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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: starkruzr on 14 Aug 2007, 01:25
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Because it's funny, and we're all friends here anyway, aren't we?
Stuff I Like, Unapologetically
Coldplay (how's that for starting off with a homer?)
U2 (We're running now!)
Billy Joel (OH YES)
Counting Crows
Radiohead
Conquistador (the 7-piece rock-ska band The Bravery used to be before they were The Bravery)
Angels and Airwaves (what happens when Tom Longe locks himself in a basement for a year and listens only to U2? THIS HAPPENS.)
Athlete
Barenaked Ladies
British Sea Power
Calexico
The Decemberists
Green Day
Guster
Ian Axel
The Killers
Muse
Pearl Jam
The Postal Service
Rooney
Stars
Stars of Track and Field
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The Virginia Coalition
The Who
This is a small fragment of my music collection, pulled from my desktop which only has a couple of things that I happened to import to it. Everything else lives on my eMac/700 music server which is currently taking a nap.
DO YOUR WORST, BITCHES
BTW, in case I didn't make this clear, the idea was that everybody posts something they think others will go "OH GOD VOMIT" at, as well as some things they think they might think others will be like "HEY MAN AWSUM," to see if reactions to either are surprising at all.
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ummm. Hot Hot Heat might be worth ripping on, I guess....aaand Ok Go. Maybe.
I think there is absolutely no reason to be sorry for liking Toad the Wet Sprocket. I actually have no desire to rip on you for any of that list. Not that I don't wanna barf on half of that stuff, but they're your ears, man.
Edit: Okay, I wanna barf on 3/4 of it, at least. Still... your ears.
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No Styx?
Pfft!!
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No Styx?
Pfft!!
Dude, good call.
IIIIII'M SAILIIIIIING AWAAAAAAAAAY
(BTW, in case I didn't make this clear, the idea was that everybody posts something they think others will go "OH GOD VOMIT" at, as well as some things they think they might think others will be like "HEY MAN AWSUM," to see if reactions to either are surprising at all.)
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He's a clever, one, he is. He's giving us too much. You see, if he just gave us a band that sucked and told us why he thought they were good, we'd have a field day. However, he's listing a boatload of tripe, and since nearly all of it is crap, it's not like we can just single out certain ones (well, I guess we can, but I wouldn't know where to start), and I doubt any of us other than Tommy are meticulous enough to write a treatise about that list.
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If you want vomit, I have seen Poison every year since 2001, and I plan on seeing them again come Labor Day, along with the likes of Ratt and some other band I don't remember. Winger maybe.
She's only seventeen, daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me
When he moved to Hollywood he had to go door to door to tell everyone he was a pederast.
God I hate Winger.
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do me next do me next...i'm sure you've worked out some of my taste in music by now
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In no order:
Daft Punk
Agalloch
The Decemberists
Gorillaz
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sigur Ros
TV on the Radio
David Bowie
Dragonforce
Metallica
Megadeth
Turisas
Weird Al Yankovic
starkruzr:
Peral Jam?
Green Day??
Wow.
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Dragonforce
THERE IS NO SHAME IN LIKING DRAGONFORCE. THEY ARE QUITE GOOD. AND ALSO AWESOME.
did I mention they rock?
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In no order:
Daft Punk
Agalloch
The Decemberists
Gorillaz
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sigur Ros
TV on the Radio
David Bowie
Dragonforce
Metallica
Megadeth
Turisas
Weird Al Yankovic
starkruzr:
Peral Jam?
Green Day??
Wow.
It's okay, man. I have decided that any band that makes a gimmick of playing stupid games with punctuation in their name (this includes !!! and GY!BE) should be automatically dragged out into the street and shot for inflicting cosmic-scale pretension on the rest of the planet.
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He's a clever, one, he is. He's giving us too much. You see, if he just gave us a band that sucked and told us why he thought they were good, we'd have a field day. However, he's listing a boatload of tripe, and since nearly all of it is crap, it's not like we can just single out certain ones (well, I guess we can, but I wouldn't know where to start), and I doubt any of us other than Tommy are meticulous enough to write a treatise about that list.
What's NOT crap in that list?
Also, to give you some fodder because I'm such a nice guy:
Angels and Airwaves is (also) what happens when emo grows up, decides to get over high school and stop cutting itself, and actually try being positive for a change.
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The Who.
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Every single Dragonforce song sounds the same. Why anyone would ever listen to them more than once is lost on me.
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i actually quite like alot in both the major lists... or at least they can be found in my collection...
