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Post by pattentank24 on Oct 14, 2004 14:21:32 GMT -5
Guys your breaking the no solo artists rule damnit,lol
#23 The Get-Up Kids
Greenday,Jimmy Eat World are better bands no argument here,but I didn't identify with them as much as GUK I just felt they were speaking to me in 97 as I was saying goodbye to all my high school friends and enemies with graduation. 4 Minute Mile was the sdk to saying goodbye to life as you knew it for me the bell's ringing for the last time all those crushes and frustrations are leaving with you and then it's all gone and can never be the same.
Who hasn't lived out the stories on that particular album "Shorty" being the friend in the triangle/"Last Place You Look" that person you were searching for is always the one right next to you etc.
If that was all the reason to be on my list that's an important part of your life,but during the "What's happened to my life postion" There was "Something to write Home About well let's see office romance check(The Company Dime) your first serious girlfriend leaving(Valentine/Long Kiss Goodnight) check
Eudora just made me jealous as they nailed covers of 2 songs I could never play real well in bands(Close To Me/Regret) On a Wire was just sad music that I was going through in 2002 and now sounds so much more lively than I thought.
This Year I lost my connection with GUK withGuilt Show a solid return to form of the first 2 but it doesn't resonate with me anymore I'm past those stages in life. I saw GUK back in April of this year and enjoyed watching the younger fans scream and almost cry with the music as they felt every single word. I still think about the past when I listen to GUK but Life has always been about evolving and having a good time
The Get-Up Kids
5 albums1997-
Favorite Song
Regret(New Order Cover/Eudora)/GUK own "The Company Dime(Something to write Home About)
Favorite Album
4 Minute Mile
# Times seen Live
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Post by pissin2 on Oct 15, 2004 10:45:57 GMT -5
I'd have to break one of the rules. Hey, rules were meant to be broken. Aerosmith came out almost a decade before my time, but since 1993 they've been my favorite band. I'm very attatched to them. I try to catch them live everytime, and it always puts me in the best mood once I come out of the show. So they have to stay.
Here are other bands that mean a lot to me. Not really in order. I'll try to write a little something for most of them.
2. Metallica - say what you will, but this band just does not give a fuck. Much respect for changing and doing things on their own terms. I'm eagerly awaiting their two philly shows next week. I never get more excited or hype seeing a band as I am the 2 minutes before they hit the stage and "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" is playing. It's just fucking unreal.
3. Pearl Jam
4. Alice In Chains - Probably the most emotionally attatched to this band. Full write up on Best 90s Band page.
5. Tool
6. Sublime - A late discovery for me. I feel like an ass for not drinking 40s and lighting doobies to their music about 5 years before I started. How anyone cannot like them is often beyond me.
7. Nirvana
8. Snot (this is breaking another rule, as they only have one full length album. They have a live one too. The signer died in a car accident so it's not fair. And when I first heard them I just said "WOW")
9. Bouncing Souls (HUGE inspiration to just fucking live and have fun doing it)
10. Toadies
11. STP
12. Gn'R - Yes despite the fact the Axl stood us up in philly the other year with his new band. I still have an attachment. They were a great fucking band. Appetite was one of the first I ever owned along with Metallica's Black Album.
13. A Perfect Circle
14. Bad Religion - Especially lyrically they're genius. really, really made me open up my eyes and think about a lot of things in the world.
15. Ramones - Taught me how something so simple can be so good. Again I'm breaking rule no. 2 Sorry!
16. Korn
17. Green Day - always fun band I've loved listening to, but more specifically their latest "American Idiot". It's just too good. It attached itself to me immediately and still hasn't let go.
18. AC/DC - One of the few bands that can put out the same album every time, and I'll still buy it. Rock at it's purest.
19. AFI - I love how much this band has changed. They started out straight up old school punk and they've made it to the radio and enjoyed some success without comprimising for anyone. The lyrics are just fucking sick in a beautiful poetic way.
20. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
21. Flogging Molly - one of the funnest bands to catch live and probably the best drinking music I've heard. It's really hard for me to play a track of theirs without cracking one open.
22. Anti-Flag
23. Social Distortion
24. Pantera - I know they started out glam, but after that it was all good. They inspired me to smash and break stuff. Which sometimes is a good thing.
25. Marilyn Manson - Some of his songs really reflect the way I feel. I'm especially interested in all the religious stuff. I've always been fascinated by how much he gets under peoples skin. One of the few names you'll mention around your family that not only do they know, but they go "Ewww, that freak" But that fact is the guy is one intelligent fuck who also happens to write great tunes and put on a great show.
