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[StupidityKills]

Someone do the Mars Volta for me?

[KharBevNor]

I don't see why. Pete's a beast!

He is such a TANK!! Man I used to have the biggest crush on him...now I think he's actually pretty scary looking. I still have a poster of him in my room though.

If I was ever involved in making a film with a werewolf in it, Pete Steele would play the wolf.

I mean fuck.

[Filk]

Great thread guys, keep it up!

Requests:

Gorillaz
Gwar
Behemoth
Power Symphony (I actually listened to them quite a bit, just wondering if anyone else has ever heard about them)

[amok]

I'll play:

Band name: Gorillaz

Genre: Pop with Hip-Hop bits in it.

My Rating Of Them: 8/10. Catchy and fun

Best Album: Demon Days

Songs

    * Best: Feel Good Inc.
    * Song you may have heard before: Clint Eastwood
    * Best song with the disembodied head of Shaun Ryder: Dare
    * Song That Best Represents The Band: Feel Good Inc.

(yeah I removed some of the categories 'cos I couldn't think of good tracks and I'm lazy)

[ComfortEagle]

Wow this thread is old, I forgot I even posted on it, and for the record, I ment weezers newer albums are a bit ....bad......

[timehat]

The Mars Volta

Genre: A mix of pop, punk, progressive rock, fusion, and avant-garde
Rating: 8/10
Best album: De-loused in the Comatorium
Songs:

Best - Inertiatic ESP
Hardest rockin' - A toss up between "Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus" and "L'via L'Viaquez". The former has a breakdown which almost sounds like motherfucking Meshuggah for godssake, while the latter has two totally badass solos from John Frusciante of RHCP (at least he's good for something...)
Most relaxing - Televators
You may have heard - The Widow

Bands like this band - I don't listen to a lot of what many Mars Volta fans do, so I'll list what I can think of that I think is appropriate:
Mahavishnu Orchestra
King Crimson
Dysrhythmia

[ImRonBurgundy?]

I ment weezers newer albums are a bit ....bad......

only a bit?

i would like to request Jawbox, Silkworm, and Hot Water Music, please.

[butmyrobotloves]

This was requested at nearly the beginning of the thread, but what the hell, I might as well take it:




Band Name: The Apples In Stereo

Genre: psychedelic indie power-pop, elephant 6 style

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7.6

Best Album: The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone

Songs:
- Best All Around:  "Ruby" -- this is where they hit the nostalgia aspect right on the head, hooky as all hell!
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Allright/Not Quite" -- Robert Schneider gets all rough and excited on the vocals, and there's cowbell!
- Most Relaxing: "Strawberryfire" -- Sort of reminiscent of the verses of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", that sort of floaty hazy chill feel.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:  I think "Strawberryfire" might have been in a commercial a few years ago, but last.fm says everybody's listening to "The Rainbow."
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Stream Running Over" -- handclaps and a tune that's catchy as hell, Apples' pop at its finest.

Bands Like This Band: Elf Power, Dressy Bessy, Olivia Tremor Control, Imperial Teen, and basically anything coming from the incestuous lovenest that is Elephant 6.  Which pretty much means that they take a lot from The Beach Boys.

Coolest Thing About This Band:  When they're on, they're really freaking on.  Unfortunately, when they're not on they can seem a little bland or annoyingly sweet.  Still, they'll make you dance around your bedroom.  They're a good band for the afternoon, or spring/summer in general, and "Ruby" is the perfect song to play while you're getting ready for a particularly adorable date.

[jcknbl]

Can someone do the Boredoms?

[Coonstar]

Dunno if this has been done before, but I'm too lazy to go through all the pages of this thread. Someone do Faust for me?

[Kai]

I don't think Faust has been done. I don't know anything about them.



Also, I second the Boredoms.

[jose]

Band Name: Jorge Ben

Genre: mpb/samba/soul

Your Rating Of Him (1-10): Excellent

Best Album: Africa Brasil
Songs:
- Best All Around:  Ponta de Laca Africano
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Africa Brasil (Zumbi)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Take it easy my brother Charles
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Pais Tropical

Bands Like This Band:Trio Tenura, Gilberto Gil, Trio Mocoto

Notes About This Band: Early stuff is trad mpb, middle stuff more genre bending (soul, samba, etc) eventually evolving into africa brasil.  Most stuff post 1977 isn't worth it

[JLM]

I'm not familiar with much of the Boredoms' work post 1996, so I wouldn't be a good choice for that since they significantly altered their sound more recently.  I'd heard they were taking on a more experimental, fusion influenced rock meme, rather than the traditional noise rock which they became known for.

