The Band of And

[tzikeh]

It's "Random Shit My Friendslist Knows" time!

Name me some "and the" bands. I already have "K.C. and the Sunshine Band", "Big Brother and the Holding Company", "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention", etc. Stuff like "Diana Ross and the Supremes" is good too, but the weirder the better!

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[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Do Belle and Sebastian count? Or Tegan and Sara? *opens iTunes to look for more*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

whoops - no - I'll edit the post to "and the" bands. :)

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

I can think of two off the top of my head:
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Josie and the Pussycats (hey, they had an album!)

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

oh, and I remebered a couple more: Q and not U, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Siouxsie and the Banshees

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Here are some listed in my iTunes:

Antony and the Johnsons
The Bird and the Bee
Bonejangles and His Bone Boys
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Joel RL Phelphs and The Downer Trio
Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars
The Mamas and the Papas (heh)
Peter and the Test Tube Babies

the kind of names you said you didn't really care about

[sunqist.livejournal.com]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Vic Vacuum and the Attachments (<--obscure)
Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers

Re: the kind of names you said you didn't really care about

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I would say "Attractions" and "Gimme Gimmes" are pretty awesomely weird as compared to things like the Shirelles, the Supremes, the Pips, etc.

[skylark-cee.livejournal.com]

Mamas and the Papas
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Simon and Garfunkel?
Is it Guns and Roses or Guns n Roses?

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

Guns 'n Roses, I believe. Often abbreviated to simply GNR.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Hootie and the Blowfish...

[axiom_of_stripe]

bruce springsteen and the e street band!

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists (okay, probably not what you were looking for ;-)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Jesse and the Rippers... kidding...

Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins... that might not work
Slaughter and the Dogs
Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union

[klia.livejournal.com]

Paul Kelly and the Messengers (aka Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls outside the US)
Booker T and the MG's

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonights
Iggy and the Stooges
John Fred and his Playboy Band
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos

[twoweevils.livejournal.com]

Gerry and the Pacemakers
Huey Lewis and the News
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers

M & K

[katrimae.livejournal.com]

Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit (is that beyond the parameters?)
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
? and the Mysterians (can't believe no one got them yet!)

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

from my iTunes:

Echo and the Bunnymen
Jay and the Americans
Booker T and the MGs
Kelly Hogan And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (hee)
Lex Grey and The Urban Pioneers
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Cribbed from my music library:

lesser known: Billie the Vision and the Dancers, Sarah White and the Pearls, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Tony C. and the Truth, Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies.

better known: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Katrina and the Waves, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, Sly and the Family Stone (my favorite).

[taselby.livejournal.com]

Derek & the Dominoes
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Desmond Dekker & the Aces
Henry Rollins & the Bad Brains
Adam & the Ants
Crime & the City Solution
Kool & the Gang
Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
Red Ingle & the Natural Seven
Rose & the Arrangement

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Eliza Carthy and the Ratcatchers
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Margot and the Nuclear So-And-So's
Noe Venable and the Ruiners
Reggie and the Full Effect

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Sly and the Family Stone
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Billy Vera and the Beaters
Leon Russel and the Shelter People
and from my midwest childhood...Pork and the Havana Ducks.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

oh and...Archie Bell and the Drells

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Phil and the Blanks (80s Chicago area band!)
Doug and the Slugs (the band that did Too Bad, my Keen Eddie vid)

[heresluck]

The Bird and the Bee
Blake Thomas and the Downtown Brown
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Mike Scott and the Waterboys
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Tilly and the Wall
Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers

[heresluck]

Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

Looks like nobody's said Katrina and the Waves. The bane of my existence before the freakin' hurricane took over.

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Roger Drawdy and the Firestarters (http://www.roger.drawdy.com/)

*g*

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Dick Dale and the Deltones <<-- pre-Beach Boys surfing music

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Peaches and Herb