[ Poll ] Best Board Band

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i don't know enough board bands to make this a real poll.

i only know the spade kitty family of artists and me.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:10 pm

I'm not all that familiar, but I heard a couple Bon Savants songs this weekend that lead me to pick them.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:13 pm

only band Ive seen and heard enough of....continuing to bring the love for COME DOWN.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:14 pm

Parts & Labor
Buried Beds
Bon Savants

FT · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:16 pm

Belleville

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i'm not going to actually make this a poll . . . because of george cloony.

Charli · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:17 pm

Riviera- Derek Phillips and Josh B

OPA! · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:21 pm

I've listened to a good majority of the bands and seen them live and I pick The Bon Savants as the best band with Pole Position a close second.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i've never heard the Bon Savants
it seems like i should.

Charli · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:23 pm

OPA! Wrote:

I've listened to a good majority of the bands and seen them live and I pick The Bon Savants as the best band with Pole Position a close second.

Remind me to leave you out of my will.

shmoo · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:01 pm

Having seen Bon Savants, Come Down, Parts & Labor, and Paper Airplane Pilots live, and eliminating the Bon Savants due to bias, I'd pick Come Down.
Oh, altruism is in the Debutantes. Does that count?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:04 pm

I think I've only heard Riviera and PAP (oh yeah, I did hear a Hop on Pop song on an SP mix).

What do the Bon Savants sound like?

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Who can forget Shambolic Trumpets classic debut album 'Doomed! In! Pantaloons!'.

New EP 'Coconut Fantasy' out soon.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:44 pm

Bon Savants, closely followed by Parts & Labor

KPH · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:17 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I think I've only heard Riviera and PAP (oh yeah, I did hear a Hop on Pop song on an SP mix).

What do the Bon Savants sound like?

We sound like nothing and everything you've ever heard before, all at the same time! That's how concepts-driven we be. Really, we're easily much more accessible than most of the music I tend to listen to, if that helps...

http://www.myspace.com/bonsavants

Thanks for all of the mentions folks - I was under the impression Obner didn't much care for the band. Or maybe it's certain people don't like me much and just transfer that over to disliking the band. Which I can live with.

My vote would've been for Riviera, btw. Them's some good songs...

I like seeing P&L live, mostly because Whiney is the Most Intense Drummer on the East Coast.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:27 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

I'm not all that familiar, but I heard a couple Bon Savants songs this weekend that lead me to pick them.

Just had my first listen. This is the best band I've heard here. I don't think you listed Foo Fighters as an influence (too popular?) but you do kinda sound like Dave at times. That's a good thing.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:35 pm

KPH Wrote:

Thanks for all of the mentions folks - I was under the impression Obner didn't much care for the band. Or maybe it's certain people don't like me much and just transfer that over to disliking the band. Which I can live with.

I am going to attribute my lack of Bon Savants listening to sheer laziness, and a very wrong assumption of what your band would sound like. It wasn't personally dislike at all—I like the KPH, but I don't like Grandaddy, MBV or the Walkmen, much (aren't you a Grandaddy fan?). You're also a bigger fan of Wilco/Tweedy and Wrens than I am, but in hindsight it was an error in judgement on my part. Good stuff here, and I plan on checking out summore.

bort · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:09 pm

should I do a YSI of the CMJ BB Compilation? it's got a good sampling of the bands here, though the tracks are now a few years old...

just let me know...

bort

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:14 pm

Bon Savants

Itching for the album.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

i still have a place in my heart for those german art students
but do like
them bon savants and pap a lot.

robotboy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:51 pm

g.a.s. is great

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:03 am

Elvis Fu Wrote:

I'm not all that familiar, but I heard a couple Bon Savants songs this weekend that lead me to pick them.

They have something to pick up?

I like Paper Airplane Pilots, but you all knew that.

I've seen and own:

Riviera 2x
Paper Airplane Pilots 4x (?)
Hop On Pop (2x + Todd Solo a couple)
Poleposition 1x
Graham Cousens 2x
Olde Style (3/5ths) 2x

I also have heard/ own:
German Art Students
Come Down (both EP's)
Belleville (2 cd's plus demo disc)
Bon Savants (mp3s, and a ton of their outtakes)

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:05 am

"Pick" as in "choose in this poll", Mr. Tim.

I watched KPH's video he posted, and I stumbled across another one on YouTube.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:09 am

I didn't even realize how many bands there were on the board or who the obners are in said bands. I've only recognized a few from this thread and haven't heard one.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:47 am

Elvis Fu Wrote:

"Pick" as in "choose in this poll", Mr. Tim.

I watched KPH's video he posted, and I stumbled across another one on YouTube.

I misread your original post as pick up, instead of pick.
oops

+1

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