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07-28-2006, 05:19 PM
freshies

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarkman1

Under (meaning: never really gather a mainstream following and stayed in a cult/college radio radio/etc niche) - The Replacements.

Exactly. They were pure fooking genuis. Paul W was an amazing song writer, and when these guys were not too loaded, they put on one of the best live shows I ever saw (remember, I was in HS, at a small club with a fake ID getting loaded and jumping up and down in the front singing the lyrics to every song, so I may tend to now romanticize those shows/days gone by :D
07-28-2006, 05:24 PM
fez

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

CVB was slated to play a local pub when they found out that Joan Jett was scheduled to play after them. They cancelled and went and played a 3 hour free set at the Blue Moon in the U-District. Freaking ROCKIN' show.

Take the skinheads bowling.

too bad they didnt do that when they played bozeman opening for Leftover Salmon. i really wanted to go see CVB, but no way i was going to pay for a ticket to see the opener then leave.
07-28-2006, 05:52 PM
buckethead

Quote:

Originally posted by Freshies
Paul W was an amazing song writer, and when these guys were not too loaded, they put on one of the best live shows I ever saw

yea, they were a great band w/great+catchy tunes...'let it be' was one of my favorite albums that year (85)...caught a couple of not-too-drunk shows...though they did manage to fuck up a few tunes.

saw 'em years later in a shed (after bob stinson drank himself to death) opening for petty and they were very professional...and dull - a shadow of their former selves.
07-28-2006, 05:54 PM
tarkman1

It's pretty easy to sit back on this thread and say 'such and such suck' without ever personally having stepped up to write, record, release, or perform music.
07-28-2006, 06:30 PM
Rasputin

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarkman1

It's pretty easy to sit back on this thread and say 'such and such suck' without ever personally having stepped up to write, record, release, or perform music.

Well I've got to admit, I've never released any of the songs I wrote, performed, and recorded, so sue me.:tongue:
07-28-2006, 06:32 PM
FartBag Commando

Overrated - Black-Eyed Peas

Underrated - QOTSA
07-28-2006, 06:33 PM
rippah

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarkman1

It's pretty easy to sit back on this thread and say 'such and such suck' without ever personally having stepped up to write, record, release, or perform music.

Been there done that. Can I tell everyone which music sucks now?;)
Personally I don't see how that qualifies someone over the rest of the people who enjoy listening to, and bitching about, music.

Underrated:

Gang of Four
Bettie Servert
Another vote for Nada Surf
Mogwai
The Birthday Party
Rainer Maria
Caterwaul
The Afghan Whigs
Gang of Four

Overrated:

Most everything (but not all) that makes the charts

r.:cool:
07-28-2006, 07:25 PM
BushwackerinPA

The Fray

Underrated -
Rise Against
The Clarks(Pasucks will say i am obsessed)
Reckless Kelly
The Doves
Greenwheel
Unwritten Law
Citizen Cope
Blue Oyster Cult (godzilla!!!)
Big Wreck
The Fray

Overrated every manufactored pop act on clearchannel
07-28-2006, 07:43 PM
flatlander420

Soooo right about the Kinks. Ray Davies is a genius

under: The Church

over : The Cure
07-28-2006, 08:03 PM
iceman

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Suit

Tonio K

Ho-leee SHIT, I thought I was the only one. From memory:

"We're talking about the good life,
In the food chain,
Love among the ruins
I guess you finally got to accept
That there's nothing you can do about it...
It's kind of like carving the turkey
It's kind of like mowing the lawn,
Everything gets to this certain dimension
Winds up on a customer's plate and then gone."

GOOD FUCKING SHIT
07-28-2006, 08:21 PM
Spats

Quote:

Originally Posted by subtle plague

waxwing THE band defining a whole genre.(emo that is)

WTF?

Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbox
Fugazi
Rites of Spring
Husker Du
It's even possible to argue that the Violent Femmes were the first "emo" band, back in 1980. Who the fuck is Waxwing?
07-28-2006, 08:25 PM
Spats

Overrated: QOTSA
Underrated: Kyuss

Overrated: Dashboard Confessional
Underrated: Any J. Robbins band (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, etc.)

Overrated: Aphex Twin
Underrated: Pan Sonic

Overrated: Godspeed You Black Emperor
Underrated: The For Carnation

Most overrated musician of all time: Stevie Ray Vaughan
07-28-2006, 08:27 PM
The Suit

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Ho-leee SHIT, I thought I was the only one. From memory:

"We're talking about the good life,
In the food chain,
Love among the ruins
I guess you finally got to accept
That there's nothing you can do about it...
It's kind of like carving the turkey
It's kind of like mowing the lawn,
Everything gets to this certain dimension
Winds up on a customer's plate and then gone."

