# Bands with just three members.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 2, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028 "2018-02-02T14:07:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028/61 "2018-02-18T15:56:44Z")

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> [@eschereal](#):
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> Marcy Playground, anyone heard of them?  
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Sure, a one-hit wonder band.

_I smell sex and candied yams, mmm_

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**Author:** ![ElmerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@ElmerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElmerH)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028/62 "2018-02-23T23:17:56Z")

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Nirvana,  
Muse,  
Triumph

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**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028/63 "2018-02-23T23:28:04Z")

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Oddly, Presidents of the United States of America were first to mind. Nothing wrong with them…but I’m pretty surprised that they leapfogged CSN and Peter, Paul & Mary in my raised-by-60s-folky-hippy-parents consciousness.

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**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 23, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028/64 "2018-02-23T23:41:08Z")

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> [@epbrown01](#):
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> **Timbuk3,** though they later added a fourth member. At their height they were in the movie **DOA** with Quaid and Ryan, playing “Too Much Sex, Not Enough Affection” but they’re probably best known for “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades.”

Here’s my version: [The Slow & Low Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9O-b3WvFNM) 😃

> [@Dante\_1111](#):
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> Opal: David Roback (Rain Parade), Kendra Smith (Dream Syndicate), Keith Mitchell (Green On Red). Awesome neo-psychedelia! One of the favorite “local” LA bands from my teens. Wore out my Happy Nightmare Baby cassette a few times.

> [@Egnu\_Cledge](#):
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> I _love_ Opal. Have you heard their [Early Recordings](https://youtu.be/XBJGjmDmGAI) compilations? Possibly even better than the album. Check out _Lisa’s Funeral_ and _Cherry Jam_.

Truly, y’all are my peeps! _Happy Nightmare Baby_ is one of just a handful of albums from the late 1980s that are perfect. I’ve lost at least 1 cassette and 3 CDs to ex-girlfriends, so I now keep 2 copies of the CD in my house, just in case. And yeah, I backed up my mp3 files too. I freaking love that album.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-just-three-members/808028/65 "2018-02-24T10:58:12Z")

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Hound dog Taylor and the Houserockers

Reverend Horton Heat

George Thorogood and the deleware destroyers had 3 person incarnatons.

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