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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: KeithHernandez on May 04, 2006, 11:53:17 am
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This has been alluded to in other threads, but nobody has done it and the threads seem dead. If this is inappropriate, fell free to delete it, or whatever. In this thread we will list our top 25 bands. I realize that these change alot, so list your top ten, then 15 more that you are digging on.
1 Bob Dylan
2 Super Furry Animals
3 Flaming Lips
4 The Clash
5 Radiohead
6 Beatles
7 Velvet Underground
8 The Smiths
9 Wilco
10 Sonic Youth
11 Stone Roses
12 Talking Heads
13 Gang of Four
14 Pulp
15 Blur
16 OutKast
17 R.E.M.
18 Spiritualized
19 Beta band
20 Modest penis
21 Sly and the Family Stone
22 Modern Lovers
23 Pink Floyd w/ Barrett/ Syd Barrett
24 T. Rex
25 Television
26 The Replacements
I went one over, but that is it. Pretty much in order as well.
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A list.
Nice choices, sir.
1. Talking Heads
2. David Bowie
3. The Clash
4. The Jam
5. Pulp
6. The Pogues
7. Blondie
8. Joy Division
9. Madness
10. The Specials
11. Kraftwerk
12. The Beatles
13. Parliament
14. B-52s
15. The Pixies
16. R.E.M
17. Simon & Garfunkel
18. The Smiths
19. The Flaming Lips
20. Super Furry Animals
21. The Buzzcocks
22. XTC
23. X Ray Spex
24. Squeeze
25. Wire
Not nearly in order, so these are liable to mix and match.
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This is provisional. Subject to change. Do not hold near open flame.
1. The Flaming Lips
2. Daniel Johnston
3. The Coup
4. Pavement
5. Wu-Tang Clan (And GZA's solo albums, I'll just combine them)
6. They Might Be Giants
7. Nas
8. The Clash
9. Kool Keith
10. The Adverts
11. The Pogues
12. Rakim and Eric B
13. 3rd Bass
14. Stereototal
15. DJ Delay
16. Adam Green/The Moldy Peaches (they have been amalgamated to make way for...)
17. Bone Thugs
18. Beck (crazy scientologist)
19. The Nipple Erectors
20. The Arcade Fire
21. Rheingold
22. Kraftwerk
23. Finn.
24. James Kolchaka (he does music too!)
25. Three 6 Mafia (they go on here for being hilarious)
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24. James Kolchaka (he does music too!)
It's my dick!
It's my dick!
It's my maaaaagic finger!
Pointing at all the pretty girls!
It's my dick!
It's my dick!
It's my maaaaagic finger!
Pointing at all the pretty girls!
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1. Bob Dylan
2. Pink Floyd
3. Frank Zappa
4. The Grateful Dead
5. Theolonius Monk
6. The Band
7. Jimi Hendrix
8. The Beatles
9. The Who
10. King Crimson
11. Charlie Parker
12. The Allman Brothers
13. Steely Dan
14. Charles Mingus
15. TMBG
16. Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
17. Little Feat
18. Bill Monroe
19. Zeppelin
20. Asleep at the Wheel
21. Talking Heads
22. John Prine
23. Johnathon Richman
24. Ornette Coleman
25. Procul Harem
You may commence making fun of me now.
Also:
Queen
Lynnrd Skynnrd
Johnny Cash
Marty Robbins
Neal Young
David Murray
Freddie Hubbard
The Rolling Goddam Stones
John Coltrane
Todd Rundgren
Carlos Santana
Bob Marley
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OK: Someone needs to buy August some new CDs!
Not fair, perhaps. I should admit that I have only heard of (and this is heard OF, not necessarily actually heard) five out of 23 on Flip's list - I discount Kochalka on principle and The Nipple Erectors on the grounds that he is obviously making that up.
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I discount Kochalka on principle and The Nipple Erectors on the grounds that he is obviously making that up.
Nope, in fact they were fronted by Shane MacGowan of Pogues fame. Look it (http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/nipplerectors.htm) up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nipple_Erectors).
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OK: Someone needs to buy August some new CDs!
Not fair, perhaps. I should admit that I have only heard of (and this is heard OF, not necessarily actually heard) five out of 23 on Flip's list - I discount Kochalka on principle and The Nipple Erectors on the grounds that he is obviously making that up.
Hey now! He's still listening to those bands decades after they started, as do many others. Will people be listening to Clap Your Hands/Spoon/whoever in 30 years? I'm not saying they aren't good, but nearly everyone I know who bought Clap Your Hands album loved it, and have now forgotten about it to be replaced by some new faddy band. Eh, maybe it's just fickle teenageress.
I still believe music was better when it was fresh and original. I can't think of one truly excellent band which revived another bands style 10 years or so later.
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I feel like I've posted something nearly identical to this before (at least once), and any of you could easily click the little globe under my stunning avatar and be transported to my last.fm page anyway, but what the hell:
1. Radiohead
2. Denali
3. Mogwai
4. Boards of Canada
5. Broken Social Scene
6. Blonde Redhead
7. The Decemberists
8. Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Forget Cassettes
10. Portishead
11. Broadcast
12. Pink Floyd
13. Múm
14. Khoiba
15. Iron & Wine
16. Stars
17. The Books
18. RJD2
19. Dosh
20. Sigur Rós
21. Led Zeppelin
22. Hammock
23. M83
24. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
25. Doves
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3. Frank Zappa
16. Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
20. Asleep at the Wheel
22. John Prine
23. Johnathon Richman
You may commence making fun of me now.
Zappa- would have made my list like a month ago. I am real off and on with Zappa.
Dire Straits- Pretty good, would never make my list, but I am happy it made someones.
Asleep at the Wheel- I saw them at the first Austin City Limits concert with my dad. He was all crazy in to them. They did last trip to Tulsa, right?
John Prine- My parents are always telling me to listen to him. Kind of like Jerry Jeff Walker, right? My parents have a vinyl cover, but the vinyl is missing. I have been looking at that cover for like 7 years wanting to listen to him, and not being able to. Can you recommend a good starting record?
Jonathon Richman- God, I love Richmand. Should have included it with the Modern Lovers, even though his solo stuff is not the same at all. Well, neither is Syd Barrett's, and I let that slide. Would you be willing to trade some records somehow. I have You Must Ask the Heart, Jonathon Richman, Back in Your Life and The Modern Lovers. That is all the stuff by him I can find, but I want to hear like everything he has every done. He is amazing. I saw him at this really small venue in Oklahoma owned by the Starlight Mints, with like 10 people. It was AMAZING. It was me, 4 of my friends, Wayne Coyne, the Starlight Mints and their wives/girlfriends, and the record store owners next door and their wives/girlfriends. Greatest Show I have ever seen, probably for the intimacy of the show and the people there. If you would be interested in trading some stuff, I guess send me a pm or something.
