i love "anyway you want it" and i been meaning to really check out their 70's output.

i like boston too, and "africa" by toto; styx make me laugh when i'm in the mood though, reo speedwagon are too ridiculous not to be funny, foreigner i can't stand.

really.

hell's pretty rad.



i hate every single band everyneurotic just mentioned.

Other than Boston, all the bands you listed seemed to be making a genuine attempt to murder rock and roll in the late 70's and early 80's.
They are good for a laugh in video form though..

Seconded

most indie rock bands from roughly 98 to today sound like styx, reo speedwagon, journey, only wanting to be pavement instead of led zeppelin.

the fall?

You know that is a really good way to put it... I mean really good.
I hate the fact that I like some modern indie.

i was gonna say that
and the fuckin roxy music
which would explain why i don't like any of them
except for vivian girls <3...they sound like the shaggs if the shaggs knew how to actually play their instruments

Sadly the only song by them I've heard is Bingo Master...

doesn't stop them from writing good songs (depending on who you're talking about).


ugggh, that band was bland and boring.

aww i love roxy music

Bryan Ferry annoys the hell out of me

Oh here's one I'm sure to get shit for:
I think Trees Outside the Academy is FAR better than Psychic Hearts, an album that has cool guitar parts with really lame lyrics and vocal arrangements (his vocal inflections basically just mimic the guitar..) its like an album filled with nothing but thurston's lame 'rockers' that you usually either just kind of like or kind of ignore on the regular albums.
Trees is filled with very well written songs, sounds fantastic, and the guitars, though mostly acoustic, still manage to sound like Thurston.

Yeah, well obviously. But even so, are they better because of the keyboards, or in spite of them?

Eno, Bowie and the Rolling Stones bore the hell out of my brain!

TOTA > Psychic Hearts easily

my bloody valentine is the only shoegaze band that matters

Awesome rock bands with keyboards:

Polysics
Devo
Causey Way
Servotron
Phantom Limbs
A Trillion Barnacle Lapse
Man or Astroman (mostly on record, not live)
The Fall
Copycat Massacre
Holy Shroud
Lenore Syndrome
Pilot Scott Tracey
Vola and the Oriental Machine
Brainiac
Experimental Dental School
Six Finger Satellite
Thunderbirds are Now (just the early stuff is awesome)
Enon (not a huge fan myself but I knew someone would mention them if I didn't)

Probably a billion more if I sit and think.

Here's my unpopular opinion: My Bloody Valentine has an EP's worth of great songs.

I sware you're Cantankerous sometimes.