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[Kai]

I think I listened to a track of theirs in the Forced Listening thread, really liked it (It was like, nine minutes long) and I couldn't find anything by them. Ever.

[KharBevNor]

Star One? I vaguely remember setting Hawkwind Medley, which is a pure polished gem of utter fucking awesomeness. They shouldn't be that hard to get hold of. I ordered copies of Ayreon and Star One albums in a godsdarn HMV, they're both on Inside Out.

[La Creme]

Star One Are super-awesome great. Aren't they also a side project of someone else's as well? Ayreon and ...?

[KharBevNor]

Nah, they're just an Ayreon side-project, because Arjen Lucassen wrote all the shit. However, as is normal he got some of his prog/metal buddies in to help: it has Floor Jansen and Dan Swano and whatnot singing, plus a guest drummer and keyboardist but it's not a Nightingale or After Forever side-project.

[Storm Rider]

I've heard Bauhaus mentioend multiple times in conjunction with music I love, and thus I need some more info stat.

Also, Ayreon is totally awesome.

[JLM]

Someone requested Dälek?

I don't know if it was done already but I didn't see it, so here goes (and I assume you're talking about the hip-hop group).

Band name:Dälek

Genre: Hip-Hop

Your rating of them: 9.3

Best album: Tough call.  From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots was more eclectic, but I think that Absence is overall a stronger album.

Songs:
- Best All Around: Tie: Distorted Prose - starting off with accapella rhymes and building into a noise rock wall is the perfect intro song, and the best that Dälek has to offer.  Ever Somber - The melody is everything indie rock was to me growing up, and the rhymes and vocals are everything a rapper should be.

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': All of them really.  If I had to pick one,  Culture For Dollars.

- Most Relaxing: Forever Close My Eyes, and even that has some uptempo beats to it.

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Not really sure.  I discovered Dälek through Electric Ladyland: Click-Hop v. 1.0, a compilation put out by Mille Plateaux combining IDM and Hip-Hop artists.  Dälek was paired up with Kid 606.

- Song That Best Represents The Band:  In Midst of Struggle.

Bands like this band: MF Doom meets Sonic Youth meets My Bloody Valentine.  

Coolest thing about this band: Flawless move of the "Wall of Sound" to hip-hop, without sacrificing traditional hip-hop elements, plus intelligent lyrics equals one of the best underground groups out there today.

[La Creme]

Preston needs to start listening to Dalek NOW!

If anyone can do John Zorn (any project, all projects), I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Storm Rider]

Thread necromancy!

Khar, do you know about Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Because I just found out they have Alex Skolnick and am thus intensely interested.

[KharBevNor]

Band name:Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Genre: Orchestral/Progressive/Christmas Metal

Your rating of them: 6-7 depending on album.

Best album: Beethoven's Last Night

Songs:
- Best All Around:

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They tend to veer about a lot. March of the Kings/Hark the Herald Angels Sing or A Last Illusion maybe.

- Most Relaxing: A Final Dream or Christmas Canon. I dunno.

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Dunno.

- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Snow Came Down

Bands like this band: Erm. I suppose you could compare them to Symphony X or Avantasia, but it's a reasonably unique sound. Very dramatic. Almost a prog Meatloaf or Phantom of the Opera at times.

Coolest thing about this band: Bombast, bombast and more bombast. Also lots of classical and traditional snippets and re-workings, which is pretty cool.


Can anyone do Swans or Mind.in.a.box for me?

