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oximoronx's top albums (6 months) 1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (96) 2. Wire - Pink Flag (84) 3. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (83) 4. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville (80) 5. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (76) 6. Pixies - Trompe le Monde (76) 7. The Stooges - The Stooges (69) 8. The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutique (69) 9. Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls (68) 10. Orange Juice - The Glasgow School (67) 11. Wire - Chairs Missing (66) 12. George Harrison - Wonderwall Music (65) 13. Arcade Fire - Funeral (64) 14. Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont. (63) 15. Faust - The Faust Tapes (63) 16. Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (62) 17. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (60) 18. The Chameleons - Dali's Picture (60) 19. Joy Division - Substance (60) 20. fIREHOSE - Flyin' the Flannel (59) 21. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (59) 22. Pixies - Surfer Rosa (59) 23. The Clash - London Calling (59) 24. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (57) 25. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (57) 26. Josef K - Entomology (57) 27. Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album (54) 28. Cocteau Twins - BBC Sessions (53) 29. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (51) 30. Wire - 154 (49) 31. The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme) (49) 32. HEALTH - HEALTH (48) 33. Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam (48) 34. Disco Inferno - In Debt (48) 35. Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (47) 36. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (47) 37. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (47) 38. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (46) 39. Brian Eno - Music For Films (46) 40. High Places - High Places (46) 41. Pixies - Doolittle (46) 42. Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine (45) 43. Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (45) 44. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (45) 45. Liars - Liars (44) 46. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (44) 47. David Bowie - Low (44) 48. Television - Marquee Moon (44) 49. Cluster - Zuckerzeit (44) 50. Sebadoh - Bakesale (43)

these are in a rough order

52. Stored Up Wonder (Supernatural Force) - Sebadoh
51. I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson
50. Rock 'N' Roll Star - Oasis
49. 6060-842 - The B-52's
48. Split Myself In Two - Meat Puppets
47. Breather - Chapterhouse
46. In The Flowers - Animal Collective
45. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
44. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
43. 25 O'Clock - The Dukes of Stratosphear
42. Bennett Cerf - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
41. Up Front - Wipers
40. Lowdown - Wire
39. Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
38. Hanging Around - Stranglers
37. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
36. Soul Kitchen - The Doors
35. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
34. Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
33. Jack's Shadow - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
32. Your Protector - Fleet Foxes
31. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
30. The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
29. That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission of Burma
28. Hateful - The Clash
27. Inside Me - The Jesus and Mary Chain
26. She's So High - Blur
25. Step On - Happy Mondays
24. Going Away To College - blink-182
23. IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayIt'sWorldWouldFallApart - Manic Street Preachers
22. Dig For Fire - Pixies
21. Soul Love - David Bowie
20. Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream
19. Beginning - The Durutti Column
18. Aneurysm - Nirvana
17. It Girl - Brian Jonestown Massacre
16. Young Hearts Spark Fire - Japandroids
15. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
14. Off Duty Trip - The Raincoats
13. She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach - Manic Street Preachers
12. Is She Weird - Pixies
11. 50ft Queenie - PJ Harvey
10. At Home He's A Tourist - Gang of Four
09. Spend, Spend, Spend - The Slits
08. Cold Hands - Black Lips
07. Elevation - Television
06. Geek U.S.A. - Smashing Pumpkins
05. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
04. Metal Mickey - Suede
03. Die In The Summertime - Manic Street Preachers
02. Words Fail Me - The Sound
01. Aladdin Sane - DAVID BOWIE


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Eight Dayz
fIREHOSE

Good job, Natas. Hey, hey! Really good job, man. Good job, Natas.

I've been on last.fm for two years + now, so i thought i'd write down what music last.fm has introduced me to or helped to listen to. In no particular order...

Ween
Superchunk
Archers of Loaf
Z-Rock Hawaii
Boredoms
fIREHOSE
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Mothers of Invention
Cows
Melt-Banana
Naked City
Pavement
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Gibby Haynes & His Problem
Camper Van Beethoven
Violent Femmes
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so, yeah, thanks to last.fm, woo.

we all know that only man can make his own opinions to define abstract things like "eclecticism," but im kinda bored so here it goes:

Original Eclectic Test: 99/100
Second Version: 817/1000

Tag Cloud (Watch for skewered browser screens):

alternative alternative rock classic rock electronic experimental funk grunge hardcore hip hop hip-hop indie indie rock noise rock post-punk progressive rock punk punk rock rap rock singer-songwriter

Recommended Artists (and my opinions on them):

