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Houdinimachine:
I'd say my band is Harvey Danger.

Yes, I just said fucking Harvey "Flagpole Sitta" Danger. I have gone out of my way to find music by them spending ridiculous amounts of money on trying to get every track they've ever recorded.

Harvey Danger started as a "What the Hell" thing for me. I was a kid and I loved Flagpole Sitta when I first heard it on the radio. I still have the cardboard version of Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? around here somewhere. When I listened to the actual album, I fell in love with the band's ability to produce music that really seems both literate and filled with frustration and melancholy. Not to mention, Carlotta Valdez basically is all about one of my favorite movies: Vertigo. (I was angsty as a teen. Give me a break. The music still holds up as meaningful and beautiful though. "Jack the Lion" is still my favorite song ever because of the memories it invokes with me holding my once strong grandmother's hand as she died.)

Then, King James Version came out and no one noticed. This is the largest music atrocity ever perpetrated by corporate America. Pike Street to Park Slope is beautiful. The entire album is probably the most genuinely literate and lyrically interesting collection of songs I have. Notice I keep saying literate? It's because Harvey Danger's lead singer holds an  English degree and you can tell.

Now, years later, we have Little by Little and an upcoming tour. Cream and Bastards Rise is a brilliant single waiting to happen. Moral Centralia; War Buddies; and Wine, Women, and Song are also just about the best piano pop I've heard in a long time.

I get so worked up about HD that I have trouble really make a clear cut argument about why they rock so fucking hard.

Kid Modernist:
Mine is Bob Marley, but I'm not going to expound on it, because it would probalby sound pretty lame.

The day I got my iPod I downloaded his discography. Woot.

Kai:
Supertramp or The Legendary Pink Dots, for various cheesy sentimental reasons I'm not going to go into.

Coonstar:
Okay. Anybody who has me on their last.fm or read my posts on the Sleater-Kinney thread or some of my posts on the Battle of teh bands-related stuff would probably know which two I'm to list out.

The Smashing Pumpkins
Soundtrack to my adolescence and teenage years, no doubt about it. I've always listened to their singles but I never truly got into them until when I was 13-14. Okay, another kind of generic phrase but, in all honesty, I had felt like the awkward outcast teenager. I didn't really have a lot of friends, especially ones that I could connect to (hell I have the same problem now), and I just never felt right or comfortable ANYWHERE. I was just always on end with everything. But somehow, as indulgent as MCIS can be or tracks like Silverfuck, somehow the Pumpkins always had soothed me. I'd rock out to Siamese Dream, cry to sleep with Adore. Whenever I listened to them, they made me feel at home more than I had ever felt in my actual home. They just basically fed me for a full two years and a half. With them, I never had to think "is this shit? is this good?" or weigh out their strengths versus their weaknesses, cuz shit, I LIKED their weaknesses, because they were MINE.

And listening to them always carries me on this journey down memory lane, for good or for worse. I guess it's worth of note that the last moment I saw a bunch of family members before they died, I was listening to Dawn to Dusk, so it certainly evokes memories.

Sleater-Kinney

They have been a newer discovery to me, but nothing short of another milestone band. While the Pumpkins cushioned me like a security blanket, Sleater-Kinney had always infused some sort of hidden confidence in me somehow, as cheesy as that sounds. I played the Woods a lot last summer, which was the peak of my moments of confidence-and-existing-backbone. I really liked my last summer, it was a summer of a lot of firsts, when I really tried to reach out to the community and actually you know, DID something with myself, and I couldn't give a shit what other people thought of me! I was going out trying new things even if it resulted in me smelling like soil and compost for half the summer. Whenever I play Sleater-Kinney, they remind me of those days, and I just get a little boost in self-confidence, and so pull me through the day.

Too bad Sleater-Kinney's about to get defunct, and I'm not that hopeful with the new Smashing Pumpkins. But I guess all is alright in the world as long as I have their records.

The Cosmic Fool:
I've already made a thread about them (which was throughly toasted by the community) but I'll mention them for good posture. Machinae Supremacy is my opinion of God's gift on earth. Epic, charged and very inspirational, these guys are awesome. Most of their songs are free, which is always a plus.

And they're Swedish.

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