Kevin's Watch

AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Silverstein, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, The Used, and Thrice.

Oh, and the soundtrack to "Garden State." Or maybe I should've just said "emo."

Crystal Method

Cail and Foul,

Great, or should I say terrible, choices. All awful bands.

Lord Foul wrote:AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Silverstein, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, The Used, and Thrice.

Oh, and the soundtrack to "Garden State." Or maybe I should've just said "emo."

I agree with you for the most part. Some of those bands have their moments though.

Can't agree with the Garden State Soundtrack though. I love that CD... I have to be in the right mood to listen to it, but sometimes it's just perfect. Loved the movie too.


I can't stand Good Charlotte, NOFX, MXPX, or Less Than Jake

Buuut, I must admit that I love a fair share of bands I know are "everything that's wrong with the music industry" if you must put it that way. For instance: Default, Jack's Mannequin (which is pretty emo, I'm told, I'm not too clear on what all these new fangled genres are ), and I have some pretty generic rock which, while not my favorite, I still listen to it occassionally, like Earshot and Crossfade.

And I'll always like Green Day and Modest Mouse even if you've only heard their newest albums and have decided to label them sellouts.

I've never listened to any Green Day, but I heard that American Idiot was a great "comeback" album for them.

I've listened to all Green Day except American Idiot. And I've heard all the singles from even that album.

Matrixman wrote:I've never listened to any Green Day, but I heard that American Idiot was a great "comeback" album for them.

Thanks for reminded me. I add Green Day to my list. And most music after 1977.

Oh, and may I just say:

JIMMY BUFFET, I WILL SEE YOU IN HELL. WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION WILL NEVER BE FORGIVEN.

Lord Foul wrote:...And most music after 1977.

And here I thought you didn't care for Elvis.

Heh. I was referring to the emergence of punk as mainstream. Then again, Elvis keeling over might've brought that on. Was he was guarding the future of rock?! Conspiracy theory forum, here I come!

Syl,

If I remember, you're an Elvis man aren't ya? I've really started to discover him (as well as Sinatra) lately.

(early Elvis is ok. my mom kinda burned me out on Elvis, tho. i LOVE old blue eyes!)


and add me to the list of "can't stand green day" supporters. blech.

If I ever got any Elvis again it'd definitely be the Sun Sessions. Stay away, Army Elvis, fat Elvis, and Elvis abducted by aliens!

For instance, there's two kinds of people in this world, Elvis people and Beatles people. Now Beatles people can like Elvis. And Elvis people can like the Beatles. But nobody likes them both equally. Somewhere you have to make a choice. And that choice tells me who you are.

It's more of in that sense that I'm an Elvis man. I mean, I don't have any of his mp3s (though that's not a bad idea... *fires up DC++*), and maybe it's because I'm a Reno boy, but Elvis is just The King.

Elvis, Johnny Cash, Sinatra, too. They're men's men. *shrug* The Beatles were just really good musicians.

Now, I've not seen the movie, but I've seen the previews for Hostel, and that appears to encompas some of the things I'd like to do to Jimmy Buffett before I hip-tossed him into the chipper/shredder.

I've never wanted to self-immolate myself in a car bomb more in my life than the 3 hours of Hell I endured with 20,000 idiots at a Buffett concert.

Syl wrote:Elvis, Johnny Cash, Sinatra, too. They're men's men. *shrug* The Beatles were just really good musicians.

I think you cowboys are just jealous of the fact that, in their heyday, the Fab Four could've bedded half the women on this planet.

Lord Foul wrote:AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Silverstein, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, The Used, and Thrice.

Oh, and the soundtrack to "Garden State." Or maybe I should've just said "emo."

Probably should have said emo...
Although Brand New and Thrice i do like.

Syl,

Definitely. Sinatra at the Sands and Cash's At Folscom Prison are two of my favorite records.

Lord Foul wrote:

Syl wrote:Elvis, Johnny Cash, Sinatra, too. They're men's men. *shrug* The Beatles were just really good musicians.

I think you cowboys are just jealous of the fact that, in their heyday, the Fab Four could've bedded half the women on this planet.

Ah, see, Foul, that's where you miss the point. It's not about that. Sure, The Beatles could've had their pick of women (and not one much of a looker). So could, say, The Backstreet Boys. And though I would never otherwise compare the two, they both lack that essence that Elvis, Cash, and Sinatra have. Now, this could be partially because as a band their charisma, their virility, is spread out and diluted (though much like Nirvana with Cobain, Ringo was the focal point... hmm, and I suppose that makes Dave Grohl the Paul McCartney).

Hmm. Other comparisons. Jerry Cantrell vs Layne Staley. Rob Zombie vs Fatboy Slim. System of a Down vs Linkin' Park (though that one's pretty close). Bruce Willis vs Tom Hanks. *shrug*

Oh, you meant that kind of manliness--the "come on son lets go hunt some deer and chug a beer or run people over with my angular, manly chin." Well, I'm glad the Beatles don't possess that. I mean, I just can't picture any of those guys you mentioned singing the line "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." Maybe Cash.

No on the first count. I'm not a hick; that kind of thing doesn't appeal to me. I don't think I'll be able to explain it to you. I'll just have to go with Louis Armstrong's quote about jazz on that one.

On the second... perhaps. But as talented as The Beatles were, even you have to admit that it'd suck if every band sounded and acted just like them.