A Tribe Called Quest- Have their first three albums and I love Low End Theory
Alice in Chains- Used to love them, but I got tired and figured out how mediocre they really were
Audioslave- Listened to a few tracks; unimpressed
Black Flag- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Blackalicious- Have an album and need to listen to it
Butthole Surfers- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Chris Cornell- First album was great, other albums were really meh...
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains- Neat side project
Del tha Funkee Homosapien- Wanted to listen to him, but i could never find his stuff so i gave up
Dinosaur Jr.- Casual fan
Eric B. & Rakim- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Flipper- Casual fan
Gang Starr- Need to listen the albums I have of theirs
Green River- Casual fan; should've seen them at their 08 reunion
Iggy Pop- Only have The Idiot and Lust for Life and that's enough for it
Jerry Cantrell- Wanted to listen to him, but i could never find his stuff so i gave up
Jurassic 5- Used to love them growing up, but I got tired and moved on
Les Claypool- Alright, though I prefer Primus
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
MF DOOM- Never listened to 'em; guess now i should
Mad Season- Kinda lame side project
Madvillain- Never listened to 'em; guess now i should
Mark Lanegan- Listened to 1 of 3 albums I own of his, meaning I need to listen to the other two
Minutemen- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Mission of Burma- Casual fan
Mother Love Bone- Alright, not my cup of tea
Mudhoney- Should listen more to them
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nirvana- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Pavement- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Pearl Jam- Still have their whole discography, but nowadays I find them lackluster
Pixies- Already have the whole discography and love 'em
Public Enemy- First four albums are enough for me
Public Image Ltd.- First three albums are enough for me
Rapeman- Neat side project
Richard Hell and the Voidoids- Never listened to 'em; guess now i should
Scratch Acid- I got that compilation of their EP's and I really dig it
Screaming Trees- Kinda mediocre
Sebadoh- Don't know where to start
Sonic Youth- Already have a bunch of their albums and love them
Stone Temple Pilots- Really REALLY mediocre band
Television- Need to give Marquee Moon another good listen
Temple of the Dog- Neat side project
The Damned- Alright, not my cup of tea
The Pharcyde- Have one album that I don't really dig
The Replacements- Have their essentials; great band
The Roots- Never listened to 'em; guess now i should
Wipers- I have some album that I should give a good listen again
fIREHOSE- Have two albums; they're neat

that's all, folks
nothin to see here

So there a small cadre of bands that were doing stuff that sounded vaguely like country or maybe country rock before folks took notice of Uncle Tupelo or coined the idea of a No Depression movement.

This guy who was all into fIREHOSE and the Velvet Underground surprised the hell out of me by recommended a band called Drivin 'N Cryin which had both a college radio feel and a good bit of country rock vibe to it at the same time. They got some airplay around Georgia later on but it was almost like their sound became more one-dimensional like they began to buy into the press that put them in a southern rock hole and never let them out again. The bits of their sound that fit more a college radio instead of a southern album oriented rock station just faded out.

But this is when they still blew my mind.




Then there was of course The Meat Puppets who seemed to surprise everyone by making really noisy obnoxious music with a country feel to it. Where the hell do they really honestly fit in? They might be an easier band to classify to cowpunk but I am not sure the moniker to the sound really fits honestly.



The Knitters started in 1985 as a side project for the band X but they come close enough on the heels of alt-country but they were never kind of part of that feel. The band X had a lot of rockabilly influence to their punk even openly ripping off as a tribute a Chuck Berry opening riff for a song or two on occasion. The country thing really made a lot of sense when viewed in terms of that vision.



I am not sure what made me to start to think about this but I know folks who like country and even alt-country who have no idea about these bands.

Then there is the most forgotten of all forgotten bands Chickasaw Mudd Puppies. This band I saw in the back of a redneck bar Bubba's in Statesboro Ga. They blew my mind. They were artsy in a way and creative like an early Athens band but they were also country like country on acid or something.



I mean how in the hell do you classify The Cowboy Junkies? They ain't country. Lets get that out of the way. They are not neatly fit into the category of folk but they kind of for me do sort of seem like the US equiv of say The Pogues maybe?



Oh yeah do not even start with me on a list of folks I missed. No I did not mention The Blasters for example. But I am just thinking of all the bands I dug even while most of my listening revolved solely around Underground 80's and punk music.

