Top Bands from your country

Akbar_The_Great · August 25, 2010, 11:01am

Being from New Zealand I’d say Darcy Clay!!!

Being an Australian passport holder and citizen as well I’d say Mark Of Cain!!!

Being a permanent resident of Edinburgh, Scotland I’d say Rezillos!!!

rev_skarekroe · August 25, 2010, 1:15pm

Top bands from my state?
Mastodon
Drive By Truckers
Cat Power
Danger Mouse/Gnarls Barkley

I dunno, I don’t really like a lot of stuff from my state.

Lord_of_lard · August 25, 2010, 2:08pm

from my province? (ontario)

death from above 1979
sebastien grainger and the mountains
holy fuck
crystal castles
alanis morissette
birthday massacre

i don’t really know any industrial bands from around here

industwetrust · August 25, 2010, 6:34pm

I’ve been trying to find information on Angry White Mob, are they still active? Is any of their music online?

from my province? (ontario)

i don’t really know any industrial bands from around here

*=playing in Ottawa this Friday!

Lord_of_lard · August 25, 2010, 6:48pm

I’ve been trying to find information on Angry White Mob, are they still active? Is any of their music online?

[reply]from my province? (ontario)

i don’t really know any industrial bands from around here

*=playing in Ottawa this Friday![/reply]

mhmm, i didn’t realize decoded feedback was from toronto! nice

gila · August 25, 2010, 7:38pm

Top Bands from your country

you dont wanna know

Evil_Dildo · August 25, 2010, 8:10pm

[reply]Disembowelment
Damaged
Sadistik Exekution
Blood Duster
The Easybeats
ACDC
The Saints
Venom P Stinger
The Birthday Party

just in terms of international influence and respect garnered.

you’re missing the one “band” that matters…FOETUS![/reply]

Indeed, I hang my head in shame.

And SPK. I can’t believe I forgot that too.

Amlux · August 25, 2010, 8:14pm

Being born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand (before being shipped off to live with my dad in L.A and then marrying and settling down in Melbourne, Australia) I’d like to put forward The Dead C.

Look them up if you are not familiar with them.

And I’d like to publicly apologise for Shihad on behalf of my fellow Kiwis.

And I’d like to publicly apologise for Grinspoon on behalf of my fellow Aussies.

And to all you Aussies who forgot to mention SPK and The Go Betweens…shame on you!!!

industwetrust · August 25, 2010, 8:15pm

SPK and Foetus just barely count as Australian to me, since they both relocated pretty much immediately after they formed.

chrisconnection · August 25, 2010, 10:09pm

From England …

Fields of the Nephilim
Paradise Lost
Pop Will Eat Itself
Anathema
Fen
Winterfylleth

etc etc

executor · August 26, 2010, 12:28am

From Slovenia:

Demolition Group
Laibach
Strelnikoff
Coptic Rain

ChemicalMeat · August 26, 2010, 12:53am

Top bands from my state?
Mastodon
Drive By Truckers
Cat Power
Danger Mouse/Gnarls Barkley

I dunno, I don’t really like a lot of stuff from my state.

All of those bands I know the name, but most of them I have actually never heard. Mastodon I know as I played a show over a decade ago with half of the band when they were called Four Hour Fogger. Nice guys.

Georgia of course is known particularly for it’s college music scene of a certain vintage:
REM (sorry grmpy [;)])
The B-52s
Pylon
The Swimming Pool Q’s
Matthew Sweet

plus one of my favorite transplanted bands Man Or Astroman? (originally from Alabama)

the_green_death · August 26, 2010, 12:58am

I’ve been through a number of states and if I choose my current (California) there’s too many bands to list easily. I grew up in Wisconsin so from there you have:

Killdozer
Bon Iver (from Eau Claire no less, small-ish town where I grew up)
Garbage (except for Shirley Manson)
Electric Hellfire Club

There are others, but none I can think of that y’all might know of.

Akbar_The_Great · August 26, 2010, 3:39am

[reply][reply]Disembowelment
Damaged
Sadistik Exekution
Blood Duster
The Easybeats
ACDC
The Saints
Venom P Stinger
The Birthday Party

just in terms of international influence and respect garnered.

you’re missing the one “band” that matters…FOETUS![/reply]

Indeed, I hang my head in shame.

And SPK. I can’t believe I forgot that too.[/reply]

Foetus are brilliant…Mark Of Cain OWN them all though…ESPECIALLY in the live department…well maybe not Bon Scott’s AC/DC.

INXS was another big Oz band back in the day.

rev_skarekroe · August 26, 2010, 8:58am

plus one of my favorite transplanted bands Man Or Astroman? (originally from Alabama)

Good call - I still think of them as an Alabama band, but at least one key member lives here in Atlanta.
I guess Jarboe is here too, but I’m not as much a fan of her solo stuff and Swans hasn’t been based out of here in a long time.

zick · August 26, 2010, 9:49am

Best rock bands:

Thin Lizzy
Therapy? (kinda)
God is an Astronaut
Giveamanakick
Kerbdog

Ice · August 26, 2010, 6:34pm

The mothafuckin’ CORRUGATION.

Peligro · August 26, 2010, 9:36pm

I’d like to put forward The Dead C.

!!yes!!

And I’d like to publicly apologise for Shihad on behalf of my fellow Kiwis.

Shihad!! LOL

And I’d like to publicly apologise for Grinspoon on behalf of my fellow Aussies.

Grinspoon! LOL!!!

Evil_Dildo · August 27, 2010, 9:16pm

SPK and Foetus just barely count as Australian to me, since they both relocated pretty much immediately after they formed.

I totally disagree.

They had to relocate for their own good.

Back in the day, the scene was pretty close-knit and spawned some great stuff, but a lot of these artists knew that if they wanted to make an international impact, or one that really paid dividends, then they had to go overseas to spread the word, be a part of the scene and work with international artists.

Good on them for doing that and flying the flag. Sure, a lot of them never came back, but why should they? Just being Australian and showing people what they could do paved the way for anyone that followed them, and that’s enough as far as I’m concerned.

To Akbar:
disagree with you on two fronts.

Mark of Cain had one great album; Ill At Ease; everything after that was a bit ‘meh’. Though I liked some of the remixes. Still, I mentioned those bands in terms of impact… I dunno if Mark of Cain had as much as an international influence as say…

the HARD ONS. Now there’s a great band. I can’t believe I forgot to mention them. Then again, Rollins chose to sing with them as he chose to produce Mark of Cain, so perhaps it’s just a matter of taste with regards to our thoughts on M.o.C.

Will have to agree with you on Bon-era AC/DC. Brian just does not compare.

But have to completely disagree with you on INXS. People seem to think just coz they got famous and had a couple of hits overseas, they made an impact, were influential, etc etc.

Nah. Just a bunch of trendy cunts that rode the wave at the right time. And this whole Rockstar INXS JD Fortune bullshit has really descended into self-parody.

They would’ve been better off getting the cleaning lady from the hotel that discovered Michael Hutchence’s body to ride his still semi erect penis and get some of the seminal discharge into her and carry his seed for a while, then get back to it in 15 years and have half of the real thing fronting the band. None of this karaoke competition bullshit

Peligro · August 27, 2010, 9:25pm

Mark of Cain had one great album; Ill At Ease; everything after that was a bit ‘meh’. Though I liked some of the remixes. Still, I mentioned those bands in terms of impact… I dunno if Mark of Cain had as much as an international influence as say…

I hate Mark Of Cain.

the HARD ONS. Now there’s a great band. I can’t believe I forgot to mention them. Then again, Rollins chose to sing with them as he chose to produce Mark of Cain, so perhaps it’s just a matter of taste with regards to our thoughts on M.o.C.

The Hard Ons were great. They were a big influence on me in my youth.

But have to completely disagree with you on INXS. People seem to think just coz they got famous and had a couple of hits overseas, they made an impact, were influential, etc etc.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that early INXS was very good. Ditto early Icehouse. I really like both of those bands first couple of albums.

And yes, they did descend into self parody. Did you know that after Hutchence died, Mike Patton was INXS’ first choice for a replacement vocalist? Yes, that’s right. Mike Patton! They were actually arrogant and misled enough to believe that the Mr Bungle guy would one day front…INXS!!

Patton himself told the crowd this lil’ story at an early Fantomas gig that I saw.

Everybody laughed. Hard.