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[PetriP-TNT]

True. I love Misfits w/Graves, but man, Misfits with Danzig was the bee's knees. Too bad Danzig went on to a career of releasing progressively shittier solo albums (his first two are great, third and fourth are OK, and everything after that is liquid feces)

For me the Misfits has been dead since 84, Graves sucked balls and everything after that is shit too. Samhain ruled and the first 4 Danzig LP's + Thrall-Demonsweatlive EP + Lost Tracks Of Danzig are all golden. The new Danzig LP is also surprisingly great and every other album except Blackacidevil has at least 1 or 2 great tracks.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Revis:

Atomship:

American Head Charge:

Motograter:

 

[Giant Robot]

forgot about these:

both bands broke up before the album released their first albums :lol but extremely influential for everything that came afterwards

 

[NGAMER9]

Minor Threat is the first that comes to mind, anyone who doesn't have their complete discography (which unfortunately fits on one cd...) should immediately get it. Nirvana I guess, but I'm okay with the three albums they released as is. System of a Down, even if they are supposedly "going to come back any minute," it's been like 4 years now and Scars/Serj for the most part suck. And I'll say Velvet Revolver too, I think they had some great stuff and were going in a good direction, glad I saw them live on the last tour.

And to people saying A Perfect Circle, I'd bet money that a new album will be out from them within a year.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

And to people saying A Perfect Circle, I'd bet money that a new album will be out from them within a year.

Maynard said he was working on stuff for both a Tool and A Perfect Circle album.

 

[DisgustipatedM3]

Maynard said he was working on stuff for both a Tool and A Perfect Circle album.

:| Are you serious? AWESOME! I have been dying for new Tool + APC stuff. If APC comes back and goes on tour, I've definitely gotta go catch some of their shows. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Don't take it to heart to much, you know how fast musicians change their minds.
But all in all, I am just as excited for a new Tool and APC album.

 

[NGAMER9]

Maynard said he was working on stuff for both a Tool and A Perfect Circle album.

Right, but all the Twitter stuff from the different members of A Perfect Circle makes me think something will happen soon. Not normal soon, but Maynard soon. Personally I'd rather have new Tool myself, but I expect it to take a lot longer for that.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Right, but all the Twitter stuff from the different members of A Perfect Circle makes me think something will happen soon. Not normal soon, but Maynard soon. Personally I'd rather have new Tool myself, but I expect it to take a lot longer for that.

Yeah, I expect an album around '12 or '13.

I've been staring at your avatar for the whole duration of Whipping Post and I can't stop.

 

[-Eddman-]

I support the ATDI, Big Star and original Guns n' Roses mentions. I would also like to add:

Pixies: yeah, they're still touring but their last album came out in the early 90's and I don't expect them to release something new anytime soon

Caifanes: One of the best latin rock bands, pioneer of the 80's/90's "Rock en español" movement; with some similarities to The Smiths and The Cure in the first album, they started to add more mexican elements and heavier guitars in their second and third albums (this one produced by King Crimson's Adrian Belew). Sadly, they couldn't overcome the massive ego issues between vocalist Saul Hernandez and guitarist Alejandro Marcovich and split up some time later in the mid 90's. Totally recommended for latin rock newcomers!

 

[Combichristoffersen]

For me the Misfits has been dead since 84, Graves sucked balls and everything after that is shit too. Samhain ruled and the first 4 Danzig LP's + Thrall-Demonsweatlive EP + Lost Tracks Of Danzig are all golden. The new Danzig LP is also surprisingly great and every other album except Blackacidevil has at least 1 or 2 great tracks.

Misfits w/ Graves was more metal than punk, pretty much. I like it, even though some of the songs on that Cuts from the Crypt album has some riffs that sound disturbingly much like Metallica. But anything released after Graves left is ass. As for Danzig, the only thing I like of his solo stuff, bar the first four Danzig albums, is Black Aria (which is possibly the best thing he's done post-Misfits). Anything he's done after the first four Danzig albums is terrible IMO. 6:66 Satan's Child is probably one of the worst albums I've ever spent money on. Ugh.

 

[Staccat0]

Lots of shit I would agree with here

I want more Fugazi in the future...
The more time passes the more I think The Argument might actually be the stealth best album of the 00s.
Which is weird because, upon its release I was like, "Its okay."