Fuck allmusic!!!
The song by him called Walter Johnson is the strangest thing I have ever heard, in a non-confrontational/ weird way, if that makes since at all.
Wait, you can say fuck, but not fuck*ng. Weird. What about fuckin'.
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Based on my actual listening habits from August '04 to the present:
1 They Might Be Giants 1479 (3.6%)
1 Mary Prankster 1479 (3.6%)
3 Pixies 1279 (3.2%)
4 The New Pornographers 1067 (2.6%)
5 The Presidents of the United States of America 949 (2.3%)
6 The Soviettes 909 (2.2%)
7 Cake 794 (2%)
8 Colouring Lesson 783 (1.9%)
9 Fidel 752 (1.9%)
10 Laughing Colors 721 (1.8%)
11 Kelly Bell Band 706 (1.7%)
12 Barenaked Ladies625 (1.5%)
13 Mike Doughty 614 (1.5%)
14 Soul Coughing 611 (1.5%)
15 Spoon 533 (1.3%)
16 The Hives 517 (1.3%)
17 Ramones 513 (1.3%)
18 The Weakerthans 492 (1.2%)
19 Elastica 467 (1.2%)
20 Built to Spill 465 (1.1%)
21 The Breeders 464 (1.1%)
22 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 451 (1.1%)
23 Garbage 427 (1.1%)
24 Architecture in Helsinki 415 (1%)
25 Beastie Boys 395 (1%)
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Hey now! He's still listening to those bands decades after they started, as do many others. Will people be listening to Clap Your Hands in 30 years?
I hope not.
Can you recommend a good Jam record. One of the guys at the record store I go to played it for me once, but I didn't really like it. I think I should though. Also, I have Wire-Chairs Missing, but don't really like it. Are they just not for me?
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I hope not. Can you recommend a good Jam record. One of the guys at the record store I go to played it for me once, but I didn't really like it. I think I should though. Also, I have Wire-Chairs Missing, but don't really like it. Are they just not for me?
All Mod Cons is a great Jam album, but a best of (Compact Snap! or The Sound Of The Jam are pretty good) will probably be better as they released some great, great songs spread out over some merely good albums.
Wire are one of those bands that do that to people I suppose. I'd recommend Pink Flag or On Returning (another best of).
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Jonathon Richmond- God, I love Richmond. Should have included it with the Modern Lovers, even though his solo stuff is not the same at all. Well, neither is Syd Barrett's, and I let that slide. Would you be willing to trade some records somehow. I have You Must Ask the Heart, Jonathon Richmond, Back in Your Life and The Modern Lovers. That is all the stuff by him I can find, but I want to hear like everything he has every done. He is amazing. I saw him at this really small venue in Oklahoma owned by the Starlight Mints, with like 10 people. It was AMAZING. It was me, 4 of my friends, Wayne Coyne, the Starlight Mints and their wives/girlfriends, and the record store owners next door and their wives/girlfriends. Greatest Show I have ever seen, probably for the intimacy of the show and the people there. Wait, I am not trying to be an ass, but you are talking about Jonathon Richmond, and not some guy named Jonathon Richman that I have never heard of, right? If you would be interested in trading some stuff, I guess send me a pm or something.
The song by him called Walter Johnson is the strangest thing I have ever heard, in a non-confrontational/ weird way, if that makes since at all.
I was privileged to meet the man. I posted about it on here some time ago, but essentially my friend an I were at a bar in a tiny town in Germany where he was playing. We were the only English speakers there and struck up a conversation with him.
I don't have any albums -- I had some on tape but these were destroyed several years ago. I have downloaded a few things recently from AllofMP3. And yes, Walter Johnson is a great song. You realize that Walter Johnson was a real pitcher, right?
Asleep at the Wheel are great. There a kind of retro Texas Swing outfit/Boogie Woogie outfit. Nothing fancy, but a tight band and good fun.
John Prine is an excellent songwriter. Look for "Illegal Smile", "Paradise", or "Sam Stone".
Mark Knopfler is one hell of a guitarist, kind of the spiritual heir to Chet Atkins.
As you can see, my interest in new music stopped around 1989. I've tried, really I have. I'll give anything a chance, but nothing is really that compelling to me anymore.
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The continuing Making It Up Watch:
Hobot: Neutral Milk Hotel
Cort: Architecture in Helsinki
Go on, I'm impressed with your imaginations.
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I was privileged to meet the man. I posted about it on here some time ago, but essentially my friend an I were at a bar in a tiny town in Germany where he was playing. We were the only English speakers there and struck up a conversation with him.
John Prine is an excellent songwriter. Look for "Illegal Smile", "Paradise", or "Sam Stone".
Ah, I have heard of this "Illegal Smile" that you speak of. I go to the Woody Guthrie Festival every year in a small town in OK, and I am pretty sure somebody played it. Maybe Arlo Guthrie.
That is an awesome story about Richman, and yes, I am well aware that Johnson is a real pitcher. He was good, too, even if he let them hit it once in a while. I will definitely be searching for that thread.
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The continuing Making It Up Watch:
Hobot: Neutral Milk Hotel
Cort: Architecture in Helsinki
Go on, I'm impressed with your imaginations.
Neutral Milk Hotel is a great band. One of a handful of relevant bands that have been around in America in the last 10 years.
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My top 25 looks exactly like yours except it has some different bands on it. Actually, I spent about 20 minutes trying to put one together before I realized it was asinine to try to quantify your own personal tastes.
Funny that Judy would mention a band reviving another bands style and citing August list as an example of someone going back to the original source. But Asleep at the Wheel is basically a Bob Wills tribute band. They've taken it way past that, but yeah, that's where they are from.
Keith, you've been cool up to this point, but you turned to shit when you called Wombat a Jerk.
~Paul
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This was so hard. Only the top 6 are in any sort of order, as I tend to listen to the same albums over and over again for quite a while. Feeling the lameness.
