Bands you listen to once a year.
 

stuff you hear every 12 months or so instead of once a week, month, etc.

for me it's the misfits and pixies.

Sonic Youth

The Specials, Selector and all that 2tone stuff. I like it, but I can't stand ska if I hear it too much

Humans are not designed for obscene amounts of ska.

I'll flirtate with the Smashing Pumpkins a couple of times a year when the mood strikes. Same for Nirvana, and I suppose all the other bands I was into around the 11/12 age. I listened to NOFX this year because of ripchord.

Lots of the old punk-rock I used to be way into gets a spin every once in a while...
For example, listened to Combat Rock from the Clash the other day for the first time in years... and I was so disappointed... Luckily I listened to London Calling not TOO long ago, and that album is fucking great. BUt... yeh... Combat Rock... umm...
The Ramones, Sex Pistols... maybe even like ..the Raveonettes (unrelated, but even though I like them, I don't listen to them often).

Honestly, I've gotten pretty over the Punmpkins.
I guess they can be in this list too, 'cos I rarely listen to them... if I do, it's probably just Siamese Dream, because Mellon COllie is pretty much 3/4 crap.

Try listening to some decent ska and you'll probably feel differently.

You'll be saying Madness next!:rolleyes:

I've sold most of my ska/reggae/dancehall off years ago, and only kept the stuff that I really enjoyed. Used to have lots of first wave jamaican reissues, ska-punk, trad stuff, a lot of the releases on Moon Ska, and other labels.

I still find the Selecter to be one of my faves.

Nirvana, Velvet Underground, I think those are the only two, if not I can't think of many right now.

Led Zeppelin, Tool, Bob Dylan, Pixies, Radiohead

But I usually listen to them a lot went it's their time of the year.

i usually listen to them for a solid week, then it's until next year.

because of this, i haven't gotten around to buying anything but death to the pixies, which is what i listen to, both cds.

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i don't need to listen to the misfits or the pixies for about 2 or 3 years cuz i've heard that shit too many times :)

I still love the Clash. These days I'm even quite enjoying the latter day Clash.

I think the Clash have a whole different feel to them when you're older. When you're young you love them for the "fuck you" factor in their simplicity, but when you get older you appreciate them for the beauty in their simplicity. They're one of them bands that say alot with using very little. That's a gift indeed.

Same.

Radiohead.
and all the electronica stuff as Autechre, Boards of Canada, Arovane, Lusine etc. (due to nostalgic reasons)

Jeff Buckley is probably one of them artists that I love but only listen to in periods of the year, but alot within them periods. Mostly in winter.

Post rock stuff like Mono and explosions in the sky. It kinda gets boring real fast...

And Dinosaur Jr.

the Misfits. typically only worth listening to in October, however, they have been getting some play this week for reasons i still don't understand.

Yeah, maybe because those two bands are on the "boring" side of post-rock highway.