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Who Is Yr Favorite Band?

  
  

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_pin
12:53 / 31.10.02
Actually, they're now (or will be, upon the release of Yanqui UXO, anyway... ) GY!BE instead of GYBE! ... !
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
13:16 / 31.10.02
Same old same old: Einstürzende Neubauten. No, I cannot shut up about them. No, I don't really appreciate loud bands usually. But it's not noise, really it isn't - it's like a big bouquet of sounds all made with objects old and modern, and the fact that I think the german lyrics sound hella poetic helps. Would I let Blixa Bargeld take me out to dinner? Yes.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:00 / 31.10.02
But then you'd have his toenails to contend with. Eeugh.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:35 / 31.10.02
Pavement is my favorite band, and it's unlikely that I will ever think that they were anything less than the greatest rock band ever.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:55 / 31.10.02
Actually, Jack D, "PJ Harvey" is the name of the band, and Polly Jean Harvey is the name of the woman.
 
 
gergsnickle
00:10 / 01.11.02
Well, I meant to say the American Music Club, but by the time I made it dowwn here, I'm tempted to change my mind to Joy Division/New Order...or maybe The Fall also.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
09:52 / 01.11.02
Rothko, I never contend with toenails on the first date.
 
 
illmatic
10:23 / 01.11.02
I seem to have the equivalent of musical amnesia being unable to recall half the names and identities of the bands that I love dearly... but anyway, i'm goning to leap in and say De La Soul.
Why? First Album- classic, that they've never been able to live down. I don't listen to it often, but whenever I do I'm amazed by the fact I still don't understand the lyrics 14 years later. Then, their 3rd and 4th Lps, 2 of the most underated classics in the history of Hip hop, Buhloone Mindstate and Stakes is High, what can you say?
Dope production, dope lyrics, not a duff track between the two of them and no gangster or macho bullhshit, just straight up wise and wistful observations on life, without making a big deal out of it.

And Nipponese rapping. And Maceo Parker.

Jury's still out on the Art Offical Intelligence trilogy but they did get Chaka Khan on there.

GODDAMN, they good.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
11:12 / 07.11.02
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.

They're playing some heap-long gigs coming up in Helsinki, including one as a silent film soundtrack. I'm definitely going to check it out.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
11:18 / 07.11.02
Quite possibly The Smiths.

The Flaming Lips come second.

And, unexpectedly, we have Elastica in third.

Not really, you goon!
 
 
Sax
14:37 / 07.11.02
Orbital.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:44 / 09.11.02
I am totally obsessed with Neko Case. No fooling.
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
18:20 / 09.11.02
Lets face it. Is ther a more devastating band on the planet than Pantera! I doubt it very much.
 
 
Hellboy
04:58 / 10.11.02
U2 the best band on Earth... "Everything you know us wrong" this sentence is the only rule for me.
 
 
glassonion
11:52 / 10.11.02
dexy's midnight runners. you all think that's stupid, and you're all wrong.
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
21:35 / 10.11.02
Absolutely. Kevin Rowland is a great man. Even that "middle aged bloke doing karaoke in a dress" business had a perverse bloody minded genius to it.

It'd have to be Pulp for me. Wit, style, tunes, unforgettable lyrics; things worth saying, said beautifully; what's more, one of the few bands who can do navel gazing without resorting to petulant angsty bullshit or bleeding heart earnestness. It's no wonder nobody buys their records anymore.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:12 / 11.11.02
I almost am ashamed to say that RUSH is my favorite band because they get slagged all the time by people. They seem to be a beacon to screenwriters and record critics to be used as shorthand for "Loser who loves Star Trek and D&D," but their music is well produced, highly listenable and the lyrics are a notch about the standard love songs that dominate 90% of rock. And fuck it, hearing their stuff can give me goose bumps.

On the end of the extremes, my OTHER favorite band in Killing Joke...pure power and energy with lyrics that speak to me both politically and otherwise.

Could I HAVE two more polar opposite bands to enjoy?
 
 
uncle retrospective
06:39 / 11.11.02
I'm with Sax on Orbital, they're currently the only band that I'm obsessed with. They showed me that dance music wasn't just beepy shite and their gigs have given me some of my best nights out.
I've also discovered that winmx have loads of orbital live gigs on it,
Although I'm kinda worried about how many versions of Satan I now have.
And I heart their version of Dr. Who.

Woo hu! Post 600!
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
07:08 / 11.11.02
i LOVE it when people say RUSH is their favourite band, because i have absolutely no idea why that could be, and for some reason i get a kick out of this situation.
 
 
Helmschmied
18:08 / 11.11.02
GG Allin! Nobody can touch the outlaw scumfuck.