1 Charles Mingus
2 Vandermark 5
3 Food
4 Earth, Wind, and Fire
5 Kool Keith
6 Parliament
7 Billy Idol
8 Pet Shop Boys
9 Shonen Knife
10 Micheal Jackson
11 Jeff Mills
12 Kid Koala
13 Red Snapper
14 Naoki - DDR stuff
15 Rachmaninov
16 Public Enemy
17 Adam Green
18 Katamari soundtrack - various
19 Ella Fitzgerald
20 The Residents
21 Manu Chao
22 De La Soul
23 Missy Elliot
24 Ween
25 Wesley Willis
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See, the thing about these things is that I'm all torn. I mean I want to make the "Important!" bands all in order, but at the same time; most of the time I don't listen to them. I am all such as "Yeah man, they were really ground-breaking" and then I go into my car and put in something I can stand to listen to repeatedly.
But, because I am a sucker for random lists, here is a list based off of what I actually sort of listen to lately. (agonizing!)
1. Pinback
2. Aesop Rock
3. Radiohead
4. Bjork
5. Amon Tobin
6. The Pixies
7. Tom Waits
8. Soul Coughing
9. DJ Shadow
10. Built to Spill
11. Blonde Redhead
12. Ween
13. They Might Be Giants
14. The Smiths
15. Massive Attack
16. RJD2
17. Wu-Tang (Damn you flip, you beat me on this one)
18. Elvis Costello
19. Sigur Rós
20. Broadcast
21. Stereolab
22. Tool
23. Neutral Milk Hotel
24. Self
25. Meat Beat Manifesto (Only because Subliminal Sandwich is so fuck*ng good it makes me weep like a baby)
Goddammit.. i've been staring at this list since this morning trying to make sure I got it right and in the meantime Cort and Hobot already posted my list between the two of them. Those fuck*ng guys.
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This was so hard. Only the top 6 are in any sort of order, as I tend to listen to the same albums over and over again for quite a while. Feeling the lameness.
By the word of the Boognish, I said lordy lordy lord I'm comin' home!
Man, I can't believe they aren't up on my list... this is too tough.
Edit: Fixed that! (Was missing one anyway)
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I'm not even going to attempt to put these in an order. DO YOU HEAR ME? I SPIT ON YOUR ORDER!
Band names in italics are the "I know you're going to laugh, but these guys mean something to me" bands.
* TMBG
* R.E.M.
* Mono Puff
* The Flaming Lips
* Cake
* Raised By Wolves
* Moxy Fruvous
* The New Pornographers
* Neko Case
* Semisonic
* Ben Folds (Five)
* Simon and Garfunkel
* Creedence Clearwater Revival
* The Beatles
* Wolf Parade
* Belly
* Sufjan Stevens
* Counting Crows
* Green Day
* Harvey Danger
* Natalie Merchant
* The Dead Milkmen
* Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
* Thomas Dolby
* The Rolling Stones
Assembling this list, I realize that many of the songs that really matter to me are by bands I otherwise don't care about. I suppose that marks me as a product of Top 40...
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-John Coltrane
-King Crimson
-Pink Floyd
-Horace Silver
-Chemical Brothers
-Miles Davis
-James Brown
-Charles Mingus
-Funkadelic / George Clinton
-Medeski, Martin, and Wood
-Camel
-Genesis
-Pain of Salvation
-Rush
-Sonny Rollins
-Les Paul
etc.
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18 Katamari soundtrack - various
I want this SO BAD.
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Why does Q think the lists should not overlap? Why does V think Simon and Garfunkel might be a source of comedy?
See, the thing about these things is that I'm all torn. I mean I want to make the "Important!" bands all in order, but at the same time; most of the time I don't listen to them. I am all such as "Yeah man, they were really ground-breaking" and then I go into my car and put in something I can stand to listen to repeatedly.
Assembling this list, I realize that many of the songs that really matter to me are by bands I otherwise don't care about.
RIGHT. People on this board have given me lots of good musical advice, but somehow this exercise is oddly useless to me. Because I want to know what I might want to listen to over and over. I don't want a list weighted down by ponderous notions of Greatness and Trying To Impress People With My List. Fuck greatness, it's only rock and roll. I want to know what you love.
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I want this SO BAD.
It is so worth it. I bought it all the way from Japan on the internet.
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Why does V think Simon and Garfunkel might be a source of comedy?
Because I'm a college student, and it remains just as uncool to maintain affection as a college student for music your parents introduced to in childhood as it has always been. So... y'know.
RIGHT. People on this board have given me lots of good musical advice, but somehow this exercise is oddly useless to me. Because I want to know what I might want to listen to over and over. I don't want a list weighted down by ponderous notions of Greatness and Trying To Impress People With My List. Fuck greatness, it's only rock and roll. I want to know what you love.
Dangit, now I'm tempted to retool my mixtape along these lines: The 20 Songs I Love Most From Bands That In No Other Way Matter. The problem is that, for me, this would end up doubling as The Great Singles of 1996-1997, because somehow half my musical taste got fomed when I was in seventh grade (the rest formed in eighth grade, when I bought my first TMBG and R.E.M. albums)... embarrassment!
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I love so many bands and my tastes change so often, it's hard for me to guage which ones I like more than the other ones.
For instance I am totally in love with The Faces right now, but it's entirely based on 1 CD I got last year and a bootleg I
got just before I came up here to Utah. Are they really the greatest band ever? Probably not, but based on how much I am
into them right now I might think that. I know that there are other bands that I used to really dig that don't do a thing
for me anymore. It seems like just a year or two back I couldn't listen to Franz Ferdinand enough, but I haven't listened to
them in months. And I remember a time from my youth when Foghat, ZZ Top and ELO blew me away. Hell I even had a brief
Journey/Styx phase. I don't know, it comes and it goes. These list are useless. There are only a few bands that never go
out of style for me. I could probably give you a definitive top 10, but beyond that there about 100 bands tied for 11th.
place.
1.) The Beatles
2.) Paul Simon
3.) Queen
4.) Neil Young
5.) Paul McCartney
6.) The Who
7.) Jimi Hendrix
8.) Rolling Stones
9.) Todd Rundgren
10.) Led Zeppelin
11.) Steely Dan
12.) Radiohead
Tied for 13th. Spike Jones, Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, The Flaming Lips, Tool, AC/DC, Willie Nelson, Beck, John Lennon, Bob, Dylan, Wilco, Muddy Waters, Bjork, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Merle Haggard, Bad Company, The Faces, The Kinks, The Band, The Decemberist, Janis Joplin, Rory Gallagher, Crack the Sky, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson), Grateful Dead, Nirvana, The Animals, Broken Social Scene, Little Feat, Calexico, Eric Clapton (Includes the Cream), Robert Johnson, Tchaikovsky, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith, Louis Armstrong, Cake, Smashing Pumpkins, Pulp, Metallica, Tom Waits, Neko Case, Black Sabbath (Ozzy), George Jones, Rogers and Hammerstien, British Sea Power, Gershwin, Pink Floyd, Gordon Lightfoot, Beethoven, Buddy Holly, Rush, Otis Redding (and all of Stax/Volt), Deep Purple (includes Rainbow), Ry Cooder, Big Star, Dave Brubeck, Peter Paul and Mary, Iggy Pop, Marvin Gaye (and all of Motown), Kings X, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Roy Orbison, Steve Earle, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, etc...
