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Alltime Best Bands from Illinois By Clark Benson [84 more lists]
Chicago bands and Illinois bands in general. As a native Chicagoan who went to school in Champaign, i feel entitled to weigh in on this matter. That said, i'm probably missing the boat on some less prominent Chicago bands of the late nineties and "oughts".
One side note to this list - for the most part, i have a thing where i can tell by a band name if i WON"T like a band, it's about 95% accurate for bands that have albums out, and probably even more for all bands. the two times in my life where i have been most wrong about band names happened when i was still living in Illinois back in 1991. I saw a band whose name i hated but who had some local buzz at the Lounge Ax - they were called the Vulgar Boatmen. As predicted, they totally weren't for me. So, having broken my rule and gone out to see a band with a horrible name, i decided i wasn't going to get burned twice. The next two young bands i blew off, for "lame band name reasons" were called Uncle Tupelo and the Smashing Pumpkins.
doh!
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Alternative rock, Rock music, Folk rock, Alternative country, Experimental rock MoreChicago, Uncle TupeloMore Like the Moon EP, Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, Monday, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Sky Blue Sky, The Wilco Book, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, War on War, Jeff Tweedy discography, Summerteeth, A.M., The Whole Love, Mermaid Avenue, A Shot in the Arm, Wilco Live: Ashes of American Flags, Box Full of Letters, Being There, Outtasite (Outta Mind), A Ghost Is Born, 2009-11-04: HMV Forum, London, UK, 2009-07-13: Keyspan Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Wilco (The Album), Being There, You Never Know More - 2
Alternative rockChicagoEarly 1989 Demos, Moon Demo, Disarm, Greatest Hits (bonus disc: Judas O), Perfect, 1979: Mixes, The Smashing Pumpkins, 1991-2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection, Earphoria, The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, Zeitgeist, Zero, Siamese Singles, KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles, Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, The Aeroplane Flies High, That's the Way (My Love Is), Rarities and B-Sides, Vieuphoria, Gish, Still Becoming Apart, Mashed Potatoes, Siamese Dream, Today, Politically Incorrect (ABC), American Gothic, If All Goes Wrong, The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Stand Inside Your Love, Rocket, Thirty-Three, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Untitled Machina Promo, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, A La Mode, Volume 1, Tonight, Tonight, Ava Adore, I Am One, Pisces Iscariot, Peel Sessions, Tristessa, The End Is the Beginning Is the End, MACHINA/the machines of God, Bonus EP, 2008-12-07: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, Lull, The End Is the Beginning Is the End: The Remixes, Machina/Machines of God, 2007-05-28: Pinkpop: Megaland, Landgraff, Netherlands, Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88, 2008-11-19: Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1979, Doomsday Clock, Try, Try, Try, Oceania, Adore, Judas 0, Live in Chicago 23.10.95, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Volume II: The Solstice Bare, Cherub Rock, Greatest Hits: Rotten Apples, Tarantula, Untitled, G.L.O.W. More - 3
Rock music, Hard rock, Pop rock, Punk rock, Pop punk, Power popRockfordI Want You to Want Me, Busted, Music for Hangovers, Woke Up With a Monster, Cheap Trick, The Latest, Sgt. Pepper Live, Collection, Rockford, Surrender, The Greatest Hits, One on One, The Greatest Hits, Dream Police, Next Position Please, Cheap Trick, Silver, The Doctor, Found All the Parts, Sex, America, Cheap Trick, Silver, Don’t Be Cruel, The Greatest Hits, All Shook Up, At Budokan, At Budokan: The Complete Concert, Budokan! (disc 2: Friday April 28th), Heaven Tonight, Lap of Luxury, Perfect Stranger, The Essential Cheap Trick, In Color, Baby Talk EP, Standing on the Edge, Cheap Trick, The Hits of Cheap Trick, Special One, Authorized Greatest Hits More“ Cheap Trick ! „ - 4
Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Post-hardcoreFree Shit!, All Rise, Jettison, Basement Screams, Throb Throb, Throb Throb, What Poor Gods We Do Make, Free Shit! (Live in Chicago, 2 Final Shows), Raygun...Naked Raygun, All Rise, Last of the Demohicans, Jettison, Understand? More - 5
