bands you would fight to defend...

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...if necessary. I mean, physically fight. I'm talking Phil Spector style gunpoint action here. Real passion.

I say:
Royal Trux ("even Thank You?" ESPECIALLY Thank You!)
The Band, and
Siamese Dream.

Let the violence begin

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)

you mean defend the people in them -like would Ned take a bullet for Billy Corgan- or do you mean to defend their honor? Cuz I ain't taking punches just cuz somebody doesn't LIKE an album (their loss). I was clotheslined in elementary school for liking REM, so I've already done that shit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

none. they can defend their own darn selves. unless of course i was going out with one of the members, in which case....

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha ha - no i mean defend the honor of. I mean, I'm not about to pick up Robbie Robertson's personal slack, that's for damn sure - i'm surprised that fucker ain't been assasinated yet!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

casiotone for the painfully alone

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 March 2003 02:59 (twenty-three years ago)

None, not a single one.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

casiotone for the painfully alone
they totally need defense.

six fingered sattelite.

i'm constantly defending NIN and they might be giants to my friends. it all relates back to my D&D days. i swear thats the reason.

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

yuck to both of those bands, though I went thru a VERY brief Flood period in high school - friends of mine made Birdhouse in your Soul their wedding song - that was cute. But to hell with every quirk-rock band that has ever existed. ween to danielson - all lame.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Mindflayer and Black Masks For Secrecy (partially 'cause their my friends and partially 'cause their music is fantastic; album coming out sometime later this year!)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 6 March 2003 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)

brock k,
put 'em up.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 March 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i will mercilessly and cheerfully pummel anyone who disses casiotone for the painfully alone or, more realistically, get someone bigger and crazier to do it for me.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 6 March 2003 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

lauren and i will take on the whole lot of you.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 March 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Need you really ask....?

http://music.dartmouth.edu/~dupras/kj/kjgold.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I stopped feeling the desire to fight for the honor of bands when I was 12.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

(The last musician I did get into a fight over was Michael Jackson. OH THE IRONY.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I think most of my friends are too open-minded, shy, or both, to ever give me shit about my tastes. On ILM, I tried once to defend U2, but it was my first post, and I didn't know what I was talking about. Needless to say, I failed.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

bogshed / the fucking champs

― bob snoom, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I got into enough fistfights in high school about music. I'm not about to go down that road again.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably November's Doom or Catalyst, since the band members are friends of mine. I wouldn't fight for any band just because I liked their music.

-
Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I fought with my girlfriend about Bruce Springsteen, and ended up hitting a road sign with my jacket and scaring her a lot. Now that she's my wife, we've squared off about Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, and a lot of dirtbag 70s music.

The poor dear.

― Neudonym, Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I am to pasifist to fight, but I was extremely pissed in the mid 90s when somebody attacked Britpop or some of the early 90s (Crowded House, Lightning Seeds) melodic pop pioneers.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I stopped feeling the desire to fight for the honor of bands when I was 12.

Sorry, Dan, but WORLD'S MOST BORING AND PIOUS ANSWER EVER!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I have got in physical fights about bands before.

There are quite a lot, actually... Spacemen 3 being the most obvious answer. I've nearly come to blows over being unashamed of my love of Blur, as well.

But more often I get in physical fights saying things lik3e "The Strokes suck big hairy moosecock and you KNOW IT!!!"

― kate, Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't defend someone I didn't know. I have defended other people I know in bands not about whether their music is any good, but about vicious rumours I've seen people spread (mostly on the internet).

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in grade school, wars were practically waged over the arguable merits of Kiss, and many hands were lost.

Simillarly, being a a fan of Devo often came with a price.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

.... i've typed and erased at least half-dozen different names but the only that resonates on it's own is Doc Watson.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

like would Ned take a bullet for Billy Corgan

Hardly. Dan's answer may be pious but it is also accurate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I would fight Shania Twain (in a pool of jello) to defend the Ramones.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"Simillarly, being a a fan of Devo often came with a price."

They are the band that led to the above-referenced fistfights. In the 1980s, "Devo" was often the insult of choice by jocks who were looking to beat up punks. Or so it was in American high schools.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

(used as in "Hey, Devo! Hey, punk rock faggot!")

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The other good Rollins line about defending bands/musicians was when the LA riots were going on and some guys wanted him to help defend a Tower Records store from looters, and he said (paraphrasing) "you want me to protect the store - for Morrissey? FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!" A friend of mine with a crazy mean streak made a girl cry by telling her Robert Smith was fat. Her comeback was "Yeah, well Morrissey's a fag!", which I thought was just about the most ridiculous argument I've ever witnessed. When I was in grade 8 I was a huge Rush fan. These guys in my class (who were huge Twisted Sister fans!) said Rush sucked because they didn't have any good guitar solos in their songs, so I went home that night and made a tape of every good Alex Lifeson solo up to that point (Power Windows). They didn't care.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as physically defending a band goes, I guess I would have to know them personally for me to care enough to fight for them.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't physically fight someone over bands/music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

defnding the honor?

it depends on my mood and whether I'm up for it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually literally almost got into a drunken brawl over Fishbone about six months ago; while I'm used to standing up for them what with their being criminally overlooked and underappreciated, when this dude called them "yard monkey fucks" as well as claiming they were "trying to steal white people's music", it was all I could do to scream in his face at the top of my lungs and leave with dozens of people staring at me so as NOT to slam my pool-stick upside his head and go to jail that night.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

What's funny is that I can't imagine ever getting in a fight defending my OWN BAND; and people have said some offensive shit about us ("you guys just take everything that's wrong with music and shove it together into one big trendy pile of shit" fr'instance.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what's your band?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

We're called Green Theory. It's 99.999999999999% likely you've never heard of us. :D

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

do you agree with what they say? I hate what people say about my band too- being a critic, I hate lazy journalism - like, ever since that goddam commercial, everyone with an acoustic guitar sounds like Nick Drake. Pah! and naturally, we have a pretty girl up front and occasionally use "fake drums", so voila - Portishead. I wish I could write my own press. even when it's good - it's bad.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, I've sorta learned to accept comparisons I don't appreciate.

Like, most people who hear us think I (the vocalist) sound like Eminem; maybe it's just 'cause my voice has obviously honkyriffic inflections, and 'cause I'm kinda creative with my rhythm/meter. Personally, I've never been much of a fan of the dude's stuff, in some places actually very extremely irked and bothered by it (and not in a way I find aesthetically pleasing like with, say, Mr. Bungle). At the same time, I've learned to find something to appreciate about the comparison; y'know, since (here's the shallow nickalicious :D) he's so popular these days, maybe the comparison will get people to listen when they wouldn't have before.

I mean, damn, I've had people say I sound like a rappin' Weird Al, after that, I'm cool with just about ANY comparison!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

wow.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I promise it's really not as bad as it sounds. :D

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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