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Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 10:56 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 10:56 pm
by spike
Mickey wrote:
spike wrote: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?

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 10:57 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 10:59 pm
by Ello Sailor
tragabigzanda wrote:Primus - Nature Boy
I can get behind this. Maybe 'Harold of the Rocks'.

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:01 pm
by Ello Sailor
tragabigzanda wrote:Is Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime or Burning Down The House or what
'This Must Be the Place'.

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:01 pm
by Mickey
Ello Sailor wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Is Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime or Burning Down The House or what
'This Must Be the Place'.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:02 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:02 pm
by Ello Sailor
spike wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:Sabotage is not the quintessential Beastie Boys track. Its basically a punk rock song.
punk is foremost an attitude
:thumbsup:

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:03 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote: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

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:06 pm
by Jorge
spike wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote: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

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:08 pm
by epilogue
Mickey wrote:We should really delete the old board.
On this we agree.

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:08 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:09 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
bon iver - holocene

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:09 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:10 pm
by epilogue
Jorge wrote: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.

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:11 pm
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote:
Jorge wrote:
spike wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote: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

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:11 pm
by tragabigzanda

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:12 pm
by epilogue
spike wrote:
epilogue wrote:
spike wrote:
epilogue wrote:
spike wrote:
epilogue wrote:
epilogue wrote:
dad wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Ello Sailor wrote: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.

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:12 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
a lot of douche going on in here

Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist

Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 11:13 pm
by Jorge
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote: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