Your favorite bands A to Z
 

It's pretty pointless. and time consuming. But fun to do.
I had to make some tough decisions here

Animal Collective
The Beatles
Cat Power
Daniel Johnston
Elliot Smith
Fugazi
Glassjaw
Howlin Wolf
Iggy & The Stooges
Jimi Hendrix
The Kinks
Leadbally
Meat Puppets
Nirvana
Outkast
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
REM
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Telavision
Unwound
Violent Femmes
Weezer
X
Yo La Tengo
ZZ Top

Antioch Arrow
Big Black
The Clash
Diet Cola
Eric's Trip
Fugazi
Gorilla Biscuits
Huggy Bear
Iggy Pop
Japanther
Ken Nordine
Lighting Bolts
Minor Threat
Nation Of Ulysses
OutKast
Pavement
Queen
The Residents
Sonic Youth
T-Rex
Unwound
Velvet Underground
The Wipers
Xex
Youth Brigade
Zonic Youth

I like the idea, I just don't have the time right now to compile a list.

Hell yes. I shoulda though of that. Zonic Youth > ZZ Top

At the Drive-In (AIDS Wolf/Arab on Radar)
Blood Brothers, the (Broken Social Scene)
Cursive
do make say think (Doers)
Ex Models
Flying Luttenbachers, the (Fugazi+the Fall)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hella
Interpol
Joy Division
King Crimson
Lake of Dracula (The Ladies, The Locust)
My Bloody Valentine (Mogwai+Mindflayer)
Nirvana (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Orthrelm
Pavement or the Pixies
Quasi Mépris
[Refused] (Radiohead)
Sonic Youth (Silver Mt Zion...)
Tortoise
US Maple (Upsilon Acrux)
Varge! (Velvet Underground)
Wolf Parade (Wolf Eyes)
Xiu Xiu
You Say Party! We Say Die!
Zach Hill & Mick Barr

(all the bracketed ones are runners-up.. it's hard!)

AA Bottom
ZZ Top

Animal Collective
Brainiac
cLOUDDEAD
Devo
Eno, Brian
Fantomas
Guided By Voices
Hendrix, Jimi
Johnston, Daniel
Kid Koala
Liars
Melvins
Nirvana
Olivia Tremor Control
Primus
Queens Of The Stone Ahe
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
They Might Be Giants
Unwound
Velvet Undergound
Ween
XTC
Yo La Tengo
Zorn, John

Melvins

at the drive-in
beatles
cursive
dinosaur jr.
elliott smith
flaming lips
guided by voices
hot snakes
iron and wine
jimi hendrix
kinks
led zepplin
misfits
neutral milk hotel
operation ivy
pixies
queen
radiohead
smiths
thermals
unwound
velvet underground
weezer
X
yo la tengo
zounds

too many prefrences with just one letter.... for example. e = explosions in the sky, erase errata, elysian fields, ex models, ex girl ...i'll have to think a bit bout it.

I started one in my head but at the B from Boris, Bardo Pond, Boredoms, Big Black and Birthday Party it already got too tricky for me.

American Analog Set (or A Silver Mt.Zion)
Broken Social Scene
Cocteau Twins
Deupree, Taylor (or Drumm, Kevin)
Einsturzende Neubauten (or Einleitungszeit)
The Fall
Girls Against Boys (or GY!BE)
Hermit
Incapacitants (or I.S.O.)
Joy Division (or Jeck, Philip)
Kate Bush (erm...hahaha)
Labradford
Mogwai
Neu!
OOIOO
Polvo (or Poirier, Ghislain)
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tortoise
Unwound
Vex'd (or Von Bebber, Claus)
Wolf Parade
Xiu Xiu
Yoshihide, Otomo
Zimatrix (shit, it's the last letter of the alphabet and I ran out of ideas, so I made up this one)

Way too hard, so I'll go by favorite jazz artist:

