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The Hooters!
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This second video, the lead singers hands got injured from constantly playing, so he can’t play the mandolin/guitar instrument anymore.
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I bought the first two albums from The Hooters on vinyl a year or so ago. So many memories from my youth. They were a good little band.
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I feel like I come to REM from a different place to others here… REM probably my fave band, but others I am also a big fan of (ie have a fairly complete discography in my collection) include:
Thunder
Def Leppard
Roxette / Per Gessle
Blur / Gorillaz / Damon Albarn
Mike Oldfield
Terrorvision
The Wildhearts
CCR / John Fogerty
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I’d probably never be able to find it again in a million years but I recently found an old interview with Peter Buck where he said the band had been playing the then new Def Leppard album while on tour. I can’t remember now but I believe it may have been Pyromania. BTW, he also said he liked it.
I have rediscovered Def Leppard during the new millennium.
I’ve always loved Pyromania and Hysteria, going back to my early 1980s youth. When I was in college, some friends and I saw Def Leppard on their Adrenalize Tour in 1992, and were underwhelmed. At that point in time, the 80s metal bands were being shoved aside by Nirvana and the like. There was an overblown, lackluster feel to that show, as such.
In 2005, though, I saw Def Leppard again at Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival, and I was blown away. They were so much more focused and intense than they had been at that 1992 concert.
Since then, I’ve seen them twice more, and have been more impressed each time. I’m looking forward to seeing them yet again this summer if the world does not blow up first.
In recent years, I have taken quite a liking to the first two Def Leppard albums, On Through the Night and High ‘n’ Dry, realizing that I like them every bit as much as Pyromania and Hysteria. Their 2021 Record Store Day release of a live 1980 concert rocks hard.
Bands/ Musicians that have been lifetime faves since I first got into them:
Fugazi - the band I saw the most times live
Roxy Music
Francoise Hardy
Patti Smith - who I got to meet and got on a guest list to her show
The Make Up
Pylon
Sade
The Doors
David Bowie
Blondie
INXS
Echo and the Bunnymen
Beck
Le Tigre
Love
Bola Sete
De La Soul
Duran Duran
Nirvana
Spoon
Sparks
Depeche Mode
Wire
Artists that I discovered more recently that excite me:
Park Hye Jin
Mdou Moctar
Pink Siifu
Kevin Holliday
Little Simz
Frank Ocean
Preservation
Billie Eilish
L.P.
Tyler the Creator
FKA Twigs
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
King Isis
And the list goes on and on.
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My Morning Jacket
Audioslave
Radiohead
Tom Petty
Band of Horses
Pete Yorn
Wilco
The War On Drugs
I have the most records of -
Led Zeppelin
The Doobie Brothers
Rickie Lee Jones
Cold Chisel
INXS
U2
Patti Smith
Pearl Jam
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R.E.M.
Metallica
Live
U2
Coldplay
Korn
The Cranberries
The Beatles
Radiohead
The Gypsy Kings
Queen
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Did you get to see U2 on their Joshua Tree tour Carl? I saw them in Adelaide. If I remember right it was 2019 a couple of months before covid hit.
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No I didn’t. I wanted to see them but it was either U2 or Metallica as they were touring around the same time. I booked to see Metallica (October 2019) then they canceled the tour two weeks before the concert (James Hatfield had to go to rehab) I think I saw the band Live in 2019 too.
First time I saw U2 was in 2007 in Sydney. Amazing show. Then saw them in 2010 in Brisbane and Sydney. Great memories.
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They are still amazing. My first U2 show was in 1984. I remember there was this awesome climax during A Day Without Me. They blew the roof off Apollo Stadium. I worked with a Scottish girl in the early 80’s, she would play records when friends got together in her apartment, U2, The Jam, The Clash…, bands I never heard of before. That’s how my U2 fandom begun.
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AC/DC / Phil Rudd
Aerosmith /Steven Tyler / Joe Perry
Airbourne
Alice Cooper / Hollywood Vampires
B-52s / Kate Pierson
Byrds
Collective Soul / Ed E. / Sweet Tea Project / Living Room
Cranberries / Dolores O’Riordan
Crash Test Dummies / Brad Roberts / Ellen Reid
Fastball / Miles Zuniga / Tony Scalzo / Small Stars
Hootie & the Blowfish
Housemartins
Lemonheads/ Evan Dando / Smudge / Godstar
Metallica
Minus 5 / Scott McCaughey / Young Fresh Fellows / Baseball Project
Mummble Ducks
Oasis
Proclaimers
Radiohead / Thom Yorke
Skydiggers / Cash Brothers / Andy Maize / Andrew Cash
Simon & Garfunkel
Stick Figure / V.I.E.W.
Southern Culture on the Skids
Tenacious D
The Box / John of Mark / Surftronics
Tragically Hip / Gord Downie / Gord Sinclair
Toad the Wet Sprocket / Lapdog / Glen Phillips
Ventures
Weezer / Rivers Cuomo / Matt Sharp / Rentable
French language:
Appendices
Beau Dommage
Bleu Jeans Bleu
Bon Enfant
Denis Drolet
Ducond et Ducont
Jean Leloup
Laurent Paquin
Luc de Larochellière
Maryse Letarte / Rita Rita
Trois Accords
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QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures OHHH YEAH! And my beloved Foos who are done 
Sparks, Roxy, Nirvana,
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Counting Crows.
Of course the best albums are the first three released between 1993 and 1996 (As far as I know This Desert Life hasn’t been reprinted on vinyl LP ) and although the 2008 album does have a few highlights, the low point in their career was certainly their participation in a Shrek soundtrack plus a duet with Sheryl Crow in the early 2000s.
I listen to a host of others including The Dream Syndicate, Robyn Hitchcock, Kevn Kinney, but these being connected to R.E.M. one way or another, almost don’t count as other bands!
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A little notice came up saying this topic was old and was I sure I wanted to revive it. Why yes. Yes I do. In no particular order
The Kinks were my first love and remain near the top today
Beatles
Travis and Fran Healy solo
Crowded House
Emmylou Harris
Linda Ronstadt
Bruce Springsteen
The Who
Green Day
Steely Dan and Donald Fagen solo
Bob Dylan
Travelling Wilburys
Tom Petty
Squeeze
Jethro Tull
The Moody Blues
and a bunch more I’ll facepalm for disremembering later…
ETA - Ray Davies (Kinks) solo
Dire Straits
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