April 27, 200817 yr I'll nominate two bands. 1. Foo Fighters. For me anything Dave Grohl touches turns to gold. I know the Foos have not received great reviews for their latest efforts but you really can't fault their inimitable style. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/cazeur/foo-fighters.jpg Best Single: Everlong? Monkey Wrench? You decide. Best Album: The Colour And The Shape 2. Pearl Jam Apart from the fact Eddie Vedder is sex on legs, his voice just rumbles through you and draws you in. Proper rock how it should be done. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g230/cazeur/pearl.jpg Best Single: Alive Best Album: Ten
April 27, 200817 yr Foo Fighers coculd be good but their songs go on way to long and the Music channels now insist on playing their same few videos non stop.
April 27, 200817 yr But if you consider their older stuff that really is the benchmark for their success. The fact that the music channels/radio shows go overkill on certain songs/bands is not their fault, and isn't really a factor for not voting for them. Take Valerie for example. I really like The Zutons, but once there was overkill on the Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse version, (who I also love), it now sends shivers down my spine when it comes on.
April 27, 200817 yr You could argue it's the bands thought for selling out but i think Foo fighters have always been pretty popular i suppose, i think Big me is their best song/video.
April 27, 200817 yr nah there best song is 'This is a Call' off there best album, which is there best album, way before they sold out :)
April 27, 200817 yr another nomination: Blur http://www.christiewalsh.com/fun/blur/band.jpg Blur were an English alternative rock band that formed in Colchester in 1989. The band was composed of Damon Albarn (vocals), Graham Coxon (guitar, backing vocals), Alex James (bass guitar) and Dave Rowntree (drums). Best single: Popscene [1992] Best Album: Modern Life Is Rubbish [1993] Tracklisting: "For Tomorrow" – 4:19 "Advert" – 3:45 "Colin Zeal" – 3:16 "Pressure on Julian" – 3:31 "Star Shaped" – 3:26 "Blue Jeans" – 3:54 "Chemical World" – 3:45 "Intermission" – 2:29 "Sunday Sunday" – 2:38 "Oily Water" – 5:00 "Miss America" – 5:34 "Villa Rosie" – 3:55 "Coping" – 3:24 "Turn It Up" – 3:21 "Resigned" – 5:14 Other Albums: Leisure (1991) Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) Parklife (1994) The Great Escape (1995) Blur (1997) 13 (1999) Think Tank (2003) Members: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree Currently: Graham has a solo project, Damon does various things including Gorillaz, The Good The Bad and The Queen and even writing an opera, Alex James is doing every TV and Magazine interview he can and has previously worked on the musical project known as 'Fat les' and is also a cheese conniuser, and Dave is a failing MP.
April 28, 200817 yr Author Green Day Best Single:American Idiot Best Album:America Idiot Evanescense Best Single:Bring Me To Life Best Album:Fallen U2 Best Single:I Still haven't Found what i'm looking for Best Album: The Joshua Tree if i've pissed anyone off i'm sorry
April 28, 200817 yr Becuase Evanescence suck :heehee: [and also in my opinon you picked the only really rubbish Green Day stuff, but that is just my opinon]
April 29, 200817 yr Right gotta have this lot: The Rolling Stones Best song: Sympathy for the Devil Best album: Exile on Main Street Think that brings me up to 8 nominations now!
April 29, 200817 yr My first nomination TOOL A truly amazing Contemporary Metal band who continually push back the boundaries of the Hard Rock/Metal genre with experimentation, astonishing musicianship and a clearly defined ethos and ideology within their albums... They unify musical experimentation with visual arts and messages of personal evolution within their releases... What I love about them is that they always take their time over an album, if it takes 5 or 6 years, that's what it takes.... A Tool album is always worth the wait, and always deeply complex and involving... Members - Maynard James Keenan (Vocals), Danny Carey (Drums'Percussion), Justin Chancellor (Bass), Adam Jones (Lead/Rhythm Guitars) Fave Single - "Stinkfist" Fave Album - "Aenima" 07pLGIgyfjw&hl
April 30, 200817 yr My second nomination THE SMASHING PUMPKINS "Genius", "Eccentric", "Egotistical", "Obsessive", "Tyrant", "a-hole"All these words have been used to describe Pumpkins founder/frontman/chief songwriter Billy Corgan.. It's hard to categorise exactly what sort of band they were - too 'Metal' to be really considered Indie, too 'polished' to be considered Grunge, too fey to be considered 'Metal'... In truth, they combined elements of all, and they were probably one of the first bands to be pigeon-holed into the "Alternative Rock" category, mainly because MTV needed to put them into a slot someplace, and that term kinda fit as well as any... THe Pumpkins started off with the rather amazing "Gish" album (probably their most 'Indie' album), rather unassuming, geeky kids they seemed as well.. Oh, how looks deceived.... The massive ego within Corgan was just bursting to get out and it almost destroyed the band before "Siamese Dream" came out; Corgan famously saying that if the album failed that he would quit.. The album sold millions and catapulted them into the major leagues... The best bands always seem to exist on tension, well, the Pumkins sure had a lot of that.... Members - Billy Corgan (Vocals/Guitar), D'arcy Wretsky (Bass), James Iha (Guitar), Jimmy Chamberlain (Drums). D'arcy would leave the band after the Pumkins fourth album to be replaced by Melissa Auf Der Maur... Fave Single - Today or Rhinocerous Fave Album - Siamese Dream RHUd896Sur0&hl d93Yvmz4vuQ&hl
