Wall of Mouths

FNYANKEZ wrote:

Not What they Were but Still Entertaining
Descendents

On the Downward Slide
All

Have to intervene, of course. :)
Both bands are practically on hiatus, so you can’t count them really.
If you think of the other bands the members are involved (Bill Stevenson with Only Crime, Karl Alvarez with All Systems Go! and Chad Price with Drag The River), I think they’re still going strong (as musicians).

FNYANKEZ wrote:

On the Downward Slide
Blink 182, Green Day

For Blink 182 & Green Day they need to put them on the 2 week recording bootcamp. Anymore time than that and they think their making Sgt. Peppers.

Disagree, both bands’ last albums have been the best they’ve done for years (esp. Green Day).

FNYANKEZ wrote:

Let’s see some other lists

Frank Black (not only because of THE Pixies reunion tour, both his last albums were brilliant)
Nomeansno (25 years around and still rocking)
David Bowie, Giant Sand, Leatherface, Hot Water Music, Supersuckers, Melvins, Mike Patton, Mark Lanegan, Greg Dulli / Twilight Singers, Superchunk…

…and some German bands:
Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Boxhamsters, EA 80 (all around for at least 15 years and still (or again) making excellent records)

I only mentioned those that are still delivering quality music.

I think Nimrod and Warning both sucked, that’s why I was so positively surprised by American Idiot.

Concerning ALL and Descendents, with chad as ALL singer the two bands have become musically closer,the jazzy style from Allroy Saves.. is totally missing.
And as at ALL shows you have around a third of the songs from Descendents and vice versa at Descendents shows, so over the past decade you could only separate them by who’s singing.
They just aren’t around that much as they used to due to their side projects, production jobs (Bill & Steve), full time jobs (Milo) and families. I think everyone of them has wife and kids and they’re hard to support by travelling around the world and playing to 200+ people.

allroy, you’re from the US right?

If you have digital cable with On Demand, you should check out the music section. On mine they currently have a little 5-10minute feature on All where they’re interviewing Chad (he looks like Ted Nugent right now), with some live footage.

Pretty cool for All/Descendents fans.

1 band for me still produce the goods 30 years after their first album - CAMEL :)

One of the finest prog bands of the 70’s and still producing quality stuff. Their last CD A Nod and a Wink rarely leaves my CD player.

Would be good to hear if anyone else likes them!

Greg Dulli - Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers
Sonic Youth
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Pearl Jam
Mike Patton and his various projects

I dont know how you can be a Green Day fan and not like AI or Nimrod :eek:

I thought American Idiot was AMAZING :D and Nimrod is my 2nd fave album now. Dookie is 3rd

allroy wrote:

Nothing beats the innocent energy of 39 / Smooth and Kerplunk.

Yeah but I hate when bands dont change..People grow up and their songwriting moves on too.

If you wants bands that never change, listen to Bad Religion or Iron Maiden or something :D

Hey now, listen to Suffer and then listen to The Empire Strikes First and tell me Bad Religion hasn’t grown. Granted they have a signature sound and approach, but they are always tweaking it.

TO change gears a little. 2004 has definitely picked up over the last 4 days.
On Monday I finally got NANE, and have listened to it about 30 times already, love it.

And I just got my copy of Strung Out’s Exile in Oblivion, which came a week early (it helps to order directly from the band). By far the best CD I’ve heard all century! Not one bad (or even weak) track.

You want a band which grows, they’re it. I wouldn’t even call them Punk anymore, except that the songs are pretty short. But they seem almost more like a speed metal band that can sing. Highly Recommended.

To everyone I know now, I’m bugging them to listen to NANE and Exile in Oblivion!

Superstick Dude wrote:

I think punk has been the music of 2004. I’ve heard plenty of bad albums by plenty of different bands, but hardly any bad punk albums.

There’s definietly been some quality punk ablums, but there’s been plenty of shitty one’s too.

Good Charlotte, Simple Plan (who I liked at the Warped Tour last year so I bought their CD and it sucked!),
Blink 182’s latest was pretty bad too. Of course that’s all that’s played over the radio while quality bands like Bad Religion, Pennywise, No Motiv, Thrice, Strung Out, Millencolin, Pulley and bunch of others are ignored.

FNYANKEZ wrote:

There’s definietly been some quality punk ablums, but there’s been plenty of shitty one’s too.

Good Charlotte, Simple Plan (who I liked at the Warped Tour last year so I bought their CD and it sucked!),
Blink 182’s latest was pretty bad too.

I wouldn’t call call any of them punk. Maybe a few years ago you could argue for bands like Green Day and Blink 182 being punk but definately not now. It looks to me like Blink 182 and Good Charlotte have being tempted by the emo side.

Other good punk albums that i think need a mention are…

The Foamers(i would argue the best album of 2004), The Peacocks and The Casualties.

Superstick Dude wrote:

I wouldn’t call call any of them punk. Maybe a few years ago you could argue for bands like Green Day and Blink 182 being punk but definately not now. It looks to me like Blink 182 and Good Charlotte have being tempted by the emo side.

I agree, but they still get lumped in the Punk category. I have nothing against Emo, there are quality Emo bands who can play the style well (The Get Up kIds for example), but Blink 182 just doesn’t happen to be one of them.