your top ten favorite bands

dangerbird · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:53 am **Posts:** 427

nice lists

my next ten for the hell of it

11. REM
12. Modest Mouse
13. Disturbed
14. 54.40
15. Pixies
16. Daft Punk
17. Radiohead
18. Tom Cochrane (and red rider)
19. Chilliwack
20. Tom Petty

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 8:56 am

dangerbird Wrote:

nice lists

my next ten for the hell of it

11. REM
12. Modest Mouse
13. Disturbed
14. 54.40
15. Pixies
16. Daft Punk
17. Radiohead
18. Tom Cochrane (and red rider)
19. Chilliwack
20. Tom Petty

Has the board sufficiently redeemed itself now?

Also, Chilliwack?

Timis · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 9:28 am

dangerbird Wrote:

nice lists

my next ten for the hell of it

11. REM
12. Modest Mouse
13. Disturbed
14. 54.40
15. Pixies
16. Daft Punk
17. Radiohead
18. Tom Cochrane (and red rider)
19. Chilliwack
20. Tom Petty

wait.....whaaaa...are you serious?

no guru · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 9:30 am

konstantinl Wrote:

1. Orange Juice
2. Aztec Camera
3. Josef K
4. The Go Betweens
5. Paul Quinn
6. James King & The Lonewolves
7. Fire Engines/Win/Nectarine No.9/Sexual Objects
8. Memphis
9. Vic Godard & The Subway Sect
10. Jock Scott

Dedicated to BeeG and the Bard of Tangiers.

I don't know anything about Paul Quinn or Jock Scott but if they're in the vein of the rest of yr list, I'll check them out.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 2:00 pm

i can't put these in order but...

1. jeff buckley
2. slayer
3. faith no more
4. mclusky
5. jens lekman
6. feist
7. public enemy
8. ghostface killah
9. the kinks
10. dwarves
11. lightning bolt
12. jawbreaker
13. the ramones
14. radiohead
15. dj shadow
16. dan sartain
17. guitar wolf
18. ultramagnetic mc's
19. archers of loaf
20. sam cooke

puma · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 6:08 pm

no particular order, except for #1

radiohead
the verve
joy division
velvet underground
the stones
new order
blur
sonic youth
massive attack
boards of canada

dangerbird · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:53 am **Posts:** 427

DumpJack Wrote:

dangerbird Wrote:

nice lists

my next ten for the hell of it

11. REM
12. Modest Mouse
13. Disturbed
14. 54.40
15. Pixies
16. Daft Punk
17. Radiohead
18. Tom Cochrane (and red rider)
19. Chilliwack
20. Tom Petty

Has the board sufficiently redeemed itself now?

Also, Chilliwack?

definitely, i probably got pissy a little too soon. One reason i wanted to do this thread on this board as theres such a wide range of bands that people choose, very interesting. On my classic rock forum, its so predictable - everybody listing the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, etc.

Yeah Chilliwack has penned some great tracks. Very underrated band. Their albums as a whole arent all that great, but they really have quite a few classic songs.

as for Disturbed, yeap, a metal band with great hooks and interesting lyrics. Im not much into metal, but i admit that some nu metal has clicked with me.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 11:17 am

I'm sorry, I realize this is your thread and all, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

harry · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 11:52 am

Quarterly post by Harry about a lost golden era of music and cultural reproduction:

1. Of course this is an asinine exercise.
2. The construct of "band" has lost power since the 60's and 70'a when a "group" had a kind of implied cultural impact... and was without question a "sum is greater than its parts" reality (keith/mick, john/paul...Steven/Neil/David... ). The 80's post-punk enviroment became a front person backed by a band, and the 90's saw it all mostly devolve into "brand." (With exceptions like Pearl Jam...et.al.) The synergy of mixed members was the vehicle that carried the sound, the import, the impact of the "group" before devolution. The Who are the great example...each of the four were crucial to it being the Who and potentiated all of the other three exponentially.
3. As Dump Jack points out, a single singer is not a group. One usually call Billie Holiday or Jeff Buckly, oh, I don't know, an artist.

Ok, now I'll get more coffee. Sorry, yesterday was a hugely exhausting day except for the Ariza steal.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 12:21 pm

When people say "name your favorite bands" I generally take that as a call to "name your favorite artists", solo included, especially when that is conducive with the example given at the start.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 12:23 pm

Yeah, I don't think we're chained to the strict definition of "group" or "band" here. But if semantics is yer thing, go ahead.

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 12:38 pm

dangerbird Wrote:

DumpJack Wrote:

dangerbird Wrote:

nice lists

my next ten for the hell of it

11. REM
12. Modest Mouse
13. Disturbed
14. 54.40
15. Pixies
16. Daft Punk
17. Radiohead
18. Tom Cochrane (and red rider)
19. Chilliwack
20. Tom Petty

Has the board sufficiently redeemed itself now?

Also, Chilliwack?

as for Disturbed, yeap, a metal band with great hooks and interesting lyrics.

lol

i can definitely tell you're not into metal.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

probably

King Crimson
Beatles
Guided by Voices
Pixies
Sonic Youth
David Bowie
Frank Zappa
Yes
The Jam
KISS

toots · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 1:45 pm

harry Wrote:

Qu the 60's and 70'a when a "group" had a kind of implied cultural impact... and was without question a "sum is greater than its parts" reality (keith/mick, john/paul...Steven/Neil/David... ). The 80's post-punk enviroment became a front person backed by a band, and the 90's saw it all mostly devolve into "brand." (With exceptions like Pearl Jam...et.al.) The synergy of mixed members was the vehicle that carried the sound, the import, the impact of the "group" before devolution. The Who are the great example...each of the four were crucial to it being the Who and potentiated all of the other three exponentially.

this is a really interesting point

berliner · **Joined:** Fri May 09, 2008 7:00 pm **Posts:** 1516

maybe

king crimson
dismemberment plan
karate
deus ex machina
kraan
soundgarden
area
trans am
pearl jam
radiohead

toots · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 2:23 pm

those with the faucets continually on intrigue me the most, for a variety of reasons. i define my most admired artists more on prolificacy, and less on which artists are technically or intuitively "good" (a gauge which is always in flux and tends to depend on an ever-dynamic set of parameters).

while fulling expecting a slag on quality control, here are my tops in no particular order:

mark e. smith
bob dylan
hasil adkins
frank zappa
johnny cash
billy childish
jim o'rourke
queen
rolling stones
jandek (flame on, board)

i'm sure i'm missing some that are more prolific, but they all escape me right now

edit: robert pollard should probably be on there somewhere

paper · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 2:49 pm

(including artists)

Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
De La Soul
Built to Spill
Pavement
The Beatles
Otis Redding
CCR
DJ Shadow
Outkast

no guru · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 3:10 pm

toots and the midols Wrote:

billy childish

If I had more Headcoats/Childish I'd probably be here as well.

And I just realized I actually listen to Young Fresh Fellows more than the ten that were on my list.

toots · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 3:12 pm

he's released so much material in so many disciplines...i salute

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

no guru Wrote:

toots and the midols Wrote:

billy childish

If I had more Headcoats/Childish I'd probably be here as well.

How many Childish tenners would you have to make to give people a taste?

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