Ayler, Albert
Blakey, Art
Coltrane, John
Davis, Miles
Ellington, Duke
Frith, Fred
Gilmore, John
Hampton, Lionel
Ibrahim, Abdullah
Joplin, Scott
Krupa, Gene
La Roca, Pete
Mingus, Charles
Newman, David
O'Connell, Bill
Parker, Charlie
Quebec, Ike
Rollins, Sonny
Silver, Horace
Taylor, Cecil
Ulmer, Blood
Vega, Al
Williams, Tony
X - I don't know of any
Young, Reggie
Zorn, John

Animal Collective
The Beatles
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Dungen
brian Eno
Fennesz
Gang Gang Dance
Head Wound City
Interpol
Jimi Hendrix
the Kills
Liars
My Bloody Valentine
Nine Inch Nails
Omar Rodriguez
Panda Bear
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tool
Unwound
Velvet Underground
Wolf Parade
Xiu Xiu
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
robert Zimmerman

it pains me to leave off modest mouse and pj harvey, but i owe mbv and panda bear my life, so....also, i don't have a U, so i just decided to fit in...

AR Kane
Bitch Magnet
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Can Dance
Einstuerzende Neubauten
The Fuzztones
Gun Club
High Rise
Iron Maiden
Jesus and Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Larsen
Motorhead
New Order
Orange Juice
Primal Scream
Queens of The Stone Age
Rollins Band
Sonic Youth
The Triffids
Undertones
Violent Femmes
Walkabouts
Xmal Deutschland
Young Gods
Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

Aphex Twin
Bleak (the non-goth band)
Cat power
Death From above 1979
Erase Errata
Flying saucer attack
Giant drag
Hole
Interpol
Joy Division
Kyuss
Locust Toybox
Modest Mouse
Nirvana
PJ Harvey
Qotsa
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
Tod Pole
Unwound
Velvet underground
Wolf eyes
Xiu Xiu
Yo la tengo
Zzz

Acid Mothers Temple
Bardo Pond
Current 93
Death In June
Echo and the Bunnymen
Felt
Gong
High Rise
Joy Division
Kraftwerk
Loop
Mainliner
Nurse With Wound
Overhang Party
Psychic TV
Quintron
Residents
Spacemen 3
TVBC
UN
Velvet Underground
White Heaven
Xhol Caravan
Ya Ho Wha 13
Z'ev

Adolescents
Black Flag
C
Dinosaur Jr.
Elvis Costello
Flipper
The Germs

Hawkwind
Iggy & The Stooges
Jimi Hendrix
K
L
Mudhoney
N
O
P
Q
Rapeman
Sonic Youth
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

thats all i can do for now, i cant be bothered to do any more

Albert Ayler
Backstreet Boys
Elizabeth Cotten
Eric Dolphy
Duke Ellington
Fushitsusha
Al Green
Keiji Haino
Shuji Inaba
Judas Preist
Kemialliset Ystavat
LSD March
Kan Mikami
No Neck Blues Band
Os Mutantes
Charlie Patton
Q is so not a letter
Sam Rivers
Sun Ra
Jun Togawa
United States Of America
Caetano Veloso
Robert Wyatt
Xhol Caravan
ZZ Top

BAlls! I can't believe I just waisted all that time!

Edit: I put LSD March instead of Les Rallizes Denudes? I'm so stufpid.

Edit again: This is all wrong. wrong wrong wrong. disregard.

Animal Collective/Arab on Radar/At the Drive-in(Can't choose)
Bunyun, Vashti
Cat Power
Drive Like Jehu
Erase Errata
Frog Eyes
Gang of Four
Hockey Night
I
Jewel
Kk Rampage
Lightning Bolt
Modest Mouse/mewithoutYou
Norma Jean
Os Mutantes
Postal Service
Quasimoto
Radiohead
Smith, Elliott
T
Unicorns, the
Violent Femmes
Wolf Eyes
Yellow Swans
Xiu Xiu
Z