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Who Is Yr Favorite Band?

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Jack Denfeld

00:35 / 24.10.02

I have to assume this has been asked before, but times change, as do people's taste. Now I'm not asking for a million Beatles or Rolling Stones responses, just your favorite band personally, regardless of their influence or lack thereof on the cultural and or music scene.
I'll go 1st.

My favorite band is Social Distortion. A punk band out of California who started out punk and added a little bit of country influence over time. In terms of punk rock signifigance, there's probably not a lot. Mike Ness sings more of heartbreak and drinking and drugs, rather than taking on the government, or changing the status quo. Still it sounds good to me, and Social Distortion is my favorite band.

spidervirus

00:49 / 24.10.02

Nine inch nails... the effort reznor puts into his albums are worth a five year wait. i pick nin because i have a long history of listening to that band and well, because the music is just so goddamned good. its just one of those bands that have stood the test of time throughout all of my changing musical tastes, and haven't gotten that "i can't believe i used to listen to this shit" feelings.

03:27 / 24.10.02

The Dead Fucking Kennedys.
Jello Biafra's Ginsu sharp wit, and the stealth bomber-esque precision in targetting social and political ills set to the tune of East Bay Ray's haunting 1950's drive in movie surf tone, Klaus Flouride's quirky, catchy bass lines and Peligro's solid as a fucking herd of raging buffalo drumming.
Possibly the most dangerous band ever.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:50 / 24.10.02

Hmmm... it's tricky. Occasionally I'd say Nine Inch Nails (actually quite often- not a single shit track, hence the 5-year waits spidervirus mentions), occasionally New Model Army (just because their songs ALWAYS make me either cry or feel filled with righteous energy), but the one I keep coming back to is...

Joy Division. Stripped-down yet epic. Clinical yet rocking. Almost mechanical in their precision, but for the most part, a traditional band line-up sounding so unlike one. And creators of many a classic song. (I dunno.. maybe it's the time of year. Just as winter starts, I alway feel the urge to listen to "Closer". And whenever I do, I'm reminded of JUST. HOW. FUCKING. GOOD. Joy Division were.)

I love 'em. And if a band's WORST song is something as beautiful as "Love Will Tear Us Apart"... whoah.

that

08:59 / 24.10.02

Not a band. Does it have to be a band? It's pretty damn close between three singer/songwriters - Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos and Diamanda Galas. Ultimately though, Tori Amos gets it. Beautiful, beautiful music - such a talented and creative pianist. And her lyrics just really strike a chord with me. And she seems lovely, too.

The Natural Way

09:31 / 24.10.02

Jonathan Richman, probably. I never really get sick of him. It's his sheer, irony-be-damned, earnestness and his balls-out willingness to expose himself and make himself vunerable. And then there's the "bearded weird guy in his toga.." and "...in the next bar things were laissez Faire..." chortle-stuff that always makes me piss meself.

And his insistence that the Modern Lovers only played Hospitals and Govt. Centres where they'd "make the secretaries feel better, when they're putting all those stamps on letters..."

And those summer feelings.....

Radiohead.

Right now...
British sea power
or Interpol
or Walkmen

Phex: Dorset Doom

12:25 / 24.10.02

I'll take a wild stab at my CD collection and say Atari Teenage Riot. They're truly 'underground' (in a Fugazi sense), attractive if you squint, noisy, politcal without being dull in a Manic-Street-Preachers way. If I may I would also like to 'big up' my 'peeps' in Glassjaw, Fugazi and Pig Destroyer. Seriously.

pointless and uncalled for

13:58 / 24.10.02

The Pixies take this one. They are truly the one band that I am least likely to tire of hearing. Throughout the years I have managed to get so many different things from the music that I just love going back to them. No other music that I have listened to has managed to work on as many levels for me. They are genius, they are simple, they are talented and sadly now they are gone.

The music is everything you want in a driving tune and nothing you don't in a breakup song.

rizla mission

14:18 / 24.10.02

There's no way I can pick one group out of the predictable swirl of Sonic Youth, Ramones, Jesus & Mary Chain, Pavement, Velvet Underground, Pixies, Stooges, Joy Division, Dead Kennedys..

So instead I'll pick something completely unexpected:

The Chicks. Hell Yeh!

No, hang on, who am I fooling, my favourite band's Urusei Yatsura..

Axel Lambert

15:25 / 24.10.02

On the other hand... my greatest live experience ever might be YEAH YEAH YEAHS.

bjacques

16:09 / 24.10.02

Dead Kennedys for me too. I saw them twice--1984 and 1985--two of my top 10 shows. Even discounting all the songs about Reagan and Ollie North, there are plenty of DK (and Jello spinoffs) to match every occasion.

Most fun: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

A man walked up to me and asked "you gotta light, mac?" I said "no, but I've got a large brown overcoat."

Laughing

16:44 / 24.10.02

Rhapsody currently holds the top position on the "My Favorite Bands" list. They're definitely not "important", but they're loud, and fast, and Italian, and their songs are about dragons and trolls and dwarves and magic swords. And that's really all I ask for.

