Favourite Bands Thread

Clever Pun

come on then let's see what you listen to... top 10 bands/dj's etc

In no particular order (mainly cause it's too hard)

Clutch
Scissorfight
Kyuss
High on Fire
Electric Wizard
Corrosion of Conformity
AC/DC
Saint Vitus
Pearl Jam
Weedeater

Anyone know any of these????

afx237vi

Here's my profile at last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/user/afx237vi/

robbie the roadie

Alkaline Trio - bestest band ever 8)
Reel Big Fish
Green Day
Offspring
Foo Fighters
Jimmy Eat World
NOFX
Rancid
Placebo
Saves the Day

To name a few

PS for clarification purposes I'm 24 and not some 12 year old in a 4 sizes to large t shirt wearing badly applied eyeliner and the white reebok trainers their mum bought them last year before they were 'alternative' whatever that means :shock:

Clever Pun

robbie the roadie wrote:

PS for clarification purposes I'm 24 and not some 12 year old in a 4 sizes to large t shirt wearing badly applied eyeliner and the white reebok trainers their mum bought them last year before they were 'alternative' whatever that means :shock:

Does it worry you that you have to do that?

robbie the roadie

Clever Pun wrote:

Does it worry you that you have to do that?

Yes

Restless_legs

I'm old enough to remember proper music...stuff that had harmony, beauty and delightful melodies that you could hum along to unlike this modern tripe.

Stuff like the UK Subs and Stiff Little Fingers.

Proper music.

trail jacker

in no order, except for the foo's;

Foo Fighters (the best)
Smashing Pumpkins
Jurassic 5
Rage Against The Machine
Nirvana
Public Enemy
36 Crazyfists
Ben Harper
Pantera
Alexisonfire

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

I'm old enough to remember proper music...stuff that had harmony, beauty and delightful melodies that you could hum along to unlike this modern tripe.

Stuff like the UK Subs and Stiff Little Fingers.

Proper music.

I think humming UK SUbs is a rare pastime.. you may be one of a small grouup

sonicred007

Clever Pun wrote:

come on then let's see what you listen to... top 10 bands/dj's etc

In no particular order (mainly cause it's too hard)

Clutch
Scissorfight
Kyuss
High on Fire
Electric Wizard
Corrosion of Conformity
AC/DC
Saint Vitus
Pearl Jam
Weedeater

Anyone know any of these????

Me thinks you're stoner rockfan... I reviewed a Goatsnake album for Rocksound in early 2000 - forget the name now

Do you go for Sunn0))) as well? Burzam?

Restless_legs

sonicred007 wrote:

I think humming UK SUbs is a rare pastime.. you may be one of a small grouup

Humming along to Discharge, Turbonegro and Motorhead is trickier - so I just whistle.

8)

sonicred007

Me, I'm a fan of Sonic Youth, Bob Seger, White Stripes, Mudhoney, Nirvana... have been a fan of Mega City Four and Neds Atomic Dustbin in the past, but they grew stale in my record collection

When the mood takes me, I can go a bit of Carcass, Godflesh, Public Enemy, Slayer, Petula Clark, Marmalade.... basically anything good, but that's subjective to me

Restless_legs

sonicred007 wrote:

... basically anything good, but that's subjective to me

Err...no.

I appointed myself Pompous selector of all things good in music In Chief about seventeen years ago after seeing The Pixies at Phoenix...or Reading...or some other outdoor place that year. I was very drunk.

Unfortunately, when I admitted to finding the Sugababes 'Bet you look good on the' quite good, the wife took my title from me.

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

sonicred007 wrote:

I think humming UK SUbs is a rare pastime.. you may be one of a small grouup

Humming along to Discharge, Turbonegro and Motorhead is trickier - so I just whistle.

8)

Turbonegro - one of lifes rare treats. Live there are few better

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

sonicred007 wrote:

... basically anything good, but that's subjective to me

Err...no.

I appointed myself Pompous selector of all things good in music In Chief about seventeen years ago after seeing The Pixies at Phoenix...or Reading...or some other outdoor place that year. I was very drunk.

Unfortunately, when I admitted to finding the Sugababes 'Bet you look good on the' quite good, the wife took my title from me.

It is everyone's right to be the chief of music as long as they agree with my subjective tastes

Where's my crown? I am king of good music taste....

Restless_legs

sonicred007 wrote:

Me, I'm a fan of Sonic Youth, Bob Seger, White Stripes, Mudhoney, Nirvana... have been a fan of Mega City Four and Neds Atomic Dustbin

Never really got on with Mudhoney...'Touch Me' was alright when drunk as was Neds.

Nirvana has to be the worst ever live experience[tm] ~ a mistake I repeated three times but at least I wasn't paying for tickets at the time.

Lazarus

Tool

nuff said

iainf72

Oh go on then. This might reflect more what I've listened to recently.

Earth
u-Ziq
Squarepusher
Liars
MIA
Kanye West
Nine Inch Nails
Download / Skinny Puppy
LCD Soundsystem
Arcade Fire
Aphex Twin / Tuss / AFX
Ricardo Villalobos
Burial
Luke Vibert / Wagon Christ / Ace of Clubs / Plug (+ other aliases)
Throbbing Gristle
Bjork

etc etc.

Restless_legs

On my phone at the moment I've got albums by Roxy Music, A couple of Bowie, The Wedding Present catalogue, NMA latest offering, Manu Chao, Buzzcocks, Bush, Eno, Ramones, Mala Vita, The Kinks and Cornershop. I change them weekly...