However...here's Jawbox

Band Name: Jawbox

Genre: Post-Punk/Hardcore Indie

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7

Best Album: For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Songs:
- Best All Around: This is subjective...Either Tongue or Green Glass
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Chump
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Savory
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Twister


Bands Like This Band:Helmet, Shudder to Think, Hum (though Hum blows them away musically, IMO)

Stuff about them: Jawbox is one of those groups that seemed to improve on just about every release, peaking with their major label debut, arguably their best album.  A shame they broke up, and I haven't heard much of their respective post-Jawbox projects to offer commentary on them, although a couple of the members run De Soto records.

[Skibas_clavicle]

Aw, I wanted to do Jawbox. Anywho, here's Hot Water Music:

Band Name: Hot Water Music

Genre: Punk

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5/10

Best Album: Caution, Fuel for the Hate Game
Songs:
- Best All Around: Remedy/Manual/Russian Roulette
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Remedy/Black Jaw (the drums are just badass in this song)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ?
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sweet Disaster (more their new stuff rather than their older stuff)

Bands Like This Band: Jawbreaker, Small Brown Bike, Fugazi, Alkaline Trio, Leatherface

Stuff about them: They've got (roughly) 9 albums out and have been around since the late 90's. They did split's with both Alkaline Trio and Leatherface, both of which are filled with amazing punk tracks. Some of their earlier stuff could be put into the "post-punk" catagory. They've got two singers, Chuck and Jason, both of whose voices are so gruff and awesome it's enough to make your throat a bit soar. If anyone ever calls them "emo" or "emocore", feel free to punch them in the face super hard for me.

Can someone do The Jesus & Mary Chain, Sunny Day Real Estate or Hum?

[jcknbl]

^I'll second those three. I have one Jesus and Mary Chain album but I imagine someone is probably more qualified to talk about them.

[nuisance]

Or Architecture In Helsinki?

Band Name:  Architecture in Helsinki

Genre: indie pop with the kitchen sink thrown in

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 6

Best Album: Fingers Crossed

Songs:
- Best All Round:  Like A Call
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': see "Coolest Thing About This Band"
- Most Relaxing: City Calm Down
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Do The Whirlwind, I guess.  The vid's currently on youtube if you haven't.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Do The Whirlwind

Bands Like This Band: I've heard it said they're into The Cure (think mid-80s pop stuff like 'Close To Me', they do that one live), Blondie, Beach Boys.. Maybe Belle & Sebastian (for down-home "fuck musicians" mellowness, muted brass and retro synths) or The Brunettes (for cute boy/girl vox and the old pop aspect).

Coolest Thing About This Band: Personally what I love about them is they're not at all macho.  The main guy who sings has a weird cracked falsetto and the songs are almost invariably soft and tranquil.  Also they mix things up astonishingly, hence my pick of most representative track.  One of the b-sides to that single has weird Melbourne avant-rap crew Curse Ov Dialect guest and some completely sloppy Japanese MCs doing verses.  I give them a six because all the cutesiness can be completely overwhelming and... well, fuck it, it's early days.

[nuisance]

request: to rocco rot, umphrey's mcgee, gentle giant

Band Name: To Rococo Rot

Genre:  They've been called "post-rock", "Neu Kraut" and "IDM".  Instrumental music played by a trio with synths, bass guitar often playing chords, and some acoustic drums.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8 (uh perhaps I should mention they're one of my favourite bands of all time)

Best Album: The Amateur View or if you like a bit of crackle and noise in your mellowness see if you can find To Rococo Rot + D's 'trrd' EP.

Songs:
- Best All Around: This Sandy Piece
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They don't really have any loud, hard or rockin' tracks.  Geheimnis Ein Mantel has a fast beat, I suppose.
- Most Relaxing: Jesus, pretty hard to say, they're almost all really soft... Think I have to go with Non-Song.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Um.  I really don't think any of their music has reached the public eye at all, but I'm a bit isolated.
- Song That Best Represents The Band:  Merano

Bands Like This Band: The members all do many other things: Robert Lippok did an album with Barbara Morgenstern and an excellent ambient release for the 20' for 2000 series on Raster Noton; Stefan Schneider does solo stuff as Mapstation and was in Kreidler for the first couple of albums; Ronald Lippok is in Tarwater.  I think the Tarwater stuff is most removed, mainly because it's both song- and sample-based music.  In terms of lineage I think of Kraut rock albums like Harmonia's 'Musik von Harmonia' and other Cluster stuff, but there are obvious influences of contemporary dance styles in there...

