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Tom Waits - "I work for a travelling circus sideshow, but I've got a heart".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

JSBX - "I am talking about THE BLUES" x1000000

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Squarepusher - "My funk is useless."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew WK/Har Mar Superstar - "LOOK AT ME!"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Madonna: "Is that a bandwagon over there?"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatu: "You like to watch."

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Buckethead: "Genre-hopping uber-fusion shmenre shmopping shmuber-shmusion...LOOK HE'S GOT A BUCKET ON HIS HEAD!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Beastie Boys: "Keepin' it OOOOON to the break of DAAAAAWWWN."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiss: "Merchandising!"

― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this would be about Microsoft Word and Allmusic.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Dannii and Kylie: "Dog chasing a stick"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon- :)

Now THAT's an idea.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

MBV: "to here knows when"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pole : "Nothing to see here".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Cherry: the world is a throbbing musical consciousness.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Chameleons: *swoosh* (approximate sound of digital delay overdrive)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Donnas: HI WE WENT TO POWERCHORD UNIVERSTY -- DID I MENTION WE'RE ALL GIRLS?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie: oh, he sings as well?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Eno: i have ideas and i am proud of it.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck: "The world is a lonely abandoned garage sale."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay-Z: "Hello, I'm Jay-Z."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Wilson - "Hello, I'm...?"

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica: "We're jerks."

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Primus: "Bass solo!"

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

DMX: "I'm NOT a NICE PERSON!"

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Baltimora - apelike

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes: Beer, cigarettes, ennui

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre - Oh yeh? Well try and like THIS!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Kool Keith: "Spanktacular yellow paisley orangutan pelvis girations."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Meatloaf: "Are you gonna finish that?"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Band-a-minute page is no longer?

Bardo Pond: "Check out the pedals we'll use for our next song"
Mars Accelerator: "Check out the pedals we'll use for our next note"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a copy of the band a minute list saved somewhere if you want it.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth: "Give us our pedals back you fuckers"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Underworld 'i am a pilled up alky and this amazing world is all too much'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys are doing a splendid job of continuing the band-a-minute legacy, BTW. Being sincere, here.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraftwerk 'humans are rubbish except when they invent stuff'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

*nickalicious ignorant*

Band-a-Minute wha??

― This (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Boards Of Canada 'remember that place you never went to? remember that feeling you never felt? we do'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Chili Peppers: "Hey young impressionable ladies, here's my genitals!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rage Against The Machine 'man, look what those fucks in the suits have done while you're back is turned'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(ha, RATM crosspost!...stevem clicked 'submit' first)

Tom Morello: "Capitalism is bad, mm'kay? WICKITAWIDDLEEWIDDLEEWROWRWRORRWRAKAKAKAKAKAKAKakakakak...."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

eminem 'i hate my mom but society needs guys like me to cause a stir by pointing out ironies'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

rotterdam termination source 'poing'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Chumbawumba: "Oi Oi Riddim Riddim.. Ah fuck it, here's an ice cream bar... but with ANARCHY VANILLA! FOOLED YA!"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles 'hey have u heard that chuck berry/hey have you heard those beach boys/hey have you heard that pink floyd/hey have you heard that phil spector'

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus & Mary Chain - "distortion, Phil Spector, heroin"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred Durst: "[bleep] my [bleep] you [bleep]ing [bleeps], fo real do, [bleep]."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Low: "Would you mind keeping it down? Thanks."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present/Cinerama - "I'm mad that she's dating someone else"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigur Ros: "Mmmmmmmm, shrooooooooms."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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Ha, I wrote that Jay-Z one back when I didn't like him that much. Now that I'm ultra-belatedly on his nuts it works even better.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

desaparecidos: grrr whine i hate suburbia

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereolab: Marxism can be beautiful.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ivy - Je pense que cette mère de Stacy est très bonne regarder.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the echo of "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" intentional?

― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz Phair:

I feel sad now
I will let you
Sorry I teased you
I will let you
This time I mean it
I wil1 let you
Anything you want
You can trust me
I really want to
You can trust me
How would you like it
You can trust me

Sucker.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

cat power: *sigh*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

BUMP

Editors: We sound like Interpol

― Shame Shame Shame (Col Tom Blue), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Drive-By Truckers: Redneck music for blue staters

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Three 6 Mafia: "We worship Satan and the Motion Picture Association of America"

― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

RZA: "Have you met my good friend Jim Jarmusch?"

― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aimee Mann - "there really is enough blame to go around"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

MIKE JONES.

― friendship7, Friday, 31 March 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jessica Simpson: Better to keep your mouth open and be known a fool than to close it and add doubt.

― musically (musically), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Rollins band: "i hate the world that i think hates me" (taken from the 1st song in "Life Time").
or:"if you could see the you that i see when i see you seeing me you would see yrself so differently" - complicated? not at all.

― shadows of, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

2nd quote from "Low Self Opinion", rollins band.

― shadows of, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Drake: if you want to succeed even if you don't know how to write songs, kill yrself and wait 20 years"

― somebody put something, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bright Eyes: "By taking pills, I can numb the pain AND have a convenient excuse for being called a genius. Geniuses did pills, right? Fuck Bush!"

DC Talk: "Who are we kidding? Jesus is more than just alright with us."

Ghostface: "Language is pretty cool, eh?" or "Look what I can do!"

The Smiths: "I just FEEL so much."

Kanye West: "Old soul records sound better on 45 RPM than 33."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division: "I tried to get to you./You treat me like this."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle: "This is a concept."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Aimee Mann - Are you done with me yet?

