Daily Gut: Reponse to Pitchfork — The Really Bestest Songs of the Last Ten Years
by Greg GutfeldSo the music website Pitchfork unloaded its top 500 songs from the last ten years, and it was a mix of mainstream mediocrity, desperate hipsterism, and legitimate inspiration. For every great choice they made (say, Goldfrapp), they immediately canceled it out with some horrible wrist-slitting trash (Britney, Justin, more Britney). But, rather than rag on Pitchfork (I picture their contributors looking like homelier versions of Michael Cera), which is an otherwise pretty good site despite its easily mocked pretensions, I’ve decided to post my own list of the top songs from the last ten years.
It’s in some kind of order. Here we go:
“Civilized Worm,” The Melvins. A song Ozzy would have sacrificed his first, second and third born for. You kind of wish he had. How did this song not become a massive anthem? I ask again, how did this song not become a massive anthem? It should have been bigger than lingerie football.
“One More Robot – Sympathy 3000-21,” The Flaming Lips. Off the Yoshimi album, it’s the best thing the Lips ever did. One subtle note change by Wayne Coyne is enough to make you feel like calling everyone you know and telling them how much you appreciate their smell.
“Der Golem,” Fantomas. The greatest death metal/orchestral song ever recorded. From the magnificent Director’s Cut – the best thing Mike Patton has put on record. Or Cd, or pizza.
“It’s Not Too Beautiful,” The Beta Band. Why didn’t this band explode above and beyond Coldplay and take over the world? And why am I not taller? A lilting melodic feast that goes on for nearly nine minutes and is still too short. Like me.
“Slowly,” Amon Tobin. I’m pretty sure this came out in 2001. I’m pretty sure it will blow your face off. When it does, don’t go outside until you put it back on.
“Chewing Gum,” Annie. Best piece of bubble gum you’ll find anywhere. If a.m. radio existed like it did when I was a lad, this would have been the “Love Will Keep Us Together” of the OO’s. I believe Annie is Swedish, and vice versa.
“Monster,” by The Automatic. There is something wrong with this band. They are not awesome, or possibly even great. But this song is a relentless piece of rock crap that makes you want to beat the crap out your own butt!
“Atlas,” the Battles. It’s like kiddie music for kids who live on Planet Robot Poop. Designed like a melodic can opener. It makes me happy while also wanting to eat an entire roll of tin foil.
“Lollpopsichord,” Black Moth Super Rainbow. The best pop band working today – simultaneously uplifting and downward facing – like doing yoga in a vat of yogurt. The weird thing about this band: their sound is utterly monotonous. But monotony is perfectly fine if what you’re doing is right.
“Dayvan Cowboy,” Boards of Canada. Soundtrack music to a movie that has not been, but should be, made. Clint Eastwood on Jupiter, shopping for hats.
“I Loved You,” Carbon/Silicon. If the Clash sodomized the Stooges with the head of Mickey Dolenz. The band also put on one of the best shows I saw in 2008, the highlight being Mick Jones dedicating a song to Redeye! And the crowd seemed confused.
“The Bridge,” Clinic. The most sinister, unnerving pop sound around. I love this band so much that I hate them. I’ve purchased tickets for them twice – and they’ve canceled both times. They also accepted, then turned down Red Eye. I hate them for that. But you should listen to this band anyway. I think maybe the singer has issues.
“Falstaff,” Clinic. see above. A bunch a musical genius jerkfaces in masks. i hate them for being so awesome and jerkfaced. I’m trying to get over them, but I don’t think I ever will. Buy this song.
“For the Wars,” Clinic. God I hate this band. See above. But Jesus, they are awesome. Surreal space garage rock you can dance to, provided you define dancing as nodding and possibly twitching.
“Black Shuck,” The Darkness. AC/DC meets Queen – but better than that, if you can imagine. Perfectest rock song that’s both irresistible and annoying. A lot of people hate this band, which I understand. But a lot of people LOVE this band, and I understand them more.
“Little Kids,” Deerhunter. A band casually waiting for stardom to embrace them. A gorgeous melody from a creepy classic album. I believe they will be on Red Eye in the near future – fingers, toes, and vestigial tail crossed.