Coolest Thing About This Band: Unlike a lot of electronic acts they're not focused on reinvention.  Sometimes their progress seems a bit ... uh, glacial.. but they're just slowly developing like folk music or something, not getting caught up in technological fads... the music is also the opposite of wraught, it's really light and airy and simple, while still having interesting timbres and texture.  Being realistic, unless you're a freak (like me) you probably only need one or two releases, because they generally sound pretty similar.

[karl gambolputty...]

Can someone do The Jesus & Mary Chain

Band Name:  Jesus & Mary Chain

Genre:  Noise Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10):  8

Best Album:  Automatic

Songs:
- Best All Around:  Between Planets (IMO)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Rollercoaster
- Most Relaxing: Sometimes Always
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:  Head On (The Pixies covered it on Trompe Le Monde)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: I Hate Rock n’ Roll

Bands Like This Band:  Husker Du, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr.

Coolest Thing About This Band:  The way they manage to heap layer upon layer of noise on top of their melodies, but never bury them.

[Thrillho]

I ment weezers newer albums are a bit ....bad......

only a bit?

i would like to request Jawbox, Silkworm, and Hot Water Music, please.

Make Believe is a fine piece of work. Beverly Hills is great, if you take it as ironic instead of literal like he apparently wants it...

Green and Mala are, admittedly, shit, though.

[Kai]

Are you saying that he wants you to take it ironically, or that you should despite his original wishes? Because I remember reading some interview where he claimed that song was totally and completely serious.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

Make Believe is a fine piece of work.

i'm going to have to check "Strongly Disagree" on that one.

[butmyrobotloves]

I give them a six because all the cutesiness can be completely overwhelming and... well, fuck it, it's early days.

Too cute?  PSHHHHHHH!

(but, um, then again this is coming from a girl who can't stop listening to Tullycraft and The Boy Least Likely To.  uh oh twee pop time.)

[Skibas_clavicle]

Thanks Karl! I'm gonna make another request: Tilly and the Wall!

[valley_parade]

Wow this thread is old, I forgot I even posted on it, and for the record, I ment weezers newer albums are a bit ....bad......

I like Maladroit. =/

[Kid Modernist]

Could someone do John Cale?

I've heard he was the guy behind all the loud and drones in The Velvets so I would like to know more about him. The albums I have downloaded randomly were disappointing though.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Band Name: Tilly and the Wall

Genre: Indie Pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7.5

Best Album: Wild Like Children(at least until the new album is released on May 23)

Songs:
- Best All Around: A tie between Bessa and Reckless
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They don't rock but Nights of the Living Dead
- Most Relaxing: I Always Knew
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Fell Down the Stairs?
- Song That Best Represents The Band: You and I Misbehaving

Bands Like This Band: A more organic Of Montreal, Belle and Sebastian etc.  

Coolest Thing About This Band: They use a tap dancer as percussion and the enormous fun factor. Plus you can download Wild Like Children legally at the Team Love website.

[El Opium]

Automatic is the JAMC's best album?
Get thee a copy of Psychocandy

[E. Spaceman]

I was going to mention that too. But I'd reccomend Honey's Dead instead.

[nuisance]

I don't know Jesus & Mary Chain that well, but I would've thought 'Just Like Honey' was a pretty famous song for them - maybe even among the teens on here, after being dragged out for the closing scene of Lost In Translation a few years back.

I don't remember any of the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and whoever else sounding like blues with distortion and a drum machine.  Maybe you had to be reading NME / Melody Maker at the time... I also remember My Bloody Valentine copped a lot of flack for being JAMC rip-offs prior to their first album.  Stuff like 'You Made Me Realise', I guess it sorta makes sense...

[karl gambolputty...]

Automatic is the JAMC's best album?
Get thee a copy of Psychocandy

I get shit for it all the time.  I just love it.  Psychocandy is briliant too, but Automatic man, it's classic.