Murray Hamhandler

20:07 / 24.10.02

The Sundays. They are the map of pure pop perfection whose topography perfectly matches my concept thereof. Every second of their recorded output is a drop of the undiluted essence of melancholy beauty. And their name is just about the most appropriate ever w/r/t the relation between band name and the music itself. The Sundays is just peachy as all git out.

reFLUX

20:12 / 24.10.02

i'm glad no one has started to slag off anyones choice, and i hope they don't start.
my favourite band is Pan Sonic, formerly Panasonic. if ya don't know they are 2 guys from Finland. they make minimal electronic music. earlier albums, when there were 3, were more harsh, but of late their music has become more of an exploration of electronically produced sound. i fuckin' lurve them.

Spatula Clarke

22:30 / 24.10.02

I don't do the 'favorite band' thing. Favorite songs, albums, yeah, but every single act screws up somewhere along the line.

Spatula Clarke

22:54 / 24.10.02

Balls. Everything I say nowadays makes me sound like I've got a superiority complex.

Axel Lambert

08:53 / 25.10.02

Varis, I've heard that Pan Sonic is going on a Europe tour with The Liars and Suicide. Do you know anything about that??

doglikesparky

11:52 / 25.10.02

Cardiacs. Been doing it since the late 70's, some 10 or so albums and a multitude of singles later and still nobody's ever heard of them.
No-one ever manages to accurately compare them to anything else, people try (and sometimes come close) but the body of work is so varied that it's damn near impossible. Best I heard was "fairground music played by a punk band."

Even that though, is now wildly inaccurate in view of the most recent stuff. I will never tire of this band.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:21 / 25.10.02

phex- I was tempted to say ATR, too. It was a tricky one.

doglikesparky- I'd never have guessed you were a Cardiacs fan. Unless the name gave it away.

I like the Cardiacs a lot. I've never quite got to the *love* stage- a good friend of mine absolutely worships them. Only ever seen 'em once, but I have to admit, they were excellent. "Fairground music/punk band"- I reckon that's probably as close to an objective description as you can get.

at the scarwash

19:07 / 25.10.02

I'd have to say The Fall. I'll change my mind in ten minutes, but that snarl of near-senseless Manc rambling with those huge drums and the idiot guitar. Yowza, sir. Yowza, I say.

Oh yeah, but my favorite pop single writin' band is Clinic. On a just planet they would be superstars.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

19:53 / 25.10.02

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

19:55 / 25.10.02

I Choose Joy division/New Order. Joy Division were the only truly original U.K. band. New Order wrote the best songs, during their time.

Holds on The Velvet Underground were fuckin ace, as were the Stooges. The V.U. & Nico album is the best. Especially if you come from a small town to a city.

However Joy Division are totally other worldly. The sound of the interzone and shadowland.

The Falcon

14:54 / 28.10.02

Well, I'd plump for Shudder to Think - although, "band" is a bit rockist, and would exclude dance/hip-hop acts (I'm also pretty insanely keen on Wu-Tang Clan in various solo and group outings,) but anyway...

S.T.T. are a sort of campy (they refer to it as their 'fag-rock style',) sweet, razor-nasty rock band, with lots of weird time changes and structures in their songs, and genius/nonsense lyrics, mostly about sex, says.

nutella23

15:19 / 28.10.02

Galaxy 500, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Flying Saucer Attack, stuff in that vein.

Just discovered Atman, from Poland. They may become a new favourite.

Saint Keggers

20:24 / 28.10.02

Faith No More. If not them then Iron Maiden.

Count Zero

20:40 / 28.10.02

Sex Pistols, Beatles, Shins, Joy Division, the Hives to many i know but i love them all.

Laughing

02:43 / 29.10.02

Wait, can I change my answer? I meant to say The Magnetic Fields. Finally found a copy of "69 Love Songs Vol. 2" and I'm loving it. How did I go so long without hearing about this band? I mean, yeah I live in a cave, but I get cable!

Rage

15:35 / 29.10.02

Only one?

I can't do it.

_pin

20:11 / 29.10.02

GYBE! are kinda ace, no? Not just for the music, but for the whole package of the album, and for the whole mythos of them.

I want to cuddle them and take them to see The Powerpuff Girls Movie and buy them ice creams afterwards. I think they'd like that.

rizla mission

12:08 / 30.10.02

Actually I kind of think they'd prefer to watch a grainy black and white film of empty apartment buildings and then eat some organic Tofu..

..but then, maybe that whole business is just a put-on and they're really wild party-lovin' folk.. the whole mystique! We just don't know!

yawn - thing's buddy

14:34 / 30.10.02

far to difficult this one. ut for now its.....

Fila Brazilla

Proof that Hull is not that bad.

Perfectly crafted dance music, which is like jazz, pop and sweets in a wunner.

Funny too.

any album will do (they've done loads) -

trust me.

My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey (not a band, but hey!) and many, many more... it's not really possible to say, as it really depends what mood I'm in at any given time.

I quite like the idea of taking GYBE! to see the Powerpuff Girls movie though... I dunno why, but it just works for me.

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