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Title: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: Coonstar on 20 Aug 2005, 22:33

This may be a little strange, well, this topic was brought up because my friend was just telling me about how some man invented computer speakers FOR SCENTS. So, scents for your computer! And we were discussing what scents would waft about from our computers when certain music on our computers are played.

We agreed on some.

Animal Collective – Massive Amounts of Pot.
Billy Corgan (Solo Material) - Hospital
The Decemberists – Water-soaked wood
Of Montreal - Watermelons
Morrissey - Mousse, Sweat, Cologne, Tofu-Dogs
Nickelback – Money

add your own!

Title: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: FuneralCateringService on 20 Aug 2005, 22:44

Being the co-creator of all this, I must investigate this thread.

Death from Above 1979 - love juice
Iron and Wine - facial hair
Modest Mouse - alcohol + a boiling hot car interior
The Mars Volta - grubby omar
Opeth - foresty stuff
Boards of Canada - plants and wildlife
Black Moth Super Rainbow - meadows, and whatever the place Napoleon Dynamite lived smelled like
Metallica - BO
Wolf Parade - looming hype
Coldplay - the middle of a road

Title: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: sp2 on 20 Aug 2005, 22:56

Quote from: Awkward Silence

DFA 1979 - Sex.

I'm sorry.  You must have meant to say "The Black Keys - Sex"

Les Savy Fav - the color green
Jawbreaker - stale beer and tears
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - alpacas
Monster Magnet - Mars

Title: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: Coonstar on 20 Aug 2005, 23:10

And how would Mars smell like?

The Dresden Dolls - baby powder
Interpol - tobacco, the interior of a piece of luggage, maybe cologne

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Post by: sp2 on 20 Aug 2005, 23:14

Quote from: Coonstar

And how would Mars smell like?

You would know this if you did mushrooms while watching NASA broadcasts.

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Post by: Johnny C on 20 Aug 2005, 23:15

Sp2: You're right. DFA1979 wouldn't smell like sex.

They would smell like hot sex.

Title: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: sp2 on 20 Aug 2005, 23:21

My point is that The Black Keys are more sex than DFA1979 ever will be.

I mean, shit, when you can rock a song like 10 AM Automatic or Til I Get My Way and look like this (http://www.fatpossum.com/images/photo/blackkeys/melanie_pullen/3.jpg), you goddamned certainly MUST ooze sex more than any other band out there.

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Post by: Freezey on 20 Aug 2005, 23:34

the Explosion would smell like beer. Actually, they dosmell like beer- the vocalist called me over and gave me a big ol' hug when I saw em in July.

Also, you might want to add cigarettes to Jawbreaker- Chesterfield King anyone?

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Post by: Coonstar on 20 Aug 2005, 23:38

The Arcade Fire - freshy cut strawberries, red wine, and dead leaves in some French guy's attic.

Radiohead - the smell of one of those Japanese pet robo-dogs, that had been out in the rain all day, mauling over some garden plants

Title: Re: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: JLM on 20 Aug 2005, 23:39

Quote from: Coonstar

Animal Collective – Massive Amounts of Pot.

Wait...how does a 16 year old know what massive amounts of pot would smell like? ;)

Lali Puna - Marzipan, Perfume, Bit-O-Honey
The American Analog Set - Lemonade and Seabreezes
MF DOOM - Beef Stew
Portishead - Vintage Pulp Magazines

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Post by: KharBevNor on 20 Aug 2005, 23:42

Judas Priest - New leather, petrol, cordite and a hint of french perfume (manly of course)
Finntroll - Spilt beer, woodsmoke, blood
Carpathian Forest - Faeces, gimp masks, vodka and rotting leaves
Bauhaus - Hair spray and smoke machines
Mortiis - Rain (duuuuh)
Bathory - Has anyone ever been to the Jorvik centre's viking recreation? That smell.
Impaled Nazarene - Burning communists and goats
Cattle Decapitation - Rotting corpses being turned to glue in a vat of boiling sperm
Rammstein - Flamethrowers and prison showers
Nirvana - Teen spirit


I would definitely be turning this off before listening to Compost Pile or Pungent Stench

Title: Re: How would certain bands smell like? :O
Post by: Coonstar on 20 Aug 2005, 23:49

Quote from: JLM

Quote from: Coonstar

Animal Collective – Massive Amounts of Pot.

d00d. I am your northern neighbour. British Columbia, hello? We have a Marijuana Party that gets bored once in a while and roams around Vancouver with a parade of ladies dressed in pink polos carrying signs FREE HERBS.

Also, my friend told me, during Canada day, a flood of pot smokers basically just sat on the steps of a pretty big building in Vancouver smoking it up and making the scenic sky all smoggy (I think it was on museum, if I'm not mistaken), and the policemen were RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD, two police cars, just watching them :O

Man. I love Canada.

Anyway. Back on topic.

