Lazy?
Anthrax
Black Sabbath
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Disturbed
Exodus (Band)
Faith No More
Guns N' Roses
Halestorm
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
KISS
Led Zeppelin
Megadeth
Nirvana
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queen
Rush
Slayer
Testament
The Union Underground
Van Halen
The Who
X Japan
ZZ Top
Don't have any favorites that start with the letter Y.
Still just awesome like that
Yeah, why not.
- The Apples In Stereo
- The Beatles
- Cage The Elephant
- David Bowie
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Fitz And The Tantrums
- George Harrison (or, for a non-Beatles one, maybe Green Day)
- either Harvey Danger or Hideki Naganuma
- Iggy & The Stooges
- Jimi Hendrix
- either Kanye West or The Killers
- Leila and the Snakes
- Michael Jackson
- Nirvana
- ...Oasis, maybe?
- Pepper's Ghost, with maybe the pillows as a close second and the Pixies approaching. The Puppini Sisters are high up there too.
- Queen
- Toss up between Radiohead, The Ramones, and Randy Newman
- Tie: Simon And Garfunkel and The Smiths
- They Might Be Giants
- The Unicorns
- The Velvet Underground
- Weird Al Yankovic, or maybe The Who
- X...maybe Ximena Sariñana? Only one I can think of that I've heard anything by.
- maybe the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The only entry under Z I have that I listen to is The Zatopeks
edited 21st Feb '14 5:31:38 AM by Odd1
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
A Pathetic
- Amorphous Androgenous
- Budgie
- Claymore
- Deep Purple
- Emerson Lake And Palmer
- Frank Zappa
- Goldfrapp
- Hybrid
- Iron Maiden (only thing I can think of for I, actually...)
- Jon Gomm
- Karnivool
- Led Zeppelin
- Marillion
- Nine Inch Nails (only thing for N too...)
- [BAND NOT FOUND]
- Peter Gabriel
- Queen
- Runrig
- Sting
- UNKLE
- ...Vanden Plas?
![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]")
- White Zombie
- Yes
- [BAND NOT FOUND]
edited 21st Feb '14 5:36:49 AM by TopographicOcean
YUUGI WANTS YOU FOR DRINKING BUDDY
- Alice In Chains
- The Beatles
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Dream Theater
- Eagles
- Foo Fighters
- Guns N Roses
- Heart
- Iron Maiden
- Jethro Tull
- Kansas
- Led Zeppelin
- Muse
- Nirvana
- Oasis
- PinkFloyd
- Queen
- Rush
- Soundgarden
- Tom Petty
- U2
- Van Halen
- The Who
- [X not found]
- Yes
- ZZ Top
That was easy enough.
edited 21st Feb '14 8:18:07 AM by djbj
Pop Culture Addict
- Arcade Fire
- The Black Keys
- Cream
- David Bowie
- Explosions in the Sky
- Fleet Foxes
- Genesis
- Happy Mondays
- Iron Maiden
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- The Kinks
- LCD Soundsystem
- The Melvins
- New Order
- Oasis
- The Pixies
- Queens of the Stone Age
- The Ramones
- The Stone Roses
- T-Rex
- U2
- Vampire Weekend
- The White Stripes
- X
- Yes
- ZZ Top
edited 21st Feb '14 9:09:28 AM by tropeslave
Avatar Sakaki Ignore cat
- Aphex Twin
- Blur
- Cardiacs
- Deerhoof
- Eels
- Fela Kuti
- Girl Band
- Hinkley Veltones
- Iggy Pop
- Joy Division
![[tdown]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_down_emoticon_3571.png "[thumb down]")
- Led Zeppelin
- Magazine
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Orbital
- Peacock Affect
- Queen
- Radiohead
- Steve Reich
- Talking Heads
-
- Velvet Underground
- Wire
-
- Yuki Kajiura
-
edited 21st Feb '14 10:11:43 AM by porschelemans
I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.
- Alice In Chains
- The Beatles
- Catherine Wheel
- The Doors
- Eels
- Foo Fighters
- David Gray
- Jesca Hoop
- Iron Butterfly
- Jethro Tull
- King Crimson
- Led Zeppelin
- Mastodon
- Nada Surf
- The Offspring
- Pink Floyd
- Queen
- The Ramones
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Tool
- Uriah Heep
- The Velvet Underground
- The Who
- (Never listened to XTC, so I guess this one's out)
- Yuck
- The Zombies
edited 21st Feb '14 11:09:51 AM by BrainSewage
How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?
Damn, I should have put either Weird Al or White Zombie as my W. Seems like Queen is the go-to Q band for most people.
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html
I'm gonna challenge myself to do the whole alphabet and exclusively use bands no one's done yet:
- Aerosmith
- Beastie Boys
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Devo
- Electric Light Orchestra
- The Fall
- Grandaddy
- Husker Du
- Iron Maiden
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Kraftwerk
- The Lemonheads
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- Nick Drake
- Operation Ivy
- Public Image LTD
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- R.E.M.
