Favourite Musical Artist or Band

[LostDoggy]

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The last one to knock me out was a band called McLusky who were a Welsh trio playing kind of post Pixies rock with very dry, funny lyrics. Their standout album was McLusky Does Dallas and was followed up with the almost as good The Difference Between You and Me Is That I'm Not On Fire, slightly heavier and more serious than the album before.
They broke up a couple of years ago but 2 of the 3 formed a band called Future of The Left who are playing this Thursday and Friday at the Northcote Social Club. I'll be there both nights

They are playing Golden Plains this weekend too! I'll see them then.

[The Underdog]

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They are playing Golden Plains this weekend too! I'll see them then.

They're not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure they will put in a good show. The singer also has the best put downs for hecklers ever.
Good lineup for Golden Plains, would have loved to go, but circumstances dictate otherwise.

[LostDoggy]

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They're not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure they will put in a good show. The singer also has the best put downs for hecklers ever.
Good lineup for Golden Plains, would have loved to go, but circumstances dictate otherwise.

I love the line on the McLusky song "the ex-singer is a sex criminal"
Heard a FOTL song this morning that says "Colin is a pussy, a very pretty pussy"

[The Underdog]

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I love the line on the McLusky song "the ex-singer is a sex criminal"
Heard a FOTL song this morning that says "Colin is a pussy, a very pretty pussy"

The McLusky song is called "She Will Only Bring You Happiness", the line is a round that ends the song which goes "Our old singer is a sex criminal".

The FOTL song is called "Manchasm". The second half is about his cat missing him while he's on tour and wishing the end of his career (essentially). By the way way apart from being a very pretty pussy, Colin is also a "wide-eyed, wanton, hopped up, hole of hale and hate".
Andy Falkous the lyricist uses words like weapons with a brilliant delivery.

Can you tell I spend too much time with listening to this shit.

[Twodogs]

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I've heard of about 10% of the bands listed in this thread - and most of those were around 30 years ago.

You heard a few going up and back to Canberra last year. Pay attention this year.

[LostDoggy]

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You heard a few going up and back to Canberra last year. Pay attention this year.

He did join me in singing "On the road again"

[The Doctor]

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Erik Satie, a French piano impressionist from the turn of the 20th century (they still murder his more accessible work occasionally in commercials).

Love him too.

One of my proudest moments as a dad was when my 8 y.o. son played Gymnopedie no 1 complete at a school concert in front of roughly 300 people.

I love Pink Floyd, and like most of the super groups Beatles, Led Zep, Stones, U2, Police (pre - Zenyatta) Midnight Oil. Currently into Red Hot Chili Peppers in a big way.

Also a big fan of Ricki Lee Jones, George Benson, early Vince Jones,

Was once a big fan of those Euro electronic acts of the 70's ie Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre,

[hujsh]

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Can't believe i forgot
The Killers
Jet
Audioslave
End Of Fashion
Radiohead
The White Stripes
The Strokes
WOOFmother (ey ey)
The Fratellis

[LostDoggy]

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Oh, I think I forgot Kings Of Leon.

[LostDoggy]

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Oh, I think I forgot Kings Of Leon.

Great stuff!
Wish they were playing Golden Plains.

[Twodogs]

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He did join me in singing "On the road again"

Yeah but he stopped us playing with the electric windows. We had a good rythm going there for a while.

[mjp]

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A is for Arab Strap (though I nearly said Arcade Fire, and would once have said Ammonia, and even before them the Afghan Wigs).
B is for Broken Social Scene (or maybe The Beta Band? Or Belle and Sebastian?)
C is for Nick Cave (but I give Clap Your Hands Say Yeah honorable mention).
D is for Dinosaur Jr (but I love the Deftones, and the Delgados, and the Drive-by Truckers)
E is for Elliot Smith (but I have seen some great shows by Even, and saw the Eels in the UK last year and have all their albums too).
F is for Faith No More.
G is for The Go-Betweens (that is too dead song-writers already!)
H is for the Hold Steady (my favorite band at the moment).
I is for Iggy Pop.
J is for The Jam (though I am a bit sorry to see them back together again).
K is for Kings of Leon.
L is for Lou Reed.
M is for Metallica (even if just for the unintentional comedy of 'Some Kind of Monster')
N is for Nirvana (though Nice Inch Nails are very, very good).
O is for no-one I can think of.
P is for PJ Harvey. (The Pretenders (first record) and the Pixies. And Pavement.)
Q is for Queens of the Stone Age (I guess.)
R is for The Rolling Stones. (And Rancid. And REM. And RATM. And the Ramones. And Radiohead).
S is for The Smiths. (Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, The Strokes).
T is for Talking Heads. (The The. TV on the Radio).
U is for Urge Overkill.
V is for Violent Femmes. (and of course the Velvet Underground).
W is for The White Stripes. (And Wolf Parade. And WPA for my missus!)
X, Y and Z are for no-one I can think of.

[LostDoggy]

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Great list Mjp.
Except there is something about Belle & Sebastian that makes me want to punch something. Don't like that sort of soft, little boy style singing.
Even is a a very under rated band. 100x better than Eskimo Joe but don't get half the promotion or airplay.
Faith No More were excellent. The The was great.

[LostDoggy]

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Great stuff!
Wish they were playing Golden Plains.

Haha, wish they were playing anywhere! I missed the tickets to the January show and Falls Festival. It hurt.

[katemeehan]

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Oasis is my favourite band.
And randomly, it was Rob Murphy that got me onto them!
Looking at the player Q&A a few years ago (on the website) and Murph said Oasis was his favourite, and they sounded familiar so I downloaded a few tracks and now Im obsessed with them.
Thanks Murph!!