American bands and artists

Pearl Jam are Jane of my top bands. Eddie vedder is one of my all-time favourite singers.

I love this song and love the idea of "even flow"

I can't have this Amercian artist thread without mentioning, (should've been first), REM

I don't know why, but I absolutely love this song, it just paces along and I play it a lot. I love the "wagga wagga wagga" sound in the chorus. (I'm a music freak and these things please me)

REM are superb. Michael Stipes is unique.

What's your frequency Kenneth?

Cellos with distortion!!!!

eddie wrote:

THAT'S one I was just going to post,  too  !!!      

https://youtu.be/fDmADaMTUdA

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

eddie wrote:g

THAT'S one I was just going to post,  too  !!!      

See? I can't be all bad. Everytime I hear this I'll think of you

Let's have a bit of The Boss

David Draiman.
Wow.

Thanks for that HA, utterly brilliant!

Disturbed are actually a heavy thrash metal band.
I guess the band didn't expect a worldwide hit of a 50 year old melancholic folk song, played with timpany drums and bass cello!!
The result is spellbinding.

Have to confess, first time I have listed to it.   Thought it was spell binding and thought provoking all at the same time

This one is for my very good friend Sassy.
The lyrics are particularly poignant and meaningful - YOU CAN take control of your life, and win, despite all the brickbats and obstacles life can hurl at you.
Hope you enjoy this.

Certainly did Andy, many thanks.   Always liked that and when life gets you, you have to come out fighting:


"Fight Song"

Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep
Everybody's worried about me
In too deep
Say I'm in too deep (in too deep)
And it's been two years
I miss my home
But there's a fire burning in my bones
Still believe
Yeah, I still believe

And all those things I didn't say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?

This is my fight song
Take back my life song
Prove I'm alright song
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

A lot of fight left in me

Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion

This is my fight song (Hey!)
Take back my life song (Hey!)
Prove I'm alright song (Hey!)
My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong (I'll be strong)
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

No I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Love me some Ben Folds! I went to see one of his shows one time, and my friends and I waited near the tour bus to get some autographs.

Just to gauge the level of fun he'd be having that night, I checked out the rest of the Folds groupies -- all male. Poor Ben ...

yeah i have seen him 3 times, once at festival, once at headline show
and once with Full orchestra at the Sydney Opera house.

veya_victaous wrote:yeah i have seen him 3 times, once at festival, once at headline show
and once with Full orchestra at the Sydney Opera house.

The man can flat-out play a piano. I was worried he wouldn't be as good live, if anything he was better.

I think he was better. Plus the way they just go into random non benfold's songs, you can tell not only him but the backing band are true pros

veya_victaous wrote:I think he was better. Plus the way they just go into random non benfold's songs, you can tell not only him but the backing band are true pros

Yeah, they are all pretty much prodigies. Here's another BF5 favorite:

Few more:

One of the best American singers in my book

Clearly white privilidge going on in choices here.

I love a bit of Ben Folds five or just Benny boy really

Have you heard this one? The piano is beautiful

YouTube videos posted here aren't displaying for me ... beat me with a fish!

Here's a band Frank Zappa said was better than the Beatles ... seriously:

I am going to beat you with a fish for the second time today!
WTF WAS THAT? I couldn't even finish listening to it.
Frank Zappa said that?? He's a frogturd of the highest order anyway and his music sucks.

That song just hurt my ears.

eddie wrote:I am going to beat you with a fish for the second time today!
WTF WAS THAT? I couldn't even finish listening to it.
Frank Zappa said that?? He's a frogturd of the highest order anyway and his music sucks.

That song just hurt my ears.

The Shaggs, 1968 -- still about 1,000 years ahead of their time ...

Here, you might find this a bit more listenable (it's really pretty, actually):

Ok it was erm, OK.

Here, listen to this:



Saw them live. Brilliant

Nothing, but nothing, beats Billy Joel, Goodnight Saigon

eddie wrote:Ok it was erm, OK.

Here, listen to this:



Saw them live. Brilliant

Heard that one many times, they used to play it all the time on the local alt-rock station ...

But not this one!

Oh, and check this out:

Kurt Cobain's Top 50 albums of all time

   Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)
   Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
   The Breeders - Pod (1990)
   The Vaselines - Dying for It (1988, listed as Pink EP)
   The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (1969)
   Fang - Landshark (1982)
   MDC - Millions of Dead Cops (1981)
   Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid (1984, listed as 1st EP)
   Saccharine Trust - Paganicons (1981, listed as 1st EP)
   Butthole Surfers - Pee Pee the Sailor (1983)
   Black Flag - My War (1984)
   Bad Brains - Rock for Light (1983)
   Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
   Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
   The Frogs - It's Only Right and Natural (1989)
   PJ Harvey - Dry (1992)
   Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
   The Knack - Get the Knack (1979)
   The Saints - Know Your Product (1978)
   Kleenex - "anything by:" (1978-1983, possibly referring to 1993's Kleenex/LiLiPUT compilation)
   The Raincoats - The Raincoats (1979)
   Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (1980)
   Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
   Various Artists - What Is It. (1982, erroneously listed as What Is This?)
   R.E.M. - Green (1988)
   Shonen Knife - Burning Farm (K Records version, 1985)
   The Slits - Typical Girls (1979)
   The Clash - Combat Rock (1982)
   The Faith/Void - The Faith/Void (1982)
   Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring (1985)
   Beat Happening - Jamboree (1988)
   Tales of Terror - Tales of Terror (1984)
   Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Last Sessions Volume One (1953)
   Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988)
   Daniel Johnston - Yip/Jump Music (1983)
   Flipper - Album – Generic Flipper (1982)
   The Beatles - Meet the Beatles! (1964)
   Half Japanese - We Are They Who Ache with Amorous Love (1990)
   Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (1987)
   Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
   Fear - The Record (1982)
   Public Image Ltd - The Flowers of Romance (1981)
   Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
   Marine Girls - Beach Party (1982)
   David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
   Wipers - Is This Real? (1980)
   Wipers - Youth of America (1981)
   Wipers - Over the Edge (1983)
   Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly (1990)
   Swans - Young God (1984, erroneously listed as Raping a Slave)

http://nirvana.wikia.com/wiki/Kurt_Cobain's_Top_50_Albums

If you don't love this song, you have no soul:

Mike Masse, Jeff Hall, Ken Benson, Scott Slusher.
More than talented.
Any of our American posters aware of these guys?

Ben Reilly wrote:If you don't love this song, you have no soul:

Okay calm down preacher man.