Alternative rock, Heavy metal, Synthpop, New Wave, Thrash metal, Alternative metal, Doom metal, Industrial rock, Industrial metal, Industrial music, Sludge metal, Electronic body music MoreChicagoThe Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, Just Another Fix, Side Trax, Houses of the Molé, Cover Up, Everyday Is Halloween, Twitch, Just One Fix, Revenge, Stigmata, Rio Grande Blood, Ministry Box (disc 2): Burning Inside / Jesus Built My Hotrod, Undercover, Dark Side of the Spoon, Bad Blood, The Land of Rape and Honey, Greatest Fits, Burning Inside, Rio Grande DUB Ya, The Last Sucker, Tapes of Wrath, MiXXXes of the Molé, Halloween (remix) / Nature of Outtakes, Ministry Box (disc 3): N.W.O. / Just One Fix, 2004-10-30: Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, FL, USA, Box, The Fall / Reload, I Wanted to Tell Her, Every Day Is Halloween: Greatest Tricks, Work for Love, I'm Falling / Cold Life, The Nature of Love, N.W.O., Filth Pig, All Day / Every Day Is Halloween, Animositisomina, Adios...Putas Madres, Box, Every Day is Halloween: The Anthology, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up, Sphinctour, Over the Shoulder, The Wicked Soundtrack, With Sympathy, Early Trax, Twelve Inch Singles, Lay Lady Lay, Jesus Built My Hotrod, The Last Dubber, Thunderstruck, Cold Life, Rantology, Every Day Is Halloween, Cold Life, Work for Love, Ministry Box (disc 1): Over the Shoulder / Stigmata More -
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Alternative rock, Rock music, Pop rock, Indie rock, Hip hop music, Lo-fi music MoreJuvenilia, Liz Phair, Supernova, Supernova, Exile in Guyville, Comeandgetit, Somebody's Miracle, Why Can't I?, Juvenilia, Girly Sound, Whitechocolatespaceegg, Funstyle, Exile In Guyville, Whip-Smart MoreUnited States of America - 7 Rock music, Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal, Pop music, Art rock MoreRockford, RoselandThe Grand Illusion, Extended Versions, The Singles Collection, Arch Allies: Live at Riverport, Paradise Theatre, Kilroy Was Here, The Serpent Is Rising, Rockers, Styx World: Live 2001, Come Sail Away - The Styx Anthology, Caught in the Act, Return to Paradise, Cornerstone, One with Everything: Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, 21st Century Live, Styx II, Mr. Roboto, Best Thing, Greatest Hits, Styx Yesterday & Today, The Serpent Is Rising / Man of Miracles, Brave New World, Green Series: The Best of Styx, Return to Paradise, Regeneration: Volume I, Equinox, Lady: The Encore Collection, Boat on the River, Classics, Volume 15, Styx Classics Volume 15, Styx Greatest Hits Part 2, Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology, Cyclorama, Pieces of Eight, Crystal Ball, At the River's Edge: Live in St. Louis, Styx, 21st Century Live, Big Bang Theory, Styx Greatest Hits, Caught in the Act, Lady, The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings, Man of Miracles, Regeneration: Volume 1, Best of Styx, The Best of Styx, Untitled sixteenth Styx Album, The Best of Times: The Best of Styx, Lady, Edge of the Century More“ Yes, Styx has spit out quite a bit of garbage over the years, but "the hits" and "the almost hit album tracks" add up. i would even go see an original Styx reunion, but i think 2 of them are now dead or something. „
- 8 Punk rockMattoonDear Junkie, Hornet Pinata, Hey Judester, Que Sirhan Sirhan, Full Nelson Reilly, Fuck the Pigs, Little Miss Carriage!, Lovesickle More
- 9 Alternative rock, Rock music, Post-punk, Noise rock, Post-hardcoreChicagoLash, Blue, Pure, Thumper, Goat, Liar, Head, Show, Inch, Bang, The Jesus Lizard EP, Head / Pure, Down, Head, Shot More
- 10 Alternative rock, Alternative country, Country rockBellevilleNo Depression, Covers and Oddities '88–'93, Jeff Tweedy discography, Still Feel Gone, 89/93: An Anthology, March 16–20, 1992, Anodyne, Sauget Wind, March 16-20, 1992 More“ Would probably rank a bit higher but I never saw live... „
- 11 Post-rock, Jazz, Indie rockChicagoThe Biz, Everybody, Car Alarm, Two Gentlemen, A Brief Historical Retrospective, The Fawn, The Sea and Cake, Glass, One Bedroom, Everybody, Oui, Nassau, Live at the Dead Pigeon More
- 12 Heavy metal, Stoner rock, Doom metalChicagoRun to the Light, Trouble, Demos & Rarities (1980-1995), Trouble, Live in L.A., The Skull, Manic Frustration, One for the Road, Unplugged, Simple Mind Condition, Plastic Green Head, Unplugged, The Dark Riff, Demos & Rarities 1984 - 94, Part II More“ without a shred of doubt, the Best Band Ever from Aurora! „
- 13 Post-rock, Jazz, Experimental rock, Indie rock, Electronic dance music, Electronica, Instrumental rock MoreChicagoTen-Day Interval (Autechre Remixes), Tortoise, TNT, Lonesome Sound, The Brave and the Bold, Music for Workgroups: The Oval Remixes, A Lazarus Taxon, Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters, Why Waste Time?, Gamera, Mosquito, Why We Fight, Tour 1998, Standards, Beacons of Ancestorship Remixes, Beacons of Ancestorship, It's All Around You, Gently Cupping the Chin of the Ape, Djed, A Digest Compendium of the Tortoise's World, In the Fishtank, 2009-07-08: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Remixed More