Makes for pleasant riding 8)

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

sonicred007 wrote:

Me, I'm a fan of Sonic Youth, Bob Seger, White Stripes, Mudhoney, Nirvana... have been a fan of Mega City Four and Neds Atomic Dustbin

Never really got on with Mudhoney...'Touch Me' was alright when drunk as was Neds.

Nirvana has to be the worst ever live experience[tm] ~ a mistake I repeated three times but at least I wasn't paying for tickets at the time.

Controversial view of Nirvana... I saw them bottom of the bill at Reading and that was amazing... then I saw them at the Hummingbird and thatwas amazing too... saw them headline at Reading and that was a farce

For me, there's very little wrong with Supermuff Bigfuzz, Mudhoney and Every Good Boy... after that I think Mudhoney never really got near these dizzy musical heights, but they're much better than a lot of fashionable bands getting a hype or two today

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

On my phone at the moment I've got albums by Roxy Music, A couple of Bowie, The Wedding Present catalogue, NMA latest offering, Manu Chao, Buzzcocks, Bush, Eno, Ramones, Mala Vita, The Kinks and Cornershop. I change them weekly...

Makes for pleasant riding 8)

Who is Manu Chao and Mala Vita... not something I'm too familiar with

NMA - is that New Model Army? didn't know they were still going

Are you going to the Wedding Present 20th anniversary of George Best at ULU? Am tempted myself.

Restless_legs

sonicred007 wrote:

Who is Manu Chao and Mala Vita... not something I'm too familiar with

NMA - is that New Model Army? didn't know they were still going

Are you going to the Wedding Present 20th anniversary of George Best at ULU? Am tempted myself.

MC & MV are influences from when we lived in South America.

Yea, New Model Army are still lumbering on, just released a new album.

I was thinking about going to see The Weddoes but seeing as I preferred them in the Steve Albini phase I doubt it'd be that rewarding for me.

That bottom of the bill appearance by Nirvana...I'd forgotten that one. So that's 3-1 on the suck-o-meter with the worst being his heroin'd-up wheelchair entrance the following year.

afx237vi

iainf72 wrote:

Oh go on then. This might reflect more what I've listened to recently.

Earth
u-Ziq
Squarepusher
Liars
MIA
Kanye West
Nine Inch Nails
Download / Skinny Puppy
LCD Soundsystem
Arcade Fire
Aphex Twin / Tuss / AFX
Ricardo Villalobos
Burial
Luke Vibert / Wagon Christ / Ace of Clubs / Plug (+ other aliases)
Throbbing Gristle
Bjork

etc etc.

Niiiiiiiiice. Best so far.

sonicred007

Restless_legs wrote:

sonicred007 wrote:

Who is Manu Chao and Mala Vita... not something I'm too familiar with

NMA - is that New Model Army? didn't know they were still going

Are you going to the Wedding Present 20th anniversary of George Best at ULU? Am tempted myself.

MC & MV are influences from when we lived in South America.

Yea, New Model Army are still lumbering on, just released a new album.

I was thinking about going to see The Weddoes but seeing as I preferred them in the Steve Albini phase I doubt it'd be that rewarding for me.

That bottom of the bill appearance by Nirvana...I'd forgotten that one. So that's 3-1 on the suck-o-meter with the worst being his heroin'd-up wheelchair entrance the following year.

Yeah never been so disaapointed at a festival

scwxx77

8)

Sonic Youth (to the point of obsession)
The Fall
Faust
Pixies
Melt Banana
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Kills
Low
Joy Division
Magik Markers
Erase Errata
Neil Young

I've lost touch with new music a bit since John Peel passed away. Anyone here ever listen to WFMU?

iainf72

afx237vi wrote:

Niiiiiiiiice. Best so far.

I guess it's the Warp flava you liked.

Your last.fm profile isn't showing much Aphex young man!

sonicred007

scwxx77 wrote:

8)

Sonic Youth (to the point of obsession)
The Fall
Faust
Pixies
Melt Banana
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Kills
Low
Joy Division
Magik Markers
Erase Errata
Neil Young

I've lost touch with new music a bit since John Peel passed away. Anyone here ever listen to WFMU?

I see your Sonic Youth obsession and raise you stalking them across Birmingham in 1992 to get their autographs... just joking

Look out for "Psychic Confusion - The Sonic Youth Story!" by Stevie Chick. It's out in October

scwxx77

sonicred007 wrote:

I see your Sonic Youth obsession and raise you stalking them across Birmingham in 1992 to get their autographs... just joking

Look out for "Psychic Confusion - The Sonic Youth Story!" by Stevie Chick. It's out in October

Great stuff, I'm almost out of decent cycling books to read. IIRC Lee Ranaldo is a roadie!

iainf72

scwxx77 wrote:

The Fall

Have you checked out the Von Sudenfed album? MES with Mouse on Mars. It's brilliant.

And in a minor claim to fame, I know the guy who was one of the assistant engineers on Pixies Trompe Le Monde. If you ever wonder what happens to these guys, it seems they sometimes end up in IT in banks :P

twentysix by twentyfive

:shock: :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll: :roll: :? :? :?

No Pavarrotti :shock: :roll: :?

scwxx77

iainf72 wrote:

Have you checked out the Von Sudenfed album? MES with Mouse on Mars. It's brilliant.

Mistook it for new Fall material when I heard it on Marc Riley's show a couple of weeks ago. Sounded interesting though, I will check it out.

SteveR_100Milers

The DC by a mile (such simple pentatonic based riffs pounctuated with raw double stops, and a better bend vibrato than BB King).

Black Crowes (in the beginning)
Floyd
UFO
The Manics
Rose Tattoo