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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 883 Registered: 05-2005 |
This thread is so obvious its a miracle it hasnt been done before. Ok, to make it really tough you are only allowed one. Mines is The Fall. They are the only band I can think of who have made more than half a dozen albums and I have bought each and every one of them, I have lost count but it must be about 25 now. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 400 Registered: 10-2004 |
This one may result in a lashing or three, but I'd have to go with the Smiths. Trying not to be too obvious here, if you know what I mean. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 662 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes, guess we have to avoid the obvious. Velvet Underground winning out in a coin toss with Roxy Music. | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 56 Registered: 05-2005 |
Apart from the obvious, who would be number one for me, I'd go for "The Mutton Birds". Even though they weren't around for long. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 249 Registered: 07-2005 |
Without being too obvious it is the Go-Betweens for there literate bohemian cinematic music. I've loved them since the early days and have endured when other favourites have diminished. Other contenders: The Smiths The Clash The Fall Rockingbirds Early REM Kinks Jam | ||
| Paul S. Member Username: Prema Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2005 |
The Go-Betweens. While there are many other bands I do like quite a bit, I don't even bother with a top ten. It's the Go-Betweens head and shoulders, miles above the rest. It's not idol worship, it's just that no one else speaks to my heart with the same depth so consistently. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 782 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Smiths | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 243 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'll break it down going back thru the years since I stopped listening to AM radio. Also, the bands had to be a going concern at the time. Fleetwood Mac 1969-70 Allman Brothers Band 1971-75 Marshall Tucker Band 1976 Fleetwood Mac 1977-1978 The Clash 1979-1980 Talking Heads 1981- June of 1983 REM July of 1983-1987 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 1988-91 My Bloody Valentine - 1992 Velocity Girl - 1993 cub - 1994 1995-1999 no favorites that stick out. The Go-Betweens 2000 The Soft Boys 2001-2002 The Go-Betweens 2003-2006 | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 401 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - I love how you went straight from Fleetwood Mac in '77-'78 to the Clash in '79-'80. Classic. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 870 Registered: 03-2006 |
I've tallied all the votes, gotten a ruling from the judges and now the results are finally in: The Kinks | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 668 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes, Michael, I nominate you as our most open-minded poster. I didn't think it was possible to love both the Marshall Tucker Band and My Bloody Valentine in one lifetime! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 614 Registered: 03-2005 |
For me, for many years it would have been the Hollies. If you wonder why on earth I'd choose them I have to say check the b-sides and the albums. And, of course, they lose the plot (like just about everyone else in their musical generation) around 1973 or so. For the past handful of years, it's the Go Betweens. I owe nearly everything to them. In between (mid-80s when I discovered them until about the time of the comparatively dull "Middle Class Revolt"), it was the Fall. I don't have everything of theirs like Kevin does but they probably come in second (after the Hollies) for sheer number of discs in my collection. And I'm still missing things I'd like to have, like "Dragnet." But, again, currently: Go Betweens. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 170 Registered: 11-2004 |
I've got at least 30 Fall records, so it must be them. I even have releases by Adult Net, The Creepers and The Blue Orchids, so I think I am a Fall tragic. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 47 Registered: 05-2005 |
A toss up between The Fall and GBs for me - interesting there seems to be such a cross over between the two. Both great bands who never got the commercial success they deserve - the appeal of the underdog? What is the common ground here? Randy - Give Fall Heads Roll a listen it may well reconvert you to the cause. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 615 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, C Gull, I have "Fall Heads Roll." The Fall album that reconverted me to the cause was "Real New Fall LP." I didn't give up after "Middle Class Revolt," that's just when the Fall ceased to dominate my listening because it looked like they were now doing it by the numbers. It was "Levitate" that made me give up. It's not good news when the obligatory cover is the only good track on the album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 630 Registered: 05-2005 |
When I was 14 it was The Jam. That lasted a few years til I realised how much I loved R.E.M. Then The Go-Betweens took over when R.E.M.'s output headed south in the mid-90s. I'd loved The Go-Betweens before that, but they had not yet been elevated to number 1 in my head. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 253 Registered: 04-2006 |
donat's posting apply to me. so, it seems that the fall is my favourite band, too. what's puzzling me is why we (f)all are here on the gob's board....? i have a favourite band history, too. so here it is: around 1972: suzi quatro around 1973: slade around 1974: deep purple around 1975-1976: can't remember, maybe all a.m.together around 1977: pink floyd around 1978: genesis around: 1979: yes around 1980-1982: the mothers of invention around 1983: joy divison around 1984- 1988: the fall around 1989 - 1990: townes van zandt (i know this isn't a band, but i can't remember what band i loved at that time) around 1991 - 1994: the byrds around 1995 - 2005: beach boys around 2005/2006: the go-betweens now: john fahey (but he isn't a band, too) roughly speaking this could be the bands which were my favourite -really most favourite- band , at that times. surely there were overlappings and surely there were a lot more that i liked really much and could be listed, too. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 619 Registered: 03-2005 |