~Paul
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Because I'm a college student, and it remains just as uncool to maintain affection as a college student for music your parents introduced to in childhood as it has always been. So... y'know.
My mom was pretty young, so for me the music in this category actually is the Billy Idol, Micheal Jackson, Queen, early hip hop, and the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack. I never picked up the Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath, though. I suspect this means my mom was cooler than me.
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I know that there are other bands that I used to really dig that don't do a thing for me anymore. It seems like just a year or two back I couldn't listen to Franz Ferdinand enough, but I haven't listened to them in months.
I know what you mean. There is some music that gets worn out, and some that doesn't. I have found that sometimes I can even tell in advance - I can remember sometimes not buying a record because I knew I'd want to listen to it 25 times and then it would be worn out.
I have wondered if this is the ultimate test. Anything that you can listen to a hundred times when you first buy it, is still pretty damn good, but if you can still listen to it a hundred times five years later, that might be the sign of Ponderous Greatness. But then I remember that, as I have posted elsewhere, I would be perfectly happy never to hear another Beatles song ever again - "ENOUGH already" is the only feeling their music gives me. Surely that is very high quality and ponderously important music, but for me it fails the test.
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not in any order, real or imaginary:
The Feelies
The Doors
the beatles
REM
My Bloody Valentine
Slint
Nirvana
Beat Happening
The Flaming Lips
Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Velvet Underground
Pixies
The Stooges
Built to Spill
Weezer (shut up, you!)
Fugazi
Jimi Hendrix
The Replacements
Sonic Youth
beyond this, I'm not sure. it really changes with the mood I'm in, what I'm listening to at the time, etc.
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25. Meat Beat Manifesto (Only because Subliminal Sandwich is so fuck*ng good it makes me weep like a baby)
This made me have to listen to my one MBM song that I own for reference. And I must say that She's Unreal (alternate mix 3) isn't really producing any tears so I'm going to assume that it's no representative of their work.
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This made me have to listen to my one MBM song that I own for reference. And I must say that She's Unreal (alternate mix 3) isn't really producing any tears so I'm going to assume that it's no representative of their work.
The first disc of Subliminal Sandwich is AMAZING (it's a collective experience though, you have to listen from beginning to end.) Let me know if you would like to be provided as such.
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Keith, you've been cool up to this point, but you turned to shit when you called Wombat a Jerk.
~Paul
Yea, sorry it was the heat of the moment. It will go away. I am going on 30 hours of no sleep now, and at that point it was about 20 hours and writing a very frustrating 13 page paper. Not that it is an excuse. Being pretty young it is just amazing to me that someone would have not heard of Neutral Milk Hotel. They are a fairly big indie band, or however you describe it. One of the few original bands that the United States has had in the last 10 years.
Anyway, I just picked up two Tim Buckley albums, and even though I just finished the first I am pretty sure he is going to be a keeper.
The Feelies.
You, sir, are a god amongst men.
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the feelies is a band which is guaranteed to make people impressed.
bonus: I really like them a lot.
it's funny, because I first heard them when I was starting to write songs on guitar. And I read their allmusic page, and said "hmm... the beatles, the doors, and the velvet underground? they're going to be pretty good."
and then their music sounded like a better version of the songs I was writing. Spastic, fast, and trebley,with layered rhythm guitars. often the only dynamic is "slowly speeding up"
it was pretty exciting when I realized that.
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I had a subliminal sandwich once, but when I was finished I didn't remember eating it.
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I had a subliminal sandwich once, but when I was finished I didn't remember eating it.
So all the sudden you were full and didn't know why?
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Flip: Exactly.
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the feelies... their allmusic page, and said "hmm... the beatles, the doors, and the velvet underground? they're going to be pretty good."
When is my disc coming. Did I IM you the inevitable? I can't remember.
~Paul
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I gotta see if I can pull this off...definately gotta cheat a little.
1. Rocket From the Crypt/Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/etc
2. Stevie Wonder
3. Fugazi
4. Soundgarden
5. Dinosaur Jr.
6. The Clash
7. Steely Dan
8. Ween
9. The Who
10. Naked Raygun
11. You Am I
12. The Afghan Whigs
13. Seaweed
14. Explosions in the Sky
15. Aretha Franklin
16. At The Drive In/Mars Volta/Sparta
17. Minus the Bear/Sharks Keep Moving
18. Riddle of Steel
19. Les Savy Fav
20. Radiohead
21. David Bowie
22. aMinature/Mirroramerica
23. Miles Davis
24. Led Zeppelin
25. Jawbox/Burning Airlines
Okay, I can probably live with that for now. Prone to change with a stiff breeze, or with the sudden realization of a glaring omission.
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Wire are one of those bands that do that to people I suppose. I'd recommend Pink Flag or On Returning (another best of).
If you do not like Pink Flag, then you can probably pretty safely say you don't like Wire.
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rocket from the crypt are not the same as rocket from the tombs, right?
paul: I have not yet made a mix cd. But now it is friday, and so hopefully I can get a tracklist done.
to answer your question, however: no, you have not PM'ed me.
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rocket from the crypt are not the same as rocket from the tombs, right?
No, about 15 years later...the name is definatley a homage, play a roll in the influence...
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2. Stevie Wonder
15. Aretha Franklin
Two great ones!
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This is pretty difficult to rank within the 25 but I'll try it. I guess I tend to lean towards either proggy stuff or "hard folk" stuff, at the end of the day.
Definite Top 5, not in order:
The Beatles/Harrison/Lennon
King Crimson/Fripp/Belew
Weird Al Yankovic
Guns N Roses
David Bowie
The Next Ten, not in order:
Elliott Smith
Steely Dan/Fagen
Ben Folds/Five
The Eels/DJ Honky
Wilco/Tweedy
Smashing Pumpkins
Neil Young
Tom Waits
Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd/Waters
The next ten bands I could think of that I like a good deal:
Hayden
Nine Inch Nails
Moxy Fruvous
Stone Temple Pilot/Weiland
Soul Asylum
Flaming Lips
Brian Eno
Blur
Beck
Queen
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Nice list!
