Deacon Blue
Prefab Sprout
The Beautiful South
The Sundays
Texas
Depending on popularity:
The Fall
The Sisters of Mercy
The Damned
Both Gang of Four and Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen featured Sara Lee on bass.
The E Street Band
Wir Sind Helden
The Cranberries
Gladys Knight and the Pips.
From my record collection and all having Top 40 hits in the UK:
**Pulp
All About Eve
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Bow Wow Wow
Voice of the Beehive
Roxette
Divinyls**
**Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin on vocals)
The Primitives
Cardigans
Selector**
Plus Suede had Justine Frischmann before they started having hits. She left and formed Elastica who had hits in their own right.
TCM-2L
Not to mention:
**Yazoo
Rezillos
Doctor and the Medics **
TCMF-2L
The Cleveland Orchestra.
Little Big Town
The Band Perry
The Lumineers
Of Monsters and Men
Captain & Tennille.
I agree, but that ship has sailed.
Now the thread is just everyone trying to top each other in naming the most obscure bands in the world.
This late in the thread, “popular” gets a little strained [as Just Asking Questions mentioned], but I’ve heard all of these on a commercial station in Nashville:
Metric (now playing: “The Void”)
Haim (borderline – named for 3 sisters, but the drummer’s a dude and also in the band)
Purity Ring
Beach House
the xx
[Edits in brackets. Only Haim fits palindromemordnilap’s “more interesting” 1-woman qualification currently, although the xx did before.]
Springsteen’s E Street Band
The Archies
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