I love all of these bands and most of them have just impacted me in the sense that they always make me feel good listening to them, and/or they bring back fond memories. A lot of them just inspire me to be myself and not take anyone's shit, and also to just enjoy life. I still feel like I'm forgetting someone.
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Post by ScottsyII on Oct 16, 2004 5:08:05 GMT -5
I'm going to pick one of my top picks as artists and describe why...
The Church[/b]
Legendary band. I first was struck with their shimmering accoustic strumming and plaintive vocals and melodies when I first heard "Under the Milky Way" on the radio... a song I heard as a 12 year old that has stuck with me and influenced my taking further interest in them recently.
There is not a dud album in their catalogue, as far as i am concerned. Sure, the earlier ones are a bit dated sounding and little thin on the ground for material, but they hold up ok for the times they were created... their first really accomplished album, the beautiful Seance, has a score of melodic, psychedelic rock... a them to be repeated for many albums to come.
In recent times, after having become a more independent band not locked in to major company rules, they have explored a range of atmospheres and textures in their music... this has produced some outstandingly broody releases such as "Hologram of Baal" and "After Everything Now This".... both of which are staples in my CD player for their sheer enduring quality!
Their release of last year, "Forget Yourself" was my favourite album of last year!
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Post by ModernDeathTrend on Oct 16, 2004 16:52:06 GMT -5
Hmmm this is a tough one, but hell I am game.
#1 Samael
#2 Nightwish
#3 Iron Maiden
#4 Judas Priest
#5 AFI (hell I actually agree with Pissin on this one)
#6 Dio
#7 Ozzy Osbourne
#8 In Flames
#9 Sentenced
Thats all I can really think of right now. But more to come.
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Post by Nepenthe on Oct 17, 2004 1:36:03 GMT -5
This is hard because there are so many
1. Alice Cooper
2. Ozzy Osbourne
3. Iron Maiden/Bruce Solo
4. Judas Priest
5. Megadeth
6. Savatage
7. Helloween
8. Samael
9. Nightwish
10. Sentenced
11. Creed
12. Motorhead
13. In Flames
14. Virgin Steele
15. Dio
16. AC/DC
17. Van Halen
18. Alabama
19. HIM
20. The Cars
21. Jethro Tull
22. WASP
23. Primal Fear
24. Twisted Sister
25. Yngwie Malmsteen
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Post by ModernDeathTrend on Oct 17, 2004 21:59:23 GMT -5
Time to continue on where I left off.
#10 AFI (hell I actually agree with Pissin on this one)
#11 Overkill
#12 Dimmu Borgir
#13 Cradle Of Filth
#14 Testament
#15 Anthrax
#16 Fear Factory
#17 Jag Panzer
#18 Primal Fear
#19 Doro Pesch
#20 Lita Ford
#21 Obituary
#22 Old Mans Child
#23 Mortiis
#24 Lee Aaron
#25 Virgin Steele
there it took a lot of thought on this one. and No Chem1 I never mentioned Krokus in any of these. Shin, if your have such a hard on for griffins, you won't see any here. So sorry to dissapoint, but you will have to rely on the old anime to get your kicks this time.
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Post by ScottsyII on Oct 18, 2004 6:26:39 GMT -5
Planet Hell, it appears you and I could agree more than you think... :-)
I love In Flames and Fear Factory. Wouldn't call myself a metalhead but love a good metal band... I've heard alot of Samael as well, and enjoy a listen to some of their stuff at my cousin's place... he'd be my major metal influence, I guess.
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Post by pissin2 on Oct 18, 2004 10:55:55 GMT -5
From the official AFI newsletter: “While we're really proud of our history and accomplishments we feel our career is really just getting started and feel slightly embarrassed by anything that hints at retrospect. There's plenty of time for that later when we're old. We'd rather move forward. That said, we are hard at work on the new album, and really looking forward to sharing it with you. "
Planet Hell, I hope you stick along for the ride. This is a band that is no doubt going to get better and better, but for some reason a lot of people will not like it. I heard there might be more experimental techno type stuff on it, like that one part during that one song on Sing The Sorrow. It's coming down to a matter of taste with them, but there's no denying the talent.
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Post by bowiglou on Oct 18, 2004 13:55:29 GMT -5
I was born in 1956, so I'm the lone old codger here!!..(excepting Phil)..so here goes
(1) The Beatles (as a 7 year old in Feb of 1964 seeing them on Ed Sullivan show I was hooked for life)
(2) Rolling Stones (saw them next month on the Red Skeleton Hour, but didn't become a huge fan till a few years later with exception of Between the Buttons when they had this amazing run of: Beggars Banquet/Let it Bleed/Get Your Ya Yas Out/Sticky Finger/Exile On Main Street/Hot Rocks (I and II).