... but Weird Al in the top 5?
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How comes so many (well, three or so I guess) people here like Blur? I always thought Britpop was treated as some bad dream by you blokes and birds over the pond.
Is Weird Al Yankovic that guy who covers well known songs but changes the words to make them humourous? Is that technically music? It's like saying The Onion is a source of news. It IS, but it ISN'T. You see? You see?
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... but Weird Al in the top 5?
Dunno what to say... I really love Weird Al. I love comedy music and I love tight musicianship and... like... say what you will about Weird Al but often in the songs he parodies, the instrumentation is much better technically than that which he mocks.
Which is mind-blowingly awesome to me, as most other comedy rock is done with... you know... a guy strumming an acoustic guitar for one take or three teenagers in a bathroom with two Casios. The notable exceptions of Fruvous and TMBG, of course.
The guy's original work, the style parodies that don't directly parody any song, rather a band's entire work or an entire genre... they tend to be flawlessly written. The guy also puts on one of the best live shows ever, seriously.
This is going to sound laden with pretense but you sort of can't appreciate Weird Al without sitting down and, like, listening to his whole body of work and realizing how well he does at a genre that's much easier to do poorly than "regular" music but also might be harder to do well than "regular" music. Writing funny words to songs and still making them work perfectly musically is a lot harder than it seems... and making a whole song work after you've got the funny version of the chorus but you have to make the verses pay off? Deeply difficult.
Sort of like in television or film writing, where writing bad comedy is the easiest thing in the world, much easier than writing bad drama but writing great comedy is much harder than writing great drama.
As for Blur... well... generally, yeah, the Britpop was generally panned but Blur was the only one of them (in my opinion) that actually had songwriting and instrumental talent, that were trying to do anything more than make money off updating early Beatles stuff for the post-grunge whatever-it-was scene, like Oasis, say.
Blur is regarded differently because Blur was actually good, is I guess what I'm saying.
Jesus, though, just 25 bands is so hard. I feel like crap leaving off... the aforementioned TMBG... Clapton, Hendrix, Zepplin, Lou Reed... Air... NIN keeps wanting to flip with Zappa into the Next Ten, Steely Dan keeps wanting to flip with Bowie into the Top Five... I feel like I've got ten children and I gotta pick which three I leave my enheritance to.
Even though all I seem to be able to leave them is a sentence ending in a preposition.
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Dunno what to say... I really love Weird Al. I love comedy music and I love tight musicianship and... like... say what you will about Weird Al but often in the songs he parodies, the instrumentation is much better technically than that which he mocks.
Which is mind-blowingly awesome to me, as most other comedy rock is done with... you know... a guy strumming an acoustic guitar for one take or three teenagers in a bathroom with two Casios. The notable exceptions of Fruvous and TMBG, of course.
I really can't possibly write down 25 favorite artists, so I've basically stayed out of this thread. I just wanted to agree that Weird Al is suprisingly tight, and mention that I got to see him play accordian with Moxy Fruvous once. I don't remember what they played, but it rocked my little 17 year old ##### off. Take that how you will.
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Man... I had no trouble finding a top-however-many-I-posted. Which is wierd, considering how much music I listen to. i guess there aren't that many bands that are candidates for "favorite," for me.
if it's any consolation, I don't like Blur. I read an entire book about Britpop, got home, downloaded Blur and Oasis and Elastica and such... and hated all of it.
the only relic of that spate of downloading is "24 Hour Party People," which was mentioned in the first chapter.
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I love comedy music and I love tight musicianship and... like... say what you will about Weird Al but often in the songs he parodies, the instrumentation is much better technically than that which he mocks.
I honestly had no idea. Good for Weird Al!
If you hadn't listed Zappa I would insist that you go listen to him now. But you did, so I won't.
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Man... I had no trouble finding a top-however-many-I-posted. Which is wierd, considering how much music I listen to. i guess there aren't that many bands that are candidates for "favorite," for me.
if it's any consolation, I don't like Blur. I read an entire book about Britpop, got home, downloaded Blur and Oasis and Elastica and such... and hated all of it.
the only relic of that spate of downloading is "24 Hour Party People," which was mentioned in the first chapter.
I really, really like brit-pop. British music from the Hacienda-Radiohead is probably my favorite era of music. I don't like Oasis, but most of the rest of the big names I love (Joy Division/ New Order, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp, Radiohead, more that I don't like as much because I can't think of, like the Auteurs that I just thought of). If you like "24 Hour Party People" you should check out the movie of the same name and the albums Bummed and Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches by the Happy Mondays. Also, the Stone Roses self titled first album is awesome.
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I will check these out.
what I really need to listen to is Joy Division.
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The guy also puts on one of the best live shows ever, seriously.
I've never been to a Weird Al show, but I've seen him on TV a few times. I am always blown away when they do a medley of current hits as a polka at blinding speed. That shit is tight.
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Little Mets deserves a tiny can for that defense of the funny.
But holy *&^% Carlos, what happened to the cow?
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All this avatar chagin' going on, I figured it was time for something new. Cylo there is the mascot of the Lancaster Barnstormers (that's a baseball team, for the non-sports inclined), and he is vaguely cow-like.
As long as I'm posting, here's the top 25 I came up with (order not absolute).
1. R.E.M.
2. Guided by Voices
3. Doves
4. Marvin Gaye
5. Soundgarden
6. Pearl Jam
7. Tricky
8. Massive Attack
9. Afghan Whigs
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Earth Wind & Fire
12. Ned's Atomic Dustbin
13. giraffebone
14. Buffalo Tom
15. Grant Lee Buffalo
16. Jeff Buckley
17. Nirvana
18. New Order
19. Dinosaur Jr.
20. Wilco
21. Son Volt
22. The Clash
23. Big Audio Dynamite
24. Broken Social Scene
25. Spoon
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All this avatar chagin' going on, I figured it was time for something new. Cylo there is the mascot of the Lancaster Barnstormers (that's a baseball team, for the non-sports inclined), and he is vaguely cow-like.
Did you also hear about them on WTOP this morning or were you already all up in that hot Amish action?
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Went for a game there last year. I went to college in Lancaster, so it's an old stompin' ground.
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Went for a game there last year. I went to college in Lancaster, so it's an old stompin' ground.
Thus cutting off the need for a "do you pronounce Lancaster right" extension to this thread.
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OK, I'll bite. How do you pronounce Lancaster, other than as if you were speaking through a mouthful of whoopie pie? (http://www.allhomemadecookies.com/recipes/filled/amishwhoopiepie.htm)
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LANK-a-stir is in Pennsylvania.