If they ever end their hiatus and come back I want them to do it with new/good music like Mission of Burma and not do some nostalgic victory lap like the Pixies have been doing for 5 years

 

[Warm Machine]

Semisonic. Their second album, Feelling Strangely Fine was perfect. They did a 40% good one with All About Chemistry as their 3rd and it flopped. I wish they would have stuck it out and made a 4th album. Dan Wilson is incredibly talented but without the other members of the band he resorts to songs that sound far too depressing.

 

[alr1ght]

*tear

*absolutely perfect pop album

 

[Red Blaster]

I support the ATDI, Big Star and original Guns n' Roses mentions. I would also like to add:

Pixies: yeah, they're still touring but their last album came out in the early 90's and I don't expect them to release something new anytime soon

Eh, they were kind of fizzling out by the time they did Trompe Le Monde which was basically a Frank Black solo record anyway.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Pop Will Eat Itself.
Loved their style and weirdness. Clint Mansell (the guy with the hair fountain) went on to do awesome soundtracks like Requiem for a Dream though.

This. So this.
And yet, the rumors of regrouping continue to circulate.

I'd also add:
Butthole Surfers. I don't think they're officially broken up, but nothings been the same since Independent Worm Saloon.

 

[Dan]

No love for '64-'95? But yes, yes, yes, yes.

That one's awesome too, I just got lazy

UNKLE

UNKLE without DJ Shadow could never recapture that magic. I often think about what we could have gotten out of a second round.

UNKLE moved in another direction when DJ Shadow left, but I think they're still great. Different, yes, but still awesome.

 

[Corwood Rep]

The Clash would have probably gone on to make some great albums if they'd just taken a year off and 1982 and auditioned a new drummer who wasn't hopped up on heroin. They ended tragically soon. Some of the stuff on Joe's last solo albums sound like he was writing Clash songs and I just wonder what could have been.

Others:
-R.L. Burnside, who was like 80 when he died, but it's unfair because he had really only been making proper albums for about 9 years. Still pissed I never had the chance to see him live.
-Otis Redding. Best singer who ever fucking lived. Not even 30 when he died.
-The Band. Fuck you, Robbie Robertson, for killing such a great thing so you could have a bullshit solo career.

 

[Momar]

Dude, I remember watching this performance a couple years back and thinking "John Entwistle is so bad ass that he does not fucking care how awesome this riff is". Seriously, so fucking great.

 

[Medalion]

The Sex Pistols, The Police, The Dead 60's, Nirvana, The La's

 

[Phobophile]

Acid Bath

Two brilliant full-length albums and they break up after the bassist dies.

 

[comedy bomb]

I recognize Steve Zahn and John Travolta, but who's the other guy?.

 

[astroturfing]

wow, thanks for educating me GAF.

i never knew Clint Mansell was in Pop Will Eat Itself. and i never knew DJ Shadow was in UNKLE (this i really should have known).

wtf.

 

[Xeke]

American Football.

Honestly

The regrets are killing me.

 

[Mileena]

uhh... no Kyuss mentioned? GAFs shit taste in music continues.

 

[British Monsoon]

uhh... no Kyuss mentioned? GAFs shit taste in music continues.

I mentioned Kyuss, but only in relation to Unida Personally I love a lot of the bands spawned from Kyuss, so i've never been that bothered that they only released 5 albums.

 

[Sobriquet]

American Football.

Honestly

I'm going to see Cap'n Jazz tonight!

 

[NGAMER9]

Dude, I remember watching this performance a couple years back and thinking "John Entwistle is so bad ass that he does not fucking care how awesome this riff is". Seriously, so fucking great.

I've been staring at your avatar for the whole duration of Whipping Post and I can't stop.

Yeah, John was something else, it's so amazing to me that he just pulls off that amazing bass part without caring and just looking at all. Credit goes to Snesfreak, he has a bunch of other cool Who related ones too.

 

[goldsoundz]

This and

The best ever.

Spiderland by Slint is probably my favorite post-rock album ever. I wish they had more to listen to. And I consider The Stone Roses' self-titled debut to be the best debut ever. Absolute perfection, and then they make us wait four years for Second Coming and then vanish.

I agree with many of the posts in here though. So many fine bands.

