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[La Creme]

Requests:

-- Tuxedomoon
-- Atmosphere
-- Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
-- The Fall
-- DeVotchKa
-- Bjork
-- Buffalo Daughter
-- Aphex Twin
-- Cornelius

For sjrbot:

Band Name: Roxy Music

Genre: New-Wave/Glam Rock

Your Rating Of Them: Brian-Ferry-written songs (generally): 7   Brian-Eno-and-Phil-Manzenara written songs: 9 or 10

Best Album: 801 (a side project not including Ferry). Best Roxy Music album is probably Country Life.

Songs:
 
- Best All Around:
801 ---- Miss Shapiro / You Really Got Me
Roxy Music ---- Out Of The Blue

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin':
801 ---- East Of Asteroid
Roxy Music ---- intro to Mother Of Pearl, Out Of The Blue

- Most Relaxing:
801 ---- TNK (Tomorow Never Knows)
Roxy Music ---- Mother Of Pearl

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
801 ---- Third Uncle
Roxy Music ---- More Than This, or maybe Love Is The Drug

- Song That Best Represents The Band:
801 ---- Baby's On Fire
Roxy Music ---- Angel Eyes

Bands Like This Band: Brian Eno, Queen, basically all glam and a lot of synth-driven new-wave is based on Roxy Music

Coolest Thing About This Band: They created a genre, for starters. Also, they were one of the first bands to have a member exclussively for synth playing (Eno). Great song writing abilities for the most part. The only thing dragging this band down is that sometime they were a bit too poppy (especially when they let Ferry write) and sometimes the lyrics are crap (also usually Ferry's fault). This is why 801 is basically what you should get instead of anything by Roxy Music.

[Kai]

Aphex Twin was done already; look back a page.


Also, THE FEARLESS FLYING FROG BRIGADE


Band name: The Fearless FLying Frog Brigade

Genre: a Jam band with Les Claypool, mushrooms, and frog masks.

Your rating of them: 9.

Best album: Either of the two live albums, or any of the numerous bootlegs (Go for these).

Songs: They're a jam band; It really doesn't matter what the song is, because the whole point of jam bands is to see them live and watch them turn a 4 minute song into a twenty minute thing. Also, a ton of covers.

Bands like this band: The Holy Mackerel, Oysterhead, Buckethead maybe? Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains. The fucking amazing Disco Biscuits (Which you all MUST check out).

Coolest thing about this band: They're live shows are simply amazing. They've done more covers than any band I can think of. And they where frog masks and have 20 minute xylophone solos.

[tania]

Nobody asked for one, but I'm putting mine anyway.
Please don't kick my ass for liking this band.


Band Name: Thursday

Genre: Some kind of weird hybrid of emo and yelly stuff

Your Rating Of Them: 9

Best Album: 'Full Collapse'

Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Paris in Flames'

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Autobiography of a Nation' starts off with a long, slow intro and then just explodes into chaos. And the words are so true it hurts.

- Most Relaxing: 'This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb'

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'War all the Time'

Song That Best Represents The Band: 'Understanding In A Car Crash'

Bands Like This Band: I can't actually think of anything at the moment that isn't ridiculously yelly and emo. Damn.

Coolest Thing About This Band: Despite the angst and yellyness of the band, just how much goddamn MEANING is put into the lyrics. They raed like poetry. The newest album certainly isn't as good as their older stuff, but Full Collapse took my breathe away.

[KharBevNor]

Bored, so you're getting one no-one asked for.

But oh you SHOULD'VE. YOU SHOULD'VE SO BAD.

Band Name: Sol Invictus

Genre: Apocalyptic folk/neo-folk (experimental folk music with industrial aesthetics)

Your Rating Of Them: 9

Best Album: Death of the West or Trees in Winter

Songs:

- Best All Around: Insanely hard. Sheath and Knife or God Told Me To. I can make no final decision. Just get one of the albums I suggested. It's all of pretty consistent quality.

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Sol Invictus are mainly about atmospherics, the noisiest, thickest track though would probably be The Blade.

- Most Relaxing: Probably The Wild Hunt (Something Grim This Way Comes) or Here Am I. Though I would hardly call either 'relaxing'.

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: You really haven't heard anything.

