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[JLM]

Waaaaaay back at the beginning, La Creme requested Cornelius.  I didn't see it in here anywhere, so here goes:

Artist Name: Cornelius

Genre: Japanese experimental hip-hop/electronic/indie-rock (he covers a lot of genres)

Your Rating Of Him (1-10): 9

Best Album: Point (contentious, but I like it best)

Songs:
- Best All Around: Drop
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': I Hate Hate
- Most Relaxing: Clash, Tone Twilight Zone
- A song by them you may have heard: He's done quite a bit of Remix work...I particularly like his remix of "I'd rather dance with you" by Kings of Convenience
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Point of View Point, Star Fruits Surf Rider

Artists Like Him: Takako Minekawa, early Luscious Jackson, Cibo Matto, Beck

Coolest Thing About This Guy: Named himself after the character from Planet of the Apes. He did an amazing cover of the song Brazil, a song which unfortunately always makes me think of the Terry Gilliam movie. He can transcend genres on a single album flawlessly.

[jcknbl]

Bauhaus

[Kai]

Man, I don't have enough of Bauhaus' stuff to do a full breakdown, but I can tell you that In the Flat Field is an amazing album.

[jcknbl]

I'll put you to work Kai:


The Residents.

[ScottishOnion]

Has anyone done a review of The Rentals yet?

[Kai]

THIS I CAN TOTALLY DO


Artist Name: The Residents

Genre: Avant Garde eyeball pop from a different dimension, where everything is awesome.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Animal Lover or Duck Stab/Buster and Glen

Songs:
- Best All Around: Swastikas on Parade.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Residents don't "rock out", per say, but I think the craziest thing was a 14 minute little bootleg live thing from their early years, Hallowed Be Thy Wean, 1971
- Most Relaxing: anything off of their Eskimo album.
- A song by them you may have heard: Kaw Liga was their only hit, I believe.
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Hello Skinny. Just cause.

Artists Like Them: Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Buckethead to an extent, Primus, Debris', Just Measures, Flying Lizards
 
Coolest Thing About This Band: Have, throughout the several decades of their existance, kept their actual names and faces secret with masks and whatnot. Their most famous is the eyeball mask and tophat, although they've recently retired them. Also, it's really trippy music.

[KharBevNor]

Artist Name: Bauhaus

Genre: Post-punk/goth rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: In The Flat Field

Songs:
- Best All Around: She's in Parties
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Telegram Sam
- Most Relaxing: Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?
- A song by them you may have heard: Bela Lugosi's Dead
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Rose Garden Funeral of Sores

Artists Like Them: Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Birthday Party, The Sisters of Mercy, Christian Death, Joy Division...you get the picture.
 
Coolest Thing About This Band: Pretty much invented goth, largely as a joke.

[BillyxRansom]

The genre is Metalcore/Pop

I really don't mean to bring up a genre argument, but for the sake of clarity to those new to the genre (yeah, right): NO. Emocore, period.

Metalcore.
Metalcore.
Metalcore.
Still metalcore.
Not metalcore.

boy it's a good thing NONE of those bands are metalcore. maybe unearth.




MAYBE.[/b][/u][/i]

[Kai]

YEAH, I LIKE TO QUOTE PEOPLE FROM MONTHS AGO WHO DON'T EVEN LIKE, VISIT THESE FORUMS AND THEN BE AN ASS (AGAIN) TOO


YEAH

[BillyxRansom]

YEAH, I LIKE TO QUOTE PEOPLE FROM MONTHS AGO WHO DON'T EVEN LIKE, VISIT THESE FORUMS AND THEN BE AN ASS (AGAIN) TOO


YEAH

oh well. it happens..




did someone cover coheed & cambria? i'll do that if not.

[timehat]

Yes, Coheed was taken care of.

[OllieA]

Could somebody do Hope of the States?

EDIT: And possibly Mission of Burma?

[The Hammered]

I didn't see them in here, so can anybody do Van Halen?

[La Creme]

Waaaaaay back at the beginning, La Creme requested Cornelius.  I didn't see it in here anywhere, so here goes:

Artist Name: Cornelius

Genre: Japanese experimental hip-hop/electronic/indie-rock (he covers a lot of genres)

Your Rating Of Him (1-10): 9

Best Album: Point (contentious, but I like it best)

Songs:
- Best All Around: Drop
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': I Hate Hate
- Most Relaxing: Clash, Tone Twilight Zone
- A song by them you may have heard: He's done quite a bit of Remix work...I particularly like his remix of "I'd rather dance with you" by Kings of Convenience
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Point of View Point, Star Fruits Surf Rider

Artists Like Him: Takako Minekawa, early Luscious Jackson, Cibo Matto, Beck

Coolest Thing About This Guy: Named himself after the character from Planet of the Apes. He did an amazing cover of the song Brazil, a song which unfortunately always makes me think of the Terry Gilliam movie. He can transcend genres on a single album flawlessly.