“Black and White Town,” The Doves. If you want to know what it’s like to live in England, play this song. It’s like staring out a window of a parked car in the rain, while your mother is inside the principal’s office trying to undo your expulsion. I know this feeling.
“Mon Amour,” Dungen. Nine minutes of guitar solos, riffage and a few seconds of unlistenable feedback. Somehow all of it works. And he sings foreign! And by foreign I mean not English – which is a really arrogant thing for a foreign person to do. This is earth: speak English!
“Fumbling over Words That Rhyme,” Edan. Best hip hop band around. Why doesn’t anyway care? Because it’s a weird dude from Philly without any PR. I’ve tried to get this dude on Red Eye. They don’t even return my calls (or socks!)
“Gay Bar,” Electric Six. It’s not a novelty song. It’s a great rock song, from a dude who has the exact same voice from that scary guy in Steppenwolf. Seriously, Dick Valentine is the second coming of John Kay, or the third coming of Danny Kaye. I can never tell which.
“Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me,” Fantomas. I hate using the word “haunting,” but this is haunting heavy metal. It will make you pee your pants, if you’re wearing pants (i’m not).
“The Bit,” The Fantomas-Melvins Big Band.” Bone crushing, mind bending metal epic vomit. It’s a live hissing mess – like a dragon pooping out a smaller dragon pooping out a snake.
“Over the Ice,” The Field. Electronica test patterns that work! I listen to this while I’m jogging and doing my laundry (I do both simultaneously, down ninth avenue!)
“He Doesn’t Know Why,” the Fleet Foxes. I don’t know why this band irritates me, because they write amazing, beautiful songs. But they still irritate me. It’s got to be the beards. They leave a rash all over my tummy!
“Don’t Rhyme No Mo,” The Free Association. This could be the most hypnotic big beat song of the last twenty years. I can’t stop listening to it, even when I’m not listening to it – if you know what I mean. You don’t, do you? Oh wait – you do? Never mind then.
“Days of Last,” F_cked Up. Oh the riffage! Oh the majesty! Oh the Canadians! Damian Abraham – where are you anyway? Email me – you’re supposed to be working for me!!
“Natural’s Not in It,” Gang of Four (repackaged by the Rakes). If you can’t dance to this, then you’re dead (or possibly not a fan of dancing). A remake/remix that makes an old great song even greater. The lyrics are still borderline genius idiotic.
“Hairy Trees,” Goldfrapp. Another majestic song by a pop artist who should rule the world but doesn’t, probably because she’s a jerk or something. This song will melt your toes.
“Hard to Beat,” Hard-Fi. A perfect pop gem that makes you want to propose to a chick and then run off with her sister. How can you not absolutely love this song? How can you? Sometimes I think I don’t even know you anymore.
“Supply and Demand,” The Hives. Super annoying band that can’t stop writing amazing riffs. This is the Troggs, the Kingsmen, and the Stones all rolled up into two and a half minutes of delectable destruction! Plus they wear matching suits and have a fat guitarist!
“Move Your Feet,” Junior Senior. More infectious than HPV or Herpes. I’ll stop there.
“Caroline, Yes” The Kaiser Chiefs. From the album “Employment,” which everyone should own. if you don’t you’re probably a racist. This band writes amazing choruses, while sometimes forgetting to write songs. Not a bad thing, when you like choruses, but don’t have time for songs.
“Sugar,” Ladytron. Mammoth slab of pop sugar metal confection. Rots your teeth, mind, underwear. In that order, I believe.
“Someone Great,” LCD Soundsystem. I hate sad music. but this is awesome sad music. I’m getting sad just thinking about how sad this awesome song is. Hold me, you crazy jerk.
“The Stupid Creep,” The Melvins. Just a harsh mean song that’s also fun, neat and wrong. I asked King Buzzo what it’s about, and he said, “it’s about a stupid creep.”
“Maneater,” Nelly Furtado. Something is wrong with me for loving this song. But I love this song. The chorus is terrible, too!
“Bros” Panda Bear. This is a big song. A BIG song. It bothers me how many things are going on in this thing. And I have a feeling I will probably end up hating it in ten years – there’s something very 311 about Panda Bear. Am I right?