LAN-caster is in California.
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I thought so, but, there's a Lancaster in California?
Education.
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There's a LAN-caster in Ohio, too
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man, this is like the town which is an offshoot of charlotte. Albermarle.
my friends joke that after a lifetime of living there, older residents have pronunciation difficulties, because when they attempt to say "Albermarle", their lower lip flops around so much that it wraps around their entire head.
I cannot explain it. if you heard the sound of how it is pronounced, maybe that would work... I could put it on my mixdisc!
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man, this is like the town which is an offshoot of charlotte. Albermarle.
my friends joke that after a lifetime of living there, older residents have pronunciation difficulties, because when they attempt to say "Albermarle", their lower lip flops around so much that it wraps around their entire head.
I cannot explain it. if you heard the sound of how it is pronounced, maybe that would work... I could put it on my mixdisc!
Here Albermarle is a county. Nobody pronounces the first r. Now how Botetourt becomes "bot-a-tot" or Buchanan becomes "buh-canon" is beyond me.
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Here Miami, OK is pronounced Miam-A. Most people in OK don't even know that.
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It's "Miz-UR-ee" not "Miz-ur-AH" for the record everyone.
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It's "Miz-UR-ee" not "Miz-ur-AH" for the record everyone.
I'll be dead and buried in the cold cold ground before I recognize either.
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I'll be dead and buried in the cold cold ground before I recognize either.
Paint my chickencoop!
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Versailles (that's "ver-sales") is just on the other side of Frankfort. It's where most of the movie "Elizabethtown" was filmed.
Where I grew up, in Western Ky, there a Cadiz (Kay-deez) and a Lafayette (Luh-Fay-Ett).
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Here Miami, OK is pronounced Miam-A. Most people in OK don't even know that.
So is Miami, AZ. At least in San Manuel, AZ.
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Only in Washington have I ever heard people call it Warshinton.
I don't understand it, either.
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Londoners call London Larndurn.
Mancunians call Manchester Manchestur. (So much to answer for.)
Liverpudlians call Liverpool Levairpooel.
This is my contribution to the discussion.
I am basically a dude who says 'barth' and 'arsk'. I promise I am not a dude who also goes hunting and sips cups of Earl Grey tea with Marmite scones, though.
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I am basically a dude who says 'barth' and 'arsk'. I promise I am not a dude who also goes hunting and sips cups of Earl Grey tea with Marmite scones, though.
But Earl Grey tea is delicious...
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But Earl Grey tea is delicious...
Dig.
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Toffee-nosed snobs, I make my tea out of muck and boiled water, and I like it.
If you live in Britain, you gotta get used to the whole 'boiled muck' thing.
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Toffee-nosed snobs, I make my tea out of muck and boiled water, and I like it.
If you live in Britain, you gotta get used to the whole 'boiled muck' thing.
I bet you also drink your tea out of a saucer. Plebeian!
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Toffee-nosed snobs, I make my tea out of muck and boiled water, and I like it.
If you live in Britain, you gotta get used to the whole 'boiled muck' thing.
But, but ... Earl Grey has that delightful hint of bergamot...
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I recently bought a box of tea bags of the brand PG Tips which claimed to be the best selling in all of England, or some such. Is this the muck of which you speak? It seemed rather mucky to me. Also, no strings on the bags. Very annoying. If I wanted to use an extra implement when preparing a hot beverage at work I'd just go ahead and bring in loose tea.
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Grey, indeed. This mis-spelling of the name drops it out of favour with me.
How can you mis-spell a name?
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man.
I feel that I know the name PG Tips from the novel White Teeth.
wherein it is used as an example of how this one family is very poor, and classless.
the posh lady is slightly miffed at the PG Tips tea, but she drinks it because she is trying to be polite.
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I recently bought a box of tea bags of the brand PG Tips which claimed to be the best selling in all of England, or some such. Is this the muck of which you speak? It seemed rather mucky to me. Also, no strings on the bags. Very annoying. If I wanted to use an extra implement when preparing a hot beverage at work I'd just go ahead and bring in loose tea.
the 1960s, PG Tips was the first brand to introduce the tea bag. This grew in popularity, eventually becoming more popular than leaf tea in the 1970s.
PG Tags, tea bags with a string, were launched in 1985, and pyramid-shaped tea bags in 1996. The Pyramid shaped bag was specifically designed to help the tea leaves move more freely, as loose tea moves in a teapot, and create a better infusion.
You must have got factory seconds.
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It sounds to me like that means that you get either a tag OR a pyramid shape. I got the pyramid shaped ones.
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I don't understand why they wouldn't have strings as well.
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I agree that this is a great mystery, but as indicated in your quote, they offered no strings at all before 1985, when I feel quite sure that the technology was available prior to that. Perhaps Judy can weigh in with some insight into the inscrutable British attitude towards tea bag strings. Do they indicate that you are poor and classless? Unable to afford a spoon with which to extract your bag from the cup?
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In Boston, "Good morning, how are you?" is actually pronounced "Yankees Suck".
God love those drunks.
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I drink a whole lot of tea, all from bags, and out of the common brands I buy, only one has a string. Do you not stir your tea? Just grab the bag with whatever you use to stir, and throw it away. I think I prefer no string actually, as you can get your tea quicker because it mixes faster.
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Well, I'd just like to say that coffee would kick tea's ass any time any day. In fact, this is me, coffee, calling you out right now tea. Meet me in the cage at Royal Rumble. We're gonna GET IT ON.
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oh it is ON muthafucka!
I got tea-drinkers on both sides of the family, and their powers combine to form a TEA DRINKING ALMOST-MAN WHO CAN KICK YOUR ASS!
actually since I'm a tea drinker I am essentially a reasonable person. I am sure you will understand this, and we can reach a peaceful resolution.
I think we can agree that there is a need for both classless, halitosied coffee drinker, and the intelligent, sweet-smelling tea drinker.
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Oh it is indeed "on" (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2798.new.html#new)
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Well, I'd just like to say that coffee would kick tea's ass any time any day. In fact, this is me, coffee, calling you out right now tea. Meet me in the cage at Royal Rumble. We're gonna GET IT ON.
Enjoy your Folgers in the morning, while I am sipping on some high-class russian black tea.
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Enjoy your Folgers in the morning, while I am sipping on some high-class russian black tea.
I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
(Seriously though, Folger's is for saps. The darker than darkenest whole bean roast is all that gets boiled up ins.)
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Only in Washington have I ever heard people call it Warshinton.
