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
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.
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.
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
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.