GOOD FUCKING SHIT

Why don't you G-O-T-O-H-E double L.
You tramp. You philandering bitch.
I'm going to K-I-L-L one of us baby.
Give me time and I'll decide on which.
07-28-2006, 08:47 PM
The AD

Quote:

Originally Posted by flatlander420

under: The Church

Yay!

under: Catherine Wheel, Straitjacket Fits, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Julian Cope, Echo and the Bunnymen, American Music Club, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon.
07-28-2006, 09:04 PM
SteepnDeep

OR = U2 (my buddy made note I have always flipped the station when they play, shit, he's right..hmmm?)

UR = UFO (70's hard rock at it's best)
07-28-2006, 09:16 PM
The AD

http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/band...lbums/lust.gif

Iggy looked a little like Ellen DeGeneres, didn't he? :D
07-28-2006, 09:24 PM
Blurred

Quote:

Originally Posted by The AD

http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/band...lbums/lust.gif

Iggy looked a little like Ellen DeGeneres, didn't he? :D

Yeah, he liked dick though.
07-29-2006, 04:45 AM
subtle plague

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spats

WTF?

Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbox
Fugazi
Rites of Spring
Husker Du
It's even possible to argue that the Violent Femmes were the first "emo" band, back in 1980. Who the fuck is Waxwing?

Hey the femmes certainly not.(im not a musician, but i guess the guitar chords do not sound a certain way. or else you could define brit pop as emo as well. im not saying that the femmes are brit pop eitrher ;), i just wanted to illustrate my chords example. i cannot explain it any better :( )
the first "official" were Rites of spring in the 80s.
"when does a hardcore band become emo ? when they start singing about girls" ;)
well and i did say that waxwing are "underrated" because nobody in the "scene" gives them credit and they pretty much sum up the whole genre in the best way. I guess you got it the way that they defined the genre when it all began. which is not possible of course because they formed in the late 90s. I didn't say they influenced anyone or helped define the genre, i just wanted to say that for someone who never listened to emo they would sum the genre up. And while you are namedropping the bands who "started" the genre how can you forget "texas is the reason" or "far" ? minus 100 scene points. :p

edit: but your over and under list is exquisit. (and so right ! altthough i like godspeed you! black emperor and must confess i haven't heard the other band :( ) :)

btw. since im already here:
overrated:
bright eyes (yeah connor is soo sweet and such a great artist, but there are plenty of singer songwriters out there who are as good as him)

underrated:
the lemonheads (see nada surf. "hey didn't they do the mrs. robinsson cover ?" :rolleyes: )
07-29-2006, 09:43 AM
MarsB

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spats

WTF?

Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbox
Fugazi
Rites of Spring
Husker Du
It's even possible to argue that the Violent Femmes were the first "emo" band, back in 1980. Who the fuck is Waxwing?

Good list. I'll add that many consider Dag Nasty's "Can I Say?" the first emo album.

edit:
More underrated (non-obscure) bands: The Misfits
Black Sabbath

Overrated: Pink Floyd
07-29-2006, 10:03 AM
mr_gyptian

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spats

Most overrated musician of all time: Stevie Ray Vaughan

That is a steaming bag of shit.

I'm not saying he's the greatest guitarist of all time, but the most overrated is just plain silly.
07-29-2006, 10:25 AM
iceman

Gotta side with Mr_G on this one.
07-29-2006, 10:48 AM
DisArray

"We've got to go out to Wyoming and conquer some fucking open spaces..."

Quote:

Originally Posted by cj001f

Under: Velvet Underground
Over:Grateful Dead post American Beauty/Workingman's Dead

Amen to that.

More recently-

over:Blink 182 and Green Day, edit: The Strokes
under:Spoon
07-29-2006, 10:53 AM
Mr.Scruff

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spats

Overrated: Aphex Twin

:nonono2:

Over: Nirvana
Under: Mint Royale
07-29-2006, 11:29 AM
Mybad!

Over: Wide Spread Panic, actually they just plain suck!
Under: Any good bluegrass band.
07-29-2006, 12:18 PM
CRACKER

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Gotta side with Mr_G on this one.

C'mon,"Live At The Malcanbo"is a perfect example of why SRV is highley overrated.:rolleyes2

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