Whats your top 5 bands?

Post by **soniklife** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:56 pm

my top five are:

1) sonic youth
2) the mountain goats
3) archers of loaf
4) sebadoh
5) the minutemen

Post by **ott0bot** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:27 pm

soniklife wrote:my top five are:

1) sonic youth
2) the mountain goats
3) archers of loaf
4) sebadoh
5) the minutemen

Nice! Sebadoh was my favorite band for a long time. I've see them a couple times, Lou solo once and Folk Implosion once (sadly after Jon Davis left). Good stuff. Archers are good too, are you a Twighligh Singers fan too? me, not so much.

Post by **soniklife** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:37 pm

I have been a HUGE Sebadoh fan ever since my sophmore year of highschool (i am 30), and "Bakesale" was by far my favorite album all through high school. I only got to see them once on the "Harmacy" tour with Rex and oddly enough Jon Davis of Folk Implosion. It was an awesome show. I feel people give "Harmacy" too much flack. I mean it definitely isn't their best but far from their worst. I got to see Archers of Loaf a bunch back when they were together. A great, great live band. And yes...I am a fan of Twilight Singers. "Powder Burns" is in constant rotation for me. Though their first album is kind of weak. It reminds of "1965" which is IMO The Afghan Whigs worst album.

Post by **GSZX1337** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:09 am

aaron wrote:if you dudes love thrash check out GHOSTLIMB, SKELETONWITCH, and DEMIRICOUS. i just saw all three of these bands this weekend and can tell you with certainty that they rule.

Ghostlimb seems to be Metalcore, Demiricous looks pretty cool, and Skeletonwitch's Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery sounds awesome (I also like their name, sounds like the name of a sandwich.)!

EDIT: Here's a pretty good Thrash/Heavy Metal band.
Holy Terror

Post by **ott0bot** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:14 pm

soniklife wrote:I have been a HUGE Sebadoh fan ever since my sophmore year of highschool (i am 30), and "Bakesale" was by far my favorite album all through high school. I only got to see them once on the "Harmacy" tour with Rex and oddly enough Jon Davis of Folk Implosion. It was an awesome show. I feel people give "Harmacy" too much flack. I mean it definitely isn't their best but far from their worst. I got to see Archers of Loaf a bunch back when they were together. A great, great live band. And yes...I am a fan of Twilight Singers. "Powder Burns" is in constant rotation for me. Though their first album is kind of weak. It reminds of "1965" which is IMO The Afghan Whigs worst album.

Funny, I was really into Sebadoh in jr. high/high school too(I'm 27 now). I was really into "III" and the low-fi stuff, "Bubble and Scrape" is my favorite. I remember driving around the country in Nebraska and smoking ciggarettes and listening to alot of Sebadoh. I really liked Harmacy too, it's got some great tracks, it's just really "polished" and I think the low-fi fans were disapointed. Still a great band, just dropped of my top 5...still in my top 10 though!

Post by **soniklife** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:08 pm

"Harmacy" is definitely a more polished record but still some excellent songs are to be found on there. "ocean", "on fire", "zone doubt", "open ended", etc. are all awesome tunes. But yeah I am with you I prefer their more lo fi efforts. "Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock" has been in heavy rotation for me lately. If you dig lo fi indie rock you should definitely do yourself a favor and check out Further. A super obscure band whose records are pretty much impossible to find but can be found on various music blogs. Their album "Grimes Golden" I think beats Sebadoh and Pavement at their own games. They issued four full lengths and tons of singles/comp appearances.

Post by **Metalcrack** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:12 pm

Number one is MetallicA....with my favorite song...a very long list of songs off of every album.... (Creeping Death seems to be the most played recently though).

Number 2-4 (in no order)

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb("Pulse" live album version)
Filter - Where Do We Go From Here
Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel/Genesis - No Son of Mine

The last is a mix of bands I like, but couldn't pick one off the list. Drain sth, Anberlin, Trapt and a few others I really like, but don't know if they will stay in the rotation for a long time. I can pick one album I love... Kilgore's "Search for a Reason" I absolutely love this album!

Post by **aaron** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:56 pm

GSZX1337 wrote:
aaron wrote:if you dudes love thrash check out GHOSTLIMB, SKELETONWITCH, and DEMIRICOUS. i just saw all three of these bands this weekend and can tell you with certainty that they rule.
Ghostlimb seems to be Metalcore, Demiricous looks pretty cool, and Skeletonwitch's Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery sounds awesome (I also like their name, sounds like the name of a sandwich.)!

EDIT: Here's a pretty good Thrash/Heavy Metal band.
Holy Terror

word up. i'd say SW is the best of the bunch. demiricous are awesome, they are total slayer worship. great band.

someone mentioned godspeed! you black emperor and i will chime in and say that that band totally rules too. you should check out explosions in the sky, unwed sailor, early day miners and the album leaf if you are into that type of stuff.

Post by **ott0bot** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:40 pm

aaron wrote:
someone mentioned godspeed! you black emperor and i will chime in and say that that band totally rules too. you should check out explosions in the sky, unwed sailor, early day miners and the album leaf if you are into that type of stuff.

If anyone else is into good instrumental music like godspeed...I'd highly recoment Do Make Say Think, Tortoise, Mice Parade(last two albums have some vocals), The Roots of Orchis and The Mercury Program. Also check out Constelation Records. Do Make and God Speed are on that label and there some other great stuff too.

Post by **aaron** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:36 pm

ott0bot wrote:
aaron wrote:
someone mentioned godspeed! you black emperor and i will chime in and say that that band totally rules too. you should check out explosions in the sky, unwed sailor, early day miners and the album leaf if you are into that type of stuff.
If anyone else is into good instrumental music like godspeed...I'd highly recoment Do Make Say Think, Tortoise, Mice Parade(last two albums have some vocals), The Roots of Orchis and The Mercury Program. Also check out Constelation Records. Do Make and God Speed are on that label and there some other great stuff too.

yeah those bands rule also. actually if you're into instrumental music at all you should check out THE CANCER CONSPIRACY.