[kj] Top 10 bands

[Peter Moltesen]

ooh - a list !

not had one for ages

 

favourite bands.....in no particular order 

 

Hawkwind (1970-80)

Cardiacs

Fields of the Nephilim

Van der Graaf Generator

Amon Duul II

Current 93

Killing Joke

New Model Army (although after many years they're now in danger of
relegation, to be honest)

Rainbow (STRICTLY the Ronnie James Dio era, that is)

The Oroonies

 

live bands...

 

Hawkwind (1970-1984)

Cardiacs

Psychic TV

Cardiacs (again) 

Grateful Dead 

IQ

Killing Joke

New Model Army

Loop

Van der Graaf Generator

 

not that much different, really.

the greatest gig was the Grateful Dead - absolutely amazing, although it
might just have been the mushrooms.

its strange because most of their albums remain immensely dull to my ears.

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON
Sent: 29 March 2007 12:56
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] Top 10 bands

 

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 bHalf
The World Is Watching Meb, as it features stronger versions of several songs
from bFrengersb, particularly b156b, bAm I Wry? Nob and bComforting
Soundsb. bA Triumph For Manb, 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 B#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.

 

Ibm 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 bHalf The Worldb first, and so that is the
benchmark for me. bGlass Handed Kitesb, 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 b 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 b 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 b 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
canbt 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

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


>From : fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com>


To : The Gathering <gathering at misera.net>



IB9ve just discovered B
mewB9 & I am mightily impressed. 

I felt I had to tell somebody. 

I go now... 

Bye. 

 


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