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But I know that I was your favorite
May. 26th, 2006 04:48 pmI've been thinking a little recently about my different degrees of fandom for bands. For me to really consider myself a fan of a band, I usually have to be familiar with the majority of their music. Otherwise, I can LIKE a band, but I feel wrong saying that I'm really a fan, or that they're one of my favorites. Does anyone else feel that way?
My core of five favorite bands has been steady for a while now, and it consists of They Might Be Giants, XTC, Frank Black, the Young Fresh Fellows, and Camper Van Beethoven. I tend to lump in related bands as well, which means that Mono Puff, the Pixies, the Minus 5, the Fastbacks, Sgt. Major, and Cracker are favorites by association. Not all of these related bands would have ranked as highly if I'd been evaluating them individually, but I think it looks a little tacky to list a bunch of favorites that are made up of the same people. ("Uh, yeah, my five favorite bands are TMBG, Mono Puff, John Linnell and the Statesmen, Sapphire Bullets, and Hello the Band.") The top, especially, will probably remain in those positions even if those bands never put anything else out, or if they start putting out stuff that sucks (assuming that's even possible).
Beyond the top five, it gets a little trickier. Weird Al is probably always going to be somewhere in the Top Ten, just because he was the first musician I ever really got into. I'm sure I could make separate lists of bands that have both really awesome and pretty mediocre albums (Blur, the Posies), bands that were great but didn't last long enough (Moxy Früvous), bands that haven't had a chance to put out a lot of stuff yet but where everything they HAVE released is excellent (the Dresden Dolls, the Ditty Bops, Laura Cantrell, the Decemberists). I guess to really be a favorite of mine, you have to have put out a fair amount of stuff, and it has to be largely consistent in quality. I think it also helps to be somewhat nerdy and gimmicky.
And since I'm listening to music on random now anyway, I might as well go ahead and do this (courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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My core of five favorite bands has been steady for a while now, and it consists of They Might Be Giants, XTC, Frank Black, the Young Fresh Fellows, and Camper Van Beethoven. I tend to lump in related bands as well, which means that Mono Puff, the Pixies, the Minus 5, the Fastbacks, Sgt. Major, and Cracker are favorites by association. Not all of these related bands would have ranked as highly if I'd been evaluating them individually, but I think it looks a little tacky to list a bunch of favorites that are made up of the same people. ("Uh, yeah, my five favorite bands are TMBG, Mono Puff, John Linnell and the Statesmen, Sapphire Bullets, and Hello the Band.") The top, especially, will probably remain in those positions even if those bands never put anything else out, or if they start putting out stuff that sucks (assuming that's even possible).
Beyond the top five, it gets a little trickier. Weird Al is probably always going to be somewhere in the Top Ten, just because he was the first musician I ever really got into. I'm sure I could make separate lists of bands that have both really awesome and pretty mediocre albums (Blur, the Posies), bands that were great but didn't last long enough (Moxy Früvous), bands that haven't had a chance to put out a lot of stuff yet but where everything they HAVE released is excellent (the Dresden Dolls, the Ditty Bops, Laura Cantrell, the Decemberists). I guess to really be a favorite of mine, you have to have put out a fair amount of stuff, and it has to be largely consistent in quality. I think it also helps to be somewhat nerdy and gimmicky.
And since I'm listening to music on random now anyway, I might as well go ahead and do this (courtesy of
3x1minus1.( Soundtrack meme )