(3) The monkees..just adored them for a couple of years, until I found................
(4) The Doors..discarded all my bubblegum music and was convinced Jim Morrison was IT!!!.....
(5)Steppenwolf...loved that band back then...had all their albums........The Pusher Man truly pissed off all parents
(6) Cat Stevens..........though it may sound twee nowadays, Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were absolute classics
(7) Elton John...had an amazing run of virtually perfect albums up to about Caribou........and believe it or not, up to then, he was considered pretty cool!!
(8) Neil Young (and CSNY-Deja Vu)......AFter the Goldrush, Harvest, Everybody knows this is nowhere..perfectly depressing albums......
(9) Rod Stewart----it's old fodder to say how Rod the Mod became overly homogenized and was the perfect example of wasted talent, but Every Picture Tells a Story and Never a Dull moment were amazing post-Faces LPs
(10) Steely Dan..............jazzy yet rocky and kinda intellectual, in a sordid sort of way
but then, it all changed!!!!
(11)David Bowie..enough said...I never turned back from then.....opened all vistas for glam, punk, new wave, synthrock, etc.
(12) Lou Reed............Transformer...........enough said (then backwards in order got very much into VU)
(13) Elvis Costello..died and went to heaven first time i heard him........first LP was Armed forces then that same week snapped up My aim is True and This Years Model..........I found my Bob Dylan.........(though I got an appreciation for Dylan years later........)
(14) Talking Heads.....went to a party in 1978...saw them doing the worm to Don't Worry about the Government.....was a bit bemused, but had to look into this LP....and 77 just resonated
(15) Blondie...............oh yeah............"don't go away mad...just go away"...........such attitude and verve
(16) Graham Parker.........Squeezing out Sparks may be one of the best and virulent albums from the new wave era
(17) The Clash....January of 1980 bought London Calling...was just blown away....and saw them for the Combat Rock tour circa 1982.....truly an explosive show
(18) X--with Wild Gift I realized much of the LA punk that I was exposed to didn't have to be so rote and predictably angry and diffuse.....X completely nailed it.....
(19) U2......their debut (Boy) thankfully was not just hype............they truly (with some skips and falls) lived up their ideals
(20)Iggy pop....really didn't get into him until early 80s when I started buying Idiot/Lust for Life/New Values/Party/Zombie Birdhouse/Stooges.........just fell for that guy
(21) The Jam-------Sound Affects and Setting Sons had a similar visceral impact as the Clash did………a band that never ever compromised
(22) Magazine………….Kafkaesque, dark, foreboding, and brusquely honest……Devoto had to leave the band he founded (buzzcocks) to make this type of music
(23)REM—saw them in a small sweaty club circa 1983, and fell for them instantly…next time I saw them was a large ampitheater!!!
(24)Replacements----Faces like rock with punk attitude and heart-on-your-sleeves, and live shows that were never predictable
(25) The Pretenders..to this day, I have nothing but respect for Chrissie Hynde
………and dozens of others….
