[kj] Top 10 bands

WARDANCE wardance at wardance.net
Sun Apr 1 15:32:26 EDT 2007


Well...I would say :

KILLING JOKE
THE STRANGLERS
MISFITS
SAMHAIN
RAMONES
UK DECAY
SHADOW REICHENSTEIN
SEX PISTOLS
METAL URBAIN
WARUM JOE

Dark lycanthropunk greetings,

Hans
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GREG SLAWSON a écrit :

>

> Let's try this: A list of our fave 10 bands. Then let's do the top 10

> LIVE bands!

>

> Greg

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> From: /"Darren A. Peace" <dpeace at bigfoot.com>/

> Reply-To: /dpeace at bigfoot.com,"A list about all things Killing

> Joke (the band!)"<gathering at misera.net>/

> To: /"'A list about all things Killing Joke (the

> band!)'"<gathering at misera.net>/

> Subject: /Re: [kj] [RE] OT: Mew/

> Date: /Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:58:24 +0100/

>

> Mew are great! I saw them supporting Martin Grech a few years ago,

> and their show, even in stupidly small venues, was hypnotic. They

> projected weird computer animations over themselves, and are much

> harder live, despite the disconcertingly high vocals. I recommend

> their second Danish album “Half The World Is Watching Me”, as

> it features stronger versions of several songs from

> “Frengers”, particularly “156”, “Am I Wry? No” and

> “Comforting Sounds”. “A Triumph For Man”, their limited

> and hitherto stupidly hard to find first album (I stopped looking

> when the one that turned up on ebay a year ago topped £200), has

> recently been reissued in Scandanavian countries as a 2-disc set,

> which is nice, although the album is more twee than what follows,

> with nonsense about pandas and balloons. Very eccentric song

> structures, though, of which I approve.

>

> I’m interested by the fact that people, including me, tend to

> regard the baseline of their appreciation of a band as the first

> recording they connected with. I heard “Half The World…”

> first, and so that is the benchmark for me. “Glass Handed

> Kites”, despite featuring one of the worst album covers I've

> ever seen ( *http://tinyurl.com/34fmqu *- I think some people

> should be banned from using Photoshop), is wildly prog, and no

> worse for that – it certainly repays the effort of the first few

> listens. The leap of faith I have to make with Mew is overcoming

> my aversion to very high male vocals (it shows how shallow I am in

> that if the exact same album were released and I were led to

> believe the vocals were female, my attitude would be totally

> different – I blame the corrupting influence of Pinky and

> Perky), but they warrant the effort, in my view. When talking with

> Jonas, the singer, I was startled to find that his speaking voice

> is normally pitched – I had expected Tiny Tim. Mew were adopted

> by REM, whom they supported many times on legs of world tours, and

> I /really/ dislike REM, but can’t blame Mew for that!

>

> Darren

>

> Hungerford, UK

>

> *From:* gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] *On Behalf Of *Javier Garcia

> *Sent:* 28 March 2007 17:19

> *To:* A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> *Subject:* [kj] [RE] OT: Mew

>

> I discovered them about a year or so, i listened -just by

> coincidence in the radio- some tracks of their "and the Glass

> Handed Kites" CD and i was curious, then i had the chance to

> listen the whole album about 4/5 times and i found it awesome! The

> inflluence of Sigur Ros is very obvious but still they have a

> sound of their own; there are some very pretty and melancholic

> moments in their music and also some nice energetic tunes. It's a

> very nice mix. I've listen some tunes of other early albums but i

> didn't found them as good as the ones in "and the Glass Handed

> Kites". I know they released another album "Triumph for Man", but

> haven't listened it yet... anybody?

>

> My two cents

>

> Have-ear

> mexcity

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> *Subject : *[kj] OT: Mew

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> *Date : *Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:25:11 +0100

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> *From : *fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com>

>

> *To : *The Gathering <gathering at misera.net>

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>

> I¹ve just discovered Œmew¹ & I am mightily impressed.

>

> I felt I had to tell somebody.

>

> I go now...

>

> Bye.

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