jimmy spako wrote:

Boombats wrote:

Del75 wrote:

Boombats wrote:Used to think Rollins was awesome, until we corresponded by mail.

Go on.

Rollins will read and respond to anyone's letter, it's no big deal.

not that. what was less than awesome about his email prowess that made you hear his music as less than awesome.

for example, too few exclamation marks. i dunno.

Email, Nigga please. LETTERS, you know those things on paper. I doubt Hank answers his electronic fan mail these days, if ever.

Alright, motherfuckers. I have enjoyed the perverse culture of hair bands of the mid-to-late-eighties ala Crue, Maiden...I have been to a Warrant Concert. I liked Primus in college. I still like Sebadoh.

But, Live!? C'mon, people. If you have ever REALLY enjoyed Live, kill yourself. I'm sorry if this offends anyone.

Fuck Pearl Jam.

My high school years were tempered a good mix of Pavement, Polvo, SOD, Anthrax, Beatsie Boys, AC/DC, NWA, Ramones, Wu-Tang, Archers, Ice Cube, Sebadoh, Eric B. and Rakeem, Hendrix, Tribe, Stones, EPMD, Metallica, Megadeth, Chubb Rock, Run-DMC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, James Gang, Suicidal, Replacements, Sabbath...I can't complain...


I'll stop...Fuck Live..that's what I'm trying to say. If I ever write a song about crying dolphins, you have my full permission...shoot me in the dick.

Dr. Venkman wrote:I'll stop...Fuck Live..that's what I'm trying to say. If I ever write a song about crying dolphins, you have my full permission...shoot me in the dick.

If you ever wrote a song about crying dolphins it's safe to say you never had a dick.

Boombats wrote:

jimmy spako wrote:

Boombats wrote:

Del75 wrote:

Boombats wrote:Used to think Rollins was awesome, until we corresponded by mail.

Go on.

Rollins will read and respond to anyone's letter, it's no big deal.

not that. what was less than awesome about his email prowess that made you hear his music as less than awesome.

for example, too few exclamation marks. i dunno.

Email, Nigga please. LETTERS, you know those things on paper. I doubt Hank answers his electronic fan mail these days, if ever.

You're wrong about that.

While we're on the subject of Rollins and his eponymous band, I maintain that Hard Volume and Life Time are just brutal records. Never really heard much else that they've done and on the evidence of "Liar," don't really want to.




Anyway, I was a full-on Pink Floyd addict in ninth grade, in love with The Wall and Animals and trying to get as much of that music as I could. I still have most of it, but now, with the full benefit of hindsight, I think that The Wall really is a mostly terrible effort...and still think Animals, my first Floyd album, is the Waters-led band's best, even though I almost never listen to it. I still love Meddle and the classics pretty well, and I increasingly believe that More is an especially underrated album. (And I fucking hated Piper at the Gates of Dawn the first time I heard it...a very young and stupid lad I was...) Floyd and Zeppelin were my two bands of choice in early high school, really, aside from some very ill-advised forays into the rap-metal that was really popular at that time, and some even more embryonic forays into grunge that were infinitely more rewarding. I remember (with embarrassment) that I actually liked a few songs that Limp Bizkit did, and remember (with less embarrassment) liking the singles from Korn's album Follow The Leader. I still like Nirvana (a lot) and Alice in Chains (moderately), though liking the latter band seems to be especially unpopular around here.

Then in junior year, I discovered the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and Captain Beefheart all in one fell swoop.

Dr. Venkman wrote:But, Live!? C'mon, people. If you have ever REALLY enjoyed Live, kill yourself. I'm sorry if this offends anyone.

Anybody else catch that moment in the dorky "Yes We Can" video where a bald, goateed Ed Kowalczyk appears on the screen, and for a split second think "shit, when did Scott Ian get so soft?"

My high school years ('80 - '83) were mostly industrial mixed with the Clash, Dead Kennedys, "The Decline of Western Civilization" bands and Elvis Costello. I was completely fascinated with Hunting Lodge, SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Boyd Rice etc. I don't listen to the industrial stuff anymore although I acknowledge their importance as influences to bands I do enjoy. The Dead Kennedys though...I don't know what the fuck I was thinking.

Oh yeah, and lots of midwest hardcore (NA, Necros, Meatmen, etc). Anything playing at The Freezer or Clutch Cargos...

I lived for Sabbat..was besotted with them.

The only bands I was into in middle school\high school that I've since turned my back on were, Pearl Jam.
RHCP, and Nine Inch Nails.

There have been a lot of bands that I liked back then, but have since turned to turd, but the stuff I did like, I still do like such as Primus and Reverend Horton Heat (high Waffles on Liquor in the Front and everything after that is crap).

And really, now that I think about it, some of the old NIN stuff isn't too bad. I still think a lot of stuff on Downward Spiral is pretty good- March of The Pigs and Hurt are both good songs.


Oh... and I still love Shakespeare's Sister.

ERawk wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote: Back then, I was absolutely certain that Jim Morrison's lyrics were the most sublime poetry, possessed of great cosmic truths.

Hehehehehhehehee.

I'm guilty myself. In high school, "Riders On The Storm" was existential, duuude.

Count me in for Primus, too. And the Chili Peppers. I especially need to be shot because, although I didn't know about the Minutemen, I was already listening to fIREHOSE and put all three bands on par with each other. I feel like I need a shower just thinking about it.

I also went through a Police phase in the early-to-mid '90s, mainly as a fuck-you to all the faux-meaningful H.O.R.D.E. granola shit that was happening then. In an odd way, they were my gateway to Joy Division, PiL and Gang Of Four a little bit later.

I never got Live. Even then, I thought their "gravitas" schtick was a bit tedious, and their first record was good and each succesive one sucked a little bit more.