I don't understand it, either.
Dude, Governor Lowry spoke to my high school once, and he totally pronounced it as 'Warshington.' What a tool.
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I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
(Seriously though, Folger's is for saps. The darker than darkenest whole bean roast is all that gets boiled up ins.)
Sorry, I was just stereotyping coffee drinkers. Just getting it from work and shit. I love really good home brewed dark coffee, but it is more expensive than tea, and I like tea just the same, if not more.
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I drink a whole lot of tea, all from bags, and out of the common brands I buy, only one has a string. Do you not stir your tea?
I don't stir my tea. The utensils where I work are of dubious cleanliness. The hot water in the kitchen doesn't really work, and we've all been doing disgusting things with our hands all day. So sticking a spoon in my tea seems like a gratuitously risky endeavor.
If I wasn't afraid of the kitchen I'd bring in loose tea leaves and a strainer etc and make something really good. The whole point of the tea bags was to minimize contact, thus my distress at the lack of strings.
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Oh I can do this. I think.
1) Guided By Voices
2) Super Furry Animals
3) The Fall
4) The Who
5) David Bowie
6) Swervedriver
7) The Beatles
8) Prince (preferrably with the Revolution)
9) The Beach Boys
10) Can
11) The Wedding Present
12) Stereolab
13) Belle and Sebastian
14) My Bloody Valentine
15) His Name is Alive
16) Wilco
17) Superchunk
18) The New Pornographers
19) Boredoms
20) Unrest
21) Spoon
22) The Clash
23) TV on the Radio
24) Caribou
25) The Smiths
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Hm.. can't believe I haven't done this yet. it probably won't be well thought out since hell, it takes me 3 weeks to even come up with a top 50 albums of the year list which still ends up inaccurate to what I'm listening to after the year is out, but... I'll base this on bands that I've liked over at least the past couple years if not more (did you know I didn't get into music till around '98? it's true... I had horrible taste before then) -- first 6 are definites:
01. Radiohead
02. Sigur Rós
03. The Cure
04. Knife in the Water
05. Carissa's Wierd
06. Red House Painters / Mark Kozelek / Sun Kil Moon
07. Boards of Canada
08. Belle and Sebastian
09. Stereolab
10. Wilco
11. Afghan Whigs / Twilight Singers (well, anything before this year; the past two sucked)
12. The Sea and Cake
13. Trembling Blue Stars
14. Gravenhurst
15. Hot Chip
16. Dirty Three
17. Fog [nothing is better than the song Pneumonia (http://www.sardonic-hee.com/music/mp3s/Fog-pneumonia.mp3) (mp3) -- the whole s/t album must be gotten.. the other two albums are nice, too but not as record scratchy]
18. Explosions in the Sky
19. The Notwist (really, just Neon Golden, but that's enough for the whole world)
20. Pixies
21. Tindersticks
22. Neutral Milk Hotel
23. M83
24. Slowdive
25. Built to Spill
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24) Caribou
This one is funny because he went to school with my husband and I fed him noodles once.
What is his style like these days? I heard some of his work from Manitoba days, it was a little on the sweet and melodic side for me. However, Amazon suggested his latest album as two 'you may also like this' steps removed from this album (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006GVJHQ/ref=pd_rate_dp/104-1782497-4035101?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174) which I really like. I also feel like I should buy the albums of people I knew before they were big.
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This one is funny because he went to school with my husband and I fed him noodles once.
What is his style like these days? I heard some of his work from Manitoba days, it was a little on the sweet and melodic side for me.
Heh, wow. Neat.
His last album was my #2 of last year (next to Art Brut). There's still some pretty sweet and melodic stuff, but there's also a lot of Krautrockish stuff("Bees") and some Turntablism-influenced things("Pelican Narrows") in there too. This was actually the album that made me go back and listen to the Manitoba material, which I liked a lot, but yeah - it didn't quite have that much of a slight ominous undercurrent that Milk of Human Kindness had.
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I don't know what this is all about, but I just downloaded a Neutral Milk Hotel album. Ok, let's see what this is about...
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11. Afghan Whigs / Twilight Singers (well, anything before this year; the past two sucked)
I neglected Twilight Singers/Amber Headlights as I haven't heard anything from either that's even in league with the Whigs. But I haven't heard it all...is there a worthwhile Twilight Singers album for a Whigs fanatic?
18. Explosions in the Sky
Can for you. Have you heard Caspian (http://www.myspace.com/caspiantheband) yet? My favorite so far of the post "Earth is not" explosion (no pun intended)
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I don't know what this is all about, but I just downloaded a Neutral Milk Hotel album. Ok, let's see what this is about...
Aeroplane over the Sea... seriously.
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I don't know what this is all about, but I just downloaded a Neutral Milk Hotel album. Ok, let's see what this is about...
Which one?
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It was Aeroplane Over The Sea. It was alright, but I was turned off because none of the instruments besides the vocals and occasional brass had any voice in the music. I think a solid percussionist would have contributed alot to the album.
The cover is somewhat similar to the second dream I am capable of remembering, at probably around four years old or so.
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I neglected Twilight Singers/Amber Headlights as I haven't heard anything from either that's even in league with the Whigs. But I haven't heard it all...is there a worthwhile Twilight Singers album for a Whigs fanatic?
Okay, I may not have all the Whigs albums soooo I'm not the best judge, but the friend who introduced me to both also loves this one, so I shall figure my love of it (I listened to it at least once everyday for like a year) is justified- Blackberry Belle. seriously. just get that one.
Can for you. Have you heard Caspian (http://www.myspace.com/caspiantheband) yet? My favorite so far of the post "Earth is not" explosion (no pun intended)
I have a couple mp3s thanks to this mp3 blog (http://charlatantric.livejournal.com/), but it didn't grab me the same... I think I just was burnt out on the post rock explosion after EITS by this time. I'll give it another listen though!
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I have Blackberry Belle, and I have just about all the Whigs albums. Blackberry Belle has its moments, but end-to-end it's not as strong as any Whigs record, IMO.
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it didn't quite have that much of a slight ominous undercurrent that Milk of Human Kindness had.
I do like the sound of 'ominous undercurrent'.
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hm.
yeah, I say that I love Neutral Milk Hotel, but it's really just a few songs.
hm.
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hm.
yeah, I say that I love Neutral Milk Hotel, but it's really just a few songs.
hm.
For shame! Every song is glorious.
To be fair, it took me a few careful listens to realise this. I suggest trying again until you learn to love it.
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I suggest trying again until you learn to love it.
