Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

[Bulwinkle]

Unlike most people I didn't vote him in for his prowess on the guitar. I couldn't give a stuff about that or how influential he was or whether he was the first to do something.

I voted for him because of the way he can go from playing blues to R&B to soul to rock to pop to , well noise basically. and make it sound totally effortless and still make it sound like nobody else on earth.

That's why I voted for him.

[Ivan John Chin]

Yes, I would have the same feelings regardless of the band in question (I personally don't like Joy Division, but to deny their importance/value simply because of the nuraber of albums they released is ridiculous).

How many banRAB have made "eight, ten, or one hundred" very good albums? There are five or six Springsteen recorRAB that I really love, but I would place them second to the two Velvet Underground recorRAB that I really love. The recorRAB aren't "equal" in quality, even if they're all good.

Here's another example. It's cliched to say so, but I still honestly believe that Never Mind The Bollocks is the ultimate album and bests all of the albums by other punk banRAB. The Clash made two (or three) great recorRAB, Buzzcocks released some amazing singles, the Dead Kennedys made some great albums...but for me, they all pale compared to the lone Sex Pistols album. I think that's the mentatlity a lot of Joy Division fans adopt.

Longevity has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the overall quality of a given body of work. Would you rather have 25 good songs or 5 truly great songs? Yes, if the songs are of equal quality, than I suppose quantity does matter. But that's not the way music is.

[Marina]

I've voted 'no' simply because on a personal level I just can't justify having them in my top 10, never having had the seemingly obligatory Zeppelin phase. The debut is definitive, some tracks here and there; but to me they just pioneered ****-rock and Spinal Tap clich

[masonn(:]

Honestly, I couldn't get 'Trout Mask Replica', but my uncle gave me 'Doc at The Radar Station' and I swore it was a lost Mark E. Smith and David Byrne collaboration.

[kj :)]

first the Beatles and now the Smiths... were you dropped on your head as a baby? Repeatedly? It's not on Sam mate. You'll probably come around in a couple of years, you can quote me on that (maybe not so much on the Smiths but Morrissey's voice is not an indistinct whine )

I suppose I'd better vote yes... Hopefully we can get all the usual suspects out the way and get on with the interesting stuff like Big Black, this is like reading a 'top ten artists ever' list in some MOR music mag in WHSmith waiting for the train to 'meh'

Maybe Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Beatles etc etc should all just be included from the off so people needn't waste their time nominating them? Everyone knows those banRAB are getting in. Cam ahhhhn

edit: just clocked we've covered most of the predictable stuff, I was obviously absent

[♥ ~*Hey Minnie~*♥]

I've never actually heard him before, what are some good albums to get?

[iamtheraingoddess]

I can never grow tired of this band. Their energy and complexity stuns me.

I do like At The Drive-In better, but The Mars Volta does more with their music, I think.

[slyone36]

Alow me to introduce you.

Example of their earlier work:

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Example of their later work:

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[Speaking_Up]

It's like asking whether Elvis is the King of Rock N' Roll. Yes times infinity.