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| Yay the Skatalites, otherwise known as Jamaica's no 1 band. They've been around since the first (original) wave of ska in the sixties.They made a breakthrough into pop music in the late seventies with the Guns of Navarone .And they're still going strong. I saw them live this year at a festival and they were skankilicious |
| Lissa: |
| Let's forget the fact that Mick Jagger is a wanker and the spandex-like trousers era (the eighties were hard for everyone), in the sixities (and seventies) the Rolling Stones were great. They even have a plant, and a blissful one at that, for a drummer. Anyone who makes (or covers in a wonderful way) songs like Fade away, Jumpin Jack Flash, Come on and especially Sympathy For The Devil gets my vote for band of the sixties. However, there is NO excuse for those shirts. |
| Lissa: |
| This really isn't enough space to do them justice. Anyway, the Afghan Whigs managed to be a soulful grungeband at first and to drop the grunge part eventually, which is always a good thing. I'm kind of torn between Gentlemen and Black Love as their best album, although their covers of Motown songs are amazing as well. Apparently they're awesome live but I ...wouldn't..know (they split up before I got to see them grrr). |
| Lissa: |
| It might be a horrible cliche but Marvin Gaye really was good, although he's had many a crap song too, the Diana Ross cheesy duets for instance. He belongs in here simply for What's Going On and Heard It Through The Grapevine, oh and Aint No Mountain High Enough but I guess that's just me. He was re-discovered by a belgian, woohoo! Wait.. that was the start of the period where he recorded Sexual Healing, bah we can't do anything right... |
| Lissa: |
| Tim: |
| For a 1960s pick, you could do a lot worse than the Stones. They managed to pump out loads of classics, and pretty much rock, until about the mid 70s.It's a shame they still haven't given up too, it's kinda tarnishing the memory. Imagine how cool they'd be if they'd given up like Wire did after their best albums. It'd be nice if the garage revivalists would look at these guys for more than fashion advice, but can't expect much anyway. And yeah, bad shirt day all round in that picture. Especially Mick. |
| Tim: |
| If ska strikes fear into your heart, the skatalites might be the band to change your mind. They're like the all-time reggae all-star band, with Ernie Ranglin, Augustus Pablo and Don Drummond among others, holding regular spots in the line-up. They really are super swank, and recently re-released some dub recordings with King Tubby which are great. Check them out. |
| Lissa secretly only likes them cause she fancies Greg Dulli's greasiness. I won't mention his resemblance to a Boy George/Lou Reed combination in that picture. In all fairness they probably were the best of the bands to come out of the big grunge explosion, but he's still greasy. I'm not jealous of Lissa swooning. Really. |
| Tim: |
| Tim: |
| Love were originally a mildly ferocious hippy band, who could've been bigger than the Doors are now, only Arthur Lee and the fellas became all stoned and lazy and paranoid and refused ot run around on massive tours all the time. Instead they stayed in LA, and with Arthur Lee convinced he was going to die at 26, slowly turned into death-hippies. Forever Changes was one of the best albums, if not THE best of the 60s, in the way it captured the paranoia, and the general fading of the idyllic hippy peace-and-love idea. Lots of references to snot caking on his jeans, and bath-tubs filling with blood, and the apocalypse. For some reason when i think of this album i get images of flying monkeys blackening the skies. Long live the death-hippies! |
| Tim: |
| Marvin was great indeed. The Motown-ish production rocks, with the super-soul backing instrumentation. It'd be great even without Marv, but with him wailing enthusiastically over the top its an obvious classic pick. I don't know what it was about the 70s but soul and funk generally doesn't seem right outside of the style they perfected back then. The lounge-singerish phase he went into was a bit disturbing, but i'm sure he wouldve pulled out of it eventually. Assuming his dad hadn't shot him, of course. |
| Tim: |
| Can are cruelly overlooked in terms of classic bands. Sure record store clerks everywhere may swoon over them, but theres no reason why they couldnt have been, and still be, absolutely massive. Probably because the genre they helped define has the word "kraut" in it. Don't mention the war. The vocals were great little grunts and yelps, courtesy of another great japanese musician, the drumming was endless, and the songs had an odd yet brilliantly classic feel about them. Meanwhile the rest of the world was fawning over Pink Floyd....*kicks world in the balls*. |
| Some people (not looking in anyone's direction)claim I don't like Love, but I doooo. They're loveable hippies,well perhaps not very flower-powery and a bit angsty, and the few songs I've heard were goodly. That's quite a funky album cover too. |
| Lissa: |
| Having only heard one Can song, I can't say much, but it was pretty cool.That picture is just scary though, the middle ones look suspiciously like gay sailors. Oh, they're German. Still, what I've heard was decent. |
| Lissa: |
| Lissa: |
| Skiffle is lovely and quaint. Lonny's been called the first britpop star ever, although I doubt that's an honour. Still, Cumberland Gap is a nifty little song. Nice sweater... |
| Tim: |
| The Boredoms are the best band of all time. I'd leave it at that, but theres still loads of space to fill up. So anyway, they started out in the 80s as a kind of spastic no-wave band, into smashing around and being noisy bastards. It was around then that lead singer eYe drove thru the wall of a club in a mini-digger, with his previous band Hanatarash. They've semi-mellowed since then by comparison, but as you can gather from the picture, they're still pretty hyper. So what kind of music do they make these days? Best to get it straight from them....: |
| I'm actually quite impressed someone managed to become semi-famous for being a skiffle musician. Also, technically i think it's a jumper not a sweater, but yeah, credit where credit's due: Nice sweater. |
| Tim: |
| Lissa: |
| The first things I heard by the Boredoms made me terrified and slightly worried about Tim's mental health, however after hearing more of their songs I've accepted the Boredoms as being fruity and weird but in a good way.And eYe does a mean Elvis, which is nice.See how I'm not bashing them, even though they made my ears bleed with nocore punk,all is forgiven for the tingly Chocolate Synthesizer song. Look at him juuuump |
| Interviewer: Zen spirit? Let me get this down, it's pop folk Zen spirit music... Ya: Soul. Inter: Soul music... Ya: Oversoul. Inter: I think I've got it all now. Pop folk Zen soul... Yo: Traditional. Ya: Superground. Inter: All right, I give up... |
| The band for listening to when you're bored of music, theyve gone thru enough phases that there must be one album, that appeals to everybody. |