[amok]

I think I did them in the old thread on a whim but

m.i.a.b

Genre: various electronic styles fused. I guess you could get away with calling them "futurepop"

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Lost Alone

Songs:
- Best All Around: Change
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Machine Run
- Most Relaxing: Sun And Storm
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Certainty (first single off new album Dreamweb) if any
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Certainty or Light and Dark

Bands Like This Band: no obvious answers that I can think of but there's some sonic parallels with Les Anges De La Nuit and Syrian (although without the unhealthy fixation on space)

Coolest Thing About This Band: marked, unique sound (which in my opinion happens to be a rather excellent one)

I love Swans but I never got to know their albums well enough to pick tracks to suit each of the categories above, I found they're best listened to a whole album at a time rather than choppin' 'n' changin' tracks, so never really pinned down favourite individual songs. Children of God and Love of Life are two worthy albums to start with - incredibly dark and emotional. Both of their covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart are fantastic also.

[noirony]

Someone asked for Broken Social Scene a while back? Yay.

Band Name: Broken Social Scene

Genre: ambient indie pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5

Best Album: You Forgot It In People (this is the general idea, although I love their new album a bunch too)

Songs:
- Best All Around: Major Label Debut (a current favorite, at least)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Ibi Dreams of Pavement (a Better Day)
- Most Relaxing: Anthems of a Seventeen Year Old Girl
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Stars and Sons
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Cause=Time

Bands Like This Band: Do Make Say Think, Metric, Stars...most of the band members are in other bands with different sounds, but similar background, I guess.

Coolest Thing About This Band: there's over ten members and every album sounds completely different from the next. Rock, hip hop, pop, instrumental, whatever, they've got it.


And I want to do Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, just for fun.

Band Name: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Genre: indie rock/pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Songs:
- Best All Around: The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
- Most Relaxing: Blue Turning Gray
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: In This Home on Ice
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Any one, really, except "Clap Your Hands" and "Blue Turning Gray"

Bands Like This Band: The Talking Heads(?), David Bowie, Wolf Parade, the Arcade Fire, the Violent Femmes vocals.

Coolest Thing About This Band: The "Pitchfork/MP3 blog effect" Once Stereogum, Pitchfork and Fluxblog shows approval, this totally unsigned/unknown band becomes the new Arcade Fire.

[surgerydrugsnrocknroll]

saw someone request sunn o)))


Band Name: Sunn o))

Genre: drone/doom

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: 00 Void

Songs:
- Best All Around: i cant really pick a greatest song
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': alll of their song are heavy as hell.
- Most Relaxing: all about equal.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: none that i know of
- Song That Best Represents The Band: n/a

Bands Like This Band: not very many... funerary dirge, earth(sunn o))) started as a self-proclaimed earth tribute band)

Coolest Thing About This Band: they're one of the slowest bands in existance. any band you think is slow if 100x faster than sunn o)))
and theyre heavy, heavy, heavy.
heres a quote from their website:
"The SUNN0))) mission is to create trance like soundscapes with the ultimate low end/bottom frequencies intended to massage the listeners intenstines into a act of defecation."

[Merkava]

And I want to do Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, just for fun.

Band Name: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Genre: indie rock/pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Songs:
- Best All Around: The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
- Most Relaxing: Blue Turning Gray
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: In This Home on Ice
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Any one, really, except "Clap Your Hands" and "Blue Turning Gray"

Bands Like This Band: The Talking Heads(?), David Bowie, Wolf Parade, the Arcade Fire, the Violent Femmes vocals.

Coolest Thing About This Band: The "Pitchfork/MP3 blog effect" Once Stereogum, Pitchfork and Fluxblog shows approval, this totally unsigned/unknown band becomes the new Arcade Fire.

How is Tidal Wave their hardest/loudest song? Even Heavy Metal is louder and more rockin'.

[Rizzo]

I've decided to do The Cure on a whim. I figure since I own every album I'm a pretty good source of info on them.

Band Name:
The Cure

Genre:
Post punk/Goth

Your Rating Of Them (1-10):
9

Best Album:
Wild Mood Swings or Japanese Whispers

Songs:
- Best All Around:
The Lovecats, Love song, A Forest, there's too many good songs!

- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin':
So What (Robert Smith goes nuts, it's great)

- Most Relaxing:
Lullaby or Close To Me

- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
Friday I'm In Love

- Song That Best Represents The Band:
There isn't really any one song but perhaps Just Like Heaven is pretty broad. Really a better idea would be which album best represents this band, I'd have to say Galore and Starring at the sea are the best (ofs) for this. They really show the variation in Smith's work.

Bands Like This Band:
The Smiths a little bit, Siouxsie And The Banshees a bit, pretty much every modern British band cites them as an influence. No one sounds like them exactly.

Coolest Thing About This Band:
Despite all the line-up changes, Smith has managed to keep pumping out amazing music. There have been a few bad albums but there have been plenty of good ones to make up for it. I also really like the fact that the mood of the music varies with Robert Smith's weight at the time
All the happy songs were recorded when he was very thin and possibly on a lot of drugs, the more moody and sad songs are during his chubby periods.

All in all a fantastic band.

[Kai]

Anyone (Probably Storm Rider or Khar) do Rainbow for me? I mean, I know the fact that it has Dio and Blackmore in it, which guarentees at least a tad bit of awesome, if not warranting an incredamazing status.

[Storm Rider]

You know, I would, but I can't find Rainbow albums anywhere. I've downloaded a couple songs, and they're absolutely great classic Deep Purple-esque rock. Dio left after the first three (I think) albums to join Black Sabbath, so the ones with the Blackmore/Dio combo would be Rainbow Rising, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and Long Live Rock and Roll. Good luck finding them.

The tracks I have are Man on the Silver Mountain, Stargazer, and Kill the King. All three of them are pretty badass.

Edit: Of course, they're all on Amazon, so you can certainly get them that way. Basically, all of my spare change goes into Amazon gift certificates via Coinstar. It's how I'm getting Space Metal.

[ozphactor]

I think someone requested the Arcade Fire a while back. Not sure I'm totally qualified for this, but what the hey.

Band Name: The Arcade Fire

Genre: Indie rock

Your Rating of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Funeral

Songs:
- Best All Around: "Wake Up" (in my opinion, at least)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)"
- Most Relaxing: "Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Rebellion (Lies)"
- Song That Best Represents the Band: Tough one, but I'd probably go with "Wake Up" or "Rebellion (Lies)"

Bands Like This Band: Often cited influences include Talking Heads, Pixies, David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.

Coolest Thing About This Band: The raw emotional intensity with which they perform.  Simply put, this is a band that really gives it their all, and it shows.

[Storm Rider]

OK, this wasn't specifically requested, but I can't stop listening to them, and it's the only band Kai didn't know from my list on the Compatability thread. Keep in mind that in this review I have not yet heard Demonic, their '93 album.

Band Name: Testament

Genre: American Thrash Metal

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5

Best Album: The New Order

Songs:
- Best All Around: Impossible to choose. See below.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They pretty much rock 24/7.
- Most Relaxing: Nah.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: According to last.fm, Into the Pit is their most played song. Good choice.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: First Strike is Deadly

Bands Like This Band: Early Metallica, Megadeth, early Slayer, Dark Angel, etc. Basically every Bay Area thrash band except Anthrax.

Coolest Thing About This Band:

The perfect balance of badass riffing and facemelting solos. Picture early  Metallica, and triple the overall awesomness factor.  As to how good their lead guitarist, Alex Skolnick, is: Imagine Yngwie Malmsteen, if he actually knew how to riff properly between the supersonic soloing, and could write songs too. That's Alex Skolnick. Their singer isn't great by any stretch of the imagination, but if you can put up with Hetfield or Chuck from Death, you should have no problem. Also, The New Order is the best American thrash album ever, bar none. Fuck Reign in Blood, fuck Master of Puppets. The New Order is forty minutes of nonstop thrash godliness.

Best Songs: First Strike is Deadly, Burnt Offerings, Into the Pit, Disciples of the Watch, The New Order, Practice What You Preach, Greenhouse Effect.

