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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1994 Registered: 10-2008 |
I was on The Fall website earlier and they had a poll about whether The Fall was your favourite group or not? And I thought that we have discussed favourite albums in all sorts of categories, but I don't think we have ever had a thread about who are our favourite artists. So... My top 20 are, strictly in order, the artists who have affected, touched and inspired me most for the last 40 years. The Fall (by a mile) Joy Division/New Order David Bowie The Smiths The Clash The Velvet Underground Captain Beefheart Burning Spear REM (1983-1986) Dylan Pixies Wire Magazine Husker Du The Replacements Muddy Waters Iggy/Stooges Radiohead Anything Lee Perry touched in the 70's Neil Young/Crazy Horse | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1995 Registered: 10-2008 |
And there was no room for Sonic Youth, Wilco, Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Eno, Talking Heads, PIL, Gene Clarke, The Rolling Stones and Stereolab amongst others, that was bloody hard picking a top 20! On another day some of those would no doubt have squeezed in the list. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1996 Registered: 10-2008 |
Damn! And that little band that are the reason we're all here :-) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 544 Registered: 05-2005 |
in no particular order but Can at number 1: Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Stooges Velvet Underground Captain Beefheart Tim Buckley Joni Mitchell Neil Young Stevie Wonder (to 1976) David Bowie (to 1980) Can Ramones Undertones Birthday Party/Nick Cave The Fall Go-Betweens Felt Stereolab Super Furry Animals The Soundtrack of Our Lives | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2433 Registered: 01-2005 |
In no particular order as well: Robyn Hitchcock REM Talking Heads Gang of Four Go-Betweens Stereolab Bob Dylan The Allman Brothers Band Velvet Underground Neil Young David Roback(The Rain Parade, Opal, Mazzy Star) Kraftwerk Richard and Linda Thompson Gram Parsons Emmylou Harris Steve Earle Wire Blue Rodeo Nick Drake Sandy Denny | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 403 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bob Dylan Neil Young Nick Cave Patti Smith The Beatles Rolling Stones Bowie Richard Thompson Steve Earle Lucinda Williams Johnny Cash The Band Beck Bruce Springsteen Ed Kuepper GBs Paul Weller/Jam The Smiths Wilco Teenage Fanclub The Triffids | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 846 Registered: 05-2005 |
In no particular order... Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles ;) | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 847 Registered: 05-2005 |
No seriously this time... Beatles Byrds Donovan Dylan Church Ride R.E.M. (early anyway) Smiths Go Betweens Triffids Ups and Downs Monkees Moffs David Sylvian Cocteau Twins Julian Cope (early) Crowded House Devo Echo and the Bunnymen Kinks Not much new stuff...guess I must be an old bloke! I guess I'm far more choosy these days. I like an album or 2 of a band but not much more. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 635 Registered: 10-2006 |
No votes for Leonard Cohen yet?? That's a surprise. He'd be high up any list of mine, I'd hate to live without that suave, ironic voice and the crafted wit of his deft, deep-cutting words. Then there would be the Velvets, Smiths and Go-betweens, of course, and I'd have to have Van Morrison in there too, and Lucio Battisti as a grateful nod to the land that nourishes me rather too well, along with fairly new entry Alain Bashung, whose swaggering, gutteral presence in my life is the greatest gift this board has bestowed upon me.Thereafter the list would be a judicious selection of most of what's already been posted, apart from an eccentric excursion to Holland for Focus and Jan Akkerman, who, I know, will appear nowhere else... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 637 Registered: 10-2006 |
And Warren Zevon. For heaven's sake. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2436 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, You have a half dozen that I should have had on my list! Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Warren Zevon are three others as well. Also considered where John Prine, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, My Bloody Valentine, Gillian Welch, Nick Cave, and Bruce Springsteen. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 545 Registered: 05-2005 |
it's a hard one this, I left out Pavement, Gene Clark, Byrds, The Smiths/Morrissey which could have been in, as well as MF Doom (consistently brilliant hip-hop) and when it comes to bands I have been or remain in love with : Talk Talk, Blue Aeroplanes, Soft Hearted Scientists, The Damned.Can I have 30? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 546 Registered: 05-2005 |
and The Monkees | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4828 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens R.E.M. The Jam/Paul Weller The Who The Waterboys The Replacements/Paul Westerberg Ed Kuepper/The Aints/The Saints (first three albums) Yes Blur/Damon Albarn (in his various guises) Pixies Pavement Nick Cave The Triffids Husker Du/Bob Mould (1989-91)/Sugar (1992-93) Microdisney/Fatima Mansions/Cathal Coughlan Johnny Cash Joy Division/New Order Bob Dylan Warren Zevon Neil Young | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 190 Registered: 08-2005 |
