OK, I'll start: KRS-One

Also: in the early 90s there was a dance act called Ira Levi.

2 Unlimited.

The Big Three

4 Hero

The Funky Four (Plus 1)?

The Five Blazers

jazzy vocalists Take Six (sha-bop-a-wee-doo)

Below Zero... and Inch Nails.

Benson

?

Eleventh Dream Day

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

and 14 Iced Bears! Ha.

knew i'd seen it somewhere

Fifteen

are all over the Supremes records too, in fact all the Motown girl groups (Vandellas, Marvelettes, Velvettes) . They’re on lots of Temptations songs and you can hear their contribution to “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” on a youtube clip that’s a mix with just the music and b/vs. (Its embed disabled but search for The Andantes I Heard It Through The Grapevine Remix Tribut).

Following on from the "bulldog chewing a wasp" etc the best phrase I have ever heard for someone who looks pissed off/ugly/annoyed is........"He has a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle"

Hi, I'm J****y Cash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7688705.stm

Choral group, have made loads of CDs by themselves, and with Harry Christophers.

(newish, Grandaddyish combo).

Heaven 17

Eighteen Wheeler?

The Drop Nineteens?

Contact me again when we reach 10,000 maniacs!

Americans like them. Keep going!

only know the name but think they are some kind of King Crimson offshoot or a KC tribute band

if not them then the now-legally-not-called '21st Century Doors'

It strikes me that Jonathon Green appreciates the specific things in life, so can I just point out that I don't think he heard someone shout 'Judas' at Bob Dylan in 1965? It's not that it was in Manchester, it's that it was in 1966. As you were.

Swedish "electronica" band apparently
http://www.myspace.com/twentytwo22

and 23 Skiddoo of course in a Jonathan Green slang / jazz reference.

David & Matt were like two schoolkids giggling away at the naughty words being said by a "cool" teacher.

This was te best podcast for ages.

It's A Funky Groovy Country-Rock Party Band Kinda Thang!

http://theeast24band.com/

Section 25.

Jesus, they were dreadful.

podcasts. don't quite understand why Mr green wasn't afforded a backstage pass (). Still, fantastic either way. Will be buying my old man this fascinating sounding book for xmas...then borrowing it of course!

Not sure why you'd call your band 26 but hey.
http://www.26theband.com/
"this up-and-coming Brisbane band is in the same league as the critically acclaimed Coldplay and indie favorite Elbow"
according to Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail no less.

and now comfortably occupy a melodic stratosphere of their own” - apparently

http://www.27.vg/news.htm

Funnily enough, just heard the presenters of an excellent podcast on Nina Simone:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f4py9
say that she didn't like her music called Jazz precisely because it was pejorative in her mind.

Room in that genre for a kitchen sink?

http://www.myspace.com/28days

Doesn't sound so silly somehow knowing the term funk comes from the earth and a bad smell. Not sure if Bowie had that in mind but now I can enjoy that song (which I love) even more, as I can justify that lyric to myself. In such small ways (and many others) can a Word podcast enhance a person's life. Was good stuff this week.

an italian techno dance band

and the 10:30 band "FOR THE BEST IN BEACH, SOUL, AND ROCK & ROLL"

or perhaps we'd better leave them til we get to 35 ?
(mid 90s sideburnedmodprebritpopsters )

The Four of Us

We could have The Dirty Three - well it's close.

The Twenty Flight Rockers
The Harry Stoneham Five

Let's do this in order, huh? After all, what is counting except putting things in order?

If you've got a lower number than the one we're already at, feel free to go back and add it as a reply to whoever first posted that number.

If you've got a number higher than the one we're at, then hold your fire soldier, and hope that we'll make it.

Thanks,

Matt 'Martinet' Hall.

30 Odd Foot Of Grunts
Thirty One Knots
Thirty Two Frames
Thirty Three. Three

Back to you lot.

UB40
Sum 41
Level 42

1980's Japanese metallers

and Billy Joe and the Dusty 45's

"they're a bunch of nuts" from Pensyllvania.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

...Stars On 45

(ducks)

Black 47 (they're not - http://flickr.com/photos/black47)
Familiar 48 (they're not - to me anyway)
BR5-49 (they're great - http://www.br549.com/)

50 Cent

cos I primed and ready to go....

No dude, they really do exist, honest, I saw this thing on the internet about it

http://thearea51band.com

and the B-52's!

A late 50s skiffle group from Barnsley.

It's a song by Trevor Tchir - waddya mean you've never heard of 'the Tchir'

http://cdbaby.com/cd/tchir3

Actually me neither

I've just realised it's band names only - whoops!

How about Five and The Three Degrees?

Ramones song,scottish indie pop label from mid 80s. Surely a band too ?

perhaps we're stuck with this er
Showa 53
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

The 2nd best James K Polk reference in pop!

Until around a year ago I was in a band called 56 Special - a real live band that did about 8 gigs. There's a myspace site n'everything

with influences from Jerry Lee Lewis and Eddie Cochrane to Brian Setzer and the Stray Cats, this powerhouse four piece whip up a storm with their dynamite delivery of some of the greatest rock and roll and rockabilly songs ever to grace the planet!

