Bands/artists whose appeal is partly that they cover so much ground

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I'm a big fan of Herbie Hancock, and I guess it's partly because he's done everything from hard bop to disco to plastic pop jazz to electro to avant garde free jazz.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

boo radleys

blur

aphex twin

tom waits

these are also some of my favourite acts

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like have this particular niche to be filled in my listening (the mega-artist niche), and if I suddenly become very enthusiastic about someone who doesn't seem to fit much with other things I've been listening to, it may be because they are filling that niche.

(Sorry. Keep responses coming, I just have nothing to say in response to the responses.)

― I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

The Fat Boys.

― Pat Robertson Mescalin (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like part of the work is in the connections &/or contrasts between the different styles.

The Fat Bots?

― I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Ween

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking Heads

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Beatles seem like an obvious call.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Linda Ronstadt.

― But Abraham said, Jump! (goodbra), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Beck.

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

And I haven't heard enough of his work, but from Mama Too Tight alone, Archie Shepp -- Side A being mindbogglingly expansive/aggressive free jazz and then Side B kicking off with the title track that sounds like the J.B.'s.

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Scritti Politti

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

dammit guys, XTC (with Blur seconded)

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm amazed no one, including me, has said Neil Young yet

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Blondie!

Girl group pop -> power pop -> punk rock -> new wave -> reggae -> disco -> rap

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we're losing the theme here. Artists that cover many genres out of musical desperation really don't count. It's the folks who're so incredibly musically literate that they can effortlessly hop from genre to genre convincingly ought be the focus of this exercise. I think a requirement ought be 3 good albums in 3 "reasonably" disjoint genres. 3 is a good number, 'cause that rules out Ice-T/Vanilla Ice (who I'm not disparaging, necessarily).

― But Abraham said, Jump! (goodbra), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

If you mean over a career rather than more or less concurrently, then you can add Zappa and Bowie. Lotta Zappa haters here, but you can't argue with his breadth.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Artists that cover many genres out of musical desperation really don't count.

I don't know if this was a response to my Neil Young mention but I'm thinking of the folkie/rocker back-and-forths more than his Geffen-lawsuit stuff.

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, damn. I forgot about Neil's Geffen-suit stuff. I'm not a big Neil lover, but I heard that record exactly once in the 80s and I've never been able to track it down. Granted, I kinda forgot about it sometime around 1995. Has that reappeared anywhere?

(And no, I wasn't picking on Neil in particular.)

― But Abraham said, Jump! (goodbra), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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