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The envelope please…
And the winner is:
Rush!
Runner-up:
The Who
Honorable Mention:
Tool, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Beatles, Graham Parker, Led Zeppelin, The Stones, ELP, Montrose, AC/DC
-Rav
Two way tie, depending on my mood: Red Snapper or The Verve.
Honourable mentions: The Charlatans, Air, The Tindersticks, The Stone Roses, The Rolling Stones (early).
Concrete Blonde
Powerful, beautiful music. It somehow seems to drill directly to the emotional centres of my brain. They play – I feel. There’s nothing in between.
And man, can Johnette Napolitano sing. That voice is incredible. Deep and soulful and earthy and rich, whether it’s a whisper or a growl or gut-wrenching, soaring cry.
(And I just found out they’ve reformed and are releasing a new album, Group Thereapy, in January. Woohoo!!! I’m nearly beside myself. Dear god I hope they tour Australia!)
Fuel is good. Green Day, Offspring, No Doubt…hm, Staind. Hm…can’t choose…getting into AFI, thanks to ARose…uh, Sum-41 and Blink 182 make me smile, Stone Temple Pilots and Alice in Chains and Dust for Life.
Then again, Nickelback has that great new song…oh, and System of a Down! God, how could I forget Linkin Park?
[sub]Yes, I could go on like this all day[/sub]
They sound pretty interesting. Any suggestions for songs I could download?
My favorite favorites have both disbanded: Oingo Boingo and Dead Can Dance.
Well, you could probably get it from a store like Best Buy, or any other retailer that normally carries SP albums. The actual cd is a remastered recording of 14 songs that they did live at the Doomsday Festival in Germany in the summer of 2000. This was the 1st time Ogre and Cey worked together or even peformed live together since the Grottel’s death and the Process. The production is top notch, and some of the songs have a totally differnt feel, like Deep Down Trauma Hounds, i’d highly recommend gettin it if you’re an SP fan. It’s a lot like Ain’t It Dead Yet, but with higher production values and a different set of songs.
I liked Charlie’s Family, but i LOVED Furnace and Eyes of Stanley Pain, simply amazing pieces of “music”. Oh, and you should also invest in gettin the new Cevin Cey disk, Ghost in each room…just sublime shtuff. Oh hell, might as well get the Ohgr cd as well. I’m obsessed with anything SP related, as you could so obviously tell…
The best rock and roll band of the last 20 years was the Afghan Whigs. Unfortunately, they ceased to be about a year ago…
So now it’s the Catherine Wheel.
Some recommendations on Concrete Blonde songs for Diesel:
Bloodletting (the Vampire Song)
Tomorrow, Wendy
Mexican Moon
Heal It Up
Jarbabyj, you’re not alone, Rammstein kicks major ass. Gotta love the “Herzeleid” album.
But if I had to pick my all time favorite, it would have to be Faith No More. Mike Patton can sing any style of music known to man and he can sing it well. What a range of talent.
I really really really loved Faith No More, and before Rammstein they were one of my faves, but I finally got to go backstage with Faith and let me say this:
Mike Patton is a total PRICK. The biggest jerk I’ve ever met. And not to me, but to other fans who were just kids and begging for autographs. They thought he was god and he treated them like shit.
What I’ve always said about Rammstein is that they’re scary and mean looking on stage, but total and complete, huggy, smiley gentlemen in person.
That’s the difference between them and other bands. IMHO
jarbaby
I just ordered the album today, actually. On oysterhead.com, though, they have the song “Mr. Oysterhead” available for download, and some samples of others, and some videos of a concert they did. I love what I hear so far. I’ve not listened to much Phish yet, so I can’t really make comparisons there. Claypool does do a lot of the singing, though, so even though he doesn’t go completely nuts on the bass (at least the stuff I heard) the music’s got quite a bit of his flavor. Should be a fun concert, and Drums and Tuba is opening, which is also a treat.
Do I? Jeez, hold me back! I’d probably try:
Carry Me Away
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Tomorrow Wendy
Joey
I Don’t Need a Hero
Little Wing
Rain
Love is a Blind Ambition
Still in Hollywood
Little Conversations
Oh, I could go on and on and on and…
Have you ever heard of the Avalanches? I think they’re out of Australia. They have this sort of seventies retro, silly, yet good beats sound (hmmmm…). I will check out Red Snapper, I seem to think I have heard of them before - thanks!
What are they like? Pop, rock, rap, what? I’ve never heard of any band out of Australia but Savage Garden (ugh) and I think AC/DC is to. Well, anyway, can anyone recommend
any bands for me that are like FUEL? I don’t know where to look? Anyone?
Ugh, not another typo. I didn’t mean to skip a line there. I guess you could call me a prefectionist (that’s spelled right isn’t it?).
Nickleback
Default
Finger Eleven
Hum
Live
I can’t answer for the others, but yes, I’m a boy. I’ve been into Polly Jean for years.
Actually, I’ve got a thing for girl bands and singers.
Luscious Jackson, Slater Kinney, Hole, The Breeders. Love 'em all.
And I just heard here that Concrete Blonde has a new disk coming out. That’s so freaking cool!
If I had to go with my all-time fave, it would have to be Oasis. The others are, in no particular order:
Travis (going to see them in Stuttgart in November, yeah!)
Stone Roses
The Who
Blur
Manic Street Preachers
Steve Vai (concert also in November, also Stuttgart)
Joe Satriani
B’z (awesome Japanese rock)
… and a few others, mostly classic or alternative rock.
As to the post where I did the little number thing with my age, that was an evil prank pulled on me by my sister(I’ll get her for this). She messed with the numbers I had written before I submitted that post while I was taking out the garbage. The numbers are incorrect. I am 13 not 12.
Thanks for the suggestions, Diesel! I’ll look into those groups.