So a while back I had a thread about how after a certain age, you are unlikely to acquire new "all-time" favorite bands. You will like new stuff, but you're unlikely to find a band that you become obsessed with and explore their entire catalog, etc.
But if you WERE to decide to go all-out with a new band - defend them in chat rooms, buy all their albums, learn the sexual history of the bass player - which, if any, would it be?
Based on my tastes, I think I could become a Death Cab fan. Or a Ryan Adams fan. (And yes, before you say anything, I also like vanilla ice cream and good clean water.)
I haven't become anything more than a casual fan of these bands. I'm saying those are the ones I COULD go nuts over, given, I don't know...more spare time? Some other impetus?
So if you had to adopt a couple of other all-time obsessive bands, who would they be?
― Justin Shumaker, Monday, 24 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
I jut need to download a few more of their mp3s. Theng I will be a big fan of theird.
― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)
I am of a certain age, and every few years (sometimes more often) I fall in love with some artist more or less in the way you describe.
Stuff I am pretty certain I would like if I ever made time to pay attention to it: Manu Chao / Mano Negra, The Shins, Lambchop, Pernice Brothers (and related bands), Tinariwen, Afghan Whigs / Twilight Singers, Cat Power.
― Vornado, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)
As a guy whose own stuff was once dubbed "lit-pop" by Xhuxk (he meant it as an insult, of course), I would most likely get into the Pernice Brothers, Mountain Goats, Russian Futurists, etc. I just never get around to it.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)
theres a lot that has gone on and is going on in Brazil, Costa Rica, and Japan and SE Asia that could prove obsessive. But i know im not wealthy enough to let it into my veins quite yet.
― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)