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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: La Creme on 14 Aug 2005, 20:57
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Ok, so someone asks about a band they don't know a lot about or would like to start listening to or some other reason. This thread is for people who know about the band to help out those who don't. Fill this out for the person then post a band that you want to know about.
Band Name:
Genre:
Your Rating Of Them (1-10):
Best Album:
Songs:
- Best All Around:
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin':
- Most Relaxing:
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
- Song That Best Represents The Band:
Bands Like This Band:
Coolest Thing About This Band:
I realized the other day that I don't know a damn thing about Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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Land ahoy, cap'n! It appears to be populated by outrageous music snobs!
I hope I'm wrong.
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Just putting in my two cents. I must say, i like these type of threads much better than the normal, this band sucks, this band rocks back and forth banter that all the threads in this forum seem to go through. So, yay to you :-)
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All music discussions devolves into yelling at eachother.
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Er, I'd like to know more about Garbage and Led Zeppelin... so whoever's out there who can suggest some albums/songs, it would be appreciated. I realize that this thread is probably more about posting the answers rather than the questions, but I didn't know where else to post.
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I am bookmarking this thread incredi-much.
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Practicality: about Zeppelin, a few songs I'd reccomend just to get you into it: Immigrant Song (Bonus points if it's the live version from When the West Was Won, because that rules), Black Dog maybe, and probably Stairway to Heaven too.
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Band Name: Led Zepplin
Genre: Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Most say Led Zepplin IV, but I would recommend the How The West Was Won (Live) or the 2-part Greatest Hits they have out (Early Days/Later Days)
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How the West Was Won is a damned good live album.
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How about "Going To California"? Definitely one of my Led Zep favorites, along with those already named. Ooh and "Gallow's Pole", like that one too.
But that's just me. I think that's the problem with recommendations from others: it's just a person's opinion most times. So what I do is try to pick up on bands/songs people are talking about around here, and check up on them myself. Got to know some good stuff that way already, so thanks a bunch, QC community! :)
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Yeah, how the west was one is kickass, but it would be more kickass if people DID THE THREAD RIGHT! Read the first post hombres and hombrettas...
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ALright then. Continuing on with the post rock stuff ( I don't know anything about Godspeed You.. either, so someone get to it).
I don't know a single thing about Mogwai.
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Band Name: Mogwai
Genre: Experimental Post-Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Most people say Young Team, though I campaign steadily for Happy Songs For Happy People
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Like Herod"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They're all really loud at some point.
- Most Relaxing: "Kids Will Be Skeletons"
- A song by them you may have heard: "Stanley Kubrick" has a video, so it wins by default.
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: "Mogwai Fear Satan" (pre-Rock Action), "Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep" (post-Rock Action).
Bands Like This Band: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Explosions In The Sky, My Bloody Valentine
Coolest Thing About This Band: The way they build and build and build on just a single rhythm or melody, it's almost taize-like. Mogwai's brilliant background music for meditating, prayer (don't laugh, I've done it) or studying, but it's also music that heavily rewards someone who sits down and listens intently.
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Sorry my last post waws sort of assholey. To make up for it:
Band Name: Led Zeppelin
Genre: Rock/Jam/Pre-Metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5 (The only qualms I have with Zep is that they were all dickweeds besides John-Paul Jones who got no respect whatsoever...)
Best Album: How The West Was Won (but buy them in chronological order)
Songs:
- Best All Around: The Ocean
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Imigrant Song <or> The Wanton Song
- Most Relaxing: Going To California
- Most Played/A son by them you may have heard: Stairway To Heaven
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Misty Mountain Hop
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Im interested in getting a cd by radio head and a cd by and you will know us by the rail of the dead (not sure if I can just ask here but yeah) any reccomendations?
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And what band do you want explained?
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Radio head and and you will know us by the trail of dead.
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I'd do Radiohead but it'd basically end up how much I hate them.
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Band Name: Radiohead
Genre: Alternative Rock/Electro
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7 to 9, depending on the album
Best Album: OK Computer or Hail to the Thief (tie)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Where I End and You Begin
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 2+2=5 or Creep (old)
- Most Relaxing: Exit Music
- Most Played/A son by them you may have heard: Paranoid Android
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sit Down, Stand Up
Edit: Can someone do this about The Pixies?
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I shoulda taken Zeppelin. Doubt there's going to be another band mentioned that I could do.
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Edit: Can someone do this about The Pixies?
Yes!
Band Name: Pixies
Genre: Alternative rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Doolittle
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Gigantic" (if you can, find the re-recorded single version)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Rock Music"
- Most Relaxing: "Where Is My Mind"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Here Comes Your Man"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Vamos"
Bands Like This Band: The Jesus And Mary Chain, Husker Du, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Guided By Voices, The Breeders
Coolest Thing About This Band: They're simultaneously very harsh and alienating and really, really poppy and melodic. Plus they introduced the "soft/REAL LOUD/soft" dynamic shift to independent rock.
Khar, actually, I need you to describe Bathory for me. Anyone I ask just tells me "OMFGZORDS, HE'S SO AWESOME! METAL4LYFE WOOO
"WOO"
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Could someone do this for me for Joy Division?
If anyone ever asks for Shellac, I call dibs.
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Go ahead with Shellac for me, please :)
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Also, La Creme could you please fix the typo in your original post so that it reads "song by them you might have heard" instead of "son by them you might have heard"? I try not to be a grammar nazi, but people keep cutting-and-pasting it in their replies and it's really starting to bug me!!
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Band Name: Shellac
Genre: (Math)Rock
Rating: 9
Best Album: At Action Park (I recommend buying them in that order: At Action Park, 1000 Hurts, Terraform)
Songs:
Best All Around: Um. I can't decide, but I going to say: Song Of The Minerals
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Disgrace or, because of the end, Mama Gina
Most Relaxing: Didn't We Deserve A Look At You The Way You Really Are
Songs you might have heard by them: Most likely none, if at all Prayer To God. The most poppy one would be Copper though.
Songs That Best Represent The Band: Il Porno Star, Watch Song
Additional Info: All of their albums come in extremely cool and unusual packaging. If you want to buy 1000 Hurts, buy the Vinyl version, it costs as much as the CD version and contains a "digital accessory" along with the LP, which is the CD.
A legal MP3 can be downloaded here (http://www.epitonic.com/artists/shellac.html).
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could someone do sufjan stephens for me?
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Could someone do this for me for Joy Division?
Done.
Band Name: Joy Division
Genre: Post-punk
Personal Rating: 10
Best Album: Unknown Pleasures (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781AD34CA87520CE9D374AC7AD70D21DD646FC810C345F5BDDA1345B980338E253F8959AEEA621F721F0AA62AC450ED6D5EC56FCD92A3A378CE6AC63382E2B7B&sql=10:83rx28gc054a)
Songs:
-Best Overall: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
-Most Rocktastic: "Disorder" / "Warsaw"
-Most Relaxing: "Atmosphere"
-Song you might have heard by them: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
-Song That Best Represents The Band: "Transmission"
Bands Like This Band: The Cure, Wire, Gang Of Four, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order (duh)
Coolest Thing About This Band: Besides the fact that they helped to found post-punk and tell the underground music world that keyboards can be pretty awesome, their name is New Order now, so any recording with "Joy Division" on it has automatically a pretty high level of quality.
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Band Name: Bathory
Genre: Bathory, The Return, Under the Sign of the Black Mark: Raw black metal. Requiem, Octogon: Thrash metal. All other albums: Viking metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Black metal: 8 Thrash metal: 6 Viking metal: 10.
Best Album: Black: Under the Sign... Viking: Blood on Ice. Check both before getting Requiem or Octogon.
Songs:
- Best All Around: "One Rode to Asa Bay"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Woman of Dark Desires" or "Holocaust"
- Most Relaxing: "Heimfard"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Honestly, you will almost certainly never have heard a song by them. If you had, it would probably have been One Rode to Asa Bay, the video to which was shown very late at night on MTV about twice in 1990.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Black: "Equimanthorn" Viking: "Great Hall Awaits a Fallen Brother"
- Bands Like This Band: Forefather, Falkenbach, Moonsorrow, early Einherjer for the viking side. For the black, pretty much pick any first wave Norwegian band. Early Mayhem for example.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Quorthons ability to use music and lyrics coherently as a storytelling device, and his mastery of epic scale.
Bathory is an ok black metal band (they were one of the progenitors of black metal, so their basic formula has been refined into better stuff by subsequent bands) but Quorthon's almost solo viking stuff is, to be frank, pretty fucking godly.
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@Johnny C: Excellent Pixies breakdown. Couldn't'a done better myself!
@Inlander: It will be fixed, plus I'm gonna add a little something extra for kicks!
Um... I still know nothing about GY!BE... also, if someone wants to do Iron & Wine too... that would be cool.
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Radio head and and you will know us by the trail of dead.
Band Name: And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Genre: Indie Rock/Emocore/Sonic Youth Revival
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Source Tags & Codes hands down. Get them all, but avoid Worlds Apart. It's just so mediocre.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Another Morning Stoner
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Days of Being Wild
- Most Relaxing: Most of them have some sort of relaxing melodic breakdown
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Source Tags & Codes
Bands Like This Band: Sonic Youth
Coolest Thing About This Band: They know how to make epic songs/albums. They can go from huge and loud to pretty and melodic. They know their instruments well.
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Band Name: Iron & Wine
Genre: Folk/Post-Basement
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Woman King EP, but Endless Numbered Days and Creek are both great as well.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Woman King
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They don't rock out...
- Most Relaxing: Pretty much all of their songs are relaxing
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Such Great Hights (Postal Service Cover)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Endless Numbered Days
Bands Like This Band: Uhhhh...Neil Young?
Coolest Thing About This Band: Their chilled and simple, plus, now their adding electric guitar...and distortion!
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I'd also like to know about Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Post-Basement? I would have gone with just plain vanilla basement from what I've heard.
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Dammit, double post, see below.
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Someone should do Mr. Bungle. (I already know tons about them, but I don't have all 3 albums so I probably shouldn't fill out the survey.)
Also, someone should do Captain Beefheart. I only have Safe As Milk and want to acquire more ASAP.
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Another request for Sufjan Stevens. Especially since I can't find the Michigan album and refuse to listen to Illinois until I can hear Michigan. I'm strange like that, but I won't listen to a band's new release until I know where they came from.
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*Bounces around because he's bored and doing these is fun*
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Anyone know anything of The Riverdales? Should I spend my cash on this band? Also is it worth getting anything by Squirtgun (I know they did the mallrats intro song Social... but thats it)?
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Okay Khar (or anyone)... you want to do more... please lemme know a bit on Burzum.
I am completely unversed and was considering peeking into that arena...
Thanks!
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Band Name: Burzum (Eng: Darkness)
Genre: Ambient Black Metal/Pure Ambient (later albums)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7-10. Depending on song/album
Best Album: The normal consensus is "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" but I love "Burzum".
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Ea, Lord of the Deeps" or "Dunkelheit/Darkness/Burzum" (title depends on what version of what release you have)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "War"
- Most Relaxing: "Tomhet"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Ea, Lord of the Deeps is on the Fenriz Presents...The Best of Old School Black Metal comp. But apart from that, probably none.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Feeble Screams From Forests Unknown"
- Bands Like This Band: Early Nargaroth, Xasthur, Nortt, some Abathur.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Each album is a balanced and complete work of art, and Varg never uses the music to directly push his extreme political beliefs, making it easily accessible.
As a note about the political beliefs though, don't actually buy any Burzum material directly if you care about that stuff, as his record label (Cympophane) has been bought out by Resistance Records, who are directly owned by the US National Alliance. Same goes for the tribute album 'Visions'. It's not like the money will go to supporting Varg anyway, he's in prison.
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Someone should do Mr. Bungle. (I already know tons about them, but I don't have all 3 albums so I probably shouldn't fill out the survey.)
Much obliged!
Band Name: Mr. Bungle
Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental/Fusion (but they call[ed] themselves Clown Rock)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 11
Best Album: As an album in it's entirety (but for that reason only), California
Songs: (depends on album sometimes: C = California, M = Mr. Bungle, D= Disco Volante)
- Best All Around: C = Goodbye Sober Day, M = Carousel, D = Merry Go Bye-Bye/Nothing
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': My Ass Is On Fire (on Mr. Bungle)
- Most Relaxing: Retrovertigo (on California)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: If any, someone has played you Carousel
- Song That Best Represents The Band: C = The Air Conditioned Nightmare, M = Stubb (A Dub), D = Platypus
Bands Like This Band: Not really any. You could make a strech and say Zappa or early Oingo Boingo, but those are really more of infuences to Mike Patton (the ever-so-godly frontman).
Coolest Thing About This Band: There's really no one best thing about Bungle. They are massively uique, all excellent musicians, they write a mean song, and they have great lyrics. I guess the number one best thing about them is that they are one of very few bands that you can take seriously or as a novelty both musically and lyrically.
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(But Crotchduster are better)
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Thanks Khar...
also thanks on the political tip. The versions I would be copping are through Aquarius (http://www.aquariusrecords.org) and I would generally trust them to keep their supplies on the ethically agreeable side. I may e-mail 'em just to make sure, though.
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Hmmn. Misanthropy are shaky, as I'm not precisely sure who owns them anymore. Back on Black are fine as far as I know though. You really have to watch out for Cymphophane and Unholy.
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Post-Basement? I would have gone with just plain vanilla basement from what I've heard.
Did you hear the Woman King EP?
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Whoever asked for Captain Beefheart, I'm your man!
Band Name: Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Genre: uhhh... PROG BLUES ZOMG
Your rating of them (1-10): 11
Best Album: Trout Mask Replica, or if you can get your hands one it (Damned near impossible for under 110 dollars) Like My Decals Off Baby. However, pretty much anything but Satisfaction Guarenteed or Bluejeans and Moonbeams is great.
Songs:
Best All Around: I'm Gonna Booglarize you Baby
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin: Moonlight on Vermont
Most Relaxing: The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back maybe?
Most played/A song by them you may have heard: I think Beefheart actually got onto Letterman to promote Ice Cream for Crow, so I'm gonna go with that.
Song that Best Represents the Band: Frownland
Bands like this Band: Zappa maybe? The Residents? some people compare Devo to him. I dunno.
Coolest thing about this band: It's the most interesting Blues (or music, for that matter) that you will ever run into. ever. That and Trout Mask Replica was written in 8 hours and then he spent the next year and a half teaching it to his band.
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Someone asked for Garbage? :O
(this whole post does not acknowledge their latest album, Bleed Like Me)
Band Name: Garbage
Genre: 90's alt. rock/pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7.5-8
Best Album: Beautiful Garbage (in my opinion anyway. it's a pretty hate-it-or-love-it album. better start out with Version 2.0 or something)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Parade
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Push It
- Most Relaxing: You Look So Fine
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Cherry Lips (or maybe Special)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: When I Grow Up
Bands Like This Band: hmmmm I guess Elastica, some Hole? Garbage isn't really that original, just overall pretty good pop-rock of the 90's with just bits of that trendy electronica stuck in for good measure.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Throughout their first and second albums, they seem to have this pretty good formula going on, but then their third album- Beautiful Garbage- just completely broke their mold. There's more diversity to be found in Beautiful Garbage than in the rest of their other albums combined. Beautiful Garbage is the one album that truly stands out. So, I approve heartily of that change!
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Bands Like This Band:
Coolest Thing About This Band:
I didn't even see this part. Post-editing away!
Khar: Thanks, I know at least one record store in my town carries Bathory so I'll most likely check out the Viking album.
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Someone asked for Garbage? :O
(this whole post does not acknowledge their latest album, Bleed Like Me)
It should, it's a damn good album if you prefer the heavier Garbage like I do.
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Khar: Thanks, I know at least one record store in my town carries Bathory so I'll most likely check out the Viking album.
Blood on Ice follows the story of an old viking epic which was later turned into a Wagnar opera. I've been wanting to make an action movie based on this old story.
someone tell me about Opeth.
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Quorthon's tale actually takes stock parts from several sagas or folk-tales. It's as attempt at a kind of Tolkienesque uberlegend. It's a bit of a Bears Son Folktale (as if anyone here would understand that term).
Band Name: Opeth
Genre: Progressive Death Metal.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7.5
Best Album: Blackwater Park
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Bleak"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Karma" *
- Most Relaxing: "Harvest" *
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Again, no idea.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "The Moor"
- Bands Like This Band: They mainly rip off Edge of Sanity :p. Agalloch and Mid-period Amorphis are also pretty similiar.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Pretty fucking luscious guitar wankery. Never let any man say that they cannot swing their sticks and axes. They can summon up a pretty good atmosphere as well, I like their aesthetic.
*These are both rather problematic as, with all the best will to them, most of Opeths songs are actually 3 different tracks bridged together, none I can think of is continuosly rawr, and Harvest is the only one that I can think of as continuously soft. Bear in mind this is skewed by the fact I don't own Damnation or Deliverance (Their completely 'hard' and 'soft' albums. Which are doubtless replete with some tracks).
Whilst Opeth are a pretty cool band, they are horribly over-rated. Almost every kid that raves about them has never heard Edge of Sanity, Amorphis or Agalloch, or any of the classic progressive acts that influence them, and thus view Opeth as something incredibly unique and zomgincredible, when in fact they aren't really.
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I would like to see someone attempt The Fall. Good luck!
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No one has requested it but I'm a huge fan so I thought I would do AFI
Band Name:AFI (A Fire Inside)
Genre:Earlier: Hardcore Punk, Newer:Punk/Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10):9.5
Best Album:Earlier:Answer That and Stay Fashionable, Newer: Sing the Sorrow
Songs:
- Best All Around: This Celluloid Dream
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Dancing Through Sunday
- Most Relaxing:Silver and Cold
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Girls Not Grey
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Days of the Phoenix
Bands Like This Band: There aren't really any... The Misfits on occasion, The Offspring covered one of their songs, Total Immortal. I don't really know of any bands that sound like them.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They've had an amazing progression through their albums and their sound has kept evolving. Each album presents an interesting message or story. Plus their guitar lines are really fun to play.
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Me and the above poster used the same flash prog to make our avatars, but I'm actually niether Hitler, nor yaoi. (th' name is Uh-Oh! Yaoi Hitler, still.)
Whilst Opeth are a pretty cool band, they are horribly over-rated. Almost every kid that raves about them has never heard Edge of Sanity, Amorphis or Agalloch, or any of the classic progressive acts that influence them, and thus view Opeth as something incredibly unique and zomgincredible, when in fact they aren't really.
This is very close to what I guessed it'd be like. Opeth has the same nebulous feel about it that the Nymphetimine album does, that it's just popular enough for people to hear them, but the people don't bother to go any further than that.
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I'm not saying that Opeth are worthless, just that you might want to pick up Edge of Sanity's 'Crimson' or 'Purgatory Afterglow', Agalloch's 'Pale Folklore' or Amorphis 'Tales From the Thousand Lakes' or 'Elegy' (Elegy sounds most like Opeth, but Tales... is better) and kind of put it in context. None sounds exactly like Opeth, they do actually have some originality, or I wouldn't have given them 7.5.
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I would like to see someone attempt The Fall. Good luck!
if my roommate posted on this board, I'm sure he would oblige. he loves that band.
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it's a damn good album if you prefer the heavier Garbage like I do.
Right then, a Garbage analysis that does acknowledge the lastest album.
Band Name: Garbage
Genre: Pop/Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Version 2.0. Not just my personal opinion here, either - it's the most accomplished album in terms of songwriting and overall consistency. Each track has something to offer.
Songs:
Best All Around: "Push It" is their peak for me, but everyone remembers "Stupid Girl", and they're both great. So...a tie.
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Why Do You Love Me" is four minutes of pure frantic rock, unexpected from this band.
Most Relaxing: "Milk". Good melody and relaxing trip-hop groove.
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Stupid Girl", "Special"
Song That Best Represents The Band: "Queer". Pop with an edge.
Bands Like This Band: Curve, Elastica, Lush, Sneaker Pimps, the Chemical Brothers, Republica
Coolest Thing About This Band: They just write good songs. They're rock with a polish, which some people scoff at but which I love. They're radio-friendly without being bland. They can rock just as well as they can chill. They're not afraid to mix up their formula with electronic, grunge, and trip-hop elements. And they wrote "Queer".
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Where is the Godspeed You! Black Emperor.....
@Kai: The closest thing the Beefheart is definitly a guy named Chuck E. Weiss (who's a close friend of and highly inspired by Dr. John and Tom Waits). If you can find any bootleg live stuff of Chuck E. Weiss and the Goddamn Liars, you'll see what I'm saying. Check out a song of his called "Do You Know What I Idi Amin".
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it's a damn good album if you prefer the heavier Garbage like I do.
Right then, a Garbage analysis that does acknowledge the lastest album.
Yeah, for anyone who's thinking of checking out Garbage, as you can see, some folks definitely vary in their opinions about the last two albums. I'm one of those strange fans that got all disillusioned and heartbroken when Bleed Like Me got released, so, I agree- check out Version 2.0. Everything on it is overall pretty stinking good.
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I would do GY!BE but frankly I've only heard one (totally ace) album.
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@Kai: The closest thing the Beefheart is definitly a guy named Chuck E. Weiss (who's a close friend of and highly inspired by Dr. John and Tom Waits). If you can find any bootleg live stuff of Chuck E. Weiss and the Goddamn Liars, you'll see what I'm saying. Check out a song of his called "Do You Know What I Idi Amin".
Finding bootlegs is easily no problem, thanks for the reccomendation.
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Normally I don't resurrect dead threads, but seriously, this thread needs to stay active. Could someone please dissect GY!BE and also maybe tell me about either Slint or My Bloody Valentine?
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Can somebody do Les Savvy Fav for me? I didn't like Inches but a lot of dudes like them in general so maybe I'm missing out.
FOR LA CREME! :)
Band Name: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Genre: Ambient?
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8 (Because you have to devote a lot of time, almost all their songs are over the 15 min mark)
Best Album: Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (IMO), alot of people go for "f#a# (infinity symbol)"
Songs:
- Best All Around: Hung Over as the Queen in Maida Vale
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls (?)
- Most Relaxing: Moya
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: East Hastings (According to LastFM at least).
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Hung Over as Etc.
Bands Like This Band: A Silver Mount Zion (some members), Mogwai and the like, at a stretch.
Coolest Thing About This Band: A song starts out moody and slow and you don't know where it's going, and it slowly builds up, until (for me) eventually you find yourself doing nothing but paying attention to the song. And when it climaxes it's magic, and when the song ends you feel like you went through an ordeal. It's sex, yo.
For Johnny C:
Band Name: My Bloody Valentine
Genre: Shoegaze Pop, Indie, Wall of Sound
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Loveless (Universally most popular)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Soon
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Come in Alone
- Most Relaxing: Sometimes
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Sometimes (It's on the Lost in Translation soundtrack
- Song That Best Represents The Band: I Only Said
Bands Like This Band: The Jesus and Mary Chain, some Sonic Youth
Coolest Thing About This Band: It's got a warm wall of sound almost constantly in the background, but you can still hear low-key sounds, accoustic guitars. Calming vocals make you feel like you are floating around, if you let yourself do that sort of thing. Really catchy, really calming, and just really well put together in my opinion
Also for Johnny C: For me, I'd go with Surfer Rosa for the best Pixies album.
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Can ye do Sopor Aeternus for me, Khar?
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Band Name: Sopor Aeternus (and the Ensemble of Shadows)
Genre: Dramatic Darkwave
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Dead Lovers Sarabande (faces 1 & 2)
Songs:
Best All Around: Hades Pluton
Most Relaxing: May I Kiss Your Wound?