- Song That Best Represents The Band: Kneel to the Cross

Bands Like This Band: Death in June, Current 93, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, :Of The Wand and the Moon:

Coolest Thing About This Band: Excellently wierd and morbid fusion of folk music and industrial aesthetics. Black humour, disturbing and debunking use of religious and fascist imagery, grim folklore and history set off by, in my mind, moments of pure musical joy. One of the founders of neo-folk, and probably the best of the lot, by a hair. Note: Some websites list Sol Invictus as nazis, because they like to think all neo-folk bands are nazis, because they're stupid. (hardly any neo-folk bands are nazis). It also ignores the fact that Tony Wakeford, Sol Invictus main and occasionally sole member, is a card carrying communist and member of the Anti-Nazi League.

[sjbrot]

Big thanks to La Creme.

[sp2]

-- DeVotchKa

I'll write this one up when I'm less lazy.

[Johnny C]

I woulda done Bjork, but it occured to me that I don't know which song would best represent her or what artists would be similar to her.

[La Creme]

@Kai: I know, I was tipsy. Also, thanks. So get Live Frogs, not Purple Onion?

@sjrbot: No worries. Go get 801.

@sp2: Thanks, so I don't have to thank you later.

[Kai]

Shit, get them all; I just prefer their live albums (and the bootlegs even more, but those are free) to the normal stuff.

[La Creme]

Awesome.

I'll do The Sugarplastic for no reason whatsoever, except that all of you indie lovers out there would really like them a heck of a lot if you checked 'em out.

Band Name: The Sugarplastic

Genre: Indie

Your Rating Of Them: 10

Best Album: As an album, "Will" or "Resin". But for individual songs, "Bang, the Earth is Round".

Songs:

- Best All Around: My current favorite is "Martha", but I change a lot. I think the all-out best song would have to be "Howl A Little".

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Montebello" or "Jesus Is His Name"

- Most Relaxing: "Soft Jingo" or "Ode To Homa"

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: I wouldn't be surprised if they got a bit of college radio play, but I wouldn't have the foggiest what song(s) they play. Maybe "Liar Over Winchester" or "Polly Brown".

- Song That Best Represents The Band: Probably "Polly Brown" or "Sun Goes Cold".

Bands Like This Band: They write songs like the Beatles, they record like the Pixies, and Ben Eshbach's guitaring is semi-reminiscent of Mark Orton's.

Coolest Thing About This Band: They have a great set-up. Simplistic, but catchy, drums and bass form a perfect skeleton for every song. On top of the skeleton, brilliant guitar work and not-half-bad singing and keyboarding forms intricate loops that make every song fairly memorable. Ben Eshbach is a pretty amazing guitarist, but his true talent lies in tieing several individual licks together to form songs that are somewhere in between jazzy, poppy, rocking, and just outright fun. Also, they have at least one song an album that is heart-meltingly cute.

[tacroy]

Anyone care to do one for either Porcupine Tree or Architecture in Helsinki?

[JLM]

Artist Name: Björk

Genre: Everything from big band to electronic to Eccentric Avant-Garde intellectual tripe

Your Rating Of Her: Varies from album to album;  I'd say between 6-10.

Best Album: This is open to a lot of debate.  Her most approachable work is probably on Post, but I think she peaked at what she was trying to accomplish with Vespertine.

Songs:

- Best All Around: Pagan Poetry

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pluto

- Most Relaxing: Headphones

- Most Played/A song by her you may have heard: Army of Me, Big Time Sensuality, Human Behavior, Bachelorette, It's Oh So Quiet, Oceania

- Song That Best Represents Her: Early work - Isobel, Later work - Aurora

Artists Like Her: I guess the obvious one would be The Sugarcubes, but that's sort of cheating, isn't it?  A lot depends on the producers she's working with.  Mark Bell, Nellee Hooper, etc.

Coolest Thing About Bjork: I think that, for better or for worse, it's the way she approaches the idea of making music...using the unexpected, like an album comprised of music created from everyday sounds (Vespertine) or an album focusing on the power of voice (Medulla).

[Coonstar]

What happened to my Echo and the Bunnymen request?

[MilkmanDan]

-- Atmosphere

Mine!

