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| Best guitar-based bands ever? |
| the Angry Samoans / Nirvana / the Dead Kennedys |
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13% |
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| the Beatles / the Stones / the Who |
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33% |
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| Green Day / Op Ivy / NoFX |
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6% |
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| Led Zeppelin / Black Sabbath / Metallica |
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46% |
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| Yngwe Malmstein / Steve Vai / Slayer |
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0% |
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| Cream / Hendrix |
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0% |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Nah, the best place to start is with bands you can see in person. Listening to punk on CD is only good for learning the lyrics. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Listening to punk on CD is only good for learning the lyrics. |
RT, you're a dudes' dude, but you're wrong.
listening to punk on cd is also good for
-doing the dishes
-engaging in sports such as skateboarding, weightlifting and i'm sure dozens of others
-punching cops
-driving
-ruining high school dances
but it isn't good to hump to. i'll give you that. i'd hump to the slackers for sure. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| The thing with punk and metal, is that 80% of the bands suck ass I think. But with the good stuff, no two shakes about it - best music on the planet. Reggae and ska though, meh, too dull for my ears I guess. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| uberscheisse wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Listening to punk on CD is only good for learning the lyrics. |
RT, you're a dudes' dude, but you're wrong.
listening to punk on cd is also good for
-doing the dishes
-engaging in sports such as skateboarding, weightlifting and i'm sure dozens of others
-punching cops
-driving
-ruining high school dances
but it isn't good to hump to. i'll give you that. i'd hump to the slackers for sure. |
Alright, I stand corrected. Incidentally, punk might not be good sex music, but a few times I've put on some white power music which drives the wife crazy. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
| The thing with punk and metal, is that 80% of the bands suck ass I think. But with the good stuff, no two shakes about it - best music on the planet. Reggae and ska though, meh, too dull for my ears I guess. |
I agree that about 80% sucks. Luckily in Korea we have a much higher caliber than in most western countries.
Reggae and ska isn't always boring. It's all about the soul. |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Descendents
Black Flag
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Yea, glad someone threw those ones out there. Quality punk, for sure. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| I agree that about 80% sucks. Luckily in Korea we have a much higher caliber than in most western countries. |
Yeah - regarding the punk scene here, I will admit that the only Korean punk band I knew about before coming here was Crying Nut (like most people), but the few times that I've been to Skunk Hell I did really think that the bands were above average for punk bands. Pity about the crowd and the irregular scheduling of bands playing there though but that is another story...
Now, Korean metal bands need a long way to go - could someone please tell them that Cradle Of Filth is crap, and trying to sound like them is even worse, and that black metal is not about wearing corpse paint and trying to look evil while gay-ass gothic keyboards play in the background? Also, could you mention to some of these Korean thrash metal bands that you need a good drummer and kick-ass riffs to play decent thrash? Thanks. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Nah, the best place to start is with bands you can see in person. Listening to punk on CD is only good for learning the lyrics. |
I totally agree that recordings are a pale shadow of live music, but I never go to punk shows anymore. My personal feeling is that it's now a museum piece: the movement and culture of punk are dead and gone, carried on now much like the SCA (Renn. Faire people).
I did hear some punk bands by accident in Skunk Hell and Aura a couple years ago, and the shows were good but every drummer I heard ran out of steam - in punk rock, the drummer really can't afford to slow down, no matter how slightly. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
Yeah - regarding the punk scene here, I will admit that the only Korean punk band I knew about before coming here was Crying Nut (like most people), but the few times that I've been to Skunk Hell I did really think that the bands were above average for punk bands. Pity about the crowd and the irregular scheduling of bands playing there though but that is another story...
Now, Korean metal bands need a long way to go - could someone please tell them that Cradle Of Filth is crap, and trying to sound like them is even worse, and that black metal is not about wearing corpse paint and trying to look evil while gay-ass gothic keyboards play in the background? Also, could you mention to some of these Korean thrash metal bands that you need a good drummer and kick-ass riffs to play decent thrash? Thanks. |
I think Korean metal had it easy and became popular without much trouble. Most of the punk bands will play for years and never get any mainstream mention, so they stew in their small clubs and get very good. These days the metal scene is being taken over by hardcore, particularly Vassline. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Re: Live shows vs. recorded music...
...living where I do, if I didn't listen to recorded music, i wouldn't listen to music at all. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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Pink Floyd is the best studio ensemble in me humble opinion.
Zep's first L.P. is the nuts and the second one is also ballsy.
Cream's "Tales of Brave Ullysses" and "Strange Brew" and a few other numbers are very good.
The Rolling Stones are just awesome.
The Beatles made five very, very good L.P.s. |
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