Bands Who Should Tour Together
Bands Who Should Tour Together

Ok, folks! This has gone too far!
What started as just another emailed joke (thanks, Ben!) has become an addiction. And I'm not the only one thinking of these, either! Being the common link, however, I felt I had the responsibility to unite everyone's twisted minds.

(If you want to see only the latest entries, seach on this page for "NEW:")

So here's what we've done so far...

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People

The Artist and Will Smith
The Astronauts and Jefferson Starship
The Beach Boys and the Butthole Surfers
Blondie and 4 Non Blondes
Blues Brothers and Indigo Girls
Brothers and Sisters & The Mamas and the Papas
The Carpenters and Men at Work
The Cavemen and Dinosaur Jr.
NEW: Chubby Checkers and Thin Lizzy
NEW: Cop Shoot Cop and Fun Lovin' Criminals
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Sam & Dave, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, The Mamas & The Papas, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and Ray, Goodman & Brown
Damn Yankees and the Dixie Dregs
The Drifters and the Floaters
Drill Team and Die Cheerleader
Fine Young Cannibals and Missing Persons
NEW: The Firm and the Softies
The Frumpies and Slovenly
Gang of Four, Elvis Hitler, New Order, Napolean Blownapart, and the Dictators
The Grateful Dead and Grim Reaper
The Grateful Dead and the Zombies
Grim Reaper and Four Horsemen
Live and The Grateful Dead
Lois, Tiffany, Melanie, Brandy, and Monica
The Loud Family and the Softies
Madonna and SuperTramp
The Mama's and the Papa's and Twisted Sister and Junior
NEW: Mary Lou Lord and Pink Lady
Michael Jackson & Alien Sex Fiend
Mr. Big and Humble Pie
New Birth and the Babys
New Birth and Dead at Birth
Nirvana and Suicidal Tendencies
The Outlaws and Bad Company
The Overlords and Underworld
Parliament and Queen
The Police and The Accused
The Police and Public Enemy
The Police and Sheriff
Prince and Queen
Queen and the Kingsmen
Queen Latifah and General Public
The Quick and the Dead
The Rockin' Rebels and Untamed Youth
The Schoolboys and the Lettermen
The Searchers & The Seekers
Silly Wizard & Warlock
NEW: Sonic Youth and Old Skull
Soul Asylum and 10,000 Maniacs
They Might Be Giants and The Killer Dwarfs
Thin Lizzy and Skinny Puppy
Trashmen and Garbage
NEW: Trotsky Icepick and Mussolini Headlock
Trust & The Lyres
Ugly Kid Joe and Pretty Boy Floyd
The Upper Crust & Lower Eastside Brats
Warrant and The Police
We Five and Them
Weezer and Soul Coughing
The Weirdos & The Strangemen
White Witch & Coven
White Zombie and Ain't Dead Yet
White Zombie and Dead Can Dance

Bodyparts

Badfinger and the Byrds
Living Colour and The Fleshtones
Naked Eyes and Blind Melon
Small Faces, Lothar and The Hand People, Stiff Little Fingers, Badfinger, Little Feat, Belly, & Flaming Lips
Talking Heads and Men without Hats

Recreations

Barenaked Ladies and Beastie Boys (and Offspring?)
Barenaked Ladies and Fred Waring's Barefoot Pennsylvanians
Barenaked Ladies and Pornstar
NEW: Barenaked Ladies and Procol Harum
The Boredoms and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
The Breeders and Offspring
The Breeders and Virgin Prunes
Bush and Hole
The Desires and the Temptations
The Dickies & The Swinging Bluejeans
The Doobie Brothers and the Roches
NEW: Fantasy and Mr. Reality
The Flirtations and Supertramp
Hum and Come
The Kinks and Sexual Chocolate
Kiss and the Flaming Lips
KISS and The Supersuckers
NEW: Lush and the Alkaholiks
Marvin Gaye and Queen and Pansy Division, the Queers, and maybe the Strapping Fieldhands
Modern Romance and Drop Dead
NEW: Morphine and Rush and the Fixx
Steely Dan and the Sex Pistols
Steely Dan and the Vibrators
Supergrass and Bongwater
Tool and Hole

