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The Music Information Thread
Topic Started: Jan 13 2007, 02:56 PM (1,080 Views)
TheSmashedGuitar
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Ok, this is a thread for people to rant about how awesome/shitty they think a band is and inform them what they should listen/not listen to in their opinion, filling out this form:

Band Name:

Genre:

Your Rating Of Them (1-10):

Best Album:

Songs:
- Best All Around:
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin':
- Most Relaxing:
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:
- Song That Best Represents The Band:

- Bands Like This Band:

- Coolest Thing About This Band:


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Two people can do the same band, and I hope this thread doesn't get heated. Well, I'll go first.

Band Name: The Ramones

Genre: Punk Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: The Ramones (Debut)

Songs:
- Best All Around: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
- Most Relaxing: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Blitzkrieg Bop
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Judy Is A Punk

- Bands Like This Band: The Damned/The Buzzcocks/The Clash/The Sex Pistols/X/Dead Kennedys/Black Flag/Bad Brains (The Ramones basically influenced all these acts)

- Coolest Thing About This Band: The fact that they're style is so simple, but so fun and original. No one took this miminalist approach to music before. Their sense of humour in thir songs is magnificent, and they influenced a whole new generation of bands and bring punk rock to the mainstream.

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Name: Coldplay
Genre: Alternative, Post-Britpop
Rating: 10 (biased)
Best Album: All three, Parachutes to start, though
Songs:
- All Around: "The Scientist"
- Loudest: "Pour Me"
- Most Relaxing: Anything from their debut
- Most Known: "Yellow", "Clocks"
- Represents: "Fix You"
Similar Artists: U2, Muse, Death Cab For Cutie, Keane
Coolest Thing About Them: They're not heavy. Like many artists who people like around here (John Lennon, mainly), they rely on emotions to fuel their songs. Very easy lyrics to relate to, and have a beautiful sound to them.
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Band Name: The Kinks

Genre: Rock, Pop

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: The Villave Green Preservation Society and Arthur

Songs:
- Best All Around: Waterloo Sunset
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Hatred and All Day and All Of The Night
- Most Relaxing: Sitting By The Riverside
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: You Really Got Me
- Song That Best Represents The Band: I'm Not Like Everybody Else

- Bands Like This Band: The Beatles, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, The Jam, The Pretenders

- Coolest Thing About This Band: Ray Davies is probably the most insightful rock songwriter his approach to serious themes adding a touch of humour is fantastic. This band has a vast catalog of songs that vary in genres quite a lot, their songs and specially albums (a lot of which are concept albums or rock operas) were always very creative in one way or another. They were truly original and authentic.
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Name: Belle & Sebastian
Genre: Alternative, twee-pop, pop
Rating: 9
Best Album: The Life Pursuit and Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Songs:
- All Around: "If She Wants Me"
- Loudest: ...
- Most Relaxing: "Piazza, New York Catcher"
- Most Known: "If She Wants Me", "Another Sunny Day"
- Represents: "The State I Am In"
Similar Artists: Nick Drake, Donovan, Sufjan Stevens
Coolest Thing About Them: Maddy asked me if they were a modern band and didn't think they were. Their sound and style is very reminiscent of early and mid-sixties pop, but keeps a fresh and modern sound.
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Jan 14 2007, 12:10 AM
Name: Belle & Sebastian
Genre: Alternative, twee-pop, pop
Rating: 9
Best Album: The Life Pursuit and Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Songs:
- All Around: "If She Wants Me"
- Loudest: ...
- Most Relaxing: "Piazza, New York Catcher"
- Most Known: "If She Wants Me", "Another Sunny Day"
- Represents: "The State I Am In"
Similar Artists: Nick Drake, Donovan, Sufjan Stevens
Coolest Thing About Them: Maddy asked me if they were a modern band and didn't think they were. Their sound and style is very reminiscent of early and mid-sixties pop, but keeps a fresh and modern sound.

They're a good band.
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Band Name: The Doors

Genre: Psychdelic Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: The Doors (Debut)

Songs:
- Best All Around: The End
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Roadhouse Blues
- Most Relaxing: Indian Summer
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Light My Fire
- Song That Best Represents The Band: When The Music's Over

- Bands Like This Band: Jefferson Airplane/Moby Grape/The Grateful Dead/Quicksilver Messenger Service/Country Joe & Fish (and Country Joe McDonald solo)

- Coolest Thing About This Band: The way they combine blues and jazz influences with psychdelia and lyrical mysticism. Their music touches on the most primal level and the most intellectual at the same time. Whilst there were other great psychdelic rock groups, this oen takes the cake.

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When you say rating, what's the scale? Is it like, based on genre, or on the grand scheme of things?

For instance:

If it's based on everything in total, then 0 would be a bunch of people who don't know how to play or sing fucking around with instruments and making as much noice as possible and 10 would be The Beatles and The Stones-caliber.

If it's based on genre, then for like a shoegaze band giving them a 10 would put them on the level of My Bloody Valentine, and giving a punk band a 10 would make them like The Sex Pistols, etc.

