ITT: we list "bands" that are essentially just one guy and a bunch of session musicians
QOTSA
NIN
High on Fire
>>65619910
Jimmy Chamberlin is a great drummer though
radiohead
Swans, Porcupine Tree, Sun Kil Moon
>>65619910
Panic! At The Disco
>>65619981
>just one guy
jonny greenwood is just as essential as yorke. not sure about the rest
Soul Coughing
>>65619966
Is this a joke? Iha a fucking session musician? He's way more than that.
M83
The Smiths (Johnny Marr)
>>65620013
He was talking about Ed you pleb
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of Montreal
Weezer more or less
i mean the line up has been almost always the same but cuomo is the band
>>65620026
Billy wrote and performed every song on Siamese Dream with the exception of two, which Corgan cowrote with Iha.
>>65619966
Not really though. Billy thought this was the case, but the abomination that is post-millenial pumpkins kinda proves him wrong no?
>>65620052
kek fuck off, he may be a cunt but the smiths simply don't exist without morrissey
NIN
The Fall, though Mark is objectively the least talented person to ever be in that band
Guns N' Roses
Einstürzende Neubauten
>>65620092
>Blue Album and Pinkerton are god tier
>Matt Sharp leaves
>Every album after that is shit
>Implying Rivers is the whole band
>>65620013
Ed is essential for their guitar layering work iirc
>>65620052
Nah without Moz they'd be a fairly generic sounding jangle group, although still a great one.
>>65620108
yep
>>65620134
There's albums where others contributed greatly, Nation's Saving Grace being one of them iirc
>>65619910
Technically, the Philip Glass Ensemble. But I think swapping around a lot is par for the course for orchestras, no?
My Bloody Valentine. I love the rest of the band but Kevin Shields is by far the creative core of the group, although Bilinda is a far superior singer.
>>65619929
>QOTSA
Sort of true, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the band isn't still pretty damn good at what they're playing.
Agalloch, according to John and no one else.
NIN
>>65620149
If at least 2 people in the band are house hold names surely you are wrong
Talking Heads
Tina and co are worthless
The Faceless AKA The Michael Keene Musical Extravaganza can't keep any members in it because of his drug use and controlling behavior.
Nirvana and death come to mind
>Boston
>Tame Impala
The Mothers of Invention, essentially just a back up band to Zappa
>>65620631
lol fuck no, Adrian Belew?
>>65620631
Tina and co did well in the circumstances they were put in
And they played pretty well for people who before being in Talking Heads were only sort of interested in making music
Car Seat Headrest
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
The Doors
Pink Floyd
the list goes on....
>>65620694
Those are literally one songwriter and a backup bands, no essentiality
>>65620921
>The Beatles
No
>The Beach Boys
Maybe
>The Doors
Yes
>Pink Floyd
No
>>65620225
>Every album after that is shit
>he doesn't like Maladroit
>he doesn't like EWBAITE
>>65621087
>The Doors
>>65620921
>The Doors
How exactly?
that really makes no sense.
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Rory Gallagher.
>>65620065
Dottie Alexander always looks so depressed in these
Jethro Tull. No matter how talented the musicians were, the band relied solely on Ian Anderson's talent. Which is pretty much why he's the only member to have been in the band from the begining to the end.
>>65620737
Well yeah, that's why they presented themselves as Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention. They were his back up band.
Death, Today Is The Day, Swans
Tame Impala
White Stripes
Bon Iver / Volcano Choir
Bowie
Gorillaz
King Crimson obviously
>>65619910
I think Celldweller and Blue Stahli do all the music themselves unless they're featuring someone else
>>65620921
>The Beach Boys
I agree, the band's most important (and talented) member is Mike Love and just Mike Love.
t. Not Mike Love
Porcupine Tree up until the late 90s
