Anyone heard of/like The Queers, Screeching Weasel, The Lillingtons, Huntingtons, The Riverdales , The Hextalls? Suspect I know the answer
Yeah, all those bands are. Try "Riverdale Stomp" by The Riverdales or "No Pool Party Tonight" by the Huntingtons for very Ramonesy songs
Very true but I'm not talking for anyone else, I'm talking for me, I'll decide what's an insult to me, thank you very much. Maybe don't tell me what to think and speaking for yourself. For me it's an insult because I don't like it. I'm not telling you to dislike it am i? But check the title of the thread and what it's asking of us. Try telling us what you don't get instead of telling others what to think. Maybe that way you won't look a massive dong
Without them Nirvana would never have become the 'voice of a generation', Smells Like Teen Spirit has Pixies all over it, Cobain admitted that himself. "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard." -Kurt Cobain to Rolling Stone Magazine, 1994
Ray Manzarek did most the graft. I'm not a Jimmy Morrison Prostate tickler. Sounds a right prick if you ask me.
They might not have had commercial success but they are all in a different league to the likes of Green Day (Mike Dirnt of GD played in Screeching Weasel for a short period and would give his right arm to be half as good as his former bandmates). Not getting recognition doesn't mean their music is obscure. Quite the contrary. If the likes of Peel hadn't championed the likes of The Smiths, The Fall, Pixies, JAMC etc etc, they would have remained obscure too.
Found this post I made a while ago on an old thread from a couple of years back. Still stands for me. It's too easy to say a band are **** when a simple "not to my taste" or "I don't get them" should suffice.* Got hooked on music from an early age listening to what my parents were into, there obviously wasn't much choice at the time. The Coasters, Elvis, Johnny Kidd, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly. Soon started playing them through choice, favourites been Yakety Yak, Shakin All Over, & Buddy Holly. Uncle played a lot of soul so started listening to Motown & Stax on a Saturday when we visited my grandparents. By the time I was 12 I had a wide & varied taste, remember telling my new classmates in 1st year high school that I was into The Clash, think this was more bravado, but was listening to my elder brother's Clash records around that time. A defining moment that stood out for me was end of March 1980, went to work with my old man on a Tuesday. At 1300 (oldies will remember why I remember the day & time) We was parked up in Hummanby, I was listening to the wireless whilst my old man made a call. The Jam were revealed as No1 by Johnny Walker (I think), straight in, no messing, it was something special back then. Going Underground, blew me away. I had a mobile disco by 1985 playing around Holderness, including a residency at Pat Haven Leisure Park when it first opened. Sydney Scarbs used to give Djs 10% off. Pat Haven agreed to pay for all the records I had to buy. "Just put the reciepts in the till & take the cash." **** me I was ordering all sorts of **** throughout the summer season '85 & paid for none of it. Pat Haven were happy, I was getting them 10% off. PW has, throughout the years, influenced my life. I even decided to move out of London & back up North after hearing Uh Huh Oh Yeah. He's also sent me off in different musical directions & introduced me to other bands. Gil Scott-Heron - saw him in Manchester before he died - wonderful. Ben Harper - great writer & performer. Dr Feelgood, Wilko Johnson. Northern Soul, The Small Faces, The Kinks, OCS, The Moons, The Stypes & many more Once read an interview by the guy out of Terrorvision (remember them - Tequila, wonderful) he, quite ignorantly, suggested that Ocean Colour Scene were **** & couldn't play. He couldn't have been more wrong. This type of short sighted **** is what pisses me off about music, people too happy to criticise when they haven't really listened. it's all about taste. Not everybody will play guitar as well as Clapton, the bass like Mark King, Drums like Stevie White, write lyrics like Dylan & Bragg or sing like Aretha Franklin. Doesn't mean you can't be a great band or aren't talented. There's also loads of great new bands around, they just take a bit of finding nowadays. The Neutronics, The Sherlocks, Calling All Astranauts, The Cornerstones, The Electric Stars, Turrentine Jones, The Castellers, The Holy Ghosts, & Puppet Rebellion to name but a few. There shouldn't be boundaries in music only musical places we haven't visited yet. * **** whore bands like One ****ing Direction manufactured by **** whores like Simon ****ing Cowel are exempt from this sentence.