On the other hand, the Geto Boys have always had a special place in my heart :-)
 
 
The Apple-Picker
20:49 / 11.11.02
My favorite band seemed to change quite frequently, but I've been sustainedly loving Guided By Voices, Pavement, and Pulp for quite a while now.
 
 
Cop Killer
16:09 / 21.11.02
The Stooges, without a doubt, is my favorite band. Their worst album (their self-titled debut) is still a fantastic and highly influential, their second album, Funhouse into some sort of a pulp, while at the same time draining you of all your emotions, and their third album, Raw Power, when they became Iggy & the Stooges, is everything that rock'n'roll could ever possibly hope to be, and no one's touched it since then. They also have fantastic bootleg recordings and live stuff, but they broke up before they could suck, so they never sucked, I mean sure, Iggy Pop sucks sometimes, but nothing can touch the Stooges. Except for Motorhead the close second in my favorite band department.
 
 
Badfire
19:42 / 22.11.02
Have to echo the Pixies, Joy Division and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
And add the Teardrop Explodes, The Bunnymen, The Clash, Wire, Alabama Three, Leftfield, just off the top of my head.
But I also have a strange affinity for early electronic bands that were ... well, a bit iffy at times, both lyrically and musically. In that category, include Dalek I Love You, very early Human League, Fad Gadget and Throbbing Gristle.
Any takers?
 
 
The Strobe
22:11 / 22.11.02
Suppose I'd better reply. I love all sorts of music, and haven't seen enough of it live... but sometimes, there are "things" when bands ARE 'your' band. So I guess:

The Smiths (who if I were born ten years earlier WOULD be MY band, no matter what), Arab Strap, Eels, JTQ, Radiohead, DJ Shadow (though he's not really a band now), Elliott Smith (same again).

That list can do no wrong. Have been listening to muchos Strap recently.
Strap rock me.
 
 
Brigade du jour
05:42 / 23.11.02
Favourite band? My one, when I finally get my drum kit and start one.
 
 
gornorft
12:17 / 02.12.02
Lookamy name!
S'a dead giveaway.
KLF.
Magic.
 
 
gridley
20:13 / 03.12.02
all right, assuming I'm not allowed to pick the Beatles, it comes down to Poi Dog Pondering, Belle & Sebastian, or the Beautiful South... errr... hmmmm..... too close to call...
 
 
kaonashi
20:43 / 03.12.02
Pixies, Radiohead, David Bowie.
The Bends particularly sustains me in times of mind numbing pain.
 
 
dj kali_ma
13:06 / 04.12.02
My favorite of all time would honestly have to be Radiohead, which I'm sure makes me five minutes behind and infinitely slaggable, but there you go.

I'm also rather fond of old sk00l Bowie, for some reason.

::aphonia::
 
 
Opalfruit
13:18 / 04.12.02
Favorite band? That's a hard one as there's so much music to discover both past and present. At the moment I'm listening to a lot of Captain Beefheart, Gong and the 13th Floor Elevators. But I have to mention Screaming Trees and Marillion amongst my favorites.

But currently of the new crows I am mostly listening to British Sea Power, Big Sur and Obi.
 
 
The Falcon
22:34 / 04.12.02
Could I HAVE two more polar opposite bands to enjoy?

Yes. You could like Cannibal Corpse and The Backstreet Boys.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
08:50 / 05.12.02
Great to see such a bunch of different bands (well, I suppose they're mostly rock and roll, my choice too).

Two bands are my favourites, also they're the most important to me. I can't split the two things: REM, at least their stuff up to 'Document', their fusion of punk, country and the artiness of Patti Smith and Talking Heads made for my fave band on the planet for a long time. The other band is Sister George, the London Queercore band who were shouty and angry and fun when I first came out, but were about to make a brilliant and more thoughtful second album when they split up.
 
 
wonderful wino
09:22 / 05.12.02
Camper Van Beethoven is dead, long live Cracker. Pearl Jam is probably my most inportant. But yeah Camper Van. For them I curse my eternal self for not being reborn in the West about ten years sooner.

"Well I lost an eye in Mexico
lost two teeth where? I don't know
people see me comin and they move
to the other siiide of the road..."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:19 / 05.12.02
Tiger style.

TIGER STYLE.

That's my way of saying that the Wu-Tang Clan are probably the closest thing I have to a favourite band, in that they've made a greater amount of incredible music than any other group I can think of. Of course I'm sort of cheating here because I'm including several nominally solo projects, but it all falls under the W banner.

"The capital of this rugged slang is Wu-Tang,
Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game."
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:04 / 05.12.02
Yes. You could like Cannibal Corpse and The Backstreet Boys.
They both take the piss mercilessly - how are they so different?

They both rock, at particular moments.

Me, I'm still not pinned down. But Tom Waits, Dirty Three, Crow, The Necks and Charles Mingus can armwrestle for the title.
 
  

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