Chevy 57

...you've had the B 52s?

'58' - a Motley Crue side project *shudders*
'Starflyer 59' - Californian indie rockers
and the quite appropriate 'Zero to Sixty'

... the Dylan tribute band

HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED

http://www.highway61revisited.com/

they're 'reviving hip hop' y'all

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

are rocking for Jesus

http://www.myspace.com/tree63

was one of the pioneers of the hip hop music sub-genre known as geeksta rap or nerdcore. Formed by four members of a math club and breakdancing troupe in 1982 at a concert in New Jersey, Commodore 64 was the first group to release a single produced entirely using an Apple Macintosh computer, "Horton Hears A Ho" in 1999

You couldn't make it up etc

http://www.myspace.com/67special

Good set of friends

loved by the laydeez by the looks of it

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

Industrial electronics, noise elements, distorted guitars combined with danceable beats, deep male vox, and great female back vocals make unique sonic creation.

Fela Kuti and Africa '70

utterly dull US alt rockers

One of the most entertaining podcasts I've listened to in eons - and that includes most of The Word ones.

Kudos to Mr Green for keeping going all the while Messrs Hall and Hepworth sniggered their way through the whole thing!

hybrid-metal band.

'The band name is derived from a combination of spiritual beliefs and numerical fact.'

Huh?

They have a MySpace page.....how unusual.

A band from New York. God bless you, Google.

Tungsten 74
They have their own website so there.

Next up we have:
Sweet 75
Post Nirvana group formed by Krist Novoselic.

The76

http://www.myspace.com/theseventysix

And I listened to the song automatically played on their website all the way through which is always a good sign.

No, me neither.

78 Saab
Reasonably successful Aussie group.

Death From Above 1979.

I will continue with:
Tahiti 80 who are quite wonderful.

There was a nu-metal band who disbanded in 2003 called:
Fastway 81

Is Blink 182 taking the piss a little?

look Piers Morgan thinks they are wicked

a band so cool they don't need more than 1 page on their website

Oh no. Condemned 84 are still banging away.

http://www.condemned84.com/

is rapping for God. Who says its all about the bling n booty eh?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

aka 86 (the band)........in their own offbeat way, seem bent on reinventing the Modern Lovers and Velvet Underground.

You'll find them supporting the amusingly named 'Sorry About Dresden'.

get down to Buffalo Bar and Grill in Payson where they perform primarily old Country and Western standards and '50's Rock and Roll with some of the most frequently requested "Hoe-down" numbers that have become so popular today

http://www.junction87.com/new_coverJCT87%20Varit.jpg

isn't that the guy who plays Freddie Krueger on the left?

Band formed by the late Ian Stewart and Bob Hall in honour of the original rock and roll song. Or have you already done this?

Aussie rockers. 'Unreconstructed' sums 'em up.

http://www.1989.com.au/

Lost a member (Mike Howlett, ex-Gong) and became The Police

as is The 1990's - Scots indie rockers if ever I saw em!

Psalm 91

Highway 92
http://estradacommunications.net/

Current 93
http://thisislike.com/current-93-band/similar

i-94
http://www.i94music.com/

Psalm 95
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=396...

A Norwegian chamber choir, named after the year they were formed (1996, not AD 96, sadly).

http://www.ensemble96.no/

Old 97's
98 Degrees
T-99
Haircut One Hundred

So I'm the one who gets the 101'ers?

Keys to your heart indeed!

Bless you Joe!

If this were cricket, Lee would have raised his bat to salute the crowd, tipped his brim to the applauding team-mates on the pavilion balcony and turned to face the next ball.

There were a few dropped catches, some very contentious decisions from the umpire, and a sticky section where we got bogged down in the middle, but that's one of the finest centuries I've ever seen carved out.

Surely we can't continue consecutively past 101?

Detroit techno supergroup, featuring Mad Mike Banks, Jeff Mills and Robert Hood, apparently.

A Dutch-Brazilian fusion band short-listed for a R3 World Music Award in 2004:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/awards2004/profile_zuco103.shtml

According to the Derby Evening Telegraph, "It's heavy but also melodic - and music that demands to be played loud."

"Back in 1991 Jack and Jim Randolph started the Boot Heel Swing Band. They played top dance music, like Western Swing, Old Country, New Country and some Old Rock. In 1998 Jack and Jim changed the name to Exit 105 Band, and it was greatly received by all. Tennessee was great to them. Some of the best musicians in the country are there, but then they moved to Florida in 2001 to bring that great dance music to the folks of North West Florida. Deciding to take a break in the winter of 2003, for a much needed rest. Exit 105 Band is back on stage, so come out when you can and hear the hot new mix."

Well, who'd have thought it!

can we perhaps give a warm Word welcome to Vleutenseweg 106, named after their student house in Holland ...

"Dutch studenthouse begins band. Here an first glimps of their talent. On the keyboard Hilde K, on the violin Oscar, girl-guitar Hilde de L and boy-guitar Jan-Willem"