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It's obviously Spiritualized anyway. Anyone who's seen them live knows this
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Murmur was always one of my least favorites. They were my favorite band at a certain extremely 90s high school point in my life and Michael Stipe is at least half the reason I'm queer, but I really only listened to Fables, LRP, And especially Document. Document fuckin whips rear end. I still listen to it a lot. Green had a few of their best and worst songs, Out of time was even more wildly inconsistent, automatic was great, monster was VERY great, new adventures in hi fi is probably my second favorite to Document. Everything after that is pretty bad tho
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Jun 4, 2020 06:29
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U2 had far too many outright bad albums and their absolute best, Zooropa, is considered a footnote even by fans of the band Which is honestly nuts because it's brilliant. Edit: also, wow I'm dumb because just now, after 27 years, I'm realizing that Zooropa is a play on Europa
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Jun 4, 2020 18:23
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I've heard Kim Deal say a lot of poo poo about Black Francis but him being misogynist is new. I think he's just a general, all purpose rear end in a top hat, like J Mascis.
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Jun 5, 2020 03:15
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Keith Atherton posted:Deftones aren’t mailing it in Pavement's last couple albums were lazy as gently caress and while they're fine, they really only had two great records (CRCR and Wowee Zowee) You could maybe make an argument for Beck. He captures the junky, random mess of crap that America consists of pretty well
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Jun 18, 2020 16:02
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well why not posted:it's metallica If they had broken up in 1988, sure
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Jun 20, 2020 14:32
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hifi posted:ween 
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Jun 21, 2020 16:22
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sean10mm posted:Move the line back to 1979, declare Motorhead the winner, gas thread. Hawkwind have a song called "Motorhead", yet Motorhead do not have a song called "Hawkwind".
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Jun 29, 2020 01:42
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The Legendary Pink Dots have released like 100 albums nonstop since 1981 and they're all good
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Jun 29, 2020 08:13
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BigFactory posted:Serious replies only in this thread The Del Fuegos
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Jun 29, 2020 20:42
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The Violent Femmes
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Jul 2, 2020 18:46
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JnnyThndrs posted:Sonic loving Youth. https://youtu.be/_BOp4luu40o
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Jul 12, 2020 18:11
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Ferrule posted:"Jennifer Lost the War" tragically missing...ergo... That's the only good Offspring song
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Jul 16, 2020 20:35
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Disco Pope posted:In every possible sense, it's The Replacements. Or maybe Dinosaur Jr. Pixies is a better answer than Dinosaur Jr. imo unless you put the caveat "the only Dinosaur Jr albums that count are the ones with Barlow on them"
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Mar 14, 2022 16:53
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Dacap posted:"the only Pixies albums that count are the ones with Kim Deal on them" i mean, that's just a given
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Mar 15, 2022 08:07
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BigFactory posted:Frank black solo is better than pixies i don't even know how to respond to this
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Mar 15, 2022 19:16
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The Hold Steady might actually be a fine answer if they had delivered on the promise that Boys and Girls in America showed but i feel like their entire career has just been treading water. like what happened to Pearl Jam. i can't even remember if i've listened to the latest Hold Steady, or what it's called, and i probably would have at one point said they were one of my favorite bands 
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Mar 15, 2022 19:18
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caligulamprey posted:But I'd still blast Teenager of the Year over any Pixies record. it's like i don't even know you people
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hatelull posted:Does Sonic Youth even warrant a mention in this thread of threads? I'm ok with the Pixies pre-reunion. Could not care less about any of their output after '92. I really don't think so. The idea of Sonic Youth is better than the reality. EVOL, Sister and Goo are the only "great" albums they did; every other record they put out is either too uneven to be great (Daydream Nation, Dirty, Washing Machine) or just not very good on any level (Rather Ripped, etc) It's something I've thought a lot about though. They did some things so well; they wrote killer pop songs and killer noise jams, which is pretty hard to do... but I think on some level they were sabotaged by their own reputation thanks for reading my application to pitchfork.com
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Mar 17, 2022 19:28
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Bad Moon Rising, DDN, Dirty and Murray Street are all way way better than Goo. Big disagree. Dirty comes close but it's got "Nic Fit" and "Youth Against Fascism" which, come on, those are barely even songs
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Disco Pope posted:Like, this is pure pub music bore thinking on my part, but I think you need a level of critical acclaim, popular recognition, influence, consistency (you can't have been poo poo for 20 of the 25 years you've existed) and something of a myth and celebrity to be considered the best rock band. But by this rubric, that leaves, like Nirvana? I mean, sure, but what a boring answer. by this metric it's definitely either Slipknot or REM
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Mar 25, 2022 19:24
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hatelull posted:*J. Spaceman will remember that.* Honestly, the only reason I wouldn't throw Spiritualized in as a contender is that the lineup has been far too inconsistent for any kind of "best band" award. One prefers not to essentially give "best band" to a solo artist. Nine Inch Nails is out for much the same reason. Spacemen 3, there's definitely an argument for, but I really think they are much more accurately described as a folk or blues band
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Mar 25, 2022 19:27
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:radiohead I hate how right you are.
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Mar 25, 2022 21:23
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I can't honestly say I dislike much of Radiohead's output, and I outright love a few albums. But I hate the idea of being a Radiohead fan.
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Preggo My Eggo! posted:Tool. I would personally think any kind of "best rock band" would have to have, at minimum, one memorable melody that anyone can hum.
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TengenNewsEditor posted:i read this thread and i liked these answers: i too will go to bat for Camper Van Beethoven but buddy, we're the only ones
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Apr 30, 2022 16:33
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in a surprising number of ways, they were like the Velvet Underground of the 80s including that their singer went on to do other stuff that was fine but never really much more than that (well, Kerosene Hat is as good as anything CVB did) and that they did an ill-advised and mediocre reunion later in life
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The Frogs, i haven't thought about in a hot minute
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calling The Smiths a rock band is just a little bit insulting to rock music they were, occasionally, a really good pop band tho
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i'm just saying, you wouldn't call The Beach Boys the best rock band of the 60s well, i might, but you wouldn't
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if we're going that direction, then it's The Cult just tell me "Fire Woman" isn't a banger
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Def Leppard and Iron Maiden are probably in the the conversation
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BigFactory posted:The cult’s self titled record DOES NOT hold up well. Disqualified me, during the entire 90s, every time someone insisted that "they were good when they were Southern Death Cult, really"
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overnightmike posted:Sun City Girls i worked exactly one day at a McDonald's in Greeneville TN about 6 years ago. i was doing a favor for a friend who was the store manager, so he had me come in one day to help train people anyway, it was 6 AM. there was this kid working there. had to be like 22. looked exactly like Jake Gyllenhall circa Nightcrawler. and i do mean exactly. you understand taht Greeneville TN is rear end gently caress Nowhere and only has a population of about 12 well anyway this kid sees my Spacemen 3 tattoo and goes "hell yeah. hey, do you know who the Sun City Girls are?" and i was just like  wat the gently caress universe is this true story, really. great band
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