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[cwemory]

from Slate.com:

[Bibbitybop]

Poison.

[Mashimaro]

U2 over REM definitely.. I like both bands but have to go with U2

[Junior]

I liked...

INXS
Aerosmith
Faith no more
Janes addiction
Pearl jam
-and Bruce Springsteen.

Don't know how you can put REM on the same level as U2 though. Different league entirely.

[Gopher]

Hard choice for me, as I have always loved "Man on the Moon"; but I went with U-2 for "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" and a couple of others.

By the way, how could The Police, The Pretenders, and Van Halen find themselves excluded from such a question?

[Ya-ta Boy]

Springsteen, without question.

[Big_Bird]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

People smirk when you mention the 80s-- can you really compare Toni Basil to The Who?-- but it was more than cheese, and there's some fantastic music there.

REM was a good band, but sometimes I thought their fans had a bit of reverse snobbery; because they were underdogs ignored by radio stations, thus they were great. U2 is simply on a different plane.

The 80s? In no order, U2, Springsteen, Madonna, AC-DC, Van Halen, Pretenders, Men at Work, Police, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, English Beat, Rush, Eurythmics, Paul Simon, and a host of others on my old VHS tapes of Much-Music.

Ken:>

[Big_Bird]

[Satori]

Two great bands. I agree that U2 have been at times pompous twats in the way they talk about and promote themselves. But I judge a band on the albumns they put out, not thier moral character ( apparantly such greats as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed are notorious a-holes in person ). So I have to go with U2. "The Joshua Tree" is just too big, to iconic, too classic, too original, too "large-sounding", too consistant, too epic, too euphoric, too uplifting, too memorable to be denied.

[Big_Bird]

[Demophobe]

"The Unforgettable Fire" and "The Joshua Tree" (the albums that made U2) weren't about U2 as much as they were about Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Lanois was the man behind their biggest albums and when he wasn't there, they released some ho-hum stuff indeed. If there needs to be more illustration of this, U2 were totally in a void of nowhere before Eno and Lanois propped them up again and they released "All You Can't Leave Behind", an album that put them back into vitality.

REM were pretty much self-made in every way. They were more 'honest' than U2 that way, even after they got the Big Deal and made Monster, their most 'forced' album to date, they remained apart from any major assistance on the level that Lanois gave to U2. U2 needed help, REM didn't.

I love both bands, but if I had to choose 1 CD to play infinitely in my grave, it would be Life's Rich Pageant.

[Satori]

How many Aerosmith tracks from the 70s can you even name?

The 80s albumns Permanant Vacation and Pump were chock full of classic hits...

Heart's Done Time
Magic Touch
Rag Doll
Simoriah
Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
St. John
Hangman Jury
Girl Keeps Coming Apart
Angel
Permanent Vacation

Young Lust
F. I. N. E. (Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic And Emotional)
Going Down / Love In An Elevator
Monkey On My Back
Water Song / Janie's Got A Gun
Dulcimer Stomp / Other Side, The
My Girl
Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine Man
What It Takes

I'm Down
Movie, The

[seoulkitchen]

The main problem I have with REM is that after 'Happy Shiny People' whatsisface denied ever having done it! Even after they performed it on Sesame Street ta boot! That cracks me up that Michael decided that the song doesn't exist.
Hey, I gotta say tho, Kate did a bang-up job on the vocals for that one.


Ahhhh, U2, such happy shiny memories.
5 bucks to see them in Phoenix for the filming of Rattle and Hum. Everytime I watch that video...
And I've found myself in it (I snuck up front). Brief but I recognize me! Yay! I'm in a movie from the eighties!




How 'bout them Stray Cats...

[rothkowitz]

SWANS.Early Sonic Youth.The Fall.Einsturzende Neubauten.

I saw U2 in 94.They weren't as intellectually interesting but they were good to see.