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I have decided that any band that makes a gimmick of playing stupid games with punctuation in their name (this includes !!! and GY!BE) should be automatically dragged out into the street and shot for inflicting cosmic-scale pretension on the rest of the planet.
How is it gimmicky and a stupid game? !!! is a fun name and I think the exclamation in GY!BE makes a big difference in how it's pronounced.
Lighten up! it's only punctuation.
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Yeah punctuation sure is pretty pretentious. Look how fucking pretentious this post is, all with two periods and a comma.
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i was going to tear you a new spleen with my internet ramblings. But frankly there are two factors limiting me;
1. The Who pretty much makes up for the mediocrity of the rest of list.
2. I doubt my brilliance would impact such a soul so lost to the cause of plausible taste.
Personally I think adding in punctuation as meaning in a name is pretty gimicky, but you know, that's hardly a big issue.
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I don't see any problems with:
Daft Punk
Gorillaz
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sigur Ros
TV on the Radio
David Bowie
Weird Al Yankovic
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It's okay, man. I have decided that any band that makes a gimmick of playing stupid games with punctuation in their name (this includes !!! and GY!BE) should be automatically dragged out into the street and shot for inflicting cosmic-scale pretension on the rest of the planet.
If you think "Godspeed You! Black Emporer" is a stupid punctuation game (and by implication is grammatically incorrect or at least unusual), you've obviously never read any book written before, say, the 1950s, or whenever it was that the "rule" that question and exclamation marks can only go at the end of a sentence came into vogue. It's a pity really, since a lot of sentences really need one or the other in the middle, and a comma doesn't really cut it.
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Yeah punctuation! sure is; pretty... pretentious look? how - fucking "pretentious this, post is all... with two. periods and! a comma.
edited for gy!be effect
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Eh eh, I have all the Green Day cds :-D
Damn, I feel shitty now...
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Green Day is terrible, but I still have....
The shittiest taste in music
The Flaming Lips
Piebald
Lou Reed(as opposed to The Velvet Underground. I like him better)
The Goodlife
Cursive
Tilly And The Wall
Ben Folds
Xiu Xiu
Black Eyes
Gravytrain!!!
Metric
Pearl Jam
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
The Robot Ate Me
The Promise Ring
Queen
The Dead Milkmen
The Faint
Joanna Newsom
Frank Sinatra
Iron and Wine
Cake
(local band) Thankful Tree (http://www.myspace.com/thankfultree)
(local band) Eskimos (http://www.myspace.com/eskinos)
And a bunch of other local bands. I just got tired of trying to link them.
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New Found Glory and Avril Lavigne. I own every cd by both...
now if only Avril knew about my loyalty, and dumped that dumb sum 41 guy.
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S37.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif)
thread over guys
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my turn! at random...
celine dion (i should probably be stoned or some such for that)
evanescence
green day
iron maiden
ac/dc
garbage
tori amos
liz phair
rosemary clooney
dream theater
hole
nirvana
the offspring
shakira
the ramones
and much more!
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S37.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif)
thread over guys
i declare you the winner loser.
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Haha I used to listen to evanescence in high school, back before I realized/came to hate how whiny so much music out there is.
But come on? Celine Dion??
Okay let me throw my list of unapologetic favs out there:
Incubus
Modest Mouse
Hot Hot Heat
Daft Punk
OK Go
Third Eye Blind
Muse
The Decemberists
The Dandy Warhols
The Cure
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Fuck this thread!
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Fuck! this thread
fixed for punctuation
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Incubus
Modest Mouse
Hot Hot Heat
Daft Punk
OK Go
Third Eye Blind
Muse
The Decemberists
The Dandy Warhols
The Cure
I don't see anything in this list that you should be ashamed of...
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The Flaming Lips
Lou Reed(as opposed to The Velvet Underground. I like him better)
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Queen
The Faint
Joanna Newsom
Frank Sinatra
Iron and Wine
I see nothing wrong with these guys. Your shame is built on a shaky foundation. Destroy your shame!
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Jawbreaker
Jets to Brazil
Journey
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Green Day is terrible, but I still have....
The shittiest taste in music
The Flaming Lips
Piebald
Lou Reed(as opposed to The Velvet Underground. I like him better)
The Goodlife
Cursive
Tilly And The Wall
Ben Folds
Xiu Xiu
Black Eyes
Gravytrain!!!
Metric
Pearl Jam
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
The Robot Ate Me
The Promise Ring
Queen
The Dead Milkmen
The Faint
Joanna Newsom
Frank Sinatra
Iron and Wine
Cake
(local band) Thankful Tree (http://www.myspace.com/thankfultree)
(local band) Eskimos (http://www.myspace.com/eskinos)
And a bunch of other local bands. I just got tired of trying to link them
I have a lot of these too, but I could never get into Iron and Wine for some reason.