Artist Name: Atmosphere
Current Members: Slug (MC),  Ant (Production)
Ex-Members: Spawn (MC, Production)

Genre: Hip-Hop. Plain and simple

Your Rating Of Them: (1-10): 9

Best Album: Lucy Ford (Technically a compilation of three earlier vinyl EPs, Ford 1, Ford 2, and the Lucy EP. Released as a album on CD)

Songs:
- Best All Around: The Woman with the Tattoed Hands. Kinda for personal reasons, but it's definatley one of their best.

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Well, I'm not sure rocking is really what you're after from a Hip-Hop track. That being said, I'd go with "Cats, Vans, Bags", or maybe "Flesh".

- Most Relaxing: God's Bathroom Floor (Also a strong contender for best track)

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Trying to find a balance", the second single off "Seven's Travels". It had a video and all sorts. I believe the video might have been played on MTV or whatever.

- Songs That Best Represents The Artist: Lovelife. The self-doubt and 'woman as metaphor' narrative are both classic Slug themes. Lot's of other little things that crop up all the time in Atmosphere songs. Really loud snare.

Bands Like This Band: Stupidly obvious answer: The Dynospectrum and Deep Puddle Dynamics (Both are groups with both Slug and Ant along with other MCs and producers)
Slightly more useful: Most things on their label, Rhymesayers, ie Eyedea & Abilities, Brother Ali (who's also produced by Ant). Also the Def Jux (El-P, Murs, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif, etc) and Anticon (Sole, Dose One, Alias, Josh Martinez, etc) artists. And Sage Francis. All the classic college white-boy Hip-Hop artists, basically.

Coolest Things About This Artist: More like intresting(ish) trivia about them. They used to be Spawn on production AND the mic, with Slug just DJing and providing the records for breaks. Then they both MCed and Spawn produced. Then Ant joined and did production. Then Spawn left. So, yeah. That amazed me when I found out, but whatever.
They were kinda falling off (Felt 2 with Murs and Seven's Travels were kinda wack) but their new album is pretty kick ass, which is sweet. The 3rd member of Atmosphere is Mr Dibbs, who DJs on all their tours, as Ant doesn't leave Minneapolis. Slug has a 'thing' about the number 7 (his birthdate), and also MCs under the aliases Se7en, and Sep Seven. Slug can't sing, but doesn't care, because he has a microphone.

[sp2]

Band Name: DeVotchKa

Genre: Avant gypsy folk

Rating: 10

Best Album: How It Ends

Songs:
Best all around: The Enemy Guns
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rocking: The Enemy Guns, Such a Lovely Thing
Most Relaxing: You Already Know
Song you may have already heard: How It Ends (It's on the trailer for Everything is Illuminated, I think)
Song that best represents the band: Such a Lovely Thing

Bands like this band: Hah.  Good luck.  At their hardest, they're like some of Gogol Bordello's softer stuff.

Cool things about this band: They play a really diverse assemblage of instruments...a set generally has the basics, like guitar, drums, and upright bass,  but also deviates into more unlikely things, like tuba, theremin, bouzooki, and various other instruments.  Also, their live concerts are ace...if you're lucky, there will always be a few folks in the audience who will get into a good Russian dance during their harder songs.  Plus, they're really fucking good.

[McTaggart]

bouzooki

Oh come on. Now your just making things up.

[Rizzo]

Band Name: Thursday

Genre: Some kind of weird hybrid of emo and yelly stuff

Bands Like This Band: I can't actually think of anything at the moment that isn't ridiculously yelly and emo. Damn.

The genre is Metalcore/Pop (Because they lack the heaviness of true metalcore) and there are so many bands like Thursday that it's ridiculous. I personally recommend Funeral for a Friend and if you like more metally metalcore then I recommend Avenged Sevenfold.

Anyone got any Metalcore, Industrial or Goth requests? (Yes it's a weird combo I know but it's what I listen to)

[sp2]

bouzooki

Oh come on. Now your just making things up.

Spelled it wrong, but:

[KharBevNor]

That's the thing that makes that awesome bouncy noise isn't it?

[sp2]

Dunno.  What do you mean by bouncy?

[KharBevNor]

I dunno.

It sounds kinda like a balalaika would if a balalaika said BOING.