Religious

Bad Religion and Agnostic Front
NEW: Big Daddy Kane and the Able Tasmans
Black Sabbath and the Sundays
The Church and Blind Faith (or Faith No More?)
Exodus, Genesis, and Testament
Focus and No Doubt
NEW: Genesis, Adam Ant, and Eve6
Heaven 17 and Richard Hell
Jesus Jones and Bad Religion
Journey and Exodus
Madonna and Hypocrisy
NEW: Saint Etienne and All Saints
Smoking Popes and Nuns With Guns

Places

NEW: The Beautiful South and Southern Culture on the Skids
Boston and Chicago
Europe and Asia
Kansas and Alabama
The Little River Band and Styx
Michael Bolton, John Hartford, and Melissa Manchester (If y'ain't from Connecticut, don't bother!)
Nirvana and Heaven17
NEW: Sing-Sing and Stanford Prison Experiment

Series

NEW: George Clinton, Kate Bush, Mojo Nixon, and the Dead Kennedys (Any others? Maybe the Presidents of the United States of America?)
Mercury Rev, Earth, Moon Zappa, MARRS, Viva Saturn, and the Mad Planets
NEW: One Dove, U2, Dirty Three, 4 Non Blondes, Jackson 5, Slant 6, 7 Year Bitch, Tribe 8, 999, and the 10,000 Maniacs
NEW: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, and Brent Spiner (Yes, they've all made records. <:[ )
Simply Red, Smashing Orange, Yello, Green Day, Blue Cheer, Indigo Girls, and Deep Purple (...and Rainbow!)
The Sundays, Happy Mondays, and Til Tuesday.... (Can anyone help me finish this?)
NEW: And here are some options to finish those days...
Aloha Wednesday, Big Wednesday, Trendy Wednesday, wednesday night live, Wednesday Week
Sweet Thursday, Three Spells For Thursday, Thursday Diva, kingthursday
Five Way Friday, Friday Dies, friday flip up day, Friday's Tribe, Gavin Friday, Good Friday, Jack Friday, KING FRIDAY, King Friday XIV, My Man Friday
Queen Sarah Saturday, Saturday Night Band, Saturday Supercade, Saturday's Child

Animals

Adam Ant and the Aardvarks
Adam Ant and The Beatles
The Animals & The Critters
The Animals and the Human Beinz
The Beatles and Stomp!
Blue Oyster Cult and Pearl Jam
Byrds and Stray Cats
Charlie Feathers and the Eagles
Dr. Hook and Phish
The Eagles and The Black Crowes
A Flock of Seagulls and Dire Straits
Free Kitten and Tiger Trap
Lamb and Slaughter
Modest Mouse and RATT
The Monkees and Bananarama
Poi Dog Pondering and Bow Wow Wow (and Snoop Doggy Dogg!)
Screeching Weasel and Bunnygrunt
Seal and Phish
Snoop Doggy Dogg and Steppenwolf
The Swans and The Eagles
W.A.S.P and Sting

Things

AC/DC and the Electric Light Orchestra
Andrew Gold and Silver Convention
Ash and Crumb
The B-52's and Jefferson Airplaine
NEW: Beck and Bach
Billy Idol and the Golden Palaminos
Bolt Thrower & The Olympics
The Cars and Crash Test Dummies
NEW: The Cars and Mike and the Mechanics
Change with The Time
NEW: Crowded House and the Five Stairsteps
NEW: David Bowie and Shonan Knife
Desert Elements and Earth, Wind, and Fire
The Diamonds and Bloodstone and Jewel
Eddie Money and Johnny Cash
The Floaters and Sailcat
NEW: Folk Implosion and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Foo Fighters and the B-52's
The Four Tops and the Spinners (and ZZ Top?)
Front 242 and 808 State
NEW: Future Sound of London and Was (Not Was) and Ten Years After
Grand Funk Railroad and Andrea True Connection
Grand Funk Railroad and D-Train
Guns 'n' Roses and 38 Special
Hammer and Nine Inch Nails
NEW: Huggy Bear and Seven Mary Three (think of two '70's cop shows)
Ice Cube and Snow
Johnny Dollar & Charlie Price (with special guest Eddie Money!)
The L.A. Guns and the Blasters
Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane
Led Zeppelin and Stone Temple Pilots
The Manhattan Transfer and B.T. Express
The Manhattans and the Coasters
Matchbox 20 and the Strikers
Metallica and the Magnetic Fields
Mono Men and Stereolab
Pavement and Gravel Pit
Poison and the Cure
Porno for Pyros and Firehouse
Robert Plant & The Seeds
Sick Of It All and The Cure
Silk and Suede
Sister Sledge and Hammer
Sopwith Camel, the B-52's, and the Jets
The Stories and Saga
Switchblade Symphony with Electric Light Orchestra or Shonen Knife
The Syndicate of Sound and Thomas Dolby
Tequila Sisters and Lime
The Time and the Moments
Traffic and The Cars
UB40 and Level 42