I don't remember any of the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and whoever else sounding like blues with distortion and a drum machine.  

Listen to Trompe Le Monde and Green Mind.  They remind me of J&MC a lot.

[JLM]

I don't remember any of the Pixies, etc. etc.

Except for that one time when the Pixies covered "Head On" by the Jesus & Mary Chain on Trompe le Monde.

[karl gambolputty...]

And used a J&MC bassline for Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

[nuisance]

Listen to Trompe Le Monde and Green Mind.  They remind me of J&MC a lot.

I used to listen to those albums a lot when they came out.  I guess I just don't hear the hazy vibe that I think of with J&MC, and think of eg. them covering 'Little Red Rooster' and just can't imagine those others doing it.  But yep, sounds like yous fellas know a lot more about 'em.

[seth uber alles]

Aw, I wanted to do Jawbox. Anywho, here's Hot Water Music:

Band Name: Hot Water Music

Genre: Punk

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5/10

Best Album: Caution, Fuel for the Hate Game
Songs:
- Best All Around: Remedy/Manual/Russian Roulette
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Remedy/Black Jaw (the drums are just badass in this song)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ?
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sweet Disaster (more their new stuff rather than their older stuff)

Bands Like This Band: Jawbreaker, Small Brown Bike, Fugazi, Alkaline Trio, Leatherface

Stuff about them: They've got (roughly) 9 albums out and have been around since the late 90's. They did split's with both Alkaline Trio and Leatherface, both of which are filled with amazing punk tracks. Some of their earlier stuff could be put into the "post-punk" catagory. They've got two singers, Chuck and Jason, both of whose voices are so gruff and awesome it's enough to make your throat a bit soar. If anyone ever calls them "emo" or "emocore", feel free to punch them in the face super hard for me.

Can someone do The Jesus & Mary Chain, Sunny Day Real Estate or Hum?

It's Chuck and Chris that sing. Otherwise, great job. Can anyone do Jethro Tull? I'm already into a lot of stuff, but I'd like to see the results. Oh! Elvis Costello too.

[TheMedic]

Could someone do Cursive, Silver Jews or Boards of Canada?

Also first post!  WooHoo!

[ImRonBurgundy?]

thanks, JLM and Skibas!

my request for Silkworm still stands, and i'd like to add Chisel and Kerosene 454 to my list.

[JLM]

I'll do Boards of Canada in a bit...

[Azathoth]

Band Name: Hum

Genre: Space-Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Downward is Heavenward
Songs:
- Best All Around: Isle of the Cheetah
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Pod
- Most Relaxing: Suicide Machine
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Stars but you don't know that you've heard it (actually you probably haven't if you're 20 or younger).
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Scientists

Bands Like This Band: Dragon City (look for them), Dinosaur Jr, Slipstream (look for them), Centaur (Singer/Guitarist Matt Talbott's new band - awesome!).

Coolest Thing About This Band: They will rock your ass to the moon.  Also, they were probably the inspiration behind Jeph's Music + Science = Sexy T-shirt.

Also, Automatic?!  Psychocandy!!!

[E. Spaceman]

Can someone do The Avalanches?

[Rizzo]

Can someone do The Avalanches?

YES!

Band Name: The Avalanches

Genre: Electronica

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7

Best Album: Since I left you(their only real album)

Songs:
- Best All Around: Frontier Psychiatrist
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Flight tonight
- Most Relaxing: Etoh
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Frontier Psychiatrist
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Since I left you

Bands Like This Band: I have no idea. Baitercell and Schumacher and possibly Chemical Brothers?

Coolest Thing About This Band: The Avalanches are a pair of Australian DJs. If you ever get a chance you should see them live(Or so I've been told). They're pretty amazing from all accounts.

Their mixing of samples and records is pretty amazing but the album is a little samey to me. It always seems to fall just short of it's mark with the exception of Frontier Psychiatrist and Etoh.