Smashing Pumpkins (Gish Era) - More pot, and even more shrooms.

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Post by: edwartica on 20 Aug 2005, 23:58

The New Pornographers - umm, nevermind. :)

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Post by: La Creme on 21 Aug 2005, 00:39

Quote from: JLM

MF DOOM - Beef Stew

*Me luaghing a lot*

!! Dr. Didg - Sweat, Wood, and Australlia

!! Siniti - Teenager, Really old guitar strings, and Carivans

!! The Bad Plus - Rented Tuxedo, Scalp, and Absinthe

!! Mark Oliver Everet and/or Eels - Cigars, Basements, and Birds

!! Victor Wooten - Pure, Condensed, and Unfiltered Funk

!! GWAR - Prosthetics, Fake Blood, and Hotdogs (I dunno, I just always figured Gwar eat a lot of hotdogs on tour...)

!! Symphony X - Car Exhaust, Smoke Machines, and Hair Conditioner

!! Tom Waits - Coffee, Cigarettes, and 30 years of phlegm and blood build-up in his throat

!! Mr. Bungle - Cotton Candy, Violated Baby, and a Trumpet's recently emptied spit valve

!! The Dandy Warhols - A Lot Of Everything Illegal Everywhere But Amsterdam

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Post by: sp2 on 21 Aug 2005, 10:23

Quote from: Freezey

Also, you might want to add cigarettes to Jawbreaker- Chesterfield King anyone?

Yeah.  Amend that to "Cigarettes, stale beer, and TEARS"

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Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Aug 2005, 11:03

Hawkwind - Star trek uniforms, freshly printed pulp sci-fi novels and a faint whiff of serious chemicals
The Anti-Nowhere League - Animals crotch (as he grinds it into your face whilst beating up your sister)
The Meads of Asphodel - Pot and rust
Skyclad - Beer, sawdust, waistcoats
Sopor Aeternus - Blood, kabuki makeup, mouldering grave rags
Treblinka - Vomit. FUNKY vomit.

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Post by: Johnny C on 21 Aug 2005, 11:19

Sleater-Kinney (pre-The Woods) - Hot Tamales.
Sleater-Kinney (The Woods) - A swamp. On fire.
Ryan Adams - Booze, other people's blood
Beck - EVERYTHING.

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Post by: Decima on 21 Aug 2005, 11:24

Massive Attack - Catacoombs, Subways and Synthetic Chemicals

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Post by: Aphi on 21 Aug 2005, 11:49

Quote from: Coonstar

Radiohead - the smell of one of those Japanese pet robo-dogs, that had been out in the rain all day, mauling over some garden plants

Really? I was thinking of that smell when fall leaves get rained on. Yeah, the wet-leaves smell. And maybe an undertone of stale booze.

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Post by: Kai on 21 Aug 2005, 14:20

Quote from: KharBevNor

Bauhaus - Hair spray and smoke machines
Rammstein - Flamethrowers and prison showers
Nirvana - Teen spirit

These ones win the most accurately awesome, especially the Bauhaus one, because that's exactly what I think of now that I think of Bauhaus. THanks alot.


The Beatles - Ringo.
Buckethead - Chicken and grease. I can't imagine how greasy his hair is wearing the chicken bucket on his head.
Frank Zappa - Coffee and Cigerettes.
The Grateful Dead - B.O. Fucking hippies.
Motorhead - Beer and Cigar smoke. and the smell of pure awesome coming from Lemmy.
Nash the Slash - Used bandages.

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Post by: Johnny C on 21 Aug 2005, 14:44

Wilco - Fresh-cut grass, robots, and headache pills.

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Post by: nickyandthefuture on 21 Aug 2005, 15:09

The Secret Stars - stepping onto a Greyhound bus in the winter
The Lucksmiths - candle wax melting into the sand of a beach at dusk
Melt-banana - ozone
Belle and Sebastian - the little room in the back of the used book store where they keep the good things they don't think anyone will buy
Darren Hanlon - The burnt wood smell of late-autumn/early-winter (is it weird to ascribe a smell to a dude I've never met?)

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Post by: Micolithe on 21 Aug 2005, 15:16

Codeine - The night air in Elizabeth, New Jersey. (on the border fof Newark, North Jersey's claim to crime fame)

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Post by: shrimp on 21 Aug 2005, 15:37

Motorhead- Beer and Cigar smaoke.LOL! Lemmy did not smell awesome, nor beery- lemmy drinks jack and coke, not beer. :) Back to the "man-legend", He smelt sweaty and stinky, but the awesomeness comes from his "aura", it pervades everything, so you can almost smell it over the sweat, or under the sweat...

Anyway.. just thought I'd put in real life experience. :)

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Post by: Kai on 21 Aug 2005, 15:39

Alright, so cigar smoke and whiskey. and awesome sweat sauce. rawk.


Also, I love the avatar. SCREECHING WEASEL.