[thedevilissix]

Can someone do Venetian Snares for me?  If so, I will love them forever-ever-everest.  Or the nearest I can get to that without seeming a stalker.

Kate

[Kai]

OK, this wasn't specifically requested, but I can't stop listening to them, and it's the only band Kai didn't know from my list on the Compatability thread. Keep in mind that in this review I have not yet heard Demonic, their '93 album.

I've since checked out Testament's The Ritual. So badass. I'll try and pick up The New Order next time I'm in the cd store. Which, by the way, actually has a fairly large Rainbow section, which suprises me to a large extent.


And I pirated an Alex Skolnick Trio thing; Goodbye to Romance. badass.


EDIT: Also, if I see one FUCKING MORE Arcade Fire or Broken Social Scene breakdown, well... Heads are gonna roll, dammit. Seriously, it's been done like, 8 TIMES. JUST STOP.

[Storm Rider]

I've since checked out Testament's The Ritual. So badass. I'll try and pick up The New Order next time I'm in the cd store. Which, by the way, actually has a fairly large Rainbow section, which suprises me to a large extent.


And I pirated an Alex Skolnick Trio thing; Goodbye to Romance. badass.

I'm honestly considering starting the First United Church of Skolnickism.

And all three of Testament's first albums (The Legacy, The New Order, Practice What You Preach) are fantastic, if you can't find The New Order specifically.

[Storm Rider]

I need me a 3 Inches of Blood review.

[KharBevNor]

Band Name: 3 Inches of Blood

Genre: Pedal to the metal balls to the wall heavy fucking metal turned to eleven.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 666 metal skulls

Best Album: Advance & Vanquish

Songs:
- Best All Around: Axes of Evil, Wykydtron or Deadly Sinners
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Fear on the Bridge
- Most Relaxing: Journey to The Promised Land is their only ballad.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Deadly Sinners has been on every magazine cover and sampler compilation going.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: has to be Deadly Sinners.

Bands Like This Band: Judas Priest, Running Wild, Mercyful Fate, Accept, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Dio....the gods, basically.

Coolest Thing About This Band: They take every band above and triple distill their very essence into a forged blade of pure metal might. If anyone tells you they are joke metal, slay him instantly, for he knows not metal. This is music made in blasphemous worship of the metal gods. Also: Orcs! Dreadlords! Pirates! Robot Death Machines from the year 4055! A song about Hammersmith! Piecing shrieks! Bitching riffs! The only thing they lack is truly mind-flaying solos, but they're still competent. I've seen 'em live and, my goodness....METAL!

[Storm Rider]

Much thanks.

[Nick Cave's Havalina]

Someone asked about John Zorn and I recommend The Big Gundown, Filmworks I, Filmworks XIII, and Filmworks Anthology. For Masada, try Sanhedrin - a new release of Zorn's. For Naked City, go for the box set. Or just try the first, self-titled record.

[amok]

Can someone do Venetian Snares for me?  If so, I will love them forever-ever-everest.  Or the nearest I can get to that without seeming a stalker.

Kate

Band Name: Venetian Snares

Genre: IDM

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8 (he has some quality moments but can get a little repetitive, and the dude churns out CDs faster than I can hear about them or listen to them)

Best Album: Doll Doll Doll (it's an EP I believe)

Songs:
I won't do all the categories under this, but get "Befriend a Childkiller" and the remix. If you like those, commence acquiring albums post-haste.

Bands Like This Band: imagine listening to Aphex Twin or early Four Tet at the peak of a bad acid trip

Coolest Thing About This Band: one of the few musicians who could be adequately described as "funky" and "scary", at the same time

[amok]

Can someone do Venetian Snares for me?  If so, I will love them forever-ever-everest.  Or the nearest I can get to that without seeming a stalker.

Kate

Band Name: Venetian Snares

Genre: IDM

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8 (he has some quality moments but can get a little repetitive, and the dude churns out CDs faster than I can hear about them or listen to them)

Best Album: Doll Doll Doll (it's an EP I believe)

Songs:
I won't do all the categories under this, but get "Befriend a Childkiller" and the remix. If you like those, commence acquiring albums post-haste.

