Only 3 bands exist
 

Pretend there are only 3 bands you can listen to. You're welcome to their entire catalogue, but you can't have their members' side projects or anything like that. Which 3 would you choose and why?

1. Skinny Puppy. I need this band to defrag my brain, and I can't get inspired the same way from anything else. There are alternatives such as severed heads and foetus, but they aren't consistant the same way. I take skinny puppy over any other electronic music.

2. Sonic Youth. This band consistantly releases amazing albums that keep me occupied for months. I don't think I'll ever get tired of them, and I don't think I'll ever stop noticing new reasons to love them.

3. Smashing Pumpkins. These guys have all the mood music I need for almost every conceivable mood (the others are taken care of by the aforementioned bands), I need some smashing pumpkins sometimes.

EDIT: Solo artists are ok. I just meant you can't have sonic youth AND psychic hearts AND free kitten etc. You can't have Syd Barrett AND pink floyd, but you can have Syd Barrett.

1. Unwound
2. Sonic Youth
3. Animal Collective

1. Sonic Youth
2. Pixies
3. My Bloody Valentine

Sy
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Einsturzende Neubauten

1.Radiohead: They have an impressive range
2.Pavement: Something to fit my happier days
3.Sonic Youth: their long discography will keep me happy for a looong time.

Sonic Youth
Bob Dylan

the other one I don't care about.

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. Sonic Youth
3. Talking Heads

Fuck...

Sonic Youth
Wolf Eyes
Xiu Xiu

Sonic Youth
Dr. Dre
Silver Jews.

Very hard to choose. Possibly Rakim instead of Dre. And good call on Einsturzende, I was thinking of including him myself.

interesting question. This is going to be a thought provoker.

Sonic Youth
The Beatles

I cannot think of another band equal to these in my ears, as far as recorded output is concerned....

I will add

The Butthole Surfers - sometimes you just gots to get crazy, you know?

Sonic Youth
Tom Waits
Gertie Fox

the first 2 becaus ethey have many albums and are great. Gertie Fox becaus ethey are the best current band in America

Sonic Youth
Pixies
MCR (Because we all need a band to keep emo kids out of good music)

i think you should rephrase this thread the only 2 bands and Sonic Youth that exist

Sonic Youth
Black Sabbath
Lightning Bolt

Quite true

Sonic Youth
Unwound
Xiu Xiu

Radiohead just didn't make it.

I agreed with this one at first, but then decided to replace Nick Cave with Cowboy Junkies.

Mind you, a part of me is tempted to replace Neubauten with Girls Aloud too, just so that there's something cheerful to listen to from time to time.

Yeah, final choice:

Sonic Youth
Cowboy Junkies
Girls Aloud

do they have to be bands? otherwise i say syd barrett. actually i wouldn't really need anything else. but if just bands then i'll drop even SY and pick:

the fall
new order
caroliner

I rather not listen to anything then have my selection limited to 3 bands (so frustrating). Like when all my cds were stolen - I just sang the songs I remembered rather than try to restart my collection with a initial few cds.

Easy pick.

Sonic Youth
Mogwai
My Bloody Valentine

-bob dylan
-pink floyd
-sonic youth or daft punk

When the world ends it looks like there will be a glut of Sonic Youth cds in all your bomb shelters. It will be like the mid nineties when every pawn shop had 7 copies of Ace of Base - The Sign, on hand.

Haha try trading A Thousand Leaves (vinyl!) for ammo and gasoline to your surviving neighbors. Should have stocked up on country instead.

Ah'll be okay, ah got mah Cowboy Junkies. Yee-ha!

The Velvet Underground - I'm traditional, what the heck. I love the band.
Sonic Youth
Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band - Since it has to be a "band" I added the Plastic bit. I'm not sure about this one, though.

Sonic Youth, Elliott Smith and either The Beatles or Joni Mitchell.

oh, what a blasphemy.

AMM - the reason is that they have such a wealth of amazing recordings/collaberations, one could not get tired of it.
Sonic Youth - my favourite band, course...
Derek Bailey - everything he does i cannot get bored of.

Velvet Underground, Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth, Animal Collective, The Fall

Animal Collective

....this question sucks....

are we allowed to consider future releases by the bands we pick? live stuff and rarities, etc?....

Of course it sucks it's hypothetical.

thats a tough one...

Sonic Youth anyways
Nine Inch Nails would also have to be there...

maybe Radiohead or Pavement?
i dunno about the last one, god its all so final - can i not just have an ipod with all me favorite bands on it?

just pick three and stop cryin'

you people picking animal colective crack me UP!

animal collective?

Of course you are allowed future releases. Any official "Artist you choose" release. Hell, any unofficial release too. And solo artists are ok, you just can't have other bands they were in as well.

Sonic Youth
Can
The Fall

and what's wrong with animal collective? they're easily one of the most innovative bands in the past 5 years.

three bands I take with me into the bunker when the end of the world comes:

Sonic Youth (of course)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dresden Dolls

nothing is wrong with them. i enjoy what they do thorughroughly, but out of the whole spectrum of bands that exist or have existed, to pick them as one of "only" three is just silly to me.

Sonic Youth
Motorpsycho
Tom Waits