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

Steve One wrote:

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?

Oops.

Steve One wrote:

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?

Scorpions?

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Steve One wrote:

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?

Scorpions?

I wanted to do this one, but I did not dare...

Steve One wrote:

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?

i'm hardly the first person to name them. i think jd are pretty big as well, but i donlt think either are huge.

interesting criteria - another german band that's bigger than them - yeah, that's a measure of hugeness, hasslehoff is big in germany fer chrissakes!

How about The Smithereens? I even saw them at a local cliub last night. It was a lot of fun.

the the

U2 The Hype Feedback Passangers (a single album project) The Doors

BONOette wrote: U2 The Hype Feedback Passangers (a single album project) The Doors

The Doors were selling out stadiums when Jimbo was still alive.

And Passengers was crap!

Thought of some more:

The Pixies The Dead Kennedys The Black Flag The Extreme Noise Terror The P.I.L

The crucial three:Wah!/Teardrops/Bunnymen. 4.Magazine. Joint 5th. Jesus and Mary Chain/Au Pairs.

The Original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green

DiscoShed wrote: The Original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green

Followed by the Fleetwood Mac with Jeremy Spencer, who left to join a cult...

My opinion of the top 5 cult bands are (1)The Cure, (2)Joy Division/New Order, (3)Depeche Mode, (4)Bauhaus/Love and Rockets, and (5)The Smiths.

1:The Cure 2:Joy Division/New Order 3:Depeche Mode 4:Bauhaus/Love and Rockets 5:The Smiths

Steve One wrote:

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?

I'd say that The Scorpions were Germanys' biggest band.I would guess that they have shifted more records than Kraftwerk. Crap band though.

the definition of Cult band is crap.

whats a cult band? definition differs between people.

Feel like i've been buried up to my neck then stoned for suggesting Kraftwerk were bigger than a cult band. As for the Scorpions,im not having it they were/are bigger than the technokraut pioneers.

Steve One wrote: Feel like i've been buried up to my neck then stoned for suggesting Kraftwerk were bigger than a cult band. As for the Scorpions,im not having it they were/are bigger than the technokraut pioneers.

Can't see how Kraftwerk can be considered as a cult band either, hugely, hugely influential yes but not a cult band for me I'm afraid...

ok then the Partridge Fackin Family - or the Osmonds.

most of these cult bands that people describe, Joe Blow in the street won't have even heard of.

J.A.K wrote: the definition of Cult band is crap.

whats a cult band? definition differs between people.

thats fookin right, so this thread is goddammit illegal

Do we have to consider that a cult band is a band which is no more ?

)Bauhaus/Love and Rockets, YAH