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[Music] Top 3 Yankee bands
- Thread starter Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Regarding Pixies which are mentioned a lot, where's a good place to start? i never really got into this band in real time.
Austrian Gull
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Television get in there just for Marquee Moon alone.
Sparks
The Doors
Sparks
The Doors
Quite a difficult question. Personally LCD Soundsystem were/are an important band for me. Ramones have given me a lot of enjoyment over the decades both on record, live and also in later years as a band I consistently used to listen to when running...It's Alive is one of the best live albums there is. I could pick any number of bands for the third.....
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Oh Jebus, I just read the title properly, I forgot they had to be from the North, how far down south can you go, or is it just bands not from the confederate states ?
I should be ok, Cramps from New York, Pixies from Boston, Delta Bombers Vegas, Nirvana from Washington, Beach Boys from California, the only one that I might need to change is the Delta Bombers !!
R.E.M.
Tool
Talking Heads
Three very different bands. I’ve seen the first two live many times but sadly never got to see Talking Heads, although I did see David Byrne’s American Utopia which was brilliant
Tool
Talking Heads
Three very different bands. I’ve seen the first two live many times but sadly never got to see Talking Heads, although I did see David Byrne’s American Utopia which was brilliant
This looked SO good.
My Uncle went and said it was one of the best gigs he's ever been to if not the best, and he has been to many, many gigs in his life.
dejavuatbtn
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Killers
Foo Fighters
Tom Petty (sorry Beach Boys)
Foo Fighters
Tom Petty (sorry Beach Boys)
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Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Good to see them get a mention, I started listening to them after learning they were Jim Morrisons favourite band. The non Forever Changes albums are underrated as is my favourite song Softly To Me which isn’t even sung by Arthur Lee
Devo
Suicide
Nine Inch Nails
Suicide
Nine Inch Nails
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Don't think you can go wrong with Surfer Rosa or Doolittle, their first two albums, it is difficult to pick one. But then I would go back to their EP 'Come on Pilgrim' which also has some great tracks not on the LPs.
It was. I saw it at Manchester Apollo which is a brilliant venue too. You can get the Broadway show on DVD/Bluray if you haven’t seen it.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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If you just want to dip in, the compliation 'Death to the Pixies' touches all the bases and is dominated by the first three releases, which is where most of the gold is. However, I'd go in order, starting with the mini album 'Come On Pilgrim'; not changed much from the original demos, that shows them at their rawest. As you get into 'Surfa Rosa' they are still a hardcoreish punk surf band, but the pop sensibilities are becoming a little more evident. By the time Doolittle comes, the formula is complete and you get the same vibe, but with more structured songs.
I love Pixies, but these days, I love the Breeders equally and it slightly saddens me that the former couldn't adapt to contain more of the ideas of the latter. For me, by the time Bossanova came about, the stuff that Kim was doing with the Breeders was better than what Frank was doing. Would have loved to have seen it open up and contain both talents. There are very few songs credited to the two together and one of those, 'Gigantic' still stands up as one of the finest pop songs of the 1980s.
Cheeky Monkey
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I was amazed at how many empty seats there were at the Brighton Centre for that gig, it should have been a sellout 5 times over, incredible show, we were lucky to be stood right at the front. Having also seen TomTom Club live way back in 89 I kid myself that I have actually seen Talking Heads live...sort of
. David Byrne, the man, the legend.
el punal
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So many! But off the top of my head : Lynyrd Skynyrd, Talking Heads and Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young).
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I'm not sure that Lynyrd Skynyrd would be too chuffed at being labelled as 'Yankees'.
I feel the same. They're a band that has passed me by.
I watched them side stage at a festival in Denmark in 2014 and I've genuinely never seen such a passionate crowd - screaming along to every word like their lives depended on it. It made me quite jealous, just how intensely they loved this band.