Also, someone mentioned Beefheart on this thread?!!!!!!

That's... insane. That's like the best music ever made!! Wow!

Oh well, opinions yeah...

The Sex Pistols, never understood it.

Guns N Roses are awesome!

Appetite for Destruction is one of my favourite albums, period. Their later shittiness can never alter its undeniable brilliance for me.

Alien Sex Fiend are PHENOMENAL batreleaser! You just gotta learn to give em a chance. I think I know your taste enough to know you just have to live with em a bit. Just my opinion though.

youre absolutely right. i walk the fucking line between good and evil.

I HATE THE FUCKING DEAD MILKMEN.

i second that.

I think it's something about the word 'dead' in a band name. Dead Milkmen, Dead Kennedys, Dead Can Dance, Grateful Dead. Can't stand any of them. I'm sure I'll come with an exception the minute I post this, but until then i can safely say that bands with the word 'dead' in their name are always shit.

Edit: Dead or Alive were Ok. But if they're the best I can think of then I've sort of proven my point.

appetite for destruction is incredible. the personality and talent of the guys playing on that record is awesome. duff, axl, slash, izzy, and steve. seriously one of the best lineups in rock history. slash is a guitar fanatic, the dude practiced like 10 hrs a day as a kid! then theres duff, the hardcore alumni, who got sick of simple punk rock chords and wanted to play larger than life rock n roll. axl's vocals and and performance were both awesomee, unstable lead singers are the best! izzy, incredible rythym guitar. appetite for destruction epitomized rock n roll. it mixed all the best parts of the rock tradition; blues, metal, glam, and punk and through it together in this very accesible but very awesome package. not to mention, lots and lots of sex drugs and rock n roll. this tribute prolly makes me sound like a twat, but fuck it, i stand by appetite for destruction! just one of those records that has stuck with me no matter what music im into at the time.

and i also love the dead milkmen. my favorite college rock band. short punked up pop songs with hilarious lyrics about getting beat up at frat parties and such.

the dead c?

Rolling Stones
Dinosaur Jr
Metallica
edit: I forgot U2! Probably through force of hhabit
Pink Floyd (not so bad)

i can't stand dead can dance either.

but i love the grateful dead and the dead kennedys.

Oh fuck I forgot to list Dinosaur Jr. I HATE them.

Would like to mention that Dead Milkmen have some absolutely genius songs, but I'm not really sure if they're a "seminal band"..

i don't even know what the fuck a seminal band is
every band has influenced SOMEONE

" Seminal".

It's a sperm thing, you wouldn't understand.

Ascension.

I'm going to stick that particular cat in and amoungst that particular group of pigeons. Incidentally, if anyone wants to send me recordings of the 'semenal' 'Ascension' 'they' are 'more than welcome'.

The Stones
Dylan
The Yardbirds
Velvet Underground
Love

All are absolutely despicable and I love them all for it.

Some of these threads go on for so long, I forget if I posted in them.

Obvious ones I know:

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Led Zep
Stooges
Doors

I don't despise any band, but all of these bore the pants off me.

well, i tended to concentrate on the Big Names. I hate Razorlight more than all of the bands i listed but one can appreciate the 5 one mentioned as being "important".
Dinosaur Jr are crap! *runs away from indie-beating*

Ha fucking ha fucking ha.

Great band, shit bassist.

Led Zeppelin.
The Beatles. (That one's a personal thing, my mom was a huge fan while I was growing up, and literally only owned their catalog and nothing else. And my dad hates music. So this is all I heard growing up, so I never EVER want to hear them again.)

I know there's more but can't remember them right now.

O noes

yeah i know where the word comes from and all but it's a stupid music critic term.

i'm constantly in awe of how amazing among the living, et al. are despite having some of the worse vocals in the history of forever.

thankfully, i got to see them with john bush just a few months before they "reunited".

Everybody despises a band that somebody else loves.

I don't get the fucking point of this bloody awful thread.

then, why'd you reply above?

i love how you trash the english in one thread and make use of their slang (poorly i might add) in another. ffs.

I'll make use of it however bloody awfully I bloody well feel loik it.

Momentary lapse in judgement.

ok so...

Pink Floyd (I got into their catalogue, but it's so annoying/bad now)
Rolling Stones (they might have a chance some day)
Led Zep
Cat Stevens
Radiohead (LOL)

Keane, Coldplay, ''New Grave'' shite bands and all the bedwetters are to blame firmly on Radiohead. Radiohead should be blamed for a lot of things.

Oh, and Turin fucking Brakes!

Whatever gmku thinks of English people, I don't know, but he used the slang there OK. No different to how a typical English, or Australian person would. I always find it odd when American's use British slang when speaking, just as I'd sound a bit weird saying 'asshole' or 'dude' or 'individualism', but when typing it, I could write, 'up your ass' and I'm convinced you'd all be fooled into believing I was from Ohio, just as if I said 'well sick', noone would be fooled for a second that I was a Kiwi, but if I typed it, I'm sure i'd get away with it.

Either way, I thought Cantankarous was British up to about six months ago, so what do I know?

i've got an american friend who says "dude" every other word, it's the most i can do to stop myself from saying it, even though i actually like it as a word.

In her flippin' dreams.

How's Cat Stevens seminal?

abu hamza jizzed in his beard

I hate it when American's use British terms when speaking to us. I have a good friend who has started using the term 'the missus' when refering to his wife. This is a term I hate when used by British people, but from an American it just sounds even more awful.

The hardest thing about trying to avoid American slang is the way it's become almost international. Words like 'man' and 'dude' are used all over the world now, in a way that words like 'flippin', 'blimey' and 'bloody' simply aren't - apart from maybe India.

Americans saying quid always always ALWAYS sounds terrible. Just as I'm sure it would if I said 'bucks'.

Ever since hearing this line in some Brit comedy series on BBC here in the states, I've loved using this one during my road rage moments: "Move yer bloomin' arse!"

I just love it. Bloomin' arse. There's no American slang that works as well.