What's Your Top 3?: One-word bands

No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Ramones
Nirvana
Oasis

Converge
Slint
Unwound

2 Likes

Why?
Television
Low

3 Likes

WHY?
mclusky
Spoon

Grouper
Pavement
Fugazi

4 Likes

Autechre
Айгел
Kraftwerk

1 Like

Fugazi
Unwound
Pavement

1 Like

Orbital
Belly
Stereolab

2 Likes

Legitimate ambiguity

  • Pixies
  • The Pixies
0 voters
1 Like

Low
Mogwai
Boygenius

1 Like

Because @Funkhouser asked you to!

4 Likes

Ride
Fugazi
Quicksand

Pixies
Kraftwerk
Outkast

1 Like

Not really ambiguous. Their name is Pixies.

1 Like

Deerhunter
Radiohead
Low

3 p’s narrowly missing out tbfttps: portishead, protomartyr, pixies.

2 Likes

Stereolab
Grandaddy
Mogwai

2 Likes

Emeralds
Spiritualized
Electrelane

Runners up

Mogwai
Tindersticks
Verve

(edited to replace Sparklehorse, as I already answered them in a solo artists top 3 and I’m nothing if not consistent)

1 Like

Ambiguity CONFIRMED

3 Likes

Pixies
Radiohead
Wilco

2 Likes

Why?
Low
Misfits

1 Like