Food

Bread and Cream
Cherry Vanilla & The Banana Splits
Cracker and Green Jelly
Cream and the Dead Milkmen
Cream and Korn
Cream and Sugar
The Figgs, Apples in Stereo, the Lemonheads, and the Smashing Pumpkins
The Figgs and Wayne Newton
Lemonheads and Jawbreaker
Meatloaf and Cranberries
Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Flaming Lips
Salt 'n' Peppa and the Spice Girls
Salt N Pepa and Sugar
Strawberry Alarm Clock, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, and Ambrosia
Vanilla Fudge and the Lovin' Spoonful and Pearl Jam

Kindred Spirits

ABBA, M/A/R/R/S, Booker T. & The MGs, UTFO, the Bee Gees, and U2 (And call it the "Alphabet Soup Tour")
Aphex Twin, the Thompson Twins, and the Cocteau Twins
Blondie and 4 Non Blondes (plus Blonde Redhead and Concrete Blonde, with special appearance by Julie Brown.)
The Buggles and the Bugaloos
Culture Club and the Tom Tom Club
Elton John and Dr. John
George Michael, Michael Jackson, and Jackson Browne
NEW: Georgia Satellites and Six-Finger Satellite
The Guess Who and The Who
Ice Cube, Ice-T and Vanilla Ice.
Milli Vanilli and Scritti Politti
Motorhead, Headpin, & The Kentucky Headhunters (also Diamondhead & Head East)
Mudhoney and the Honeybunch
The Ohio Express and the Ohio Players
The Plimsouls and the Bouncing Souls
Screamin' Jay Hawkins & Screamin' Lord Sutch (with the Screaming Blue Messiahs)
Quarterflash and Grandmaster Flash
Quiet Riot and Atari Teenage Riot
U2 and US3
Wang Chung and the Wu-Tang Clan
Wilson Pickett and Wilson Phillips

Disasters

Anthrax and Biohazard
Anthrax & Mad Cow Disease
Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Exploited
Carpenters and Bulimia Banquet
The Clash and Wham!
Conspiracy of Noise and the Whispers
Danger Danger and The Alarm
Death, Destruction, & Doom
The Presidents of the United States & Sick Of It All (for all you Bill & Monica fans out there)
Rage Against the Machine, Girls Against Boys, and Born Against
The Red Rockers and Black Russian
Sham 69 and the Fakes, with special appearance by Milli Vanilli
Single Bullet Theory and the Dead Kennedys
T.Rex, Dinosaur Jr., and Comet Gain
Thunderclap Newman, Lightnin' Hopkins, and The Raindrops
The Tornados & Johnny and The Hurricanes
Urge Overkill and Megadeth
Wham! and Blood, Sweat, & Tears

Culture

Camper von Beethoven and Bram Tchaikovsky
Moby and Whale and Great White
Patti LaBelle, Booker T. & Candlestick (I'm casting a spell)
Rainbow, Toto, Kansas, & Wizzard
Raven & Nevermore (there's also a band called Poe)
Tortoise and Uncle Wiggly
Trip Shakespeare, the Ophelias, and Cordelia's Dad

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