Favorite band ABC's

Previous posters in this thread.

Queen is probably my favorite Q band, but it's not a letter of music I actively seek out.

I'm not very qualified to talk about the Q scene.

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

I could have put Quiet Sun for Q, but considering they only had one album, it didn't feel right. Same with Quatermass.

Suzi Quatro is another possibility for Q.

Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!

There are no Q, X, or Z artists in country music that I know of, so I'm screwed.

Seems like with country it's always just the singer's name and nothing else, from what little I know of the genre.

I'm surprised more people aren't having problems with Z, though people have been bending the rules with Frank Zappa to get by, lol. Besides Zombie Girl the only other Z band I've heard of is ZZ Top, and I'm not into them.

My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html

Well, let's see...

• Adele
• TheBeeGees
• Cher
• DaftPunk
• Eurythmics
• Genesis
• HueyLewisAndTheNews
• Journey
• KellyClarkson
• Lionel Ritchie
• Mika
• Nickelback
• Of Monsters And Men
• PearlJam
• REOSpeedwagon
• Styx
• TearsForFears
• U2
• VanHalen
• WalkOffTheEarth
• ZZTop

Got nothing for F, I, Q, X or Y.

edited 27th Feb '14 9:18:17 AM by FourK

There are bands in country, too, and many of them use something other than the performers' names.

x3 You should check out The Zombies. You may have heard "Time of the Season" somewhere before.

• Aerosmith
• Boston
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Doors
• Eagles
• Fleetwood Mac
• Grateful Dead
• Heart
• Iron Maiden (More like least favorite. Only "I" band I can think of...)
• Journey
• Kansas
• Led Zeppelin
• The Moody Blues
• Nazareth
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Pink Floyd
• Queen
• Rolling Stones
• Steve Miller Band
• Tom Petty
• Uriah Heep
• Van Halen
• The Who
• Styx? (I've got nothing for this. It may not count, but it has an "X" in its name...)
• Yes
• The Zombies

edited 28th Feb '14 5:53:26 PM by WolfMan16

Some folks on the Internet think they're a special GIFT to the world, and others aren't. In this perspective, they're kind of right.

(Preparing myself for the "wtf are you on? Comments. I'm gonna try to name the most random bands I like just to see what y'all think.)

• AFI, Adele, Avril Lavigne (if girlfriend wasn't one of your favorite songs at some point.... I pity you.)
• Disney
• Evanescence
• In this Moment
• Mumford & Sons, My Chemical Romance,
• Nightwish
• Panic! At the Disco
• Silversun Pickups
• Tarja Turjen
• Within Temptation

edited 28th Feb '14 3:14:33 PM by LadyKatie

To each their own I guess. But is Disney a band? XD

My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.html

I love their movie soundtracks. Lol, I could probably add more if I counted what was already on the pages I read, but I felt like being random today.

I can think of a few non-Queen/QOTSA bands or artists that start with Q, though most of them are at least semi-obscure: Queen Latifah, The Queers, Quarterflash, and Quicksand...Oh, and if I had wanted to be vain about it, I could have used my own solo project, Quetzalcoatlus.

Okay... here goes:

• Amon Amarth
• Blind Guardian
• Communic
• Dragonland
• Ensiferum
• Fates Warning
• Gorgoroth
• Hammer Fall
• Ingermanland
• Jethro Tull (Only thing I could think of)
• Kamelot
• Nothing, sorry
• Metallica (I don't really like them, just couldn't think of anything for M))
• Northland
• Opeth
• Pig Destroyer (All I could have think of)
• Quorthon (Suck it Queen)
• Rhapsody Of Fire
• Stormwarrior
• Tom Waits
• Uriah Heep
• Voltaire
• Winterstorm
• X Japan
• Yes
• Zyklon (Samoth's band before Emperor)

edited 3rd Mar '14 9:25:20 PM by CardsOfWar

"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina

• A: Amy Winehouse
• B: Blondie
• C: The Cranberries
• D: David Bowie (or maybe Dead Can Dance)
• E: Echo and the Bunnymen (It's surprisingly hard for me to think of something for E)
• F: Fleetwood Mac
• G: Goldfrapp
• H: Heart
• I: Can't think of anything
• J: Janelle Monae
• K: Kate Bush
• L: Lykke Li, maybe (I don't have much for this letter)
• M: Madonna
• N: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• O: Nothing for O
• P: PJ Harvey
• Q: Queen
• R: The Ramones (or Robyn)
• S: Siouxsie and the Banshees
• T: Tom Waits
• U: U2, I guess
• V: The Velvet Underground
• X: XTC (who else?)
• Y: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Z: The Zombies

edited 22nd May '14 10:33:39 PM by Warron

(For personal names, I sort them by their last name rather than first name).

• ABBA
• Jacques Brel
• Johnny Cash
• Deep Purple
• Ensiferum
• Finntroll
• Raymond van het Groenewoud
• Jimi Hendrix
• Iron Maiden
• Judas Priest
• Knorkator
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Muddy Waters
• Normaal
• Rogier van Otterloo (fuck there's little for O... well, the composer of the awesome Soldier of Orange theme tune is as good a choice as any, I suppose)
• The Police
• Queen (I could have been original and gone with Quicksilver Messenger Service, but I'm a huge Queen fan)
• The Rolling Stones
• Bruce Springsteen
• Testament
• UB40
• Village People
• Fats Waller
• X... I got nothing.
• The Yardbirds
• Frank Zappa

edited 23rd May '14 7:42:05 AM by MidnightRambler

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...

