When I'm bored with nothing to do, I might just post something here...and you might discover something cool. Most likely, you'll just discover another asshole with an opinion
I first heard these guys when I saw them open for Ted Leo and thought that they were really good. I've only got Here Comes Everyone, but it definitly gets a lot of play and I need to pick up some more of their stuff. I guess they're kinda known for using a vibraphone as a main instrument....but they're so much more than that. Anyway, great band. See them live. That video is kinda fuckin' gay and kinda cool at the same time.
Awesome band that no one has ever heard of. They broke up right around the time the album came out. I guess they used to be in Beachwood Sparks, I don't have any of their stuff but like what I've heard. Anyway, weird trippy rock...really good recommended for sure.
Probably the best pop-punk band around today. For some reason I have Crimson and Good Mourining and not the good stuff. Skiba used to write semi-serious songs about being pissed and drunk, and now he writes super serious songs about Goth things. I do have From here to Infirmary, which will have to do I guess. It seems like most people who like these guys are like super fanatical about them...I was never like that but I do really like a lot of the earlier jams. Saw them open up for the far superior Apocalypse Hoboken at the Metro once, and I was bored to death.
One of the first bands I ever really liked when I was just getting into music around 6th grade. I can only really listen to the MTV Unplugged album these days and got rid of the other stuff a long time ago, but the Unplugged is classic. What a beautiful performance. I think it was the first show they'd played in a few years because of Lanbe Staley's heroin problems. The guy just pours his heart out into every song. He was the AIC and Cantrell's solo stuff was weak.
Basically I could only find the grestest hits at this really shitty record store and really wanted to hear "I'm 18" so I spent $17 for that and a bunch of other bullshit I'll never listen to, including some shit pile called "I Never Cry" Eh? I'll keep "Wecome to My Nightmare" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and a few more.
What can you really say about the Reverend? I just wish I wasn't such a poser and had something besides the greatest hits album that everyone and their mom...let me re-phrase that...everyone's mom has. Classic, never gets old.
Only have Pocket Symphony and I don't play it much, but I could see getting really into it if the right situation came about so I'm kinda scared to get rid of it. I really like some of the bass parts and the song "One hell of a Party". I'd like to get more electronica stuff but never seem to think of it when I'm buying albums...maybe that's a sign?
Same deal as the Adolescents. I really early 80's west coast punk rock. These guys were always really kinda poppy and had a surf guitar sound to them that was original and helped them stand out. I think that if these guys came out today they'd be a lot bigger and but probably not as good. I remember one time, my friend showed up at the Wendy's where everyone hung out on a bike and we thought it would be funny if he sped up really fast to the people who were sitting outside Starbucks looking all scared. As soon as he stopped we flew around the corner blasting "Bloodstains" really loud and he took off on the bike as we speed after him in the car. People were supposed to be confused...anyway it seemed like the right song. And it was like 2000 and we were younger.
Another band I hardly listen to anymore, but still gotta keep because of the memories. Every once In awhile I do bust out the album and love it...definitly holds up. "Ameoba" kinda got ruined for me because of the Tony Hawk game, even though I've only ever played it once or twice I used to hear it at friends houses all the time, regardless what a classic song, and these dudes were like 17/ 18 when the recorded these jams. Crazy. I really like "Kids of the Black Hole" and "LA Girl"
Here is an enigma of a band. Everything about new AFI is fuckin' gay....look, tunes, Davey, etc. I never play them on my own anymore; however, when I hear older stuff, espicially "Black Sails..." I wanna crank it the fuck up. Luckily I never bought the newer shit so I'm content holding onto the old Misfits rip off shit and blasting it like I'm 16 every once in awhile. Good memories...burning their cd's for the ex-lady friend...a friend with an AFI tatoo who I'm sure regrets it now...seeing them at Warped in like '01 or so next to the BMX and skateborders
This band is creepy weird and slow as hell. I don't ever listen to the album, but I always thought that if I made a movie or something one day they would be a cool band to put on the soundtrack for a scene that is creepy, weird and slow. I will keep this, it will take up space, and I will probably never listen to it or use it in any way.
...Trail of Dead...I like a lot of what these guys do, I also don't like a lot of what these guys do. I buy their albums and tend to really only like...maybe half of it. Not essential by any means, but still cool once in awhile. Always thought the idea of them was cooler than the reality.
"A creative if menacing spirit looms over Denver like a carnival barker with a taste for life's dark lanes. His name is Munly, and he writes the haunted stories that are the backbone of his band's music"
"The first time in his career that Munly’s songs get their full due, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots delivers all the Gothic shadows, classic western imagery and boot-scooting twang we’d expect from one of the Mile High City’s most renown Southern Gothic minstrels – and then some. Munly, you’ve finally become a full-blown creep. Congratulations."
Jay Munly is fucking awesome. He's from the Denver Gothic scene, which mixes folk, country, gothic, gospel and shit like that into one delectable stew of jams. He also plays and sings in Slim Cessena's Auto Club, who are cool in their own right, but for my money they don't hold a candle to the man himself. I wanna see this guy live so bad, he was supposed to play near me awhile back and canceled his tour cause he was sick or something. I was pretty bummed out. I can't really put into words how awesome Munly is, just buy the album and enjoy.
I first heard these guys when I saw them open for Ted Leo and thought that they were really good. I've only got Here Comes Everyone, but it definitly gets a lot of play and I need to pick up some more of their stuff. I guess they're kinda known for using a vibraphone as a main instrument....but they're so much more than that. Anyway, great band. See them live. That video is kinda fuckin' gay and kinda cool at the same time.
