Bands To Obsess Over

Godsownsinger · Post by **Godsownsinger** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:37 pm

Linwood Thorpe wrote:The Cowboy Junkies are a band I find myself obsessing over a few times a year. I won't listen to them for a while, then all of a sudden I will put on one of their discs and I will end up listening to them exclusively for a few days to a week. I think I have seen them 12 times or so.

DITTO!

blackseacityman · Post by **blackseacityman** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:03 pm

Does anybody listen to those Traveling Wheelbarrow guys anymore. I know a couple of them died but that was a hell of a band.

Linwood Thorpe · Post by **Linwood Thorpe** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:55 pm

The Cowboy Junkies are a band I find myself obsessing over a few times a year. I won't listen to them for a while, then all of a sudden I will put on one of their discs and I will end up listening to them exclusively for a few days to a week. I think I have seen them 12 times or so.

autumntwilight · Post by **autumntwilight** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:48 pm

SON VOLT
THE JAYHAWKS
NEIL YOUNG
MY MORNING JACKET
UNCLE TUPELO
WHISKEYTOWN
DEFTONES
JEFF BUCKLEY
RADIOHEAD
EARLY SMASHING PUMPKINS

calexico · Post by **calexico** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:32 am

mcarlton wrote:U2 (Died after 1990)

If only mc......if only.

sand dusky · Post by **sand dusky** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:18 am

Only ever obsessed With Neil Young (and by default CSN&Y and Buffalo Springfield). My attention span is far to short to Obsess. I was in to the musical scenes more than individual bands.

mcarlton · Post by **mcarlton** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:50 pm

No order but

Beatles
Crosby Still Nash and Young
Neil Young
CCR
Tull
Byrds
REM
U2 (Died after 1990)
Buffalo Tom
Big Star
King Crimson
Bob Mould
Son Volt
Uncle Tupelo
Jayhawks

ignats · Post by **ignats** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:42 pm

Well starting out in my youth it was:

Van Halen
Steve Vai
and any other great guitar instrumentalist (is that a word?)

Highschool it was:

Live
Counting Crows
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Pink Floyd
Zepplin
the Doors

College it was:

The Dead
Dinosaur Jr
Uncle Tupelo
Son Volt
Jayhawks
Eric Clapton
Frog Holler (local band that I followed from its early roots)

Post college:

any Bluegrass
Stevie Ray Vaughn
CCR
Whiskeytown
Ryan Adams
Wilco
Old 97's
Josh Rouse

And after all that, the other night I listened to Pink Floyd "Animals" all the way through, and loved it!!

calexico · Post by **calexico** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:55 am

Godsownsinger wrote:
calexico wrote:I totally obsessed over The Smiths for years,..

The Smiths, and Morrissey were one of those artists you either were totally in love with, or didnt like...I havent really met any middle-of-the-road fans .

That is true...and even now reading an article about how it is 20 years on since Meat Is Murder made me drag them all out again and play them at deafening volume!

Godsownsinger · Post by **Godsownsinger** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:36 am

calexico wrote:I totally obsessed over The Smiths for years,..

The Smiths, and Morrissey were one of those artists you either were totally in love with, or didnt like...I havent really met any middle-of-the-road fans .

gb68 · Post by **gb68** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:44 am

There've been many, but the major ones have been (in roughly chronological order):

The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Van Halen
Rush
Yes
King Crimson
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Grateful Dead
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Laura Nyro
Sly and the Family Stone
Miles Davis
Steely Dan
Jayhawks
Nick Drake
Kirsty MacColl
Bill Evans
Beethoven
Shostakovich
John Fahey
Throwing Muses
Jay Farrar
Radiohead

There have been genre phases, too: times where I'm way into funk, bluegrass, electronica, hard rock, etc.

japhyryder · Post by **japhyryder** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:25 pm

10-12 years old: billy joel, elton john, and the beatles
13-14 the police, bob dylan
14-15 bob dylan, grateful dead, neil young
15-16 hank williams sr, woody guthrie, robert johnson, and I obsessed about most other bob dylan influences (mainly old blues and country)
16-17 grateful dead, phish, pink floyd, led zep, the who, other classic rock
18 eminem, dr dre, snoop dogg, mf doom
19 beck, wilco, son volt, ut
20 big star, gram parsons
21 neutral milk hotel, olivia tremor control (the whole elephant 6 thing)
22 the rolling stones
23 skip spence
24 the white stripes, ryan adams
25 lately i've just been listening to the most recent work by the white stripes, wilco, son volt, ryan adams, bob dylan, beck and a lot of old blues and country.

badmofaux · Post by **badmofaux** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:23 pm

Guided By Voices, all the way. There's a band you can spend a couple of years getting your head around.

saratoga jay · Post by **saratoga jay** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:13 pm

Talus wrote:mar-AH

listening to the new one now. my first, fyi.

digging it, indeed. may have to go see them in philly in a week or so.

Talus · Post by **Talus** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:35 pm

mar-AH

Bands To Obsess Over

long, strange trip