I have been listening to Cornelius for months since this.


Somebody do.....

+ Agoraphobic Nosebleed
and/or
+ Prefuse 73

[Rizzo]

boy it's a good thing NONE of those bands are metalcore. maybe unearth.

MAYBE.

What would you call metalcore?

I'm still waiting for someone to do:Wumpscut:...

[nuisance]

+ Prefuse 73

Artist Name: Prefuse 73

Genre: hyper-edited hip-hop instrumentals

Your Rating Of Him (1-10): 6

Best Album: Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives

Songs:
- Best All Around: My faves are vocal tracks, so not representative - Wylin Out, which has raps from Diverse & Mos Def, and Last Night which has singing from Sam Prekop.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Maybe Female Demands
- Most Relaxing: Storm Returns
- A song by them you may have heard: I really don't know!  Maybe indie heads have heard his production for Erlend Oye's Every Party Has A Winner And A Loser?  If not, you should.
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Eve of Dextruction

Artists Like Him: Malcom Kipe, Dabrye, Ammon Contact, Machine Drum, Reminder, Piano Overlord

Coolest Thing About This Guy: I guess that he's always up to so many different things.  I think he has done stuff under about 6 aliases with about as many styles... you can scope his diversity if you try out the incredibly tranquil acoustic projects he provides instrumentation for, Savath & Savalas and now A Cloud Mireya.

[Moo Cakes]

Band Name: Metric

Genre: Indie, Rock, Electro-Pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8

Best Album: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?

Songs:
- Best All Around: Succexy
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Live It Out
- Most Relaxing: Raw Sugar
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Dead Disco (Lotsa remixes)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: I have no clue.

Bands Like This Band: Broken Social Scene, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Coolest Thing About This Band: They've got a really mellow sound most of the time and can pull it off.

Also, they're site is http://www.ilovemetric.com.

[E. Spaceman]

Requested by Coonstar a looong time ago:

Band Name: Echo and The Bunnymen

Genre: Post Punk (early) general alt-rock (post self titled)

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10 up to Ocean Rain, 7.5 afterwards.

Best Album: Ocean Rain for a mellow and majestic sound, Crocodiles for a grittier post-punk rock.

Songs:
- Best All Around: My Kingdom (from Ocean Rain)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Crocodiles
- Most Relaxing: Ocean Rain
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: The Killing Moon (opening song to Donnie Darko) or Lips Like Sugar.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Rescue (maybe)
Bands Like This Band: early U2, maybe Primal Scream.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Will Sargeant's amazing guitar lines which locked in place by the clockwork pound of the rhythm section. The drummer got killed in a bike crash and the bassist quit, which is the reason (IMO) that the current Bunnymen lack punch.

[kadie]

Perhaps someone could cover Maritime, Jack's Mannequin and Say Hi To Your Mom for me? Thanks.

[IntermittentEvil]

Oh man, I am sure I must be missing plenty in this post, but I have to try, it's too good an opportunity (additions/suggestions/updates are welcome):

Band Name: The Residents

Genre: Experimental pop/ambient/spoken word/parody

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10 at best, 5 at worst

Best Album: Personal preference; fan favorites include Meet the Residents, Duck Stab and Buster & Glen EPs, Third Reich N' Roll, Eskimo, The Commercial Album, and Animal Lover (Occasionally also their Mole Show series and Wormwood albums).  My personal favorites are Third Reich & Roll and the Duck Stab and Buster & Glen EPs.

Songs: (my preference; whoever does this one will put something different in, I'm sure)
- Best All Around: Constantinople
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': This ain't really their thing.
- Most Relaxing: probably a song from Eskimo (not heard the CD)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Possibly one of their scores for an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse (5 episodes)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Swastikas on Parade/Hitler Was a Vegetarian (from Third Reich N' Roll) fits their ideas and best-known sound
Bands Like This Band: Negativland, Old Time Relijun, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Eno, etc.
Coolest Thing About This Band: really influential and they seem to pop up all the places you would never expect; almost a grammy nod for Eskimo, the pioneers of the music video (some of the first ones to run on MTV!), played their "Commercial Album" in 1980 on 40 one-minute commercial spots on San Francisco's Top 40 station over the course of 3 days, etc. etc.  Oh, and they're from Louisiana!  How cool is that?
Problems with Writing One of These Things for Them: They're too broad to cover completely, being one of the strangest and most iconoclastic groups of people in music history.  They also have significant footing outside of music, reaching into performance art, computer programs, movies, and so on.

[IntermittentEvil]

Oh no! how did I miss the post above?! sorry about that, Kai... heh...