For those of you who think my list is OMG!UNREDEEMABLE, what *should* I be listening to?
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It's okay, man. I have decided that any band that makes a gimmick of playing stupid games with punctuation in their name (this includes !!! and GY!BE) should be automatically dragged out into the street and shot for inflicting cosmic-scale pretension on the rest of the planet.
If you think "Godspeed You! Black Emporer" is a stupid punctuation game (and by implication is grammatically incorrect or at least unusual), you've obviously never read any book written before, say, the 1950s, or whenever it was that the "rule" that question and exclamation marks can only go at the end of a sentence came into vogue. It's a pity really, since a lot of sentences really need one or the other in the middle, and a comma doesn't really cut it.
I'm aware of this, and I actually agree with you about punctuation in the middle of sentences.
!!! bugs me because the gimmick is that's their entire name, and then they tell you it's "pronounced" "chk chk chk." YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE PUNCTUATION BY ITSELF ASIDFISJFIAJFARARARARARRRRR
GYBE bugs me because they moved the fucking exclamation point around like 3 or 4 times, not because it's there at all.
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They moved it once, so it would be consistent with the movie they are named after.
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YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE PUNCTUATION BY ITSELF ASIDFISJFIAJFARARARARARRRRR
Ahem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-buiOOwXatM)
Also, Godspeed You! Black Emperor have changed their name exactly once, from Godspeed You Black Emperor!, when they found out that they were using an incorrect translation of the title of the film they had named themselves after.
So, yeah.
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By the way, I know it's not in context, how do we pronounce Xiu Xiu?
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'Shyoo-Shyoo', I have always thought in my head.
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Isn't it even simpler? Like "Shoo-Shoo"
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Why do you think I care about any of you enough to make fun of your terrible taste.
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i always pronounced it like "zoo-zoo"
it doesn't matter, because I think they're terrible.
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Isn't it even simpler? Like "Shoo-Shoo"
This is correct, at least for how they pronounce it. I don't know if phonetically it's actually correct though.
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Well, when Bob Seger suggested the name 'Xiu Xiu' to the band, he said it was pronounced "zhoo zhoo".
And for the record, GY!BE put out their best material when Seger was still in the band. Really bitching guitar solos.
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“That’s how we pronounce it,” says Xiu Xiu frontman and songwriter Jamie Stewart approvingly after I fluke out and correctly identify the band as “shoe shoe.” “But we’ve been told by, like, nine million people that we pronounce it wrong, and those nine million people have told us nine million different ways to say it.”
Stewart points out that he’s never found the inevitable mangling of his band’s name all that troubling, although he admits that one variation is a bit contentious. “I think the only pronunciation that we actually object to is ‘zoo zoo,’” he says, “just because it sounds like a bad hair-metal band.”
bitch plz
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I thought it was more of a "zhoo-zhoo."
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I was thinking joo-joo. Like with a softer sounding J. I am, apparently, entirely wrong.
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I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "shoo shoo"
I don't know. They always always play cheap ass shoes here. I could ask next time they come.
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Outside is my favorite David Bowie album.
I have just defeated you all.
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The Flaming Lips
Cursive
Ben Folds
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Queen
The Dead Milkmen
Frank Sinatra
Iron and Wine
Cake
I see nothing wrong with those. And maybe a few others.
I love Ben Folds as a matter of fact. As well as Cursive and Iron & Wine.
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Fuck! this thread
fixed! for punctuation
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I hate all of you. Every single one. Go fuck yourselves.
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If you're interested, it'd probably be pronounced something in between "sho-sho" and "syo-syo" - rhymes with "go-go" - if (as it looks like to me) it's meant to be romanized (pinyin) Mandarin Chinese. It's the consonant sound that's tricky; I'm pretty sure on the long "o" sound, though.
But hey, it's their band, they can (mis)pronounce it as they like.
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Tha List:
Kanye West
Johnny Cash
Megadeth
Orishas
Molotov
N.W.A.
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Daft Punk
Sigur Ros
The Postal Service
Randy Newman
William Shatner
TV on the Radio
Infected Mushroom
Jack Johnson
Racionais MC
The Streets
Sublime
The Cardigans
Nautilus
Nas
Jay-Z
Atmosphere
Flaming Lips
Ben Folds
The Dixie Chicks
Calle 13
Bob Dylan
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It's sad how often people feel like they need to be ashamed of what they listen to on this board. Half of those lists are critically successful bands at one time or another. I mean, Ben Folds ffs? Show me someone who thinks he's untalented, and I'll show you a scene kid with no sense of individualism.