- Simon And Garfunkel
- T Rex
- Underworld
- Violent Femmes
- Weezer
- X-Ray Spex
- Yo La Tengo
- Zappa, Frank (yeah, that's totally cheating, but all the other z bands are taken)
edited 23rd Feb '14 9:04:39 PM by MikeK
Heresiarch Command
Ars Nova (Japan)
Blind Guardian
The Chasm
Dark Quarterer
Eucharist
Fates Warning (early)
Galneryus
Helstar
Incantation
Jag Panzer
King Crimson
Lost Horizon (Sweden)
Manticora
Nostradams (Poland)
Othyrworld
Primordial
Queensryche (early)
Revelation (Maryland, USA)
Sabbat (Jpn)
Twisted Tower Dire
Univers Zero
Vex (USA)
Wuthering Heights
X Japan (early)
Yes (UK)
Zealotry (USA)
edited 21st Jul '14 3:15:25 PM by StillbirthMachine
Only Death Is Real
Watch the seventh wave
Behold my fucking atrocious taste in music:
Avenged Sevenfold
Bullet for my Valentine
Children of Bodom
Demon Hunter
(N/A)
Five Finger Death Punch (stupid name though)
(N/A)
Iron Maiden
Jimi Hendrix (not really a band, but...)
Kyuss
Lacuna Coil
Metallica (Megadeth and Mastodon come really, really close though)
Nirvana
Orianthi (well, either her or Otep)
A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age
Rise Against
The Sword
Tool
Unearth
Van Halen
The Who
All I can think of for the time being.
edited 21st Feb '14 9:31:51 PM by XJTordecai
On my wave, passing oooooooon
Apparition in the Woods
- Angels of Light
- Bugskull
- Coil
- Dome
- Earth
- Final
- Gang Of Four
- H.N.A.S.
- I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook
- Jackie-O Motherfucker
- King Crimson
- Ludus
- Mirror
- Nurse With Wound
- Oval
- Pan Sonic
- Quiet Sun
- Ramleh
- Sonic Youth
- This Heat
- UT
- Vini Reilly
- Wire
- Xanopticon
- Yo La Tengo
- Zoviet France
All these blanks are telling me I should listen to more music.
A: The Animals
D: Bob Dylan
E: Eagles
F: (I've got nothing)
H: Buddy Holly
I: (I've got nothing)
K: The Kingsmen
L: Tom Lehrer
N: (I've got nothing)
O: (I've got nothing)
P: Édith Piaf
Q: Queen
R: REM
S: The Sonics
U: (I've got nothing)
X: (I've got nothing)
Y: (I've got nothing)
Z: The Zombies
edited 24th May '14 9:31:39 AM by ColonelCathcart
No linking because I'm way too lazy for that.
- Atreyu
- Between the Buried and Me
- Code For Silence
- Disarmonia Mundi
- Equilibrium
- Fair to Midland
- Genedefect
- Helmet
- Ill Niño
- James La Brie (if you ask, he does have a solo career, and yes I like it more than his band)
- Killswitch Engage
- Leander Rising
- Miseration
- Nevermore
- Opeth
- P.O.D.
- Quest of Aidance (Not sure if kinda liking one album listened counts as "liking")
- Raunchy
- Scar Symmetry
- Textures
- Universum
- Vanisher (although to be fair I just mildly like them)
- Whispered
- Xerath
- Y... And then, I realized the band I'm close to liking is Yellowcard, so I'll just go with that.
- Zeromind
edited 23rd Feb '14 11:01:49 AM by NEO
No regret shall pass over the threshold!
- Abney Park
- Between The Buried and Me
- Crush 40
- Demon Hunter
- Etna
- F...
- Gackt
- Hardline
- Imaginary Flying Machines
- J.... Jun Senoue?
- Kajiura Yuki
- Linked Horizon (Just so i don't have to say Sound Horizon)
- Massacration
- N...
- Omnium Gatherum
- Phantasmagoria
- Q...
- Revo
- Scar Symmetry
- Toxic Grind Machine
- Universum
- V... W....
- X-Japan
- Your Favorite Enemies
- Z...