At least I think it does.

[sp2]

Something like that, I think.

[noise_wave]

Can someone do Dropkick Murpheys? I have two of their CDs, but don't know nearly enough about them!!

[sp2]

Shouldn't you be listening to the Pogues instead?

[Kai]

Why the hell would you have two dropkick murphy's cds?


Speaking of Irish rock that pisses me off. There's a band here in Kansas called the Elders. basically, take Flogging Molly/Dropkick Murphy's or whatever and add nothing interesting ever. They're playing at my school; Now, this is a local band that does absolutely nothing new or innovative or anything. And the tickets? are FUCKING 25 DOLLARS. My god. I saw Buckethead for 13, and you bastards have the nerve to charge 25 dollars? Fucking fuck you you fucking prickfucks.

[Valrus]

I dunno.

It sounds kinda like a balalaika would if a balalaika said BOING.

At least I think it does.

I read that the bouzouki basically sounds like a bigger mandolin?

[McTaggart]

On the topic of the mandolin, I give to you The Winks.

I would write up about thembut that links all I know. And that they have some mp3's on their site. Go now!

[La Creme]

Urgent requests:

-- Ultravox

-- Tuxedomoon

-- Daft Punk

[BrittanyMarie]

I just want to know a site (ANY will do) about MGMT. All I know is that I got their album via my college radio station, and they opened for Of Montreal. I can't find anything else... at all... about them.

(Just so you know, I think the album is fantastic, especially "Kids".)

[nickyandthefuture]

Yeah, MGMT was pretty amusing live.  I wouldn't mind hearing more about them.  I'd assume that they're pretty new, so I don't know how much of a history they have.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

has anyone requested Deerhoof yet?  i'd like to know more about them.  also, The Minutemen.  i'm gonna do one that nobody's requested, just to get the hang of it.

Band Name: The Aquabats!

Genre: it's hard to lump them into any one genre.  they take a lot of cues from punk rock and quirky, angular new wave, though.  don't believe anyone who tries to tell you that they're a ska band.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: CHARGE!!

Songs:
- Best All Around: this one's hard, but "Fashion Zombies!", "Hey, Luno!", and "Sequence Erase!" are all fantastic.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Look at Me (I'm a Winner!)" and "Tiger Rider vs. The Time Sprinkler!"
- Most Relaxing: "Hello, Goodnight!" or "Chemical Bomb!"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: probably "Super Rad!".  maybe "Fashion Zombies!".
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Awesome Forces!".  it's like their theme song.

Bands Like This Band: i had to do a write up on these guys for the school paper, and i described them as "early Devo and Oingo Boingo smashing into Madness and The Adolescents, with a dash of Hot Hot Heat and a heaping helping of They Might Be Giants".  and then there's other bands that share a similar aesthetic, like The Phenomenauts, Peelander-Z, The Epoxies, etc.

Coolest Thing About This Band: their live shows.  it's like a giant explosion of fun.  also, their gleeful overuse of exclamation points.

[kikanjuuneko]

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.

[La Creme]

Best Album: CHARGE!!

NO WAY EVER AT ALL! The Aquabats are all up in the horns, and this album lacks horns. Clearly "The Fury Of The Aquabats" is the best album. Also, their theme song is "The Aquabats Theme Song". Duh. Otherwise, decent band review.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

CHARGE!! has the tightest, most solid songwriting of any of their albums.  and yeah, i miss the horns whenever i listen to, say, "The Cat With 2 Heads!" or "Sequence Erase!", but i fully embrace the new sound, because, face it, it's the direction they were heading in anyway once Catboy and Prince Adam quit the band.  plus, it's dynamite.  but to each his own, i guess.  The Fury is a great CD, but by no means do i think it's their best.

P.S.- "Awesome Forces!" is their NEW theme song.  how long has it even BEEN since the last time they played the one off The Fury?

[Rizzo]

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.

I'm inclined to say they would embarrass emocore. They're way too pop In My Opinion. Actually I'd be inclined to say they were shit but I'm not usually one to dis other peoples musical tastes.
However, saying they're metalcore is wrong I suppose, perhaps Numetalcore. They were one of the first post Numetal bands to make it big. I hear lots of numetal in their songs...
Got any other metalcore bands you want reviewed? Or Hardcore? Or Goth/Industrial?