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: None. SA doesn't even do videos, at least not to my knowledge.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Todeswunch
Bands Like This Band: Nothing really...Imagine Lacrimosa meeting Patrick Wolf in a bar run by old-school Theatre of Tragedy.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Where do I start? Sopor Aeternus is basically a mash up of darkwave, chamber music, folk and synth, with a good dash of performance art thrown in for good measure, all performed by a very, very psychotically depressed pre-op German transexual. Sopor Aeternus is oneof the most dramatic bands I've ever heard, but once you can get past the sheer over-the topness they are incredibly deep. Listening to Sopor Aeternus is like getting inside Anna-Varneys head. And it's not a very normal or happy place.
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huuh.
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Don't think you'd like 'em tbh.
They do have an odd appeal though.
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I don't think I would, but I'll be sure to recommend them.
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They're an essential band for anyone who considers themselves gother than thou in the good old sense of the word.
Also, they can do the old vampire angst cliche better than Cradle of Filth. But then again, so can a lot of people.
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Kid Modernist rocks my socks.
Thanks man.
Because I'm in such a grand mood, I'll try to turn some people on to power jazz, because it is the greatest (or at least one of the greatest) genres of music out there.
Band Name: The Bad Plus
Genre: Power Jazz / Power Trio
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Both are amazing, "Give" and "These Are The Vistas". Give has better covers. These Are The Vistas has better originals.
Songs:
Best All Around: Rhinocerous Is My Profession (only findable as live bootleg, but they've said they're going to put one of the live cuts on their next cd...)
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Iron Man" (more furious than the original, and it's done on just a piano, drums, and a stand-up bass.)
Most Relaxing: "Silence Is The Question" (a gradual crescendo to awesomeness)
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: They play "1972 Bronze Metalist" a lot on jazz stations that play more modern stuff.
Song That Best Represents The Band: "Big Eater"
Bands Like This Band: Medeski, Martin, And Wood (they started power jazz, but they blow ass at their own genre...), Ornette Coleman (main jazz influence), and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (essentially, they're the Bad Plus but electric)
Coolest Thing About This Band: They are brilliant musicians, they're all totally insane, and they write amazing songs. If their current tour hits your town, go. And if you've got sensitive ears, bring some earplugs because it is the loudest jazz show you will ever go to.
http://thebadplus.com/ (Scroll to the bottom and check the tour dates. Seriously. Do it.)
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For Johnny C:
Band Name: My Bloody Valentine
Thanks muchly!
I'd go with Surfer Rosa for the best Pixies album.
See, Surfer Rosa's very solid too, plus I own it and I don't own Doolittle. It was a tough choice!
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Alright, I really got one I hope someone does for me: The Olivia Tremor Control.
I really dig Elephan 6, so I will probably like it, but for some reason I can't get myself to jump in.
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I have a request for Of Montreal. Could someone please do it for me, along with a more detailed written description of their music (referencing similar bands would certainly help).
They're touring my area soon and I've heard the name way too often yet I have no idea what they sound like. If someone could help me there, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Band name: Of Montreal
Genre: Indie pop
Your rating of them (1-10): 9.6
Best album: For their earlier work (and my personal favorite), The Gay Parade. Out of their newer material, I would say either Satanic Panic in the Attic or The Sunlandic Twins. I can't really judge yet because I got the latter at their show last night.
Songs:
Best all round: This is really utterly impossible for me to judge. I would say that their most instantly accessible pop song is "Penelope," but my favorite song by them is "Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree".
Loudest: "Rapture Rapes the Muses"
Most Relaxing: "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" (New) or "Dustin Hoffman Does Not Resist Temptation to Eat the Bathtub" (old)
Most played/song by them you might have heard: "Penelope"?
Song that best represents the band: "Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree" (old) and "Chrissie Kiss the Corpse" (new)
Bands like this band: Neutral Milk Hotel, Dressy Bessy, Elf Power, the Marshmallow Coast, Beulah, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo
Coolest thing about this band/Hey Nick, ramble on about Of Montreal for a while: The catalogue of songs that they have built up is remarkably diverse. Their earlier albums have a fairly innocent storybook feel intertwined with overriding themes of loneliness and isolation, which culminated in The Gay Parade. That album combines confessional self-observation with absurdist storytelling in a way that I doubt will ever be matched in indie pop. In their newer material, they've stepped back from having overall concepts tying the songs on the albums together, focusing more on things that are fun to play and listen to (and even dance to!) live. Some fantastic pop songs have come out of this, and it probably makes them more accessible, but I sort of miss the more bizarre elements that they tend not to bring out as much nowadays. They are still pretty psychotic, though (in a good way!).
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Yay! This thread is back!
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Can someone do the Olivia Tremor Control for me? :)
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Do Make Say Think and 7 Year Rabbit Cycle please.
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The Apples In Stereo.
I like what I've heard but would like to know more.
And for Khar: Skyclad.
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Bands like this band: Neutral Milk Hotel, Dressy Bessy, Elf Power, the Marshmallow Coast, Beulah, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo
First of all, thanks a lot.
Then: I lose indie cred. I haven't heard any songs by bands you've listed. ... To the interwebmachine!
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Could someone do Interpol? I've heard great things about them but I have no clue where to start.
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Band Name: Interpol
Genre: Post-punk inspired NY rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Turn on the Bright Lights, their second Antics is a bit weaker.
Songs:
- Best All Around: PDA
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Roland
- Most Relaxing: Leif Erikson or NYC
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: PDA or Slow Hands
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Again, I would say PDA
Bands Like This Band: Honestly I can really name anyone, not to say that they are unique though.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Their hypnotic interplay, especially the guitars and their lyrics(when they are good, which they aren't always)
And I will do Under Byen just to whore them a bit more:
Band name: Under Byen(Below the City)
Genre: ethereal mix of classical and folk, a kind of fusion I suppose.
Your Rating of them (1-10): 10
Best Album: their second album Det er Mig der Holder Træerne Sammen is more realised and thus the "best"
Songs:
- Best All Around: Legesag
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': they don't really rock, but maybe Det er Mig Der Holder Træerne Sammen
- Most Relaxing: Byen Driver or Kyst
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: none, they are quite obscure, even if David Fricke has whored them, might have heard their collaborations with Giant Sand's Howe Gelb though, on the Listener especially.
- Song That Best Represents the band: Om Vinteren
Bands Like This Band: Hedningarna perhaps or Sorten Muld without the electronica.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Everything! They are for me what Skyclad is for Khar, incapable of doing anything other than genius.
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Band name: Skyclad
Genre:Avant-Garde Thrash/Folk Metal
Your rating of them (1-10): With Martin Walkyier: 10. With Kevin Riddle: 8
Best album: 'Folkemon' or 'The Answer Machine?'
Songs:
Best all round: 'The One Piece Puzzle'
Loudest: 'Desperanto (A Song For Europe?)', 'Our Dying Island' or 'Ten Little Kingdoms'.
Most Relaxing: 'Bombed Out', 'Ring Stone Round' or 'Postcard From Planet Earth'
Most played/song by them you might have heard: Their last single was 'Swords of a Thousand Men', but really, unless I've foisted some on you, it's doubtless you'll ever have heard them: Tommy Vance gave them some airplay on occasion back in the early nineties, but that's about it.
Song that best represents the band: They actually wrote a specific one, which is nice: 'Any Old Irony?'
Bands like this band: Mago De Oz, Cruachan (a bit), Elvenking, Wuthering Heights (a bit). They're fairly unique though.
Coolest thing about this band: I think mainly the fact that they're the best band in the world. Ok, let me justify that. During their peak of awesomeness, which is most of the nineties, with the ups and downs you'd expect from any band (Vintage Whine had really tinny production for example), Skyclad are a combination of a) great instrumental work, mainly from Dan Ramsay on the guitar and the nigh-incomparable Georgina Biddle on the violin b) lyrical genius c) avant-garde genre mixing. Skyclad's initial folk-based thrash evolves to incorporate disparate elements of punk and seventies rock, with dashes of electronic and symphonic twiddles, as well as all sorts of unusual instruments, including xylophones, trumpets, hunting horns and bagpipes. For me, what really makes Skyclad though is the uniqueness of their collective emphasis and vision. Not just their extremely serious initial idea of making, basically, environmentalist protest metal, somewhat in the vein of late Running Wild, but all the digressions they go on about the way. From a trapped alien explorer sending his impressions of Earth to an impossibly distant lover (Postcard From Planet Earth), to a child vampire who preys on child molestors (Catherine At The Wheel), to a vision of hell as a scummy pub full of dead dictators and mass murderers who are later turned into a grotesque caricature of ourselves (The Sinful Ensemble) to a song in which the plight of environmentalists becomes a physical battle, with the armies of the forest clashing with 'the forces of progress' riding bulldozers (The Disenchanted Forest), to Martin's list of what he would do and to whom when appointed king of the world (On With Their Heads!) and the tale of Norman Normal, who sells his soul to the devil for rock and roll riches then descends to hell with the cry 'I'll Party on in Acheron!' (Great Blow For a Day Job). It's a wild, wierd, brilliantly black and sarcastic take on the world, equally critical of science, religion and the human race, but scarce lacking the faintest, or often not so faint hint of a wry grin, which adds colour to even the angriest and bitterest of diatribes. To top this, they're the most under-rated band in history. Ever.
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Band Name: Interpol
Bands Like This Band: Honestly I can really name anyone, not to say that they are unique though.
Joy Division.
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no, not really, Joy Division is all stripped down while Interpol is a lot more intricate musicwise. I really can't understand the comparison, for me they are nothing alike. Curtis is also a lot more brooding and depressive than Banks is if you ask me.
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Well, of course they aren't the same band, but Interpol definitely owes a debt to JD.
Tell me that the first 30 seconds of Transmission couldn't be an Interpol song. :)
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Band Name: Olivia Tremor Control
Genre: Experimental 60s inflenced Psycadelia
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Music From an Unrealized Film Script: A Dusk at Cubist Castle
Songs:
- Best All Around: Green Typewriters
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': er...The Opera House
- Most Relaxing: A Peculiar Noise Called Train Director
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: er.... The Opera House
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Hideaway
Bands Like This Band: Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo [E6....] .....er... maybe the Beatles
Coolest Thing About This Band: They manage to find a sense of calm, despite having all fucking hell breaking loose all around them.
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no, not really, Joy Division is all stripped down while Interpol is a lot more intricate musicwise. I really can't understand the comparison, for me they are nothing alike. Curtis is also a lot more brooding and depressive than Banks is if you ask me.
And Interpol is really boring.
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At JohnnyC's behest, I give you...
Band Name: Slint
Genre: Some people call them math-rock. Would you call early post-rock pre-post-rock??
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Twenty billion, at least.
Best Album: Has to be Spiderland.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Nosferatu Man
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': As with most post-rock bands, half a dozen songs could be their loudest; but only for the thirty seconds it spends climaxing.
- Most Relaxing: See answer above.
- A song by them you may have heard: I think that if you've heard one of these songs then you've heard them all, but for the sake of completion I'll say Breadcrumb Trail.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Breadcrumb Trail or Good Morning Captain
Bands Like This Band: Mogwai, Tortoise. Bands like Low and Codeine share some traits, but I don't know if I'd include them on this list.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They are important parts of musical history, yo! Also, listening to Slint makes me afraid of the dark.
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no, not really, Joy Division is all stripped down while Interpol is a lot more intricate musicwise. I really can't understand the comparison, for me they are nothing alike. Curtis is also a lot more brooding and depressive than Banks is if you ask me.
I agree. I think if you had to compare them to a past post-punk band, I would say Clinic would be a much better match.
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REGARDING INTERPOL:
Comparing Interpol to Joy Division is like starting a blog and not using capital letters or proper punctuation ever. It's been done to death, and nobody's going to nod their head and say "yeah, good job." The similarities are there, but they're like different ends of a spectrum; Joy Division is the more jittery, kind of unhinged side, while Interpol's more taut and reserved.
I'm kind of a huge Interpol fanboy. Sorry if you don't like them, perhaps you would enjoy starting a blog about it, etc.
Oh, "Slow Hands" wins for "most rockin'," eye emm oh. And I think "Evil" wins for best song by a fair margin.
Thanks for the stuff on Slint; I've heard British Sea Power's first album sounded a bit like 'em. I'll check this stuff out.
EDIT: Clinic? Clinic? Please explain!
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Relax, I wasn't saying I didn't like Interpol, I do. I was just saying that Joy Division sounds at least mentionably like them. He said he couldn't think of any so I gave him something that does.
Please don't fall back on the "You disagree with me so I'm going to to throw away your whole argument with a pithy reply" a la "Get a blog." It's cool if you disagree, it's all you have to say.
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No problem, and it wasn't meant in a negative manner (that bit was actually directed towards Kai, thanks for the pithy comment bud!). Since it was obviously taken that way, I apologize for my choice of wording and the fact that it appeared to be directed at yourself.
I just, you know, wish more people would acknowledge Interpol's connections to Echo & The Bunnymen, The Chameleons and The Afghan Whigs as much as they did to Joy Division. Sigh.
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Since no one's done Sufjan yet, I'll take it.
Band Name: Sufjan Stevens and the Illinoisemakers (currently. They were the Michigan Militia while touring Michigan)
Genre: Indie-folk
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.3
Best Album: Illinois. Easily. (Seven Swans is closest after that)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Tough call, because they're all worthy. I'm fond of The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': um...The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts? If you're looking for rock, this really isn't it.
- Most Relaxing: All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: probably Chicago. It was floating around a while before Illinois hit the stands.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Come On Feel The Illinoise!
Bands Like This Band: Nothing comes to mind. You might compare his songwriting style to other "storytellers," but the music is something else.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Arrangements. Songs are put together with the most unlikely of instruments; trumpets, glockenspiels, oboes, string quartets, banjo...nothing is off limits, and the way it fits together is a little unsettling at first, but once you wrap your brain around it, there's nothing like it.
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I just, you know, wish more people would acknowledge Interpol's connections to Echo & The Bunnymen, The Chameleons and The Afghan Whigs as much as they did to Joy Division. Sigh.
Okay, coo'. What do you think about connections to maybe The Cure or Ride?
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The only less great thing about Sufjan Stevens, is his excess(Illinois is too long in my opinion) but it seems to be a curse of really good bands. Take Songs for the Deaf for example, cut away a few of the "only" solid tracks and you have a perfect rockalbum.
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And Interpol is really boring.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up the difference between Interpol and Joy Division.
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Band Name: Flogging Molly
Genre: hmmm, Irish Bar Rock, almost? I honestly cannot classify them.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Drunken Lullabies
Songs:
- Best All Around: Kilburn High road
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Devils dance floor
- Most Relaxing: Far away boys. It is so sad, but still fun to listen to.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Salty dog
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sentimental Johnny. It doesn't actually sound like anything else they have done, but it helps to show the range in style that their albumns traverse.
Bands Like This Band: Many people have compared them to the Pogues, but I cannot say it does them (FM) justice, they are much more of a full sound, louder.
Coolest Thing About This Band: The range of their songs, they can do rock, they do ballads, they do spoken word, punk, and folk.
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Okay, coo'. What do you think about connections to maybe The Cure or Ride?
Their use of atmospherics and tone do owe something to The Cure, certainly. I'm unfamiliar with Ride; feel like doing a fact-sheet on them?
For Sufjan, I would have gone with "Variations On A Single Note" or whatever for the most relaxing song, because it reminds me of the relaxing music they use in Simcity.
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Anyone heard of Sleeper? They're American (I think) and they've got a woman singer. I've heard a sum total of one of their songs and it was marvellous.
It was called Inbetweener.
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I'll give a shot on Ride.
Band Name: Ride
Genre: Shoegaze; Dreampop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5
Best Album: Nowhere is the album to own, without a doubt
Songs:
-Best All Around: Kaleidoscope
-Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They're not really a "hard rockin'" band, but I guess "Leave Them All Behind" is pretty noisy and fast paced.
-Most Relaxing: In a different place
-Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Vapour Trail
-Song That Best Represents The Band: Seagull
Bands Like This Band: My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses
Coolest Thing About This Band: They used the "wall of sound" technique but managed to incorporate some serious melodies and multi-layered harmonies into it. Really nice.
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And Interpol is really boring.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up the difference between Interpol and Joy Division.
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As for the Clinic comparison, I think it's valid. They both have that moody, hypnotic sound and are both very lush in terms of sound.
Also, when considering the Joy Division comparison, Interpol have done a better job, IMO, of being bombastic. Obstacle 1 sounds like it's about to combust all over a gun-powder beach. I never got that feeling with Joy. I feel they were very different bands in that respect.
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No, really, Interpol are boring. Sure, they may be more complicated, but it feels muddled and soulless. There are certain types of sounds that function much better with minimalism, and that's one of them. Interpol are not brooding enough to pull off their actual sound and they're not energetic enough to pull off the sound they're trying to make. They come off as soulless and boring and overproduced. Their sound is about as genuine as your average Hot Topic political statement.
Which is to say, yeah, not as all.
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PDA is interesting, exciting, has fun lyrics, and its grungy enough to sound overproduced. It's not the only song like that on Turn on the Bright Lights. It's toetappin'. Sure Paul Banks sounds like he doesn't give a shit, he's sort of bored, and he may fall asleep during the song -- but that's his deal.
Not that I'm trying to convince you of anything (or believe that you might be convinced). I'm just saying -- genuine??? Paul Banks aside . . . the guitarist . . .sounds very committed!
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. . .sounds very committed!
...to making lots of money off of gullible trend-following hipsters.
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Paul Banks...bored? WTF. Mabe all you've heard is Antics because the most interesting thing about the band to me was Banks' extremely emotive voice, which is the case with everything on Turn On the Bright Lights.
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And thus, having escaped the Radiohead pit trap, The Most Informative Music Thread Possible becomes Yet Another Thread With People Bickering About Interpol. Wouldn't want to have a thread in the music forum stay interesting for more than two people for too long, huh?
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Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH
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And just so it can't be said that I'm complaining about the turn this thread has taken without trying to do something about it, a completely unrequested artist overview:
Band Name: The Fiery Furnaces
Genre: Oh, jeez. Let's say blues/rock/prog/rock opera/musical theatre/electronic.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Blueberry Boat. This is the subject of much debate. Certainly EP and Gallowsbird's Bark are more accessible, but neither of them tells stories, provides surprises, and demands attention like Blueberry Boat.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Single Again - Here Comes The Summer - Evergreen. Actually, this is the first three songs from EP, but they're medley-seamless; I've joined them into one song in iTunes so I consider them as such at this point. The three songs just showcase the Furnaces' pop sensibilities beautifully; they're the best intro to their music possible and probably one of the best trios of songs I've ever heard.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Tropical Ice-Land (EP version) / Asthma Attack / Chris Michaels. In that order. The Fiery Furnaces don't really ever straight up rock out except possibly in concert; neither of their voices lend themselves well to it, and their music tends to be a little too busy for hard rockin'. Still, Tropical Ice-Land and Asthma Attack are both rollicking and relentless, and Chris Michaels is the most rockin' of the rock-opera-esque behemoths on Blueberry Boat.
- Most Relaxing: Tropical Ice-Land (Gallowsbird's Bark version) - Rub-Alcohol Blues. The first two songs of another three-song medley, this one concluding Gallowsbird's Bark. Almost certainly the most subdued two songs of a very raucous band. The third of the medley (We Got Back the Plague) is too edgy to be included here.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: I guess they released Single Again as a single?
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Chief Inspector Blancheflower. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Sounds like three songs in one; has a section about ADD delivered anti-melodically over a random-sounding synth track; has an adventure-style story concerning a detective; has a story about a domestic love-triangle dispute which may or may not have ended in fratricide.
Bands Like This Band: I have no idea whatsoever. I've certainly not heard anything like them before; some specific songs might be comparable to other bands, and Blueberry Boat is very frequently compared to The Who by both the band and the critics. The band as a whole, though, is very difficult for me to pin down.
Sorry I couldn't pick just one song for most of the categories; there's just too much that I wanted to mention.
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Here Comes The Summer for Best song overall. Yes.
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Thank fuck for that.
Scrolled back to find a requested band but I can't see through all the "no, my opinion about Interpol is more correct than yours!" so I'll just jump on the current bandwagon and do one for a band I want to! Huzzah!
Band Name: Mind.In.A.Box
Genre: Futurepop / Darkwave
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10.5
Best Album: Dreamweb
Songs:
- Best All Around: Change [from Lost Alone]
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': probably Machine Run [from Dreamweb] although they don't really do "heavy"
- Most Relaxing: Lost Alone 2 [LA]
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: if any, the new single Certainty [DW]
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Light and Dark [LA]
Bands Like This Band: Really, they're pretty different to most futurepop which is why they grabbed my attention, so instead let's call this section...
Bands I Would Recommend If You Enjoy This Band: Syrian, Assemblage 23, NamNamBulu, Neuroticfish (just a few ideas to try out)
Coolest Thing About This Band: See above. A lot of electronic music can sound quite generic to the untrained ear but no one I've heard before has really pulled off such a blend of styles as M.I.A.B. so flawlessly.
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Ok- if anyone wants to do the Decemberists for me, I would be very happy.
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Band Name: The Decemberists
Genre: Indie pop/Baroque pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10):10
Best Album: Castaways & Cutouts
Songs:
- Best All Around: The Legionnaire's Lament
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Engine Driver
- Most Relaxing: Of Angels and Angles
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 16 Military Wives
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Mariner's Revenge Song
Bands Like This Band: Belle & Sebastian; Neutral Milk Hotel; Iron & Wine
Coolest Thing About This Band:Brilliant lyrics tell interesting stories on top of eclectic instrumentation. Also just plain fun.
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Thankya for the Decemberists info- They seemed like someone I would like... now I can safely assume I will like them.
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The Decemberists
Most Over-used Analogy Used to Describe Them: The Nerds of Music High School!
Every time I read something like that, it just seems like lazy reporting to me.
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Genre: Oh, jeez. Let's say blues/rock/prog/rock opera/musical theatre/electronic.
No no. Their genre is simply Unadulterated Happiness & Joyous Love Of Life. Hurray Fiery Furnaces.[/positive positivity/return to cynical]
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Genre: Oh, jeez. Let's say blues/rock/prog/rock opera/musical theatre/electronic.
No no. Their genre is simply Unadulterated Happiness & Joyous Love Of Life. Hurray Fiery Furnaces.[/positive positivity/return to cynical]
See... Everyone says they are so great. I have only heard one song.. I believe it was called Chris Michaels, something like that... and I couldn't really get into the song.
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From my experience with Blueberry Boat, I can't really see how most people (including myself) could really enjoy it by hearing a track at a time. It really is a concept album, although more about a musical concept than a narrative one. Also, the music is so varied that I just found baffling the first 2 listens; started to cotton on by the third listen; and by the fifth or sixth I was pretty much hooked on the band.
I can see how you could be nervous about spending all the time for something you might not ultimately like. If you want a track on Blueberry Boat that will convince you that the effort might be worth it, I would start with Birdie Brain, not Chris Michaels. Or, like, any other Fiery Furnaces album.
(Jeph pretty much said all of this in an old comic where Marten plays Blueberry Boat for Faye btw ;-) )
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Yeah- that comic actually made me wonder about them- and I had a feeling it would be something i would have to take as a whole...
I shall have to give this blueberry boat a listen... mayhaps the song you suggest.
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If I had to pick just one song with which to introduce people to the Fiery Furnaces, "Tropical Ice-Land" off of the EP would be it.
