Best DEAD band (ie, "dead" is in the band's name)

[Bossy Monkey]

Yeah, I know, my first music poll in-- hell I dunno, read my journal-- and all I can come up with is this? Anyway it isn't another ELO poll :D

First person to say The Ramones loses 1,000 hipness points.

Vote Other by replying below.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. There is only ONE true 'Dead.

THE 'Dead.

:P

[no name no slogan]

15. Which is one too many

stupid hippies :P

[ZombieNixon]

2. I'm so hip it hurts. I gotta get rid of some of these.

:silly:

The Ramones.

:hide:

:P

[Bossy Monkey]

20. A thousand down, millions to go. You'll be fine n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Hmmm...Out of those listed, ...Trail of Dead is probably my favourite

Dead Kennedys a close second.

Does "Death" count? If so, Death From Above 1979 is another good one.

Dead Prez and Dead Boys are pretty awesome too.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. I think "Death" would be a separate poll

eg Southern Death Cult, aka The Cult. Also I understand that a lot of people like Death Cab for Cutie. (I'm almost 44; pretty much at sea with anything from after say 1988.)

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Yeah, Death Cab are good as well.

[mdmc]

6. nice poll!

[Bossy Monkey]

18. Like I said, read my DU journal. I've got, if not a million, then

maybe hundreds.:D
(Or if you were being sarcastic, :P)

[Throd]

7. Millions of Dead Cops

"What makes America so straight and me so bent?"

[Bossy Monkey]

8. I put 'em on the poll; it wasn't looking like we were going to need

an Other slot anyway.

[Fenris]

9. Take the skinheads bowling....

[Bossy Monkey]

10. Not following. Was Camper Van Beethoven, covered by Teenage

Fanclub for "Columbine." Did somebody else cover it? Just how out of touch AM I? :P

[Fenris]

11. No, I just wanted to throw that out there.

:P

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Every day I get up and pray to Jah... n/t

[Initech]

12. The Grateful Dead, duh!

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Sonic Reducer, motherfuckers.

The Dead Boys is the only acceptable response.

[no name no slogan]

14. Only a guy who's lived in Cleveland would say that

:P

[HughBeaumont]

28. I live in Cleveland and I wouldn't say that.

Many of the artists we produce (aside from Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys and punk/hardcore before punk/hardcore Electric Eels) are either derivative bandwagon jumpers (Mushroomhead, Chimaira), derivative/average semi-national wonders who never quite made it (Michael Stanley Band, Dink, Levert, The Spudmonsters, Bone Thugs n Harmony), forever local because they're derivative (Beau Coup, Zaza, Fayrweather, Cryptkicker, 216 and about a billion other Peabodys-core bands too numerous to name), undeservedly not making it for whatever reason (Keelhaul) or nationally huge because they got the hell out of Cleveland due to lack of support from the jealous music locals (Nine Inch Nails, Filter).

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Hedges ain't no loser.

[Hissyspit]

16. Dead 'Til Proven Live - This was a band at my junior high school

when I lived in Anchorage, Alaska back in 1974. Always thought it was a pretty good name.

[Bossy Monkey]

19. You'd think the Grateful Dead would have used this as a title for a live

album...
though Live/Dead worked pretty well, too.

[realisticphish]

22. Dead Kennedys

though I like Dead Prez too

[RevolutionaryActs]

23. I will now have 'You Spin Me Round' in my head for the rest of the night

Thanks. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pBuU00pXVE&search=dead%20or%20alive%20you%20spin%20me%20round





I voted for The Dead Kennedys btw. :)

[momophile]

24. Milkmen!!!!!

The greatest!!

[tuvor]

25. The Kennedys. Trivia: Did you know they used to be "The Picnic Tables"?

Here's their old logo.

[Madrone]

26. I voted Dead Prez -

In order to give them a mention. They're great.

But there IS only one Dead. The Grateful Dead.

[HughBeaumont]

27. Tie between Dead Can Dance and the Dead Kennedys.

Never got into the Grateful Dead. Their music bored the shit outta me and the people in my city who liked them were generally preppy asshole posers.

Another "Dead" not listed is the Canadian metal band Dead Brain Cells. Good techno-thrash back in 88-90.