The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

[tragabigzanda]

[spike]

much like the mickey account, bands with any staying power have too many phases for this to be a constructive exercise.

I feel like I've basically had two phases.

how closely do they correlate with the two phases of pearl jam?

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

Primus - Nature Boy

I can get behind this. Maybe 'Harold of the Rocks'.

[Ello Sailor]

Is Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime or Burning Down The House or what

'This Must Be the Place'.

[Mickey]

Is Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime or Burning Down The House or what

'This Must Be the Place'.

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

Sabotage is not the quintessential Beastie Boys track. Its basically a punk rock song.

punk is foremost an attitude

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Jorge]

Sabotage is not the quintessential Beastie Boys track. Its basically a punk rock song.

punk is foremost an attitude

And they started as a punk band. I also initially raised an eyebrow at "Sabotage" but it's not a bad pick for Beastie Boys. A big thing with them was sampling, though, and "Sabotage" leaves that out entirely. After thinking about it for a bit, I'd pick "Make Some Noise": old-school hip-hop braggadocio with a hint of their political side, with lots of sampling but also their funky sci-fi instrumental stylings. And a cowbell break

[epilogue]

We should really delete the old board.

On this we agree.

[tragabigzanda]

[lennytheweedwhacker]

bon iver - holocene

[tragabigzanda]

[epilogue]

Like everyone who had a Livejournal in 2005, I went through a Decemberists phase. I can't really stand listening to them much these days but they have a few songs I still really like, such as the January and June hymns, "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect," and "The Drowned" from The Hazards of Love. I think Meloy writes really nice ballads

I never had a Livejournal. I guess that's why I'm the only one mature and intelligent enough to appreciate the band.

[Jorge]

Sabotage is not the quintessential Beastie Boys track. Its basically a punk rock song.

punk is foremost an attitude

And they started as a punk band. I also initially raised an eyebrow at "Sabotage" but it's not a bad pick for Beastie Boys. A big thing with them was sampling, though, and "Sabotage" leaves that out entirely. After thinking about it for a bit, I'd pick "Make Some Noise": old-school hip-hop braggadocio with a hint of their political side, with lots of sampling but also their funky sci-fi instrumental stylings. And a cowbell break

But then there’s not guitar

Yes there is! But anyway, there's more "Make Some Noise"-type music than there is "Sabotage"-type music in their discography, so I'm comfortable leaning that way for an inherently reductive exercise like this one

[tragabigzanda]

[epilogue]

Beastie Boys - Sabotage
STP - Vasoline
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Beck - Devil's Haircut
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live
Nirvana - Lithium
Alice In Chains - Rooster
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Decemberists ?

I’ve got no problems with any of these.

Other than The Decemberists, who are not music but rather garbage.

I love Decemberists, but this made me guffaw.

I’d go with Crane Wife 1 & 2, maybe.

It's Chimbley Sweep.

Didn't want to bottom page myself

this is probably correct, if only for the tweeness of "chimbley"

What does "tweeness" mean?

Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

I see.

Not sure I agree.

no old fashioned affectations to be found whatsoever

I guess I don't find anything excessive, affectionate, quant,or sentimental about it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

a lot of douche going on in here

[Jorge]

Like everyone who had a Livejournal in 2005, I went through a Decemberists phase. I can't really stand listening to them much these days but they have a few songs I still really like, such as the January and June hymns, "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect," and "The Drowned" from The Hazards of Love. I think Meloy writes really nice ballads

I never had a Livejournal. I guess that's why I'm the only one mature and intelligent enough to appreciate a band.

A few months ago I had to edit a video that was soundtrack by "Everything is Awful" from their latest album and there were a lot of precisely timed cuts and animation keyframes so I really learned to hate that song... maybe that's part of the reason I can't listen to them anymore