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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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FireOnTheMountain wrote:Hm, maybe Kaiman or Matt could explain Skinny Puppy to me....
If that's me, I dunno, I'm a progressive house guy.
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FireOnTheMountain wrote:Hm, maybe Kaiman or Matt could explain Skinny Puppy to me....
Nope. I never liked them or the industrial stuff.
It'd be easier than explaining the genius and talent of Phish to Shitles, though.
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montanahiker wrote: Johnny Winter
Gary Clark Jr
Nice to see The Illustrated Man (Johnny Winter) get some love here - he's probably one of the most underrated slide/blues guitarists to come out of Texas, IMO. I also had the chance to see Gary Clark Jr perform at the Chicago Blues Festival last summer (which happened to be going on the same weekend I was in town for my cousin's wedding), and I was blown away! Definitely up there with the greats.

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Matt wrote:
brichardsson wrote: sod ("kill yourself" is one of my alltime faves)
I read this and immediately heard the song play in my head:
Take a dirt nap. Buy the farm. Inject a bubble in your arm...
heh. i always liked "here's a bucket go and kick it."
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Classic Rock:
Zeppelin
Doors
Janis
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd

80's Rock:
Tesla
Motley Crue
Cinderella


Hard rock from the 80's/early 90's:
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Megadeth
Suicidal Tendencies
Pantera
Metallica

Hard rock in the 00's era:
Godsmack
Disturbed
Tool
Cold
Staind
Mudvayne
Audioslave

Some modern hard rock:
Nothingmore
Slipknot
Stone Sour
Halestorm
Five Finger Death Punch
Volbeat
Seether

Other mentions:
Sturgill Simpson
Florence & The Machine
Shakey Graves
Robert Plant
Revivalists
Perfect Circle
K's Choice
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Nearly forgot grunge:
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Pearl Jam (Ten album)
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Nirvana
Live
The Killers
Wall of Voodoo
Flaming Donuts of Jesus

so many others to limit just to 5...

match these bands up with their respective 14ers:

Wilson Phillips
KC and the Sunshine Band
Neil Diamond
Pearl Jam
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
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kaiman wrote:
FireOnTheMountain wrote:Hm, maybe Kaiman or Matt could explain Skinny Puppy to me....
Personally I never really got into the industrial bands like Skinny Puppy, Ministry, etc. That being said, the founder of Ministry, Al Jourgensen (who grew up in Breckenridge), is an interesting guy and I met him once in the early 90's when he was hanging out at Wax Trax records in the Capitol hill neighborhood of Denver.

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The first Ministry album was brilliant and the second one was pretty damn good too. There, I said it.
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brichardsson wrote:
kaiman wrote:
FireOnTheMountain wrote:Hm, maybe Kaiman or Matt could explain Skinny Puppy to me....
Personally I never really got into the industrial bands like Skinny Puppy, Ministry, etc. That being said, the founder of Ministry, Al Jourgensen (who grew up in Breckenridge), is an interesting guy and I met him once in the early 90's when he was hanging out at Wax Trax records in the Capitol hill neighborhood of Denver.

Kai
The first Ministry album was brilliant and the second one was pretty damn good too. There, I said it.
Definitely not putting down Ministry. Those guys are super creative, and helped develop the whole Industrial genre of music. They just never appealed to me as much as the other music I was listening to during the same era and wouldn’t be at the top of my list.

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illusion7il wrote:My list looks a lot different than everyone else's but...

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. Fear Factory
3. Gravity Kills
4. Coal Chamber
5. Amon Amarth

Honorable Mentions:
Marilyn Mabson
Rob Zombie
Breakdown of Sanity
Meshuggah
Rammstein
FireOnTheMountain wrote:- Korn (Go watch their 99 woodstock performance on Youtube)
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Lots of good bands already mentioned. For my undrafted, best available picks, I'll go with:

Howlin' Wolf
Buffalo Springfield
Lucinda Williams
J.J. Cale
Townes Van Zandt

Honorable mention: Tedeschi-Trucks band - since the very worthy and well deserving Allman Bros. band has already been drafted.