April 30, 200817 yr Have we had this lot yet? Joy Division Best Single - Love Will Tear Us Apart (best single by anyone ever) Best Album - Unknown Pleasures
April 30, 200817 yr 7. The Libertines http://www.euskalnet.net/gdelasheras/blogger/libertines.jpg The Libertines were an English rock band formed in London in 1997 and active until 2004. Part of what was described as the garage rock revival movement of that time, the band was centred on the song-writing partnership and 'chemistry'[1] of Pete Doherty (vocals/rhythm guitar), Carl Barât (vocals/lead guitar), John Hassall (bass) and Gary Powell (drums). Best Song: What A Waster [2002] Best Album: Up The Bracket [2002] Tracklisting: "Vertigo" – 2:37 "Death on the Stairs" – 3:24 "Horrorshow" – 2:34 "Time for Heroes" – 2:40 "Boys in the Band" – 3:42 "Radio America" – 3:44 "Up the Bracket" – 2:40 "Tell the King" – 3:22 "The Boy Looked at Johnny" – 2:38 "Begging" – 3:20 "The Good Old Days" – 2:59 "I Get Along" – 2:51 Other Albums/EP's 2003 Time for Heroes 2003 I Get Along 2003 Don't Look Back into the Sun/Death on the Stairs 2004 The Libertines 2005 What Became of the Likely Lads 2007 Time for Heroes - The Best of The Libertines Line Up: Carlos Barat Peter Doherty Gary Powell John Hassel Since the split... Carl and Gary have formed Dirty Pretty Things, Peter has continued with Babyshambles and has started work on a solo career and John has formed Yeti. 7xg5MAQ3dAU
May 3, 200817 yr Why don't you go and listen to them then oh arbiter of good taste! Yes The Doors, The Stones, The Byrds, The Beatles, Love, MC5, The Stooges, Can, Oasis, U2, Soundgarden, The Animals, Sweet, T. Rex and a load of others should be included. Why don't you nominate them then? BTW Bowie is a singer not a band! well except if you nominate Tin Machine :lol: - tho at this time i was probs thinking along the lines of David Bowie - Mick Ronson - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....rock act yeah - but you know how pedantic people are - thats why i havent nominated any of those others. and how many can you nominate?
May 3, 200817 yr Becuase Evanescence suck :heehee: [and also in my opinon you picked the only really rubbish Green Day stuff, but that is just my opinon] Yeah if Green Day are in it which i don't even think they should Dookie should be the nominated album and longview the nominated song. Not the album where they sold out to get a bunch of 12 year fans who probably weren't even aware of their 8 previous albums.
May 3, 200817 yr Not the album where they sold out to get a bunch of 12 year fans who probably weren't even aware of their 8 previous albums. I take it you're talking about "American Idiot" there.... TBH, I really dont know how you can consider that a "sell out" album... I never, ever took GD seriously until I heard that album tbh... I think the material on Green Day is vastly more sophisticated and grown-up than "Dookie".... I really dont get how "Jesus of Suburbia" can be considered a 'sell-out', an 8-minute single with three different interlinked 'songs'...? Hardly the stuff of typical MTV/FM Rock 'heavy rotation'..... Okay, "When September Ends" kind of sucks..... :lol:
May 3, 200817 yr Not the album where they sold out to get a bunch of 12 year fans who probably weren't even aware of their 8 previous albums. I take it you're talking about "American Idiot" there.... TBH, I really dont know how you can consider that a "sell out" album... I never, ever took GD seriously until I heard that album tbh... I think most of the material on "American Idiot" is vastly more sophisticated and grown-up than "Dookie".... I really dont get how "Jesus of Suburbia" can be considered a 'sell-out', an 8-minute single with three different interlinked 'songs'...? Hardly the stuff of typical MTV/FM Rock 'heavy rotation'..... Okay, "When September Ends" kind of sucks..... :lol:
May 3, 200817 yr I take it you're talking about "American Idiot" there.... TBH, I really dont know how you can consider that a "sell out" album... I never, ever took GD seriously until I heard that album tbh... I think most of the material on "American Idiot" is vastly more sophisticated and grown-up than "Dookie".... I really dont get how "Jesus of Suburbia" can be considered a 'sell-out', an 8-minute single with three different interlinked 'songs'...? Hardly the stuff of typical MTV/FM Rock 'heavy rotation'..... Okay, "When September Ends" kind of sucks..... :lol: I cant stand When september ends - its bored me totally when it was like all over the hits when it was out... i cant comment on Dookie (ive got a brother who has got it but obv im not gonna go round to his to get it or bother getting it from iTunes) however think its to do with that anti-mainstream indie mentality again - but then again i remember reading a comment on the clash that was made by another of first wave punk bands on going on totp and it was 'well obv we wanna go on totp because we want people to hear our message'
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