bjork
Cold Play
Dinosaur Jr
Ed Matus Struggle
Fugazi
Groove Armada
IRA
Jane's Addiction
KMFDM
Led Zeppellin
Marilyn Manson
Nine Inch Nails
O
Perfect Circle
Q
Ramones
Sonic Youth
Tool
U2
Voivod
Wool
X-ray Specs
Yeah, Yeah, yeahs
Zeromancer

Like these lists so far!

Atari Teenage Riot
Babes in Toyland
Clickplay
Difranco, Ani
Ec8or
Fleetwood Mac
Gandharvas
Hole or Hilt
Ichoro Tsuji
Jethro Tull
Koalas
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Megadeth
Nirvana
Ohgr
Phair, Liz
Radiohead
Skinny Puppy or Sonic Youth or Smashing Pumpkins or Severed Heads
Thought Industry
U
V
W
Yeah yeah yeahs
Zeppelin

He he....nice! More mentioning of Z'ev sounds good to me.

Aphex Twin
Bardo Pond (buttholes)
Catherine Wheel
Dinosaur jr
E
Fantomas
Grateful Dead
Hendrix
Isis
Jesus Lizard
Kyuss
Lustmord
My Bloody Valentine (melvins, mogwai)
Nirvana
O
Pixies
QOFTSA (early stuff)
Radiohead
SY/ Sebadoh
Tool
U
V
Witch
X
Y
John Zorn

Atari Teenage Riot
Borbetomagus
The Carpenters/ the Country Teasers/ Can
Don Cherry
Einstuerzende Neubauten
The Fall
The Godz
Hijokaidan/ Haino Keiji/ Hank Williams
Inaba Shuji
Kaiji Sariaaho
Laura Cantrell/ Lolita Storm
My Cat is an Alien/ Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia
Nmperign/ NNCK
Otis M'Buta
Paul Robeson
Queen
Ronnie Ronalde
Supersilent *edit: obviously, the Shaggs was the correct choice.
Togowa Jun (Fucking brilliant choice Mr & Beard, I'm theiving it)
Urusei Yatsura
Vaughan Williams
Widget Evil (mates of mine)
Xasthur/ Xavier Charles
Zeitkratzer

That wasn't necessarily a list of my favourites, more seeing if I could fill out the alphabet.

i just dont have the energy to do this. all of them, every band in order. thats mine.

What, even the Turtles? You can't possibly include them, can you?

AC/DC
Bowie David
Cure The
Dalek
Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa
Fall The
Godspeed you black emperor
High Rise
Idhao
John Cage
Kyuss
Led Zeppelin
Merzbow
No Means No
Oval
Peter Tosh
Quintron
Rush
Sonic Youth
Tangerine Dream
Uriah Heep
Velvet Underground The
Wolf Eyes
Xenakis Iannis
Zeni Geva

add n to x
bardo pond
carter, christina
dead c
epmd
fushitsusha
gang starr
hijokaidan


ok, this is too annoying to finish

Clearly it wasn't a list of favourites. You missed out Sugababes.

who is xavier charles?

ami yoshida
b52s
converge
dont know
yeah, this is shit. cuz thyre not my faves, just bands i can think of that i like that start with whatever letter.
have some bum instead

Zeitkratzer! Man, great choice!

the Adverts
the Buzzcocks
the Cramps
the Detroit Cobras
Einsturzende Neubauten
Flamin' Groovies
Gitogito Hustler
thee Headcoatees
I
Johnston, Daniel
the Kinks
the Liars
Magazine
Nirvana
the Only Ones
Pavement
Queens of the Stone Age
Richman, Jonathan
Sonic Youth
the Tough & Lovely
Unrest
Velvet Underground
W
XTC
Yo La Tengo
Zorn, John

Bauhaus
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Björk
Blonde Redhead
David Bowie
Jacques Brel
Jeff Buckley
Tim Buckley
Can
Cocteau Twins
Leonard Cohen
John Coltrane
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Cure
Nick Drake
Bob Dylan
Serge Gainsbourg
Marvin Gaye
Françoise Hardy
Bert Jansch
Joy Division
Led Zeppelin
Lift To Experience
Curtis Mayfield
Van Morrison
Jean-Louis Murat
Neu!
Noir Désir
The Notwist
An Pierlé
Michel Polnareff
Radiohead
Sigur Rós
Nina Simone
Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
The Stooges
Talk Talk
Television
Tindersticks
Laura Veirs
Scott Walker
Neil Young

Black Flag
Bloc Party
Butthole Surfers
Can
Cave In
Controller.Controller
Death from Above 1979
Dinosaur Jr
ESG
Interpol
Jesus and Mary Chain
Joy Division
Matthew Good
Meat Puppets
Minor Threat
Mission of Burma
My Bloody Valentine
Pavement
Pixies
Radiohead
REM
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Velvet Underground