Bands Like This Band: imagine listening to Aphex Twin or early Four Tet at the peak of a bad acid trip

Coolest Thing About This Band: one of the few musicians who could be adequately described as "funky" and "scary", at the same time

[minkles]

Since everyone should be listening to Of Montreal, I'm going to assume someone will ask at some point, and they could use this information:

Band Name: Of Montreal

Genre: Indie Pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: Satanic Panic in the Attic or The Sunlandic Twins

Songs:
- Best All Around: Forecast Fascist Future
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': How Lester Lost His Wife
- Most Relaxing: City Bird
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Lysergic Bliss best represents their last 3 albums.  Penelope is a good example of their older stuff, which isn't as good.

Bands Like This Band: The Shins, The Apples in Stereo

Coolest Thing About This Band: Varied song structures, and a general sense of euphoria caused by their music.



Now can somebody do Animal Collective?  Many thanks.

[ozphactor]

It's a good idea to read the whole thread before posting. Sometimes it isn't necessary, but for something like this it helps cut down on redundancy. Of Montreal was done.

[Luke]

LUCOZADE

Best drink in the world. I had it while I was in Grenada, and have never seen a trace of it in America. I miss Lucozade.

[southern_dan]

carpark north, just saw there human film clip,  would rate it one of the best of all time its just amazing.  i would love some more opions and info on them.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Well Carpark North are danish and obsessed with really really kitschy 80's synth. Their self-titled debut was a smash hit in Denmark and everywhere you went you'd hear one of their singles such as Transparent & Glasslike or The Wonder.
Since then they have fallen somewhat in popularity, here anyway, and their new one All Things to All People was less succesfull than the self-titled. To be honest I am not all that keen about Carpark North, mainly because I don't like the 80's much. They have a boyish charm sure and they can write hits but it's not really my cup of tea

Denmark have far better bands than Carpark North in my opinion.

[southern_dan]

Denmark have far better bands than Carpark North in my opinion.

any examples arn't mew from denmark, who else?

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Well I don't particularly like Mew and the Glass Handed Kites but I enjoyed Frengers.

bands that sing in english:
Jomi Massage, Figurines, Speaker Bite Me, Kashmir(to some extent anyway), Junior Senior, Wäldchengarten(they don't sing though since it's noise ambient), Tina Dickow, The Raveonettes, Baby Woodrose, Amber, Kitty Wu, Marie Frank etc.

bands that sing in danish:
Under Byen, Sorten Muld, Bikstok Røgsystem, Malk de Koijn, Mikael Simpson, Kå, CV Jørgensen, Olesen-Olesen etc.

I am not saying that Denmark is a goldmine(or am I?), only that what gets out of Denmark often isn't all that good, case in point Aqua and Safri Duo.

[southern_dan]

ahahaha aqua man dont dis that crap it was lifechanging for me, tis wheni started "looking" for other music, i owe alot to dr jones

[ComPro]

It doesn't look like there's any information on Sonic Youth, so if someone could cover them, that would be great. Thanks.

[nescience]

Band Name: Sonic Youth

Genre: Experimental / Noise Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: (general consensus) Daydream Nation, (my pick) Sister

Songs:
- Best All Around: Candle
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Catholic Block
- Most Relaxing: Schizophrenia
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Sugar Kane
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Tunic (Song for Karen)

Bands Like This Band: Velvet Underground, Boredoms, Slint, Helium, Nirvana, Royal Trux, early Branca, Television, maybe Husker Du... but really no one

Coolest Thing About This Band: Dissonance.  Sounds that should not go well together.

[Der Golem]

Disclaimer; I have only heard their latest three albums, but the general consensus is they are better than the old stuff anyway.

Band name : Converge

Genre : They define themselves as noisecore.

