NationStates Jolt Archive

Who is your favorite? Yes, I know I make a lot of these threads, but I love to. Mine is Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains. He's in my top ten, simply awesome stuff.

:eek: How could you leave off Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction?!

John Frusciante and Mike McCready come pretty damn close in my opinion.

Dimebag lives! Or at least his crazy fingers. :)


And his (and his band's) sound cameo in Spongebob. Still a classic. :D

VERY easily, Tom Morello.

Tom Morello easily takes the cake on this one. He takes it easy... but he takes it.

Kurt Cobain.

Where the hell is Bob Mould (Sugar and solo work)?

He was (and still is, since he's not dead) better than Kurt Cobain by a longshot. Nirvana has nothing on Mould, and he's just one man.

Dimebag lives! Or at least his crazy fingers. :)


And his (and his band's) sound cameo in Spongebob. Still a classic. :D

didn't know you liked pantera.

Where the hell is Bob Mould (Sugar and solo work)?

Sugar has some nice melodic chord work, that's for sure (Hoover Dam being the outstandin example) and his solo stuff has some nice wee acoustic twiddles (Sunspots, IIRC), but to me old Mouldie Bob is still trying to recapture the magic and intensity of The Nile Song by Pink Floyd.

Sugar has some nice melodic chord work, that's for sure (Hoover Dam being the outstandin example) and his solo stuff has some nice wee acoustic twiddles (Sunspots, IIRC), but to me old Mouldie Bob is still trying to recapture the magic and intensity of The Nile Song by Pink Floyd.

Sounds to me like you haven't heard his more recent material (as far as the 90's goes... The Last Dog And Pony Show). That, or you're just focusing on one (small) period of his career.

Sounds to me like you haven't heard his more recent material (as far as the 90's goes... The Last Dog And Pony Show). That, or you're just focusing on one (small) period of his career.

I'll admit I'm not overly familiar with his work of the last decade or thereabouts, but certainly prior to that it wasn't his guitar skill that stood out, but rather his ear for songwriting, arrangement and melody. But hey, I personally rate the Burroughs/Gysin drenched first side of The Last Days Of Pompeii above Mould's solo and post HD works, so what do I know?

Connez-vous The Minutemen?

I'll admit I'm not overly familiar with his work of the last decade or thereabouts, but certainly prior to that it wasn't his guitar skill that stood out, but rather his ear for songwriting, arrangement and melody. But hey, I personally rate the first Burroughs/Gysin drenched first side of The Last Days Of Pompeii above Mould's solo and post HD works, so what do I know?

Connez-vous The Minutemen?

1: I liked The Last Days Of Pompeii more than Mould's solo work until I *cough* acquired The Last Dog And Pony Show along with 2005's Body of Song. True, his guitar skill doesn't stand out on his post-Husker Du work. After Husker Du, it became all about the songwriting, and does it ever show on The Last Dog And Pony Show (really, you have to check it out --- it's outstanding). However, the speed at which he plays, along with the complexity of his chords and progressions, is more than enough for me to elevate him above and beyond Cobain and Nirvana.

2: I never really listened to them, to be honest...

2: I never really listened to them, to be honest...

One for begging/stealing/borrowing there then. Double Nickels On The Dime is a frighteningly immersive place to start. Recommended tracks are probably A History lesson, Part II or Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth. Avoid post-Minutemen solo works until you have a vision of the original band's glory.

One for begging/stealing/borrowing there then. Double Nickels On The Dime is a frighteningly immersive place to start. Recommended tracks are probably A History lesson, Part II or Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth. Avoid post-Minutemen solo works until you have a vision of the original band's glory.

I'll have to do that, but it needs to wait. I don't exactly have a lot of HDD space, and my family members are getting suspicious about the lack of space on this computer.

Yeah, I have a shitload of hidden music all over the place. :p

I don't exactly have a lot of HDD space, and my family members are getting suspicious about the lack of space on this computer.

A CD burner is a wondrous thang.

Nomeansno?

Victim's Family?

The Inbred?

A CD burner is a wondrous thang.

Nomeansno?

Victim's Family?

The Inbred?


I have a CD burner, but no CDs. And when I have CDs, my brother uses all of them for *cough* games. So that's one out the window. :p

I'll check them out, though. Teusday is a good day for me to "clean" my HDD, as it's a day off (well, until about 4:30 PM, when I clean out a local office).

But do check out The Last Dog And Pony Show to see the pinnacle of Bob's 90's work. And, if you can, get some live sets from the tour of the same name; as always, Bob's even better live.

I'll check them out, though.

Plenty of Nomeansno on Youtube, the others are somewhat obscure and haven't really stood the test of time as far as popularity goes.

Leatherface? Frankie fucking Stubbs.

Plenty of Nomeansno on Youtube, the others are somewhat obscure and haven't really stood the test of time as far as popularity goes.

Leatherface? Frankie fucking Stubbs.

Well, if it's videos you want me to check out, then I'll check them out on Youtube. Definitely.

Never heard Leatherface, but I've heard of them. Hey, that counts, right? :p

Never heard Leatherface, but I've heard of them. Hey, that counts, right? :p


A tiny sample to get you hooked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWM9TdYw5NA

Dickie Hammond is also visible playing second guitar in this, and is almost as much a minor legend as Stubbs.

A tiny sample to get you hooked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWM9TdYw5NA

Dickie Hammond is also visible playing second guitar in this, and is almost as much a minor legend as Stubbs.

Thanks much... They kick ass.

They actually remind me of Sham 69, for some odd reason.

Thanks much... They kick ass.

They actually remind me of Sham 69, for some odd reason.

'sfunny, I'm just back a few hours ago from seeing a Finnish punk/folk/jazz group playing a Finnish language cover of Hurry Up Harry, amongst other tunes on accordion, bongos, harmonica, fiddle, guitar, upright bass and mandolin. Band called Mojakka.

EDIT: no, I'm not just making this up. Implausible as it seems.