Left quite a bunch... But most of my favorite stuff occupies B or S (Solution 45, Soilwork, Skyharbor, Being, Bury Your Dead, Blood Stain Child and so on)
edited 23rd Feb '14 10:59:45 AM by Kyonne
With possible alternate mentions where I have more than one artist/band:
With numbers: 808 State (alt., 13th Floor Elevators);
A: Air (alternatively, Afrika Bambaataa);
D: David Bowie (alt., Daft Punk);
E: Everything But The Girl (alt., Etienne de Crécy);
F: Florence + the Machine (alt., Funkadelic);
G: Gang Of Four (alt., Giorgio Moroder);
H: Happy Mondays (alt., Heróis Do Mar);
I: Isaac Hayes (alt., Ian Dury);
J: Joy Division (alt., Johnny Cash);
K: Kate Bush (alt., Kraftwerk);
L: Laura Nyro (alt., Lush);
M: Manuel Göttsching (alt., Madredeus);
O: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (alt., Orbital);
P: Pulp (alt., Popol Vuh);
Q: Quarteto 1111;
S: Saint Etienne (alt., Serge Gainsbourg);
T (counting with the word "The": The Beatles (alt., The Fall) — (no "The" word before the name of the band - Tom Tom Club (alt., Throbbing Gristle);
U: U2;
V: Virginia Astley;
W: Wire;
X: X-Wife;
Y: Yellow Magic Orchestra (alt., Young Marble Giants);
Z: [no band]
edited 23rd Feb '14 11:26:47 AM by Quag15
THE LIMPITY LOPPITY LEAP!
Oh boy here I go. S will be particularly difficult.
- Alice in Chains
- The Beatles
- The Chasm
- Death
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Foo Fighters
- Green Day
- Heathen
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- Kreator
- Led Zeppelin
- Metallica
- Nine Inch Nails
- Obituary
- Pestilence
- Queen
- Rush
- Shinedown
- Tarby
- Unleashed
- Vertical Horizon
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- X Japan
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Frank Zappa
edited 15th May '15 1:48:32 PM by Scolipendra
Lazy?
I've got a question: who had the hardest time choosing? For me it was the letter A, mainly for Alter Bridge versus Anthrax.
Just to find out which letter has the best music (I'm guessing S).
For me it was the letter B, with Beach Boys versus the Byrds versus Chuck Berry versus Boston.
Letter B: Björk vs. Blondie vs. Beck vs. Beastie Boys vs. Bob Dylan vs. Brian Eno (and a few others).
A chub from the Grant Corporation
- Amon Düül II
- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (R.I.P.: Francesco)
- Caravan
- Deus Ex Machina
- England
- Focus
- Gentle Giant
- Harmonium
- Itoiz
- Jonesy
- Kayak
- Lucifer’s Friend
- Magma
- Novalis
- Orme
- Premiata Forneria Marconi
- Queen
- Roxy Music
- Secret Oyster
- 10cc
- Ultravox
- Van Der Graaf Generator
- Wallenstein
- XTC
- Yes
- Frank Zappa
edited 24th Feb '14 6:42:06 PM by Bananaquit
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!
There are a lot of A and K bands that I like, I had to go with which ones influenced my musical tastes the most. Ayria was a close second for A, but I arguably would never have heard of Ayria if I hadn't already gotten into And One and was looking for bands in their genre. For S it was between System of a Down and Stratovarius, a very hard choice but I went with System of a Down because of how their music shaped my early teen years.
As for letters that were hard to find a band for, I had to dig deep to find a band I liked that started with Y or X (I've really only heard one song from Yazoo or Xperiment). Then of course I had to use the Queen cop-out, but at least I do like a couple of their songs.
edited 25th Feb '14 12:13:21 AM by Surenity
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html
GAAAAAAHHHHH
This seems fun. Why not.
- ANOTHER STREAM (only an album trailer...there's also a song on Youtube but the album trailer is so pretty)
- Between the Buried and Me
- CROW'SCLAW
- Demetori
- Evile (huh, not many E bands here)
- Fleshgod Apocalypse (loved The Violation but disliked their newest album, but I don't want to leave any letters out)
- GAME FREAK (The Pokemon X and Y soundtracks, aw yes...I know it's not them but the albums are in their name)
- Heterodyne.
- Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
- Jake Kaufman
- Kissing the Mirror (No idea why I'm linking to a lyric video, Co B was their biggest influence, but oh well...then again, KTM have better lyrics
- Lock Up (Okay, I've only heard Life of Devastation, how do I not have loads of L artists)
- Myrath
- Neurotech
- Goddamnit, nothing for O
- Pig Destroyer
- Who the hell has anything for Q that's not Music/Queen though
- Rosetta
- Stealing Axion
- Threshold
- Undead Corporation
- VAGUEDGE
- Wild Dak Paks (now Komeiji Records, but the stuff made as WDP is still cool in my opinion)
- I have one band beginning with X but I haven't listened to them
- YAMAGEN'S DEVILELIET
- Zircon
Why don't I add music links while I'm at it.
So I just did it for every one, what the hell do I think I'm doing
Hardest ones I found were T, B and S for having many of my favourites.
edited 25th Feb '14 3:11:47 PM by COFFEENEBULA
MY DANCE MACHINE STARTS TO REACT
Watch the seventh wave
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I like Queens of the Stone Age over Queen :O
This is just a strange game I like to play, try and see if I can come up with a band I like for each letter of the alphabet. Maybe it'd be a way to share some of your favorites and check out the favorites of others. If they have a TV tropes page, link to it, if not, maybe a Youtube video?
edited 21st Feb '14 12:14:38 AM by Surenity
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html