The thread where you talk about non-metal music you like.

[no country for old wainds]

The Stooges are a favorite but better than The Who, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Cream? Kiss my ass.

yup to all four sry

 

[no country for old wainds]

i always wonder where that riff in 'i wanna be your dog' came from. like, where do you magic that spare, mean, carnal thing up from in 1969? would've seemed ahead of its time ten years later, let alone back then.

 

[CiG]

To me it seems like it springs sort of naturally from The Velvet Underground.

 

[PrincessHades]

Anyone here like Depeche Mode? I've only heard two of their songs-Master and Servant and Personal Jesus. That's enough for me to say that they are an awesome band

 

[CiG]

I hear a lot of what The Stooges did on their debut in tracks like this:

Anyone here like Depeche Mode? I've only heard two of their songs-Master and Servant and Personal Jesus. That's enough for me to say that they are an awesome band

I love me some Depeche Mode man. You should really check out Some Great Reward.

 

[The Batlord]

We Will Fall, unsurprisingly, a track on their debut, is their most Velvet Underground influenced track to my ears, along with 1970 or L.A. Blues.

After the longest of not really liking it all that much, I eventually came to the conclusion that the B-side of Funhouse was the best thing they ever did. The way it devolves through all three tracks into just plain noise is pretty awesome.

 

[PrincessHades]

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The tamer, less charming version of GG Allin...

Also, Iggy Pop possesses an impressive physique for an ex-heroin user who doesn't lift. I could say even more about Phil Anselmo, but he definitely lifts.

I like his song "The Passenger".

 

[no country for old wainds]

sure, definitely agree on the velvets influence, i was gonna say 'we will fall' seems an obvious tribute but HP beat me to it. i do think that particular riff is somethin' else though, it's virtually proto-discharge or something.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think the stooges' overall sexually frustrated bedroom slacker vibe on that first album can be traced back to mid-60s garage rock mostly, there were like a billion bands doing less heavy, sweaty versions of the same thing during that craze.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Anyone here like Depeche Mode? I've only heard two of their songs-Master and Servant and Personal Jesus. That's enough for me to say that they are an awesome band

Yeah, they've got a ton of great stuff. Check out Black Celebration.

 

[The Batlord]

They don't so much write songs as they do just rock out all day long with cocks out and some raw blues rock punk whatever-the-fuck, but The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is all energy and testicles.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Timeless pathos.

 

[no country for old wainds]

the problem with span is aside from the debut their albums have too much filler, so a custom made playlist is best. debut owns though.

check this shit out:

 

[CiG]

Filler? I disagree, from what I remember they were quite consistent, care to post an example of a filler track?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Filler? I disagree, from what I remember they were quite consistent

If you're one of those for whom "consistency" is important in an album, you may not be in a good position to judge "filler".

My impression of Span is they're great if you're a fan of the Celtic folk style, but they're unlikely to convert you if you're not, because they have little songwriting ability beyond it, and it's a pretty narrowly defined style to begin with.

 

[CiG]

If you're one of those for whom "consistency" is important in an album, you may not be in a good position to judge "filler".

What does that even mean?

Anyway no, consistency isn't necessarily important to me in an album, it's merely an observation that their quality is quite static.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I've just heard the "consistent" label applied to a lot of albums full of similar songs, by people who value sameness over uniqueness among those songs.

 

[CiG]

Uniqueness only works if the songs are of consistent quality, in my opinion. After all this is a judgement of quality, not diversity.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Man, I haven't had this debate in ages.

I should disclose that I prefer a Spotify subscription over buying albums, so that may influence my view of an album's quality. Anyway, I definitely consider an album with a few great songs and a few bad songs of higher quality than an album full of average songs that are all "consistent" with each other. If a song sounds like (or reminds me of) a hundred other songs, it loses meaning for me.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Filler? I disagree, from what I remember they were quite consistent, care to post an example of a filler track?

i like the stuff that's more poignant/mysterious/evocative/atmospheric/whatever the fuck, pure trad folk doesn't typically interest me, like happy irish jigs n shit.

i think you're conflating consistency and homogeneity, zabu. people tend to use 'consistent' as a purely qualitative term, not to mean sameyness. i've had this conversation with someone else though, he said albums need peaks and troughs or some shit. i don't agree at all but each to their own.