TS: Random Legendary American Band vs. Random Completely Forgotten Horrible Britpop Band

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Random Legendary American band. By a mile.

― sym (shmuel), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the grateful dead by a country mile. i love the dead. haterz go eat poo. im drunk. anyone who hates the dead may as well go rim me.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

In the early nineties, when all *you* "yanks" were STILL drinking piss lager and listening to Random Legendary American Band, us Brits were all ingesting chemical soap disguised as recreational drugs and turning on to Random Completely Forgotten Horrible Britpop Band.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't you stop moaning over The Gun-Related Homicide of Influential But Now Somewhat Irrelevant Rapper and get with the program?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Big L wasn't irrelevant!

― sym (shmuel), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

no, but really, what DO the manic street preachers sound like? i read a 40 page article in mojo on them and i still have no idea.(i realize they are not, strictly speaking, britpop. don't sue me)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Random Completely Forgotten Horrible Britpop Band OBVIOUSLY - they so win this one. so confident am i in this belief that i do not even have to present an actual explanation or argument other than they are good, Random legendary American Band are not and you are all wrong and faux-liberal idiots who hang on my every ironic post.

― c-alittlesilhouettaofa-man (blueski), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i like coco and the bean more than Kansas.i think.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh stop it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Denim more than The Byrds.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

scott, the records I've heard sound like fairly melodic metal w/accent. you might like them.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

really? metal. like ash? aren't ash metally. or am i thinking of someone else?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

well, "metal" is probably overstating it. but rust-belty hard rock for sure. their songs grew on me after awhile, I must admit. but really, Allyzay is the person to answer this one, not me.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott, MSP started out sounding like The Clash-but-a-bit-Levellers, then they tried to be kind of a British-ndie-Whitesnake, then a kind of a New-York-Dolls-Does-Joy-Division-And-Sometimes-Wire...and then they began to break whole new ground for bad. I used to quite like them.

Ally will no doubt disagree.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

matos, you might think this is weird, but i picked up philippe wynnes's Wynne Jammin' on Uncle Jam records the other day at the thrift store and i thought of you for some reason. Have you ever heard it?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

british-indie-whitesnake! for real?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, weren't whitesnake already british?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

british-indie whitesnake in their motherfucking dreams i think. Whitsnake started off british, but iirc had american musicans playing in them as well later on. (they were always k-rub though)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

probably scratch the second hyphen there and it's closer to what he meant. and I'm flattered, Scott! I LOVE Philippe Wynne, I'm a HUGE Spinners fan. I've probably mentioned that once or twice here or there, maybe you caught a glance. (though damned if I can remember where/when.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

well, Tawny Kitaen is an American, so that's at least one, right?

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

quite frankly, they sound a bit of a mess. how do you go from whitesnake to wire?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

haha (oh god, that terrible video!!)

"well i don't know where i'm going/but i sure know where i've been" haha

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Whitesnake, in all their incarnations.

It does amaze me how much MSP actually sound like The Levellers though, given their different images/fanbases.

Well, I say "amaze" but actually I scarcely devoted more than a few seconds to thinking about it...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

there's one song I remember about a friend who used to be English but turned American, and one that Sasha Frere-Jones put on his 2001 year-end mixes about the ocean or something, and I liked both of them. (oh yeah, "Ocean Spray," which is a good song even though it'd probably be better if it were about, you know, cranapple juice.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, zeppelin (ironically enough) own them for me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a great record. gary shider AND dennis coffee. um, the philippe wynne one. that twelve minute version of "Never Gonna Tell It" rulz.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

so was the stuff with the guy who disappeared the good stuff? now i'm talking about the manics.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess so, though there were rumours that he didn't actually play on any of the records - he wasn't plugged in when I saw them live.

The Holy Bible and Generation Terrorists would be good places to start I guess.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

They had some good b-sides, too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And weirdly, that is one thing that Random Completely Forgotten Horrible Britpop Bands had over Random Legendary American Bands.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(decent b-sides, that is)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They tended to be thinner as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

because Random Legendary American Bands actually bothered putting their good songs on the albums, something Random Completely Forgotten Horrible Britpop Bands tend/ed not to do much of

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

As a Prince fan you should be ashamed of yourself Matos.

He only got away with his bad taste in his music because he wrote so many songs, some great ones were bound to appear on his albums.

― jedmond, Sunday, 11 January 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I would go for the forgotten brits every time.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, they 'were' me. Or my girlfriend. Or they could have been. sort of. at the time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 January 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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