[Kai]

S'all right. Nice to see other Residents fans. yay.


And you haven't heard Eskimo? You should probably fix that, it's pretty fancy.

[Skibas_clavicle]

I can't really do Say Hi To Your Mom because I've only heard a couple of tracks, but I find them a little irritating. They're sort of uneven, for lack of a better word. Sorry for the lack of help, that's just my two cents.
 
Can someone, if they weren't already done do The Secret Machines and/or Andrew Bird?

[visceralviscous]

The worst thing about weezer is they are overplayed and thier newer albums area bit hokey.

i just found this [sorry, i know it's from however long ago], and had to add:

some of weezer's best stuff has never been released to the public in general. this includes rivers cuomo band stuff, songs from the black hole, b-sides [especially that one song that rachel haden sings on the good life single]/unreleased demos, and the kitchen tape.  and everything beyond pinkerton is blah.

[La Creme]

Can someone, if they weren't already done do The Secret Machines and/or Andrew Bird?

I agree help us out.

[thedevilissix]

Milton Nascimento or Medeski Martin & Wood, anyone?

Apparat, Bill Evans, Spiritualized & Roots Manuva would also be much appreciated.

[Joseph]

Inspired by a thread here, I request Elliot Smith.  Enough of you seem to love him that someone must be willing.

[E. Spaceman]

Band Name: Spiritualized

Genre: shoegaze/drone (early) orchestral (mid period) garagey (last) spacey/druggy (all over)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10):9
Best Album: "Pure Phase" for the drone and "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" for rock.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Electricity
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Electricity for most rocking and Cop Shoot Cop for hardest/loudest (both are from "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space")
- Most Relaxing: Feel So Sad (in any of the versions)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: I have no idea but probably Electricity
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (original version from limited run of the first album)
Bands Like This Band: some Spectrum, some Verve.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Hve gon through a multitude of styles and personnel but always sound like Spiritualized. Wrote the best break up album ever.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Bands Like This Band: some Spectrum, some Verve.

What about Spacemen 3?

[i_chase_bunnies]

I haven't read every page of this thread, but if it hasn't been done could someone please do Mars Volta?I've heard good things but I'd like some recommendations.

[OllieA]

Mars Volta?

Page 10.

[Kai]

Do they really need to be done in the first place? There's only two albums.

[icanseeyou]

Can someone do Band of Horses for me? Thanks

[Kai]

....



Can I ask a question?


Why would you need them done, exactly? THEY HAVE ONE ALBUM. JUST GO BUY/DOWNLOAD IT AND SEE IF YOU LIKE IT.


This whole process is more useful for bands with a fairly extensive catalog. Hawkwind come to mind.

[KharBevNor]

Artist Name: Scott Walker

Genre: Vocal Pop, Baroque Pop, Rock, Avant Garde

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Tilt

Songs:
- Best All Around: Farmer in the City
- Loudest/ Hardest/ Most Rockin': Track 3
- Most Relaxing: Most anything off of Scott 1-4
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: The Cockfighter

Artists Like This Artist: Momus, David Sylvian, Jacques Brel, David Bowie

Coolest Thing About This Artist: He began his career as a teen idol, moved   on to form pop sensation the Walker Brothers, and then eventually became the low-profile experimental madman he is today.
He's created some unremarkable stuff along the way, but when it's good, it's brilliant.

And "The Drift", his second Tilt-esque album just came out, and it's phenominal!

Edited for clonkyness

I'm actually going to be trying to get some stuff from this guy now, because, for some strange reason, one of his tracks ('Wyndham Hill') Was on the 'Looking For Europe' compilation and it wasn't half bad.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Request: An overview of My Bloody Valentine that excludes Loveless and/or a small ditty on projects Kevin Shields have been involved in.
Could someone do:
Whitehouse(the power electronics band)
Smog
Come
Birchville Cat Motel
Six Organs of Admittance
Lydia Lunch
Crisis
Suicide
Pram
Ween
The Fucking Champs
Dungen(and not just Ta Det Lugnt)
Borbetomagus
Swans
Main
Bark Psychosis
Aube
Sun City Girls
Django Reinhardt
Edith Piaf(that would be beautiful!)
Leafcutter John
Richard Hell

And because I can't do any cool bands, I am doing to do Coldplay:

Artist Name: Coldplay

Genre: Heartbreaking emotional rock of the best possible kind.
IMHO there is Coldplay and then there is the rest, not even The Beatles have achieved Chris Martin's level of absolute brilliance.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10(though such a petty rating is futile when disgusting such a magnificent band. I mean they are more than a band!)

Best Album: all of their three albums are flawless masterpieces.
How can you choose the best out of three perfect albums?

