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Poe
Poe
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
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Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Welsh rock band
2
The Boys
The Boys
English punk rock band
3
Real McCoy
Real McCoy
German Eurodance group
4
The Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church
English/American gothic rock supergroup
5
Pennywise
Pennywise
American punk rock band
6
Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong
American musician, songwriter, artist, director, poet, record producer and label owner
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Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self Indulgence
American electronic rock band
8
U.K. Subs
U.K. Subs
English punk band
9
Soft Cell
Soft Cell
band
10
Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman
musician
11
The Star Club
The Star Club
Japanese punk rock band (1977-)
12
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter
former English glam rock singer-songwriter and musician
13
Miki Howard
Miki Howard
American singer, actress
14
Bus Station Loonies
Bus Station Loonies
15
Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule
American singer-songwriter
16
Boyzone
Boyzone
Irish boyband
17
Green Day
Green Day
American punk rock band
18
Leon Payne
Leon Payne
American recording artist; musician, singer, songwriter
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The Stranglers
The Stranglers
Rock band
20
The Damned
The Damned
British rock band
21
The Business
The Business
band that plays Oi!
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Marcella Detroit
Marcella Detroit
American soprano vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter
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Beatsteaks
Beatsteaks
German rock band
24
The Verve
The Verve
British Rock Band
25
Melanie Safka
Melanie Safka
American singer
26
The Lightning Seeds
The Lightning Seeds
English rock band
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Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
American singer and musician
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Bis
Bis
Scottish indie pop band
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Sunscreem
Sunscreem
30
Die Toten Hosen
Die Toten Hosen
German band
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Shampoo
Shampoo
British singing duo
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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
American rock band
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Shakedown
Shakedown
(group)
34
Bananarama
Bananarama
English pop group
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
American rock and roll band
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Gavin Friday
Gavin Friday
Irish singer
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Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf
American singer and actor
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Levellers
Levellers
English folk rock band
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Stone Sour
Stone Sour
American heavy metal band
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John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery
American country music artist
41
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees
English rock band
42
Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Elliman
American singer and actress
43
The Beautiful South
The Beautiful South
English pop group formed at the end of the 1980s
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Shara Nelson
Shara Nelson
British singer and songwriter
45
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
English singer
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The Bates were a German punk band, founded in Eschwege, federal state of Hesse, in 1987. The name referred to the character Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

The Bates were mainly known for their cover versions of songs made famous by other artists. On each of their albums they published at least two such cover songs alongside original compositions. Because the cover versions were particularly well received, The Bates released the album 2nd Skin (2000), which featured cover versions of songs taken from various genres. The Beatles ("Helter Skelter"), Rolling Stones ("Out of Time"), The Cure ("Wailing Wall"), Sailor ("Glass of Champagne"), Aneka ("Japanese Boy"), and Eiffel 65 ("Blue") were covered in the album in typical Bates style.

Amongst the Bates' commercially most successful singles was their cover version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (1995), which reached No. 10 in the Swiss charts, and No. 67 in the UK Singles Chart, gaining them the highest charts entries of their career. Some other well-received songs were the Shakespears Sister cover "Hello (Turn Your Radio On)" (1994), "A Real Cool Time" (1995), "It's Getting Dark" (1996), and "Independent Love Song" (1997). Fan favourites were "It's Getting Dark", "Say It Isn't So", "A Real Cool Time", "Bitter End", "I Don't Wanna Love You", and "Not Like You".

In 2000, the Bates disbanded. The band members reunited only briefly in December 2006 to play one concert, as a tribute to their former singer Markus "Zimbl" Zimmer, who had died earlier that year. The concert was filmed and, together with some interviews of family, friends and former acquaintances of Zimbl, made into a film: Zimbl – A Real Cool Time. A shortened version was first screened a year later on the same date as the concert.