Best Band Ever...
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I've been in to pongrong (say it slowly) for 30 years now and in all that time I've not found a band as consistently great as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. They are now officially my Best Band Ever.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.
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Pink Floyd. Innovative, original and awesome in concert.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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I've been in to pongrong (say it slowly) for 30 years now and in all that time I've not found a band as consistently great as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. They are now officially my Best Band Ever.
Genius live.
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That's a helluva hat that ya wearin'
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.
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I've been in to pongrong (say it slowly) for 30 years now and in all that time I've not found a band as consistently great as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. They are now officially my Best Band Ever.
Bizarre..I was contemplating my best ever gig early in the evening and the frirst time I saw the Bosstones certainly comes close to best ever. Of all my CDS, Devil's Night Out and More Noise... are probably those that are closest to being worn out. I thought they went a bit soft with Question the Answers, so I would put the Mghty Mighty Bosstones at #3.
My joint number ones are Bad Religion and Snuff. Yep, like the Bosstones, BR also went through a dodgy phase (lasting a decade!) but their early 90s releases of No Control, Against the Grain and Recipe of Hate were, I believe, the best punk albums they evr recorded, and really have not been surpassed by their many pretenders. New Road Maps..is a return to their Brilliance. Live they are awesome too.
Snuff, probably not as great live - just becase they didn't care - did not put out a poor record in 20 years (alright, maybe Reach is an exception). Anyone who can cover Tiffany, the Four Tops, Barry Manilow, Gloria Gaynor and the Spice Girls the way they do deserve serious respect. The fact that they are cockneys is just one of those quirks...
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Jam, I'm not a Weller fanatic by any means but I have been enjoying 22 Dreams recently. Except at first I thought I had the wrong CD: could have sworn the first track was some unknown Cat Stevens song, backed by Pentangle maybe. Who would've thought Paul Weller was an old folkie!
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Belle and Sebastian. To quote something I read earlier today 'everything they do is different. Everything they do is the same.' So diverse with all-round aural gorgeosity.
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The Verve. Although they were better before Ashcroft got all mouthy ...
new album out next week!
new album out next week!
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Haven't we done this already? Or was that something else?
Best band ever? The Smiths.
Best band ever? The Smiths.
Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003
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I appreciate all your comments.
I've spent an absolute fortune over the last 30 years amassing Jam memorabilia. I've got 200 different Jam 7" singles from all around the world. I've got signed set lists, promo material, even the whistle that Weller wore around his neck on the Top Of The Pops promo for Absolute Beginners. I've been known to spend a grand on a Jam acetate. More than once. I've spent huge money on stuff that most would consider bog paper. I'm a proud Jam lunatic.
But I tell you what. The MMB have in the last coupla years become my band of preference. Why? Cos they are so f**king real. They singing about my life. They are relevant. The Jam were real, but they were real back in 1979. The Bosstones are real right now. Doesn't mean I don't still love The Jam, or Buzzcocks, or The Clash, but MMB are so damned important to me and my life at this point , and they've been this way for the last ten years.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.
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Oh god knows I love the Smiths. The best formula for a band I've ever come across. A poet on vocals, a seventies guitar hero, a disc o funk bassist and a punk rock drummer. Geniusx4. But there are others. And the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are right up there. Honesttly, I don't think the Bosstones are beatable as a band who know how to fuse instrumentalists for one common goal.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.
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Pink Floyd. Innovative, original and awesome in concert.
Until Syd Barrett left/went mad and then they became a boring progrock/pop mess. David Gilmour is the sixties Mark Knopfler.
Piper From The Gates Of Dawn is brilliant, everything else is aural dirge.
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Jam, I'm not a Weller fanatic by any means but I have been enjoying 22 Dreams recently. Except at first I thought I had the wrong CD: could have sworn the first track was some unknown Cat Stevens song, backed by Pentangle maybe. Who would've thought Paul Weller was an old folkie!
I liked (not loved) his first solo album but since then he's become more and more of a Donovan/Clapton worshipper. Yuck. If I want to listen to that sh*t I'd get that horrible Frankenreiter smellster around to my place.
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The best 'this might be bog paper' single i ever bought was Sore Throat's 1st 7" release - 101 tracks in all (I dare not call them songs...)
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The best 'this might be bog paper' single i ever bought was Sore Throat's 1st 7" release - 101 tracks in all (I dare not call them songs...)
I've heard about ths single. It makes Napalm Death look like songsmiths.
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Can't believe The Jam is holding up a seppo band as the bee's knees! Bizarro world...
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Here's the young fella, U2 or Foo Fighters
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Pink Floyd. Innovative, original and awesome in concert.
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is brilliant.
Corrected.
E + R + O
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About fifteen years ago I saw a band name of The Kilbanes. One hour of pure genius. Like a candle in a dark room. About a month later they released a single and then....?
Best band ever? Maybe, just maybe.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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The best 'this might be bog paper' single i ever bought was Sore Throat's 1st 7" release - 101 tracks in all (I dare not call them songs...)
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I've heard about ths single. It makes Napalm Death look like songsmiths.
Yup, although several years later under the name Saw Throat they released, ahem, a concept album that lasted over 40 minutes and had two tracks. One of them was just electronic beeps which was bizarre. I saw them a couple of times at Bradfords infamous 1 in 7 club: my first introduction to Barley Wine as well.
Anal c**t's 7" had even more tracks from what I remember..they made Sore Throat look like songsmiths
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