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Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2008, 16:13 ---Rush are the funniest band on the planet.

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I dunno... Graveyard BBQ are pretty hard to beat for me.

jeph:

--- Quote from: zerodrone on 27 Jan 2008, 16:22 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2008, 16:13 ---Coheed and Cambria are the funniest Rush parody on the planet.

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KvP:
In high school, I was in the library one day and there was this kid, you know those kids, with the expensive black hair? He was one of those kids. They always wore tight pants and overdesigned black hoodies. This particular one was wearing a Coheed and Cambria hoodie (he was also in a "hardcore" band called Love Letters Burn Red). So I asked him, "who the hell are Coheed and Cambria?" and he gave me a nasty look and said something like "fuck you man". So Coheed and Cambria has that going for them. True story.

Around that time I was going around uploading Musick to Play in the Dark onto every computer in the school, so at least I can say I had much better taste than him.

Uber Ritter:
Rush are amusing. I enjoy them on occasion.  I don't think they gave birth to prog, though, since they weren't making prog records when Yes and King Crimson whatnot were getting there start.  I mean, prog had mostly peaked by the late 70's anyway--mostly the old prog bands were in the process of making pop successes ala' "Owner of a Lonely Heart," by my understanding.

I can understand why people hate Pink Floyd.  They are either absurdly psychedelic and drawn-out (all their pre-Dark Side albums after Barret left, particularly all of Meddle and Wish You Were Here save the singles) or just kinda silly and arguably juvenile (the Wall).  Still, just because I can see where people are coming from doesn't mean I agree with them.  I know that the Beatles are arguably better (indeed, I think by most of my criteria other than "I like them more" they -are- better) but I voted Pink Floyd due to a partiality to Wish You Were Here.

Now that that's over with I think we should turn this thread into one about -our- favorite mainstream bands, partiularly contemporary ones.  I vote Queens of the Stone Age and The White Stripes for myself.

KvP:
Despite some willfully bad production on a few of their albums (haven't heard them all, so I can only say "a few"), I heartily enjoy Queens of the Stone Age. It's good road music.

They don't seem to be real popular around here, but I enjoy Nine Inch Nails. The lyrics are terrible and embarassing, but I've always liked the music, poppy as it is. And if I had never liked them, I probably would have never discovered Coil, Autechre or Squarepusher, who were all represented through Nothing, although they never actually released albums on that label. Still, I'll never really forgive Trent Reznor for unleashing Marilyn Manson on the world. That shit ain't cool.

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