Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Bands who never lost an original member

Options
  • 01-04-2011 8:58pm
    #1
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭


    So I was trying to think of bands, who've been around for at least 10 - 20 years, who've retained their original line up. Its pretty hard. They have to be either still going, or reformed (but without a phase were someone left). So far, I can think of:

    U2
    Pixies
    Sonic Youth
    Radiohead
    Stone Temple Pilots

    Anyone?


«1

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭rednik


    Pet shop boys.


  • Options
    #3
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Well it has to be more than a duo! :-)


  • Options
    #4
    Rud
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    Muse
    De La Soul


  • Options
    #5
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,805 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    ZZ Top, Same three lads for 40 years.


  • Options
    #6
    gigawatt
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭gigawatt


    madness, and rem i think


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Bog
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Bog


    gigawatt wrote: »
    madness, and rem i think

    I don't think Bill Berry is lost per se, but he hasn't been drumming for REM for a while now.


  • Options
    #8
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,817 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Elbow?


  • Options
    #9
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Elbow
    Rage Against the Machine


  • Options
    #10
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    REM wouldn't count as Bill Berry left. Not sure Muse have really been going that long... when was their first album, 98? Always easier with a 3 piece!

    Madness and ZZ Top, yeah forgot about ZZ Top!


  • Options
    #11
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    A-ha


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    teekayd25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭teekayd25


    Gomez - six albums with same 5 members

    Doves (including Sub Sub) - same three geezers collaborating since early '90s . . .

    Garbage seem to still be together as well.


  • Options
    #13
    mark182
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭mark182


    Rush have pretty much had the same line-up for the majority of career...
    u2..






    Guns 'n' Roses.....or not :P


  • Options
    #14
    Cazale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Bon Jovi


  • Options
    #15
    Hannibal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭Hannibal


    Cazale wrote: »
    Bon Jovi
    Alec Such left Bon Jovi in the early 90's.


  • Options
    #16
    delbertgrady
    Registered Users Posts: 4,655 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Firetrap wrote: »
    A-ha

    ... but now they've split up altogether. :(

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies.



  • Options
    #17
    ValJester
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭ValJester


    @ OP:Sonic Youth replaced original drummer Bob Bert with Steve Shelly in '85


  • Options
    #18
    Rud
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    REM wouldn't count as Bill Berry left. Not sure Muse have really been going that long... when was their first album, 98? Always easier with a 3 piece!

    Madness and ZZ Top, yeah forgot about ZZ Top!

    Muse formed in '94 which is 17 years
    ZZ Top are also a 3 piece!?


  • Options
    #19
    McLoughlin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    gigawatt wrote: »
    madness, and rem i think

    Madness lost a band member in 84 and became a 6 piece then lost 2 members and became for a short while a 4 piece.

    REM's drummer left the band yonks ago.


  • Options
    #20
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I remember hearing that UB40 were the longest running band with an unchanged lineup, at 30 years. But that means U2 have now passed them.


  • Options
    #21
    teekayd25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭teekayd25


    Saint Etienne.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    davylee
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭davylee


    Supergrass?


  • Options
    #23
    smokedeels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    The Fall....... ;)


  • Options
    #24
    Setun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Yeah Madness still have the same line-up. Have Radiohead changed over the years? Good question though, will be thinking about this now over the next few days!


  • Options
    #25
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    mark182 wrote: »
    Rush have pretty much had the same line-up for the majority of career...

    Quite, they had a different drummer at the very start, so can't be included


  • Options
    #26
    smokedeels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    I thought of a few bands, but when I check their wiki page to confirm it, I find somebody else played drums on a demo or their first single, does that disqualify them, bloody hard this thread.


  • Options
    #27
    jazoo
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭jazoo


    greenday
    u2 of course


  • Options
    #28
    bigwormbundoran
    Registered Users Posts: 561 ✭✭✭bigwormbundoran


    Good ould Rammstein


  • Options
    #29
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,683 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Gorillaz :D


  • Options
    #30
    davylee
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭davylee


    think the sugababes still have original line up


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    mike65 wrote: »
    Quite, they had a different drummer at the very start, so can't be included

    They also had a different bass player / singer before they released the first album, so Alex Lifeson's technically the only original member.


Advertisement