“Centuries of Sin,” Probot. Awesome thrash metal from a Dave Grohl-led super thrash band. Not a great album, but a perfect badass song that should open a movie about headless zombie bikers who eat cats and tin.
“Love in a Trash Can,” The Raveonettes. Best casual throw-away guitar work in a perfect pop song. If you’ve ever heard this song, then you have loved this song (you can quote me on that, imaginary people who quote things)
“My Baby’s Taking Me Home,” Sparks. What a piece of hypnotic genius. Vocals used as rhythm that’s better than anything Moby could have hoped to create in his entire annoying lifetime. These guys have been around for decades, but they take more chances than any young band today. I include the Beatles.
“Hairy Candy,” TOBACCO. from the singer of Black Moth Super Rainbow – my bet for best over all pop song of the decade. Bubblegum meets Percocets – without the peristaltic mayhem.
“101 North,” Tomahawk. You can guess from the title, it’s driving music. I love any song that allows Mike Patton to sing, because Mike Patton rarely allows himself to sing.
“Overnight,” Gonzales. A tear-inducing piano ditty that will induce tears, via piano.
“Obsessed with Gloom,” Campag Velocet. Imagine driving the coolest car in the world in an underground fish tank that goes on forever. This song would be playing on the radio, while you drown!
“Love me Now,” And the Lefthanded. I know nothing about this band. But I found this song on an Erol Alkin compilation, called “A Bugged In Selection.” It’s gorgeous like something gorgeous that’s gorgeous. What happened to them? Who are they? Where are my pants?
“Smiling Off,” Black Dice. I’m talking about the DFA remix. Jeez! it’s remixy! Strange band though. I can only listen to them with the lights on.
“To All The Wizards in Lockdown,” Richard Norris. from a Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism – compiled by some artist who does the Super Furry Animals CD covers. Holy crap, what an amazing CD, but also an amazing, wonderful psychedelic dance mess explosion of a song! I don’t know who Richard Norris is, but if you do, send me thirty dollars.
“Still Light,” the Knife. This song makes me cry. Mainly because it hits me when it’s drunk. But I keep coming back for more. I have low self-esteem.
“Vanilla radio (live),” The Wildhearts. Not sure when this was released, but Ginger gave it to me last year, so it counts. Best riff since BOC’s Godzilla. FYI: the Wildhearts has a new CD out, called Chutzpah. You should buy two – one for you and one for President Obama.
“From Blown Speakers,” The New Pornographers. Every album by this band begins with three or four awesome songs, and then….snore. But this is a beauty of a pop song – and the singing is terrifically terrific on a scale from terrific to super terrific.
“I found the F,” Broadcast. From the excellent Tender Buttons album, which is full of fuzzy pop gems. Imagine dropping a cherry lifesaver on a rug at Jiffy Lube. And then picking it up and eating it. That’s this song.
“I saw a ship,” The Czars. Defunct pop band fronted by the second or third best singer in America. A little story: Saw these guys play in England a few years back. (See, I told you it was a little story).
“Bottle Rocket,” The Go! Team. It’s like the Rockford Files theme meets a big chocolate sundae meets your face. I listened to this song 30 times in a row, and then never listened to it again. Then I broke all my hummels!
“Thirsty and Miserable,” Lemmy. Remake of the Black Flag classic -but done better because Lemmy is singing/lurching. Listen to this, and you either want to quit or start drinking.
“Pit Stop,” Lovage. Brooding love song sung by Mike Patton, and a chick I can’t remember. Saw them live twice – and it was really enjoyable, in an enjoyable way!
“Pitie pour mes larmes,” Patton/Kaada. If you want to get lucky, put this song on. Works really well, especially if you’re with someone. Luscious, romantic pop song that Patton was born to sing and animals to eat.
“Work, work, work,” The Rakes. Great band that sings about great things (pubs, smoking, girls) in a ridiculously honest, simple way. Where are these guys? Oh – look – they’re under my bed!
Why did I write this?
Well, my book is due Tuesday, and I needed something to do, other than the actual matter at hand.
So, this list is really just procrastination.
Do you agree with this list? Disagree? Any additions? Subtractions…?
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I've never heard of any of these groups.
