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boilermaker wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:03 pm

tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.

You mean the best singer ever?

I have to second this. Creston Spiers' vocals are so perfect for Harvey Milk's music that someone would need to invent them if they didn't exist — 16rpm primal yowl, emotionally naked, simultaneously vulnerable and hyper-masculine. Makes me think of what Richard Meltzer described as "full mammalian presence" — TOTAL HUMAN APPROACH to the microphone. Also incredibly sharp and literary.

I'm not criticizing FM tommy's cow-tipping, BTW. You like what you like.

tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:47 am

motorbike guy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:40 am

tommy wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:30 am Harvey Milk. I don't get it. It's like if Zappa started a metal noise rock crossover band with a terrible singer.

i will fight you.

love HM, hate Frank.

So yeah, Frank Zappa sucks. So does Steely Dan, as if they haven't ever been mentioned in this thread or its predecessor.

I should clarify. Nothing in the vocals reminds me of Zappa. Think Shut Up and Play Your Guitar, but metal noise rock with terrible vocals added.

i like the vocals on Harvey Milk songs. also like Pissed Jeans.

Chud Fusk wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:41 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:43 pm

Frankie99 wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:17 pmBoris.

Rolo Tomassi

Is Rolo Tomassi a sacred cow? Because that shit sucks worms out of a dead possum rectum

Well what do you like?

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:21 pm

Chud Fusk wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:41 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:43 pm

Rolo Tomassi

Is Rolo Tomassi a sacred cow? Because that shit sucks worms out of a dead possum rectum

Well what do you like?

Wu-Tang

Chud Fusk wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:38 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:21 pm

Chud Fusk wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:41 pm
Is Rolo Tomassi a sacred cow? Because that shit sucks worms out of a dead possum rectum

Well what do you like?

Wu-Tang

Well than you need help.

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:46 pm

Chud Fusk wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:38 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:21 pm

Well what do you like?

Wu-Tang

Well than you need help.

WOW! There's a sacred cow I didn't expect to get tipped.

He was a great actor and a crucial figure in independent filmmaking and distribution, so I’m glad he existed, but . . .

John Cassavetes.

Isis (the band) made some cool sounding records, but their choice of naming songs and albums after philosophical treatises while having self-admittedly unprintable crappy lyrics is the definition of pretentious.

While I'm at it, as much as I love Christie Front Drive their nonsense lyrics were totally lazy.

Oh yeah and pink album Sunny Day Real Estate stream of consciousness babble was also disappointing.

Writing lyrics is hard, but if you're going to sing words you should work at it.

I don't know if they're sacred cows or if this constitutes tipping, but another band that seemed to really feel the lack of a strong lyricist was Firehose. Some of their lyrics scan so badly they're like a cry for help.

The Gun Club. Buncha bullshit.