# favorite bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 1999, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263 "1999-05-03T03:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/81 "1999-11-18T15:06:00Z")
God,burnmeup,thanks! I thought I was the only sdmbp to like the Ramones! ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/82 "1999-11-18T17:08:00Z")
1.Rush 2.Metallica 3.Beastie Boys 4. Digital Underground 5.Duran Duran (The old school stuff) 6.Erasure (again, the old school stuff) 7.BT 8.Two DJ’s that mix really great trance music: Christopher Lawrence, and another whose name i can’t remember (his album is called _Traceport_). 8.US3 9. Living color 10.Garbage 11. Squirrel Nut Zippers 12.Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 13. Bob Marley 14. Maxi Priest 15. RUSH! * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/83 "1999-11-19T06:30:00Z")
Bands: Pink Floyd Dire Straits The Who Led Zeppelin The Cars Garbage Def Leppard Rush The Police The Cure Heart Individual artists: Peter Gabriel Sting Kate Bush Tori Amos Never liked country too much, but Shania’s kind of fun to look at… ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/84 "1999-11-19T03:31:00Z")
Sealemon88: Duran Duran!! You rock! I used to get Star Hits magazine every month for their pictures! Anyhoo: Current: 1. Tragically Hip - by far the best live band I’ve seen. 2. Ben Folds Five - SO, SO, SO talented! 3. Tori Amos - best female voice I’ve heard since Kate Bush 4. Barenaked Ladies - especially Gordon Back in the day: 1. The Cure 2. Depeche Mode 3. Siouxsie & the Banshees 4. Violent Femmes 5. Echo & the Bunnymen 6. Platinum Blonde (Canada’s answer to Duran Duran) 7. Crowded House 8. Split Enz 9. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry 10. Kate Bush 11. Duran Duran For those of you who might assume from some of my choices, I’m not Canadian. I just lived very close to the border when I was growing up and listened to Chez 106 and Chom FM all the time. * * * “They have the internet on computers now.”–Homer J. Simpson ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/85 "1999-11-19T03:39:00Z")
Joy Division / New Order (til 1985 or so) My Bloody Valentine Felt Band of Holy Joy Ash Blur Chameleons Orange Juice Lush c’mon there’s got to be SOMEBODY here who knows who those bands are … ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/86 "1999-11-19T05:51:00Z")
damn, I thought this thread died months ago… I’d like to add that I love Staind, Chevelle and Moby right now * * * “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”-- Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) `\/-------\ `| |-----| | …c.c…c.c… ---
**Author:** ![Tildon\_Peacock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Tildon\_Peacock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tildon_Peacock)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/87 "1999-11-19T20:47:00Z")
My Fav-rite bands are: 1. Chicago 2. Aerosmith 3. Moody Blues 4. Styx 5. Pink Floyd 6. Jethro Tull 7. The Cars 8. Beatles 9. Queen 10. Sugarbomb As you can tell, I am a child of the 70’s. My fav-rite song of all is (I’ve Been) Searching So Long by Chicago, cause it was true first time I heard it, and still holds true today for me. Do we ever find what we are truly seeking? If you’ve never listened to Chicago’s 1st album, Chicago Transit Authority, do yourself a flavor and check it out- especially tracks “South California Purples” “Listen” and “I’m A Man”, get in your car, crank up the volume, and cruise!! You’ll be hearing some funtastic old blues\rock with a jazzy style thrown in. And if the bass line on SCP doesn’t get you to tapping your feet, you must be in some serious traction. Sugarbomb is a recently acquired taste, and a local band here in the DFW area- kind of like Queen meets the Beatles; hope to get a chance to see them in concert soon. Thanx for letting take up this space, and for having this topic here for us…later ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263/88 "1999-11-19T21:05:00Z")
I’ll confess to owning every single Electric Light Orchestra album (in vinyl no less, most of them CD too) but lately the only new things I’ve liked lately have been new-swing stuff like Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (they were hot at the Oracle convention in S.F. last year) and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. It really hit home that I’m old when I volunteered to buy Salvation Army christmas gifts. The recipient I drew is a 17 year old boy who wants sport shirts or CDs. I am clueless as to what to get. A gift certificate is an unacceptable cop out in this case and I don’t want to get him music he’ll hate or clothes that will get him beaten up at school. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/11263.md?page=4)