Damn, I'm old…
Interesting list. Thanks for putting this together.
Dave-
You may be old, but you're still faster than I am.
Ditto.
Yes to Sparks, Fantomas, BMSR… well, the whole list really! There are so many awesome groups that get completely overshadowed by nonsense (see: Sparks). Haven't read the pitchfork list, but I don't doubt it would make me see red.
Great post! I'll definitely check out some of the songs I hadn't heard of, except for Fleet Foxes. Ugh.
What's the deal Greg, nothing by GWAR made the list! Oderus Urungus Is going to be devastated and cry uncontrollably from every or any orifice that has tear ducts. You owe us an explanation and Oderus an apology. Shame on you!
Mr. Gutfield-
We have reviewed your voluntarily submitted list of "favorite songs" (so-called), and have determined that your tastes in entertainment do not appear sufficiently conservative to warrant your continued participation in this project.
Please report to our Orange County facility for reprogramming at your earliest convenience.
Regards,
-The Committee
I generally just troll, but jeez. Well done Mr. Gutfield. Would've never guessed you were such a Clinic fan.
Good God man, nothing by The Shins? No Anti-Pop Consortium? Not even a nod to Bloc Party (before they got all moody and introspective)? No Neutral Milk Hotel? The hell?!?
I love me some Mike Patton.
I'm listen to some of these on Playlist right now. Awesome stuff.
The single best song of the last ten years is Brad Paisley's "Ticks."
Greg is living proof that the conservative base isn't as monolithic or as monochromatic as the Democrats say it is.
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You, sir, are ridiculously hip.
Wow, does someone have a mancrush on Mike Patton? Nevermind, you've probably admitted that already. And I like Fight Test more than One More Robot, but not everyone can have my sophisticated taste.
Wow, does someone have a mancrush on Mike Patton? Nevermind, you've probably admitted that 87 times already. And I like Fight Test more than One More Robot, but not everyone can have my sophisticated taste.
The only reference I got was the comparison to Steppenwolf. I thought I was going to agree with you on "Maneater," until I realized it had nothing to do with Hall and Oates. Are you intentionally trying to put me in the "old folks here" line for Obamacare?
No J5? Why not?
Well…. it depends on which commentators you ask on this board.
Years ago, P.J. O'Rourke wrote that everything recorded after he turned 35 sounded like someone tipping over the china cabinet.
This list made me think of that.
After reading your entry I thought "geez, I must be really out of it," until I asked my 19 year old son about these songs (and artists.) And he only knew a few too.
So I looked up some on YouTube. And after I found the "Gay Bar" mixed with "It's time to Meet the Muppets" I decided that I AM out of it.
(And happy about that.)
I like other Brad Paisley songs better, but there should definitely be some country songs on that list. I don't care which ones, just pick some!
Good to see the Junior Senior song "Move Your Feet" make the list! I'm going to give the Fantomas track a try.
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Mr. Gutfield, you are right in line with my 18 & 20 year old kids. They're into Panda Bear, New Pornographers, Dirty Projectors, Fleet Foxes … etc.
I spent last night with my husband watching "Hard Days Night" and we were teary-eyed at the innocence of "Love Me Do", etc. I'm only 47! Now I feel old ………
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Is San Fransisco still in the Union?
I'm not even thirty yet, and that's what everything recorded since I turned twenty sounds like.
You must get a lot of free records. Where could anyone have ever heard any of these on any mainstream source. Love In A Trashcan has been my favorite song for at least three years and probably ever.
Never heard of one of these songs…. They must be really fantastic classic pieces of music….
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And I thought Pitchfork was pretentious. Normally, they're all about elitist hipsterism, I'll admit that in a second. But there's one fundamental difference between their list and yours. You praise bands whose artistic merit you can appreciate yet whom you find annoying or otherwise unpleasant to listen to. That's like the textbook definition of hipsterism – digging music you don't actually like just because it's "good," whatever the hell that means. Pitchfork, however – for a change, they let their guard down and admit to liking trashy pop music just because it's got a sick groove or whatever. Let your guard down, and admit to liking music with no artistic merit without having to qualify it as "god, the chorus is so bad!" or whatever. Otherwise, you'll never really like anything fully.
