― Tom Millar (Millar), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Dont like Mooney Suzuki so much.
― David Allen, Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)
anyways...search: "fortune, maltese and the phabulous pallbearers"destroy: mooney susuki and other bands that just wanna "RAWK", 80's revivalist garage-punk.
― ddd, Thursday, 5 December 2002 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― J0hn Darni3ll3 (J0hn Darni3ll3), Thursday, 5 December 2002 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Some earlier revivalists I liked: Holly Golightly, Subsonics, Creeps, RFTC, some JSBX, Fleshtones.
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)
If he comes out in favor of BRMC, he officially has balls proportional to those of a chimpanzee.
Word to the Curt.
P.S. Hey Clarke, you going to Interpol on Friday?
― Tom Millar (Millar), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Millar (Millar), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― maryann (maryann), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)
i'll admit that i still like a few JSBX albums, but only because Curt made it OK.
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― duane, Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Someone said the White Stripes sound way like Led Zep, I think more early Heart. But they're definitely more in tune with the proto-metal arena-blues of the 70s than with the dorks with guitars Garage Band Explosion of the 60s. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Nu-G bands that suck: Vines (pee-ew! their press kit advertised them as Nirvana + Beatles, but they're more like Stone Temple Pilots + Oasis), Hootie & the Blowfish (how did frat-rock get from Louie, Louie to Let Her Cry?), the Walla Bees ( enough already! when these guys go away!), Jennifer Love Hewitt (I seriously doubt her claim that she was an original Dirtbomb)
― Emmet Matheson, Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Emmet Matheson, Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann, Friday, 6 December 2002 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― maryann (maryann), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)
And since no one has namechecked the Brian Jonestown Massacre yet, I'm going to.
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 6 December 2002 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt (cgould), Friday, 6 December 2002 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― minna (minna), Friday, 6 December 2002 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― minna (minna), Friday, 6 December 2002 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― minna (minna), Friday, 6 December 2002 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 December 2002 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― d, Friday, 6 December 2002 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― chad, Sunday, 8 December 2002 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 8 December 2002 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)
My new favorite folks, who I am sure Fritz Wollner will be able to say much about, are the Milky Ways, who are composed of veterans from other Montreal acts. Album's really good, I love the way that both the guitar and vocals have been recorded in particular (Harris Newman helped out, a nice touch).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)
these two bands go great in my rolling stones playlist.
― marbles (marbles), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)
too many suck to mention.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)
― turtledoveDIES!? (turtledoveDIES!), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)
― marbles (marbles), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)
RE:CYHSY ... well their name put me off from even trying to listen to their music.
― turtledoveDIES! (turtledoveDIES!), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)
some may argue that judging a band based on their name (as opposed to thier music) is pretentious and arrogant.
no what I mean ;)
― marbles (marbles), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah, definitely got that feeling from the album, and I think it's quite well recorded too -- not in a too clean way (of course!) but in a way that brings out those qualities you mention.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)
― turtledoveDIES! (turtledoveDIES!), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
― rizzx (Rizz), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)
destroy: the libertines really never did anything for me. i thinkit's due to a certain coldness, or calculation that i hear in the material. i prefer babyshambles. also, the warlocks seemed too contrived and artificial for my tastes. and i find the hives really really boring. the vines are listenable but hardly brilliant.
search: brian jonestown massacre, silly name, brilliant songs. for some reason, it's become fashionable in certain quarters to dis the White Stripes, probably because they somehow won the lottery of popular acclaim. but i still think they're pretty damn good. _De Stijil_ is easily their best album, but they're not very good at releasing bad material. i just wish jack white would take some voice lessons, i think he'd have some killer garage howls in him if he'd learn how to use his diaphragm when he sings. you can't give up hope; after all, bowie learned how to sing for _young americans_, and phil collins finally learned how to carry a song around 1980.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)
lords of alamont = hilariously over the top cliches perhaps.
but damn, they make an amazing noise.
― mark e, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago)