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Oh forgot...the music meme going around.

yourlibrarian's post had the letter F - and I answered.."Feet" - see Feet, although I got the spelling wrong. A friend did it on Facebook with the letter V - and I answered Vampire Weekend, because the others were taken. V is wickedly easy.

yourlibrarian gave me the letter gave me for reposting is B. So, if you'd like to play, the rules go thusly:

• Name a BAND (NOT a song, NOT a solo performer) that starts with the letter “B”.
• Please don’t Google one, just use your brain.
• I'll then give you a letter for you to REPOST.

This is an easy one. To make it more difficult - try not to use The Beach Boys.

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I'm doing this meme with beergoodfoamy, so don't give me a letter. Nonetheless, I had to chime in here:

Beatles?
Beach Boys?

Way too easy.

I'm going to go with Big Star, maybe the seminal rock band of the mid-1970s, which featured Alex Chilton, former lead vocalist of the Box Tops. Big Star's combination of propulsive pop melodies and aching vocal harmonies influenced legions of rock bands, even though Big Star itself sold almost no records. REM, The Replacements and The Bangles all have Big Star DNA. "In the Street," from the band's ironically titled "#1 Record," was the theme song for That 70s Show.

Recommended: if you can find it, "#1 Record" and its follow up, "Radio City" were released on a single CD. It's like listening to the secret origin of 80s alternative pop.

Runner up choice: The Band

Edited 2020-04-30 05:43 (UTC)

I'm doing this meme with beergoodfoamy, so don't give me a letter.

Saw that. Actually, I'd forgotten about it - until I saw beergoodfoamy's post. (And my mind completely blanked on H. H is hard. So is F. B is ridiculously easy - I can come up with quite a few B bands without thinking that hard. V is also ridiculously easy.)

I'm going to go with Big Star, maybe the seminal rock band of the mid-1970s, which featured Alex Chilton, former lead vocalist of the Box Tops.

I'd agree with Big Star. My brother gave me CD's of Big Star back in the 1990s. Love them. Have them on my Iphone, along with...Lush, who is similar.

For a UK person of my generation, has to be Blur.

Yay! You came up with a more obscure less well know band. Because "B" is so ridiculously easy. I'm going to look up Blur at some point.

If you wish to play? Your letter is "K".

Blur were one of the top rock bands in Britain in the 1990s. They've had various style changes over their career - first a "baggy" dance-rock band, then one of the core Britpop groups, and finally US-style "indie rock".

It's possible I've heard them and don't remember the name. I'm ridiculously bad at remembering the names of things. Can't remember lyrics to songs, names of songs or bands - unless I listen to them a lot.

Blur never really broke big in the States. Damon Albarn's side project, Gorillaz, arguably had a bigger impact over here.

Gorillaz sounds familiar.

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