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Beanpole Striker said:
Tool have their moments - AEnima is a very decent album, but think Lateralus is quite over-hyped (love the groove in Reflection though). Could never get into Mars Volta though
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I think Lateralus is probably the best album I own. The Disposition/Reflection/Triad ending is cool, but I think their best work is in tracks like The Patient, Schism and Parabola. I wouldn't call that over-hyped at all; quite the opposite if anything.
 
joesteinberg said:
I think Lateralus is probably the best album I own. The Disposition/Reflection/Triad ending is cool, but I think their best work is in tracks like The Patient, Schism and Parabola. I wouldn't call that over-hyped at all; quite the opposite if anything.
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By over-hyped I just meant that its generally considered their best album but, personally, I find it too pretentious and think AEnima is far better. Just my opinion!
 
TheSecondStain said:
I could easily turn my post into an entire tribute to XTC. A band who took all their influences, and there were many, and when they didn't equal them, they surpassed them. Music is a very personal thing, and when I listen to XTC, it's as if they are talking to me. It's little wonder that most of the people I know personally just find them annoying. They say dismissive things like, Oh you like that band from Andover, don't you..? Swindon, actually. Well, up there then. What did they do..? I reel off a list of XTC singles, generally my least favourite tracks of theirs, ending with Making Plans For Nigel. That's the one, they say, as if I had been muttering some sort of Chinese dialect leading up to the title. And that's the trouble with XTC. They were always slightly invisible up against brasher bands like Simple Minds [who I liked a lot], Dire Straits [who evolved to bore the pants off me], The Police [Stuart Copeland - fabulous syncopated drummer; Andy Summers - waisted guitarist; Sting - egotistical pr!ck], etc... You either get XTC or you don't. If you are a total stranger to them, one listen to any unknown random track will most likely have you scurrying back to your favourite music from any era. However, if you liked Beatles [I confess I think I'm all Beatled out], Beach Boys, Kinks, Hollies, early Pink Floyd, Yes, and a host of other bands, chances are that you'll grow to like, if not love XTC. I love them that much that they are my band. Although, if someone else shows enough enthusiasm I'm happy to share experiences of songs. But they won't have the same first name and initials as Andy Partridge and tinnitus, as I do. So there..!

Beach Boys. F*** me. Brian Wilson has no peer as a song writer. Their early stuff was earth shattering at the time, but now sounds like dated pinball playing, chewing gum, seaside and surfing music [the sound of which they didn't invent] that it probably is. Then they started to rebel, the evidence of which was heard on a few B sides, but came into force with Pet Sounds, which blew everyone away. Occasionally, Pet Sounds will catch me off guard, and still blow me away. Thereafter, the list of magical BB songs seemed endless, although it was pretty much 10-15 years, before they stopped being properly creative. Harmonies never sounded so good and for a while they were so far ahead of their time they were in a parallel universe.

Occasionally, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young made/make some gorgeous music. I can listen to the album CSN [without Neil Young, this time] over and over again, without a break.

Others..? I'm on/off doing a spreadsheet of my Vinyl, CD, MP3 collection, and the separate bands are reaching the high hundreds [Le God knows where the albums are going], so it's difficult. Of course, Led Zep, Yes, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Gabriel, Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis Costello, Cream, Traffic, etc... But I also like/love [early] Dire Straits, Argent, America, Blur, Talking Heads, Donovan, Gary Numan [honest], Gong [who..?], John Martyn, Laurie Anderson [O Superman, remember..?], Michael Hedges, Stranglers, Nick Drake, Pat Metheny, Rory Gallagher, Cars, Kinks, The Art of Noise and even The Spinners. And others that I'm not going to flick through to remind me. Plus I like/love Mozart, Elgar, Verdi, you name it, I like much classical music, I don't like Bach, but I do like Burt Bacharach. To do a quick Fast Show thingy, this morning I have mostly been listening to Andy McKee. Look him up on YouTube. I recommend All Laid Back and Stuff and Tight Trite Night, for starters.
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Have you heard The Smile Sessions? My mind = blown. For me now their albums rank: Pet Sounds > SMiLE> Friends = Sunflower > Surf's Up = Today!
 