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Post by Mary on Oct 18, 2004 14:19:48 GMT -5
OK I'll have a go. This is tough though, as certain bands have an impact on our lives when we are young and years later we wonder what the fuck we were thinking. Nonetheless, in the interest of honesty, I will try to give an accurate account, not too swayed by my present tastes.... this is in vaguely chronological order, not necessarily order of most to least important (although #1 works both ways) Dunno if I can get through 25 in one post, but here's a beginning... 1) The Clash - still far and away the most influential band in my own life. Totally changed my life when i heard London Calling when I was 13. It didn't just change my taste in music, it completely changed my whole sense of who I was and what I cared about. I have no idea who I'd be today if I hadn't stumbled on the Clash 14 years ago. 2) Operation Ivy - Objectively speaking, this band isn't really all that great, but if you discovered them at the right time - as a young adolescent - they somehow managed to evoke the liberation and the pain of adolescence so very perfectly, especially for those of us silly to identify with punk rock. Now hearing Operation Ivy is always accmpanied by that twinge of nostalgia that makes it sweetly melancholy. 3) X - I was surely the only 14 year old at my high school in 1991 who was obsessed with X - but something about X's dark, noirish poetry totally clicked with me. I used to imagine the world was really like an X song, and I'd wander around Boston late at night and peek up at illuminated windows and imagine people inside having desultory midnight affairs or wiling away in painful loneliness. X seemed so much more serious and so much more mature than anything else I'd ever heard - I wanted to be like Exene Cervenka for much of high school. Hell, maybe I still do. 4) Rancid - from out of the ashes of Op Ivy...god I was a cheeseball in high school...but Rancid was my band for a long time. I saw 'em 6 times in 2 years, Tim Armstrong was my Joe Strummer replacement since I was born much too late to appreciate the Clash in their actual heyday. It's silly now, but back then, Rancid did seem to matter. 5) Pearl Jam - yeah ok, I was a child of the 90s, what can I say. I went through a grunge phase like everyone else. Mine was short-lived, but it was intense for a while, and I idolized Eddie Vedder. Oh how I thought he was hot. Oh how I was deluded... 6) Nine Inch Nails - Discovering Pretty Hate Machine was another epoch-defining moment in my life, as it totally changed my notion of what music could do and could sound like. I had never heard anything like that before, and midway through high school I became a full-on NIN obsessive, though fortunately I never dressed the part. But I scribbled NIN lyrics on the bathroom walls and all over my notebooks, collected and saved every Trent Reznor interview I could get my hands on,and fell asleep every night blasting Something I Can Never Have through headphones in the dark... and as mr. iglou will no doubt remind everyone, it was also at a NIN concert over a decade ago that, in one of my finest moments, I braided my hair to my friend's head and promptly had the braid ripped out of my hair in an extraordinarily painful fashion in the midst of a rowdy crowd... 7) Minor Threat - from punk to hardcore, an easy leap for a young punk-addled gal recently politicized gal to make. Ian MacKaye seemed such a worthy role model in those days, though I can't say I really followed his example in the straight-edge department. From Minor Threat I branched out to explore the other Dischord bands, and Bad Brains and Sick of it All and Agnostic Front and Earth Crisis and Spitboy and all that.... hardcore isn't the most multi-dimensional or creative music, but it did capture a kind of youthful anger and aggression that was appropriate for its moment. 8) Joy Division - We were driving down to a show in Providence, RI, and She's Lost Control was on a mix tape. The rest of the mix tape was just Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and all that nonsense, so I've no idea how JD wound up on there, but like the Clash and NIN, this was another moment when I suddenly discovered a whole other vista of music. I'm not sure I'd ever have developed my melancholic streak had I not discovered Joy Division back in high school, but the music was so exquisitely sad and desolate, it just struck a chord with my adolescent romanticism. And unlike the other bands on this list, save the Clash of course, it continues to strike a chord today. ....all right well there's 8. I really need to get my day started, so more later  NP: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (song: East of Eden) Cheers, M |
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Post by ModernDeathTrend on Oct 18, 2004 21:52:32 GMT -5
Planet Hell, it appears you and I could agree more than you think... :-) I love In Flames and Fear Factory. Wouldn't call myself a metalhead but love a good metal band... I've heard alot of Samael as well, and enjoy a listen to some of their stuff at my cousin's place... he'd be my major metal influence, I guess. Damn, this is a side of you I have never seen before. LOL but in all seriousness, this was one of the toughest lists I have ever done. I listen to so much stuff, that it is really hard to list them and leave out all the other stuff I Like. Samael is my alltime favorite band. I know that some of the stuff I have listed really isn't socially significant, but thats the beauty in it, To appreciate just the cultural side of it. Too bad there aren't many people especially on the original rs board that get what I am saying. Sometimes the best things to listen to is a beautiful voice singing in a German opera style to heavy music( as in Nightwish). |
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Post by ModernDeathTrend on Oct 18, 2004 21:57:03 GMT -5
From the official AFI newsletter: “While we're really proud of our history and accomplishments we feel our career is really just getting started and feel slightly embarrassed by anything that hints at retrospect. There's plenty of time for that later when we're old. We'd rather move forward. That said, we are hard at work on the new album, and really looking forward to sharing it with you. " Planet Hell, I hope you stick along for the ride. This is a band that is no doubt going to get better and better, but for some reason a lot of people will not like it. I heard there might be more experimental techno type stuff on it, like that one part during that one song on Sing The Sorrow. It's coming down to a matter of taste with them, but there's no denying the talent. There is absolutely no denying AFI's talent. After their last album I am looking foward to what more they have to offer. I could actually see some techno in their music, in a way. If it works thats cool, if it doesn't then its worth a try. Thats how Samael got so high on my list, not afraid of experimenting. |
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Post by pattentank24 on Oct 22, 2004 13:31:23 GMT -5
#22 Depeche Mode
Dave,Martin began when I was 2 but their music has endured my lifetime from that first glance at the "Enjoy the Silence" video I was struck how different they sounded from the punk/rap mix tapes I listened to
I didn't own anything by DM until I was 20 working at a used record store I couldn't stop listening to to the Singles 86-98 I wanted to hear the albums,most of the girls I dated had a link to at least one DM song.
