Your Top 5
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choose my favorites would be to hard so i'm going with authors, directors, and live bands
authors:
Cormac McCarthy
Chuck Palahniuk
Jack Kerouac (i have a thing for all the beat writers)
Charles Bukowski
Ken Kesey
and an honorable mention to Hunter Thompsondirectors:
The Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
honorable mentions to Jeff Nichols, Savage Steve Holland (better off dead is my number 1 with a bullet all time favorite movie), David Fincherlive bands :
Lucero
Fugazi
Bane
Flag (the black flag band thats not black flag but has more actual past members then black flag, including my 2 favorite black flag singers)
Flogging Molly
honorable mentions Dropkick murphy's, Converge, Hatebreed, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie boys, Terror, American Nightmare, Neil Diamond, Braid, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes -
Great shit; Lucero just dropped a new one this week, great live band! Fugazi was absolutely formative for me. Their shows were so great. I really loved their label in general, lots of great bands on Dischord.
Think it, be it.
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Guys if we are talking post rock, what about Regulator Watts and Abilene? And Hoover? They are my top 3 noise rock bands.
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@mclaincausey said in Your Top 5:
Great shit; Lucero just dropped a new one this week, great live band! Fugazi was absolutely formative for me. Their shows were so great. I really loved their label in general, lots of great bands on Dischord.
Lucero live used to be an amazing experience, the last few times I seen them was not so great. and the last few albums just don't speak to me.
But that's life.
I got lucky and saw Fugazi at there last show in toronto back in like 99ish? Great show and Grade opened for that. -
Last Lucero I saw was in Minneapolis at the Triple Rock in 2008. Rowdy crowd and they had them in the palm of their hand. I haven’t listened to them much since then but it was a terrific show.
I got to see Fugazi twice up close and personal, 1993, when my friend interviewed Ian before the show while I was in high school:
https://www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/jackson-ms-usa-40893And again in 1996:
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yeah the rowdiness is over
they don't play any faster songs back to back
ben even switches to an acoustic guitar for last night in townhttps://www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/toronto-on-canada-71998
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@jerkules bonus points for Melancholy. Man was that an album
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@mclaincausey @natehate The "real" show I ever attended was Fugazi in Milwaukee in 93'. Before that it was just local punk rock bands.
I just turned 15 and unwisely "borrowed" my parents car, filled it with friends and saw Fugazi and Lungfish. It truly changed the course of who I was to become. That sounds a bit cheesy, but it is true. I had the fortune of seeing Fugazi a few other times, but nothing ever compared to that first one.
Lucero- I have probably seen Lucero more than any other band. They used to headline or open for what seemed to be every band that I wanted to see throught the early 2000's. I grew to love them. There last time they were at Red Rocks was my welcome back to music from the covid restrictions. It was special, as I forgot how powerful live music was for my soul after going without for sooo long. But it is true, they aren't nearly as rowdy as they were. Grown ups....pfft..
I should probably rank my Top 5 shows at some point. That first Fugazi show would have to be in there, but that is a tough other 4.....
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@Bored-In-Breck said in Your Top 5:
The "real" show I ever attended was Fugazi in Milwaukee in 93'. Before that it was just local punk rock bands.
I just turned 15 and unwisely "borrowed" my parents car, filled it with friends and saw Fugazi and Lungfish. It truly changed the course of who I was to become. That sounds a bit cheesy, but it is true. I had the fortune of seeing Fugazi a few other times, but nothing ever compared to that first one.
I can totally relate to that. Started around the same time and age, and it never really went away.
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Man I love Lungfish @Bored-In-Breck "Talking Songs for Walking" shook me, listened to that one a ton in the day.
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Some great picks here, you all is cultured!
Top 5 albums (in no particular order:)
- Led Zeppelin II
- Supersession - Mike Bloomfield
- Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
- In the jungle groove - James Brown
- Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
More...
Fragile - Yes
2112 - Rush
Frizzle Fry - Primus
Transmutation - Praxis
Paid in full - Eric B and Rakim
Swinging doors and the bottle let me down - Merle Haggard
Double live gonzo! - Ted Nugent
Joe's garage - Frank Zappa
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Chocolate City - Parliament...you said "5," right?
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Joining in the fun, in no particular order.
Radiohead The Bends
Bloc Party A Weekend in The City
Sigur Ros. Takk
Bjork Post/Volta/Debut
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The Message -
yet another great thread ive overlooked in this forum. Enjoyed reading through everyone’s lists this lazy Sunday.
In no order:
David Bowie -“Station to Station” and or “Low”
Red Hot Chili Peppers -“Blood Sugar Sex Magic”
Deftones -“White Pony”
Nirvana -“Unplugged”
Alice In Chains -“Dirt” -
So difficult to pin this down to 5. Like most people, if I got asked this question next week I would have a completely different set of answers:
- Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
- Bob Dylan - Desire.
- David Bowie - Hunky Dory.
- Jason Isbell - Live from Alabama.
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
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Drop kick Murphy’s - do or die
Offspring - smash
Foo fighters - first album
Beastie boys - hello nasty
Sublime-self title -
Hard to pick 5 books and even harder to pick 5 favourite albums so I’ll post the books and have a good think about the albums…
In no particular order:
The Crossing - Cormac Mcarthy
The old man & the sea - Hemingway
Robin Hobb - the whole Fitz saga
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Hard to pick a favourite Stephen King but I’m guna go with Bag of Bones -
I'll play off @DeeDee85 book post (sorry, I'm a child at heart and mostly enjoy escaping with a fantasy novel):
The Wise Man's Fear -Patrick Ruthfuss
A Storm of Swords -George Martin
The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three -Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -JK Rowling
The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance -Brandon Sanderson -
@flannel-slut White Pony deserves a top 5 for sure
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@WhiskeySandwich hell yeah man
