The A-Z Of Obsession
I don’t usually bother with memes, but this one about choosing your favourite musicians from A to Z (from largehearted boy and previous sources) is fun, if agonizing. The distribution of great bands across letters of the alphabet is so cruelly uneven!
A: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
B: Beck
c: Calla
D: Bob Dylan
E: Missy Elliott
F: Fugazi
G: Grandaddy
H: David Holmes
I: Interpol
J: Michael Jackson
K: Knifehandchop
L: Low
M: Mogwai
N: Neutral Milk Hotel
O: Outkast
P: Pixies
Q: Queen
R: Radiohead
S: Sonic Youth
T: Amon Tobin
U: U2
V: Velvet Underground
W: Wilco
X: Xiu Xiu
Y: Yo La Tengo
Z: Zwan
The list of honourable mentions which only narrowly lost out to these is so long I gave up typing it halfway.
Checkit!
a tribe called quest
beastie boys
cat power
de la soul
el-p
four tet
gza
kristin hersh
interpol
jan jelinek
kruder & dorfmeister
low
madlib
new order
jim o’rourke
pavement
q-tip
radiohead
dj shadow
talk talk
unkle
luke vibert
wu-tang clan
x-ecutioners
yo la tengo
zero 7
I see we were both scraping the bottom of the barrel for Z…
Apples in Stereo
Books
Clash, The
Death Cab For Cutie
Essential Logic
Faust
Gang Of Four
Helium (best I could come up with)
Iron And Wine
Jason Molina
K Records (weeeeeeeeeeeee.. cop-out)
LCD Soundsystem
Modest Mouse
New Pornographers
Outkast
Pavement
Quasi (coup de grace, baby)
Robert Johnson
Scissor Sisters (at the moment at least)
The, The (just because its a funny entry)
Unicorns
Velvet Underground
Weezer (eh, why not)
X (great band, and perfect for this entry)
Yellownote (at least that one song is fun)
Zorn, John (even bigger cop-out than K Records)