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Post by ScottsyII on Jul 11, 2006 17:26:43 GMT -5
And You Will Know Us By Our Trail Of Dead. I used to think those guys were wankers, but now I really dig them. Same with Spoon. I went through much the same thought process with Trail of Dead.... but nowadays I can't get enough of 'em. Love their stuff. |
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Post by luke on Jul 12, 2006 9:41:35 GMT -5
Maybe I need to go through that process...Source Codes and Tags was a big waste of money and time for me, maybe I need to give it a second chance.
There's a lot of Brit pop stuff I fucking hated the first time around but eventually grew to appreciate.
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah! I thought were boring as FUCK until I saw them live recently and it was actually pretty good. No more ending their name with "Meh" for me, although I guess they still don't warrant the hype the got in some circles. No way that album was a top 20 last year, but it wasn't so bad...
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jul 12, 2006 21:17:54 GMT -5
I am very disappointed in you, Luke. CYHASY?!? Man, I have tried and I even got suckered into going to see them live and I still wanted to vomit. I'd rather sit at a Dashboard Confessional show than that! At least the girls there will be a lot better looking.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 14, 2006 11:10:29 GMT -5
This thread is dedicated to bands you didn't like and now you do. Perhaps you didn't give them a proper chance or you heard them on bad night, maybe it's just being older and wiser. Who knows. excellent idea for a board, Mantis. I'll think on it |
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Post by luke on Jul 14, 2006 11:54:24 GMT -5
I am very disappointed in you, Luke. CYHASY?!? Man, I have tried and I even got suckered into going to see them live and I still wanted to vomit. I'd rather sit at a Dashboard Confessional show than that! At least the girls there will be a lot better looking. Maybe the acid had me seeing David Byrne and/or the Hindu Love Gods? I dunno, but it wasn't nearly as boring as I was expecting. I actually skipped Elvis that day to see them and two or so other bands who were playing in that slot. Figured I'd already seen Elvis, and he was playing with Allen Toussaint, who may be a "legend" elsewhere, but in Acadiana is just some boring old guy who's always playing four different times at every single festival and local event from here to New Orleans. So my sins are compounded. And no, I've walked by Dashboard shows, and it's pretty scary. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 14, 2006 13:24:30 GMT -5
oh yeah, the first that comes to mind - - although we're lookin' at about nearly 20 years ago - - was how I went from
LOATHING
the music of The Grateful Dead -
- - and yes peeps, like a good punk ass little bitch, I fucking couldn't stand them or their music or their fans - every smelly ol' patchouli -stinkin one of em --
Until one day I got dragged along w/my friends (many of whom were outspokenly deadheads) to a dead show, and all that rather changed, in a melted face off of killer parking lot shenanigans, nitrous balloon hits, good times trading some of our cold beers for some dried up shrivelled fungi, and then the incredible mass -energy palpitating between the crowd and the band - - I'll be damned if my hardened heart didn't yield to the accumulating peer and music -pressure.
Ended up going to a few more dead shows, wherein my appreciation for the finer aspects of their quasi bluegrass country acid rockin music finally began to get the best of me.
Although I can safely say I never did blossom into a full grown "dead-head", I will staunchly defend their right to claim that scene as one of the most engaging, beautiful intense and creative, jammadelic musical movements in the history of our country's solid contribution to the rock'n'roll ethos.
I am proud and delighted today - and very grateful - that I was lucky enough to be exposed to the grateful dead before Jerry's unfortunate demise.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jul 14, 2006 14:45:05 GMT -5
I used to hate them with a passion myself. I even had the shirt that said "I'm Grateful Jerry's Dead, Phish Sucks, Get a job"! I have to admit that their first few records had a few good tunes. "Friend of the Devil" might be one of the best song of their generation, loads above anything that awful Neil Young ever did.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jul 14, 2006 15:28:22 GMT -5
The Grateful Dead suck.
I've tried a couple of times to "appreciate" the Dead, but they still suck. Always have, always will. IMHO of course.
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Post by Galactus on Jul 14, 2006 15:38:38 GMT -5
I'm by no means I Deadhead, but I don't think they suck anymore....at least not completely. I've come to appreciate Jerry Garcia as a muscian more then anything. He was the only one of them that could write a decent song and is quite the good guitar player. I really really hate Phil Leash though.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 14, 2006 15:38:51 GMT -5
The Grateful Dead suck. I've tried a couple of times to "appreciate" the Dead, but they still suck. Always have, always will. IMHO of course. sigh that's cuz you never saw em live oh well |
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Post by Galactus on Jul 14, 2006 15:47:34 GMT -5
BTW Neil Young kicks ass.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jul 14, 2006 15:54:37 GMT -5
The Grateful Dead suck. I've tried a couple of times to "appreciate" the Dead, but they still suck. Always have, always will. IMHO of course. sigh that's cuz you never saw em live oh well I don't think that hearing them live would've been a "plus" for me and the Dead. I'm not a particularly easy listener to win over with live performances, esp. when surrounded by a bunch of stoned hippies. I understand that Garcia and others in the band were fine instrumentalists, but frankly guys who can play well aren't that uncommon. If I wanted virtuousity, I'd listen to nothing but classical and a little jazz. IMO the Dead were a band with nothing to say, and a very long, dull way of saying it. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 14, 2006 15:55:23 GMT -5
Man I totally hear where you're coming from, as I used to feel that way myself.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jul 14, 2006 17:06:18 GMT -5
BTW Neil Young kicks ass. As compared to what?!? Neil Young BLOWS! ;D |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jul 14, 2006 17:08:52 GMT -5
I'm meeting Ken half way for this one: The Dead had a handful of good tunes, that's where we will disagree. I will say this though, I'm not fond of Deadheads. I dated one and I really wanted to claw her eyes out after a while. I think live they were beyond awful. I've heard the bootlegs. I have had friends try time and time again to force me to sit through their meandering bullshit and I just can't do it.
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