Kevin's Watch

This usually means they are one of your favorite bands, or you know them all personally. Or they are just so damned popular, you couldn't help but know their names. And by this category, for bands such as punk bands who have silly names, you can identify each musician by the silly name from looking at the band picture. And singer/songwriters do not count.

Here's my list:
Dead Milkmen
The Pogues
Queen
They Might Be Giants (beyond just John & John)
The Eels (at one time, but thanks to a shifting of musicians, probably not anymore)
The Beatles
Pink Floyd (also with shifting members, so no telling, but the core members I can)
Kansas (again, shifting members)
ELO (although I have no idea now if I could)
The Police

And I think when I was working at Toys R Us, I could name all of New Kids On The Block, although I tried my damnest never to hear their music. Of course I could also name all the TMNT figures too, so that means nothing, and it is for a very similar reason for both.

There are several I think I can name until I get to the drummer or bassist, and then I realize I don't know them, such as Led Zepplin or Rolling Stones or something.
There are probably more I could name, but I can't think of them at the moment. Enjoy!

There are some I used to know, but right now all I can remember are the White Stripes.

Ummmmmm......

U2 &.............. Moby?

dw

I wonder if this is a generational thing, as when you had records, it was so much fun to read through all the liner notes, or at least it was for me. I wonder how many people sit and read through the CD inserts over the past decade, or if the songs were just downloaded, and there isn't that connection to the band like there was back in the day.

Hmm...this makes me a bit sad.


Oh, and add Violent Femmes to my list.

Pink Floyd (all versions)
Led Zeppelin
Husker Du
Sugar
Throwing Muses
Belly
Pixies
Breeders (original and 2nd only)
Minutemen
Black Flag (the Rollins version)
Dinosaur jr (original version)
Fleetwood Mac (hit version)
REM

that;s off the top of my head

Too many to list. Then again, with the exception of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Foo Fighters, I don't listen to much that's been recorded since 1990.

Too many to list, but mainly of bands I have liked for 10+ years... Ones I started listening to more recently, more likely just the lead singer and sometimes not even that.

Interesting topic, not something I'd thought about before.

Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden.

You have to earn the right for me to remember your names

Like others have said: a lot. It's a matter of accumulation though...there are probably 8 or 10 bands a year that I like enough to look into thoroughly...but if 2 or 3 years later, their works haven't grown enough to keep me interested, I then forget them without even trying.

Does it need saying?

Yes.

All 18 members in all its incarnations, including Jon Davison replacing Benoit David as lead vocalist.

Menolly wrote:Does it need saying?

Yes.

All 18 members in all its incarnations, including Jon Davison replacing Benoit David as lead vocalist.

Yes, what?

Orlion wrote:

Menolly wrote:Does it need saying?

Yes.

All 18 members in all its incarnations, including Jon Davison replacing Benoit David as lead vocalist.

Yes, what?

:

Yes, this.

Don McLean.

Damelon wrote:Don McLean.

yeah, too many to name.
i've always done that, found out who plays what, etc. on
albums that i like so i know a lot of studio musician names
as well, back up singers, everybody thats ever played with
yes (like menolly) or king crimson, or jethro tull, fairport convention,
the strawbs, genesis, who all the musicians were in james taylor's bands,
all the incarnations of floyd, many (but not all) of the
people that ever played with zappa (monster guitarist
mike keneally, warren cuccurullo - oh yeah he was a founding
member along with dale and terry bozio of missing persons)
the animals, what bands crosby stills nash and young all came from,
all the bands clapton was ever in and who else was in them, that girl that sings with both jackson browne and james taylor (rosemary butler)
traffic, all winwoods bands, who played with hendrix, todd rundgren's
touring bands, including utopia, zeppelin,
all the musicians in every joni mitchell tour,
all the incarnations of weather report, steely dan, the eagles
waddy wachtel, leland sklar, radiohead...blah blah blah
etc so on and so forth.

i know. i'm a freak.

lucimay wrote:i've always done that, found out who plays what, etc. on
albums that i like so i know a lot of studio musician names
as well, back up singers, everybody thats ever played with
yes (like menolly) or king crimson, or jethro tull, ... genesis, ...
all the incarnations of floyd, many (but not all) of the
people that ever played with zappa (monster guitarist
... what bands crosby stills nash and young all came from,
... zeppelin, ... all the incarnations of weather report, steely dan, the eagles

Everyone knows all the Eagles. They just don't know that the do.

Beatles
Stones
BeeGees
Shadows
Queen
Monkees

That's it, and it's a did remember rather than a do remember with some of those.

wayfriend wrote:Everyone knows all the Eagles. They just don't know that the do.

The strangest thing to me about the Eagles is that all the members played for Linda Rondstat [IIRC, one of her albums had all of them on it].

Luci, that's kinda obsessive in a cool way. I've been often guilty of sorta the opposite...liking a particular person, then tracking down everyone they've ever played with [Tony Levin and Adrian Belew spring to mind cuz both of them have worked with a surprising number of peeps included on your list...either the bands or members of those bands on other projects].

I'm pretty much the same in this as Luci; I know many band's complete lineups. I also do the same as Vraith in that if I like a particular musician, I'll try to find out every band he's played in.

just the Beatles. And I really tried too...
but then again, my brother and I have talked for hours about t he bizarre way I listen to music. I tend to listen to single songs for hours on end, and rarely to entire albums. So I guess it makes sense...