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac: we like catchy melodies and fucking each other.
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), December 15th, 2003.
:)
-- the surface noise (electricsoun...), December 15th, 2003.

(Ok, so that doesn't sum up their entire career. No one sentence could.)
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), December 15th, 2003.

Any sentence would have to involve lots of mirrors and fat mountains of primo coke.

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Simon Le Bon: "I wonder how I can score more groupies. I know! Let's reunite the Fab Five lineup and pretend the '90s never happened!"
Nick Rhodes: "Oh you sad, sad man. Whatever happened to evolution, looking forward? Oh never mind. I'll just go gaze at this Picasso with Warren and Stephen."
Stephen Duffy: "Hey, remember me? I was the band's ORIGINAL lead singer! Simon my arse!"
Andy Wickett: "Hey, remember me? I was not only the band's SECOND lead singer, *I* was the one who performed with them when they recorded their demos! Suck that, Simon!"
Warren Cuccurullo: "No one outside the loyal fan base and Nick appreciated my attempts to bring something novel and new to the group, so I'm going to funnel my extreme dismay via online porn and having my manhood plaster casted."
John Taylor: "I don't know what happened. One day I was happily strolling down Venice Beach and the next I'm in London with Simon staring at me. And with THAT gaze. Where are Gela and Patty?"
Roger Taylor: "Please help me. I'm scared. Someone hold me. Do you have a stuffed sheep doll anywhere?"
Andy Taylor: "Yeah man. Yeah. Man. I look good in these sunglasses. I think I'll keep them on all the time. Ha ha ha, try to stop me! Look at my guitars! I'm a shredder, man."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

David Sylvian: "I hurt, the universe is full of hurt and pain and sadness, and I'm going to sing all about it using whatever native instrumentation I can find."
Steve Jansen: "Mmmm hmmm, brother, sure. I'm listening. Whatever you say."
Mick Karn: "I'm sick of all this talk about sadness, death, demise, and decay. How about some funky bass action?"
Richard Barbieri: "Oh! Let me accent that with some synth! No? I've got more instruments! Take your pick!"
Rob Dean: "..."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: "David, why don't you utilize some of the native instrumentation from my fair and lovely country? And here are some ideas about what you can do with this album. Really, they're lovely!"
Mick Karn: "Yeah, man. Listen to him."
Steve Jansen: "You want me to do the percussion, bro? Serious, here. I can play anything and everything so long as you have to hit it to play it."
Burnt Friedman: "I have this lovely idea, you guys...."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Pearl Jam: "Our only songs are written by Neil Young. The rest is shit"

― Elwyn Chow (I say we take off and nuke the), Monday, 3 April 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

charalambides: "What's that? You're peaking? Quick, hit record and hand me the lap steel."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 3 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

kelly clarkson: "i would like alanis' lyrics better if they weren't so, i dunno... sparse"

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Nicks: I took so much coke I started hallucinating witches and unicorns, and that's not the even the least of my post-feminist appeal.
Lindsay Buckingham: I took so much coke I even started freaking out Stevie Nicks, and that's not even the least of my cult artist appeal.
Christine McVie: Relatively speaking, I was always the sexy but sensible center of the band, and that's not even the least of my rockcrit appeal.
Mick Fleetwood: I have always been out of my fucking gourd, and that's...uh...
John McVie: Who of you did I fuck again?
Jeremy Spencer: Forget Elmore James, I like it missionary style now.
Peter Green: Hey, over here!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

did we do a golden girls/satc comparison with fleetwood mac? did we agree that christine mcvie was bea arthur?

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember us doing it but boy did it ever cross my mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

THERE'S one for the out-of-context thread...

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

John McVie: I don't remember us doing it but boy did it ever cross my mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morrissey - "Will sombody ever love me?"
Saint Etienne - "We're lovely"
Pet Shop Boys - "We don't do summaries of our careers"

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers: Poop as art

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dee's are genius!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 April 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever tried it that way? (I haven't and maybe never will, but I need material) - Suede

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 3 April 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Barclay James Harvest did a perfect description of their music in one song title. The song was called "Poor Man's Moody Blues"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Go-betweens: we like reading books and fucking each other. Actually, these days it's just reading.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ed Kuepper: You're a part of my world yeah, you're the water I urinate in.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kurt Cobain: "I hate myself, I want to die."
Gene Simmons: "I love myself, I want to bang groupies."

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, thanks Tracer! ("Tracey"? Heh.)

Kurt Cobain: "I hate myself, I want to die."
Gene Simmons: "I love myself, I want to bang groupies."

I LOVE THAT. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Mouse on Mars: "Wheep whoop pup pip pip pup... rock? ROCK!"

― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

FLEETWOOD MAC
Lindsey: DON'T TRY IT CUNT
Stevie: CUNT OFF YOU CUNTIN CUNT
Christine: Oh heavens you chaps I'm trying to kip
Mick: Um Ah Yes Boy George Um Ah Four Tops Yes Um Ah What Year Is It Again Sam Um Ah Yes
John: *Out Of Office*

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

haha

― admrl, Friday, 18 April 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

twelve years pass...

This thread is a gem that needs to be revived.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:01 (five years ago)

did you get authorization from Neanderthal?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:58 (five years ago)

Bruno Mars - hasn’t released anything new as he’s deciding carefully whose sound he rip-offs next.

The 1975 - they do not decide carefully whose sound they rip-off next.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:15 (five years ago)

Wizkid: what’s Made in Lagos stays in Lagos

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 09:13 (five years ago)

The XX - their most popular song is the 2 minute instrumental intro to their first album.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 15:04 (five years ago)

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