What is your favourite band right now?
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Soundhound
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Kills me every time I hear it.
doctoremmet
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O man, this is so true. And Colin Moulding wrote a couple of gems as well! Deliver Us From The Elements (those mellotrons are... ominous),
cuttime
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They were a band that subsisted on acrimony, it would appear. Partridge and Rundgren are still duking it out over "Skylarking", though I do prefer the 2014 "corrected polarity" remix. Been reading about another band that seemed to thrive on turmoil, Talking Heads. I never heard any one of them say a single good thing about David Byrne, and Chris Frantz just wrote a new tell-all:
Chris Frantz: 'If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him'
The ex-Talking Heads drummer talks about his revealing new book Remain in Love and a contentious relationship with the band’s frontman
www.theguardian.com
doctoremmet
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Oh nice! Love the band, love Byrne’s drive. Love the gossip. But mainly just the music. Fear Of Music has some of the best of their songs on it. Electricity / Drugs and Animals are out there, in the post possible wayThey were a band that subsisted on acrimony, it would appear. Partridge and Rundgren are still duking it out over "Skylarking", though I do prefer the 2014 "corrected polarity" remix. Been reading about another band that seemed to thrive on turmoil, Talking Heads. I never heard any one of them say a single good thing about David Byrne, and Chris Frantz just wrote a new tell-all:
Chris Frantz: 'If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him'
The ex-Talking Heads drummer talks about his revealing new book Remain in Love and a contentious relationship with the band’s frontman
whinecellar
Jim Daneker
Carpark North. Insanely good synth rock with anthemic melodies. I actually covered one of their tunes last year with my partner in a pop/rock licensing band called Stereo Phoenix:
D Halgren
Senior Member
Did you mean to say Remain in LightOh nice! Love the band, love Byrne’s drive. Love the gossip. But mainly just the music. Fear Of Music has some of the best of their songs on it. Electricity / Drugs and Animals are out there, in the post possible way
doctoremmet
Senior Member
I love RiL. But Fear Of Music beats it for meDid you mean to say Remain in Light
doctoremmet
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In my favor, just yesterday I posted some Belew-era King Crimson in the current Spitfire thread. An act very much in the spirit of the revered album you mention hereDid you mean to say Remain in Light
D Halgren
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I saw that. Good man!In my favor, just yesterday I posted some Belew-era King Crimson in the current Spitfire thread. An act very much in the spirit of the revered album you mention here
Rick McGuire
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Lately it’s been Bombay Bicycle Club. Great production, great lyrics on their latest album
doctoremmet
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My favorite concert film ever. Alex Weir on telecaster and Bernie Worrell on the clavinet are funking it out. Postpunk meets funk. Incredibly good. One prior incarnation of the live band with Busta Jones and Adrian Belew was also ridiculously tight really... also featuring Worrell on the clavinet. This intro grooves HARD:
KerrySmith
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Chvrches, BabyMetal, Rammstein. About equal.
jonnybutter
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They were a band that subsisted on acrimony, it would appear. Partridge and Rundgren are still duking it out over "Skylarking", though I do prefer the 2014 "corrected polarity" remix. Been reading about another band that seemed to thrive on turmoil, Talking Heads. I never heard any one of them say a single good thing about David Byrne, and Chris Frantz just wrote a new tell-all:
Chris Frantz: 'If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him'
The ex-Talking Heads drummer talks about his revealing new book Remain in Love and a contentious relationship with the band’s frontman
Luckily, we don't have to worry about this stuff! Artists, especially the ones with a lot to say, have to really forge their own paths. That means they're brave, but also that they are often difficult people to deal with on personal level. We - the public - get just the fruit.
jonnybutter
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Oh nice! Love the band, love Byrne’s drive. Love the gossip. But mainly just the music. Fear Of Music has some of the best of their songs on it. Electricity / Drugs and Animals are out there, in the post possible way
"...first days at CBGB in 1975, when they were upstarts, trying to break into a world dominated by Patti Smith, the Ramones and Television." I was in NYC around this time, and this is a ridiculous statement, among many others in this article. Calling it a 'world' is ridiculous. It was a bunch of starving, smelly kids playing at a dump called CBGB (and Max's). No one was 'dominating' anything and there was nothing to 'break into'. They were making the scene as they went along, which is how every scene happens.
Not complaining about you doctoremmet! Just the Guardian, and perhaps Chris Franz a little. I like Tom Tom Club, but they never did much else without Byrne. People always complain about the key person - understandable sometimes, but silly too.
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doctoremmet
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The days that I used to read a mainstream media article (like this one in the Guardian - which to be clear I did not post, nor endorse or something) - and believe the article’s content “verbatim” have long gone hahaha.
Very cool to hear your take on this. Like with every “scene”, most of it has been made up and has since then entered some sort of modern day mythology, and is repeated for decades by “journalists”. It’s like every article on mid to late eighties rave music always brings up the “second summer of love” in Ibiza, while in actual fact there were maybe 25 hippies there revering some electronic beats. And every band that has ever existed in Manchester since 1975 was founded at that first memorable Sex Pistols gig... The list of “rock history clichés” is long (in the tooth)
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