by binky, baltar, armand, ms. y
all opinions completely subjective and likely contradictory
| bands we like, even though they are far too pretentious |
The White Stripes
Moby
Beck
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rasputina
R.E.M.
French Kicks
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
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| why do the critics like this stuff so much? |
Bright Eyes
Sonic Youth
TV on the Radio
Jaco Pastorius
Shonen Knife
Pete Yorn
John Mayer
Pavement
Guided by Voices
Coldplay
Candiria
Alicia Keys |
bands we've tried to like, but can't
|
Mercury Rev
Sonic Youth
Sigur Ros
Guided by Voices
Dashboard Confessional
Shonen Knife
Dream Theater
Dillinger Escape Plan
Beach Boys
Beck |
| bands you love that your roommate/partner hates (or vice versa) |
Marillion
Depeche Mode
Echo and The Bunnymen
Tone Loc
Steve Miller Band
Kate Bush
The Pogues
Dismemberment Plan
Rage Against the Machine
Stellastarr* |
| albums our roommate/ex took but we're too lazy to buy |
Dead Milkmen
The Beatles
Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits
License to Ill |
| famous guilty pleasures |
Duran Duran
Styx
KISS
Blink 182
Def Leppard
Thompson Twins
Letters to Cleo
Dire Straits
Journey
Marillion |
| bands that should have quit while they were ahead |
The Rolling Stones
Van Halen
Aerosmith
Pink Floyd
U2
Blues Traveler
Kansas
Any 80s Hair-Metal Band Still Touring and Playing Dinky Clubs for 45 Year Olds Who Want to Relive Their Camaro-Filled Youth |
| new music that makes you want to dance like molly ringwald |
Stellastarr*
Elephant
The Dandy Warhols
Tender Trap and its ancestors
Eastern Mountain
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
The Postal Service
Junior Senior |
ten reasons to love scotland! |
Franz Ferdinand
Texas (early stuff)
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Del Amitri
The Delgados
Belle and Sebastian
Idlewild
Simple Minds
Donovan
Big Country |
| the first album we bought |
The Wall
Thriller
Pretty in Pink
The Stone Roses
Pyromania (on vinyl)
Grace Under Pressure (on CD) |
| bands we think you might not have heard of, but should |
Maserati
The Ladybug Transistor
South
The Faint
The Fairways
Hem
Isis
Rainer Maria
Letters to Cleo
Boss Hog
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Drive By Truckers
Pretty Mighty Mighty
The Helio Sequence |
| music we're not taking enough drugs to enjoy |
Phish
String Cheese Incident
Tortoise
Primus
Keller Williams
Kyuss |
| top 5 live performers |
Flaming Lips
Radiohead
Ozomatli
Rufus Wainwight
Ben Folds (without the five) |
| top 5 evil list (it's too easy) |
Clear Channel
Kenny G
Sting
Fred Durst
RIAA |
| big sell-outs |
Metallica
Morrissey
The Pixies
Henry Rollins
Hootie
Lynnrd Skynnrd |
| bands with unpronounceable – but somehow attractive – names or lyrics |
Sigur Ros
Gorky's Zygotic Monkey
(Mum)
!!! |
bands from the eighties that should be played more |
Del Amitri
The The
The Specials
Gang of Four
The Au Pairs
XTC
Elvis Costello
Kate Bush |
| bands that we like the idea of more than the actual product (sometimes) |
Matthew Sweet
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Husker Du
The Magnetic Fields
The Minutemen
Fugazi
Le Tigre
Come
Fastbacks |
| as good as the hype |
The Beatles
Radiohead
The Shins
The New Pornographers
Badly Drawn Boy
Flaming Lips
Blur
Ben Lee
Air
Arcade Fire
Isis
Mars Volta
Mastodon (Leviathan)
Drive By Truckers |
| bands' records we wish we'd never bought |
Warrant
Men Without Hats
Men at Work
Bad Company
Testament
Mercury Rev
Avenged Sevenfold |
| the poets |
Eliot Smith
Magnetic Fields
Soul Coughing
The Shins
Talib Kweli and Mos Def
Drive By Truckers |
bands that need to get it through their head that they are NOT poets |
Oh god, the bandwidth! |
| trades we wish we could make with the devil |
Clapton for Stevie Ray
Chris Cornell for Chuck D. (in Audioslave)
Paul Rodgers for Freddie Mercury
Jerry Seinfeld for Bill Hicks (don't tell us Hicks was not rock ‘n roll, man!)
Anyone participating in that awful TV show for Michael Hutchence
Fred Durst for anyone who played an instrument |
| bands that should write james bond themes |
Propellerheads
Cinerama
Daft Punk
Fatboy Slim
Supreme Beings of Leisure
Dan the Automator
A-ha |
| bands that should stick to teen movie soundtracks |
Good Charlotte
Nerf Herder
Barenaked Ladies
Smashmouth
Bush |
| remakes we hate |
Behind Blue Eyes (Limp Bizkit)
We will Rock You (Five)
Our Lips Are Sealed (Duff Sisters) |
| covers we love |
American Girl(Dance Hall Crashers)
Rocket Man (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Flaming Lips)
OK, War Pigs too
Rock and Roll (Heart) |
| women we love (and they rock!) |
Joan Jett
Isobel Campbell
Marianne Faithful
The Donnas
Justine Frischmann
Claudia Gonson
Debbie Harry
Kate Pierson
Ani DiFranco
Shirley Manson
Carrie Aker
Kay Hanley |
| band names we like saying |
Broken Social Scene
Franz Ferdinand
Bow Wow Wow
Morcheeba
Supreme Beings of Leisure
B-52s
Her Space Holiday |
| bands we might sleep with (provided they've had their shots) |
Keanu Reeves (is Dogstar still around?)
Elephant
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Jason from Barcelona
Rufus Wainwright
Lenny Kravitz |
| bands we would never sleep with no matter how great they are |
Ramones
Ric Ocasek
Aerosmith
Crooked Fingers
The New York Dolls |
| best bridge on the planet |
Dream Police |
| most perfect pop song |
Surrender (Cheap Trick)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 (The Flaming Lips)
Here and Now (Letters to Cleo)
That Girl (Tender Trap) |