That said, here's what I'm ashamed of liking:
Maroon 5 (Their latest album only...)
Switchfoot
Weird Al
That one Baha Men song on the Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack
Poison
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It's sad how often people feel like they need to be ashamed of what they listen to on this board. Half of those lists are critically successful bands at one time or another. I mean, Ben Folds ffs? Show me someone who thinks he's untalented, and I'll show you a scene kid with no sense of individualism.
That said, here's what I'm ashamed of liking:
Maroon 5 (Their latest album only...)
Switchfoot
Weird Al
That one Baha Men song on the Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack
Poison
Someone once told me that the band that has been together the longest without breaking up or taking any kind of official "hiatus" is Weird Al's band. That's pretty fucking cool if true.
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Outside is my favorite David Bowie album.
I have just defeated you all.
somewhere, 1970's David Bowie is in space, and he's shedding a very funky single tear.
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Rip Me! For My Taste In Music: Australian Edition
Something For Kate. yep, even after "The Official Fiction".
Van She (yep, they're cheesy, rip off the Cure and so scene i want to stab them but they're fucking catchy and i like 'em)
The Presets - pretty much because "Are You The One" redeems their multitude of other sins.
Kisschasy - i've followed them since "Darkside", saw them in an RSL in Narrabri before "Do-Dos and Woah-Ohs". now they're all over the radio and they can still write a pop song and be nice guys at the same time.
Gyroscope/After The Fall/In The Grey/australia's entire emo/post-hardcore scene before The Hot Lies and Behind Crimson Eyes came along, i can't stand either of those.
Blueline Medic
Rip Me! For My Taste In Music: Global Edition
Thursday
Death Cab/Postal Service
early U2
Jimmy Eat World
Jawbox
Idlewild
many english new rave bands
etc...
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Someone once told me that the band that has been together the longest without breaking up or taking any kind of official "hiatus" is Weird Al's band. That's pretty fucking cool if true.
Golden Earring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earring)
46 Years on the road, 37 with a completely stable line-up.
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They wrote "Radar Love"?
Ugh.
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Rip Me! For My Taste In Music: Global Edition
Thursday
Death Cab/Postal Service
early U2
Jimmy Eat World
Jawbox
Idlewild
many english new rave bands
etc...
I am also a huge Idlewild fan, despite their bizarre and often circuitous lyrics.
Does liking the Tears make me a terrible person or is that acceptable?
(I am kind of a Britpop/rock whore in general in case you couldn't tell)
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They wrote "Radar Love"?
Ugh.
What in the name of whore-tit coke-snorting Jesus is wrong with Radar Love?
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Rip Me! For My Taste In Music: Australian Edition
Something For Kate. yep, even after "The Official Fiction".
Van She (yep, they're cheesy, rip off the Cure and so scene i want to stab them but they're fucking catchy and i like 'em)
The Presets - pretty much because "Are You The One" redeems their multitude of other sins.
Kisschasy - i've followed them since "Darkside", saw them in an RSL in Narrabri before "Do-Dos and Woah-Ohs". now they're all over the radio and they can still write a pop song and be nice guys at the same time.
Gyroscope/After The Fall/In The Grey/australia's entire emo/post-hardcore scene before The Hot Lies and Behind Crimson Eyes came along, i can't stand either of those.
Blueline Medic
Rip Me! For My Taste In Music: Global Edition
Thursday
Death Cab/Postal Service
early U2
Jimmy Eat World
Jawbox
Idlewild
many english new rave bands
etc...
-bands named after days of the week suck, and thursday is one of the most boring days of the week. what, were friday, saturday and sunday taken?
-death cab for cutie sounds like a bad film noir. if it were a movie i would not watch it.
-U2 is a stupid band because their names sounds like "you too" and that can potentially be confusing in conversation
-jimmy eat world is a gross exaggeration. at the most, jimmy can only eat a small island or maybe some third world country.
Here is a list of some of my favorite songs of all time, in a somewhat random order, for your ripping or praising pleasure:
Spoon- The Way We Get By
The Cure- Just Like Heaven
Talking Heads- Psycho Killer
Pixies- Debaser
Outkast- Hey Ya
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
Modest Mouse- Doin' the Cockroach
The Postal Service- Such Great Heights
The Beatles- A Day in the Life
The Who- Baba O'Riley
Neutral Milk Hotel- Two-Headed Boy
Belle and Sebastian- She's Losing It
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what, were friday, saturday and sunday taken?