It all started with 5 Minutes to Live's Lost & Found Video Night, vol. 4. The all-music edition. If you've never seen a Lost & Found Video Night, check it out. Compilations of bizarre, diverse footage of all kinds. But yes so the all-music edition: all sorts of goodness on there: The Mummies live, The Cramps playing at that state mental hospital, live Lightning Bolt, et al. I'd watched it at the video store where i until two days ago worked, and really enjoyed it, and finally decided to bring it home as part of an evening of psychedelic indulgence, so after dropping and seeing Deerhunter play (a very excellent show i'd like to mention), my girlfriend and i came home and i threw the disc on, and the clip that TOTALLY blew the two of us away, and i mean moreso than the rest of the clips that blew us away an average amount, was a circa '84 cable access performance by the Butthole Surfers playing "TP Parter" off the Rembrandt Pussyhorse album.
Unfortunately, when i was coming of age musically, the Buttholes were enjoying MTV Buzz Clip status with "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" which, while catchy, wasn't really my Chapel Hill indie-rockin' cup of tea. So while i was vaguely aware of some sort of history that the band had, I figured it was largely more of that same psycho-billy modern greaser rock. And since it wasn't as good, in my opinion, as the Reverend Horton Heat (who i WAS into), i just sort of wrote them off. And as I got older and heard stories that made them seem more appealing, i nevertheless figured I'd just missed the boat on those guys, and no point trying to go back and make up for lost time.
Seeing that old performance, every member of the band seemingly fried out of their minds on lsd, the dual stand-up drummers (which i hadn't ever heard mentioned), Gibby Haynes' amazing cult-guru delivery, etc. finally convinced me some 15 years or so after my initial dismissal that i'd made a terrible mistake. So i took home "Blind Eye Sees All," the Surfers' 85 live in Detroit dvd, really dug on that, and started requesting old Butthole albums from the Portland library system (which is amazing), and wondering where the hell this band had been all my life.
Anyways, searching through the library's database for more Buttholes, i got a hit on the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azerrad. Much like the band itself, this was a book that i'd heard of that seemed interesting but not something i'd go out of my way to get a look at. I don't care much for Minor Threat, i already know plenty about the history of Sonic Youth, so why bother, etc. etc.
But hey, a whole chapter on the Butthole Surfers?! Okay, reason enough to read that sucker, so i grabbed that from the library too. And of course their chapter was pretty much everything i was hoping for: copious acid use, insane philosophizing, Ta-Dah the Shit Lady and her history--enough to make me wish i'd been born 10 years earlier so I could've been into the band from the get-go. Your basic after-the-heydey fandom, like the first time you hear about the Velvet Underground at the factory and just know you could have been the king of that scene.
So then i went through the book skipping to the other bands i actually LIKED (Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Mudhoney), and those were all really entertaining reads, so then i tried out bands that i'd just missed the boat on (The Minutemen - really fond of Mike Watt but i'd never gone further back than fIREHOSE, Dinosaur Jr. - loved Sebadoh and didn't want to give J. Mascis a chance back in the day, Mission of Burma), and THOSE were great reads, so i went ahead and finished out with bands i was actually opposed to...even the dreaded Replacements.
The point of all this being that having read about the history behind all of this music, why not employ the vast resources of the internet and give all this missed-boat music a try? So that's what i'm in the midst of doing. Some results so far:

Dinosaur Jr.. - okay, so J. Mascis still seems like a real dick. The book actually bolstered that opinion. But those first three records (Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, Bug), hot damn, they really cook. Makes me wish i hadn't dialed past them on my pal Randy's CD carousel back when we shared a dorm room. Music 1, teenage intolerance 0. [sic-how come lastfm puts a period after the Jr? That's like calling Dr Pepper Dr. Pepper!]

Hüsker Dü - coming up, i was really into Sugar, and when i was 15 or so i picked up the Husker early-works comp "Everything Falls Apart And More," which i liked, but of course it was pretty early-hardcore, and even though i knew the band was supposed to have grown out of that, i figured i could just skip all that middle ground. I'd done a token amount of Bob Mould homework, and however much i enjoyed the "Land Speed Record" style thrash, Sugar was much more my style. But so now I've finally checked out some of the more mature Husker material, including the much-ballyhooed Zen Arcade...it's pretty darn good! And yet, not the great leap beyond the Everything Falls Apart material i'd expected. But then, i went ahead and downloaded that record too, and it wasn't as one-note as i remembered it anyways. "Gravity" is still a hell of a song! So we'll call this one a draw. Still 1-0.

The Replacements - This was the one i really expected to be kicking myself over after reading their chapter. The entire band seemed at times to be a multi-member personification of my good friend Brandon White, from the determination to thwart audience expectations to the forays into drunken hootenanny music. Unfortunately, listening to "Let It Be," all i could think was "this is probably what Bruce Springsteen would have sounded like if he was a drunk fuckup who didn't take himself seriously. 1-1.

Meh. That's all i've got for now.

cause I listen to teh shit.

Lord_Krichian's top albums
1. Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion (600) 2. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops (295) 3. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (292) 4. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (273) 5. Faith No More - Angel Dust (242) 6. Wipers - Is This Real? (214) 7. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (181) 8. Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes (179) 9. Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge (176) 10. Alice in Chains - Dirt (171) 11. 16 Horsepower - Secret South (170) 12. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (167) 13. All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence (152) 14. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea (149) 15. Blind Melon - Nico (147) 16. Jay Munly - Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots (146) 17. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On (146) 18. Blind Melon - Soup (137) 19. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (123) 20. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (122) 21. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies (121) 22. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me (109) 23. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness (106) 24. Faith No More - Who Cares a Lot? (105) 25. Brand New Sin - Recipe for Disaster (103) 26. Alchemist - Organasm (101) 27. Bathory - Hammerheart (100) 28. Grinspoon - Easy (97) 29. Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu (96) 30. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (91) 31. Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (89) 32. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (88) 33. M. Ward - Transistor Radio (87) 34. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (79) 35. The Replacements - Let It Be (78) 36. America - America (77) 37. Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (75) 38. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (74) 39. Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (68) 40. 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (67) 41. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday (66) 42. The Allman Brothers Band - A Decade Of Hits 1969-1979 (65) 43. The Absence - Riders Of The Plague (63) 44. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (62) 45. Absu - Tara (60) 46. Alabama Thunderpussy - Fulton Hill (60) 47. fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-On (59) 48. 7Zuma7 - Deep Inside... (58) 49. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde (56) 50. Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy (55)