If I was in a band that planned on wasting instruments, I'd switch to a "pawn shop guitar" for the last song, and then give it to someone in the crowd, hoping that they'd get off their ass and start a band that sounds nothing like my own. Should you ever run for mayor, young fellow, my vo...

Cartons Full of the Drawings of Clouds
Roar, Don’t Sleep
3 Pandas
Thatched Mouth, Ohio, Last Wednesday
Wood, Silence, Wrist
Drips Dropped and then
To either Fall or Engage is Mandatory
Toys and Tins
Laughing at what Darren said at Dinner
Dxlecix Stunt Kite

I like what The Classical said about jumping in at the deep end with The Fall. For me they really start to hit their stride with Grotesque. That, Slates and Hex are extraordinary. Palace of Swords is a great compilation if you get hold of a copy, but I don't think any compilation(and there are gazil...

MajorEverettMiller wrote:Goddamn me! I forgot to include one of the most shit-talk-provoking bands that I love: The Carpenters.

I love the fucking Carpenters.

I'll second that.

I'm with whoever said The Clash. "English minstrels" - Mark Smith. misguided undertalented gobshite + media-connected bandwagon jumper. So down with the kids. Mucking about in berrets playing gutless cod-reggae ... despicable. No person who has ever liked this group has an IQ below 100 or above 105....

I've managed to win my wife around to the Fall, Will Oldham, Smog ... even jandek ... but my song poem anthologies have her reaching for the shotgun.

saw herman dune the other night and was deeply angered by them ... as I feared I would be. have friends who I care for who adore them, and who invited me along. I feel they're being duped big-time. it's like they're being lured into the bushes by the manson family. Biggest personel let-down might be...

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This go's back to when I was in High school. I was in this pretty crappy 3 piece band, we did our own hastilly written/scrappy stuff, and none of us could play or sing very well except for the piano player who was classically trained and could play just about anything by ear. We had a laugh being in...

you were shooting up at a poker tournement? that's pretty hardcore. met someone last night who did three years for biting off a friend's ear. I'm going to put the two of you in a ring. I'm taking bets. I might have posted this one before,not sure. I was shooting a poker tournament up at Foxwoods (th...