# Which bands do you know every song by? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171 "2003-06-06T20:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AchimbaProphet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@AchimbaProphet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AchimbaProphet)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/21 "2003-06-07T06:32:10Z")
Here’s my favorite baker’s dozen of artists whom I have complete (or 98% near) catalogues of and whom can do no wrong: Siouxsie & The Banshees Garbage The Cardigans Sarah McLachlan Portishead Led Zepplin Hammerbox Goodness Toad The Wet Sprocket Alice In Chains Soundgarden Tool Jane’s Addiction ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/22 "2003-06-07T06:44:47Z")
My shameful admission: **Blondie**. My knowledge of Blondie music is vast. Encyclopedic, even. ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/23 "2003-06-07T07:15:05Z")
Nick Drake bob hund Radiohead Primal Scream Sonic Youth Velvet Underground Belle & Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/24 "2003-06-07T10:33:21Z")
Air Supply John Denver My Life Story I’ve nearly 200 CDs from various artists and genres in my collection. Can’t even name all of those… But play me a few bars from a JD song and I can name it… Sad I know… I know. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/25 "2003-06-07T12:54:27Z")
My list is short, too…VERY short… The EAGLES Thank you, thank you very much… ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/26 "2003-06-07T12:58:06Z")
I assume you mean _every_ song with no chance of being stumped by one obsure tune on an obscure album somewhere. In that case, **Steely Dan**. ---
**Author:** ![sc913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sc913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sc913)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/27 "2003-06-07T13:43:16Z")
Hmm… Off the top of my head: Metallica Faith No More Alice in Chains Iron Maiden Joy Division Nick Cave The Police Radiohead Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/28 "2003-06-07T14:10:42Z")
**UnwrittenNocturne** is in an EBM band, and **interface2x** like Depeche, NIN, and Mesh. I may possibly be in love. I’m working on VNV Nation. I may become an Icon of Coil addict, too. I usually fall in love with individual songs rather than entire albums. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/29 "2003-06-07T15:08:13Z")
Let’s see… The Smashing Pumpkins - which includes a lot of weird unreleased stuff Sublime The White Stripes - and I feel like I need to say I was in love with them before “White Blood Cells” their breakthrough, came out Nine Inch Nails Weezer Bob Marley - though I must say, his earliest stuff isn’t worth remembering ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/30 "2003-06-07T15:11:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*My shameful admission: > > **Blondie**. My knowledge of Blondie music is vast. Encyclopedic, even. \*\* Mine is worst. ABBA. I know every ABBA Song, including the non-English ones. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/31 "2003-06-07T17:01:21Z")
The Indigo Girls ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/32 "2003-06-07T18:40:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunshine and Smiles \* > \*\*Let’s see… > > The Smashing Pumpkins - which includes a lot of weird unreleased stuff > > Sublime > \*\* Sublime has **a lot** of “weird and unreleased” stuff. Are you sure you have all your bases covered? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/33 "2003-06-07T19:05:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\ ***UnwrittenNocturne** is in an EBM band, and **interface2x** like Depeche, NIN, and Mesh. I may possibly be in love. > I’m working on VNV Nation. I may become an Icon of Coil addict, too. I usually fall in love with individual songs rather than entire albums. \*\* Yeah, I’ve tried VNV, but I still don’t have _Advance and Follow_ and I’m not paying the $200 it usually ends up at on Ebay. Every other song they’ve released since then I know inside out (with the exception of the new song on the Honour 2003 single!). As for Icon of Coil, they’re pretty hit and miss with me. I have both full lengths in addition to _Seren_ and _One Nation Under Beat_ (which is primarily filler material). Their cover of Pet Shop Boys’ “New York City Boy” rocks, though. Oh, and if **Unwritten Nocturne** gets to do it, then I will to - I know all of the songs from my former band **Interface 2x**. Even the ones that sucked. Which was most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/34 "2003-06-07T21:04:35Z")
Icon opened for VNV at the Toronto concert. Do you like Wolfsheim? Sorry, I shouldn’t hijack. Maybe we need our own EMB/goth thread. ---
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/35 "2003-06-07T21:54:02Z")
Might as well throw my two cents in: The Alkaline trio Botch The Dillinger Escape Plan The Who Less Than Jake (Except for the newest album) Fugazi Refused (Except for their really early stuff) Weezer Harvey Danger and Sunnyday Real-estate ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/36 "2003-06-07T23:00:30Z")
I have encyclopedic knowledge of Operation Ivy (including the E.P.s) and Green Day. I know all of Rancid’s stuff except their first record. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/37 "2003-06-07T23:23:32Z")
Hüsker Dü (Including sub-categories Bob Mould and Sugar) Jane’s Addiction The Police Sisters of Mercy Kate Bush (pre-_Red Shoes_) Peter Gabriel Butthole Surfers (pre-_Weird Revolution_) The Who and…um… Duran Duran (pre-_Notorious_) Oh, and **fallapart** … any time you wanna do a mano-a-mano Who Trivia Smackdown, just lemme know little bro’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/38 "2003-06-07T23:33:26Z")
The Cure The Smiths (most of ) New Order [notice a trend here…?] ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/39 "2003-06-07T23:41:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*Icon opened for VNV at the Toronto concert. > > Do you like Wolfsheim? Sorry, I shouldn’t hijack. Maybe we need our own EMB/goth thread. \*\* _My Final Hijack Until There’s a New Thread 🙂_ I can’t really get into Wolfsheim - it’s the vocals. I’m strangely concerned with vocals in the music I listen to. If I don’t like them, everything the band does is screwed. Icon of Coil just _barely_ squeaks by for me. Admittedly, I’ve only heard a couple of Wolfsheim tracks, so I might just need to give them more of a chance. p.s. Last year when VNV came through Chicago, Assemblage 23 and Haujobb opened for them. It was awesome - at the end of the VNV set, they called A23 up onstage and they performed A23’s song “Naked” together. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171/40 "2003-06-08T00:27:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Washte \* > \*\* But play me a few bars from a JD song and I can name it… Sad I know… I know. \*\* But, do you know the _complete_ lyric to the Ballad of Spiro Agnew? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-do-you-know-every-song-by/180171.md?page=3)