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Skidfingers McGonical Grand Master

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14 years isn't a good lifespan for a band?

 

Miss Sweeny and Pig are ace songs - I'm still worried about the album, but it can't be worse than the last one, so hooray!

 

Yes 14 years is a good lifespan for any band, and something I would be proud of. If you look at what they have done and compare to what a great band has done in that time same time period, and ask the question, on a whole will they still be talked about in great belief that they were a great band in 25 years time?

 

I would say they are a good band, but so far away from being a great band.

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Skidfingers McGonical Grand Master

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I like Weezer, certainly not the best by any stretch of the imagination, but a good band none the less. Talking Heads are by far the best "geek rock" band there ever was.

 

I only started to be be able to tolerate Talking Heads a couple of years ago when I had got hold of Marquee Moon by Television. I was so wrong in my criticism of David Byrne in my youth.

 

What can you recommend of them King?

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Pig is a great song but the demo is far better than the bonus track.

 

Oh snap, I've only heard the demo from the link you put up. Thanks for that, by the way.

 

Yes 14 years is a good lifespan for any band, and something I would be proud of. If you look at what they have done and compare to what a great band has done in that time same time period, and ask the question, on a whole will they still be talked about in great belief that they were a great band in 25 years time?

 

I would say they are a good band, but so far away from being a great band.

 

They'll be seen as easily one of the most influential bands of their generation, so yes, a great band.

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I only started to be be able to tolerate Talking Heads a couple of years ago when I had got hold of Marquee Moon by Television. I was so wrong in my criticism of David Byrne in my youth.

 

What can you recommend of them King?

Anything pre 1985 mate, "More songs about buildings and food" "The name of this band is Taking Heads" and "Talking Heads" are simply sublime.

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They're my favourite band then. Does that compute with you, fucko?

 

I think that would be a better statement than branding them the greatest band of all time Chris. We all know that title is given to the vengaboys.

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Weezer peaked with Pinkerton, in my view. It's a relentless, obstreperous deluge of distorted guitars and high-hat cymbals. Compared to the crisp, clean-cut pop of Weezer's eponymous debut, Pinkerton is a madman's demo tape. The band most certainly had not delivered more of the same -- when "the same" was precisely what everybody wanted. So it's easy to see why music-criticism-circa-1996 regarded it with derision and a parade of inimical condemnations. But now we know better.

 

A cold, malnourished bastard son, wanted by neither the world nor its own father, Pinkerton struck out on its own, relying on the departures that ostensibly doomed it (cacophony, rawness, emotion) to save itself. Fans old and new latched onto its shameless honesty, driving frontman and creator Rivers Cuomo to unadulterated regret (he once equated the album to a cathartic tirade the drunk regrets the following morning). So few mad scientists can kill their monsters.

 

Pinkerton is Weezer's best album, and, sad to say, it probably always will be. Somewhere between the beautiful noise of "Tired of Sex" and the delicate acoustics of "Butterfly" lay the underpinnings of the magnum opus of a band sent from the heavens to help quell the pain of Kurt's exit. Buoyed by singles "el Scorcho," "The Good Life," and thirsty-Thursday anthem "Pink Triangle," Pinkerton excels at everything, yet does it in a shy, insecure, practically self-hating way. Its fanbase relates.

 

Sometimes it's an obligation to sit down and take inventory of all the mistakes you've made in life. At least, with Pinkerton, you can do it with a sympathetic, if a little neurotic, friend.

 

That's what I reckon anyway.

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I saw Weezer last year, although I'd gone to the concert to watch one of the supporting bands; Tokyo Police Club.

 

Weezer did a very nice thing at the end of the show, earlier in the day on the radio they invited local musicians to perform their last song with them on stage, there were around 100 musicians playing various instruments to a song I don't know the name of but had heard before. In fact Weezer's entire set consisted of songs I'd heard before but didn't know who did them :)

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My name is jonas and holiday are 2 great songs. And no not madonna's holiday.

And we're all on drugs is a beast as well,

Not the greatest band of all time. That title is reserved for Cannibal Corpse

 

Woah there! Greatest band of all time?!?

 

Surely, that accolade rests with Gary, Mark, Jason and Howard? I realise that they went through a turbulent patch with the departure of Robbie, but surely the fact that they returned stronger than ever to once again dominate the music world enshrines the mighty Take That as the greatest band of all time?

 

I thought that much was surely beyond any fucking doubt.

 

Jeebus. I'd normally be tucked up in bed by now. It's lucky for you I'm still up to educate your sorry arses.

 

And with that I've said it all...nothing to say at all...nothing to say that matters...haven't we heard enough?

 

fucks sake.

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I really liked "Islands in the Stream" but that doesn't make Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers the greatest band of all time.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

*The greatest duet of all time, maybe, but not greatest band. Nosiree. Cuz they weren't a band, see?

 

Are you talking about Dolly and Kenny or just Dolly?

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