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That would work, Evergreen Park would work also. I thinkt that Tropical-Iceland off of Gallowsbird's Park is even more approachable still. But EP and Gallowsbird Park are way more user-friendly than Blueberry Boat.
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- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Mariner's Revenge Song
Thanks for the advice, by the way- and that is an amazingly good song.
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EDIT: If anyone can tell me about Folk Implosion or Iron and Wine, it would be appreciated.
If I had to pick just one song with which to introduce people to the Fiery Furnaces, "Tropical Ice-Land" off of the EP would be it.
Agreed. I had Blueberry Boat on my computer first, but when I heard Tropical Ice-Land, I gave a more committed listen to Bluberry.
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Iron & Wine's been done. Check page 1. I think its there.
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Khar, do Bal Sagoth for me, plzkthx. All I know is the lyrics in the Coheed thread and that they dress up and shit. woo!
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Band Name: Bal-Sagoth
Genre: Very Symphonic Black Metal (not really BM anymore after the first album)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule or Atlantis Ascendant
Songs:
Best All Around: The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Spellcraft and Moonfire or to represent their later/more numerous style As the Vortex Illumines the Crystalline Walls of Kor-Avul-Thaa of Behold, The Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens
Most Relaxing: Hatheg Kla or Crystal Shards.
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur is on a Nuclear Blast sampler disc. So, that.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Hard to choose. Just download a whole album, preferably Starfire... and just listen to the whole thing.
Bands Like This Band: urrm. Imagine a slightly more keyboard-oriented Rhapsody with a dash of new Satyricon. Kinda.
Coolest Thing About This Band: So over the top that they're in low earth orbit. Absolutely everything about this band oozes excessive geekdom. Writing pretentious vocals is one thing, adopting the stage-name Lord Byron and delivering the lines in a mixture of weak black metal growls and booming Shakespearean spoken word over bombastic keys and guitars whilst wearing chainmail and studded leather body armour with a sword in one hand and a microphone in another is quite another.
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I've been lurking on this board for a few days, but I had to cave in and join for this thread.
Can somebody tell me about Hawkwind? I've seen a couple people with similar musical tastes to me mention them here, but neither I nor my metalhead friend have heard of them.
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Ok, I'll do my best for the Fall and Les Savy Fav.
Band Name: The Fall
Genre: What punk would sound like if it was less about music and sung by somebody who could be mistaken for crazy.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Hex Enduction Hour or This Nation's Saving Grace
Songs:
Best All Around: Totally Wired, How I Wrote Elastic Man
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Bombast or Spolit Victorian Child
Most Relaxing: Winter?
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Totally Wired
Bands Like This Band: Man, I'm not sure...Wire?
Coolest Thing About This Band: Mark E. Smith is absolutely nuts, his lyrics are both extremely intelligent and extremely weird.
Band Name: Les Savy Fav
Genre: Punk-ish, Dance-y without forgetting the rock.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: The Cat and the Cobra, Rome EP
Songs:
Best All Around: Reformat, Je T'aime
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The End, Pluto
Most Relaxing: Roadside Memorial, Asleepers Union, One to Three
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Who Rocks the Party, Sweat Descends
Bands Like This Band: Gang of Four, Q and Not U, Fugazi
Coolest Thing About This Band: The instruments work really well together, they all fit perfectly in their places and prop each other up. Tim Harrington's lyrics are divine, IMO.
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Not enough people listen to Oingo Boingo. So...
Band Name: Oingo Boingo
Genre: Very 80's rock. They've been called 'the definitive California new-wave band' and I'm inclined to agree.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5
Best Album: Only A Lad
Songs:
----Best All Around: Nasty Habits
----Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': No One Lives Forever, maybe? They have some degree of distortion and rocking-ness in just about every song... so yeah.
----Most Relaxing: Stay (not very good though)
----Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: On The Outside <or> Little Girls
----Song That Best Represents The Band: Grey Matter
Bands Like This Band: They are basically a more guitar driven ska-based Devo.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Totally amazing songwriting, pretty good instrument mastery on all fronts, extremely listenable and catchy, but also really unique. Boingo are also one of the more perverted bands on earth, and pull off lyrics about pedophilia, everyone's little dark secrets, and hot sex in the working class with ease.
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Band Name: Hawkwind
Genre: Space Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Out of the ones I own, Doremi Fasol Latido or Warrior on the Edge of Time, but their discography is unthinkingly vast, you're probably better picking up one of the numerous best-of compilations initially.
Songs:
Best All Around: Impossible choice. Assault and Battery maybe, or Master of the Universe
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Angels of Death
Most Relaxing: Spiral Galaxy 28948
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Silver Machine
Song That Best Represents The Band: Master of the Universe
Bands Like This Band: Pink Fairies, Star One, old Pink Floyd (Hawkwind were always heavier though), Beggars Farm, some later Ewigkeit.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They're the Masters of the goddamn Universe! 100+ releases (easily), touring almost constantly since the sixties, musical collaborations with Michael Moorcock, once featured Lemmy on bass, lavish prog rock stage shows before anyone knew what prog rock was, countless extended live versions of almost every song...just a great band. I really do recommend you try downloading/buying at least an album or compilation to sample them. They may take some getting into simply as the production on almost all their stuff is revolting by todays standards. Great band though. Damned crucial especially if you're one of these disreputable fellows who takes drugs to music, but I'd hardly describe them as most peoples idea of a stoner band.
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Awesome, thanks. Now all I need is for someone to request a definition for Dream Theater and I will be all over it.
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About Oingo Boingo; I'd assume that their most played song was "DEAD MAN'S PARTY", but that's jsut because I hear it alot.
Edit: Thanks Khar!
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No, nobody asked for this one, but I don't care because anyone who listens to anything that can be vaguely defined as "heavy" needs to know who they are and have at least 2 albums. I hope I don't get attacked for putting it up unsolicited.
Band Name: Kyuss
Genre: Stoner/Desert Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: It's really a tie between Blues For the Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley. The former is a bit rawer and heavier, the latter more filled-out and intricate. But both are masterpieces. Their other two albums are great too, but not quite on the same level.
Songs:
Best All Around: "Fatso Forgetso," I'd say. Problem is, it wasn't released as an album track and was instead released on a 6-track split CD with their descendents Queens of the Stone Age. You'll have to download it.
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': In terms of pure monolithic weight, I think "Molten Universe" takes the prize, but the 11-minute, 4-movement sonic barrage that is "Spaceship Landing" probably rocks out more than any song ever.
Most Relaxing: Either "Phototropic" or "Space Cadet."
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Demon Cleaner," "Green Machine"
Song That Best Represents The Band: I'd say either "50 Million Year Trip" or "Whitewater," both absolute masterpieces in their own right.
Bands Like This Band: Nobody ever really got a similar sound. Their earliest (and least amazing) stuff, off the album "Wretch," sounds like Sabbath, but then their producer changed and their later stuff is pretty unique. I don't think anyone ever got a sound as fat as Kyuss's.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They were pure DIY-ers. They started by listening to Black Flag and other punk-y stuff, and just went their own direction by tuning the guitars down and playing through bass amps. They got their start in high school playing nighttime generator parties in the SoCal desert, and had an album out before they were 20. They opened for Metallica when Metallica were at their prime, and blew them off the stage every night. At the time "Sky Valley" was released they were the best band in the world. They effectively founded a genre by themselves. Convinced yet?
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Nobody asked for Kyuss, but I was subconsciously wanting it.
Thumbs up to onewheelwizzard.
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About Oingo Boingo; I'd assume that their most played song was "DEAD MAN'S PARTY", but that's jsut because I hear it alot.
Your right I guess. But a lot of people have heard or heard of Little Girls, as it is a big part of 80's pop-culture.
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PEDOPHELIA
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Which, too, was a big part of the 1980's.
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I was pretty sure Michael Jackson didn't reveal himself as an alien zombie until the early 90s.
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This may make me weird, but I'm only very slightly familiar with the Mars Volta, as I tend to go out of my way to avoid MTV and pop radio. I wouldn't normally bother asking, but one of their songs came on the radio at my work (I wasn't paying a tremendous amount of attention to it), and one of my coworkers asked me if I liked them. When I told her that I had never heard of them, she looked at me like I had sprouted a second head.
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I wouldn't mind if Bal-Sagoth and Amorphis were done.
As well as Kinky Friedman. I think that's the spelling.
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This may make me weird, but I'm only very slightly familiar with the Mars Volta, as I tend to go out of my way to avoid MTV and pop radio. I wouldn't normally bother asking, but one of their songs came on the radio at my work (I wasn't paying a tremendous amount of attention to it), and one of my coworkers asked me if I liked them. When I told her that I had never heard of them, she looked at me like I had sprouted a second head.
The Mars Volta on the radio? You must live on a different planet than me.
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This may make me weird, but I'm only very slightly familiar with the Mars Volta, as I tend to go out of my way to avoid MTV and pop radio. I wouldn't normally bother asking, but one of their songs came on the radio at my work (I wasn't paying a tremendous amount of attention to it), and one of my coworkers asked me if I liked them. When I told her that I had never heard of them, she looked at me like I had sprouted a second head.
The Mars Volta on the radio? You must live on a different planet than me.
We get satellite radio at my work. And like I said, I had no idea who it was, and I was hardly even listening to it in the first place.
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Aerosmith, anyone?
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I wouldn't mind if Bal-Sagoth and Amorphis were done.
I did Bal-Sagoth earlier on this page.
As for Amorphis:
Band Name: Amorphis
Genre: Death Metal (Karelian Isthmus), Folk/Doomdeath (Tales From the Thousand Lakes), Folk/prog metal (Elegy/My Kantele), prog rock with folk, goth and metal touches (Tuonela onwards).
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 1st sound: 7. 2nd sound: 10. third sound: 9. fourth sound : 6
Best Album: Many say Elegy, but imo Tales From the Thousand Lakes is simply indispensable.
Songs:
Best All Around: Drowned Maid
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Excursing From Existence
Most Relaxing: Thousand Lakes
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: I suspect they get some radio play in Finland, but I have no idea what songs.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Weeper on the Shore or Black Winter Day
Bands Like This Band: Agalloch, Opeth, Tiamat, Trio Niskalaukalaus, depending largely on what sound you mean.
Coolest Thing About This Band: The coolest thing about this band is definitely not that they sold out, but they're innovative, arse-kicking mid nineties albums. Also the video to 'Black Winter Day'.
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This may make me weird, but I'm only very slightly familiar with the Mars Volta, as I tend to go out of my way to avoid MTV and pop radio. I wouldn't normally bother asking, but one of their songs came on the radio at my work (I wasn't paying a tremendous amount of attention to it), and one of my coworkers asked me if I liked them. When I told her that I had never heard of them, she looked at me like I had sprouted a second head.
The Mars Volta on the radio? You must live on a different planet than me.
There is always "The Widow." Or, you know, the first three minutes of it.
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Yeah, before it breaks down into usless electronica wankery.
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Um, yeah, that.
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I will do one for danish mainstreamers Kashmir too just for kicks, they have David Bowie and Lou Reed singing/recitating on their new album "No Balance Palace" so I thought they may seem interesting.
Band Name: Kashmir
Genre: alt. Rock for most part, they were groovy but now they are more mellow and they have a thing for Pink Floyd.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: you can effectively seperate their career into two periods:
the humorous/slighly perverse period: Cruzential
the more mature period: The Good Life
Songs:
Best All Around:
humorous era: Vote for Dick Taid
mature era: Lampshade
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Kiss Me Goodbye
Most Relaxing: Bodmin Piil or New Years Eve
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: none outside northern Europe I suspect, but if you have then Rocket Brothers or Graceland
Song That Best Represents The Band: Again it depends but on newer albums it might be Rocket Brothers.
Bands Like This Band: Well they are always accused of being Radiohead ripoffs which I think is bullshit. If I had to say anything I would say that they are inspired by bands like Pink Floyd but maybe are akin to bands like Elbow and even Radiohead.
Coolest Thing About This Band: they have it all, both groovy manical rockers with rappish vocals and bleeding rock melancholy. Essentially it's their distinctive change in sound that makes them interesting and I like the fact that I can listen to them both for giggles and sobbing. While I admit they are not the best band ever, they have a place in my brain :)
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Sure, why not....
Band Name: The Mars Volta
Genre: Salsaprog/progcore
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9 (but acquired taste)
Best Album: Deloused in the Comatorium
Songs:
Best All Around: Concertina
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Plague Upon Your Hissings or Cut That City
Most Relaxing: The Widow, Televators
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: The Widow, Televators
Song That Best Represents The Band: Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt
Bands Like This Band: Pink Floyd on crack, Les Savy Fav on shrooms, At the Drive In off the deep end
Coolest Thing About This Band: the afros
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Band Name: Aerosmith
Genre: classic rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10 (no, seriously)
Best Album: It's debatable that this counts as an album, but I'd recommend going for the "Oh, Yeah!" 2-disc Greatest Hits album. If not, then the runner-up is Big Ones.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Love in an Elevator
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
- Most Relaxing: Sweet Emotion, although it still has a in-laden kick to it
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Walk This Way
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Same Old Song and Dance
Bands Like This Band: hard to say. Here, you've got the catchiness of Bon Jovi, the genre of Guns N' Roses, and the beat of, oh, Iron Maiden perhaps.
Coolest Thing About This Band: they're pure classic rock. If you need some of that, then you can pick up an album by these guys and you're guaranteed.[/quote]
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Hey folks. Can someone do me Echo and the Bunnymen? I only really know Ocean Rain but man, it's a great album but I don't know what other stuff of theirs to check.
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ill join here
Band Name: Yello
Genre: 80s electronica
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 4
Best Album: solid pleasure
Songs:
- Best All Around: oh yeah
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': also oh yeah
- Most Relaxing:jingle bells
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: oh yeah from ferris buelers day off AND duffman
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'the race'
Bands Like This Band: oingo boingo,
Coolest Thing About This Band: this band made the sexiest song ever, and then remixed it for christmas.
im sorry i didnt take this seriously enough.
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Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH
So I'm not entitled to post, then?
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Bingo.
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...but I LIKE the C-people.
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I would do Mew but I have only heard Frengers, anybody wanna do them for me?
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I am just now hearing an Aphex Twin song called Log N Rock Witch and have decided that I might want to be getting into them. Aphex Twin reveiw: GO!
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I had to review an LCD Soundsystem track ("Tribulations") this week, and I friggin' loved it, so if anyone could do a write-up for them I'd be grateful.
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Band Name: LCD Soundsystem
Genre: Electronic, Indie Dance
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: The one and only LCD Soundsystem
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Losing My Edge" (personal favorite)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Movement"
- Most Relaxing: "Never As Tired As I Am Waking Up"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Disco Infiltrator"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Yeah (Crass Version)"
Bands Like This Band: !!!, The Rapture
Coolest Thing About This Band: James Murphy is LCD Soundsystem. Murphy is a well-known producer and owner of the DFA record label that made DFA 1979 change their name. He also proves that assholes can make cool music.
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Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH AFTER 1990
I think that's a better rule.
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someone hook me up with info for Galaxy (galaxie?) 500 pleeeasseee
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Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH AFTER 1990
I think that's a better rule.
OMG SEX PISTOLS PUNK RAWK GOD SAVE THE QUEEN BITCH!!!!1!!!
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Fuck the Sex Pistols. It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.
And Black Sabbath. Yeah.
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And Black Sabbath. OH LAWD YEAH!
Fix'd.
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Since the last one I posted without being asked for it seemed to be well received, I'll put up another.
Band Name: Masters of Reality
Genre: Blues/Metal/Folk/Experimental Rock, depending on the album.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Half their albums are 10s, the others hover between 7 and 9. My breakdown: "Masters of Reality" (metal-y blues rock) - 10, "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" (straight-up blues rock) - 10, "Deep in the Hole" (heavy boogie rock) - 9.5, "Welcome to the Western Lodge" (experimental rock) - 7.5, "Give Us Barabbas" (folky for the most part) - 10
Best Album: Their self-titled, in my opinion, but very arguable.
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Doraldina's Prophecies" in my opinion ... again, very variable, they have a lot of sounds.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Probably "Kill the King," though some of the more experimental stuff off "Welcome to the Western Lodge" can sound very heavy.
- Most Relaxing: "Rabbit One," "The Ballad of Jody Frosty"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Domino"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Depends on album. I'll go with "Voice and the Vision" off "Give Us Barabbas."
Bands Like This Band: "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is very much like Cream, for reasons explained below.
Coolest Thing About This Band: "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up. He called it the best album in rock since the last Cream album he was part of. He might have a point.
Also, the bassist's name is Googe. Just Googe. And the singer/guitarist who's responsible for the vast majority of the band's output, Chris Goss, is the godfather of stoner rock, having produced Kyuss's signature sound and played in Josh Homme's Desert Sessions and various other related projects.
One last thing ... anyone watch Ren and Stimpy? Anyone remember the episode with "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf?" The song in that episode was done by Masters of Reality. It is the most bizarre thing ever.
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They totally swiped their name from that Sabbath album. OH LAWD YEAH!
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Fuck the Sex Pistols. It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.
And Black Sabbath. Yeah.
Truer words may have been spoken, but I cannot think of them right now.
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Fuck the Sex Pistols. It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.
And Black Sabbath. Yeah.
Truer words may have been spoken, but I cannot think of them right now.
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I want to know more about The Decemberists. I have Picaresque, but haven't really gotten into it until last night, and I have had it for a couple months.
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"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.
DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]
Ginger Baker did this:
(http://www.ginger-baker.com/Images/CDs/CD_GoingBack_big.jpg)
That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.
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I want to know more about The Decemberists. I have Picaresque, but haven't really gotten into it until last night, and I have had it for a couple months.
Check page 3.
I would like to know about the Beta Band, if anyone could oblige.
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Fuck the Sex Pistols. It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.
And Black Sabbath. Yeah.
Led Zeppelin, man. Led Zeppelin.
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The Kinks? Pre-Let's Dance Bowie? The Beatles?
Songwriting, people. Songwriting.
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GIRRRRL, YOU REALLY GOT ME NOWWWW YOU GOT ME SO I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOINGGGGG...
Yes, the Kinks wrote the most coverable song in the universe ever. It is also totally ace.
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^ Yes. ^
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The Kinks? Pre-Let's Dance Bowie? The Beatles?
Songwriting, people. Songwriting.
I gotta agree that Lennon and McCartney may have been some of the best songwriters ever. Too bad their solo careers never really matched what they did with the Beatles. I think they sort of needed their love/hate relationship to create that level of music.
They weren't really that great of musicians though. Their music got so complex they had to use session musicians for nearly everything later in their careers.
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Can someone do
Interpol Guns N' Roses for me?
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^ Put that one on hold, I can do it when I get home. ^
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I am just now hearing an Aphex Twin song called Log N Rock Witch and have decided that I might want to be getting into them. Aphex Twin reveiw: GO!
Band Name: Aphex Twin (Also known as AFX, Blue Calx , Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, The Dice Man, GAK, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Soit-P.P., Universal Indicator. Yeah, I know. He likes aliases. Richard D. James is his actual name, but I don't think he's released anything as that.)
Genre: Acid, Ambient, IDM, Breakcore. Depends mainly on the album, but some albums have all of them.
Your Rating Of Him (1-10): 9
Best Album: Jesus. I don't know really. They're too varied. I listen to The Richard D James Album, I Care Because You Do, and the Analord series most. So, one of them.
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Doraldina's Prophecies" in my opinion ... again, very variable, they have a lot of sounds.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Mt Saint Michel Mix + St Michaels Mount is pretty brutal all the way through. That or 'Run the Place Red' on the Smojphace EP (By AFX). The whole of the Red Album by Universal Indicator. It's relentless acid techno. No breakdowns, no drop ins, just bleeping techno for half an hour or so. I don't think the bass kick stops once in the wholoe album. That's kinda rockin', I guess.
- Most Relaxing: Blue Calx (Selected Ambient Works II is pretty freaking relaxing all the way through)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Windowlicker (http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3KDPASH7K64QM0J675ASQHGUP)", probobly
- Songs That Best Represents The Artist: AFX - PWSteal.Ldpinch.D (Analord 8) represents the acid side well, and Girl/Boy Song (Richard D James Album) for the IDM.
Bands Like This Band: Fellow Warp kids Plaid, Autechre and Squarepusher make stuff like his IDM tunes, especially if you don't listen to that much Electronica. Ceephax Acid Crew make similer acid. If you want stuff like SAW, things get harder. Marsen Jules and Reagenz, maybe?
Coolest Things About This Artist: He's kinda crazy and makes alot of his own synths. His music videos feature horribly warped versions of his own face in unpleasant places, eg replacing the faces of small children or bikini-clad models. He made a waveform of his own face and put the resulting sound into one of his songs. If his album titles are to be believed, he's been producing songs since he was 15. He has been known to stop the music during live sets to yell gibberish at the audience for up to 15 minutes. He plays Gabba just to piss people off.
As a side note, If you liked Logon Rock Witch, get the Richard D James Album first. It's all in that sort of vein.
Edit: 707 posts! In the spirit of the Twin, this calls for a synth:
(http://electricguitar.50megs.com/Chix/baby_g707.jpg)
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Nobody asked for Kyuss, but I was subconsciously wanting it.
Thumbs up to onewheelwizzard.
seconded
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Band Name: Aphex Twin
Best Album: Jesus. I don't know really. They're too varied. I listen to The Richard D James Album, I Care Because You Do, and the Analord series most. So, one of them.
I think best album would probably have to go to one of the Selected Ambient Works albums, since those are what essentially put him on the map.
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To be sure, they're what made him famous, but I don't think they are his best albums. They're seriously great, but I prefer his less, uh, ambient works. It's pretty hard to compare them to the rest of his stuff, to be honest, as they really are a totally different genre. As I said, I just put the one's I listen to most.
Also, the request came off the back of Logon Rock Witch, so I'm not sure SAW is the kind of stuff he's looking for.
So, In conclusion, listen to more Aphex Twin.
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Anyone feel like doing one on Roxy Music? I have only heard bits of songs that haven't really enthused me. Still, it seems that alot of people I listen to are influenced by them, from what I hear.
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Band Name: Guns N' Roses
Genre: classic rock
Your Rating Of Them: 9
Best Album: Use Your Illusion
Songs:
- Best All Around: Estranged
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Garden
- Most Relaxing: Don't Cry
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Live and Let Die / Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sweet Child O' Mine
Bands Like This Band: Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, Journey
Coolest Thing About This Band: they combine guitar and piano, which is an automatic plus. Also, some of their songs are really long, which is something you see not-so-much anymore. But, the coolest thing is probably that the vocals are as awesome as the instrumentals, and the songs are all quite varied.
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Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses? I didn't know that! *has never bothered looking up the artist anyway*
Perhaps I shall seek to purchase that album in the near future. Thanks!
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Band Name: Nellie McKay
Genre: funny jazzy chanteuse rap...core?
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Get Away From Me(her only album)
Songs:
Best All Around: It's a tie between Sari and Won't U Please B Nice
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': she doesn't do rock but Sari is pretty frantic
Most Relaxing: Manhattan Avenue
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: None, I suspect, I don't think she gets a lot of airplay.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Well she's all over the place musically with swing, jazz and rap. But lyrically it would be the opener on Get Away From Me, David.
Bands Like This Band: the only one I can think of is Kevin Blechdom, but slightly more reserved. There are no songs about her sexual relations with Mister Miguel like Kevin Blechdom, she is much more sassy.
Coolest Thing About This Band:
Mainly that she's so damn funny, her lyrics are filled with one-liners like this gem: "If you run/I'll pull a gun/give me head/or you'll be dead/salute the flag/or I'll call you a fag/so won't u please b nice"
and the music backing these lyrics are just perfect, mixing swing, jazz(or slow shady bar tunes if you will) and hiphop, as I said she wanders around in genres, but it never feels out of place.
