Your Favorite Band
72PiL - Metal Box, baby...though I am digging the living tobacco juice out of Gang of Four right now...it's so fucking good! Damn!
If they were baseball teams, PiL would be the Cardinals and Gang of Four would be the White Sox...and Simple Minds would be the Cubs (e.g. pigeon-toed losers).
If they were baseball teams, PiL would be the Cardinals and Gang of Four would be the White Sox...and Simple Minds would be the Cubs (e.g. pigeon-toed losers).
Life...life...I know it's got its ups and downs.
Groucho Marx wrote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Your Favorite Band
73Mark Lansing wrote:The Velvet Underground. Yeah, I know it sounds cliche and kinda pussy to say it today, but hearing them at a formative age opened up my ears and my musical imagination in so may ways, and I've yet to hear a live recording of the Velvets that wasn't compelling and carried a distinct personality of its own. No other band means as much to me.
Runners Up: The Ramones, The Stooges, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Richard Thompson.
I think that is fine. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. "Who loves the Sun?" alone puts them up there.
Your Favorite Band
74syntaxfree07 wrote:Mark Lansing wrote:The Velvet Underground. Yeah, I know it sounds cliche and kinda pussy to say it today, but hearing them at a formative age opened up my ears and my musical imagination in so may ways, and I've yet to hear a live recording of the Velvets that wasn't compelling and carried a distinct personality of its own. No other band means as much to me.
Runners Up: The Ramones, The Stooges, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Richard Thompson.
I think that is fine. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. "Who loves the Sun?" alone puts them up there.
For me, replace "Who Loves The Sun" with "I Heard Her Call My Name," but otherwise, totally understandable.
Life...life...I know it's got its ups and downs.
Groucho Marx wrote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Your Favorite Band
75SecondEdition wrote:syntaxfree07 wrote:Mark Lansing wrote:The Velvet Underground. Yeah, I know it sounds cliche and kinda pussy to say it today, but hearing them at a formative age opened up my ears and my musical imagination in so may ways, and I've yet to hear a live recording of the Velvets that wasn't compelling and carried a distinct personality of its own. No other band means as much to me.
Runners Up: The Ramones, The Stooges, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Richard Thompson.
I think that is fine. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. "Who loves the Sun?" alone puts them up there.
For me, replace "Who Loves The Sun" with "I Heard Her Call My Name," but otherwise, totally understandable.
"Sister Ray"
Your Favorite Band
76JC23by5 wrote:SecondEdition wrote:syntaxfree07 wrote:Mark Lansing wrote:The Velvet Underground. Yeah, I know it sounds cliche and kinda pussy to say it today, but hearing them at a formative age opened up my ears and my musical imagination in so may ways, and I've yet to hear a live recording of the Velvets that wasn't compelling and carried a distinct personality of its own. No other band means as much to me.
Runners Up: The Ramones, The Stooges, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Richard Thompson.
I think that is fine. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. "Who loves the Sun?" alone puts them up there.
For me, replace "Who Loves The Sun" with "I Heard Her Call My Name," but otherwise, totally understandable.
"Sister Ray"
I used to have a bunch of VU bootlegs on my computer. One was a 80-minute version of Sister Ray. You can hear Lou Reed stop playing, get off the stage, sit down, and start talking to the person recording. After a few minutes of laughing and being very-unBangs, he finishes the song.
Your Favorite Band
77syntaxfree07 wrote:
I don't want a list. It kind of cheapens the thread when you turn it into a list of shit to project an image of yourself. Try again.
What image am I trying to project, exactly? I'm not the one who asked a high schooler for a thread idea.
I don't have one.
Skinny Puppy
Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac
Tool
Napalm Death
Ministry
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Codeine
Siege
Discharge
Stooges
Fugazi
Clear?.
Marsupialized wrote:I want a piano made out of jello.
It's the only way I'll be able to achieve the sound I hear in my head.
Your Favorite Band
78Steve V. wrote:JC23by5 wrote:SecondEdition wrote:syntaxfree07 wrote:Mark Lansing wrote:The Velvet Underground. Yeah, I know it sounds cliche and kinda pussy to say it today, but hearing them at a formative age opened up my ears and my musical imagination in so may ways, and I've yet to hear a live recording of the Velvets that wasn't compelling and carried a distinct personality of its own. No other band means as much to me.
Runners Up: The Ramones, The Stooges, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Richard Thompson.
I think that is fine. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. "Who loves the Sun?" alone puts them up there.
For me, replace "Who Loves The Sun" with "I Heard Her Call My Name," but otherwise, totally understandable.
"Sister Ray"
I used to have a bunch of VU bootlegs on my computer. One was a 80-minute version of Sister Ray. You can hear Lou Reed stop playing, get off the stage, sit down, and start talking to the person recording. After a few minutes of laughing and being very-unBangs, he finishes the song.
Nice.
Your Favorite Band
79cliffordton wrote:Don Caballero
I was tempted to say that too...including the new line up/music I love it all.
Your Favorite Band
80JC23by5 wrote:Josef K wrote:JC23by5 wrote:Just kidding. They look so hip...and they could probably kick my ass.
On second thought...no they couldn't.
You'd get your arse kicked by all of these bands, based only on where they come from. The Cocteaus are from Grangemouth, The Mary Chain are from Glasgow (via East Kilbride) and the Bunnymen are from Liverpool. Tough towns.
In the UK being hip and being hard are not mutually exclusive.
Robin Guthrie is a big guy.
Sweetheart I can assure you that if we are basing this only on where we came from, those poor boys would be in a world of shit.
geography, 80's new-wave hair and the above e-tuffness aside, the Cocteau Twins were one amazing band. Probably my fave if I had to choose just one.
Edit: If we were going with U.S. bands alone I'd probably go with Lungfish or Shellac.