Not strictly in order (and not including jazz or classical (Mose Allison, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan... Bach... Glenn Gould): The Go-Betweens The Chills The Beatles The Smiths The Cure Jefferson Airplane Ed Kuepper/Saints REM (early) Belle and Sebastian House of Love Kate Bush Laura Veirs Neil Young Talking Heads Velvet Underground Teardrop Explodes/Julian Cope Crowded House Pretty retro (only Laura Veirs and Belle and Sebastian are contemporary. And yes, the Cure are still going...) and I've got a few spares for later. Geoff, do you like the Beatles? | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beatles The Jam Magazine Scritti Politti Associates Go-Betweens Marc Almond David Sylvian Smiths/Morrissey Suzanne Vega or Aimee Man or Natalie Merchant or Ebtg REM Lloyd Cole Pixies Pale Saints The Sundays Massive Attack Ian Brown Elliott Smith Spoon Robert Gomez | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 313 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not so much women in these lists.. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 548 Registered: 05-2005 |
and all our lists are predominantly white artists | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 549 Registered: 05-2005 |
not suggesting that we get in to demographics or politics. my wife has her own idea of what she thinks most of the users of this board are like. it's worryingly close to a classic serial killer profile though | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 550 Registered: 05-2005 |
and she definitely includes me in that with extreme prejudice! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 638 Registered: 10-2006 |
On the other hand, black women have shown very little interest in me over the years, too. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1998 Registered: 10-2008 |
That might be the funniest line I've ever read on here Stuart! I'm on record here as saying I have very little interest in women artists, especially those who have emerged in the last decade or so. Only three black artists made my list, but I do listen to loads of others. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4829 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two very funny comments from CV and SW. I laughed out loud at both. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2437 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes, funny ones indeed from CV and SW. Kev's comment about having little interest in women artists that have emerged especially in the last decade or so is worth a topic on it's own. I can't think of many great ones in the last decade who could compare to the great ones who emerged two, three or four decades ago. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 519 Registered: 01-2007 |
Elvis Costello ( until recently) Go-Betweens ( pre initial break-up) Tom Waits Smiths REM (pre-document) Bruce Springteen ( upto Tunnel of Love) Neil Young Paul Weller/Jam Bob Dylan JOy Division/NO Nick Cave Bowie Ron Sexsmith Drive-by truckers Richmond Fontaine Kinks | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 520 Registered: 01-2007 |
forgot to mention Xx who i think are really great and fairly recent, that LP came out the saem year as Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver and on looking back holds up really well | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 404 Registered: 02-2007 |
How could I leave Tom Waits out!! In goes Tom and out goes Teenage Fanclub. Also Lou Reed comes in as well. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 405 Registered: 02-2007 |
Am staying with daughter in Melbourne. Just asked son-in-law his list. See if you can pick the difference! Iron Maiden Metallica Cavalera Conspiracy Children of Boredom Megadeth Slayer Dimmuborgir Black Sabbath Eddie Van Halen Alias and the Jams Led Zeppelin Citrus Jam Thats all he gave me. He doesnt listen to the GBs | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 848 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isn't it funny what a younger generation holds as "classic". I guess Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin would be in some lists from members of our generation....but Iron Maiden? Wow. Our parents must have had the same incredulity at us now! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4831 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you'll find it's Children Of Bodom David, a Finnish black metal band. If there are any satanic rituals going on, you'll know why. Goat on the dinner menu is another giveaway. Also Dimmu Borgir is two separate words. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 406 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks for tip Padraig. No goat yet. Had no idea how to spell couple of them, in fact never heard of some. You seem to know quite a lot more than I about the genre. When you're not listening to Paul Weller I can see you headbanging to some Finnish metal band! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2438 Registered: 01-2005 |
