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STOP PLAYING SWEET CAROLINE.
The old Machine Head albums are their best IMO. I actually got to meet them in Toronto back when they were touring Burn My Eyes. Pretty solid guys.Originally Posted by v2freak
That's the problem with metal for me, though...Even the best Machine Head albums/songs can't hang with/compete with their influences, aka Pantera/Sepultura/Slayer.
The Machine Head generation and these new metal generations are 95% watered down versions of their influences, and not even close to as good. Metal is a tough genre to be awesome/elite in.
So Send I You By Grace Made Strong
Oh wow, didn't realize how awesome this thread really was. Seen some great mentions in here.... Just bands I like that people have mentioned...
The Smiths, Joy Division, Agnostic Front, Dead Kennedy's, Circle Jerks, The Pixies, Reagan Youth, and pretty much all the other hardcore bands that have been listed.... A few mentioned I've never heard before but I'll have to check them out.
A few I like I didn't see mentioned....
NOFX, Rancid, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Suicide Machines, and The Cure.
As a side note, saw someone mention The Dollyrots..... I've met Kelly a few times, she's really cool. They're a bit poppy sounding for me, but I still have fun at their shows and they've always been really cool people to talk with.
My favorite band after the Beatles is Blue Oyster Cult. That has a lot to do with Buck Dharma being my favorite guitarist. I got to see them here in Halifax and although Buck is about 65 now he can still bring it. He's like the perfect combination of metal power and jazz fluidity. Works on me like the finest drugs.
Top 5 according to my last.fm (in order): Arctic Monkeys, Beatles, Oasis, The Libertines & The Strokes
I read this entire thread and none of you have mentioned my favorite band which is, of course, only the best band ever and that is, of course, RUSH.
I'm so pleased you mentioned Elvis Costello & The Attractions. They're my #2 favorite band. I'm especially pleased that you mentioned The Attractions and did not just get lazy and type Elvis Costello. Even my friends who I'd grown up with listening to and loving their music would have lazily typed Elvis Costello and would have omitted the great Attractions, thus not giving them the recognition they so fittingly deserve. Much kudos to you!
I highly commend your choice. The Smiths are in my Top Ten. Morrissey is such a brave lyricist and their music, including his voice, is just superb.
I went to his book signing last year in Boston. I actually had a conversation with him. Wicked smart and funny.
But boy he has no love for Bruce Thomas.
The Attractions were incredibly talented. Especially Steve Nason.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
I never understood if the Costello/Thomas feud was real or not. I'd heard a rumor that Costello wrote "How To Be Dumb" about Thomas, but then I was confused because Thomas was invited to play on subsequent Costello albums. So just now I went to the Bruce Thomas Wikipedia page where it contains this: "Costello was persuaded by co-producer Mitchell Froom to invite Thomas to play on the album Brutal Youth" and also this: "Costello has said in interviews with a variety of publications, including the Rocky Mountain News, that the old animosity between himself and Thomas returned. Costello claimed that Thomas deliberately sabotaged some songs onstage, which was the breaking point."
Deliberately sabotaging songs onstage? Ouch! I wish I could hear those performances to which Elvis is referring so I can judge for myself if Bruce did some deliberate sabotaging.
I never got to see The Attractions in person, sadly. I've seen Elvis twice, but without them. Once was at Harvard with just his wheel of songs (and Nick Lowe) and the other was at Great Woods. I have no memory of who his backing band for that show was, but I remember that The Replacements were the opening act and they were drunk. In fact, both times I saw The Replacements they were drunk. Could that be called deliberate sabotage? Haha.
Priorities:
1. Yankees lose
2. Red Sox win
Black Sabbath, Beatles...Queen.........
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Oh yeah.
15 all-time faves:
Beatles
Hendrix
Who
Kinks
Doors
CCR
Led Zep
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
BOC
Robin Trower
ELP
Eagles
Simon & Garfunkel
Odds (Canucks)
WTF.....Zep should have been second on that list..... what was I thinking??
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
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