Sonic Youth Gossip - your top ten greatest american bands of the last 25 years?

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- - your top ten greatest american bands of the last 25 years? (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=5116)

oh shit. right, american. then omit GY!BE and Radiohead and Broken Social Scene.

radiohead are english

That's pretty narrowly defined. Do you have Asperger's syndrome?

im brain dead and i cant be bothered to think, but, mudhoney and the yoof have to be there.

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

sorry but my opinion is that nirvana shouldn't be on any of those lists, they never did anything radical or original with their music and they were the first to admit it.

same goes for mud-fucking-honey.

yeah i was hoping when opening this thread that i wouldn't see the word "nirvana" even on here but oh well...i think the majority agree with the fact that they are awful...anyways;
1. sonic youth
2.janes addiction
3.rhcp
4.interpol
5.public enemy
6.nwa
7.Pixies
8.outkast
9.dead kennedys
10.black flag

1. Sleater Kinney
2. Sonic Youth
3. Helium
4. Nirvana
5. Hole (yes, i said hole. no denying live through this is fucking great)
6. Babes in Toyland
7. Modest Mouse
8. Bikini Kill
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Sleater Kinney

Mine might be (no order really)......

Sonic Youth
REM
Bad Brains
Misfits
Nirvana
Fugazi
Phish
Pearl Jam
The Replacements
Pavement

to all you people who put black flag on your lists:

they released their first ep, nervous breakdown, in 1978.

I don't have a lot of favorite American bands, but probably:

Sonic Youth
Low
The Softies
The Aislers Set
The Ladybug Transistor
Bedhead
American Analog Set
Mercury Rev
The Innocence Mission
Bardo Pond

...honorable mention, R.E.M.

yeah i was struggling with my 10th choice and was skeptical of putting black flag in mainly because i wasn't sure about the 25 year thing...jeez it's hard to find a good 10th one

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Originally Posted by porkmarras

Husker Du
Sonic youth
Six Organs Of Admittance
Pixies
Black Flag
Galaxie 500
The Mummies
Dream Synadicate
Bedhead
Butthole Surfers

Oh yeah--forgot Galaxie 500 and Husker Du when I was making my list...important bands.

other bands from reading the lists here--Cat Power (not really a band)....Yo La Tengo--like them but not my favorites...same with Ida...and I forgot Windy & Carl.

In no particular order: NNCK, SY, NWA, PE, Diamanda Galas (She is American, right?), Le Tigre, Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson (if he scrapes in).

I should note two things: This was hard, because I don't really like that much American stuff; I'm including people I think are most important for music in general (hence no Justin Timberlake or Laura Cantrell, although I love them both dearly).

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Originally Posted by Daycare Nation

yeah man. i like bedhead. i found on pandora's sonic youth related artsits

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Originally Posted by finding nobody

yeah man. i like bedhead. i found on pandora's sonic youth related artsits

You should check out The New Year (that's the name the Kadane brothers are using now)...they also did the soundtrack to the documentary "Hell House," which is a must see.

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Originally Posted by Pookie

Don't mean to be argumentative, but some of those phrases don't mean anything (bursts of sonic nirvana?).

I think there are two arguments: Nirvana's importance in the history of rock music and how good you think they are. Obviously the latter is up to the individual.

As to their importance, I think they were incredibly important. The time was right for an "underground" rock band to make it big. But that responsibility could have been handed to any number of (often better) bands who just didn't have the full package: Husker Du, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth etc.

What Nirvana had was good tunes and more importantly, a good-looking, charasmatic, troubled (yawn) frontman. The world of music needs (or wants) this every now and then. Nirvana were a Doors for the nineties.

Anyway, lots has been written about the band. Probably can add little new.

Have I said I like them?

i defintely dont think how good they are is left up to the individual. that stuff can be proven even if its with some relative difficulty. Sonic Youth doesnt have the full package?! yeah, maybe not the marketing package because of Nirvana's frontman as you put it, but I am convinced that Sonic Youth can satisfy any criteria we throw at them to define the greatest band. As far as the Pixies curt cobain openly admitted nevermind was his failed attempt to write a pixies song. I think definitely their most innovative album was Bleach but hmm, I wonder where they picked up on that dirgy sound that became known as grunge. yes, it would be The Melvins. not saying curt ripped them off but he did use their pioneering into sludge as a springboard for grunge.

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

That's pretty narrowly defined. Do you have Asperger's syndrome?

well i just thought it would be a little more fun and perhaps a bit easier.

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Originally Posted by Androol

this post proves exactly why nirvana doesn't deserve to be in any list (unless it's personal taste)

i think they should definitely be in the top 20

and maybe i'm wrong to keep them out of the top ten but i just havent figured out who to bump off my list.

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Originally Posted by Androol

well i just thought it would be a little more fun and perhaps a bit easier.

I think you must have Asperger's syndrome, and I am just basing this diagnosis on the other threads that you have made (tastiest way to cook squash, second favorite dead milkmen album, etc).

well this is the only board i go to that i can make polls hehe

i also think lists can be a really easy way to spark conversation from a whole lot of people and also come across new bands or at least ones ive taken for granted

oh yeah i havent checked my squash thread!