[JLM]

Band Name: Boards of Canada

Genre: Electronic

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8/10 - Band; 3/10 - Fans (Yes, I realize the irony so don't point that out)

Best Album: Most people will say Geogaddi. I personally think The Campfire Headphase
Songs:
- Best All Around: Chromakey Dreamcoat
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Motion to eliminate this category on the grounds that this just doesn't apply to a lot of music. I guess Dayvan Cowboy has some screechy guitar action
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Um...Music is Math?  I don't know
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Devil Is In the Details, Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Bands Like This Band: Pre voices-in-his-head Aphex Twin, Zero 7, Tosca

Cool things about this band:Rather than appeal specifically to the snobbish electronica knob-twiddling fans (myself) or the music snobs who frown on the idea of electronic music as music (you know who you are), Boards of Canada seem to have struck a happy medium, at least on their most recent album, in appealing to both sides.

[jcknbl]

Usually if a band doesn't have a loudest/most hardrocking it will have a most relaxing. The latter was originally a catagory, not sure what happened.

[Kid Modernist]

How come nobody ever does the ones I ask for

John Cale! Please!

[Kai]

I'd do it but I actually have never listened to John Cale's solo stuff.

[nuisance]

Re: The Avalanches

Bands Like This Band: I have no idea. Baitercell and Schumacher and possibly Chemical Brothers?

Both those duos have a heavy focus on big beats at the front of the mix and distorted synth or rock bass sounds.  I think there's very little rock machismo in evidence on 'Since I Left You' - I hear dudes who love hip-hop getting stoned and mucking about with the results of their last 2nd-hand bin trawls.  It's way more trippy and summery and shiny than any breaks artist, and much more of a listening album.  Flutes and sped up folky vocals and loops of 80s rap and Madonna and Western soundtracks... and, well, millions of different samples coming and going...  

I think of kitchen-sink hip-hop production from the late 80s, like Prince Paul on De La Soul's '3 Feet High & Rising', but this isn't a hip-hop album... I also think of 2 Many DJs and the whole mash-up culture - putting things together that shouldn't fit but somehow do.  Sometimes.  But then it's not a DJ mix either.  

*shrug*  Yeah, tough one...

Coolest Thing About This Band: The Avalanches are a pair of Australian DJs. If you ever get a chance you should see them live(Or so I've been told). They're pretty amazing from all accounts.

At last count there are I think 5 members of the band, at the time Since I Left You was created there were at least 4.  Maybe as a DJ show only two of them take to the road.

[nuisance]

How come nobody ever does the ones I ask for

John Cale! Please!

Meh, I can't really do John Cale either, I've checked out a whooole lot of his stuff and really just don't like his voice or his songwriting.    It's pretty edgy and weird, a lot of it, but generally not noisy.

A friend had Cale & Terry Riley's 'Church of Anthrax' on vinyl and I heard that a few times at his place, sounded really good.  Chuggy minimalist (as in New York minimalist composers, not techno) instrumentals.  Not a rock record, really.

[mrpaku]

I would love to see a write-up on any of the following, and I'll try to post any I see come up which I have an interest in:

-Blood Brothers
-Coheed and Cambria
-Jets to Brazil
- The Smiths
- Built to Spill

Thank you!

[jcknbl]

Re: John Cale

I hear Hobo Sapiens was really good. I've been meaning to get it. Thats all I know.

[seth uber alles]

I would love to see a write-up on any of the following, and I'll try to post any I see come up which I have an interest in:

-Coheed and Cambria

Thank you!

Band Name: Coheed and Cambria

Genre: Rock (Prog rock, metal, punk...they mix a lot of styles.)

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: They currently have 3 full lengths out right now, and in my opinion they are all equally good. They are all conceptual and follow a story, so you could start with the first album, "Second Stage Turbine Blade" but I think "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" is the most listenable.

Songs:
- Best All Around: The Velourium Camper Trilogy is awesome, The Crowing, Delirium Trigger, Devil in Jersey City, Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial) and the 4 part Willing Well songs are great.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Welcome Home
- Most Relaxing: Always and Never, Wake Up, The Light and the Glass
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: A Favor House Atlantic
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Crowing

Bands Like This Band: Rush, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Iron Maiden

Coolest Thing About This Band: Like I said, the albums are all part of a crazy Sci-fi story with aliens and shiznite. It's really interesting when you read the singer Claudio's explanation of the story and people's interpretations to unknown parts. It's just an insanely badass story. www.cobaltandcalcium.com has more info on that. Other than that, they do some really interesting creative things with their music, and are also hella fun to sing and rock out to. I think they get unfairly tagged as emo, but it's all timing.

[jcknbl]

Did we really just compare Coheed and Cambria to Queen, Iron Maiden and Led fucking Zeppelin?