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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Mar 29, 2008 11:30:44 GMT -6
At a gathering last night a group of us started discussing people who have been in bands who have gone on to do greater things than the original band, and the conversation morphed into us trying to figure out what band, after they had broken up, had members who had the most number 1 albums. My answer of "Attila" - Billy Joel's previous band - was immediately shot down as "cheating" since only Billy Joel went on to do anything from that band. So a parameter was added that at least two of the band members had to have a number one album after the band broke up. The Beatles seemed like the most obvious choice, but other bands we came up with were Genesis, The Eagles, Cream, The Yardbirds, Digital Underground, VanHalen, Black Sabbath, and CCR.
From the bands we thought of and the minor research we did during the party, it does appear that The Beatles are in the lead with 11 number one albums on the US charts. Surprisingly we found a band that ties for that number one spot: The Yardbirds. We're not sure if the Yardbirds technically count though because Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck were all in the band at different times, not together.
Can you guys think of any other bands that after they broke up, at least two or more members went on to have solo albums, or created other bands who went on to have albums that were number one on the US charts (even for a single week)?
Zilla (who was surprised that Peter Gabriel's album "So" never made it to the number 1 spot)
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 29, 2008 11:45:51 GMT -6
Oddly Zil I was wondering about this similar idea the other night when the Commodores came on the music channel I was playing. I wondered what happened to the other band members after Lionel Richie left the group.
I liked the Commodores with L.R. over Lionel solo way back when.
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Post by pixiedust on Mar 29, 2008 12:15:53 GMT -6
Fleetwood Mac and Journey are the only two that come to mind right now. Led Zepplin had Robert Plant go solo with some success too.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Mar 29, 2008 14:39:42 GMT -6
Oddly Zil I was wondering about this similar idea the other night when the Commodores came on the music channel I was playing. I wondered what happened to the other band members after Lionel Richie left the group. I liked the Commodores with L.R. over Lionel solo way back when. The Commodores was one of my favorite groups years ago. I remember seeing them in concert when I was in college. It was about 1977 or so. They rocked the house and there was so much pot being smoked that there was no way to remain sober. Ah, that was the good 'ol days. I think Luther Vandros started the show. ...........Bob |
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Post by nolaflacav on Mar 29, 2008 15:52:58 GMT -6
I would think Buffalo Springfield would have to be up there. You've got Neil Young and Stephen Stills coming out of there. Jim Messina went on to be part of Loggins & Messina. And I think Richie Fury (sp?) left to form Poco.
And of course along the same lines I would guess the various parts of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young were prolific too.
If you want to go back another step in time with some really useless trivia, the precursor to Buffalo Springfield was the Mynah Birds. They had Young and Stills. Their lead singer was Rick James. And I think one of their members went on to join John Kay and Steppenwolf. Yet with all this talent, they never produced a single album.
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 29, 2008 17:37:13 GMT -6
Good points Nola.
FYI - Lots of disco groups had 1950's and 60's singers that were revitalized during the disco era, However I'm not sure what pulled them back into the music industry.
I rarely admit it, but during my late teens to early twenties, every weekend was spent at the disco, (maybe it was a NY thing) the party didn't start till 11:00 and finish till sunrise.
I found this oldie, great period music but weird video.
Shame Shame Shame (Shirley and Company)
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 29, 2008 18:11:36 GMT -6
Machine - 'There But For The Grace of God Go I'
This song had strong lyrics for it's time. (Pardon the thread drift Zil)
The people I hung out with could relate to the words no matter what view they had, nearly all of us were from the Bronx or Brooklyn, about half were Jewish or Spanish and part of the 1960's flight to suburbia. It still sounds good and when I'm at Hedo always request some disco from this period. Rarely do they oblige, it must seem like it's from the stone age.
Carlos and Carmen Vidal just had a child
A lovely girl with a crooked smile
Now they gotta split 'cause the Bronx ain't fit
For a kid to grow up in
Let's find a place they say, somewhere far away
With no blacks, no Jews and no gays
Chorus:
There but for the grace of God go I
Poppy and the family left the dirty streets
To find a quiet place overseas
And year after year the kid has to hear
The do's the don'ts and the dears
And when she's ten years old she digs that rock 'n' roll
But Poppy bans it from home
Chorus
Baby, she turns out to be a natural freak
Popping pills and smoking weed
And when she's sweet sixteen she packs her things and leaves
With a man she met on the street
Carmen starts to bawl, bangs her head to the wall
Too much love is worse than none at all
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Post by nolaflacav on Mar 29, 2008 19:10:14 GMT -6
We need Simon to weigh in with some UK perspective. Maybe he can sort this one out for me.
One of most favorite bands has always been Yes. They are still heavy on my Ipod today. I know there is a thread going through Yes, Asia, King Crimson, and Emerson Lake & Palmer. I am just brain dead on this one.
And for some more useless trivia. I remember watching the show Shindig with my older sisters when I was growing up. I was doing some research for them on the show the other day. The house band was called the Shindogs. And among the members were Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, and Billy Preston.
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Post by innit Geezer on Mar 29, 2008 19:35:02 GMT -6
The U.K. always seems to be a step ahead in popular music. More often than snot, every time I discover a new group it's been a U.K. product at least months ago.
Ooh Simon.........
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Post by DT on Mar 30, 2008 9:38:21 GMT -6
Let's put a twist in the trivia game. And look at group that made it big after a break-up.*The Band* One of my favorite bands and winner of this years lifetime achievement Grammy. A Canadian-American rock group, consisting of Canadians Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, an American Levon Helm. Bob Dylan recruited the group for his 1965-1966 world tour. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes.
"Dubbed "The Band" by their record company (a name derived from how they were referred to during their tenure with Dylan), the group left Woodstock, New York to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s; their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band."