Simon21-LUFC said:
Just to jump in on this if you don't mind lads; Ignore Mars Volta, the newly reformed At the Drive-In is what you need to be listening to.
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As soon as I saw Joe's post I was going to say the same thing. Brilliant band, the Mars Volta are as well, but At The Drive-In is a different level.

Carrying on with a similar genre of music, one of my guilty pleasures (though not so guilty, it's unashamed) is Abba. Brilliant group!
 
Never really liked Tool much but oddly am a big fan of A Perfect Circle. I'm a big John Lennon Fan but their cover of Imagine is immense and I dont generally Like Lennon covers. They make me all pretentious and angry. Maynard James Keenan is a bit of a genius though. Other than that, I love Julien K (if you are also a fan, you are my new best friend), VAST, Depeche Mode, The Black Keys, Lost Prophets, Gary Numan, Motley Crue, The Doors (probably my favourite - I was lucky enough to see them, without Jim obviously, about 5 years ago), Faith no more (Mike Patton another genius), Guns 'n' Roses, Dopamine, Marilyn Manson, Suede, Blur, Adam Ant, Keith Caputo & many more
 
Any Saints-supporting bands/singers? I was always under the impression that Craig David and some of Coldplay were.[/QUOTE]

Reef! Kenwyn House (guitarist) is a Saints fan

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Love this song. It is a rule with me and my flat mate that should this song come on the radio or TV then we have to automatically drop everything we are doing and go out on the piss. Fortunately it doesn't get much airplay anymore. <party>
 
Simon21-LUFC said:
Have you heard The Smile Sessions? My mind = blown. For me now their albums rank: Pet Sounds > SMiLE> Friends = Sunflower > Surf's Up = Today!
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Had the Smile Sessions for my birthday. The "unplugged" version of "Surf's Up" is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful songs ever.
 
-Dan said:
As soon as I saw Joe's post I was going to say the same thing. Brilliant band, the Mars Volta are as well, but At The Drive-In is a different level.

Carrying on with a similar genre of music, one of my guilty pleasures (though not so guilty, it's unashamed) is Abba. Brilliant group!
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There are certain things that should never ever be disclosed in public! But if they are your thing, you'll be delighted to know that if you ring IKEA customer service they play Abba as the hold music. Ring at a busy time and you get a whole album!
 
Simon21-LUFC said:
Have you heard The Smile Sessions? My mind = blown. For me now their albums rank: Pet Sounds > SMiLE> Friends = Sunflower > Surf's Up = Today!
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As a confirmed Beach Boys fan, I'm going to have to admit to a No, there. You'd think I'd have heard everything they've released, but I'm a lazy bleeder, and I don't have bottomless pocket either. Must put in a word for Holland there, amongst your excellent list. Spotify here I come again.

EDIT: By the way, Lamballana, I think Beddy's being a bit harsh on you. Excellent thread. And some of the songs these bands have produced have been on a Saints Tannoy, down through the years, so I don't see what he's got to gripe about. ;)
 
TheSecondStain said:
As a confirmed Beach Boys fan, I'm going to have to admit to a No, there. You'd think I'd have heard everything they've released, but I'm a lazy bleeder, and I don't have bottomless pocket either. Must put in a word for Holland there, amongst your excellent list. Spotify here I come again.

EDIT: By the way, Lamballana, I think Beddy's being a bit harsh on you. Excellent thread. And some of the songs these bands have produced have been on a Saints Tannoy, down through the years, so I don't see what he's got to gripe about. ;)
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You should definitely Spotify. The out-takes and rough cuts are certainly interesting, but the true star is the approximation of the album at the beginning from Our Prayer -> Good Vibrations. It's probably not what it would have been had it been released at the time, but it's the closest we have now and it's fantastic, it's actually quite sad to see how close Brian came to finish it, it's only a couple of vocal takes off the 2004 version.
 
Not bands as such, I've decided to list music artists that have changed the way I think and feel through their music and songwriting...in no particular order:
John Lennon, Paul Weller, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), Billy Bragg, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Prince, James Mercer (The Shins), Pete Townsend, Shane McGowan, Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Graham Parker, Andy Partridge (XTC), Donald ***an (Steely Dan), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) David Bowie.
 
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