Basically it's just great fun, both for the ears and the brain.
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Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses? I didn't know that!
It's a cover of the Wings song.
Also, could I get someone to do Mum for me?
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Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses?
Ouch.
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By request:
Band Name: Múm
Genre: Experimental electronic
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9 before seeing them live...7 after seeing them live
Best Album: It really depends on what you're in the mood for emotionally. Overall, I'd say Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK is their best album, but the band's sound has changed a lot, and is a lot more spotty in terms of quality than it used to be.
Songs:
Best All Around: There is a number of small things
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Most Relaxing: All...but Hu Hviss- a ship and Weeping Rock, Rock are particularly soothing.
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:If you live in a town with college radio I'm sure you've heard something by them. Maybe Weeping Rock, Rock or Green Grass of Tunnel.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Awake on a Train
Bands Like This Band: If you like any of the stuff on Morr Music, there's no reason you shouldn't at least be intrigued by Múm. If you're into Sigur Rós you might enjoy them as well, though Múm is a bit more childlike.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They use a large number of instruments in their compsition and performances...things that you wouldn't necessarily associate with an electronic artist. You'd think it wouldn't work but somehow it does.
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Gratzi!
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9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue. The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.
Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.
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"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.
DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]
That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.
I stand humbly corrected. Time to go look for the Ginger Baker Trio.
I will say, however, that his work on "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" was sublime, and that using it as a hook to draw people into Masters of Reality is something I'll continue to do. Chris Goss has become one of the greatest figures in rock over the last two decades and he's criminally underappreciated.
I think I'll go ahead and do another band.
Band Name: Desert Sessions
Genre: Experimental EVERYTHING. With drugs.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5
Best Album: Either Sessions 1+2 or Sessions 9+10. There are 5 CDs out so far. (1+2, 3+4, 5+6, 7+8, 9+10)
Songs:
Best All Around: Overall I think my favorite is "Up In Hell" from 7+8, but everyone's got a different favorite with this stuff.
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Probably "Dead In Love" from 9+10.
Most Relaxing: "Like A Drug" or "I Wanna Make It WitChu"
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Crawl Home" form 9+10 if anything. It's a PJ Harvey song as much as anything else (she worked on 9+10) and I think a lot of her fans picked up on it but not on anything else.
Song That Best Represents The Band: This is a totally impossible question. The entire point of the Desert Sessions is spontaneity and experimentation... nothing could possibly represent it all.
Bands Like This Band: Queens of the Stone Age covered a few Desert Sessions tracks in their albums. Does that count?
Coolest Thing About This Band: This is a pet project of Josh Homme (QOTSA, Kyuss) and his buddies. Basically, a variable bunch of musicians head out to a house/studio into the CA desert for a week and jam out with a variety of instruments and mind alterants. The results are ... impossible to describe. You'll have to hear them. I suppose I can give the overall feel of each CD:
1+2: Trippy and instrumental with some silly vocal skits in there too.
3+4: Lots of sampling and non-lyrical vocals, mostly slower and heavier.
5+6: All over the place.
7+8: Lots of weird rock, all with cryptic lyrics and unusual sounds, and a couple jokes too.
9+10: PJ Harvey's presence is definitely here, and everything else is much like 7+8.
One cool thing is that a lot of it is really just jokes. Plenty of inside jokes show up in each album (just look at the credits ... Josh Homme is sometimes referred to as "J.Ho," and silly names like "Cole Johntrane," "Nigel Thistlewaityourturner III," and "Countess Fuckface and The Duchess of Dick " show up as well). Just visit http://thefade.net/lyrics.html and scroll down to the Desert Sessions songs, and read the credits. It's a fucking riot.
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9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue. The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.
Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.
This depends on the type of IDM. If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.
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"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.
DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]
That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.
And aren't you both forgetting Blind Faith? Not that it's tremendously difficult to do, as they were together for a whopping 6 months.
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9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue. The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.
Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.
The crowd contributed to my disappointment partially, but overall the performance, while technically proficient, just didn't have anything to it. It felt like they were just going through the motions, and that they didn't really care about the music. I've seen a number of performances by electronic artists (including many of the glitchy variety) that were much more intense than that.
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This depends on the type of IDM. If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.
Nah, industrial is stupid dance music. You know, the stuff that's good.
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Nobody asked for them, and no one will care, but I'm bored, so I'll do it anyway:
Band Name: Every Time I Die
Genre: That bizarre intersection in music land where rock 'n' roll meets dissonant hardcore
Your Rating Of Them: 9
Best Album: 'Hot Damn!'. 'Gutter Phenomenon' and 'Last Night In Town' aren't far behind, though. The thing about 'Last Night...' however, is that it is largely devoid of any of the rock 'n' roll influences found on their later albums.
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'I Been Gone A Long Time', 'Kill the Music', 'Ebolarama', 'The Logic of Crocodiles'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'I Been Gone A Long Time', 'Kill the Music'
- Most Relaxing: Uh, 'Enter Without Knocking and Notify the Police' and 'In Case Everything Should Go Terribly Wrong'? They're scary songs, but that's about as close to relaxing as you'll get with Every Time I Die.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Ebolarama' or 'Kill the Music'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Pre-'Hot Damn!' it's 'The Logic of Crocodiles', post-'Hot Damn!' it's definitely 'I Been Gone A Long Time'
Bands Like This Band: Uh, Fight Paris? Not that you want to listen to them, because they're a horrible, shitty ETID rip-off with none of the class, intelligence or subtlety.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Let's see... cowbell, crazy lyrics, complete vocal showmanship and oh, even though it was completely pointless, they brought in Michael Madsen to star in one of their videos.
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Band Name: Darkest Hour
Genre: a hybrid of Gothenburg melodic death metal and thrash
Your Rating Of Them: 9.5
Best Album: 'Undoing Ruin'
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Sound the Surrender', 'These Fevered Times'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'No Closer Than A Stranger'
- Most Relaxing: 'Veritas, Aequitas', 'Pathos'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Oklahoma', 'The Sadist Nation'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'Sound the Surrender', 'The Sadist Nation', 'With A Thousand Words To Say But One'
Bands Like This Band: At the Gates, any melodic Gothernburg death metal band you can think of
Coolest Thing About This Band: Not only is their motto "live to thrash, thrash to live", but they worship Gothenburg metal so much that 'Hidden Hands of A Sadist Nation' was recorded in Studio Fredman where 'Slaughter of the Soul' was recorded, and it also features guest spots from Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates, Disfear), Anders Björler (At the Gates, The Haunted), Peter Wichers (Soilwork) and Marcus Sunesson (The Crown). Oh, did I mention they have the amazing Kris Norris on guitar?
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Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses?
Ouch.
Well, please forgive me for not knowing everything that you happen to know.
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I can't forgive you. You're supposed to know everything about music that there's ever been to know. Idiot.
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This depends on the type of IDM. If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.
Nah, industrial is stupid dance music. You know, the stuff that's good.
Isn't :wumpscut: industrial? Or were you being ironic?
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Someone do Olivia Tremor Control goddamnit please! :)
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Isn't :wumpscut: industrial? Or were you being ironic?
Very. I love industrial.
I was punning off the fact that Industrial isn't 'intelligent'.
Wierdly, you can actually dance to a good deal of it though.
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Yeah.
I'm going to continue the "IDM is a retarded name" thing in a separate thread so as not to threadjack this truly excellent thread (in which someone will hopefully do a capsule summary of Super Furry Animals at some point).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Big thanks to La Creme.
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-- DeVotchKa
I'll write this one up when I'm less lazy.
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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.
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@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.
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Shit, get them all; I just prefer their live albums (and the bootlegs even more, but those are free) to the normal stuff.
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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.
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Anyone care to do one for either Porcupine Tree or Architecture in Helsinki?
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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).
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What happened to my Echo and the Bunnymen request? :(
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-- 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.
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Band Name: DeVotchKa (http://www.devotchka.net)
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.
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bouzooki
Oh come on. Now your just making things up.
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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)
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bouzooki
Oh come on. Now your just making things up.
Spelled it wrong, but:
(http://www.timelessinstruments.com/bouzouki.jpg)
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That's the thing that makes that awesome bouncy noise isn't it?
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Dunno. What do you mean by bouncy?
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I dunno.
It sounds kinda like a balalaika would if a balalaika said BOING.
At least I think it does.
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Something like that, I think.
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Can someone do Dropkick Murpheys? I have two of their CDs, but don't know nearly enough about them!!
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Shouldn't you be listening to the Pogues instead?
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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.
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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?
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On the topic of the mandolin, I give to you The Winks (http://www.thewinks.net).
I would write up about thembut that links all I know. And that they have some mp3's on their site. Go now!
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Urgent requests:
-- Ultravox
-- Tuxedomoon
-- Daft Punk
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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".)
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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.
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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.
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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. (http://www.miserysignals.net)
Metalcore. (http://www.normajeannoise.com)
Metalcore. (http://www.unearth.tv)
Still metalcore. (http://www.asilaydying.com)
Not metalcore. (http://www.thursday.net)
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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.
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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?
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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. (http://www.miserysignals.net)
Metalcore. (http://www.normajeannoise.com)
Metalcore. (http://www.unearth.tv)
Still metalcore. (http://www.asilaydying.com)
Not metalcore. (http://www.thursday.net)
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?
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Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.
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Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.
You Fail Me FTW
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Can anyone help me with Tears for Fears?
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Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.
Jane Doe FTW
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Thursday is emocore, Converge is metalcore.
Atreyu FTW
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*Broken : (
Sorry, I'll stop now.
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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?
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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 :\)
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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
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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.
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The worst thing about weezer is they are overplayed and thier newer albums area bit hokey.
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Didn't the frontman of Weezer kinda disown El Scorcho?
It's a pity, 'cause it's an awesome tune.
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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.
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Read any recent interview about the band or listen to Pinkerton and you should pick up on that.
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I am to requesting The Residents, Praxis, and Explosions In The Sky. Maybe Dinosaur Jr. too.
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Actually, I'd like Explosions in the Sky too.
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Band Name: Dead Can Dance
Genre: Darkwave/World
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8-9
Best Album: Toward the Within or Serpent's Egg.
Songs:
- Best All Around: The Host of Seraphim or Black Sun
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They don't rock much...but for intensity, Arabian Gothic
- Most Relaxing: The Wind That Shakes the Barley or American Dreaming
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Maybe The Host of Seraphim.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Hard to choose. Severance maybe?
- Bands Like This Band: A lot of bands sound like bit's of DCD, but no-one sounds exactly like them. Their emphasis on acoustic instrumentation distances them from other darkwave bands, and their world influences set them apart from most neo-folk. The only band ever to cover them half decently was Bauhaus.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Eclecticism and a commitment to beauty.
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Band name: Explosions in the Sky
Genre: Postrock/indie
Your rating of them (1-10): 9
Best album: 'Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever'
Songs:
- Best all around: Difficult to say, but perhaps 'Have you passed through this night?'
- Loudest/hardest/most rockin': 'Greet death' or 'Yasmin the light'
- Most relaxing: 'Six days at the bottom of the ocean'
- Most played/A song by them you may have heard: I wouldn't know, help me here?
- Song that best represents the band: And help here as well? ( :
Bands like this band: There's alot of bands that has alot in common with Explosions in the Sky, but not any that is exactly into the same thing. Bands that I would say could be linked to them are Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson, Mogwai, Sigur Rós, Tortoise and Do Make Say Think, for example.
Coolest thing about this band: Melody, harmony, rawness and pretty coverart. ( :
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- Most played/A song by them you may have heard: I wouldn't know, help me here?
They did the soundtrack for Friday Night Lights.
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Yeah, I remember that, but the tracks on the soundtrack were actually mostly just parts of their own songs, with different titles. At least that's what I've heard, and I also recognized some of the songs.
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Severance
There's a Severance around here that does the hardcore-emo-punk thing with varying success, but I'm sure you don't mean them. So tell me of the Severance you know about :)
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Erm, it's a Dead Can Dance song.
The first line is "Severance, the birds of leaving call to us".
It's rather beautiful.
Again, erm?
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Whoops, I read it as if Severance was under "Bands like this". My mistake :)
I'm looking into Dead Can Dance now, if it makes up any.
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Erm, it's a Dead Can Dance song.
The first line is "Severance, the birds of leaving call to us".
It's rather beautiful.
Again, erm?
Dead can Dance rule, hard. One of the interesting things about them is that one of their founding members was one of the founding members of one of New Zealand's original punk bands. He then went on to DCD. Interesting change don't you think?
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Not as wierd as you'd at first think in my opinion. Compare Tony Wakeford's work with Crisis to any of his later projects, or the early Siouxsie and the Banshees stuff to anything by The Creatures.
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Not as wierd as you'd at first think in my opinion. Compare Tony Wakeford's work with Crisis to any of his later projects, or the early Siouxsie and the Banshees stuff to anything by The Creatures.
I suppose so. The Creatures are still a lot more upbeat than DCD in my opinion though.
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It's a similiar stylistic shift though. Depends on the song as well. I wouldn't say all DCD was downbeat.
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Can anyone describe Pelican for me? I'm not sure if they're considered 'indie' but I don't know anything about them and they showed up on my recommended page on Amazon.
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Khar, I can't seem to find the album with the Arch Enemy cover on it. Would you mind doing a short synopsis?
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Band Name: Arch Enemy
Genre: Old-school Melodic Death Metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5
Best Album: With Johann Liva: Burning Bridges. With Angela Gossow: Anthems of Rebellion
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Angelclaw'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pretty much all of them rock. Try 'Despicable Heroes' or 'Demonic Science'
- Most Relaxing: 'Snow Bound'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'We Will Rise'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Nowadays, 'Dead Eyes See No Future'
- Bands Like This Band: Dark Tranquillity, older In Flames, older Soilwork, Darkane, At The Gates, Insomnium on a good day.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: A good few things. Firstly, with Dark Tranquillity's last effort rather lackluster, they're the only band left in the Gothenburg scene making distinct, energetic music and continuing to expand their musical identity through anything except silly gimmicks*. Secondly, they resolutely retain their metalness rather than attempting to add 'core elements to appease the current zietgeist. I am particularly fond of the fact that, despite having a female vocalist, they eschew the tired 'harsh verse/melodic chorus' pattern, and in fact Angela is one of the most diseased and brutal DM singers anywhere near the mainstream**. Thirdly, they use keyboards with taste to actually enhance their music, and fourthly, they feature some serious guitar wizardry. MICHAEL. AMOTT. His insanity was more obvious on the distinctly different stuff with old vocalist Johann, but apparently on the newest album (Which I haven't heard yet) he starts breaking out the serious fretboard punishment.
*I'm looking at you, Dark Lunacy.
**And the second most brutal female DM vocalist ever. She'd need to gargle razorblades before she could touch Ara from Matriarch, however.
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I am to requesting The Residents, Praxis,
Finally! After SIX PAGES, My dream is requested.
Band Name: The Residents
Genre: Avant Garde
Your Rating of them: 10
Best Album: Such a fucking hard question; with a good heaping pile of albums over 30 years, there's alot of good (and some bad). That and it's hard to get albums by them unless you're buying online, and even then it's a tad hard. Look out for Meet The Residents, Eskimo, The Commercial Album, Not Available, The Third Reich N' Roll (Which has just been rereleased with an awesome book/cd cover thing. It's badass. You can get it at www.ralphamerica.com), Duck Stab/Buster and Glen, Fingerprince, Mark of the Mole, The Tunes of Two Cities, Intermission, The Big Bubble, God In Three Persons, The Mole Show: Live in Holland, The King and Eye, Cube-E: Live in Holland, Freak Show, Life at the Fillmore, Wormwood, and their latest one, Animal Lover.
Songs:
-Best All Around: I'm just going to go with "Olive and Gray".
-Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Some of their really early live things (The Latter half of Baby Sex, for example) are really bitchin, but that's because they hijacked stages and had people listen to them.
-Most Relaxing: Probably either the Hunters soundtrack (it's all one track) or some of their more ambient works, although some of those are slightly creepy.
-Most Played/A Song by them you may have heard: Either their cover of Hank Williams "Kaw Liga" or The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction. And, if you happened to have been in LA in the 1980s, they bought out 40 one minute slots on the radios and played their songs all at once. (This was off the Commercial Album, where every song was under a minute; the time of a commercial).
-Song that Best Represents the band: I'm going to go with Imaginary Jack (It's the second disk of Animal Lover; basically, it's also, once again all one song).
Bands Like This Band: Renaldo and the Loaf, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Primus, Praxis, Mr. Bungle, Nash the Slash, Zappa/The Mothers, C2B3, Chicks on Speed, Captain Beefheart, Buckethead.
Coolest Thing About This Band: My God. They have complete anoniminity (They feel that the focus should be more on their actual music and not their personal lives or politics) and The Theory of Obscurity, and created some of the most original music over thirty years. Also, their ambient works are great for creeping out that "friend" of yours who hates the shit out of them because they actuall try and do things artistically compared to his beloved Crossfade, who are the most boring, bland, worthless piece of shit of music ever.
And I'll do Praxis later; I'm lazy.
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Band Name: Galaxie 500
Genre:Slo-Core
Your Rating Of Them (1-10):7
Best Album: On Fire, though all three of their albums are consistent if you like their sound.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Fourth of July
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Strange
- Most Relaxing: Not an issue, most of their stuff has the ability to lull you to sleep.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Their cover of ceremony by Joy Division.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Blue Thunder
Bands Like This Band: Codeine, Bedhead, Low, American Analog Set and lots of other slow indie rock bands.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Their not really about being a cool band. I find their just something nice to listen to on a rainy day when you're doing your homework and drinking tea.
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You could add Damon & Naomi and Luna to the list of similar bands for Galaxie, seeing as they both feature previous members.
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Someone requested Mew a while back.
Band Name: Mew
Genre: Indie-pop-rock, atmospheric if anything.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: And The Glass Handed Kites
Songs:
- Best All Around: 156, Zookeeper's Son (very much argued, no doubt)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Apocalypso
- Most Relaxing: She Came Home for Christmas
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Strong Frengers-songs like 156 and Shespider.. and then, when they surface to US or something - Special.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Am I Wry? No
- Bands Like This Band: The new album has gotten hella lot Radiohead-references.. I'd say Interpol or Doves with artistic, softer tints a'la Sigur Ros, maybe even Radiohead.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Jonas' eerie voice and the way they can blend that "catchiness of radio hits" into long-winding atmospheric pieces. The way ATGHK (gah) is composed, it's like one big song you'd prefer not to stop listening before its end, then again the songs still works as stand-alones aswell.
Someone should do Vive la Fete or.. Stereophonics.
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You are not too fond of A Triumph for Man and Half the World is Watching Me, or have you simply not heard them? The reason I asked was that I haven't and so I didn't think I could give the whole picture of the band. Granted not many have heard those, but they are(I assume) pretty important parts of their development.
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Can I have "The Boy Least Likely To"?
And did we cover Wilco?
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Khar's post about DCD is making me miss my copies of their old albums and my love of 4AD records pre-91 sound in general.
How about a profile of Electric Wizard?
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Band Name: Electric Wizard
Genre: Stoner Doom
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Dopethrone
Songs:
- Best All Around: Dopethrone
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': What a choice. Barbarian maybe.
- Most Relaxing: I'd go for 'Funeralopolis' or Chrono.Naut
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ...Nah.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Master of Alchemy: a) House of Whipcord b) The Black Drug
- Bands Like This Band: Iron Monkey, Ramesses, Overlord, Syrafex, Eyehategod.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: How much more awesome any given album becomes when you're drunk or stoned.
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Can anyone tell me about the Hippos? A friend of mine gave me a mix CD a few years ago, and it included the song "Wasting My Life". I absolutely fell in love with it, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the rest of their stuff is as incredible.
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Can anyone tell me about the Hippos? A friend of mine gave me a mix CD a few years ago, and it included the song "Wasting My Life". I absolutely fell in love with it, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the rest of their stuff is as incredible.
Do you mean the Ska band?
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You are not too fond of A Triumph for Man and Half the World is Watching Me, or have you simply not heard them? The reason I asked was that I haven't and so I didn't think I could give the whole picture of the band. Granted not many have heard those, but they are(I assume) pretty important parts of their development.
Just ain't that fond of them, really. Plus I think their best songs were the ones they decided to include to Frengers. Sure, I Should've Been a Tsin-tsin and Coffee Break and all of the others were nice songs, but.. like I said, it's arguable and I've been arguing about this many times before. The first albums are a big part of their development since it's their beginning, but I just think they've become a lot better since.
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I'd like to request Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Shins. Yes, I intend to veer this thread away from the path of death/doom/metal etc.
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Can anyone tell me about the Hippos? A friend of mine gave me a mix CD a few years ago, and it included the song "Wasting My Life". I absolutely fell in love with it, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the rest of their stuff is as incredible.
Do you mean the Ska band?
I don't know if they'd be considered Ska or not. Like I said, I've only heard one song.
ps- I love your avatar ^^
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I have a very broad definition of ska. i.e with trumpets and fast.
I don't know enough about the band to really comment except that I have seen them live and I thought the were excellent. They managed to get everyone dancing in the middle of a summer afternoon in a tin shed. No mean feat.
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I'd like to request Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Shins. Yes, I intend to veer this thread away from the path of death/doom/metal etc.
Then I will have to kill you, because the Doom metal is the most interesting part of this thread. also, all those bands are really boring.
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I don't know enough about the band to really comment except that I have seen them live and I thought the were excellent. They managed to get everyone dancing in the middle of a summer afternoon in a tin shed. No mean feat.
Even that helps! Thanks!! And I didn't realize it got that hot in a puddle of self-pity. Your location is listed as wallowing in yours, but mine is pretty cool in the summertime. I don't know d:
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I saw Sleepytime Gorilla Museum! I did! Not a request, but I saw it!!
Band Name: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Genre: Dada Metal/Folk
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: As an album, Of Natural History
Songs:
- Best All Around: Sleep Is Wrong
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 1997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's)
- Most Relaxing: Sunflower (or What Shall We Do Without Us)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Probably not
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: Grand Opening and Closing: Sleepytime, and Of Natural History: Babydoctor
- Most Entertaining Song: Cockroach
- Bands Like This Band: Idiot Flesh; Mr. Bungle, the Residents, and John Zorn are broad influences; they've covered Cheer-Accident if that helps
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Well, probably the coolest thing about them is how they are the next great band of the past that no one found out about at the time. We could go into how they put on awesome, performance art style shows, or how they invent their own instruments, or how they use huge junk percussion sections, or how they base their lyrics around dadaist nonsense theories and still come across as brilliant, or even how they write absolutely bloody brilliant music. But that would take a while.
Requests: Dodheimsgard, Dalek (the rap group, nothing to do with Dr. Who), The Locust, Cheer-Accident (while I'm at it). Also, can we get some Krautrock going here? I'll start with an easy request: Faust please!
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Can anyone tell me about the Hippos? A friend of mine gave me a mix CD a few years ago, and it included the song "Wasting My Life". I absolutely fell in love with it, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the rest of their stuff is as incredible.
Band Name: The Hippos
Sounds Like: well, The Hippos are one of those bands that changed their style rather noticeably from album to album, so i'm gonna address it like that.
1st album: Forget the World- pretty standard ska-pop-punk stuff. but with groovy percussion (i.e., congas n' shit)!
2nd album: Heads are Gonna Roll- major-label debut. their percussionist quit prior to this, so there's none of that to be found. they cut back on the ska a bit on this one in favor of more synthpop-rock flavors.
