For which bands could you belt out at every lyric at a concert?

[Portmanteau]

The last couple of days I've been listening to some albums I haven't to for the last few years, and found myself singing along like I never stopped listening to them. It was cool, like catching up with an old friend and getting straight back into your old in-jokes etc.

So it lead me to this: for which bands would I be confident in being able to belt out every lyric during one of their concerts? I had this experience with Arcade Fire earlier in the year, probably much to the chagrin of those around me.

So, if we were to set some reasonable parameters such as needing to have 4 albums released, and not necessarily needing to know every lyric of every single, b-side, rare releases and cover of a band, but those that could be realistically played at a concert, who are your bands?

For me:

Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Rage Against the Machine

Those that almost made the cut but I probably have some gaps in my knowledge:

Green Day
The Hold Steady
Kanye West

Miss the album cut off:
Vampire Weekend (3 albums though)
Cody Chesnutt
Chvrches

Youse guys?

 

[Engimal]

Arctic Monkeys
The Who (Might struggle on parts of Tommy)
White Stripes

John Butler Trio and Foo Fighters just miss out, I think.

 

[PP34]

The Beatles. That's it.

 

[Gibbsy]

Arctics and Kanye.

Vampire Weekend just misses out for me, wouldn't know all the words to Contra.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Queens of the Stone Age and Metallica

 

[Silent Alarm]

Too many.

Have done it shamelessly at Bloc Party and Vampire Weekend and if smaller gigs permitted it, then sure, I'd sing along. The main thing you have to do is patronise the lighter-in-the-air moments though. You can't let an acoustic strummer be ruined unless everyone else in the venue's ruining it too.

But I can't wait for Arctic Monkeys, it'll be sing-a-long galore.

 

[timtamWB]

Brand New
Coheed And Cambria
Daughter
Fall Out Boy
Eddplant
Coldplay
Plumb
Andrew Huang
Damien Rice
Ed Sheeran
Angels And Airwaves
Box Car Racer
Blink 182
Rise Against
The Script
Explosions in the Sky

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Everyone sings along with Bruce at an Iron Maiden gig. EVERYONE.

 

[danger_to_walker]

The Beatles
Arctic Monkeys
Arcade Fire
The Shins
You Am I
Cold War Kids
Black Keys

Jamie T unfortunately only has the 2 albums.

 

[Gus Poyet]

Madness, The Kinks, The Specials and the Belle Stars.

 

[Dory_77]

Metallica
The Offspring
Strung Out
Parkway Drive
Tool
The Bronx
Deftones (maybe)
Protest the Hero
Trivium (maybe)

 

[Macca19]

Probably too many to list but off the top of my head:
Korn, Slipknot, System of a Down, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Lower Than Atlantis, Architects, City & Colour, Circa Survive, Deftones, Down, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, RATM

 

[WALDENPOND]

Sigur Ros.

 

[Contra Mundum]

KISS

 

[ManWithNoName]

Beatles
Muse
Arcade Fire
Rolling Stones

Would say Springsteen but he always plays a few songs I've never even heard of.

 

[little graham]

Accadacca

 

[Gibbsy]

Sigur Ros.

Very good haha

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Cosmic Psychos

How can you not love beltin' out the lyrics to "David Lee Roth"?

 

[Zuma]

neil young
tom petty
foo fighters
divinyls
cold chisel
the beatles

 

[Marlowe]

Metallica, Pink Floyd, maybe Pantera and Muse as well.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Nothing better than barely being able to speak after a show and feeling sick from all the recycled air, and you're lucky if you even get that kind of air. That Gatorade and joy and sadness home is the best. Imagine being in a band and being able to give people that every night. BLOODY HELL.

 

[Marmozet]

One of my favorite bands of the last few years, Papa Roach. Mean so much for me to see them if they played in Australia, which they haven't done for a very, very long time.

"Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing.."

 

[Bomber Bears]

Frenzal Rhomb.

 

[Dan Moody]

The Beach Boys, Australian Crawl, Nirvana

 

[Twoslabs]

And I have done to:

Stiff Little Fingers
The Damned
Killing Joke
The Clash/ Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Sex Pistols
The Cramps