Any artists/albums in particular? I'm interested. If it's been done better then I've love to hear it.Purple Shrimp said:
Strangest way you have heard of a band?
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I've been listening a lot to the Residents recently and I feel they pull it off better. I actually relistened to Trout Mask Replica yesterday, since it's been a while, and the two are more similar than I'd remembered, but I prefer Residents. I think the difference between the two is that you can tell that TMR is just avant-gardey blues (except for the Dust Blows Forward thingy), whereas with the Residents it's certainly avant-garde but it's a lot harder to pinpoint that origin, which I think makes it a more effective statement.TheLaofKazi said:
I still love Sugar and Spikes though
I like the Residents, although it's hard to get into them since they have so many albums. I enjoyed the Commercial album though.Purple Shrimp said:I've been listening a lot to the Residents recently and I feel they pull it off better. I actually relistened to Trout Mask Replica yesterday, since it's been a while, and the two are more similar than I'd remembered, but I prefer Residents. I think the difference between the two is that you can tell that TMR is just avant-gardey blues (except for the Dust Blows Forward thingy), whereas with the Residents it's certainly avant-garde but it's a lot harder to pinpoint that origin, which I think makes it a more effective statement.
I still love Sugar and Spikes though
I don't really compare the two though. I mean, sure it's obvious that Captain Beefheart is rooted in blues, rock and free jazz, but that doesn't make me enjoy it any less. Sure, you could argue that the Residents were more original because they play so many different types of music to the point where you can't really distinguish the influences, but I don't really like to compare bands, I look at each song I hear in their own context I guess. Captain Beefheart combined blues, psychedelic rock and free jazz, and he did a fucking great job of it. The fact that another band like the Residents may have done something arguably more original doesn't detract from my enjoyment of them, because they both sound great to me.
While not exactly introducing me to the band, when I saw the tv spot for Left 4 dead 2 I was like "Holy shit, that's Neil Fallon!"
I hadn't listened to clutch in years, and it gave me a great reason to do so.
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I hadn't listened to clutch in years, and it gave me a great reason to do so.
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Hmmm.. this isn't particularly strange but: a few years ago when i was about 12 we me and my cousins went to see a show in london... joseph I think, which as you know is pretty happy clappy stuff. When we got home my cousin went on youtube and showed me Marilyn Manson for the first time, you wouldn't really expect a 12 year old with floppy blonde hair to be as amazed and hypnotised as i was. Since then I have all his albums etc and i even wrote a GCSE English exam on him. A pretty sharp contrast between joseph- a bloke who talks to god, and the God of F**k.
I was playing Team Fortress 2 and there was a guy playing an awesome tuba loop over team chat. I asked him what was it and he said it was from a song by Them Crooked Vultures. Turned out it was just a 10-second ending of an otherwise boring song, and I didn't like any of their other songs either. But when I was downloading the album I decided to look TCV on wiki. From there I went to the "supergroup" article and there was a long list of supergroups. A band called Fantomas caught my attention because it had Dave Lombardo on drums and King Buzzo on guitar. Now I wasn't into Faith No More when it was popular and I haven't heard any other Mike Patton's bands, but when I discovered Fantomas I just loved it, so I decided to dig a bit deeper. Since that day Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas and Tomahawk are among my favourite bands.
I was a bit upset though when I found out that Faith No More were on a reunion tour and there was a concert in my city just a month before I discovered Fantomas and I missed it because I wasn't into FNM back then.
I was a bit upset though when I found out that Faith No More were on a reunion tour and there was a concert in my city just a month before I discovered Fantomas and I missed it because I wasn't into FNM back then.
I agree with your argument from a general point of view, but in the specific area of avant-garde music I think it's more important to make that comparison. I mean, a regular musician making a song should only have the aim of making the best-sounding song they can, and they can do that with whatever influences they want to. however, I'd say an avant-garde musician has the two aims of doing that and making it as original as possible; since the latter can be best achieved by eschewing obvious influences as much as possible, I think the Residents are better in that sense.TheLaofKazi said:I like the Residents, although it's hard to get into them since they have so many albums. I enjoyed the Commercial album though.Purple Shrimp said:I've been listening a lot to the Residents recently and I feel they pull it off better. I actually relistened to Trout Mask Replica yesterday, since it's been a while, and the two are more similar than I'd remembered, but I prefer Residents. I think the difference between the two is that you can tell that TMR is just avant-gardey blues (except for the Dust Blows Forward thingy), whereas with the Residents it's certainly avant-garde but it's a lot harder to pinpoint that origin, which I think makes it a more effective statement.
I still love Sugar and Spikes though
I don't really compare the two though. I mean, sure it's obvious that Captain Beefheart is rooted in blues, rock and free jazz, but that doesn't make me enjoy it any less. Sure, you could argue that the Residents were more original because they play so many different types of music to the point where you can't really distinguish the influences, but I don't really like to compare bands, I look at each song I hear in their own context I guess. Captain Beefheart combined blues, psychedelic rock and free jazz, and he did a fucking great job of it. The fact that another band like the Residents may have done something arguably more original doesn't detract from my enjoyment of them, because they both sound great to me.
Also, since you were interested in artist suggestions previously: the Velvet Underground is the band I originally posted in the thread, and while they're much milder in terms of weirdness than Captain Beefheart, I can certainly see why they'd appeal to a fan of C.B.
Dropkick Murphys, I got hooked on them by 2 ways actually, I loved the theme song in The Departed: NSFW, Departed Spoilers
and then from the video game MLB 05 with "tessie"
and then from the video game MLB 05 with "tessie"
I was playing a line up of classic rock covers, and my own old rock style songs at my dad's friend's party when I was 12. This guy at the party pulled a stereo, a TOOL cd and a Rage Against the Machine cd out of his backpack (in which he also had a drink mixing kit, and probably a leprechaun considering how much random stuff he pulled out of there throughout the night). Hearing about those bands was actually pretty mundane, but when I started getting into Rage Against the Machine, I started researching Emeliano Zapata. On his popular culture references page on wikipedia, it said that a band called "Anti-Flag" had a song about Zapatista's so I located it on the internet.
I had no previous experience with punk music before that, except the "punk" (very sarcastic airquotes) songs by bands such as Fall Out Boy. I listened to Zapatista Don't Give Up and a few other Anti-Flag songs, said "god dammit this is awesome" and proceeded to adopt punk as my new favorite genre after a few months.
I had no previous experience with punk music before that, except the "punk" (very sarcastic airquotes) songs by bands such as Fall Out Boy. I listened to Zapatista Don't Give Up and a few other Anti-Flag songs, said "god dammit this is awesome" and proceeded to adopt punk as my new favorite genre after a few months.
Hey, I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free.oppp7 said:
You do what you gotta do.
On Topic: I went to a jazz competition. This sexy drummer from one of the other schools invited me to watch her school perform the next day, she said they were playing with some pro group.
Well, I went. Because she's really hot. And, it turns out, Kneebody was Freaking Amazing. I loved it. Me and the girl went and met the keyboard player afterwards. He's hella nerdy.
Fair enough, you make a good point.Purple Shrimp said:
I'll check out the Velvet Underground. I've known about them for a long while, but I just never got around to listening to them.