Which did you originally intend?
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I intended it to be however the reviewer wants to use it. This topic is meant to be more subjectice then objectie anyway.

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Ok, this is a thread for people to rant about how awesome/shitty they think a band is and inform them what they should listen/not listen to in their opinion, filling out this form:

Band Name: Pink Floyd

Genre: Prog-Rock (i know it's general, bite me)

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: The Wall

Songs:
- Best All Around: Pigs (Three Different Ones) or Dogs
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pigs (Three Different Ones)
- Most Relaxing: Wish You Were Here, Echoes
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Money, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Probably Wish You Were Here, Dogs, Echoes, or Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V

- Bands Like This Band: I 'unno

- Coolest Thing About This Band: The early Floyd has great long instrumental passages combined with deep and well thought out lyrics
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Jan 13 2007, 09:42 PM
Ok, this is a thread for people to rant about how awesome/shitty they think a band is and inform them what they should listen/not listen to in their opinion, filling out this form:

Band Name: Pink Floyd

Genre: Rock (i know it's general, bite me)

Your Rating Of Them (1-10):

Best Album: The Wall

Songs:
- Best All Around: Pigs (Three Different Ones) or Dogs
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pigs (Three Different Ones)
- Most Relaxing: Wish You Were Here, Echoes
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Money, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Probably Wish You Were Here, Dogs, Echoes, or Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V

- Bands Like This Band: I 'unno

- Coolest Thing About This Band: The early Floyd has great long instrumental passages combined with deep and well thought out lyrics

You forgot the rating, and the fact that you don't know PF is prog rock-space rock scares me. :cigar:

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Jan 13 2007, 09:43 PM
working_class_hero
Jan 13 2007, 09:42 PM
Ok, this is a thread for people to rant about how awesome/shitty they think a band is and inform them what they should listen/not listen to in their opinion, filling out this form:

Band Name: Pink Floyd

Genre: Rock (i know it's general, bite me)

Your Rating Of Them (1-10):

Best Album: The Wall

Songs:
- Best All Around: Pigs (Three Different Ones) or Dogs
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Pigs (Three Different Ones)
- Most Relaxing: Wish You Were Here, Echoes
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Money, Wish You Were Here, Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Probably Wish You Were Here, Dogs, Echoes, or Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V

- Bands Like This Band: I 'unno

- Coolest Thing About This Band: The early Floyd has great long instrumental passages combined with deep and well thought out lyrics

You forgot the rating, and the fact that you don't know PF is prog rock-space rock scares me. :cigar:

I'm sorry your highness, I couldn't think of the word..
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Band Name: Portishead

Genre: trip-hop, downtempo

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: Dummy

Songs:
- Best All Around: Strangers
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': They have no hard rockin' songs, it's mood music
- Most Relaxing: It Could Be Sweet
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Glory Box, Sour Times
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Mysterons, Roads, Sour Times

- Similar Artists: Massive Attack, Lamb, Tricky

- Coolest Thing About This Band: That it sounds like nothing else. Dummy is claimed to be one of the most depressive albums ever. Try to listen to this record at night. Portishead's music is moody, atmospheric and beautiful.
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Name: Radiohead
Genre: Alternative, Electronica, Grunge
Rating: 9
Best Album: OK Computer and The Bends
Songs:
- All Around: "Just"
- Loudest: "Just"
- Most Relaxing: "You And Who's Army?"
- Most Known: "Creep", "Karma Police"
- Represents: "Paranoid Android"
Similar Artists: R.E.M., Coldplay, Can, Beck
Coolest Thing About Them: Though it may take a couple listens to get into their stuff (trust me, it did for myself), when you do, there's no going back. They're the true meaning of Alternative, every album has massive changes, from the grunge driven Pablo Honey to the 90s' masterpiece OK Computer to the electronia of Kid A, you have to like something.
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Band Name: Led Zeppelin

Genre: Hard Rock

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 10

Best Album: IV/Zoso/Runes

Songs:
- Best All Around: Stairway To Heaven
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Immigrant Song
- Most Relaxing: The Rain Song
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Stairway To Heaven
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Rock and Roll

- Bands Like This Band: Cream/Aerosmith/The Yardbirds/Deep Purple/ACDC/Van Halen

- Coolest Thing About This Band: Their perfection of the blues/rock and roll and the way they can be the hardest rocking band and the calmest, most beautiful at the same time. Both ther acoustic/electric stuff are two sides of the same excellent coin. Of course, their legendary mystifying and accelerating of rock music in the 70's makes them that much more powerful.

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Name: Nick Drake
Genre: Folk, Acoustic, Vocal
Rating: 9
Best Album: Five Leaves Left
Songs:
- All Around: "Time Has Told Me"
- Loudest: Hahahahaha. D:
- Most Relaxing: "Saturday Sun"
- Most Known: "One Of These Things First"
- Represents: "Pink Moon"
Similar Artists: Bob Dylan, Donovan, Simon & Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens
Coolest Thing About Them: Nick Drake has probably the most beautiful and depressing music you'll ever hear from anyone. His lyrics were really great for hardly ever writing before picking up a guitar, and since he only released three albums, all of his work is essential.
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