Why I was so into the Hollies long ago. Forgive the crappy recorded sound, this is a live-in-the-TV-studio thing from 1966. They're covering a Peter,Paul & Mary (!) song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QlAnUnVhSk&mode=related&search= And why the Easybeats should not be forgotten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjx2AQb0ACE Two-guitar interplay, those great falsetto "doot, doot, doot, doot" backing vocals. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 620 Registered: 03-2005 |
And I've always believed it was the Easybeats' version of "River Deep, Mountain High" rather than the original or the Animals' or anyone else's that inspired the Saints' version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku60b65eTO4&mode=related&search= | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 126 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tough one, but probably The Go-Betweens. I (re)read 'Revolution In My Head' recently, a masterly book about the Beatles, which made me think about their impact on popular music again. And they were the first group that I discovered and I still listen to them. But the G-Bs are somehow more 'personal' and I feel more emotionally connected to them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 623 Registered: 03-2005 |
Following my standard pattern I didn't discover Magazine until "After the Fact" was released in '82 or '83. Then I was Magazine full time all the time. Somebody posted this great live clip of "Permafrost" a few days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TAuS7-6Hk&mode=related&search= I remember reading some critic's comment somewhere that Magazine were a lesser copy of Roxy Music. Feh. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 686 Registered: 04-2005 |
Typical critic, making a lazy, dismissive comparison instead of actually listening to something thoughtfully. Magazine was not a copy of Roxy Music. Magazine might have been influenced somewhat by Roxy's sound and lineup, but that's all. Devoto and Ferry are totally different types of lyricists and singers. | ||
| Miriam O'Keeffe Member Username: Miriam Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2006 |
Over the past couple of years, I have developed a deep and abiding love for Belle and Sebastian. The albums can be a bit hit and miss but I think overall, after the G-Bs, they are the band that I listen to the most often. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2006 |
It is extremely interesting to read this thread and see the names that come up, as well as the chronological approach taken in some of these posts. Very telling... As I ruminate on 'Twin Layers of Lightning' I can mention a number of bands whose harmonies have hit the spot since I was a kid who cut my teeth on surf music and the Monkees, while admitting I have no favorite. 1. The Left Banke - 'Walk Away, Renée' 2. The Friends of Distinction - 'Love or Let Me Be Lonely' 3. Strangely, a lot of 1970's music seemed baroque to me at a time I craved romantic. I did not understand at the time what was so compelling about (for example) 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Wish You Were Here' 4. Music did not get interesting for me again until the 1980's. Of course, as is relevant here, the 1980's saw the first flowering of the Go-Betweens, but their music did not fit the canned format in Minneapolis-St. Paul at the time. (Wouldn't it have been fair to hear Robert Forster belt out any of his tunes on the listener-fuelled 'Top 9 at 9?) I liked a lot of what was out there - Howard Jones, Thompson Twins, Cutting Crew, Tears for Fears. At the same time I was studying voice and got into art songs from England and France. At present, though I have also been getting into 1940's music and am finally starting to get it about some rock icons I was too young to appreciate at the time, I have been keen on Thom Yorke, Radiohead, REM, Blur, the Eels and Keane. The Go-Betweens have just found a place in that charmed circle of mine, and I'm awfully glad to have them there. Does anyone other than myself notice any consistencies in our musical tastes? Is bubblegum a guilty pleasure amongst those my age (mid forties)? Is punk the most logical taste amongst us all, as I suspect? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 918 Registered: 05-2005 |
Elizabeth, welcome to the board. I think, like yourself, a lot of us are mid 40s or thereabouts so we certainly lived through punk. Geography has never been my strong point but dont Husker Du and The Replacements come from Minneapolis? If so, did you see these bands at their peak? | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hello, Kevin! Thanks for the welcome. You are quite right - Husker Du, the Replacements, Soul Asylum, Heiruspecs, and a number of other bands (including the one whose name starts with A and is on the tip of my tongue --- !) have come from Minneapolis. Back when I started college the really adventurous people in my school went to a place called 'Uncle Sam's', which later became 'First Avenue'. But then I transferred to another school. I heard a great deal about the 'Mats', though. Paul Westerberg is credited with a movie soundtrack these days. The place to listen for some of the latest MInneapolis local music now streams broadcasts on line (It's the station that I first heard the Go-Betweens on, and unlike some other earlier indie rock stations in M-StP has a signal strong enough to listen to!) Go to www.mpr.org and look for 'The Current'. Some Go-Betweens trivia: I wondered if they ever did play here, and found that in 1999 they did get to Minneapolis, and played at the 400 Bar. That's a little place in the Warehouse District that is under the radar to this day. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 788 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy ta for the Magazine ref on Youtube. I saw Barry Adamson the other eve in London, quite amazing and very unique. They enclred with Thank you for lettin me be mice elf again! Barry was of course on bass, what a bass player! Back to Nature from the Magazine album Secondhand Daylight remains one of my fave bass lines of all time, along with a similar riff, Barbarism begins at the home by Andy Rourke of The Smiths. oh, and of course, Chic - Good Times! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 638 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence, the only Barry Adamson solo I ever heard was "The Negro Inside Me." I think I only played it a couple of times though I still have it. Any recommendations? |