Somehow I don't think these folks with Finnish blood would be listening to any Finnish metal band! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLnmA653f 94&feature=related | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4836 Registered: 05-2005 |
My inner teenage metaller still loves to rock out sometimes David. But the grunting style of vocals by most metal bands these days just grates with me. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 408 Registered: 02-2007 |
I am watching a doco with my son inlaw on the history of metal. Going thru the influences of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Hair Metal (abs shite!) then Thrash Metal with Metalica. The role their 1st 3 albums had in redefining the genre etc. I mustve missed that meeting cos I didnt really know any of this! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2000 Registered: 10-2008 |
I detest the music, but the film about Anvil (a Canadian heavy metal band who fell on hard times) is an absolute must see. Its very poignant, and pretty funny, even when its not supposed to be. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4842 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bigged that up here when I got the DVD a few years back. I know you've mentioned it before too Kevin. I watched it three times in two nights when I got it as I was so blown away by it. I watched the film itself, then watched it with one commentary track, then the other commentary track. Unusually, the commentary tracks were great and properly expanded my understanding of the film and its circumstance. I must watch it again. A truly brilliant film. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4843 Registered: 05-2005 |
On searching the word Anvil, I have discovered that I watched it three nights running, rather than thrice in two nights! It was three years and one month ago. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 553 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Quantick writes of The Soundtrack of Our Lives impending split on Quietus 'There's no adequate way to describe The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, but there are several brilliant ones, so here we go. Factually, they're a Swedish rock band who take the good bits of the Rolling Stones – well, the one good bit, that huge sliding 'Jumping Jack Flash' / 'Gimme Shelter' sack of riffs which make any song sound like a volcano trying to get round a tank on a ten lane highway – and give them added melody, intensity and urgency. So that's one. They're also formed from the bilious acidic ashes of Union Carbide Productions, a punk band who made The Clash look like a pub covers act. In their day, UCP broke America. Not in the dull sense of "did well there." They actually broke America. It was their fault. Also? The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are the only band who ever really influenced Oasis. Not The Beatles. Oasis only sounded like The Beatles had The Beatles been a snotty punk rock band under the severe misapprehension that The Stone Roses were any good. Oasis took to Soundtrack like a duck to slaughter. Once Noel Gallagher had heard early Soundtrack songs like 'Infra Riot' and 'Confrontation Camp', he removed all the jangly mod crap from Oasis – causing Liam to cry all over his Sgt Pepper coaster set – and turned them into a solid rock item. Oasis's 'Lyla' is the biggest hit Soundtrack never had. And? The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are arguably – if "arguably" means "obviously" – the greatest rock group of the last 20 years. They're brilliant. You should buy their albums. And you should go and see them. Now. And by now I do mean "now", at Heaven tonight, because it is the last UK show they'll ever do. Soundtrack are jacking it in - or are they? Yes, probably, because they've completed their mission. Which was, essentially, to be a brilliant rock band and split up in 2012. Take note, REM, who forgot to split up and everyone kept wondering when they were going to leave. And take all the notes in the world, U2, who actually died in 1989 but nobody was brave enough to tell them. ' | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2002 Registered: 10-2008 |
Don't mean to piss on your chips James, but in my experience of his writing David Quantick has shit taste in music. He's also a crap writer, and his comedy scripts are about as funny as Bernard Manning. That's in no way trying to denigrade TSOOL (who I have barely heard), just me indulging in a bit of Quantick bashing! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 554 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad to hear you arent dissing the Soundtrack boys Kev, they ascended to Mount Olympus for me last night. I thought that the writing above was both funny and accurate particularly on Oasis and U2. I wasnt aware that he wrote scripts so cant comment or compare with Bernard Manning's artistic output | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 555 Registered: 05-2005 |
keep thinking of artists who I left out so here's another ten : A Tribe Called Quest (should have been in from the start) Pavement The Smiths/Morrissey Byrds/Gene Clark/Gram Parsons Talk Talk Blue Aeroplanes Soft Hearted Scientists Shack/Michael Head The Monkees MF Doom | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2441 Registered: 01-2005 |
