Make a Bold Statement About Music
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If You're Feeling Sinister
The Boy with the Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Life Pursuit
The Boy with the Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Life Pursuit
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For me, their last 2 are maybe the best 2 of their career. And I've been listening to them since they started out. Great, underappreciated band whichever era you like.
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So this thread is just a list of good consecutive albums now?
Here's a good thread on that, that The Bus started five years ago: Four (or more) classic albums in a row
Here's a good thread on that, that The Bus started five years ago: Four (or more) classic albums in a row
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Oh ye gods, this is a great one. Tumbleweed, Madman, and Honky Chateau are pretty peerless, and Yellow Brick Road is just one of those great self-indulgent double albums in the Exile, Key Of Life, White Album, Something/Anything vein. Don't Shoot Me... though, is a bit wonky.
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Bold statement:
The greatest American rock band of the past 25 years is The Black Crowes (or maybe Wilco)*.
*This has more to do with the abysmal state of American rock music than it does with the Crowes or Wilco, though they are great.
The greatest American rock band of the past 25 years is The Black Crowes (or maybe Wilco)*.
*This has more to do with the abysmal state of American rock music than it does with the Crowes or Wilco, though they are great.
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If you consider Tool a rock band, the answer is a clear fuck no. If you don't, Queens of the Stone Age still make the answer: fuck no.
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I guess that's pretty bold, but that's really pure opinion. There are plenty of decent American rock bands since 1989.
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Sure, but "decent" doesn't quite cut it - they also happen to be a couple of the best live acts around as well.
I like both those bands, and have seen both live a few times, but they're just not as good (live or on record), and they don't have the depth and breadth of material the other bands have. Their songwriting isn't as strong either.
I like both those bands, and have seen both live a few times, but they're just not as good (live or on record), and they don't have the depth and breadth of material the other bands have. Their songwriting isn't as strong either.
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I get where you're coming from, they are not "man's men", but have a hard time calling them "fey" or "sissies". That implies that they're wimpy and/or romantic. They produce some seriously sarcastic and downright nasty music.
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Their music doesn't have the weight of their lyrics - they don't fit together.
A band I love (Manic Street Preachers), writes music to their lyrics, so each song has music that fits the words like a glove.
And I may as well put in the bold statement that MSP is the greatest rock band of the last 25 years.
Their music doesn't have the weight of their lyrics - they don't fit together.
A band I love (Manic Street Preachers), writes music to their lyrics, so each song has music that fits the words like a glove.
And I may as well put in the bold statement that MSP is the greatest rock band of the last 25 years.
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Just off the top of my head Milk Carton Kids, Bon Iver,The Mars Volta,Built To Spill,Lake Street Dive,The Last Bison,N*E*R*D,Outkast,The Lone Bellow and The Appleseed Collective have in the last 10-15 years put out some pretty impressive stuff that would hold up in any era.
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Just off the top of my head Milk Carton Kids, Bon Iver,The Mars Volta,Built To Spill,Lake Street Dive,The Last Bison,N*E*R*D,Outkast,The Lone Bellow and The Appleseed Collective have in the last 10-15 years put out some pretty impressive stuff that would hold up in any era.
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Absolute Dissent is really good--I haven't heard the most recent one. But yeah, I generally like it when I can hear the tone of Geordie's guitar instead of a wall of distortion, and I like Jaz's voice and think he's a good singer---I prefer him singing to growling. That being said, I really liked the self-titled one from 2003. It was heavy, but the songwriting was really strong, IMO. I saw them on that tour, too---Jaz is fairly frightening live.
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The best U2 song in the past 15 years was neither written nor performed by U2
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