3rd album: The Hippos- no ska at all. both their trombone players had quit by this point, and their trumpet player moved largely to keyboard duties. there's a few good, engaging tunes on this, but most of the affair sounds like Smash Mouth meets post-Green Album Weezer.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 6-7. their music is catchy and engaging, for the most part, but some of their lyrics were dull as dirt.
Best Album: Forget the World
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Asleep at the Wheel", "Struggling"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Please", "Lost It"
- Most Relaxing: "Going Home"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Wasting My Life" ...obviously.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Far Behind" (Forget the World version), "The Sand", "When Will I Learn?"
Bands Like This Band: Reel Big Fish, Jeffries Fan Club, The Forces of Evil, etc. etc. etc.
Coolest Thing About This Band: their lead singer/guitarist is left-handed (like me), and since their breakup, he's been doing some sort of rap thing, i guess? i dunno, it's what i heard. also, they did a pretty kickass cover of "So Lonely" by The Police. and they also did a pretty good version of Operation Ivy's "Freeze Up".
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Thanks! You're awesome. Now all I need to do is find an album... You've not slacked my curiosity about them, despite your 6-7. Thanks again!
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Alot of stuff about Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleeptyime Gorilla Museum are seriously amazing and you guys should all go out and buy things by them.
Also, I missed seeing them live because it was a 21+ show, which is like, *Shoot myself in the face* material.
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[musically pretentious asshole]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's best song is "The Donkey-Headed Adversary Of Humanity". Accept it.
Heads Are Gonna Roll is a fucking incredible album. It kicks the ass off everything else the Hippos ever did.
[/musically pretentious asshole]
Otherwise, good reveiwin'.
I second the Dalek request.
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This is really a lovely thread. It's given me a lot of ideas for my next record store trip.
Is there anybody out there who could do Calexico, !!! and/or Beat Happening for me? I am asking for three in the hope of having one answered.
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I saw SGM in concert in DC in June. The weak opening bands took forever, so they didn't even get the stage until midnight for a little one-hour set, but it was incredible! You think the music's good, it gets better just watching them flail around and generally have more energy than almost everyone in the room. All I'm sayin' is, if you get the chance, GO. Because... well... DAMN.
And yeah, "Donkey-Headed Adversary..." is also indisputably awesome.
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Band Name: Broken Social Scene
Genre: Rock/Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: You Forgot it in People
Songs:
- Best All Around: Probably, Stars and Sons
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Ibi Dreams of Pavement
- Most Relaxing: Lots of it. Lover's Spit, maybe.
Bands Like This Band: Nothing's like this band. Maybe a more subdued arcade fire.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Everything.
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Seriously, if I can come up with 12 bands that sound like the Residents (And that's not listing all of them) then you can do to think up plenty of bands that sound like Broken Social Scene. the Fucking Residents!
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Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH
Why is anything British banned from discussion?
Maxïmo Park, Test Icicles, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Oasis, The Verve, Feeder, Placebo, The Buzzcocks, Montana Pete ... surely you're not banning all of these?
I hope not, because they truly are the greatest.
I mean, gee, sorry we didn't come up with Britney, but I think we have something to offer.
Love from Katie!
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It's just that most of the bands you mentioned there suck. Especially Franz Ferdinand.
Of course there are good band from Great Britain. There are just very few good English bands, because all good bands from Great Britain either come from Wales (mclusky, anyone?) or Scotland (Biffy Clyro, Aereogramme, Mogwai and so on).
But, on a more serious note, if you had paid more attention to this thread, you would have noticed that quite a few British bands have been done in here. I think what Kai was trying to say was "No totally over-hyped new band with just one album out", because frankly, in that case, just go and listen to the album. And quite a few famous British bands fall into this category right now.
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Maxïmo Park, Test Icicles, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Oasis, The Verve, Feeder, Placebo, The Buzzcocks, Montana Pete ...
This is pretty much the exact list I'd give when asked to justify banning all mention of British bands.
As SpacemanSpiff has already mentioned, there are good British bands, but they ain't them. And they're mainly from Scotland or Sheffield. I have no idea why.
In other news, I could do Dalek if no-one else is keen. I don't know that much about them, but I could certainly give you some information and opinions.
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Could we please, please keep the posts focussed on requests for profiles, and profiles? I don't want a thread this useful to get locked in an I hate Franz Ferdinand because they are selloutz slapfight.
On topic: can someone do Numbers? I'm reading good things about We're Animals.
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Can someone do Blur?
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Band Name: Blur
Genre: Rock/Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 6
Best Album: The Best of (Duh)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Country house
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Song 2
- Most Relaxing: Tender
Bands Like This Band: There aren't really any that sound exactly like them. Kind of Oasis, kind of Radiohead, ya know?
Coolest Thing About This Band: They eventually spawned Gorillaz
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^^^ a bit light on the details.
I don't think a best of should be cited as best album especially in this case as they have released albums after their best of.
Also Think Tank is awesome.
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OK, somebody do GWAR for me next.
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^^^ a bit light on the details.
I don't think a best of should be cited as best album especially in this case as they have released albums after their best of.
Also Think Tank is awesome.
Well yes... they have but in my opinion they weren't any good. I honestly believe that the best of really is the best album, there were so many terrible songs on the other albums.
I'd recommend getting the best of DVD. That's bloody good.
To be fair, I haven't owned a Blur CD in... nearly 5 years so this is all just from memory. If some one wants to do it in more detail then go right ahead.
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No one's done my all-time favorite group yet, so here goes...
Band Name: Autechre
Genre: IDM (comma purest form of)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Tri Repetae++
Songs:
- Best All Around: Cipatter (tough call though)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 61e.cr
- Most Relaxing: Vletrmx21
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Gantz Graf ('cuz of the video, mostly)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Nuane
Bands Like This Band: Ventolin/I Care Because You Do-type Aphex Twin; some kid606
Coolest Thing About This Band: No group I've heard comes close to creating such impeccably crafted surreal soundscapes. While flirting with techno, breakbeat, and glitchcore, Autechre creates something entirely new with those elements, a gestalt, each part of the song perfectly engineered into a flowing, coherent whole.
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Their remix of Dark River by Coil is the fucking bomb.
END.
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It's just that most of the bands you mentioned there suck. Especially Franz Ferdinand.
Oh well. Just trying to say there are good bands there. And I like a lot of them (please dont hate me, everyone) and to be honest I don't think they're over-hyped. I haven't really seen any hype.* Especially for Montana Pete. No-one knows who they are.
Love from Katie.
* then again it's not like I read NME or anything. So you can dispute this all you like.**
** but I'll still like 'em.
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Autechre
- Most Relaxing: Vletrmx21
Dude! (Yulquen) is their most relaxing for realz. It's like someone got all the awesome ambience of SAWII and compressed it into one song. <3
Anyway, I want to second the Faust request. I've only got Faust So Far, and it has cunningly burnt its awesome into my mind without me really noticing. Especially "it's a rainy day, sunshine girl". Damn it's good. Other than that one album though, I don't know shit, so help!
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You got a point, in that Vletrmx21 has this oddly uplifting quality...rather like Godspeed You! actually.
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Hey Spaceman Spiff please be nice to the newbies
Not everyone knows music that well. But you are right I think all bands in this thread should have more then one album released. And I going to see the Kaiser Chiefs tonight.
Tom
P.S Leave Biffy Clyro for me when I come back I might do Belle and Sebastian and Franz Ferninand if I'm feeling generous
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I tried Biffy and I think I failed, hence deleted the thing. However I'm gonna pick yours to bits once it's done :P
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You do Biffy first. I checked out your website and you're going to see them in Dec (jealous) I have also relised that my copy of Blackened Sky has broken' down today.(bugger) also i don't own The Vertigo of Bliss. So KoasPilot you first.
To Spacespiff who mentioned Aerogramme as one of his favourite bands from Scotland have you checked out a album called The Suffolk Explosion it was produced by the lead singer of Aerogramme - Really good album.
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Well, since no-one else has taken a crack at these guys I figure I might as well.
Band Name: The Locust
Genre: Contentious one that. Safest just to call them punk or hardcore, and avoid all use of the word grind.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Either Plaguesoundscapes or the Man Is The Bastard Noise split
Songs:
- Best All Around: See, this doesn't really work for The Locust. I mean, it's not like there's a great variety on offer.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Ditto for this quesion. Just listen to a few tracks and you'll see what I mean.
- Most Relaxing: Flight of the Wounded Locust I believe it's called. I think it's on the Arab On Radar split.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: I seem to remember seeing a video for Listen, The Mighty Ear Is Here once.
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: You can pretty much pick any at random, apart from remixes or the very very occasional bit of meandering oddness
- Most Entertaining Song: The one that has the title you personally find the most amusing. Personally I'm a fan of Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You A Cantaloupe.
- Bands Like This Band: There are a million knock-offs doing the rounds, the most famous of which being Daughters. But if you want someone doing a similar thing just as well then look to Peel favourites Trencher or even Whores Whores Whores who are much better than their name would suggest.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: When they signed to Anti all the cool kids started saying they were shite because some people without the 'right' record collections had started buying their stuff, so now I won't run into some stuck-up dick wearing the same shirt I am.
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Somebody do Venom, Saxon, Edge of Sanity, or King Diamond.
It will most likely be Khar for all of them, but I'm just tossing some names I'm tangentally familiar with out there.
Also, curse this forum for not having the strikeout tags.
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Could anybody here tell me about Tiamat? I recently heard one of their albums compared to Blackwater Park in sheer metal awesomeness, and thus I am suddenly intensely interested.
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All I can help with recently is: Venom are mother fucking awesome.
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Band Name: Venom
Genre: Old-School Black Metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Black Metal
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Black Metal'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Bloodlust'
- Most Relaxing: Not really something Venom do. But try 'Buried Alive' or 'Warhead'.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Both Countess Bathory and Black Metal are covered to all hell
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: 'Black Metal'
- Bands Like This Band: old Bathory, Sodom, Mercyful Fate, Bulldozer, Celtic Frost, Angel Witch
- Coolest Thing About This Band: They invented Black Metal, and wrote it's theme tune. You must hear 'Black Metal' by Venom. Some prefer their first album. This is irrelevant. Get it now.
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Band Name: Edge of Sanity
Genre: Progressive/Melodic Death Metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5
Best Album: Purgatory Afterglow
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Enigma'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Disrupting the Inhabitants'
- Most Relaxing: 'Sacrificed' or 'Losing Myself'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ...nah
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: 'Crimson'
- Bands Like This Band: Opeth (a bit), Gallery-era Dark Tranquillity, some At The Gates, Elegy-era Amorphis, Reasonably unique though.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: The creative play-off between Dan Swano and Dread Axellson creates a band influenced by both classic Entombed and The Sisters of Mercy, at the same time. They were also, as far as my exhaustive research tells, the first band to ever use clean vocals in death metal. Pretentious greatness. Nice lyrics as well.
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Band Name: King Diamond
Genre: Heavy mothertrucking Metaaaaaaaaaal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Abigail
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'The Trees Have Eyes'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Waiting'
- Most Relaxing: 'Funeral'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: again, nah.
- Songs That Best Represent The Band: 'No Presents For Christmas'
- Bands Like This Band: Mercyful Fate (obviously), Judas Priest, Three Inches of Blood, Running Wild.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: KING MOTHERFUCKING DIAMOND. And why, because ...*DUN DUN DUN, DUH DUH DUH, DUN DUN DUN, DUH DUH DUH, DUDDLY-DUDDLY-DUDDLY...* He was born in the cemataaaaaary, Under the sign of the MOOOOOOOOOOOON...
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Could someone have a go at Sunn 0))) for me?
Cheers.
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Oh well. Just trying to say there are good bands there. And I like a lot of them (please dont hate me, everyone) and to be honest I don't think they're over-hyped. I haven't really seen any hype.* Especially for Montana Pete. No-one knows who they are.
Love from Katie.
Don't worry, I was joking, hence the "on a more serious note" part of my post.
To Spacespiff who mentioned Aerogramme as one of his favourite bands from Scotland have you checked out a album called The Suffolk Explosion it was produced by the lead singer of Aerogramme - Really good album.
I haven't heard of them yet, but I'll look into them. I like Aereogramme a lot.
And unlike Biffy Clyro, I've actually managed to see them live.
And as for calling Daughters another rip-off of The Locust - I would be careful about that. Their music is quite a bit different and also, As The Sun Sets had been around for a bit before that too.
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Band Name: Blur
Genre: Rock/Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 6
Best Album: The Best of (Duh)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Country house
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Song 2
- Most Relaxing: Tender
Bands Like This Band: There aren't really any that sound exactly like them. Kind of Oasis, kind of Radiohead, ya know?
Coolest Thing About This Band: They eventually spawned Gorillaz
Thanks!
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If someone could do Tori Amos, I'd be endlessly grateful. I know that's got to be spelt wrong somewhere...
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Band Name: Blur
Genre: Rock/Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 6
Best Album: The Best of (Duh)
Songs:
- Best All Around: Country house
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Song 2
- Most Relaxing: Tender
Bands Like This Band: There aren't really any that sound exactly like them. Kind of Oasis, kind of Radiohead, ya know?
Coolest Thing About This Band: They eventually spawned Gorillaz
Thanks!
That review of Blur hurts my brain.
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Yeah. 6 is waaaay too high.
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I believe the "Bands that sound like them" part is also in question.
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The Suffolk Explosion isn't a band it is the name of a compalation album. For more info check here. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0008E4IAG/026-0209518-3664425 Bought The Vertigo of Bliss yesterday Biffy Clyro review coming soon.
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I believe the "Bands that sound like them" part is also in question.
Meh, I was in a hurry and I haven't owned a Blur album in years so it was all from memory.
If you're going to spout off random indie bands that sound like them then be my guest. God knows New Zealand has enough of them. STOP COPYING BLUR YOU TALENTLESS HACKS!
Umm yeah, I'm a little angry right now, don't take this personally.
Also, www.mercycage.co.nr
My new favourite band.
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Fuck, I don't know. I didn't say it was in question by me.
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Band Name: Biffy Clyro
Genre: Rock/Post-Hardcore
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Infinity Land...it captures their sound best I feel
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'strung to your ribcage'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'A Day Of...' or 'Stress on the Sky'
- Most Relaxing: 'Scary Mary', 'A 'Diary of Always' or 'Breathher' (a b-side)
Bands Like This Band: Hell is for Heroes and Succioperro at a push. They've got the loud/quiet/loud/quiet thing that Nirvana had too.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They've gained a fanatic fanbase through a lot of hardwork, a relentless gigging/recording schedule and an approachable manner. The friendliest guys I've met!
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I'd like to request Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Shins. Yes, I intend to veer this thread away from the path of death/doom/metal etc.
Band Name: The New Pornographers
Genre: Indie-Power Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5
Best Album: Mass Romantic
Songs: (none of these songs really fit the categories their just some of my favs) (their songs sound really similar (but not in a bad way)
- Best All Around: "The Slow Descent in Alcholism" (maybe)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "The Fake Headlines" ???
- Most Relaxing: "The Bones of An Idol" (not really)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Twin Cinema"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "From Blown Speakers"
Bands Like This Band: The Shins, other indie-pop bands
Coolest Thing About This Band: Canadian supergroup including A.C. Newman, Dan Bejar and Neko Case (of alt. country fame)
Note: Can anyone do Pavement (I have their S&E and CRCR, so info. about others albums would be helpful)?
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And as for calling Daughters another rip-off of The Locust - I would be careful about that. Their music is quite a bit different and also, As The Sun Sets had been around for a bit before that too.
Sorry, just sounds like a poor man's Locust to me. How the mighty fall, from As The Sun Sets to that. Still, it was fun watching EDT walk all over them at their first ever gig.
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I needs me some Demons and Wizards summarizing. I like Iced Earth a lot, and occasionally have been known to listen to some Blind Guardian, so I assume I'll like it, but I need somewhere to start.
Plus, this thread needs a bump like no other.
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Someone should totally do Oingo Boingo. I only have one album (Nothing to Fear, it's pretty bitchin) and would like a nice idea of what to get next.
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I'd like to know more about Lion, the band from the Transformers The Movie soundtrack.
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Band Name: Oingo Boingo (aka The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo or just as Boingo)
Genre: New-Wave (they are basically, the SoCal Devo)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Only A Lad
Songs:
- Best All Around: Nasty Habits
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': maybe Fool's Paradise or No One Lives Forverer
- Most Relaxing: I find that On The Outside can be pretty relaxing at times, but they have a pretty up-beat repetoire...
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Dead Man's Party or Little Girls
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Little Girls or Weird Science
Bands Like This Band: Devo especially. Soundtracks to Tim Burton movies are basically all done by ex-singer Danny Elfman, so you can hear similarities.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They are pretty much the perfect band. Solid songwriting, good musicianship, great lyrics sung great, and a kick-ass attitude towards music and performance.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I did this already. Also, Kai, give me PRAXIS!
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Hmmm...
I been having some problem logging in for a while but I'm back.
Anyway I'm going to be starting a student radio show soon and will have a few interviews with bands and when I see the interview I'm going to see if they will fill in this with their own band. Ha ha
Anyway one of the interviews I'm trying to set up is up is going to be Biffy Clyro so if I get them I would like to see how they themselves will fill out the questions.
Also KaosPilot you're a Succioperro fan. I now offically love you.!
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I've got Sucioperro on my last of band's I've seen...and I don't remember them at all.
I must have been drunk...ah, hang on, did they ever do a small venues tour with Brigade and Degrassi? They were in our now deceased local rock club one Friday if so. I still can't remember a thing about them.
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If anyone coudl do Merle Haggard, I love you. Honestly, even just a recommendation of a couple of albums to start with would be great. ANYTHING.
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Time for a Better Description of Blur
Band Name: Blur
Genre: Brit Pop/Psychedelic Pop(Leisure, Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, The Great Escape); Expiremental, Indie, Ambient (Blur, 13, Think Tank)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: 13
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Out Of Time"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Entertain Me"
- Most Relaxing: "Trimm Trabb"
- Most Played: "Song 2"
- Song That Best Represents The Band:"Parklife"(Britpop Era);"Beetlebum"(Not Britpop Era)
Bands that sound like them:
Coolest Thing About This Band: They progressed and improved themselves every album they made, unlike their "rivals" Oasis. They never seem content to stick with a sound and just make a bunch of albums that sound exactly the same.
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Someone asked for this awhile ago
Band Name: Daft Punk
Genre: French Dance Music
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.6
Best Album: Discovery
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Harder Faster"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Da Funk"
- Most Relaxing: "Night-Vision"
- Most Played: "One More Time" , "Technologic"
- Song That Best Represents The Band:"Crescendolls"
Bands that sound like them: The Chemical Brothers, Air
Coolest Thing About This Band: They wear customes everytime they get photographed, often dressing as robots.
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Time for a Better Description of Blur
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You're right, that was better. I'd totally forgotten about Bettlebum. Great song.
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Time for another unprompted review!
Band Name: Dead Meadow
Genre: Psychedelic something. I'm not quite sure what. But very drugged-out.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.9
Best Album: Hard to say ... personally, I like the self-titled debut the most, but I can't honestly say that it's better than any of the others. People on this forum will probably like "Feathers," their most recent album, the most.
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Sleepy Silver Door"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': yeesh ... I'm going with "Good Moanin'"
- Most Relaxing: "At the Edge of the Wood," or "Drifting Down Streams" if that even counts as a song.
- Most Played: I've no idea.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "The Breeze Always Blows," maybe ... listen to anything and you'll probably have a good idea of what to expect.
Bands that sound like them: I can't think of any. Half the time, the guitars are barely recognizable as such. The only band that sounds anything like them that I can think of is Colour Haze, and nobody knows who the hell they are either.
Coolest Thing About This Band: More than any other band I've probably ever listened to, their songs are soundscapes. The sound, to me, actually evokes a feeling of being somewhere else. It's really weird. Just find something by them and listen to it. It sounds like what a wizard's dream would look like.
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EDIT: I'm pretty sure I did this already. Also, Kai, give me PRAXIS!
I'll totally get Praxis done as soon as this album download finishes; It's the only album of theirs I don't have, so I'll be able to give ye a full prospect completely.
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KharBevNor
aren't you in a band yourself why don't you review your self. I got total respect for you anyway. You are more metal then I will ever be.
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Okay, I will review myself.
Band Name: Halo of Flies
Genre: Dark Ambient/Post-Industrial/Folktronica/Soundtrack
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Can't really do this.
Best Album: The Blasted Heath
Songs:
- Best All Around: Solar Symphony
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': St. Anthony's Fire
- Most Relaxing: Stormclouds and Skrealings
- Most Played: According to Last.fm, A Sonnet to Diana.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: In Thunder, Lightning or in Rain.
Bands that sound like them: No-one, intentionally.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Me!
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Can Someone do Beck or David Bowie?
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Band Name: Beck (full name: Bek David Campbell or Beck Hansen)
Genre: alternative-rock (it fluctuates album-to-album)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5
Best Album: Odelay
Songs:
- Best All Around: a lot to choose from; Devils Haircut is a contender
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Minus
- Most Relaxing: Hollow Log
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Loser
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Diamond Bollocks (extreme genre-switching madness)
Bands Like This Band: Ween, for their sense of humor and genre-hopping abilities; the Flaming Lips, for their experimentalist streak and stunning pop sensibilities; Gary Wilson, for the creepy white-guy almost-soul singer vibe
Coolest Thing About This Band: no two of his albums sound alike (and I tend to stab people who think Guero is a rehash of Odelay
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Genre: alternative-rock (it fluctuates album-to-album)
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Hell, it fluctuates within albums... I mean, Odelay is the most maddening collection of genres in a single place that I've ever seen.
As for best song, I definately wouldn't consider Devil's Haircut, though I suppose I can kind of see it.
Anyway, I'd love to see some Frank Zappa.
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Could someone do Broken Social Scene? I've heard good thing but I am yet to look into them.
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Finally, a band I can do!
Band Name: Frank Zappa/Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Genre: Insane Experimental Comedy Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: He put out so fucking many this is really tough, but I'd have to say Apostrophe.
Songs:
- Best All Around: That's tough, but I'm gonna say I'm the Slime.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Black Page
- Most Relaxing: I wouldn't call anything by Zappa relaxing, really.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: This one's a bit of a stretch, but possibly Don't Eat the Yellow Snow.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Joe's Garage
Bands Like This Band: I really don't know any artists that are quite like Zappa. People with a wider taste in music than me might be able to help more with that.
Best Thing About this Band: I would say that it's like Weird Al with guitar solos, but that wouldn't be giving Zappa nearly enough credit. When I say experimental, I mean fucking experimental. If you don't like some pretty far-out stuff, then steer clear of this. If you can get into that sort of thing though, this shit is awesome.
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Dammit, someone beat me to it. Although I'm goin to have to disagree with you on the best album, I think "We're Only in it for the Money" or "Hot Rats" kinda win, and because for some reason it made me really sad, his last album, "Civilization: Phase III".
Also, Beefheart is usually compared to Zappa alot (They did a couple of things together and were "On and off" friends.) The Residents are heavily influenced by them. In the vein of randomness, alot of Mike Patton stuff is sorta similar. Also, Buckethead. Seriously. Alot of Ls Claypool's prjects are in the sort of "strange music" vein as well, but not to the extent. You'd also probably really like both Edgar Varese and John Cage if you like Zappa; THey're both modern day experimental composers (Varese is really the person that got Zappa into the weird music in the first place). ANd, if you can find anything by them, Both Renaldo and the Loaf and Snakefinger are great.