- 14 Alternative rock, Hard rock, Punk rock, Experimental rock, Indie rock, Post-grunge, Grunge music MoreZionAlive '05, Scratch Demos, Twelve Angry Months, Drum, The No Fun EP, Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?, Pack Up the Cats, '99-'00 Demos, 12 Angry Months, Here Comes the Zoo, Half-Life EP, Local H's Awesome Mix Tape 1, The '92 Demos, Ham Fisted, As Good as Dead More
- 15 Rock music, Hard rock, Pop rock, Soft rockChampaignYou Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, Arch Allies: Live at Riverport, Live: You Get What You Play For, Take It on the Run: The Best of REO Speedwagon, Extended Versions, Best Foot Forward, The Hits, The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken, Nine Lives, Ballads, Not So Silent Night: Christmas With REO Speedwagon, Lost in a Dream, Live Plus, Find Your Own Way Home, The Hits, Keep On Rollin', This Time We Mean It, Building The Bridge, The Essential REO Speedwagon, Only the Strong Survive, A Decade of Rock and Roll: 1970 to 1980, Life as We Know It, Ridin' the Storm Out, R.E.O., REO Speedwagon, Hi Infidelity Then Again... Live, Good Trouble, Wheels Are Turnin', The Second Decade of Rock and Roll 1981 to 1991, The Ballads, R.E.O./T.W.O., The Ballads, Hi Infidelity, Like in Bodukan - Tokyo, Hits, T.W.O. More“ see my comment about Styx and multiply it X5 or so. REO defined cheesy AOR in the 70s, but they did have a couple of classic FM tracks in the mix, particularly "Golden Country" and "Ridin' The Storm Out" „
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- 16 Rock music, Hard rock, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Pop rock, Soft rock, Ska, Ballad MoreChicagoThe Very Best of Chicago, The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning, Chicago 13, Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits, Chicago 19, Chicago II, The Very Best of: Only the Beginning, Beginnings, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Free, Harry Truman, Just You 'n' Me, Old Days, The Very Best of Chicago, Chicago V, Take Me Back to Chicago, Hot Streets, Love Songs, Live in Japan, The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition - Disc 1 of 2, (I've Been) Searchin' So Long, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Questions 67 & 68, Four Decades of Hits, Group Portrait, Group Portrait, Volume 4, Chicago, The Chicago Story: The Complete Greatest Hits, If You Leave Me Now, Chicago VI, Greatest Hits 1982-1989, The Heart of Chicago, Chicago 17, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition, You Are on My Mind, The Box Set, Chicago Story: The Complete Greatest Hits 1967-2002, The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997, Chicago XI, Chicago 18, Chicago Greatest Hits, Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus, Greatest Hits, Volume II, Make Me Smile, Chicago/Earth, Wind & Fire - Live at the Greek Theatre, Chicago X, If You Leave Me Now, Questions 67 & 68, Beginnings, Chicago XIV, Chicago VIII, Chicago XXX, Chicago at Carnegie Hall: Volumes I, II, III, & IV, The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II, Live '69, Twenty 1, Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be, Santa?, Liberation, Beginnings, Wishing You Were Here, Night & Day Big Band, 25 or 6 to 4, Dialogue (Part I & II), Stone of Sisyphus, Chicago XIV, Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert, The Great Chicago in Concert, Chicago in Concert, If You Leave Me Now 97, The Chicago Transit Authority, If You Leave Me Now, Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Group Portrait, Volume 1, Chicago II, Chicago 16, Lowdown, Saturday in the Park, Overtime, Call on Me, Group Portrait, Volume 2, If You Leave Me Now, The Chicago Story, Baby, What a Big Surprise, Little One, The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998, Volume 2, Group Portrait, Volume 3, Look Away, The Chicago Story 2002 (disc 2), Chicago VII, Chicago III, The Ultimate Collection, Collector's Edition, Chicago Transit Authority, Take Me Back to Chicago, The Masters, Best, Chicago: 25 Years of Gold, Another Rainy Day in New York City, Brand New Love Affair (Part I & II) More
- 17 Alternative rock, Post-punk, Punk rock, Indie rock, Noise rock, Post-hardcore, Industrial music MoreEvanstonBulldozer, Sound of Impact, Racer-X, He's a Whore / The Model, The Hammer Party, The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape, Pig Pile, Lungs, Atomizer, Songs About Fucking, Happiness Is Dry Pants, Il Duce, Headache, Heartbeat More
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