Isn't this like the S&M form of music appreciation or somesuch?
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Isn't this like the S&M form of music appreciation or somesuch?
Music is a harsh mistress.
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Music is a harsh mistress.
...Hot.
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Music is a harsh mistress.
...and true.
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*slaps hobot*
for shame!
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inevitable, congratulations on finishing high-school, but do not gloat: I finish compulsory education next week! Unfortunately, the hardest is still to come. I am taking A levels.
Education is pretty awful, but you are finished. Go get sloshed.
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I have Blackberry Belle, and I have just about all the Whigs albums. Blackberry Belle has its moments, but end-to-end it's not as strong as any Whigs record, IMO.
Well, perhaps I'm biased 'cause the friend introduced me to Twilight Singers first, so I bought that album before I ever touched the Whigs stuff. Black Love is great though... the only other I have is 1965 which was just alright. tell me what I should get next? the friend thinks 'Gentlemen' would be too harsh for me, but I'm not really sure what that means.. ahah.
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no way, sloshed is not OK.
I will, however, indulge in pretending that I am the kind of guy who would get his bone on with this girl. who blatantly wants to "get on my cock."
in the end, I won't. But I'll pretend to be debating it, you know, to feel like a rebel.
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tell me what I should get next? the friend thinks 'Gentlemen' would be too harsh for me, but I'm not really sure what that means.. ahah.
"Congregation" is probably my second favorite after "Black Love."
"Gentlemen" contains the wicked sexy "My Curse." That album is even heavier on the abusive relationship themes than their other records.
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"Congregation" is probably my second favorite after "Black Love."
"Gentlemen" contains the wicked sexy "My Curse." That album is even heavier on the abusive relationship themes than their other records.
Hm.. okay, I'll download Congregation this weekend and see what I think.
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I do have all the Afghan Whigs albums, I think the only one that can pretty safely be skipped is the first, Up In It, and even that one is worth having if you like the rest.
I can see where starlight's friend is coming from on Gentlemen, compared to what's on your list, it's pretty heavy. But I don't think you should write it off, it's an amazing album, and the intensity is genuine and merited.
That being said, I completely agree with Carlos, depending on what mood I'm in, Congregation is my second or first favorite Whigs album. It's a different sound, though, from the last two. It came out on Sub Pop, while Sub Pop was still Sub Pop, the production value is far lower, but the rawness works for them, makes them sound even darker and more soulful than they already are.
eMusic had Blackberry Belle, downloaded it this weekend. Definately the best post-Whigs stuff I've heard, but yeah, not quite there, it's missing Curley (whos current band isn't worth listening to, sadly.)
Also, can dig on being burnt out on post rock since TEINACDP, and Caspian doesn't have nearly the composition chops Explosions have (for my dollar, no one does), but they put together a pretty solid, dynamic album.
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Okay, I finally listened to Congregation last night... it does have the same dulli sound, but less compression.. perhaps that's based on when it was made though, but seriously, the last two Twilight Singers albums (Amber Headlights / Powder Burns; not sure if it's out yet but a friend demanded I download it and eek.. only two songs didn't make me cringe and even then I don't get the urge to listen too often) lost their charm due to over compression to the point of cheesiness. I saw a bit of a similarity to the Twlight Singers stuff when compared to 1965, but perhaps that's due to it being the last Whigs album.
I still say the first two Twilight Singers albums and well, the covers one to a small degree are very good since it wasn't as over the top crazy. I did hear Amber Headlights was supposed to come out before Blackberry Belle did, but something tragic happened which put a hold on it; think someone died? I listened to a podcast around the time that album came out, but hell if I remember.
Anyway, on Congregation, the best songs upon first listen were: Turn on the Water, Dedicate It, The Temple, and Milez is Dead.
Perhaps I'll get brave and find Gentlemen next; I mean, if it's really too intense, I can just delete it.. hah.
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Also, on the post rock tip.. weirdly, my cousin ordered me a Godspeed album for my bday.. I just got it the other day. I count Godspeed in with where post rock started yet I never had their best album (Lift Your Skinny Fists..) though I did have a live in osaka, japan bootleg with a good bunch of them and now I do. hurrah!
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Anyway, on Congregation, the best songs upon first listen were: Turn on the Water, Dedicate It, The Temple, and Milez is Dead.
"Conjure Me." RrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Ock
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I was introduced to the Whigs when Gentlemen came out, like a billion years ago, and was instantly hooked. But I only "got" them when they did that cover version of "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Baby". Then the whole "dark soul music" thing everyone talked about made sense to me.
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"Conjure Me." RrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Ock
Well, they all rock -- those are just the ones I remembered the tune to when going down the list before posting ;D
The second listen was even better!
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Okay, I finally listened to Congregation last night... it does have the same dulli sound, but less compression.. perhaps that's based on when it was made though, but seriously, the last two Twilight Singers albums (Amber Headlights / Powder Burns; not sure if it's out yet but a friend demanded I download it and eek.. only two songs didn't make me cringe and even then I don't get the urge to listen too often) lost their charm due to over compression to the point of cheesiness. I saw a bit of a similarity to the Twlight Singers stuff when compared to 1965, but perhaps that's due to it being the last Whigs album.
The new Twilight Singers album is not out, but I looked up some of the mp3's floating around, thought they sounded alright. I'll bet dollar to donuts that among the three songs I listened to, one or both of the two that didn't make you cringe are in there. I just saw they're playing a late show here Friday, and between diggin' on Blackberry Belle and the minor Whigs kick this thread has me on, I think I'm goin to roll in...see if they's still got it.
Also, on the post rock tip.. weirdly, my cousin ordered me a Godspeed album for my bday.. I just got it the other day. I count Godspeed in with where post rock started yet I never had their best album (Lift Your Skinny Fists..) though I did have a live in osaka, japan bootleg with a good bunch of them and now I do. hurrah!
I'm a fan of Godspeed, I still think I prefer Tortoise, but that could be because I'm such a Chicago Homer.
But I only "got" them when they did that cover version of "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Baby".
Good call! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5cY7YduMlU)
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I'll bet dollar to donuts that among the three songs I listened to, one or both of the two that didn't make you cringe are in there.
If 'Bonnie Brae' and the title track were in there then yep...
Some others were just okay as background music but bored me after awhile.
I'm a fan of Godspeed, I still think I prefer Tortoise, but that could be because I'm such a Chicago Homer.
I think of Tortoise on a different level than Godspeed and other post rock... they're more jazzy to me. TNT is one of my fav. albums though.. can't believe I forgot them on my list.. hah!