Ab-Soul

Bad Religion(of course)

Clash, The

Dead Kennedys

Eazy-E

F...the only band that I can come up with and like one of their songs is Fall Out Boy but oh well

Gray Matter

Hoodie Allen

Ice Cube

Joy Division

Kendrick Lamar

Ludacris

Madeon

Outkast(even though I only heard Bombs Over Baghdad)

Primus

Queens(because fuck it)

Ratatat

Schoolboy Q

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

U...well shit

Vandals

Wu-Tang Clan

Xzibit (Yes, he did more than pimping my ride and putting my ride into my ride)

Youth Brigade

ZUN (aka the guy who made all the original Touhou music scores)

edited 23rd May '14 7:43:12 AM by sgtpendulum

http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)

• The Allman Brothers Band
• Big Big Train
• Cibo Matto
• The Dandy Warhols
• Electric Light Orchestra
• Kinky Friedman
• Genesis
• The Housemartins
• Iron Maiden
• The Jayhawks
• King Crimson
• Little Feat
• MC Frontalot
• New Order
• Oasis
• The Pixies
• Quarterflash (just because they're not Queen and don't start with "Queen")
• Rush
• Spock's Beard
• They Might Be Giants
• Uriah Heep
• Violent Femmes
• Wu-Tang Clan
• XTC
• Yes
• Zoogz Rift

• Alice in Chains
• Beastie Boys
• [looks down in shame] Coldplay... only because of the Parachutes album!
• The Doors
• Eddie Grant
• Foo Fighters
• Globus
• ... The Human League?
• Imagine Dragons
• Jane's Addiction
• Kings of Leon
• Tie between Led Zeppelin and L'Arc~en~Ciel
• Ministry of Magic
• Nirvana
• Oasis
• Pink Floyd/The Police
• Queen
• Radiohead
• SCANDAL
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• U2
• The Velvet Underground
• Washed Out
• XTC
• Yui
• ZZ Top

I basically just scrolled through my iPod and googled the rest. I have listened to all these bands, though.

edited 25th May '14 9:30:27 PM by jupiterrocks24

You are a lovely human being.

• Autechre
• Boards of Canada
• Crescent/Movietone
• Dead Can Dance
• Brian Eno
• Fiona Apple
• Peter Gabriel
• Robert Hood
• Ryoji Ikeda
• Jeff Mills
• Kate Bush
• Helmut Lachenmann
• Morton Feldman
• Joanna Newsom
• Moritz Von Oswald
• Pan Sonic
• Quincy Jones (because fuck Queen, seriously)
• The Residents
• Snd
• Talking Heads
• Underground Resistance
• Vladislav Delay
• Wolfgang Voigt
• X-102
• Yoko Kanno
• Zzzzra

And no you don't have to point out to me of there being both X-102 AND Underground Resistance AND Jeff Mills AND Robert Hood. Because U and X were already hard to find as is. For the sake of variety you can pretend that J is Jon Hassell and H is Hype Williams (the band not the dude who makes videos).

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

A: Alex Winston (Host, Sister Wife)
B: Black Belles (Wishing Well, Howl At the Moon . . . and Charlene (I'm Right Behind You))
C: Camera Obscura (Honey In the Sun, The Sweetest Thing, Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken)
D: Detroit Cobras (Putty, Heartbeat)
E: Eleanor Friedberger (When I Knew, Stare At the Sun)
F: Florence and the Machine (You've Got the Love, Dog Days)
G: Gold Motel (Brand New Kind of Blue, We're On the Run)
H: Heartless Bastards, my absolute favourite band (Marathon, Down In the Canyon, The Mountain, Swamp Song, All This Time, Screw it, a two-hour concert they did last year, because they are so amazing and I love them)
I: Indelicates (Sixteen, Be Afraid of Your Parents)
J: Jon Fratelli (Santo Domingo, Tell Me Honey) - This also goes for his other projects, the Fratellis and Codeine Velvet Club
K: Kate Nash (Merry Happy, Foundations, We Get On)
L: Long Blondes (You Could Have Both, Once and Never Again, A Knife for the Girls); but I actually also need to mention Lemuria, Lisa Mitchell and Lucky Soul
M: Morningwood (Nth Degree, How You Know It's Love)
N: Noisettes (That Girl, Scratch Your Name)
O: Operator Please (Two For My Seconds, Zero! Zero!)
P: Portugal. The Man (When the War Ends, So American, Evil Friends)
Q: Queen, I guess
R: Regina Spektor (Back of A Truck, Better, Fidelity, Don't Leave Me)
S: I'm going to declare a flat-out tie between She & Him (In the Sun, Home) and Spinnerette (Sex Bomb, Ghetto Love)
T: Ting Tings (That's Not My Name, Guggenheim, Shut Up and Let Me Go)
U: Uh Huh Her (Not A Love Song)
V: Vaccines (If You Wanna, Norgaard, Family Friend)
W: White Stripes
X: XPQ-21, I suppose, because I've had one of their songs on my computer since I was 16 and never actually removed it, even though I always skip it
Y: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Maps, Mystery Girl)
Z: Zutons (Valerie, Oh Stacey)

The Toughest letters were L (I knew I wanted to go with the Long Blondes, but there's a lot of other cool bands with L), and P.

edited 14th Jun '14 8:49:51 PM by Tiamatty

X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics.