Ombre Vivante

Yes, the power strip thingy.

"Cop Killer" by Body Count "Eighties" by Killing Joke "Enola Gay" and "Joan Of Arc" by OMD "Radioactivity" by Kraftwerk "Rooster" by Alice In Chains "Run Through The Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival "What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye

"Do The Mussolini (Headkick)" by Cabaret Voltaire "Funkhadafi" by Front 242 "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" by Ultravox! "Margaret On A Guillotine" by Morrissey "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" by Split Enz

Sounds like the story of jimmy page.

I'm still thinking power supply. Is it connected to a power strip?

Dude, it's Benny Hill... it's automatically funny no matter what.

Alright, so my essential 13-album list would look a little like this: - Big Science by Laurie Anderson - The Crackdown by Cabaret Voltaire (found this at a bargain bin years ago) - The Day The Earth Stood Still by Bernard Herrmann - Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan - Madonna by Madonna - Master Of Puppets by Metallica - The Man Machine by Kraftwerk - Per Qualche A Dollaro In Piu by Ennio Morricone (or any from the trilogy) - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd - Purple Rain by Prince - Roxy Music (or For Your Pleasure) by Roxy Music - The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground - Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie (although I'm really tempted to say Aladdin Sane)

I dislike gwen. She is too hyperactive for a grown-up; as if she was on Ritalin pixie stix.

I can't say your tastes are "wrong" either. I like listening to some Radiohead, but they're not very good when compared to other artists who do experimental and electronic music. I'd rather pare them with other BritPop and Rock bands. In that sense, I'd be thinking of other bands in that scene: Suede, Blur, Travis, Placebo, Kent, Aqualung, clodplay, Keane, et al. Their early sound is more fitting and on-the-level with those bands; no disparity there.

"You" "Creep" (radio edit) "Creep" (unedited) "Fake Plastic Trees" "High And Dry" "My Iron Lung" "Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was" "Paranoid Android" "No Surprises" "You And Whose Army?" "I Might Be Wrong" "Cuttooth" "True Love Waits" I'd recommend getting either the album, The Bends, or the e.p., My Iron Lung. The songs are fantastic in both. Those early songs are gold. If you got the time (and money), I'd also seek out some of those singles from the early albums. Once they get to Hail To The Thief, it gets utterly boring and forgettable.

No, they aren't - by a long shot. After Pablo Honey, Radiohead attempted to produce a sound that Pop culture would attribute as "experimental" and "avant garde," but, to an ear who has heard similar - and better - sounds from other artists, they came off as faux-avant garde. In other words, a knock off of better things, particularly Kid A, the live album, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief. Haha. That's pretty much over half their material. I was listening to Depeche Mode singles and their b-sides from the 80s and even that stuff is waaay better than anything electronic Radiohead tried their hands at: The different samples, the cued silences, distorted echoes, etc. You don't need to be a trained musician to know how much better it is just based on the rich and vast amount of cohesiveness other electronic musicians have. NewOrder would be another band that's better than Radiohead. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark is another. Heck, add Roxy Music into the mix again. I'm sayin', once Radiohead attempted to be experimental in their music by steering away from the "alternative"/"indie" Rock sound, they opened themselves up to being compared not only to other Rock bands, but also to bands and artists who are proficient at electronic music.

At least we can all agree on No Doubt.

Considering the route Radiohead took after Pablo Honey, these are better than Radiohead: - Jean-Jacques Perrey (solo) - Karlheinz Stockhausen (I HAD to look up his name on Google) - Pink Floyd - Walter Carlos (not a band) - David Bowie (not a band) - Can/Holger Czukay - Kraftwerk - Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze - Jean-Michel Jarre (not a band) - Robert Fripp and Brian Eno (not a band per se) - Neu! - Synergy - Vangelis (band?) - Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV - Cabaret Voltaire - The Human League, Heaven 17, and Martin Ware - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Einsturzende Neubauten - The Durutti Column - Coil - Air - Daft Punk - Kent Best Radiohead albums are Pablo Honey and The Bends.

Anyone remember the animated version of The Lone Ranger? I used to watch that as a kid in Spanish. It had that weird Bonanza intro-style animation and it was somewhat violent. Pretty stylish and cool for its time. I also remember watching the animated Flash Gordon. The cheap production values resulted in a faded, roan/sepia tone of the entire show, which pretty cool too.

Yeah, that is funny. I can probably list 25 bands above Radiohead's music - starting with Pink Floyd and The Velvet Underground. Even if I were to throw out popularity, I could probably list 25 bands above Radiohead.