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I honestly couldn't get into Hot Rats, and I've never heard We're Only in it for the Money all the way through.
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Well, with so many albums of his, and all of them being so different, there's alot of room for different opinions. Apostrophe was a great album (And the first album I got). I do reccomend actually getting that one first, too.
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Hell, it fluctuates within albums... I mean, Odelay is the most maddening collection of genres in a single place that I've ever seen.
How about fluctuating maddiningly within SONGS?! Somebody needs some Bungle!
Mr. Bungle - Platypus (http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1X5KHFCQ0PB4O29HK3OGZRE11G)
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Oh, and I forgot to mention that Steve Vai is heavily influenced by Zappa, because he played in Zappa's band before he went solo. His early stuff is especially Zappa-esque, musically. Obviously, since it's instrumental it doesn't have the comedy aspect.
And the best Zappa song in terms of humor is Valley Girl. That song made me fall over the first time I heard it.
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Gag me with a spoon!
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Storm Rider asked about Ayreon in the guitarists thread. Bare in mind that as of writing this I don't have 'Into the Electric Castle' which I've heard good stuff about.
Band name: Ayreon
Genre: Progressive rock/metal
Your rating of them: 8-9
Best album: The Human Equation (definitely the best intro album anyway).
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Day Sixteen: Loser'
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- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Chaos'
- Most Relaxing: 'Carried by the Wind'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Day Eleven: Love'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Really impossible to chose. There's a very varied sound. I suppose something like 'The First Man on Earth' maybe.
Bands like this band: At various times they resemble Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Wuthering Heights, Dream Theatre, Nightingale and Spock's Beard.
Coolest thing about this band: Definitely the multiple vocalists. Each album has up to twenty different guest vocalists playing roles in a conceptual story, who have at times included Bruce Dickinson, Mikeal Akerfeldt and Devin Townsend. They're also, of course, sci-fi fantasy story driven, which is darn cool.
And for free, here's one of their side project Star One, whom I prefer:
Band name: Star One
Genre: Space Metal
Your rating of them: 10
Best album: Space Metal
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Intergalactic Space Crusaders'
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- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'Lift Off/Set Your Controls'
- Most Relaxing: Star One rock out 24/7, but I suppose 'Starchild (remix)' would count.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: You haven't, you poor bastard.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'Lift Off/Set Your Controls'
Bands like this band: 100% hypersonic x-wing dogfighting progressive Hawkwind worship of the awesome variety.
Coolest thing about this band: Urm, Anthony Lucassen, Dan Swano, Floor Jansen and Dave Brock on ONE ALBUM? YES PLEASE. Also, they did the greatest medley ever, heavy versions of Hawkwind classics with DAVE FUCKING BROCK on vocals. It's the closest you can get to overdosing on hallucinogenic drugs without actually, you know, doing it.
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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.
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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.
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Star One Are super-awesome great. Aren't they also a side project of someone else's as well? Ayreon and ...?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Preston needs to start listening to Dalek NOW!
If anyone can do John Zorn (any project, all projects), I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Thread necromancy!
Khar, do you know about Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Because I just found out they have Alex Skolnick and am thus intensely interested.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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'.
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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 :D
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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I need me a 3 Inches of Blood review.
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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!
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Much thanks.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?p=219091#219091).
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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. :-(
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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.
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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.
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Denmark have far better bands than Carpark North in my opinion.
any examples arn't mew from denmark, who else?
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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.
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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
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It doesn't look like there's any information on Sonic Youth, so if someone could cover them, that would be great. Thanks.
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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.
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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 (http://www.shooshtime.com/clips/video.php?id=4889)
Edit: That link is way hardcore. Consider yourself warned.
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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
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- 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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Coolest thing about this band: This video. Don't give up if you don't like the song, the video is wothwhile (http://www.shooshtime.com/clips/video.php?id=4889)
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.
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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.
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No idea what NSFW means...
Not Safe For Work.
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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.
(http://static.flickr.com/14/14209106_4ec11516b8_o.jpg)
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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.
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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.
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Also, has anyone in here done, or is anyone willing to do, Mr. Bungle or
La Creme did them on the first page.
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wow that's uh
that's pretty metal
Indeed it is.
I personally have never seen the appeal of DEP. I saw them live, and it was really boring. There was nothing in the music to grab you and make you even want to tap your foot along. Just a load of random crap. To be frank, in my opinion it's a better measure of technical skill to be able to right a tight fucking song than play your drop-K tuned guitar upside down on fire in 6/-17 time on fire whilst jumping around like a very scene frog. People keep telling me they're uber-gods of music. Screw that shit, I know lots of reasonably average musicians who can play their stuff. Tony Iommi or Ritche Blackmore could chop 'em into pieces and feed them to Roger Daltrey's trout.
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- 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.
I guess lyrically it's not a very relaxing song but musically it's uber chilled. High is also very chilled.
If you haven't already got it then get Japanese Whispers and Pornography. Those are my two favourites. Then get the re-release of wild mood swings. Then get the two bests ofs, 77-87 and 87-97. Then get the rest. Don't bother with Three Imaginary Boys or The Top, they're both fucking terrible. TIB is slightly less terrible but not much. The most recent album is pretty awful compared to their older work but it's alright I guess.
Yeah, I'm a ridiculous fanboy.
Would someone be able to do Crüxshadows and Type O Negative for me?
Also Khar, which 3 Inches of Blood song is about robots?
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Wykydtron.
"Programmed to crush
Programmed to destroy
Its brainwaves only wired for death
It's wired to kill
All on the Earth
Nuclear bound - you'll fear his name
Hey it's The Wykydtron
It's The Wykydtron
Hey it's the Wykydtron
Whoa-oh!"
Great live sing-along.
Band Name: Type O Negative
Genre: Heavy goth metal/thrash (early)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: October Rust
Songs:
- Best All Around: Black #1 (full version)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Xero Tolerance
- Most Relaxing: Christian Woman
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Black #1 gets some video play
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Black #1 again, or maybe Love You to Death
Bands Like This Band: They're a straigh combo of goth rock and heavy metal, which is somewhat unusual in goth metal. A natural comparison would probably be Danzig. Older 69 Eyes stuff also has the same sort of humour a lot of the time.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Their wicked sense of humour and parody/self-parody. Best typified in, well, Black #1, which is one of my favourite songs of all time:
"YEAH YOU WANNA GO OUT 'CAUSE IT'S RAINING AND BLOWING,
BUT YOU CAN'T GO OUT CAUSE YOUR ROOTS ARE SHOWING,
DIE 'EM BLACK! OH DIE 'EM BLACK!
BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK NUMBER ONE!
BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK NUMBER ONE!"
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Have you heard "I know you're fucking someone else"? Damn that's a funny song.
I also love the fact that the issue of Playgirl with Peter Steele in it was the worst selling ever.
Cheers.
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I don't see why. Pete's a beast! I love the way he plays that double bass slung over his shoulders in the Black #1 video.
And yeah I have. Technically, it's only a part of a song though (Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity [c. I Know You're Fucking Someone Else] to be precise). Most of the songs on 'Slow, Deep And Hard' are cut up like that.
Actually, I'll tell you the COOLEST thing about Type O Negative, and that's Nosferatu: The First Vampire, which is a version of the classic silent film with it's soundtrack replaced with Type O Negative songs. It is awesome.
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Khar, can you do Inkubus Sukkubus and Celtic Frost for me? Assuming that you listen to Celtic Frost.
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I don't listen to enough Celtic Frost to do it properly, but I can confidently say you need to go out and buy To Mega Therion and Morbid Tales. Like, now.
As for the other:
Band Name: Inkubus Sukkubus (also Incubus Succubus and, briefly, Children of the Moon)
Genre: Pagan rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9/10
Best Album: Vampyre Erotica
Songs:
- Best All Around:
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': hard to say. They're a very atmospheric group. Either earlier, rawer stuff like Wytches* or Song to Pan*, or latter day rockers like Vampyre Erotica or Vampire Punk Rockers From Hell (They're a thematic one-trick horse)
- Most Relaxing: Wytches Chant '98
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Er. Fuck knows.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Wytches*
Bands Like This Band: Self proclaimed heavy influence from Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy, but there's wierd, celtic rhythms and exotic touches to their music that draws them apart from the old guard of goth rock. Another rather individual group. Killing Miranda, possibly, come close, and also London After Midnight, but mainly through shared influences.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They really excel at the brutally mutilated cover version like few others. For me, there's also the religious aspect, but for others, they're brilliantly cheesy goth rock, who know how to play all the cliches perfectly in the most-self knowing way imaginable.
*Various versions of these exist. Get the ones from the album 'Wytches', unless you want to hear the cheesiest keyboard production in history.
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DO CELTIC FROST!
Also, Type O Negative would kick ass if Peter Steele didn't exist. Sorry, I just hate bad low-voiced mumble-gargling. Not my bag.
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Also, Type O Negative would kick ass if Peter Steele didn't exist. Sorry, I just hate bad low-voiced mumble-gargling. Not my bag.
Well low-voiced mumble-gargling hates you!!! Peter Steele rocks and I hate you for having different opinions to me!
I rather enjoy Wytches, it was before IS started repeating their drum loops. They've pretty much had the same one for... 5 albums I think?
And listening to IS for any prolonged period of time leaves me with a desire to go out and kill pagans with an axe. Seriously, so pretentious in large doses.
Can someone do The Misfits for me? I only heard them properly for the first time a few days ago.
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I guess lyrically it's not a very relaxing song but musically it's uber chilled. High is also very chilled.
Another Cure fanboy here. I'd say Closedown or Untitled are the most chilled songs off Disintegration. Of other songs, the first that springs to mind is A 1000 Hours, also Ueya Sound and loads of others I imagine. :)
Best Cure albums to get are 17 Seconds, Faith and Pornography in my book. Then Disintegration.
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I hate you for having different opinions to me!
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Hehehe.
I must say I am very surprised that you recommended Wild Mood Swings. I like that album less than The Top...
Edit: Also, I thought Mew and the Glass-Handed Kites was totally fucking amazing.
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I dunno, I just dig WMS. There are so many good albums so it's hard to choose just one. Actually, in retrospect I'd say Mixed Up is my favourite. Not the best, just my fav.
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I don't have Mixed Up, but I really like the version of The Caterpillar on it.
I didn't read the discussion on previous pages of this thread so sorry if you've mentioned this before, but what would your choices of best/definitive songs be?
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Band Name: Cathedral
Genre: Doom metal (think Black Sabbath)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10 (they're my favouritest band ever)
Best Album: Tough one. Depends what you're after. If you want Sabbathy riffs (and probably the best collection of riffs put to CD) check out The Carnival Bizarre. If you want DOOM and heaviness, check out Endtyme. If you just want an acessible album, The Ethereal Mirror is for you.
Songs:
- Best All Around: Midnight Mountain
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Carnival Bizarre
- Most Relaxing: The Caravan or Astral Queen.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Utopian Blaster
Bands Like This Band: Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath. Saint Vitus. Trouble.
Coolest Thing About This Band: The track, Utopian Blaster. One of the best riffs ever AND the best lyric ever; "HUGGY BEAR, OH YEAH!". Oh, and Gaz Jennings, their guitarist writes the best riffs ever.
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I don't have Mixed Up, but I really like the version of The Caterpillar on it.
I didn't read the discussion on previous pages of this thread so sorry if you've mentioned this before, but what would your choices of best/definitive songs be?
I'd say Love Cats and Just Like Heaven are probably the most Cure'y songs they do. That and a forest for it's use of synths and bass.
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Since when has Black Sabbath been Doom metal?
And Khar, could you do Ephel Duath for me? All I have is Pain Necessary to Know, and it kicks ass.
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Since when has Black Sabbath been Doom metal?
Since forever.
Perhaps they didn't know it at the time, but they were the first. Unless of course you are confusing doom metal (Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Trouble, The Obsessed, Electrc Wizard etc.) with doom/death metal (My Dying Bride after their initial death metal stage, early Anathema, Mourning Beloveth, Primordial, November's Doom etc.)
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Doom metal was truly invented on the first chord of Sabbath's 'Electric Funeral'.
I only actually have the ED you have as well as 'The Painters Palette' and some random tracks off their early stuff.
Suffice to say, 'The Painters Palette' slays. I've seen most of it live.
@Thesonglessbird: Do you know Candlemass? It's just they seem conspicuously absent whenever you list slaying old-school Doom bands.
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Candlemass I never think of for some reason. Dont know why. I just tend to think of Wino fronted bands, heh.
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BUMP
Seriously, this thread cannot die, it is too awesome.
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I'd be appreciative if someone would do the Flaming Lips for me. I've heard a handful of songs and they seem fantabulous. More info? Suggestions? Anyone? Bueller?
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If someone could do Yes, since I just don't have enough of them. And Emerson, Lake and Palmer if possible.
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Hmm... I was wondering.. What's the difference between Black Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal. I never reallly understood the differences. Anyone got some answers?
And to make this actually part of the thread... I know nothing about Opeth.. Anyone can help me out?
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Go check out www.anus.com/metal
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Oh hey, thanks man :D
I appreciate it.
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I can do the Flaming Lips but with a catch: I don't remember their old stuff very well and I haven't listened much to their new stuff, so I can cover them from In a Priest Driven Ambulance to Clouds Taste Metallic. Be advised that they had three or four albums before this period and have released probably their two or three most successful albums afterwards.
Band Name: The Flaming Lips (1990-1996)
Genre: Back when "alternative rock" was a genre and not a confession of being really confused as to what genre a band really was, the Lips were alternative rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.9
Best Album: I will say In A Priest Driven Ambulance, although Clouds Taste Metallic is criminally underrated
Songs:
- Best All Around: When You Smile
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': God Walks Among Us Now (Jesus Song No. 6)
- Most Relaxing: Evil Will Prevail
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: She Don't Use Jelly (at least for their mid 90s material)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Slow Nerve Action
Bands Like This Band: Mercury Rev (sometimes), Starlight Mints (I think)
Coolest Thing About This Band: They were a one-hit wonder in 1993, they are "rock pioneers" now, and their back catalog extends to 1984. Also, their early and mid-90s records honestly do sound better when the volume is all the way up, just like it says on the back of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
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Thank you.
Somebody want to do Of Montreal for me?
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I'm pretty sure they've been done.
LIKE FOUR TIMES. STOP REQUESTING THE ARCADE FIRE/BSS/OF MONTREAL/ETC.
Someone (Mostly Khar or Storm, probably) mind doing Therion?
Also, someone needs to post somethign I can do.
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Don't know a thing about them. That's Khar's territory.
If anyone asked about some obscure progressive band I'd actually have something to do.
Now I'm going to go flood the Forced Listening thread. I will get somebody on this board besides Khar to like Iced Earth.
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I like Iced Earth too! Don't exclude people, it's not cool. Granted, I only have one album, but.
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Oh, I thought they were on your Artists to Check Out list. My mistake.
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They were, but I've been pirating like crazy and they were one of the things I happened to have gotten. Agoraphobic Nosebleed were on there too but I just can't get into them.
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Can one of you spooky people do Skinny Puppy or :Wumpscut:?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm pretty sure they've been done.
LIKE FOUR TIMES.
I apologize.
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I'm telling you, this thread needs a fucking index. I'm fixin' to make one myself.
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While I don't have enough of either to give you a full thing, I can tell you to go pick up Skinny Puppy's Too Dark Park. Tis great.
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Therion?
Band Name: Therion
Genre: To Ho Drakon, Ho Megas, Death metal. From there to about Lepaca Kliffoth, odd melodic death metal. Theli on, Operatic Metal: somewhere in between Dark Tranquillity, Avantasia and Richard Wagner.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9/10. Stonking band.
Best Album: Theli or Lemuria
Songs:
- Best All Around: You have to be shitting me. Impossible choice.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': A Black Rose (Covered in Tears, Blood and Ice), Riders of Theli, or basically the entire album 'Beyond Sanctorum'
- Most Relaxing: Lemuria
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: To Mega Therion, and their Abba cover, Summer Night City*.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: To Mega Therion
Bands Like This Band: Early stuff is relatively standard Swedish sound DM. The next stage can find sort-of-analogues in Gallery era Dark Tranquillity, a bit of Old Amorphis I suppose... Later stuff is pretty unique. Try Winds, Avantasia...jeez, I dunno. They're pretty unique.
Coolest Thing About This Band: I think the coolest thing is that they're all members of a hermetic cult called the Dragon Rouge, whose leader does a lot of their lyrics and I think may actually appear on several tracks. Oh, and the fact that there's only three proper members at the moment, but there were about 250+ musicians on the last album.
*Get the video. SO AWESOME.
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250 Musicians? SO BADASS.
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Full orchestra, full choir, and a load of guest musicians and vocalists. This is a band that does unusual stuff. Where else are you going to find a metal band that credits three balalaika soloists?
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request: to rocco rot, umphrey's mcgee, gentle giant
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Can one of you spooky people do Suicide Commando or :Wumpscut:?
Thanks in advance.
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Damn, I have some good memories of this thread.
Khar, you should do Agalloch for me. I've heard good things about them, but don't know much about their styles or where to start.
EDIT: And Sabbat, for that matter.
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Quorthon's tale actually takes stock parts from several sagas or folk-tales. It's as attempt at a kind of Tolkienesque uberlegend. It's a bit of a Bears Son Folktale (as if anyone here would understand that term).
Band Name: Opeth
Genre: Progressive Death Metal.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7.5
Best Album: Blackwater Park
Songs:
- Best All Around: "Bleak"
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Karma" *
- Most Relaxing: "Harvest" *
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Again, no idea.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "The Moor"
- Bands Like This Band: They mainly rip off Edge of Sanity :p. Agalloch and Mid-period Amorphis are also pretty similiar.
- Coolest Thing About This Band: Pretty fucking luscious guitar wankery. Never let any man say that they cannot swing their sticks and axes. They can summon up a pretty good atmosphere as well, I like their aesthetic.
*These are both rather problematic as, with all the best will to them, most of Opeths songs are actually 3 different tracks bridged together, none I can think of is continuosly rawr, and Harvest is the only one that I can think of as continuously soft. Bear in mind this is skewed by the fact I don't own Damnation or Deliverance (Their completely 'hard' and 'soft' albums. Which are doubtless replete with some tracks).
Whilst Opeth are a pretty cool band, they are horribly over-rated. Almost every kid that raves about them has never heard Edge of Sanity, Amorphis or Agalloch, or any of the classic progressive acts that influence them, and thus view Opeth as something incredibly unique and zomgincredible, when in fact they aren't really.
I agree. Blackwater Park is my favorite of theirs, and I think more people should check out the classic prog stuff if they like Opeth. I will say that Agalloch is boring though. Anyone have anything to say about Tom Ze'?
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Khar, you should do Agalloch for me. I've heard good things about them, but don't know much about their styles or where to start.
EDIT: And Sabbat, for that matter.
Band Name: Agalloch
Genre: Neo-folk/prog metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5/10.
Best Album: Pale Folklore
Songs:*
- Best All Around: hmn... '...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'I Am The Wooden Doors' or 'She Painted Fire Across the Skyline'.
- Most Relaxing: 'Foliorum Viridium'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ...nah.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'As Embers Dress the Sky'
Bands Like This Band: Opeth, old Amorphis and mid-period Tiamat all have echoes of their style, but they also take a lot from non-metal bands, particularly Sol Invictus and Swans. Some SI songs (ie. 'Let us Prey') could easily be Agalloch tracks, and vice versa.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Apart from the way the band members bring their relatively broad musical palette to bear on their music, it's the way they bring a very post-rock compositional sensibility and pure folk playing styles to the writing of metal, for a very unique sound. And, given that apart from Sol Invictus and Swans they also list Ulver, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Nick Cave, Arvo Part and Fields of the Nephilim as influences, if there's any true, awesome metal band that hipsters are gonna like, it's probably Agalloch.
*Agalloch are an album band if ever I've heard one. If you want to check them out before buying, please get a whole album.
Band Name: Sabbat
Genre: Thrash fucking metal
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8/10.
Best Album: History of a Time to Come
Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Mythistory'/'Horned is the Hunter'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'A Cautionary Tale'
- Most Relaxing: Haha. 'Happy Never After (Outro)' maybe?
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'For Those Who Died'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'For Those Who Died'
Bands Like This Band: No-one's QUITE like Sabbat. Your old German thrash Gods are probably the best bet.
Coolest Thing About This Band: If they'd had a better drummer, they would probably have been the best thrash band ever.
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Could someone have a go at Sunn 0))) for me?
Band Name: SunnO))
Genre: Drone/Sludge/Doom
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.3
Best Album: White1
Songs:
- Best All Around: My Wall
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': It Took The Night To Believe/HELL-O)))-WEEN
- Most Relaxing: A Shaving of the Horn that Speared You
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: No clue.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Gates of Ballard
Bands Like This Band: Boris, Earth, Teeths Of Lions Ruled The Divine.
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Ok, so this is going back to page 5 and before I started posting here (but I thinkI was lurking back then)
has anyone requested Deerhoof yet? i'd like to know more about them.
Yes!
Band Name: Deerhoof
Genre: Art Punk, Noise Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.5-9.8
Best Album: Consensus seems to be The Runners Four
Songs: (This mostly applies to their more recent stuff, earlier works didn't really do the whole "song thing", at least not the way most bands do it)
- Best All Around: My favorite happens to be L'Amour Stories but for the most part most of the songs are at the same level of awesomeness
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Giga Dance? Almost all of their songs have a ton of energy
- Most Relaxing: Bone-Dry (Deerhoof isn't really a band for relaxing)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Panda Panda Panda (Its been around the blogs and Jeph made some jokes about it, maybe a friend shared it?)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: The Magnificent Bird Will Rise, Panda Panda Panda, and Twin Killers will do a decent job- one track would force me to leave out changes in their sound over the years.
Bands Like This Band: Animal Collective and the Unicorns but with more noise.
Coolest thing about this band: If you can get past the vocals that some find annoying you'll find a really awesome experiment contrasting noise with twee melody- Get past that and you'll find incredibly catchy pop songs. They've gotten more accessible and have dropped a good bit of their noise influences and twee vocals but they've gotten better and better at writing songs.
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I request adding to the first post of this thread a list of all bands described so far, preferrably also mentioning on which page they appear.
And to contribute something … nobody asked, but I'm simply fanatic about them, so here goes:
Band name: Tangerine Dream (http://www.tangerinedream.org/)
Genre:- 1967 to 1973 ("The Pink Years"): Krautrock
- 1973 to 1980 ("The Classic Period"): Berlin School
- 1980 to 1985 ("The Hyperborean Era"): Crossfades from Berlin School to New Age. I don't think this kind of music has any specific name, but it's pretty close to some New Wave… I'm tentatively calling it "Citruscore".
- 1985 onwards ("Blue", "Melrose", "Seattle" and "Millenium Years"): New Age with numerous forays into rock and dance music directions - lately also opera.[/list:u]
My Rating Of Them: By the divisions above, I give 7/10, 10/10, 10/10 and 7/10.
Best Album: Hard to say, but Poland (1983), Rubycon (1975) and Force Majeure (1979) are mentioned on most fans' top 5 lists.
Songs- Best: There's no way in hell to name just one as objectively best, but I'm not alone in the opinion that Ricochet, Part Two (1975) is utter and insurmountable genius.
- Most Rockin': IMO, Cool Breeze of Brighton (1986) and Cloudburst Flight (1979). The former is a perfect example of "sequencer-rock", while the latter concentrates purely on guitar.
- Loudest/Hardest: Any fantapes from the 1977 tour (especially the Montreal and Detroit gigs.) The official tour album "Encore" is pretty tame in comparision.
