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Post by MST3KCentral on Apr 28, 2004 7:54:49 GMT -5
Well, I guess my tastes run a bit more European than most mentioned here. I love(d) Echo and the Bunnymen, but somehow over the years, I lost ALL of my Echo CDs. About the only one you can find anymore is Songs to Learn and Sing, which is an okay collection, but far from the Best Of. I would REALLY like to have my Echo CDs back - specifically Ocean Rain and Porcupine, so if anyone here has those discs.... In my opinion, the only truly great band that has come out of the US is Steely Dan. Every single song they have ever laid down is a good one, IMHO.
Anyhoo - Here is a list of some of my faves (in no particular order, save the first, which is my All-Time favorite...)
Elvis Costello Rickie Lee Jones Prefab Sprout XTC Lloyd Cole (with and without the commotions) Barenaked Ladies (up to the most recent one, at least) Paul Weller (as well as The Jam and The Style Council) Ben Folds Five Everything But The Girl (older stuff) The Church (met them on the Gold Afternoon Fix tour, just after Richard Ploog had left. Marty Wilson-Piper is a great guy) David Bowie The Beautiful South
....the list goes on and on. And yes, I am an American (although these days, it is getting more difficult to make that claim with a clear conscience).
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 28, 2004 18:39:30 GMT -5
Ooh ooh, I love Lloyd Cole and XTC! And I have "Ocean Rain" on CD -- I bought it a few months ago at the Virgin Megastore in Orlando when they were having their "roots of goth" sale. I'd burn you a copy, but I don't have a CD burner. I still live in the dark ages, you see. But when I get one I'll let you know, 'kay?
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Post by otrfan on Apr 28, 2004 18:42:01 GMT -5
I didn't get into XTC till Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons.
But I have been a Steely Dan fan close to 25 years.
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Post by MST3KCentral on Apr 28, 2004 19:03:30 GMT -5
Ooh ooh, I love Lloyd Cole and XTC! And I have "Ocean Rain" on CD -- I bought it a few months ago at the Virgin Megastore in Orlando when they were having their "roots of goth" sale. I'd burn you a copy, but I don't have a CD burner. I still live in the dark ages, you see. But when I get one I'll let you know, 'kay? Dude! If you can burn me a copy, I will hook you up with the best damn looking DVD copy of any two of your favorite MST3K episodes that can be had in this whole wide world! (And I am being modest). Is there anything on my list of music up there you might be interested in? I have pretty much everything that every artist listed has put out, and some rare stuff and boots as well (Especially Costello). I got lots of cool free stuff when I was managing a cool radio station in another cool life.
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Post by MST3KCentral on Apr 28, 2004 19:12:46 GMT -5
I didn't get into XTC till Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons. But I have been a Steely Dan fan close to 25 years. Oddly enough, XTC kinda fell out of favor with me when Oranges and Lemons came out. Probably because it was hard hearing XTC on the radio. But then, the older I got and the more cannibas I ingested, it grew on me. It is one of my favorites now, as are most of the post O&L albums. Steely Dan - ahhhhhh. IMHO, the best band anywhere, ever. There is not one song of theirs that I do not like. I can't say that of any other band, Beatles included. I mean, wouldn't you kind of have to force yourself to listen to, say, Meet The Beatles these days? Or was I just in radio too long?
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Post by losingmydignity on Apr 29, 2004 0:30:43 GMT -5
XTC!? Pushah! Forget those silly neo-art nics who are too shy to play live and check out the amazing Dukes of Stratosphere, a vastly superiour band...XTC sits around all day praying they'll never put out another album.
(Okay, you probably got the joke---anyway, my fav XTC album is English Settlement, but my fav song is Helicopter. Anyone remember that one?)
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Post by MST3KCentral on Apr 29, 2004 6:51:18 GMT -5
I absolutely agree about the Dukes. It takes a good dose of mind-altering substances to listen to them, though. They are leagues beyond XTC, however! Similar but different! I remember Helicopter ( Drums and Wires, correct?). English Settlement is my favorite as well - always has been. Jason and the Argonauts. Hell Yeah! I think of that song every time I see that one Hercules movie where he sails with Jason and co. on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece. Which one was that? All those Herc movies seem to run together when you have seen them 1000 times.
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Post by Ator on Apr 29, 2004 22:30:13 GMT -5
I recently purchased:
1. Chicago Transit Authority 2. Chicago - II 3. Chicago - III.
I didn't like III much, but CTA and II are great albums. They are my favorite band right now.
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Post by MST3KCentral on Apr 30, 2004 6:05:09 GMT -5
I didn't like Chicago III very much when I bought it, either. Give it some time, though! It WILL grow on you. There are some great songs on there, like Loneliness is just a word, Lowdown (my fave), Free and Sing A Mean Tune, Kid. Good stuff!
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Post by Ator on Apr 30, 2004 12:25:18 GMT -5
Yeah, Lowdown and Free are two songs I really liked. As an album, though, I didn't flow too well for me.
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