I think we lost Sunday for a little bit, but I'm sure we've taken it back by now
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I think Pictures of You might be my favorite Cure song ever.
Dig for Fire is obviously better than Debaser.
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Pictures of You IS the best Cure song
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In no order:
Oingo Boingo
They Might Be Giants
Gorillaz
Aerosmith
Flaming Lips
AC/DC
Suburban Legends
The Aquabats
Jefferson Airplane
Styx
Cab Calloway
Reel Big Fish
The Beatles
Queen
Come on. Make my day.
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Why are these forums all-of-a-sudden a bunch of Myspace surveys?
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We already did that thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,15505.msg475748.html#msg475748).
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In no order:
Oingo Boingo
They Might Be Giants
Gorillaz
Aerosmith
Flaming Lips
AC/DC
Suburban Legends
The Aquabats
Jefferson Airplane
Styx
Cab Calloway
Reel Big Fish
The Beatles
Queen
Come on. Make my day.
Queen are too awful for your list to be saved by the choice decent picks above them, sorry!
Watching Me Fall is the best Cure song.
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Okay! I'll make my list.
The Beatles
Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
Joy Division
Miles Davis
Motorhead
The Ramones
...Shit
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I love Flickerstick, and I don't care who knows it.
Anyone I know who knows anything about indie rock tells me I should DIAF for it, though.
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Once, a long time ago, I owned Dave Navarro's solo album. And Andrew WK's first album. And Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving, Synkronized and A Funk Odyssey. I still listen to Synkronized.
I own every Nine Inch Nails album, EP and single released in the US, and some imports. I own a physical copy of the Purest Feeling (oh, what a name) bootleg.
Ditto on Ministry. I also enjoy both Dark Side of the Spoon and Animositisomina. But I hate everything after HotM.
I enjoy Coil's Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil.
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New Found Glory and Avril Lavigne. I own every cd by both...
now if only Avril knew about my loyalty, and dumped that dumb sum 41 guy.
Avril's hot and all, but that "your girlfriend sucks" video makes me want to give her the finger.
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Ditto on Ministry. I also enjoy both Dark Side of the Spoon and Animositisomina. But I hate everything after HotM.
I've always figured that Animowhatsit is the only good Ministry album. That one novelty Jesus song isn't fun enough to save the rest of Psalsm.
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Dude! Jesus Built My Hotrod!
Though I suppose if you had the single, with the extended version, you could probably render the album superflous. Apart from Psalm 69. That song has one of my favourite uses of sampling in music ("And now it's time to give a little bit of love back to God...DA NA NA NA DA NA NA NA).
Also, who the hell feels ashamed for liking Coil? They're easily one of the ten best bands of the last quarter century.
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I've always figured that Animowhatsit is the only good Ministry album. That one novelty Jesus song isn't fun enough to save the rest of Psalsm.
Animositisomina's one of my favorites, since the thrash-minded Al Jourgensen took a backseat to electronica-minded Paul Barker. When Barker left after making that album, Ministry became a run-of-the-mill speed metal band. But the pre-Psalm albums were all pretty excellent. Anything during the Wax! Trax! heyday, really.
Though I suppose if you had the single, with the extended version, you could probably render the album superflous. Apart from Psalm 69. That song has one of my favourite uses of sampling in music ("And now it's time to give a little bit of love back to God...DA NA NA NA DA NA NA NA).
True that. Ministry plays single cuts live instead of album cuts, so they're pretty good if you catch them on the right night. In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up was a great live album.
I guess what I should really be ashamed of is liking With Sympathy. Except for "What He Say". God, that song is fey incarnate.
Also, who the hell feels ashamed for liking Coil? They're easily one of the ten best bands of the last quarter century.
Oh, I love Coil, I've got Black Light District on translucent vinyl. But Constant Shallowness is such a wanky album.
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I''m not too embarrassed by very much I listen to. But there is some that is a little embarrassing, considering my deep love for 80's goth and punk.
The Whitlams
Killing Hedi (just their first two albums though)
Pink's song - Who Knew
and that song by Mika - Grace Kelly. Everything else of his I have heard I hate, but that sonmg is so damn catchy.
I'm pretty happy with all my other musical choices thank you. Plus guys, there is nothing embarassing about liking The Cure, Bowie or Joy Division.
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There certainly is something wrong with liking Andrew WK. I'm not really much of a critic, but I'd never heard anything that made my brain want to melt out the back of my head until I heard him.
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So... um, this thread stil exists hey?
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So... um, this thread stil exists hey?
No.