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Post by Irish Stu on Mar 30, 2008 18:18:59 GMT -6
We need Simon to weigh in with some UK perspective. Maybe he can sort this one out for me. One of most favorite bands has always been Yes. They are still heavy on my Ipod today. I know there is a thread going through Yes, Asia, King Crimson, and Emerson Lake & Palmer. I am just brain dead on this one I'd love to help, but I was never into these bands so I know very little about them... you probably know a great deal more than I do. Simon |
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Post by Irish Stu on Mar 30, 2008 18:37:38 GMT -6
The U.K. always seems to be a step ahead in popular music. More often than snot, every time I discover a new group it's been a U.K. product at least months ago. Ooh Simon......... I don't think we are a step ahead, just different. Our artists and bands have different influences and cultural references to draw from, so more often than not have a different sound, and those few that break the USA market bring you a musical experience you might otherwise never have enjoyed. I can't imagine America producing a Lily Allen or the Kaiser Chiefs any more than the UK would ever turn out a Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock. 'Viva la difference' as they say in France  Simon |
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Mar 31, 2008 7:20:56 GMT -6
We've finally found a band that beats The Beatles.
N.W.A.s band members went on to have 12 #1 albums on the US R&B charts. So twelve is now the new number to beat.
Zilla (who is sorry the say that Buffalo Springfield only came up with 8)
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Post by nolaflacav on Mar 31, 2008 8:35:30 GMT -6
We've finally found a band that beats The Beatles. N.W.A.s band members went on to have 12 #1 albums on the US R&B charts. So twelve is now the new number to beat. Zilla (who is sorry the say that Buffalo Springfield only came up with 8) We started down that road the other night and were guessing at first about the Wu Tang Clan but passed thinking that we really did not consider them a band in the classic sense. And they certainly do not have as strong a cast of characters as N.W.A. That being said we probably also need to check the collective work of David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel. I am guessing they easily have 4 or 5 #1 albums apiece since the demise of Spinal Tap. That should raise the bar to at least 15. I still consider their 1992 come back album Break Like the Wind as the ultimate rock journey. And when I need my heavy metal fix I cannot help but crank up Big Bottom from their 1984 debut album |
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Post by Irish Stu on Mar 31, 2008 9:11:18 GMT -6
Take That were the most popular British band of all time, selling more records than the Beatles. After the band split in 1996 Robbie Williams, Mark Owen and Gary Barlow all went on to have solo careers, with Barlow and Williams both having number one albums in the UK charts, and Williams becoming a huge star in his own right.
Okay, this all happened in the UK and not the US, but I thought it was worthy of note as British music has had a couple of mentions here.
Simon
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Mar 31, 2008 9:17:10 GMT -6
That being said we probably also need to check the collective work of David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel. I am guessing they easily have 4 or 5 #1 albums apiece since the demise of Spinal Tap. That should raise the bar to at least 15. I still consider their 1992 come back album Break Like the Wind as the ultimate rock journey. And when I need my heavy metal fix I cannot help but crank up Big Bottom from their 1984 debut album Indeed, "Intravenous de Milo" might be one of the penultimate albums. Zilla (thinking you can't dust vomit for fingerprints) |
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Mar 31, 2008 9:27:54 GMT -6
Take That were the most popular British band of all time, selling more records than the Beatles. After the band split in 1996 Robbie Williams, Mark Owen and Gary Barlow all went on to have solo careers, with Barlow and Williams both having number one albums in the UK charts, and Williams becoming a huge star in his own right. Okay, this all happened in the UK and not the US, but I thought it was worthy of note as British music has had a couple of mentions here. Simon While we did intentional place our limits excluding the UK charts, it wasn't as a bias against the UK charts. It was merely that we had to face the questions of "Are we going to count multiple charts? What if an album is #1 on both the UK and US charts - does it get counted as two? What about the Italian charts - Ringo's album only made it to #1 there, do we count that? What do we do about when the US charts split? If an album is #1 on Pop and R&B does that count for two?" With those factors weighing in, we made the decision to limit it only to the US charts, and each album can only be counted once no matter how many of the US charts it might have placed on as #1. If you decide to play the game with your friends you might place different parameters Indeed, I highly recommend you do! Zilla (who was surprised that the information is not more easily found, I mean, after all, we can't be the first assholes to have wondered about such a thing) |
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Post by nolaflacav on Mar 31, 2008 9:33:03 GMT -6
Take That were the most popular British band of all time, selling more records than the Beatles. After the band split in 1996 Robbie Williams, Mark Owen and Gary Barlow all went on to have solo careers, with Barlow and Williams both having number one albums in the UK charts, and Williams becoming a huge star in his own right. Okay, this all happened in the UK and not the US, but I thought it was worthy of note as British music has had a couple of mentions here. Simon Well, I for one think if we are going to have a discussion of British music we have to start first with Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. It is still one of my all time favorite quotes when they asked Ringo why he wasn't at Rory's funeral. Ringo just shrugged it off and said he did not see why there was such as fuss as he was not at Rory's birth either. |
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 31, 2008 9:43:32 GMT -6
That being said we probably also need to check the collective work of David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel. I am guessing they easily have 4 or 5 #1 albums apiece since the demise of Spinal Tap. That should raise the bar to at least 15. In that case, what about The Rutles? |
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Post by Irish Stu on Mar 31, 2008 9:50:15 GMT -6
That being said we probably also need to check the collective work of David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel. I am guessing they easily have 4 or 5 #1 albums apiece since the demise of Spinal Tap. That should raise the bar to at least 15. In that case, what about The Rutles? ;D And why not then also include the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band whose various line-ups have included Eric Clapton, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and of course The Rutles' very own Eric Idle and Neil Innes. Simon |
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