Alphabet Bands/Artists

Crucial

A isn’t the easiest letter to fill but ABBA?
Are people expecting to throw a cross dressing party or something.

sparky

3rd biggest selling band of all-time with sales of over 400 million. Surprise, surprise there are many, many who love their music. 🤩

I disagree that A was a difficult letter. You could have had A-Ha or AC-DC.

Bones

@MN5 cool story bro.

Crucial

@sparky said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

@Crucial

3rd biggest selling band of all-time with sales of over 400 million. Surprise, surprise there are many, many who love their music. 🤩

Many people also wear tracksuits

MN5

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

bored. took a stab for prog rock @Tim (took a few liberties with the blank spots)

Amon Duul
Blue Oyster Cult
CHURCH, THE
Dire Straits
Enya
Fripp, Robert
Gabriel, Peter
Hawkwind
I Love Church
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Let's Put The Church On
Magma
Next up, The Church
Oldfield, Mike
Pink Floyd
Qweef it up for The Church
Rush
Supertramp
Toto
Uriah Heep
Vangelis
Wyatt, Robert
XTC
Yanni
Zzz

What was progessive about Dire Straits ? most of their songs seemed to stand still.....

JC

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

bored. took a stab for prog rock @Tim (took a few liberties with the blank spots)

Amon Duul
Blue Oyster Cult
CHURCH, THE
Dire Straits
Enya
Fripp, Robert
Gabriel, Peter
Hawkwind
I Love Church
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Let's Put The Church On
Magma
Next up, The Church
Oldfield, Mike
Pink Floyd
Qweef it up for The Church
Rush
Supertramp
Toto
Uriah Heep
Vangelis
Wyatt, Robert
XTC
Yanni
Zzz

If you are doing prog you’ll need Dream Theater instead of Dire Straits, Yes instead of Yanni, Emerson Lake and Palmer instead of Enya. You’ll also need Iron Butterfly, Van der Graf Generator, Curved Air, Gong, (The) Nice, Marillion, Tangerine Dream, Soft Machine and Ozric Tentacles. No idea about Q though. Queen is a bit of a stretch for prog rock.

dogmeat

@JC Eno instead of ELP

Q - quango. An offshoot of Asia who were an offshoot of Yes.

JC

@dogmeat I prefer Eno, but ELP are pretty much the very definition of prog IMO. Anybody pretentious enough to cover Mussorgsky, Gershwin, Bach and Parry and put them unselfconsciously alongside their own Benny the Bouncer and Still You Turn Me On clearly believes the self to be a Serious Artist.

Never heard Quango.Sounds awful.

Bones

Right, about time. Taking a stab but not locking it in. My main concern here is the distinct lack of cheesy 80's (toying with Roxette instead of Otis, but that might require Roy Orbison instead of Offspring). I know I know, no RHCP.

ACDC
The Black Seeds
Cake
Dire Straits
E Street Band
Foo Fighters
The Game
Ben Harper
Incubus
John Butler Trio
Maynard James Keenan
Lagwagon
Metallica
NOFX
The Offspring
Elvis Presley
Queen
Otis Redding
Slash
Timbaland
UB40
Velvet Revolver
Pharrel Williams
Xhibit
Neil Young
Rob Zombie

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@Bones
Thanks for reminding me of Incubus I had totally forgotten about them!!! 👍🏻 Not a bad list after all boney.

Bones

@RLx31 said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

@Bones
Thanks for reminding me of Incubus I had totally forgotten about them!!! 👍🏻 Not a bad list after all boney.

I ahhh.....I....

Nevermind.

Nepia

I'm going to attempt this over the long weekend ... but can't even think of an A at the moment.

Bones

@Nepia said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

I'm going to attempt this over the long weekend ... but can't even think of an A at the moment.

It actually ends up being quite depressing in a way - I love Fat Freddy's but how can I biff Foos? Maybe take Dave Grohl instead I guess? Plus, how could I go the rest of my life without ever hearing Poi e again.

Bones

Right so clarifying - taking an artist gives you their full body of work. Just to throw a spanner in the works.

JC

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

@JC said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

Yes instead of Yanni, Emerson Lake and Palmer instead of Enya.

That.

Was.

The.

Joke.

There.
Is.
Nothing.
Funny.
About.
Prog.
Rock.

MN5

@Bones said in Alphabet Bands/Artists.:

Right, about time. Taking a stab but not locking it in. My main concern here is the distinct lack of cheesy 80's (toying with Roxette instead of Otis, but that might require Roy Orbison instead of Offspring). I know I know, no RHCP.

ACDC
The Black Seeds
Cake
Dire Straits
E Street Band
Foo Fighters
The Game
Ben Harper
Incubus
John Butler Trio
Maynard James Keenan
Lagwagon
Metallica
NOFX
The Offspring
Elvis Presley
Queen
Otis Redding
Slash
Timbaland
UB40
Velvet Revolver
Pharrel Williams
Xhibit
Neil Young
Rob Zombie

Pharrell is a musical genius. So is Prince so in order to shoehorn both in I picked N* E* R* D.

Bones

@MN5 Prince doesn't beat NOFX for me.

Tim

Yacht Rock and Smooth AOR/Balearic

Airplay
Byrne and Barnes
Christopher Cross
The Doobie Brothers
Exile
Bryan Ferry
Greg Guidry
Hall & Oates
James Ingram
Marc Jordan
Steve Kipner
Kenny Loggins
Michael McDonald
Nielsen Pearson Band
Michael Omartian
Robert Palmer
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
Lee Ritenour
Steely Dan
Toto
Ulla
Marcos Vallee
Bob Welch
Young Gun Silver Fox
Grimaldi/Zeiher

Bones

Oh sure, just pick an A to Z from every genre you can think of guys, destroy the premise completely.

Tim

@Bones Never doubt the power of truly smooth music.

The Silver Fern

Alphabet Bands/Artists