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Post by: shrimp on 21 Aug 2005, 15:45

Thanks dude, I just regret never being able to see them live :(

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Post by: Oldschoolstylee on 21 Aug 2005, 15:46

Babyshambles-Heroin, stale beer and sweat.

The postal service-Canned air (for comps) and that smell where it rains on dusty ground.

Dredg-Cut grass

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Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Aug 2005, 15:58

The Sisters of Mercy - Snow and burning dust
Running Wild - Sea spray, gundpowder, parrots
The Misfits - Greasepaint, gelatin, Glenn's manly, manly sweat
Anti-Flag -  Burning flags
Sigh - What does a three headed demon endlessly vomiting multi-coloured paint smell like?

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Post by: AeroZeppelin on 21 Aug 2005, 16:14

The Mars Volta- Burnt Hair
Les Claypool- seas of cheese
The Clash- piss and vinegar
Mr. Bungle- That strange cheese thats been in your fridge since last April
Interpol- coffee shops
Rolling Stones- "I smell death on you"-stewie

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Post by: Aphi on 21 Aug 2005, 16:53

For some reason, I see Talking Heads as smelling like old books. You know, that smell when you open a library book or something for the first time in years, and you can see that the pages are yellowing. That kind of musty, though not unpleasant smell.

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Post by: JLM on 21 Aug 2005, 18:21

The B-52's - Pineapples and strawberries
Sonic Youth - New Sneakers
Aril Brikha - Fresh Out Of The Box Electronic Equipment
Kings of Convenience - The air before new fallen snow
The Cure - The Ocean

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Post by: Johnny C on 21 Aug 2005, 18:58

The Cure won't smell like the ocean. They'll smell like the tears of puppies and small children, hidden in a jar under a rock in the gloomiest part of England you can imagine, which is swept away to Russia, where it's found in the northernmost part of Siberia by some impoverished peasants who then treasure the jar beacuse it's the only object they owe nobody money for in their sad, joyless existence.

Delays, now, they smell like the ocean.

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Post by: Aphi on 21 Aug 2005, 19:10

When I think The Cure, I think formaldehyde.

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Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Aug 2005, 19:15

The cure would smell of teenygoths. No questions. Liquid eyeliner and the rank smell attributable to following hair-care tips from Ville fucking Valo would be their whiff.

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Post by: JLM on 21 Aug 2005, 20:23

Cannibal Corpse would probably smell like santorum (http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/).

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Post by: sp2 on 21 Aug 2005, 20:47

I'm pretty sure Skinny Puppy would smell like vivisected schoolchildren.

And I'm pretty sure the Misfits would smell like those same schoolchildren 2 weeks later.

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Post by: Johnny C on 21 Aug 2005, 22:23

Quote from: KharBevNor

The cure would smell of teenygoths. No questions. Liquid eyeliner and the rank smell attributable to following hair-care tips from Ville fucking Valo would be their whiff.

No, see, they wouldn't touch their fans. Or go near them. Smith wouldn't want to bring them down with his morose, self-deprecating presence.

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Post by: thehoopiestfrood on 22 Aug 2005, 00:29

The Cure would smell like having secretly been in a happy relationship since you were 18. :P

Radiohead would smell like candy canes and freshly baked birthday cake. ;)

Title: Bands smell sweaty
Post by: The Mighty Mopdecai on 23 Aug 2005, 05:21

All bands smell of sweat and the road. I always try to speak to the band after a gig (if its small anyway). They all smell of sweat except Agent Blue who smelt like well Agent Blue.

Well I'm here

Hope Of The States - Books of American History that George Bush hasn't read.
The Cure - Hairspray
Ozzy Obsourne - The smell of wet dog
Beyonce Knowles - Ambition
Bright Eyes - Frustration and Alcohol
Willie Mason - Americana
Slipknot - Shit and Dead Crow

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Post by: Trollstormur on 23 Aug 2005, 21:39

Battlelore - Mt. Dew and Dice
Smash Mouth - newly minted currency
Nattefrost - bile, blood, urine etc.
Cruachan - Dark beer.
Man or Astro Man? - Silicon Wafers
Gwar - Food coloring and Latex

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Post by: spizzletrunk on 30 Aug 2005, 19:08

Oh, I'm in late on this.  Oh well.

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: incense, burning lizard carcass, oil paints, and leather seats

Rudimentary Peni: old hospitals, cigarettes, fresh paper, burning pinecones, and sweating mosh injuries

Pavement: cereal, the insides of disused amplifiers, recently purchased parkas, southern california brush fires

The Flaming Lips: bubble-blowing solution, thrift store 3-piece suits, shiny wet plastic

Husker Du: dirty snow, laundromats, and black-and-white photos

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Post by: Jarne on 30 Aug 2005, 19:41

Architectures In Helsinki - A mix of Jolt, Bawls and Red Bull.