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There's quite a few here interested in punk and similar music. Bravo, I'm impressed.

*is bummed the new Bigwig cd didn't come in the mail today*

I kind of like that "Interpol" band. They're quite swell!

Toxic wrote:I kind of like that "Interpol" band. They're quite swell!

Yesss.

I only have a few of their songs right now, but I particularly like "Precipitate", "Obstacle 1", and "PDA".

Obstacle's a great song with incredibly stupid lyrics.

Stories are boring and stuff.
She's always calling my bluff.

I love that damn song.

phactorri wrote:btw those who like BK should check the new Sleater-Kenny album if you haven't. Its amazing its called The Woods..

Hells fuckin yeah.

Rockinjosie wrote:Why do people not realize how tragically bad Radiohead is?

They will realize it as soon as they become bad.

Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra kick all sorts of ass. As do Metric. And I just heard that new band with Jack White and Brendan Benson today. Pretty good stuff.

i haven't been getting into anything exactly "new" lately... just maybe downloading songs i don't know by bands i already like...

anyways, lately my playlists have been mostly The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gossip, L7 and PJ Harvey

btw... sleater-kinney is my favorite band and i'm so happy other people here like them... they're aaaaaamaaaaazing live.

also, rocknjosie... i find it weird that you can't stand thom yorke's voice, yet listen to bikini kill... kathleen hanna's voice is very... i don't know.. off key, i guess? since it's mostly screaming and shrieking and all...

i actually happen to be a big fan of both bands, btw, so don't bite my head off about my kathleen comment... i love her to death, but half my friends can't stand to listen to bikini kill for that reason... i just happen to like to listen to chicks screaming.

^^^
I just can't stand shoegazer music. I actually find Hanna's voice alluring in an odd way. I dunno, when I'm craving punk I'm not exactly looking for the most musically sound band.

Disrespecting My Bloody Valentine?

Ah well. Bikini Kill does rock.

Thanks to Wiki, I now know that shoegazing was not the term I was looking for. I actually like shoegazing bands apparently, especially My Bloody Valentine. So I don't know how to say it correctly, but I just don't like Radiohead, and analogues of radiohead okay!

GWAR!!!!

I just happened to chance upon Edith Piaf a week ago, and she's friggin awesome. Listening to her is like being in love, all over again. And again.

Her, and The Album Leaf, and James Brown. With the latter, I'm pretty much convinced that all his music is made for you-know-what.

Comic making?

Sufjan Stevens has done my state proud; now I need to see how he did with Michigan. "Come on Feel the Illinoise" has grown on me like moss that grows at an unprecedented rate on a tree. I'd also list James Blunt as a new find, but my wife keeps hogging the CD.

As a side note, I'll always love Radiohead. It was thanks to "OK Computer" that I got into music and all it's wonderful sounds.

Agreed, Col. But it was a breed between OK and Bends. Radiohead i love to pieces, and I second everything Duff said a page back.

i recently listened to placebo for the first time, i like them.

Got the new Bigwig cd today, and it kicks so much ass. It kicked ass all over the place, and then it took all the chunks of kicked ass, molded them together to form an all new, better ass, and then kicked that.

..well not really, but its a good punk cd. it has a metal tinge to it, which is good. I wish I could comment on the Radiohead discussion, but the closest to that kind of rock I listen to is Weezer. Karma Police was cool though.

Col wrote:As a side note, I'll always love Radiohead. It was thanks to "OK Computer" that I got into music and all it's wonderful sounds.

I really like OK Computer ("Airbag", "Karma Police", and "Paranoid Android" specifically), but I think Kid A is overrated. I've never listened to The Bends or anything post-Kid A. So, yeah.

I keep forgetting if I posted here or not. :/

Anyway, I've heard no new bands that really inspired me thus far this year. But I'm really a late seventies thru early nineties kind of guy, so a sound has to be really original for me to get jiggy with it.

Toxic wrote:

Col wrote:As a side note, I'll always love Radiohead. It was thanks to "OK Computer" that I got into music and all it's wonderful sounds.

I really like OK Computer ("Airbag", "Karma Police", and "Paranoid Android" specifically), but I think Kid A is overrated. I've never listened to The Bends or anything post-Kid A. So, yeah.

Hail to the Thief isn't bad.

LibertyCabbage wrote:GWAR!!!!

saw gwar on my birthday this year. course I see them at least once a year.

I just got into Joy Division right before the new year. I can't believe I hadn't discovered them before. *hums* "Love will tear us apart...again.."

Yay Joy Division!

Toxic wrote:

Col wrote:As a side note, I'll always love Radiohead. It was thanks to "OK Computer" that I got into music and all it's wonderful sounds.

I really like OK Computer ("Airbag", "Karma Police", and "Paranoid Android" specifically), but I think Kid A is overrated. I've never listened to The Bends or anything post-Kid A. So, yeah.

Actually, "Kid A" is what assured me of that Radiohead is a great band. I didn't like it all that much initially, save for "Ideoteque" and a few songs that reminded of old "Radiohead", but after some time I realised that other songs crawled into my ears when I caught myself singing "Everything in it's right place" or "Kid A". So I figured, there you have it, music like noone has done before, yet it's still singable, not easy to approach to, being so different, but still possible. Many bands make a string of great albums in their career, but not many bands manage to make something so different. Back then I liked "Amnesiac" much more because I'm fond of crossovers of guitar rock with electro, but nowadays I appreciate "Kid A" more.

"Hail to the thief", if you like "OK computer" phase, you'll like about half of the album. It's a sort of programmed album, one guitar song, then one electro, then another guitar, then another electro.