You've got not-too-terrible taste in music for such an insufferable twit. Maybe that's the point. I'd love to be a fly on the wall if you and Mike Patton ever go out drinking or drop mushrooms together or some such thing.
What, no Boris?
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Hooray For Me!!! I actually own one of the CD's listed. Probot RAWKZ!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go tell my wife just how groovy I am…
Dunno, maybe I'm completely retarded, but my favorite is "Sukie in the Graveyard" by Belle & Sebastian. Also the whole Postal Service album, Give Up.
Did Carbon Silicon really dedicate a song to REdeye? (BTW, Global War On Culture and Gangs of England are both better than I Loved You)
I've heard of three of them…so count me in too.
so true…
Greg, for a guilty pleasure (actually I don't feel so guilty) I encourage you to listen to Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Sure it's Pop/Disco but no one does it better these days. One listen of her album "Trip The Light Fantastic" and you'll be hooked. Unfortunately she hasn't broken big in the US. I guess we have to wait for all this Snoopuffpdiddyjayzfittycentkanye crap to run its course. Your thoughts?
How can you include Panda Bear but not Animal Collective? "For Reverend Green" or "Brothersport" definitely compete with "Bros."
You forgot "Free Is The New Four Letter Word", an awesome political song. You can check it out at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerweber
This is ain't hold hands around the campfire protest music It rocks baby.
Why aren't these iTunes merchant links so that we can easily get them and Big Hollywood gets moolah?
This is just me but I love The Doves. Great band for anybody into moody music…start with Lost Souls and then The Last Broadcast.
Points for digging Bloc Party, my friend.
You kids get off my lawn.
I heard that there is a physiological reason for that.
Has something to do with the way hearing and memory works,
after ,i forget 25 or 35, what your brain identifies as enjoyable
music is locked in and new different stuff is hard to accept.
wow, mr. insider. you are clearly way cooler than the rest of us. I'm kind of disappointed. you could have thrown us outsiders a bone.
Oh, I'm so glad you said that. I felt like Tyrannosaurus Rex when I read that list. Not a single one. Not one.
Man, I remember the days when I knew every single band – and not just every band but every record they played and even the covers. Oh, those were the days.
i put him in two fashion shoots when i was at Stuff; one for lovage,another for tomahawk. he's a hardcore professional and exceedingly gracious and he didn't try steal anything like a certain major singer/bad actress did on her shoot (she was wearing pink underwear)
I do like Boris a lot. but couldn't decide on a song off Pink.
he introduced me to the crowd before he started the song "the News," and then said "this is for red eye!" afterwards he asked me if i liked it. i did. it was under the westway in London 2008 january. then we got very drunk
You and me both Carolyn. I don't recognize anything on that list either. That's what happens when the subscription to Rolling Stone runs out, and you don't care to or bother to buy it on the newstand.
Hey, on the plus side, from what I've heard of modern music these all probably sound like the same band.
So we aren't really missing all that much.
Never heard of any of them. Of course I stopped listening to new music after I realized it doesn't get any better than the Who.
Don't feel old folks. I am 35, listen to a lot of music and haven't heard a single one of these songs.
The only names I even recognized were the Twin Peeks song (because I remember the tv show), the Melvins (because I hear them mentioned often – but have no idea what they sing) and Lemmy (because he is Lemmy)
Wow, I guess our country is really becoming Balkanized. Other than Nelly Furtado, I literally have never heard of a single one of these groups or artists. No problem. Some of us can still skin a buck and run a trot line, and some of us can't.
Very good point. I rarely listen to the music on the radio, I've heard all the "classic rock" songs they'll ever play, on the one hand, and on the other there doesn't seem to be anything exciting me at the moment. I am, though, a willing audience for something new–oops isn't that an old Beatle American LP title. Sometimes one can't help showing one's age.
BTW Old Tom, I haven't given up on radio, as I listen to talk radio everyday in the car
But then again, I like Dark Moor. This is my first effort at cartooning a song.
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Tom –
Sheer luck, really. It's happened before – I check in just as an article is posted, and I have something to say. Must be all that clean living.
Oh yeah, I was impressed at the amount of Patton songs and groups. Directors Cut is one of my favorite CDs ever and I have virtually everything he's done.