The main Reason they make the list is during the longest relationship I've had we sat in the apartments living our lives with different DM albums playing in the background during routine tasks,bedtime,parties(even my current girlfriend has an appreciation for DM on a weekend out)
So many of those singles connect to a certain girl I've dated. But the first true love will always bring me back to "Home" as our song.
The music still sounds vital and the influence can't be overstated and if only due to a romantic bond it makes this list
Depeche Mode
1980-(although some think Exciter was the last one)
Favorite Song
"Home"(Ultra)
Favorite Album
Black Celebration(Violator always gets the love)
# Times Seen Live
1-Depeche Mode
1-Dave Gahan(solo,x-girlfriend forced me she sucked)
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Post by strawman on Oct 22, 2004 15:12:02 GMT -5
bands that got me to where I am today..
Jethro Tull
Yeah skipping school to listen to aqualung when that first came out...opened up that whole alternative to the radio music for me
Lou Reed
Singularly the biggest influence on what I have listened to over the years...At last count something like 34 VU and Lou albums.
The Stooges
Oh yeah the perfect stepping stone into punkl...while the rest of the world was listening to The Carpenters and Bee Gees, I had Raw Power..
The Sex Pistols
were everything a wild 17 year opld would ever need...opened the door into a world of music I still cherish today...via these guys I developed an unhealthy obsession with punk rock...of course this led on to a vinyl punk collection that I'm pretty happy to own today!!
The Clean
Where would NZ music be without this band and the Flying Nun Label. I've said it a zillion times but the Flying Nun label is the best indie label in the world and it all began with The Clean and Boodle, Boodle, Boodle...yeah I still have that EP...
and as they say, all the rest can be tarced back to these roots.....
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Post by someone on Oct 25, 2004 22:51:48 GMT -5
Interesting thread.
1. Bjork. One time my boyfriend asked me what was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I said meeting him. Really, finding Bjork is the best thing that ever happened to me, my boyfriend is the second, cause, well, he made me stop making out with foreigners. Bjork makes no such demands.
2. Beck. I'd like to make ugly genius babies with Beck, but that bitch Marissa Ribisi stole my dream.
3. Massive Attack. I go into trances listening to Mezzanine. And if there is a better album to lie in bed high and drinking iced tea to, I've never heard it.
4. Alice In Chains. Fucking hell, what a great band they were. High school for me was all about this band, and the Smashing Pumpkins. AIC beats out the Pumpkins everytime cause Corgan is a whiny bitch.
5. The Smashing Pumpkins. He may be a bitch, but fuck me if there's anyone better at expressing disenchantment so beautifully.
6. Depeche Mode. I'd like to bottle David Gahan's voice and then sell it as an aphrodisiac. But instead of selling it, I'd probably end up rubbing it all over myself and go into Zen-like states of bliss.
7. Morphine. I was supposed to see them in Vegas the first summer I moved here, in 1999. He killed himself a few weeks before that show, and I still feel the loss. Boston's best children.
8. A Tribe Called Quest. Before Q-Tip made crappy solo albums and started dating idiots like Nicole Kidman, he was fucking cooler than you. What a great group they were. I went to a Smokin Grooves concert, Busta and the Fugees and whatnot back in 96, and this is the only group I wanted to see. I ended up getting high during their set and laid on the grass and fell asleep smiling at the sky. I would be pissed that I missed most of their show, but hell, what a great way to fall asleep.
9. INXS. Did you hear about this reality show where they're trying to find a replacement for Michael Hutchence? Fucking disgraceful. Great fucking band.
10. Cat Power. A somewhat recent development, but paradise waits.
11. Phish. I actually don't even really like Phish that much, I've been to a few shows cause I smoked too much when I was a kid, but they're the closest thing to the Dead, who I would be breaking the rules to mention, but they must be mentioned cause they are probably the single most influential band of my youth. And they are the best band to road trip with, it's true. Sweet, sweet Dead.
12. New Order. I like them better than Joy Division, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
13. The Cure. I wish i liked their albums on the whole better than I do, but Bob sure don't fuck up his singles.
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