The UK Chameleons, right? A college-era band for me. I used to really love them. This was before we even had shoegaze as a known genre - these guys and the Cocteaus are sometimes credited as originators. Particularly liked Strange Times, the 2xLP version with the second slab being more of an EP. Just as overlooked as Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness, in this country anyway. I once had a Brotby Paganizer
The greatest topical punk explosion always seemed (to me, anyway) directly related to the Reagan era. When George W squeezed in, I thought we'd have another era of topical folk-slash-hardcore-slash-whatever. But maybe the unemployment factor is the component? Maybe those bands just get ignored these days outside of Bad Religion, NOFX and grrl fokies? Or is it yet to come?by Paganizer
The US OUT OF OUR HEADS with the fuzzbox-y Have Mercy or the UK with the unedited Under Assistant?by Paganizer
Now that Loveless is more than 10 years old and downloading/IPods have changed the way we listen to music, what are the best bands that have released music since 1995? BAD RELIGION BADLY DRAWN BOY BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB BUILT TO SPILL GUIDED BY VOICES INTERPOL MOUNTAIN GOATS NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL OASIS (closet favorite) PAVEMENT RADIOHEAD SEBADOH SHINS SLEATER-KINNEY SONIC YOUTH SPIRITUALIZEDby Paganizer
I assume you've asked directly... roky@erickson.comby Paganizer
Review Sonic Youth's Year Punk Broke video for Courtney's place. Post Edited (09-18-12 15:51)by Paganizer
1. What were the best releases of 2003 (Grammys need not apply)? 2. Most anticipated release of 04/05?by Paganizer
You can't fire me, I quit. And I'm taking Bardo Pond & Rapeman with me!by Paganizer
Last I heard, a carpenter and chef in Minn and keeps in touch with Greg Norton and Steve Albini.by Paganizer
89. ASHTRAY BOY - The Honeymoon Suite 89. DEAD KENNEDYS - Fresh Fruit 89. WEDDING PRESENT - Seamonsters 89. BUILT TO SPILL - Perfect from Now On 89. SEBADOH - Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock 89. COCTEAU TWINS - Heaven or Las Vegas 89. VERSUS - The Stars are Insane 89. RANCID - Out Come the Wolves 89. BAD RELIGION - Against the Grain Post Edited (09-18-04 16:13)by Paganizer
Rhett - their mystique grew in part to the mythical experience of their live show. RHead on the Pablo Honey tour and now have little relationship. So few UK bands can come here and build in this way without pandering their integrity. It's curious that this band turned their back on their only hit that would have appeared to be a mainstream direction (Creep was international and in MTV rotatiby Paganizer
I definitely see the connection between the Vulg's and the R-head, but then, I coulda swore that HOLE (aside from the obvious songwriting connection) ripped off COME.by Paganizer
Steve, that's a list of office favorites...by Paganizer
It was OK Computer that put them over the top. Spin that one and let it grow. Pablo Honey was a passing LP (imo); the Bends was nominally better but OKC was a watershed. I daresay it will be regarded as one of a few 90's definitive albums a decade hence....Thom Yorke is mystique-ISH...but, yes, to a certain extent they were right place/right time, the public wanted a foppish cover boy, etc.by Paganizer
This aligns with Gray's 'Last Gang in Town'. Which, though it didn't say this, gave me the impression that imploding was the only possible outcome. The Clash was one of the fastest/most intense RnR stories...5 LP sides and 2 EPs in just over 1 year, for example, doesn't help sanity. Some now say that the huge misstep that was Cut the Crap was also Rhodes' handiwork..by Paganizer
Laurie Anderson - Big Science Bad Religion - No Control Black Flag - Damaged (side 2 in particular) Mentors - Live (or any) Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream Public Image, LTD. - Metal Can/Second Edition Meat Puppets - In a Car/1st LP Throbbing Gristle - (any) Damned - Damned Damned Damned (and of course, most twangy country or rap) ...Thisby Paganizer
It may be too early to know who will have the longest influence from this decade. I understand how these bands influenced your tastes beyond a doubt as they have mine. I don't understand how REM or Nirvana were influential and not mainstream. Nirvana was derivative and claimed to be. They influenced the boardrooms and a flood of contracts but not music itself. REM were somewhat original on tby Paganizer
It's a viable list, for sure but you may have to defend the Beach Boys because of their 70's live career onwards and their catalogu as a whole aside from Smile, Pet Sounds. Christi wasn't open?by Paganizer
Hmmm...the White Riot tour...the lineup was infamous but only after the fact. Seems like people who were there didn't think they were good shows aside fom the short cultural relevance (though that counts cuz with all live experiences, u 'had to be there'). That's one strange thing about this wish list - so many bands that seem good now were not good live at the time while theby Paganizer
So, conversely, if a band blows LIVE bears wouldn't that make them recommendable? Bauhaus were certainly influential particularly in the world of goth. No offense to the better half of the species but I recall a largely female fanbase. Not only do many prefer Murphy's solo work, I prefer L&R. After Bela Lugosi's Dead was any new terrain covered? When you chuck your E-bow, drivby Paganizer
Actually, I think for an album to be defined as 'classic' it HAS to contain material that unravels over multiple listenings and a production that supports that effect.by Paganizer
And we love you loving them, Blasmo... I'd forgotten about Mitch Easter's Big Plans so I got it out. I prefer this album to anything REM did and you can really hear his influence as their producer, designer, confidant. Though it may be slightly dated and sugary, I feel he was that era's greated producer. Right up there with Albini. On that tour I found Mitch very personable - evenby Paganizer
Steve, which band do you prefer at the top of the 90's list when NOT drinking an Irish beer?by Paganizer
Michaels list reveals what would happen if people took the list topic seriously/literally rather than as a compilation with a movie title attached. As for the BBC poll, what horrors would result if you asked the readers of, say, PEOPLE magazine to peruse their album collection and vote on the best albums that were somehow associated with the movie industry?by Paganizer
Floyd - now that list was ECLECTIC (and great)!by Paganizer
Listing songs about heroin. This has always been a rock fascination. Possibly because when you sit down to write a song it lends itself nicely to double entendre as well as having a blues-backed legacy that goes back many decades. And probably a little bit from experience? There are hundreds in our pop lexicon. Just about anything where 'she' can be interpreted as more than a female, oby Paganizer
T.V eye, according to the band, is Tight Vagina and refers to the feeling that camel toe has captivated enough of your attention that it is staring back. (heh-heh...the frickin' Stooges, man!) The above song is about heroin beyond a doubt. I'll do a post for fun...by Paganizer
or...how about the current 'woman's product' commercial that uses the La's heroin song 'there she goes again' - hilarious! OR the multitude of commercial that use Lust For Life and edit right before the 'liqour and drugs...sex machine...strip tease' part? (to wax philosophical: Is it satisfying to have our culture represented by our peers who are now infiltby Paganizer
They did an afternoon festival in our civic center park (for free) a couple years back - I gotta say it floated like a rock. But then, it probably wan't their best venue situation. A couple years before that, they did three nights in local rock venues where they ripped through their first few albums in original track order- The ideal way to see ths band.by Paganizer
Out of curiosity, do you have Devo's 1st 3 (Be Stiff, Q:Are We Not Men, Duty Now for the Future)? or Cheap trick's first 3?by Paganizer