Plus add Kaiser Chiefs, The Melvins, The Hives, The New Pornographers and some others.
I would add GS!YBE, Sliver Mt Zion, Clutch, Estradasphere, Secret Chiefs 3, Muse, Built To Spill, Tegan and Sarah, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Kings Of Leon, System Of A Down, The White Stripes, The Decemberists, Isis, Explosions In The Sky and so many more.
And of course many Australians bands that you will never hear about because they are… well Australian.
Fantomas is an acquired taste, but if you quire it, then it is very addictive. Basically he doesn't really sing, he screams, makes weird noises but it really fits the music which is some crazy metal mix-up which goes from 0 to 100 and back three of four times each song…
It's not for everyone.
I agree exactly with Ken in Irvine, except I'd also heard of the Hives (dunno what they do though…) and I am the Universe's official biggest BOC fan ever (don't dispute me on this!). In my defense (I am NOT old! Ok, I am…) I gave up on "alternative" music pretty quickly as it became same-old same-old and started listening exclusively for a couple of years to electronica via internet radio. Then as I started learning Japanese I got into the J-Pop & Anime music stations. Which is what I'm still listening to now, to heck with crappy Top 40 here, I'll listen to crappy Top 40 from Japan! Wheee, gimme a Vocaloid over Britney any day, at least they admit they're artificial…
Hey cgray bread me up a big old catfish fillet! Y'know I just remembered, I looked up this Lady Gaga chick(?) the other day as there was some news about her possibly being a hermaphrodite, and uh, well, I was curious…. ANyway, I found some of her stuff on YouTube and while idly listening to see what sex I thought IT actually is, I started realizing, y'know, this is pretty good. I don't know the names of the songs, wasn't that interested, but in places she will segue out of modern pop doings into some pretty good, sometimes soaring, trance/electronica stuff, I thought that was pretty peachy. Oh, I guess I decided she's a gal, in my opinion.
I'm 19, and I think I have heard of one of them.
Which seems to be the point of his list…to show how hip he is…
If I wanted to hear loud music with lyrics I can't understand, sung by people with strange names who I've never heard of, I'd listen to opera. Oh, wait, I do listen to opera! For exactly those reasons. Keeping track of what amount to randomly generated band names and having an opinion about individual contemporary pieces of music just seems like way too much work.
I honestly thought this was some kind of parody…I have never heard of any of these bands or songs. Not in the least bit curious to hear them, either. Sorry, Greg, I'll stick with Sinatra.
I assume you want me to gut that catfish first.
Right. Count on your great-grandchildren humming these works of art…
GREG,
YOU COME ACROSS AN ULTRA HIPSTER DOUCHEBAG… YOU CERTAINLY DROPPED A NOTCH OR SEVEN IN MY BOOK WITH THIS ONE. WHO CARES WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT SONGS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS; AND COULD ALL OF THESE BE SO GREAT– REALLY? ALL OF THEM??? I'VE COME TO TRUST YOU FOR SHORT, FUNNY AND SALIENT POINTS ON CURRENT ISSUES FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THINGS- YOU BETRAYED ME HERE- YOU GOT A LITLLE TO "POPPY" ON THE "POP CULTURE' SIDE OF THE MISSION OF THIS WEBSITE. PLUS, YOU F'ING FAILED TO MENTION ANY SONG FROM CHINESE DEMOCRACY, THUS PROVING YOUR CEREBRAL AND AUDITORY LIMITATIONS….. NO MADAGASCAR / CATCHER IN THE RYE / BETTER / PROSITITUTE / TWAT / STREET OF DREAMS ALL OF WHICH ARE BETTER THAN THE NOUVEAU RICHE FLEEB MUSIC YOU WASTED MY TIME WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, you listen to a lot of crap, Greg! Whew! No wonder you're a comedian and … no wonder that The Beatles are still selling more than all these "bands" put together. Just saying.
No Dethklok? C'mon, Greg – if you want metal, check out Brendan Small's "fictional" band.
Well I have confirmation that I am officially an OF. Haven't heard of one of these songs. I was hoping to find "409" by the Beach Boys on the list but….