- Most Relaxing: They've done hours and hours of ambient, but Rubycon and Love On A Real Train usually top the fan-polls of this sort.
- A Song Of Them You May Have Heard: the aforementioned Love on a Real Train, from the Risky Business soundtrack (1983), as well as the whole soundtrack to Legend (1985).
- Song That Best Represents The Band: If you only have time for one, make it Horizon (from the Poland album), and make sure you hear it in its 20-minute entirety. If you have more time, Green Desert (1973) is a good primer to their early style, Stratosfear (1976) crystallizes their late 70s style, and Lamb with Radar Eyes (1996) is a good example of their 90s style.[/list:u]
Bands Like This Band: A few same-generation names to look out for are Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel and Jean-Michel Jarre. Out of newer (80s-90s) followers, I'll name Robert Schroeder, Arcane, Redshift and Airsculpture.
Coolest Thing About This Band: All 70s concerts were improvised, which is good news for collectors like me.
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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.
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Someone do the Mars Volta for me?
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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......
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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
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I ment weezers newer albums are a bit ....bad......
only a bit?
i would like to request Jawbox, Silkworm, and Hot Water Music, please.
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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.
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Can someone do the Boredoms?
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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?
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I don't think Faust has been done. I don't know anything about them.
Also, I second the Boredoms.
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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
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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.
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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?
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^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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Make Believe is a fine piece of work.
i'm going to have to check "Strongly Disagree" on that one.
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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.)
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Thanks Karl! I'm gonna make another request: Tilly and the Wall!
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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. =/
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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.
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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.
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Automatic is the JAMC's best album?
Get thee a copy of Psychocandy
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I was going to mention that too. But I'd reccomend Honey's Dead instead.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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And used a J&MC bassline for Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
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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.
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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.
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Could someone do Cursive, Silver Jews or Boards of Canada?
Also first post! WooHoo!
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thanks, JLM and Skibas!
my request for Silkworm still stands, and i'd like to add Chisel and Kerosene 454 to my list.
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I'll do Boards of Canada in a bit...
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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!!!
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Can someone do The Avalanches?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How come nobody ever does the ones I ask for :(
John Cale! Please!
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I'd do it but I actually have never listened to John Cale's solo stuff.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Re: John Cale
I hear Hobo Sapiens was really good. I've been meaning to get it. Thats all I know.
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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.
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Did we really just compare Coheed and Cambria to Queen, Iron Maiden and Led fucking Zeppelin?
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Rush? Maybe. Queen Iron Maiden and Zeppelin? FUCK NO.
Maybe try to stick within their genre.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, King Crimson (to an extent), Spock's Beard ( to an extent), various others.
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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:
- The Smiths
Band Name: The Smiths
Genre: Post-punk
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: The Queen is Dead
Songs:
- Best All Around: How Soon is Now?
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They keep a very even sort of energy...possibly Shakespeare's Sister?
- Most Relaxing: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Glum. Sarcy. Slightly Camp. It must be Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.
Bands Like This Band: The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen I suppose, Morrisey tirelessly tries to resurrect their glory with his solo career. They tended to have a, I suppose I would say 'lusher' sound than most other post-punk bands however. Softer synths, more guitar driven.
Coolest Thing About This Band: Morrisey, Marr. 'nuff said.
Uncoolest Thing About This Band: They're David Camerons favourite band.
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Band Name: Jets To Brazil
Genre: emo\indie\rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10 :-)
Best Album: Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Songs:
- Best All Around: Sweet Avenue
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': That's a hard question. Milk and Apples is kinda rockin'
- Most Relaxing: Further North
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Perfecting Lonliness
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sea Anemone
Bands Like This Band: Jawbreaker (kinda) Texas is the reason
Coolest Thing About This Band: Blake Schwarzenbach. But seriously they are just a really good band. Their music is really dark and moody but still makes you smile and the lyrics are wonderful.
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Thank you all for the write-ups. I wasn't expecting them so quickly, not to mention as concise. Nice forum you guys have here!
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Did we really just compare Coheed and Cambria to Queen, Iron Maiden and Led fucking Zeppelin?
Yeah, I did. And although I knew I'd catch a lot of shit for it, I make no apologies. I can't really compare them to any modern bands. They have moments in their songs that blatantly recall the above mentioned bands. They even have a song "2113" as a tribute to Rush, a song as an homage to Zeppelin (Welcome Home) and Claudio has said the new album, especially the song "The Suffering" is heavily influenced by Queen. You can definitely hear it.
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Oh, is that what they're calling that song where they steal the Kashmir riff? A homage?
Also, the bands I listen were not modern (save for Spock's Beard).
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Adding to Khar's summary of the Smiths
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Charming Man got a bunch of college radio play a few years back, they rereleased it or something. How Soon Is Now was on the Wedding Singer Soundtrack if you saw that.
My favorite song is (EDIT) Big Mouth Strikes Again. Embaressing that I couldn't remember the name right.
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Man, I knew I left something out. I was leaving that one till last, because, whilst I know the Smiths had a few pretty big singles, I had never actually heard any of their stuff before getting an album.
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If you can stand to think about it, the theme from that TV programme 'Charmed' is an awful cover of The Smiths' 'How Soon Is Now?'
I think one of the big points of distinction (from the rest of post-punk Britain) with these guys is that their guitarist, Johnny Marr, loved soul music. There's no white boy funk in the mix, it's not A Certain Ratio or Scritti Politti or something, but there's that shimmery jangly cheerfulness to a lot of the guitar lines... off-set by terminally mopey / sarcastic Morrissey.
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Bands Like This Band: I have no idea. Baitercell and Schumacher and possibly Chemical Brothers (I don't usually listen to electronica)?
*shrug* Yeah, tough one... :|
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.
Really? I had alwys assumed it was purely samples since I read a review of their DJ set. Ah well.
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Band Name: Current 93
Genre: Industrial (early)/Apocalyptic Folk (Later)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Cats Drunk on Copper (Live, but, oh my...)
Songs:
- Best All Around: A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Crowleymass, but not really.
- Most Relaxing: Patripassian
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: There's nothing really... A Gothic Love Song if anything.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Black Flowers Please sums them up quite well I think.
Bands Like This Band: The easy comparisons are obviously Death in June and Sol Invictus. Their acoustic material falls somewhere between the two, sonically...less raw and threatening than Sol Invictus, less electronic than Death in June. In Gowan Ring is probably also a good comparison, as are The Legendary Pink Dots. They belong in the same musical continuum as Coil and Nurse With Wound, and have released collaborative albums with both. They don't sound particularly 'cliche' for neo-folk, however, much of that being down to Dave Tibets strange, impassioned vocals, which I can only really compare to a more toned down Anna-Varney Cantonadea. Also, I think their chick
Coolest Thing About This Band: I don't know why Current 93 aren't indie-big. I really fucking don't... They've collaborated with Nurse With Wound, Nick Cave, Antony Hegarty, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and a score of others, and released tons of absolutely fantastic albums full of, quite frankly, beutiful music. Yes, Dave's vocals probably put a good few people off, but they definitely bear trying to get used to. They are infectious, and utterly beautiful...I dare anyone to listen to Cats Drunk on Copper and not get moved.
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Band Name: Current 93
[...] Also, I think their chick
...? You were going bloody well there, did you stop mid sentence?
I think David Tibet's vocals are actually the main reason the band aren't "indie big", although I have to admit it's been over 10 years since I last listened to Current 93.. and the Dots actually!
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You should fix that. Both the Dots and the Current are amazingly wonderful.
And I am totally seeing the Dots live and I am super excited.
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Meh, they're OK, but I don't really find them that interesting. I wanted to chat about that NWW list.. maybe it's worth its own topic?
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Band Name: Current 93
[...] Also, I think their chick
...? You were going bloody well there, did you stop mid sentence?
I think David Tibet's vocals are actually the main reason the band aren't "indie big", although I have to admit it's been over 10 years since I last listened to Current 93.. and the Dots actually!
'Also, I think their chick singer in the 90's was in Strawberry Switchblade'
I'm probably completely wrong on that one though.
If so, 'Black Ships Ate the Sky' should do something, as its got about 9 different tracks without him singing on.
As I've been discovering as I get more into neo-folk and whatnot, indie really is an extremely trend-based phenomenon. I mean, hipsters champion tons of often very obscure band, but a lot of them have never heard of (or rather heard) really anything of that entire post-industrial scene. Current 93 are more high profile than some of course...they've even been reviewed on Pitchfork :O
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As I've been discovering as I get more into neo-folk and whatnot, indie really is an extremely trend-based phenomenon. I mean, hipsters champion tons of often very obscure band, but a lot of them have never heard of (or rather heard) really anything of that entire post-industrial scene.
Despite not being a genre indie did actually come from something- that is the scene started around a group of bands in the 90s that are about as different from Current 93 as you can possible get. So to the extent that there is an "indie culture" I don't know that we can expect everyone to drop Slanted and Enchanted and start listening to neo-folk. Its like trying to get goth kids to listen to twee.
It can happen though and probably will at some point with a different band. Honestly, while I think neo-folk is a really fucking awesome idea (I can't emphasize enough how cool it is to me) I don't think Current 93 is especially good. I've listened to the album a number of times and aside from one or two tracks (Song for Douglass, part of Black Flowers Please) I don't really think its that good. I'll try to get some stuff from those other two bands Sol Invictus and Death in June (If you haven't done them yet, heres a formal request), hopefully I'll like them better. Current 93 just doesn't grab me.
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Rush? Maybe. Queen Iron Maiden and Zeppelin? FUCK NO.
Maybe try to stick within their genre.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, King Crimson (to an extent), Spock's Beard ( to an extent), various others.
I personally don't think they sound anything like any actual prog bands. Ridiculous album concepts aside, they really struck me as just being emo with really strident vocals, which is where the Rush comparisons come from, I suppose. Really though, I think comparisons to Yes and King Crimson are especially faulty.
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Band Name: John Cale
(obviously, i'm heavily biased by the fact that he's my godfather. yes, i was born a roman catholic, so help me god. when one parent is welsh and the other polish/russian you don't really get a choice in these things. suffice to say, i'm now pro-choice, pro-contraception, pro-women's rights - basically the opposite of the catholic church!)
1. Pretty much all us Catholics are like that.
2. John Cale is your fucking godfather?!?!?
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I'll try to get some stuff from those other two bands Sol Invictus and Death in June (If you haven't done them yet, heres a formal request), hopefully I'll like them better. Current 93 just doesn't grab me.
Band Name: Sol Invictus
Genre: Apocalyptic Folk
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: The Devils Steed or Death of the West
Songs:
- Best All Around: Not a choice I can make. I'll choose three: Kneel to the Cross/Twa Corbies (The Devils Steed Version)/The Praties Song
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': There isn't really such a thing, but some songs do get pretty damn intense/harrowing...See How We Fall maybe?
- Most Relaxing: December Song
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: If anything Kneel to the Cross
- Song That Best Represents The Band: In The West
Bands Like This Band: Current 93 and Death in June obviously. However, Sol Invictus, I think really did forge ahead and create a very different sound for themselves (of course, when you say 'them' talking about any of these bands, you need to remember that Death in June, Current 93 and Sol Invictus are basically Douglas P, Dave Tibet and Tony Wakeford respectively, plus whoever they've managed to scrape up to play or sing. This is why the instrument line-up of these bands changes so enormously). Though the 'apocalyptic folk' moniker was originally applied to Current 93, I feel it perfectly fits Sol Invictus: dark, apocalyptic, mournful and powerful. Their best comparisons nowadays are probably things like Gae Bolg and Neutral, and of course, Agalloch.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They're still doing their best work. Last years album, 'The Devils Steed' was absolute fucking brilliance, somehow both oppressive and ethereal, mournful and uplifting. And full of great songwriting: Tony's probably the best technical song-writer in Neo-Folk nowadays, with great lyrics and brilliant, neo-classically inspired arrangement and layering.
Band Name: Death in June
Genre: Post-punk (early)/Neo-Folk (later)
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Songs:
- Best All Around: Fields of Rape
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': C'est Un Reve/Klaus Barbie
- Most Relaxing: This is Not Paradise
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: If anything, Rose Clouds of Holocaust
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Omen-Filled Seasons
Bands Like This Band: Well, Current 93, Sol Invictus and all that crowd for the new stuff obviously, but also stuff like Joy Division, really early The Cure and even Swans on their earlier material. Again, they do have a different sound that doesn't quite bear the standard SI/C93 comparison. Death in June have a somewhat warm, dreamy sound, very different from the cut-glass nightmare delicacy of C93 or the pounding epic landscapes of SI. You can also make some Coil comparisons. And of course, Of The Wand and The Moon are basically an endless Rose Clouds/Cathedral of Tears era rip-off.
Coolest Thing About This Band: 'Rose Clouds of Holocaust', which has been banned in Germany for presumably being some evil nazi thingumy, is actually about an acrimonius split with Douglas P's boyfriend of 13 years. And the constant references to 'rotors' etc. in Lifebooks have nothing to do with Swastikas, but are instead referring to a cieling fan in a pub. This is what you get for too much morbid poetry. Also, of course, Dave Tibet and Tony Wakeford have both been members of DI6 at times.
Interesting note: The correct way to shorthand Death in June is 'DI6'.
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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.
Is it a failure of artistic communication if it has to be explained outside of the actual art?
I mean, I expect a certain level of external discovery. Art shouldn't always be obvious. But prosaic explication separate from the art?
I personally don't think they sound anything like any actual prog bands. Ridiculous album concepts aside, they really struck me as just being emo with really strident vocals, which is where the Rush comparisons come from, I suppose. Really though, I think comparisons to Yes and King Crimson are especially faulty.
I really think one of those tracks we listened to bore a superficial resemblance to Yes, but whatever.
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Band Name: John Cale
(obviously, i'm heavily biased by the fact that he's my godfather
So do you know him? Do you have dinner once a year? I take it you aren't blood relatives, how did your parents know him? Any good stories?
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I don't know that anyone has asked about them, but I thought I'd post this anyway because they are teh roxors.
Band Name: They Might Be Giants
Genre: umm.... rock, pop, alternative, freaking weird.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10
Best Album: Apollo 18, with Lincoln in 2nd and Factory Showroom in 3rd.
Songs:
- Best All Around: This is the touchest to answere out of all of these. I have 34 of them rated as at least 4 stars in iTunes, with 8 of those being 5. I guess New York City from Factory Showroom is the one I most often and easily enjoy listening too
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Man, It's So Loud In Here from Mink Car
- Most Relaxing: Goodnight My Friends from Here Come the ABCs
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Birdhouse from Doctor Spock's Backup Band
- Song That Best Represents The Band: This is a tough one, they're just so random. I guess Purple Toupee from Lincoln
Bands Like This Band: well, surprisingly enough I beleive iTMS has something on this, let me check...
Accoudring to them, Blink-182, Barenaked Ladies, Jim Greer, The Presidents of the United States of America, Moxy Fruvous, R. Stevie Moore, and Threebrain are some of their "Followers," while a list of their "Contemporaries" includes Brave Combo, Butterfly Joe, Camper Van Beethoven, The La's, Beck, Crash Test Dummies, Ween, Frank Black, and Barenaked Ladies. TMBG themselves were inspired by The Residents, Violent Femmes, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, The B-52's, and Jonathan Richman.
Coolest Thing About This Band: John Flansburge and John Linell can write a song about absolutely anything. There are absolutely no exceptions. They wrote a song about an ant living inside of someone's head and becoming elected president for goodness sakes. I know that New York was once New Amsterdam and that the 11th President of the United States of America was James K. Polk because of these people. That, and Linell plays the piano accordion like Douglas Adams writes scifi comedy.
On a side note, TMBG officially came into being the same year of my own birth, 1986. This year was a complete pie in the face to the book, and I'd like to take this moment to thank a few people fro this fact. The Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, President John F. Kennedy, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack, President Harry S. Truman, and president Ronald Reagan. Without you guys and your actions, our lives just wouldn't be nearly as happy.
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Is there really no one here who can do the Boredoms?
Also, Kate Bush?
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I personally don't think they sound anything like any actual prog bands. Ridiculous album concepts aside, they really struck me as just being emo with really strident vocals, which is where the Rush comparisons come from, I suppose. Really though, I think comparisons to Yes and King Crimson are especially faulty.
and not even good emo. like glossied-up radio mall emo.
fuck Coheed & Cambria.
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Can we guess at the question?
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That's alright, the thrill is in the hunt. In fact, could you make up another question and tell if we guess it?
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Also, Kate Bush?
Band Name: Kate Bush
Genre: art-rock / pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7
Best Album: The Hounds of Love
Songs:
- Best All Around: Cloudbusting
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': From memory some of the early songs are a bit rock, but fairly lame.. Don't Put Your Foot On The Heartbreak or Hammer Horror? You don't listen to Kate Bush for this.
- Most Relaxing: The Sensual World
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Wuthering Heights or Babooshka (both of which I can't stand :p)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Maybe The Hounds of Love - impenetrable lyrics, English imagery ("I found a fox, chase by dogs")
Bands Like This Band: Um, people always say Tori Amos, and I guess that's true for the earlier, mawkish shit Kate Bush released as a teen / tween. I really don't know. Indie nrrds: Patrick Wolf loves her, and that makes sense to me. Let's move on...
Coolest Thing About This Band: She's incredibly distinctive. You can usually spot a Kate Bush track before she's started singing, what with the mix of sampling and traditional British / Irish folk instrumentation, and then her amazing voice is really her own. She's also arty without being annoying. I mean, the b-side of 'Hounds of Love' is a suite of songs loosely about drowning, based on a Tennyson poem.
I gave her a 7 because I find her catalogue hit and miss, but I have so much respect for her. I think the 3 albums to check out are 'Hounds of Love' (84? 85?) 'The Dreaming' (83) and 'The Sensual World' (89), but she's already getting a bit MOR by then. Still has songs about dancing with Hitler, falling in love with an AI (maybe only Kraftwerk sang about this before her?) and all kinds of literary references, an Estonian folk choir and the fairly heartbreaking This Woman's Work. I haven't heard last year's 'Aerial', but the fans are foaming with glee...
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Is there really no one here who can do the Boredoms?
I could, but to me, the Boredoms started in 1998.
Band Name: Boredoms
Genre: psychedelic electronic post-rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 7
Best Album: Vision Creation Newsun
Songs:
- Best All Around: Super Going
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Super You
- Most Relaxing: (tilde - track 5 from Vision Creation Newsun)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: ?
- Song That Best Represents The Band: (circle - track 1 from Vision Creation Newsun)
Bands Like This Band: I can't think of anything that's a close match, but Can, Faust, and Black Dice pop to mind, except that the Boredoms are very much Japanese.
Coolest Thing About This Band: 1) the constant movement of the music, largely due to the driving percussion. 2) the way in which a simple, folk base from acoustic instruments is used to create something that sounds very much modern and fresh. It reminds me of minimalism in that sense. Now that I think about it, Animal Collective fits this description too, but the results are totally different.
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Cool, I think someone said before they knew the old Boredoms- if that person wants to go we could cover the entire career.
Also, can someone do Tom Waits?
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Band Name: Boredoms (1990-1996)
Genre: Noise Rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Pop Tatari
Songs:
- Best All Around: 52 Boredom
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Bo Go (but most of the songs from this time were pretty loud/rockin' with a heavy funk influence)
- Most Relaxing: Nice B-O-R-E Guy & Boyoyo Touch
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: For a while in the 90's, Yamatsuka Eye was the "SEGA!!" guy in the Genesis commercials. That's really the only thing I can think of that most people would have heard.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Overdrive Assault, Machine 3, Bocabola
Bands Like This Band: Melt Banana
Coolest Thing About This Band: The best way I can describe them, from both the early albums and the few times I saw them during this period, would be meticulously crafted and organized cacophony. They're all incredible musicians, but listening to the albums or seeing them live, one might get the impression that they're just banging on their instruments, until the song moves into a surf-rock riff for a few beats before a blaring, gillespie-esque trumpet solo makes an appearance, at which point the song devolves into screaming, drums and a mish mash of other sounds.
Please feel free to add/edit or correct this if you feel it needs something more.
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Thank you. Awesome.
Also, jcknbl, I'll totally do them later tonight if nobody already hasn't. I just have to finish things.
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Requests:
- Charles Ives
- Max Roach
- Sun Ra
- Funkadelic
- Scott Walker
- Beulah
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Band Name: Beulah
Genre: Indie Pop
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Yoko
Songs:
- Best All Around: Score From Augusta
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': My Side of the City
- Most Relaxing: You're Only King Once
- A song by them you may have heard: A Good Man is Easy to Kill (It was in an ad, for the Nissan Altima I think)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Silver Lining
Bands Like This Band: Apples in Stereo, Yuji Oniki, Komeda, Olivia Tremor Control
Coolest Thing About This Band: With the exception of Yoko (which is just beautiful), it's pretty much impossible to be anything but deliriously happy when you're listening to them.
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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
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Right on, right on... such a deserving "10", whether I enjoy listening to him or not.
- Song That Best Represents The Artist: The Cockfighter
I was just told this week (during a discussion about 'The Drift') that this song was an attempt by Scott to find a way to write about an impossible topic. So he approaches it from 3 angles and leaves the listener to kind of pick out a meaning through triangulation. :)
He's one of the few truly conceptual songwriters - deeply digging into how songs work and how one can convey meaning with form and so on. Of course, that means I don't often find him much fun to listen to (I retreat to The Walker Brothers' Make It Easy On Yourself or even drippy solo shit like Joanna :)) but he's just soooooo ace.
Edit: Found this great interview (http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/unpublished/scott_walker.html) with him in The Wire, this quote re: his song Clara cracked me up:
Yeah, the meat punching, that's an idea that came to me because, she was going, especially in her section, you sing quite a beautiful melody, and I needed an undercurrent of evil. Cos it is a fascist love song, essentially. I didn't want to do some cliched thing with strings. So that came to me, so we go the side of pork in, and made poor Alistair punch it. It's pathetic - this guy, he's one of the graetest percussionists in Europe, and he not only does rock sessions, he plays with Boulez, Stockhausen, all these people, and I always subject him to some kind of awful thing, you know
:) :) :)
Too funny.
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Edit: If you dislike wah guitar, stop reading now.
- Funkadelic
Band Name: Funkadelic
Genre: P-Funk (of course) - started out all grungey and Hendrix-y, gets more and more similar to what the same musicians were doing as Parliament...
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: May as well go with Maggot Brain but the later One Nation Under A Groove is pretty ace, more in the Parliament style
Songs:
- Best All Around: God... um.. I Wanna Know If It's Good To You Baby is pretty amazing, as is One Nation Under A Groove, but in very different ways
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Friday Night, August 14th is pretty rocking, but in a slow, Hendrix blues-rock kind of stylee
- Most Relaxing: Nappy Dugout
- A song by them you may have heard: Well, if you were listening to hip-hop in the mid-90s you've heard crap loads of their basic grooves, from Paris and Ice Cube to Snoop and Digital Underground.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers), at least for the title ;) I haven't heard it... Of those I have heard, maybe Maggot Brain is a sensible recommendation for the earlier, more psych / rocky stuff. (Edit: but be warned, it's just a huge guitar solo through fx)
Bands Like This Band: Hmm... obviously Parliament (same line-up) and The J-Bs (James Brown's horn section were all members of Funkadelic / Parliament too, along with kicked out bassist, Bootsy Collins); Hendrix's funkier stuff is an obvious touchstone for where these guys were starting out.. lots of reversed shit and studio effects and so much soloing. Also makes me think of Sly & The Family Stone, with more of a jam band vibe. Superficially, the later stuff is somewhere near Brothers Johnson, some George Duke of a similar vintage, solo Bootsy Collins, early Zapp, Captain Sky, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, maybe even a bit of Rufus (mainly for Chaka Khan's vox).. most of those bods aren't freaks, though.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They're hilarious, they really had the funk (in the sense of "stench".. it's weird, twisted music). None of what they did sounds "cool" (with all its implications of acceptability) - it's just stoopid.