My rating of them : 9

Best Album : Petitioning The Empty Sky

Songs
-Best all around: Tie between Jane Doe and The Saddest Day
-Loudest/hardest/most rockin':The Saddest Day
-Most Relaxing: In Her Shadow
-Song you may have heard: None. This isn't the kind of music you hear anywhere unless you actually go out and get it for yourself.
-Song that best represents the band: I'm gonna go with You Fail Me.

Bands like this band: Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison The Well

Coolest thing about this band: This video. Don't give up if you don't like the song, the video is wothwhile

Edit: That link is way hardcore. Consider yourself warned.

[Valrus]

Coolest Thing About This Band: They take every band above and triple distill their very essence into a forged blade of pure metal might. If anyone tells you they are joke metal, slay him instantly, for he knows not metal. This is music made in blasphemous worship of the metal gods. Also: Orcs! Dreadlords! Pirates! Robot Death Machines from the year 4055! A song about Hammersmith! Piecing shrieks! Bitching riffs! The only thing they lack is truly mind-flaying solos, but they're still competent. I've seen 'em live and, my goodness....METAL!

wow that's uh

that's pretty metal

[Valrus]

- Most Relaxing:
Lullaby or Close To Me

Sir, I object to this statement on the grounds of Lullaby's being about a freaky-ass spider demon nightmare, something that I personally find uniquely unrelaxing. Off Disintegration, perhaps Plainsong or Pictures of You might be more relaxing? I don't know.

Still, thanks for the overview thing. I have a few of the Cure's albums and I'm wondering which of the earlier ones are good? Also, I'd read bad stuff about Wild Mood Swings but maybe I'll check it out now. The used CD store seems to always have it.

Also, has anyone in here done, or is anyone willing to do, Mr. Bungle or Dillinger Escape Plan? Or Architecture In Helsinki? Is there any way to search an individual thread so I don't have to ask dumb questions like this?

[Storm Rider]

I could do Dillinger Escape Plan, but I'd end up talking about how much they suck. Because they do. A lot. Avoid them like the plague.

[Valrus]

I could do Dillinger Escape Plan, but I'd end up talking about how much they suck. Because they do. A lot. Avoid them like the plague.

Mmkay. I just asked because the cover of "Come To Daddy" is pretty impressive. Still, it'd be interesting to see an overview that gives an overall rating lower than like 8.5.

[Storm Rider]

I'm going to eschew the usual format and just give a basic summary: Dillinger Escape Plan songs are essentially every member of the band playing totally different and unrelated parts and calling it 'complex'. If that's your cup of tea, then you'll probably love it. I, personally, think it's discordant (not in a good way) bullshit.

[Valrus]

Coolest thing about this band: This video. Don't give up if you don't like the song, the video is wothwhile

Whoa, how about a NSFW warning there, buddy? I got a mother, a grandmother and a 12-year old brother in this house.

Storm Rider: Fair enough.

[Der Golem]

No idea what NSFW means but consider yourself warned. Hope it didn't cause any fuss.

As for Dillinger, they have good sprints, but at least half of their stuff is overly self indulgent and not very good. That split with Mike Patton kicks ass though.

[ozphactor]

No idea what NSFW means...

Not Safe For Work.

[La Creme]

Not so much a review needed, but what's the best Melvins album to start with coming from a love of Buzzo's work with Fantomas. And no, don't say their split, because that would be the stupidest shit you could possibly say and I would beat you with a stick.

[Kai]

I actually just downloaded their discography and haven't listened to it yet. If I do listen to it all before someone else does it, I'll certainly do it.

[nescience]

I say Houdini, the Melvins' major label debut.  Shows that "major label" isn't a four-letter word (though they didn't stay on Atlantic that long).  The closer Spread Eagle Beagle is tribally awesome.

[Kai]

Also, has anyone in here done, or is anyone willing to do, Mr. Bungle or

La Creme did them on the first page.