Songs:
- Best All Around: Impossible to say but:
Parachutes: Don't Panic, ARBH: Clocks, X&Y: Fix You(so sad )
- Loudest/ Hardest/ Most Rockin': In My Place
- Most Relaxing: The Scientist(the video is hella cool)
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: Every song really, each of them have this Coldplay sort of spirit. It's like, one massive song of life and love and all the important things you know.

Artists Like This Artist: there is nothing like them, they are completely unique, I have never heard a band that is even close.  

Coolest Thing About This Artist: They are arguably the best band in the history of music. They travelled beyond the pale of music and invented whole new genres in the process eg. psychedelic rock, power electronics, musique concrete, black metal etc. and redefined what lyrics can mean in rock. There is no other band like them and if you have a soul, you need all of their albums. I am serious, Bob Dylan started to learn guitar because of them, they are rock gods!!!
Also Chris Martin is my hero.

[E. Spaceman]

What about Spacemen 3?

I don't really see it. Maybe J Spaceman's half on Recurring, but that is basically Spiritualized anyway.

[Joseph]

Praeserpium Machinarum, you are my fucking hero.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

I had to make it all ridiculous at the end, because I had a nagging feeling people wouldn't get it. The worst part is that I actually like Coldplay in a harmless corporate rock kind of way.

But seriously someone do Edith Piaf, that would be the best thing ever!

[Joseph]

Well, at first I was thinking:  "Wow, that's a lot of requests, though hell, I'd actually like to see stuff on a lot of those as well, so that's slightly understandable."  Then, I saw the Coldplay-ness, and I got through genre and rating, still thinking "Wow, this guy's something of an idiot."  That's how sad the world is at the moment, I actually thought there was a good chance you were serious up to that point.  Of course, the Representative song and the artists like this portions were something of a give away.

[OllieA]

Artist Name: Django Reinhardt

Genre: Gypsy-Jazz

Your Rating Of Them: 7.5 - 9 (very good, but you need to be in a certain mood)

Best Album: I really like his stuff as part of the Hot Club Quintet

Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Minor Swing' is a favourite
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': I rock out to 'Avalon' quite regularly
- Most Relaxing: 'Vous Et Moi', 'Crepuscule'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Minor Swing' has been in a few films; Chocolat, The Matrix
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'When Day is Done' - It's like a summary of his quiet moments, then progressing into the fast guitar stuff

Artists Like This Artist: Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday

Coolest Thing About This Artist: The great story about Mr. Reinhardt losing two of his fingers (on the left hand) in a carvan fire and then learning how to play those solos without them. Makes it all the more amazing when you listen to the stuff he plays.

He does have loads of stuff. There's a torrent of his discography somewhere.

[KharBevNor]

I may do Swans later once I collect my thoughts on the subject.

In the meantime, can someone do any of the following:

1000 Homo DJ's
13 Candles
Aphex Twin
ASP
Behexen
Godflesh
Hecate
Ikon
Nico
Pagan Hellfire
Paul Roland
Strawbs

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Aphex Twin is on page 4

A suggestion: Maybe to make it more easy to navigate, a mod could delete all the banter from the last ten pages. That way it would be easier to find out if the one you are looking for has been done.

[visceralviscous]

can someone do pulp, if it wasn't done already?

[Thrillho]

Artist Name: Pulp

Genre: Britpop

Your Rating Of Them: 8.

Best Album: Different class

Songs:
- Best All Around: Common People
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Well shit, Disco 2000?
- Most Relaxing: Something from This Is Hardcore
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Common People again, but also Babies
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sorted For E's And Whizz. Defines 'wry.'

Artists Like This Artist: Scott Walker.

Coolest Thing About This Artist: Jarvis Cocker. Frontman. The end of a leg.

[E. Spaceman]

I'll do my own Pulp

Artist Name: Pulp

Genre: Britpop

Your Rating Of Them: 9

Best Album: Different Class

Songs:
- Best All Around:Bad Cover Version (from We Love Life)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Party Hard (from This Is Hardcore)
- Most Relaxing: Trees (from We Love Life)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Common People, Disco 2000 (both from Different Class)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sorted For E's And Whizz (From Different Class)
Artists Like This Artist: Scott Walker.

Coolest Thing About This Artist: Jarvis Cocker. Frontman. Best dancer in the 90s, once attacked Michael Jackson in messiah mode.[/quote]

[Storm Rider]

In the meantime, can someone do any of the following:

Godflesh

All I know about them is that my buddy loves them. Like, a lot. I'll see if I can get him to recommend an album.

EDIT: He says he can't decide between Streetcleaner and Selfless.

[MusicScribbles]

Request

Gang of Four
The Smiths

[E. Spaceman]

The Smiths has already been done. Try looking through the thread.

[Joseph]

I once again request Eliott Smith.