 

[Max]

Daggermouth

Daggermouth was a pop-punk/melodic hardcore band from Vancouver British Columbia (really close to me but I failed to see them a couple times when I really should have) that I absolutely adored. Heartfelt lyrics and mad nice breakdowns with catchy melodies. Unfortunately the singer apparently had problems with a serious case of depression so after or during one tour he had to head home to do whatever they do to cure that. And then he tore some ligaments or something. I know it was mentioned that they were trying to get it back together but I guess that didn't work out. This all happened around the beginning of 2008 and they've hardly let out any updates, so I've concluded that it'll be on indefinite hiatus.

So sad.

 

[Mdeezy]

The Pharcyde-My favorite rap group of all time

Binary Star...a great duo that broke up after 2 albums but damn was it a classic.
INDY 500(Samples "They Live")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ociEi0Q1VWs
Masters of the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IzlbDTgNM

 

[ChaChaChaChia]

One Man Army

Also, thanks kenssi for introducing The Exploding Hearts...sucks I had to find out about them because they don't exist anymore.

 

[Persona7]

Sleater-Kinney

 

[Micromegas]

Joy Division

 

[Fatalah]

Man I love this first album, and the two following albums with each different lead singer. But that first album is special -- something Carrabba hasn't been able to recapture since.
Sample song:
The Bradley

Holy shit. Their official website is suddenly LIVE again with a teaser! I guess I should remove my original post, looks like they have a new album in the works! Been waiting 10 years for this!

 

[Plissken]

My favorite band no one has heard of:

They put out one album, and were never heard from again. Closest thing I can equate them to would be like a cross between Queen and Def Leppard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdsGO2ELKY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hOyCxiIP4&feature=related

 

[ATF487]

Disagree with the Joy Division one, because then we may have never got New Order

 

[jambo]

Portuguese band called Pluto.

Aren't they classified as a dwarf band?

 

[-tetsuo-]

 

[Dead]

Disagree with the Joy Division one, because then we may have never got New Order

This.

As sad as it is that Joy Division ended when it did, the fact that New Order came out of it pretty much made it alright in the end.

 

[yankeehater]

I just thought of another band that ended way to soon.

For the Love of

Their 1st album Feasting on the Will of Humanity is one of my favorite albums. It is so sad that they only put out 2 albums.

 

[astroturfing]

I'm going to see Cap'n Jazz tonight!

WHAT?! since when have they been back together...? out of all bands...

i remember listening to Analphabetapolothology like a decade ago, and they were long gone even back then.

 

[Stealth Editor]

Milli Vanilli needs to regroup.

Considering it was a band of two and one of them is dead...

 

[Xater]

Sentenced

I have no idea why exactly they split up
Sentenced - No One There

YES, YES and YES! I love Sentenced so much, at least the albums with Ville. I can still hear him in Poisonblack, but they are not as good as band as Sentenced was. I was so pissed when I missed one of their last shows at the Rockhard festival which is in my fucking city!

I still listen to Sentenced all the time.

 

[Outlaw]

Eucharist

Early Melodic Death Metal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueEJJFAP4Yo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0HUjOuAvr4&feature=related

 

[Y-Z]

Velvet Revolver is your favorite band?

wat.

That bad?

I actually like a lot of bands so can't say i have a real favorite, but i would rank em high yeah.

 

[Timo]

I came in here to post DFA 1979. I was startled to see them as a first post.

The fucked up thing they did is circulate rumors about their next album which they weren't doing at all. They said there would be 3 versions, one with just them, one with them and a full band, and then one completely covered by a girl band of some type. Those fucking assholes.

Grainger mentioned in an interview that if he saw JFK walking on the street he would wave at him now. That doesn't mean shit for them getting together again probably though.

The fucked up thing is that they never thought they would hit big with the band, it was just something they were doing, even their most popular song, 'Romantic Rights', used a main riff from an earlier JFK dance song, one of the reasons JFK saw it as a sign they weren't meant to last. They did finish their tour that they had going with NIN and Queens of the Stone Age though, which was pretty awesome of them, even though they were supposedly bickering like an old married couple.

: [ I'll stop talking now.

 

[Clemsontigers35]

I wish Cold hadn't broken up, they were great.

And King Crimson ended too early as well

 

[Sobriquet]

WHAT?! since when have they been back together...? out of all bands...

i remember listening to Analphabetapolothology like a decade ago, and they were long gone even back then.

A one-off reunion show was so successful that they decided to do a mini-tour.

The show was AMAZING.

 

[MattyH]

No mention of nightwish?
i mean i know they are still around but they really changed after tarja left and i mean for the worse