Drop Mushrooms??
ok
I am impressed. I would have been more impressed with some Between the Buried and Me or Dillinger Escape Plan, given your Mike Patton man crush.
Fortunately, I'm not thirty-five yet, and I've been exposed to a wide range of music so far — classical, jazz, hard rock, electronic, grunge, heavy metal, new wave, indie pop, etc. etc. etc. I like pretty much anything recorded before 1999, but most of the new stuff I've heard in the last ten years does nothing for me.
Greg, you missed "Do the Mess" by Your Bowels, an obscure group that inexplicably failed to hit the Top 100.
Chicago's Pitchfork Concert is classic. You haven't lived until you've seen several thousand white college kids busting out gang signs in unison to De La Soul.
lOl yah breaded guts are pretty yuck. Hrmmm, haven't gone catfishing in quite a while myself, oh well, gotta earn a living.
Ya, I wear slippers and wave a cane at them, personally. I lived in Austin, Texas for many years and Austin has as vibrant a music scene for a mid sized city as anywhere I've ever been (and I've been around, I passed on AC/DC in Marseilles this summer because it was like $200 a ticket) but these bands are to my knowledge not as, let's say, commercially vailble as more mainstream bands. My first rock concert was Grang Funk in 1973, saw AC/DC with Bon Scott the list is long, and I still go to selected shows here and there.
Ya, I wear slippers and wave a cane at them, personally. I lived in Austin, Texas for many years and Austin has as vibrant a music scene for a mid sized city as anywhere I've ever been (and I've been around, I passed on AC/DC in Marseilles this summer because it was like $200 a ticket) but these bands are, to my knowledge not as, let's say, commercially vailble as more mainstream bands. My first rock concert was Grang Funk in 1973, saw AC/DC with Bon Scott the list is long, and I still go to selected shows here and there.
Not like they'd have been played on the radio.. Or featured in record stores ("what were THEY, grandpa?")..
Frankly the whole turn o'the millennium infatuation with boybands, teenybop and * Idol got me out of the music buying habit, and at this point I just go spelunking in my back catalog or in bargain bins for older discs ("The Commodores Best-Of for $4.99? SOLD!")..
Ayup, Greg is mos def a NeoReptile, and is not the only one…
Fuck that, I wanna see Mike Patton on RedEye.. Or maybe get Greg a cameo on _Metalocalypse_..
What, no Clutch?
(probably the most recent stuff I've paid actual money for, alongside the Fantomas, Frontalot and Yoshinori Sunahara mixes.. )
I still think the Barenaked Ladies live shows are +++… Especially back when they were actually performing _McDonald's Girl_ and _Fight the Power_ live..
I wouldn't call it a man crush if someone has the great taste to recognize Mike Patton as the musical genius he is. I just call that good taste.
That's it — Neo-Reptile. I finally know what group I belong to… P.J. O'Rourke for the win.
Conservatives who like fast cars, loud music, hard liquor, and the freedom to enjoy all three.
Love seeing Boards of Canada on there! "Trans Canada Highway" is a great little e.p. for all you downtempo ambient lovers out there.
Cool, you need to get him to appear on the show and/or have C/S perform on the show
So, did you get these songs from some of those Amazon free samplers?
Also, WHITHER ANDREW W.K.???
DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE DEAD SHEMBECHLERS!!!!!
I'm gonna jump on the "Never heard of any of them, either" bandwagon. Wow. As I've said before here on Big Hollywood, technology officially passed me by with "twitter" and music officially passed me by with Nirvana. Now, where's my walker?
Wow, 1973 Grand Funk, and your a senior at UTEP. Where you concieved there? Or are you an old retread like me? …………………AHHHHHH, sorry, swimming in nostalgia. The good old days.
Ya, er, no. I took a few, um decades off between my sophmore and junior years! It's fun being an oldster in school. I tell 'em I "put the senior in senior".
Where is Dredg to be found in the list? There is one svelt band you missed.
My problem is a) a love of REALLY obscure music b) a teacher's salary. Thankfully my students have turned me on to a lot of good music that's hard to find, but NONE of them know these bands, except maybe Boards of Canada, which I already knew. I think you ought to add "What would wolves do" by Les Savy Fav, they are great and the video for it was a hoot.
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