Smashing Popcorns did this awful cover of "Never Let Me Down" and ever since then I've not been able to look at the band the same way. Siamese Dream was their moment of glory - lotta good memories from that time.

Believe it or not, they played crap in 1997 - evidenced by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, No Doubt, Sublime, and Save Ferris. They also had this long-running crapfest called "TRL," where teenyboppers could vote for their favourite crappy videos by crappy bands. Do they still have TRL? I know carson daly was the major figurehead from that show.

Ah! I need to get that album. I do have that - how you say? - misconception that a lot of Stevie Wonder's music is Soul and Motown oriented, but that's because I only have a couple of his songs in Soul compilations(!). If you're referring to Talking Book, then that's the one I was just reading right now at Amazon. That's it. Next paycheck I'm gettin' dat.

Stevie Wonder? That's good, although I cannot think of an album of his that touches upon Pop Rock the way Purple Rain did back in 1984. By the way, I've never heard of "Tons." What album did "Tons" record that came before Madonna's debut?

Depends where you lived at the time. In SoCal, only Y-107 played Monday Morning 5:19 and Quarantine. I don't think KROQ ever played their music, or Kent's ("If You Were Here" would probably constitute a "hit," although I highly doubt it charted anywhere outside of Sweden).

1. Can anyone name an album that sounded like Japan's Quiet Life that came before 1979? 2. How about a band that sounded like Metallica before Metallica ever made its debut? 3. Is there an artist that came before Prince who was a musical virtuoso AND had the same cross-over appeal? 4. Madonna gets little respect from the entire music spectrum of critics, but is there an album that matches Madonna's debut that came before it? 5. Name an artist that came before Laurie Anderson whose opus was built around multi-media performances. 6. Is there a composer who did a score for a Western film that came before Ennio Morricone's "Man With Name"/"Magnificent Stranger" trilogy - and sounded like it? 7. How about the use of theremins for a sci-fi movie before Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day The Earth Stood Still? 8. Is there a band that came prior to Front 242 which was EBM? 9. Better yet, who made Industrial music records before Throbbing Gristle (unless you wanna go as far back as Italian Futurists and John Cage)? 10. What other band sounded like The New York Dolls before The New York Dolls arrived on the scene? Maybe The Stooges? 11. Who else was making ambient soundscapes the way Brian Eno was? 12. Is there any other Neo-Folk album out there that was being pressed before Death In June's Nada!? 13. Agreed on Pink Floyd. Anything with Syd Barrett, that is. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was a few years ahead of its time - ahead of even those who were at the forefront of such music. The only other band whom I'd think could have rivaled this album are Can (and they debuted two years later: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:n7rvad7kv8w8 ).

I KNOW! That's a really demented video! Has that Silence Of The Lambs feel to it. This is the "new" Anthrax with the lead singer, John Bush. They pretty much sold out to the alterno-Rock sound of the time. Joey Belladona was the standard sound of Anthrax's Metal songs. John sounded like he was trying to capture the sound of that time, set by bands like AIC and Soundgarden.

Currently listening to the video of Anthrax's "Black Lodge." I had totally forgotten about the song, but I remember the video well because at the time it was sort of controversial. I only remembered the music video so it took me a while to find the song again. It sounds like Alice In Chains and Soundgarden! Haha. Watta buncha sellouts! But it's not bad since I like both, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden (although I don't like Audioslave at all). One interesting thing to note is how much I've loathed Jenna Elfman (of the show Dharma And Greg). Oh my God, how I hated that television persona. I just felt like grabbing her by both arms and force her to sit still and shut the hell up for a minute. Okay, so how does this relate to the music video for "Black Lodge"? Take a good look at the blonde with the red dress that is strapped to the dentist chair - THAT's Jenna Elfman! She is being forced to sit still! zOMG! That adds so much street cred to the revamped Anthrax AND to Jenna Elfman. I like her so much now that I watch Dharma And Greg in a whole new light <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzR1tVGmis

That video's still fairly innovative now considering a lot of animation is cg. Even the rotoscope crap from today is cg and doesn't take nearly as much talent as animating the stuff over the live action sequences by hand.

Charlie Zaa built a career out of covering all those songs. Gotta hand it to him for keeping the tradition of the style, even if none of the songs were composed by him. His voice may not be up to par with the likes of people that worked with Agustin Lara, but it's a rare style for someone so young in our time.