I wonder if there are any others here who will pipe in and join me in declaring that they never bought or downloaded anything by Oasis? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 556 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not me as I actually have quite alot of Oasis stuff, I quite like some of their stuff (talk about damning with faint praise) but just dont think they are an important band in the history of modern rock music. The first two albums have some really good songs | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 557 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire Pixies The Damned Associates Fairport Convention (early) ..this could go on for a while, top 100 anyone? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 411 Registered: 02-2007 |
Have first 2 Oasis albums, like both of them, but no need to get any more. All you need to know about the band is on the first 2 almuns IMHO There would be an interesting thread about bands/artists that you quite like kind of, but too embarrassed to admit to. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3044 Registered: 03-2005 |
The only Oasis I have is a single song which is on a Creation Records anthology I picked up a few years back. It's "Wonderwall." I actually loaded it onto iTunes on my old iPod at some point but when it came on during the late period of my use of it I found myself thinking "this doesn't really do much for me." I'm not sure if I've heard anything else of theirs. I haven't contributed to this "Top 20" because I find the list changes all the time for me. I'd probably have to just list out the 20 artists that I've liked for the longest time but that'll obviously omit people who are on their way into my personal pantheon who are surely the folks currently causing me the greatest excitement. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 644 Registered: 10-2006 |
I tried to see it as a list of artists who have had some kind of profound, life-changing effect on me, ones who dragged me so far into their world view that it makes up part of the person I am today, or has at least some kind of concrete influence on my life, rather than those I just like, which would be endless; so, to take two recent examples, while I love Dominique A's work, he hasn't become a full-blown, slightly fetishistic obsession in the way that Alain Bashung has. Why exactly that kind of wonderful chemistry occurs in some cases is harder to specify. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4878 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oasis: I have their first two albums, their B-sides collection (better than most bands' A-sides), both compilation albums and one of the later records, which I picked up for $2. They have many fantastic pop/rock songs. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 851 Registered: 05-2005 |
David, I think I remember a thread running here on "Guilty Pleasures". I have the first 2 Oasis and got sucked in by the hype to buy Heathen Chemistry back in 2002. Lost interest after the first 2 really. I thought they repeated themselves after that. For a band that was always saying pro beatle stuff (and naming your kid "Lennon" - are you serious? What's the next one called - McCartney?) I actually always found them more Stones than Beatles - especially the harder "rocking" guitar sounds. Saw them at the Enmore in the 2nd last row. Great gig. The stage and hall seemed barely large enough to contain them. As we were leaving the gig, we were all saying things like, "Imagine if the Stones went back to their roots and did this! What a gig THAT would be!". First concert the Stones did in Australia on their next tour - Enmore! Nearly impossible to get tickets to that - I didn't even try! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 193 Registered: 06-2005 |
A couple of friends and I bought a few square metres of black teddy bear material and a roll of double sided tape the week that Oasis supported REM in Slane in 1995 (mentioned elsewhere on here this week) and spent the day of the concert selling "Wonderbrows" for Ł1 a set on the roads to the venue, we had scissors in our arse pockets so we could offer a "Noel or Liam(more monobrow)" It was a lucrative days work but also an absolute stunner of a day so when we removed our merch from our foreheads that night we had a white stripe across our sunburnt faces, very rock 'n' roll. I brought my son to see them at the same venue a few years back along with Kasabian and The Prodigy, it was truly awful and if they had dropped a bomb that day then Ireland's crime rate would have halved instantly. I definitely maybe have the first two albums and the b-sides collection on tape from a bargain bin. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 558 Registered: 05-2005 |
and XTC! I love XTC, Randy's right this doesnt work as an exercise | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4892 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bought a pair of Liam's off you Peter. They were top notch, thanks. Girls were impressed, boys were jealous, and Michael Stipe gave a shout out to "the eejit with the Liam-style monobrow". |