I'm glad you emphasised the only reason I could be bothered to respond.

Oh, well, I already admitted as much in my reply to sarramkrop. I thought you were still pressing the case beyond opining sentiment. Sorry for my confusion.

It's fine dear. Just don't do it again or I will e-scowl at you so hard your face will be ashen. Ashen!

Ok, can we go back to the original subject of this thread, now?

Good lord, the Griffin image really does add a lot to that. I can't help but think my face wouldn't be so ashen as much as my my eyes would go all wonky.

Yeah, Melvins are a dead-end band.

Some good stuff leading to the shore of a sea of boredom.

I remember Buzzo saying that the melvins were his favourite band till he was over them.

I hear that Buzzo is a really nice person. And I'm sure that's true. Which is part of the problem. If he was a genuinely horrible person, like Varg or someone, that'd make the music at least convincing. As it is, it's just a drab wall of lifeless riffing. It's like hardcore porn with limp penises, all thrusting and no spunk.

I found a reason to keep singing.

This is true, but only if in 2010 you apply it to not just rock music, but also to much house, happy hardcore, dub, hip hop, and way too much pop music produced in this time and age, which you seem to more or less enjoy.
A lot of the rock music I like I'm dead certain hasn't been composed with a mindset that worried about what the analysis of an expert musicologist makes out of it, even the kind that seems to stretche the conventions of what was previously there, or, like I often find now, takes inspiration from the more under-explored corners of otherwise celebrated ''golden eras'' of music. I find the whole debate on the alleged antagonism between pop music/electronic music in general and guitars to be a regurgitation of British music journalism of the now distant past, since time and again, and particularly in the past decade, the instrumentation of a considerable number of rock bands has in many cases evolved from the more prominent set up consisting of just guitar/bass/drums/vox of yore.

Rockism... When will it die?

was Buzzo the one who went to prison?

No, that was Nelson Mandela

Put me down in the veneration camp. A world without them would be as fun as a world without german chocolate cheesecake. I hope I get extra credit for the perfect pathetic stoner analogy too.

Brilliant band. Really intelligent songwriting. They take all their songs in extremely interesting directions... they're also one of the most consistently great bands of all time, up there with the Fall.

Ideas for future installments - Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound, The Cure, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, nearly every riot grrl band except Bikini Kill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Glice sent in a Pavement suggestion, and who am I do decline?

Ah, that's a good choice. I think Slanted and Wowee are great albums, but meh..

How about Sonic Youth? I know, they're my favorite band of all time too, but you have to admit they could be just as easy to hate as they are to love...

But honestly, I think anyone who hates the Melvins on the basis that a good number of their songs are slow and sludgy hasn't really heard a whole lot of their stuff. Mind you, I've only got Houdini, but I wouldn't call every song on there "metal"...

I never suggested that they are a metal band, if you are looking at me, I only implied that they are shitcore.

Ok, maybe you could say that they are brown metal.

Let's talk shit on Stereolab.

No.

Leck mich im Arsch

Coward.

Stereolab don't have a single bad song in their huge discography (even the stuff with NWW!). Brilliant band.

Yeah, that's very true - the only exception I'd make is that Dub, certainly 75-83 or so, has some incredibly clever ideas floating about. I think Pablo's really quite astonishing in some of the things he does. But I've got no bones with saying the Happy Hardcore is equally, if not more, formulaic than most other genres. I just happen to think it's a brilliant formula (particularly the continued cod-counterpoint they use).

I think they're good.. I feel there's no 'lack of understanding' and they do what they do like they do because they like it that way..

I don't really see a resemblance with metallica

I don't understand weed music. I don't listen to anything different because I'm smoking which is most of the time. When I get high I am normal and pleasant to be around. I'm not going on some artistic trip. Now ecstacy acid and alcohal are a different story. Your perceptions are greatly altered so I can see where one would pick certain music in these instances.

The only resemblance I see is the loudness and heavy feeling. I absolutley adore Metallica. I have loved them since I was 12 and followed them ever since. If they are metallicaesc I would have picked up on them a lot earlier than I did.

funny I just found an old steriolab CD I forgot about when I was cleaning up my Cd's. I like them still, but I am in a different phase now.

Well booze I like fun music. But EX makes whatever music you like better. But alcohol definitely lets me drop my pretensions and enjoy the shit out of Rick Springfield or something.

Stereolab are amazing.

yeah i'll dance to hanna montana when I'm drunk so pretty much anything goes with a beat while drunken. ex definitly intensifies the njoyment of yr constant favs

Chemical Chords is pretty rubbisch so is Fab Four Subture. And the groop played has 2 killer songs but the other ones are let downs.

Still Dots and loops, Peng! and tomato are pretty amazing. Great band but just to many rubbish albums to be called amazing

Those albums are like 15 years old...

Yes, yes, why?, yes, YES, meh?, also meh, buh?, NO.

Ephesians 5:18 "and be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit"

bible'll get ya every time

80s pop is awesome for drunk. Crowded House-I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love

Oh and does anyone watch Californication? Rick Springfield played himself in the last season and was a fucking riot. Sample line, "Two nights, 6 chicks, no rubbahs."

I fucking hate the Cure.

I was kidding about Mozart. Though I do prefer Ludwig Van.