[Martin]

Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.

[Rizzo]

Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.

You Fail Me FTW

[Grumpus]

Can anyone help me with Tears for Fears?

[Martin]

Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.

Jane Doe FTW

*fixed. ( :

[Rizzo]

Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.

Atreyu FTW

*fixed. ( :

*Broken : (
Sorry, I'll stop now.

[kikanjuuneko]

I'm inclined to say they would embarrass emocore. They're way too pop In My Opinion. Actually I'd be inclined to say they were shit but I'm not usually one to dis other peoples musical tastes.
However, saying they're metalcore is wrong I suppose, perhaps Numetalcore. They were one of the first post Numetal bands to make it big. I hear lots of numetal in their songs...

Um, seriously. There's nothing neither "nu" or "metal" about Thursday. It goes all the way from song structure to lyrical and vocal stylings to the very methods of production they use. Not even the distortion on their guitars rings of typically metal anything. And even though they may not be, say, Rites of Spring or Embrace, emocore has in the two-thousands taken a broad enough definition that Thursday can be included under it.

Also, as much as anyone hates to admit it, it's a bit of a scene question. You don't see Thursday fraternizing with Korn and Staind, do you?

[Delph]

Anyone up for doing Savatage, Dead Can Dance and Black Tape for a Blue Girl? (I had another in the general direction of Savatage but I forgot it in the time of thinking of it and opening this thread :\)

[Porcupine Sprout]

Well, here is my moment, a few words about Porcupine Tree, as requested:

Band Name: Porcupine Tree

Genre: Progressive/Psychedelic Rock.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.9 (no band is perfect )

Best Album: In Absentia(if you like the rock aspects of then) or Signify(for the drug music fans)

Songs:
- Best All Around: "In Formaldehyde"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Blackes Eyes/Shallow"
- Most Relaxing: "Feel So Low" (but there are so much relaxing songs...)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Wow, i heard, they played "Lazarus" in the Radios in UK... dunno
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Something between "Sound of Muzak" and "Waiting I/II"

- Bands Like This Band: i think, Pineapple Thief try to copy them, but no, there is no real band like them... in some kind, they are similar to Pink Floyd, but only because they both make prog und psychedellic songs and the older songs sound more like drug abuse

- Coolest Thing About This Band: For me, its the coolest thing, that they never tried to make music for other people. In every album they do there own thing, and next to this, they enhance themself over all the time...

hm, a few final words to the band progression: There is this album "voyage 34" which is completely out of the line, because its some kind of ambient/electro thing and its about a LSD trip of some person... very cool, but different...
The old and the new things are not really compareable, because now they make some kind of rock, a bit less prog and more a song structure... the older songs are much longer and this ambient aspect was stronger.

much earlier in this thread i read about Opeth and that they are a rip off from edge of sanity... so i searched for some songs of Edge of Sanity and i think, there is nothing compareable between this bands, or you say, the use of growl vocals and distorted guitars make two bands similar...

bye
   david

[ComfortEagle]

Band Name: weezer

Genre: pop/alt/rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: pinkerton

Songs:
- Best All Around: All in your opinon.

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': SLave

- Most Relaxing: Only in dreams

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:Say it A'int so, Undone(the sweater song),Hashpipe, there pretty popular on the radio.

- Song That Best Represents The Band: El Scorcho

Bands Like This Band: Im sure theres a lot, cant think of one of the top of my head.

Coolest Thing About This Band: There just plain fun, and amazing in concert.

[ComfortEagle]

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

[elcapitan]

Didn't the frontman of Weezer kinda disown El Scorcho?

It's a pity, 'cause it's an awesome tune.

[Valrus]

Didn't the frontman of Weezer kinda disown El Scorcho?

It's a pity, 'cause it's an awesome tune.

The frontman of Weezer is a fucked up individual.

[sjbrot]

Read any recent interview about the band or listen to Pinkerton and you should pick up on that.

[La Creme]

I am to requesting The Residents, Praxis, and Explosions In The Sky. Maybe Dinosaur Jr. too.

[Storm Rider]

Actually, I'd like Explosions in the Sky too.