Top Five Cult Bands

That's "cult" as in "never hugely popular or not popular enough to sell tons of records at the time, but influential all the same since", not "roving band of religious zealots who kill people and then themselves in some misguided attempt to reconnect with the mother-ship"

Now that I've cleared that up, my list:

1.) Joy Division 2.) The Modern Lovers 3.) Velvet Underground (in their day they couldn't give their records away) 4.) The Smiths (stateside anyways) 5.) The Replacements (picked up their best-of, really digging it).

Special nod to R.E.M., who went major-label (and suffered because of i, or at least since Bill Berry left)

Umm....The Cult?

Here and Now System 7 Eat Static Gong John Otway

jd/no OBVIOUSLY

Art of Noise Propaganda

And tho i don't like em, (to be more accurate I am largely ignorant of them, so that's do not like, not dislike), Surely Bauhaus and the Velvets should be there, and probably the Ramones, according to a mate of mine who is as mental on them as any of us are on NO.

Killing Joke JD/NO The Fall Big Black Bad Brains

HOODOO GURUS!!! Mission Of Burma Minor Threat - does that count? Modern Lovers The Fall The Dandy Warhold Featuring yerMUM & Mark E Smith.

Galaxie 500 The Band of Holy Joy Furniture Mazzy Star St. Etienne (briefly pop 'stars', but surely a 30-something "cult" now, no?)

Shark Vegas Red Turns To... Minor Detail Foreign Press The Abecedarians

not in any particular order-no coffee yet this morning!!!!

1. Husker Du
2. Television
3. The Undertones
4. Danny Gatton (around 1989 "Rolling Stone" called him "the best guitarist you've never heard of")

and for a change of pace.....

5. Cult comic Bill Hicks

1/ Joy Division 2/ Kraftwerk 3/ Trisomie 21 4/ Asylum Party 5/ Echo & the Bunnymen or Wire

Well, these are the ones I listen to the most.

Oops. Forgot American Music Club/Mark Eitzel....

.....and the mighty Tindersticks.....

Cabaret Voltaire B-Movie Velvet Underground Killing Joke Can

Joy Division Blue Orchids DAF PiL The Monochrome Set

JD first, the others in no particular order.

The The

Cabaret Voltaire

Big Audio Dynamite (were they every a sucess?)

Joy Division New Order Iggy and the Stooges The Velvet Underground The Ramones

1. Joy Division
2. New Order
3. Ramones
4. Velvet Underground
5. The Clash

JD/NO Velvet Underground Kraftwerk Massive Attack Iggy and The Stooges

1. JD/NO
2. The Smiths (like tabsy said, stateside it is)
3. The Misfits
4. Belle and Sebastian
5. Soft Cell

JD/NO Ramones Siouxsie and the Banshees The Smiths Iggy Pop

The Cure

Sorry, misread the question

Sorry, misread the question

Quality Col

The Fall

The Mekons

The Residents

The Feelies

The Chills

five cults I won't ever be able to be deprogrammed from.

five more

1. The Pixies
2. Funkadelic (with Eddie Hazel)
3. Rory Gallagher
4. The Black Keys
5. The Dead Kennedys

1. Grateful Dead
2. Velvet Underground
3. Bauhaus
4. Kraftwerk/Georgio Moroder
5. Nina Simone

DiscoShed wrote:

1. The Pixies

5 cult bands as in not huge but influential?

kraftwerk galaxie 500 throwing muses the fall jd

hibster wrote: cult bands as in not huge but influential?

kraftwerk galaxie 500 throwing muses the fall jd

Kraftwerk? I'd say they were huge. Can you think of another German group bigger than them?

there is a slew of cult bands for each genre but when i read the thread, i thought of :

joy division wire mudhoney big star sunny day real estate - started emo uncle tupelo - started alternative country