# Bands For Which You Can Rattle Off the Entire Line-up **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579 "2018-01-27T13:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/21 "2018-01-28T18:55:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I have to think of the hamsters’ welfare and so will not list every band I can name all the members of just off the top of my head. At the very least it’s several dozen, more likely it’s well over a hundred. Many of them I can even name who played on which album, as lineup changes happen frequently to bands. If these iterations are all separate bands, then my list is easily over one hundred. Me, too. I think this stems from having nothing to do while listening to an album in the 70s and 80s (no video of the songs, no internet… heck, no iPhone or PC). So I just read the liner notes… “Hey, Leland Sklar! Isn’t he that bass guy from Milwaukee? He’s playing on James Taylor’s _Mud Slide Slim_… now where have I heard… wait, he was in The Section and … wasn’t he on Jackson Browne’s first album?” _(rummage through orange crates full of vinyl)_ ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/22 "2018-01-28T19:17:55Z")
Miles Davis might be the most difficult. I might be half way there. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/23 "2018-01-28T19:39:40Z")
Many of them. Heck, I can even do it for bands that have had dozens of lineup changes! Greg Lake Robert Fripp Pete Sinfield Mike Giles Ian McDonald Mel Collins Gordon Haskell Peter Giles Keith Tippett Andy McCulloch Boz Burrell Ian Wallace John Wetton Bill Bruford Jamie Muir Richard Palmer-James David Cross Tony Levin Adrian Belew Trey Gunn Pat Mastelotto Gavin Harrison Bill Rieflin Jakko Jakszyk Jeremy Stacey Have I missed somebody? Probably, but admit it- that’s not bad. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/24 "2018-01-28T23:14:00Z")
The Blue Ridge Rangers. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/25 "2018-01-28T23:49:16Z")
Off the top of my head: Electric Light Orchestra Queen Beatles Yes (several of the primary line-ups, anyway) Rush ABBA Traveling Wilburys Asia Bee Gees ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/26 "2018-01-29T02:23:59Z")
Not counting bands named after the members (Emerson Lake & Palmer) The Beatles The Who The Police Queen Talking Heads KISS (which is odd because I’ve never listened to them) The Traveling Wilburys Puffy SMAP Pink Lady Perfume Gorillaz Maximum the Hormone Dolls Boxx Gacharic Spin Man With A Mission ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/27 "2018-02-02T05:04:49Z")
The Beatles Simon and Garfunkel Peter Paul and Mary Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/28 "2018-02-02T05:37:48Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Me, too. I think this stems from having nothing to do while listening to an album in the 70s and 80s (no video of the songs, no internet… heck, no iPhone or PC). So I just read the liner notes… > > “Hey, Leland Sklar! Isn’t he that bass guy from Milwaukee? He’s playing on James Taylor’s _Mud Slide Slim_… now where have I heard… wait, he was in The Section and … wasn’t he on Jackson Browne’s first album?” _(rummage through orange crates full of vinyl)_ Brother! 😃 > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Probably over a hundred, but I’ve been a music geek all my life, read hundreds of books about it, even music dictionaries and extensive discographies cover to cover and have a good, but very selective memory that remembers who played bass on album X and who produced album Y, but in real life I’m very bad with names and don’t even know all the names of my coworkers. I only memorize things that interest me, it has always been that way, and my greatest interest is music. > > ETA: I also study liner notes religiously. Another brother from a different mother! Alright! I still do it today. I read liner notes like they have the secret to eternal life in them. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/29 "2018-02-02T05:47:21Z")
Jethro Tull – depending on the year, some years not covered. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/30 "2018-02-02T13:10:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Jethro Tull – depending on the year, some years not covered. That IS impressive! Probably an even longer list than King Crimson! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-for-which-you-can-rattle-off-the-entire-line-up/807579/31 "2018-02-02T13:16:10Z")
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