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I was just told this week (during a discussion about 'The Drift') that this song [The Cockfighter] was an attempt by Scott to find a way to write about an impossible topic. So he approaches it from 3 angles and leaves the listener to kind of pick out a meaning through triangulation. :)
He's one of the few truly conceptual songwriters - deeply digging into how songs work and how one can convey meaning with form and so on. Of course, that means I don't often find him much fun to listen to (I retreat to The Walker Brothers' Make It Easy On Yourself or even drippy solo shit like Joanna :)) but he's just soooooo ace.
That's great, I'll have to go back to Tilt thinking about that.
I haven't read a lot of outside opinions, or even Walker's own comments, about the songs on Tilt (except the theory that certain things may be about the Cuban revolution) so even while I've listened to the album an endless amount of times, I don't pretend to know what the lyrics are really about or how he approached them.
It's hard for me to properly articulate, outside of general praise, how I feel about the songs on albums like Tilt or The Drift. The lyrics, the singing, the atmosphere, the balance, the this, the that, it just fires so many things in my brain. It's crushing! I like certain people and bands more than Scott Walker, but I listen to Tilt for the umpteenth time, and it's the only album in the world. I think to myself "how can anyone else bother making something that isn't this?". But then when it's done, I can go back to something catchy or bouncy, or just anything else. It's its own thing, I can't listen to a few songs on iTunes or pop it in the car, I have to go visit it.
It's funny, it just feels so personal. The Drift is even more like that now, but I haven't spent a lot of time on it yet. Or enough to draw any personal interpretation from it, I'm still getting tossed around.
But yeah, it's fun to go back to the Walker Brothers, and hear him singing these really nice dopey love songs.
Edit: Found this great interview (http://www.thewire.co.uk/web/unpublished/scott_walker.html) with him in The Wire, this quote re: his song Clara cracked me up
Ha! That's a great interview, thanks for that. It's going to be exciting going back to The Drift thinking about all those anicdotes and little revelations.
I remember before I listened to Drift I read that at one point he uses someone "slapping bacon" for precussion, and being really pysched for the album thinking "God, what's this going to be?". Ha ha
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has anyone done Eels yet? i can't find them if ya have.
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Repeating Tom Waits.
In addition: Mouse on Mars.
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In addition: Mouse on Mars.
Yay!
Band Name: Mouse On Mars
Genre: Electronic listening music
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: 'Instrümentals' for the squelchy instrumental music they first got popular for, but if you want to check out the mangled vocal pop stuff they've been doing this millenium, try 'Radical Connector'
Songs:
- Best All Around: Subnubus
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Actionist Respoke or First: Break - both are cartoony, distorted drill'n'bass tracks
- Most Relaxing: Chromantic
- A song by them you may have heard: Bib, on the Forced Listening thread just now :) or Cache Coeur Naif, which was a single with Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab singing.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: maybe Glim for the earlier phase, Mine Is In Yours (http://betterpropaganda.com/artist_page.asp?id=425) for the later (free MP3 at the end of that link)
Bands Like This Band: They've really cut their own path. Verrrry superficially: Plaid, Boards of Canada, maybe Four Tet? Closer, but less well known: FX Randomiz, Schneider TM, Vert, Hausmeister. One half of the core duo does solo stuff as Lithops, which is kinda similar. Other projects they've been involved with don't sound like MoM much.
Coolest Thing About This Band: They've got a really warm, social approach to their music, which is rare in such adventurous electronica. It's occasionally hard to listen to, but usually heaps of fun, not all poe-faced and stern.
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Hey guys, could anyone do
Creed Xiu Xiu?
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oh man, i would kill to see creed. would make for good laughs.
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Tom Waits
Genre: who knows? Imagine, while playing gigs in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong receives a phone call from his beau in which she says she's leaving him for Kenny G. He then heads to the nearest cabaret, gets hammered on absynthe, then gets up on stage, punches out the master of ceremonies, and starts singing about his misery.
That's how I imagine him anyway. Well, except that Tom Waits is white.
Anyway...
Rating: 9 (though I've only listened to two albums out of his extensive catalogue)
Best Album: Blood Money and Rain Dogs are both excellent; I'm partial to Rain Dogs since it has a greater variety in sound.
Songs:
Best: (man, don't make me pick) Either Singapore or God's Away on Business if we're talking achievements; I have a thing for Gun Street Girl though.
Rockin': He's really not that kind of musician, but ... the instrumental Midtown is pretty out there
Most Relaxing: Lullaby - in which Tom Waits' voice sinks low and soft enough that his trademark growl softens to soothing with a gravel-like quality
Most Played (by me at least): Downtown Train - a song of longing with a spare guitar line with a great slow build
Best Representative Song: again, Singapore and God's Away on Business, the latter best showcasing Tom Waits' distinctive--to say the least--voice.
Coolest thing: I've never heard anything like this. Whiskey-soaked voice, anachronistic instruments (a calliope makes several appearances) and rhythms, and bizarre imagery in the lyrics all combine to create an atmosphere--no, a world--where you feel you want to get out as soon as possible, but not before downing some shots at the seedy bar down the alley and hearing the story of the man with dead eyes slowly disappearing into his drink.
YouTube videos:
(These two are a pretty good showcase of the spectrum of sounds you can expect)
God's Away on Business (http://youtube.com/watch?v=g0Puxfk5Huk&search=god%27s%20away%20on%20business)
Downtown Train (http://youtube.com/watch?v=CnsB8ybb7E4&search=downtown%20train)
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Stereolab
Genre: french pop rock(early stuff) french pop/dream pop (more recently)
Rating: 9
Best Album: Switched on (early rock stuff) or Instant O in the Universe (later dreamy stuff)
Songs:
Best: Florescences
Rockin': French Disco
Most Relaxing: Escape pod(from the world of medical observations)
Most Played : Cybele's Reverie
Best Representative Song: International Colouring Contest ( it serves as a good bridge between their early Indy rock melodic songs and the later weightless sounds)
Coolest thing: stereolab is not a traditional band in that it is made up of ever changing members on each album. the only three members that serve as the base are Gene Latisha and Mary(who passed away after a bus accedent)this is what causes their sound to change and very so much.
i don't have all the stereolab albums i have 9 albums the ABC music collection and Oscillons form the Anti-sun which are compilations.
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Hey guys, could anyone do Creed Xiu Xiu?
yeah i went to a Xui Xui show at SxSW this year and it's sounded pretty lame and i was confused as hell. they seemed like they were haveing tech trouble with mics and stuff. so i bought the album Chapel of Chimes.
i'm still confused as to what this IS that i'm hearing.
will somebody explain the fuck is with Xui Xui
am i missing something here?
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or Creed? Please?
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Band Name: Creed
Genre: Pseudo-Christian Post-Grunge Shit
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Negative 8
Best Album: According to wikipedia "My Own Prison" got the least radio play of the three. So we'll go with that.
Songs:
- Best All Around: This isn't really Creed's gig.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Higher" that was the one I think.
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "With Arms Wide Open"?
Bands Like This Band: Nickleback, Limp Bizkit
Coolest Thing About This Band: In 2004 they broke up.
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Band Name: Creed
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Bands Like This Band: Nickleback, Limp Bizkit
Nickleback, I agree. But, Limp Bizkit? Come on now, you're just letting your hate do your writing.
Calm down and revise. There's no need to lie about Creed's blandness; the comparison to Nickleback was enough.
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Well I couldn't think of another one and last.fm had them overlapping. So I figured what the hell...
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How about Live, aren't they pretty similar to Creed, semi-religious pompous shite?
Band Name: Xiu Xiu
Genre: Hmm... they have a wide range of influences from post-punk(Joy Division, The Cure etc.) over Gamelan to noise.
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: Fabolous Muscles
Songs:
- Best All Around: I Love the Valley OH
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pink City is a noisefeast
- Most Relaxing: Even when they are really quiet they are quite disturbing but Fast Car(cover of Tracy Chapman)
- A song by them you may have heard: Well I love the Valley OH
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
Bands Like This Band: Well the lead singer Jamie Stewart old band Ten in the Swear Jar of course, in vocal delivery maybe The Paper Chase.
Allmusic says The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Devendra Banhart(this I presume would be strictly in their acoustic moments), Nervous Cup and The Dead Science.
Coolest Thing About This Band:
The danger in their sound I would say.
Xiu Xiu walks the fine line between ludicrous and compelling by being well over the top, very cathartic and grotesque.
There is a fascination with pain and sorrow, which is presented in an almost theatrical way.
Perhaps the best way to describe it is to quote the song Fabolous Muscles:
"Fabulous muscles
Cremate me after you cum on my lips
Honey boy place my ashes in a vase
Beneath your workout bench."
Grostesquely funny or just ridiculous, either way this is the crux of my fascination with them, the balance act.
Also their press photos are great fun :)
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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.
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Bauhaus
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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.
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I'll put you to work Kai:
The Residents.
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Has anyone done a review of The Rentals yet?
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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.
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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.
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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. (http://www.miserysignals.net)
Metalcore. (http://www.normajeannoise.com)
Metalcore. (http://www.unearth.tv)
Still metalcore. (http://www.asilaydying.com)
Not metalcore. (http://www.thursday.net)
boy it's a good thing NONE of those bands are metalcore. maybe unearth.
MAYBE.[/b][/u][/i]
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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
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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.
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Yes, Coheed was taken care of.
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Could somebody do Hope of the States?
EDIT: And possibly Mission of Burma?
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I didn't see them in here, so can anybody do Van Halen?
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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
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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:...
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+ 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.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps someone could cover Maritime, Jack's Mannequin and Say Hi To Your Mom for me? Thanks.
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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.
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Oh no! how did I miss the post above?! sorry about that, Kai... heh...
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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.
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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?
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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 (http://sftbh.com/page.php?id=audio), 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.
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Can someone, if they weren't already done do The Secret Machines and/or Andrew Bird?
I agree help us out.
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Milton Nascimento or Medeski Martin & Wood, anyone?
Apparat, Bill Evans, Spiritualized & Roots Manuva would also be much appreciated.
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Inspired by a thread here, I request Elliot Smith. Enough of you seem to love him that someone must be willing.
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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.
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Bands Like This Band: some Spectrum, some Verve.
What about Spacemen 3?
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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.
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Mars Volta?
Page 10.
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Do they really need to be done in the first place? There's only two albums.
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Can someone do Band of Horses for me? Thanks
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What about Spacemen 3?
I don't really see it. Maybe J Spaceman's half on Recurring, but that is basically Spiritualized anyway.
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Praeserpium Machinarum, you are my fucking hero.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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Aphex Twin is on page 4 (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?t=6987&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=150)
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.
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can someone do pulp, if it wasn't done already?
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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.
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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]
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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.
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Request
Gang of Four
The Smiths
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The Smiths has already been done. Try looking through the thread.
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I once again request Eliott Smith.
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I will only do Elliott Smith if people on this forum start spelling him name correctly.
...I promise I'll do him when I'm not feeling so damn lazy.
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...stuff on Scott Walker...
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.
Oh, you mean Angels of Ashes (I looked up that compilation because I didn't recognize that song name, which is by some artist I don't know named Paul Roland). If you mean Angels of Ashes and not Wyndgam Hill, yeah, that track is on the compilation I have called 'Boy Child', which is a 1967-70 best-of that takes from the albums Scott 1-4 and Til The Band Comes In. Those are the solo albums that overlap with his time in the Walker Brothers, the nice baroque pop work that came before things like 'Climate of Hunter' and 'Tilt'. Great stuff.
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Mission of Burma?
Band Name: Mission of Burma
Genre: Post-Punk
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Pre-Breakup: 9.5 Post-Reunion: 7.5
Best Album: Signals, Calls and Marches
Songs:
- Best All Around: That's When I Reach For My Revolver
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They all rock balls, but I'll say The Ballad of Johnny Burma.
- Most Relaxing: Prepared
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: That's When I Reach For My Revolver
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Max Ernst
Bands Like This Band: Gang of Four, The Fall, Pere Ubu, Devo
Coolest Thing About This Band: Martin Swope.
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...stuff on Scott Walker...
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.
Oh, you mean Angels of Ashes (I looked up that compilation because I didn't recognize that song name, which is by some artist I don't know named Paul Roland). If you mean Angels of Ashes and not Wyndgam Hill, yeah, that track is on the compilation I have called 'Boy Child', which is a 1967-70 best-of that takes from the albums Scott 1-4 and Til The Band Comes In. Those are the solo albums that overlap with his time in the Walker Brothers, the nice baroque pop work that came before things like 'Climate of Hunter' and 'Tilt'. Great stuff.
Yeah, sorry. That compilation confused the fuck out of me with all the new awesome stuff. Like, I kept thinking the amazing exclusive track 'The Ride' on there was by Der Bluthsarch (rather than Blood Axis).*
I have downloaded some more of the experimentaler Scott Walker stuff anf it is good, I will try and acquire that compilation.
*Actually that is more odd, as I was already familiar with both Blood Axis and Der Bluthsarch...
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Thanks karl.
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Has anyone done Leonard Cohen? If not, please do. I'm trying to decide which album to get, mostly.
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NEW STUFF
I decided the thread isn't quite as informative as it could be.
The new stuff you should include are
USELESS TRIVIA
OFFSHOOTS/SIDE PROJECTS
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Has anyone done Leonard Cohen? If not, please do. I'm trying to decide which album to get, mostly.
oh man... dunno how i can compress this down...
PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:
OllieA wrote:
Mission of Burma?
Band Name: Leonard Cohen
Genre: Folk/poetry
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: um... i can't find which one 'Suzanne' is on, so i'll say Death of a Ladies' Man, for the title track
Songs:
- Best All Around: The Gambler
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Future. Seriously, it rocks HARD. I'm not kidding. Tottally dark and apocolyptic
- Most Relaxing: anything from 'Ten New Songs'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Suzanne
-Most covered by everybody: Hallellejah (no idea how to spell it)
-Best Song Re-Written By R.E.M. Into Another Great Song: Suzanne (turned into Hope)
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Famous Blue Raincoat, 'cause he talks about himself
Bands Like This Band: Nick Cave circa Nocturama and No More Shall We Part, sensative boys in dorm rooms everywhere
Coolest Thing About This Band: Chelsea Hotel (i think thats the name of the song) is about the time Janis Joplin thought he was Kris Kristofferson and gave him a blow job
Useless Trivia: both my dad and one of my tutors at Simon's Rock claimed to have seen him. my dad thinks he saw Cohen naked on a horse in Greece
Offshoots/Side Projects: those Nick Cave albums i mentioned :-p
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From what I remember of Godflesh, and I only saw them once years ago...they can pretty much be summed up by one word.
LOUD.
Good show though.
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Band Name: Mew
Genre: Alternative rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9
Best Album: That depends which kind of Mew you like the best. The juvenile and bright Half the World Is Watching Me-era or Frengers/And the glasshanded kites which is a lot more symphonic, dark and dreamy. But i'd say Frengers. They matured a lot from album to album.
Songs:
- Best All Around: She-Spider
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Am I Wry? No, or Circuitry Of The Wolf but that's just an intro. Very loud though. Also Special and Snow Brigade.
- Most Relaxing: Symmetry, Then I Run, Coffee Break
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Snow Brigade or 156
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Again they have changed quite a bit over the years but pre-frengers it would be Like Papercuts, post-frengers would be She Came Home For Christmas or Special.
Bands Like This Band: Can't think of any.
Coolest Thing About This Band: If you don't like Half the World Is Watching me, you would probably like A Triumph for man and if you don't like Frengers you would probably like And the glasshanded kites. Something for everybody.
Characteristics: The frontsingers angelic voice and the very talented drummer. Very ambitious.
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Can someone do The Gathering?
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Could someone (undoubtedly Khar or Troll) do Satyricon?
Unless I botched that spelling and am talking about a band that doesn't exist.
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You don't need one of these to do Satyricon.
Simply watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvQhC7bQDs) and, if you think KRIEG then you like them (Well, their early stuff) and if you don't, you don't.
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Animal Collective and Modest Mouse are both coming to Syndey, so more info about them would be apprecaited. thx
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You don't need one of these to do Satyricon.
Simply watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvQhC7bQDs) and, if you think KRIEG then you like them (Well, their early stuff) and if you don't, you don't.
I prefer K.I.N.G but then I am a sellout like that. Mother North is a pretty good song though.
EDIT:
Mother North has a much better video though...
Can someone do Danzig?
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BUMP
Before I joined the forums, I loved this thread.
I would like someone to tell me about Fugazi, The Fall, and Joan of Arc.
My apologies if they were already done, but I'm one of those lazy god damn n00bs.
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I have a request for you people. I have tried and tried and tried and tried to find this band again. The first time I heard them it was on a tape a friend of my mother's gave her, my mom didn't like it, but I found it quite entertaining. As far as I remember, the band was called Pog, and they were irish, sorta rockish, sorta progressive sorta indy/alternative I really can't remember. If someone could do a write up of them so I'd know where to start looking. I'd be much obliged.
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Oh, and it's >NOT< The Pouges, Might be Pog Mo Thoin, but I can't find a decent enough recording of them to be able to tell what their studio music is like.
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Can someone do Danzig?
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I doubt they've been done, but I would very much like it if someone could do Love Spirals Downward, Ivy, and My Bloody Valentine.
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I would like someone to tell me about Fugazi, The Fall, and Joan of Arc.
http://quiki.net/index.php/Fugazi
also, My Bloody Valentine? Shit, just buy Loveless and get on with it.
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Any thoughts on the Creatures?
Also, before I forget: Magazine, and is Morrissey's solo work worth checking out at ALL?
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also, My Bloody Valentine? Shit, just buy Loveless and get on with it.
Thanks, Kai, for the Fugazi page. Also, I agree with the above statement, except that you should also buy Isn't Anything. It's not as good as Loveless, but still pretty fucking good.
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Would someone do Aloha please?
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I'm doing one that nobody asked for to announce my triumphant return to these very forums.
Band Name: Sleater-Kinney
Genre: rock, riot grrl, punk, indie rock
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9.
Best Album: My personal favourite is 'All Hands On The Bad One'...but 'The Woods' is widely acknowledged as their best. Unfortunately, it was also their last. *sniff*
Songs:
- Best All Around: too many to choose from. i don't even have an outright favourite.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': um...'Let's Call It Love' for pure rock jammery, and 'I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone' for throwing yourself around your room rock-i-ness
- Most Relaxing: 'Modern Girl' or 'The Swimmer'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Jumpers' or 'Entertain'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'Entertain', the lyrics = S-K's musical manifesto
Bands Like This Band: pretty girls make graves, the pixies... honestly can't think. i welcome any suggestions!!
Coolest Thing About This Band: the fact that during their 10 years together, they didn't release one bad album. on the contrary, they went from strength to strength with each release. also, when Carrie Brownstein plays guitar = phwoar.
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Ok, it's Pog Mo Thoin, can anyone give me a good start on what I should begin pirating by them?
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i'm on the door to Midlake and My Latest Novel this weekend. should i go to either one?
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I've seen My Latest Novel live a few times and they're really good. The other band, I have no idea about.
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Can someone do The Gathering?
This is the first one of these I've done or will do, and it's for a band with whom I'm not incredibly knowledgeable, but I'll do my best.
Band Name: The Gathering
Genre: Early days - Goth/Black Metal with male and female vocals (from my understanding), Mid-'90s - Ambient Prog-rock, Currently - Ambient rock with emphasis on sonic soundscapes
Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8
Best Album: Of the two I have, I'd have to say "Nighttime Birds" is better than "Mandylion." These two are from the mid '90s when Anneke van Giersbergen first joined the band and they entered their prog-rock phase. I've heard their second-most recent album, "Souvenirs" is their best, though. Based on the material I've heard from that album on their live DVD, I might have to agree.
Songs: *I'll go into more detail here when I'm at home and can really look through their albums*
- Best All Around: Shrink
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin':
- Most Relaxing: Shrink
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
- Song That Best Represents The Band:
Bands Like This Band: Similar to Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Theatre of Tragedy, etc. All those bands are pretty distinct when you really compare them to one another, but a fan of any would probably appreciate The Gathering.
Coolest Thing About This Band: How much a band of mostly the same members has changed over time. To me, it shows that these musicians just do what pleases them musically, and they welcome fans to come along for the ride.
Characteristics: Anneke's voice. I always describe it as honey poured over satin.
If you really want a good assessment of their material, go on Amazon.com and look for album reviews written by "Lord Chimp." His reviews were essential when I was trying to decide whether I wanted to get into The Gathering or not. And if you want a quick purchase to show you what the band is like these days, get your hands on a copy of their live DVD (about a year old now) called A Sound Relief. Hope that helps a little bit.
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can someone do Yo La Tengo for me?
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can someone do Yo La Tengo for me?
What he said... heck the rest of the Laneway lineup: Walkmen, Love Is All, Archie Bronson Outfit, Peter Bjorn & John... in exchange, i'll do Camera Obscura. Later... when i'm not working... tracking down Camera Obscura tour dates....
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I would do Yo La Tengo, but I only have their albums from Painful onward. Which is easily the era of their discography 98% of people will give a shit about, and for good reason, but still...I feel like I shouldn't unless I've heard it all.
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Well i've got tickets to the festival they're playing at, so i just need to know enough to know what to listen to before then and whether its worth buying/scamming comp tix for their sideshows
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can someone do Yo La Tengo for me?
What he said... heck the rest of the Laneway lineup: Walkmen, Love Is All, Archie Bronson Outfit, Peter Bjorn & John... in exchange, i'll do Camera Obscura. Later... when i'm not working... tracking down Camera Obscura tour dates....
ahem. 'SHE' said.
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I apologize!
Are you an Aussie, or was this a random Yo La Tengo request?
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Well i've got tickets to the festival they're playing at, so i just need to know enough to know what to listen to before then and whether its worth buying/scamming comp tix for their sideshows
OK, then listen to: I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One and And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. I, personally, would call those the two must have Yo La Tengo albums.
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Also: I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
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I apologize!
Are you an Aussie, or was this a random Yo La Tengo request?
out of those two options, neither. i genuinely know zip about the band.
i'm not an aussie, i'm scottish.
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Has anyone done Boris? I just got the SunnO)))/Boris comp off my friend and I think it's amazing.
Especially if you're possibly under the influence of something that may or may not be illegal.
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I saw someone make a call for the Blood Brothers
Band: The Blood Brothers
Genre: Noisey spastic post-hardcore, with elements of indie rock and dance-punk thrown in at various times
My Rating: 9
Best Album: Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Songs
- Best All Around: "Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon" (I may have spelled that incorrectly)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "American Vultures" (pretty rockin' for a song that's only piano and vocals)
- Most Relaxing (relatively speaking): "Street Wars/Exotic Foxholes" or "Crimes"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Crimes"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon"
Similar Artists (to varying degrees: Song of Zarathustra, Polysics, At The Drive-In, The Fall Of Troy, Drive Like Jehu
Fun Facts: Guy Picciatto produced their newest album, Young Machetes. Two of the bands five members have a side project called Neon Blonde
Defining Characteristics: The band has two lead singers who usually don't play other instruments. The resulting vocal interplay is on a level that other bands with guitars just can't reach.