Music-as-sandwiches
 

For Herr Rail: describe a band in terms of a sandwich.

Residents: Olive sandwich - you know that it's probably a good thing to eat olives, you also know that sandwiches are good, but no matter how many olive sandwiches you eat, it's still going to be more 'interesting' than fulfilling on any sort of stomach level.

Motorhead: Sausage, bacon and black pudding sandwich of the side-of-the-road truck variety. No qualification necessary.

Go!

Wolf Eyes: A moldy, smelly old sandwich covered in fungus

Primal Scream - organic chitlins ciabatta from a funky soul food store in Notting Hill (around Portobello Road)

Oasis - stale ham and cheese baguette from Greggs - completey ubiquitous, lacking in nutrtion and has a taste that you've experienced from other sandwiches, but with much better experiences.

Skrewdriver -Corned beef sandwiches, made with WHITE bread.

Superb topic this one and, as you know, one very close to my heart.

Of course, choice of bread is significant. Anything 'brown' suggests 'indie', 'folk', 'ambient', etc. White bread suggests classic metal and anything favoured by the 'masses' (Slade, Oasis, etc). Ciabattas are strictly for the avant-garde or any bands that foster a certain sophisticated aura.

Iron Maiden: White crusty bloomer filled with medium cheddar and branston pickle, and employing a thin layer of marg. home made is ideal but otherwise Greggs, Percy Ingles or a 24 hour garage. Absolutely reliable, unfussy, with a definite sense of tradition and wide-spread appeal. A sandwich you can trust.

Sonic Youth: Difficult this one. I'm going for an organic granery ciabatta base with olives drizzled in extra virgin olive oil. Inside will be a thin layer of mozarella and some rocket, topped with a layer of sun-dried tomatos. So far so homosexual. But just to keep you coming back for another bite there's gonna be a thin layer of homemade english mustard. Bought at a local Starbucks, inevitably.

radiohead- tuna salad baguette.. tastes absoultely divine but you can taste it for days afterwards and your breath reeks for weeks....

pixies- toasted ham and cheese samdwich with a lot of mustard.... dependable and always fills a gap... shit for cholestoral and may result in repeating itself badly 15 years later when you are broke

lightning bolt- sweet chili chicken baguette with acres of jalapeno peppers... absurdly appetizing butt will blow your head off and you wont forget the experience for ages.... but you have to have more jalapenos in it the next time.....

Merzbow - Habanero chile and English mustard. Just the thought of it makes the back of your eyes start to burn.

This thread is making me hungry.

50% of the bands: two slices of bread.

whitehouse - semen spread and carpet cleaner bap

jesus

Tom Waits; meaty, flame-grilled, with all the trimmings..

okay you sandwich afficionados

the who are a meatball sandwich with cheese. deliciously satisfying, although not when partaken of too often.

also gross to look at

and there may be severe repercussions from having too much

you are what you eat, in this case

the beatles are a grilled cheese

The Beatles are a shit sandwich.

sonic youth are a fried egg sandwich

oh yeas... its lunchtime!

I would want to say that Waits is a hot pastrami with a cigarette. And a glass of orange juice.

Trick question! Rest assured, if there was a sandwhich to describe the Pixies, Frank Black would have eaten it.

Hahahaha. Brilliant!

Sleeping People: the sandwich is divided into five sections which are linked by short other parts. Each part has a different geometric form and include different aliments

Avril Lavigne - Strawberry jam on white bread, perhaps dusted with some sugar.

Crass - organic vegetables on home-cooked rye bread.

Black Sabbath - Ham and Branston pickle on Co-Op white sliced.

Ramones - kosher salami and mustard on rye, with a can of generic beer to wash it down.

John Zorn - a lox and cream cheese bagel. Actually, make that two.

Peter Brotzmann - a massive hunk of Schweinehaxe mit Mustard, put between two whole loaves of das Hovis unsliced.

GG Allin - do I need to explain what GG would like to put between two slices of federal handout bread?

Action Swingers - Nothing, because they're too busy rockin' out to eat, but they'd settle for a grilled cheese sandwich and some cigarettes on the side.

Ronnie James Dio - slices of the finest game venision, served in buns cooked by local baker wenches.

Gibby Haynes - a dead possum with some LSD garnish, in a French stick.

I would call the Beatles a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. "Classic." Has its appeal. But falls short on closer scrutiny.

Stars Of the Lid - two slices of bread with LSD sauce

Television - stale white bread with anchovies

yes, thats what they sound like

in the best possible way

that has to be an american thing..... ive tried peanut butter and jam (sorry jelly) sandwich and its awfull..
i suppose you have that, the english have that thing called marmite and us irish have black pudding (like the english blood sausage but tastier..its not the same thing, trust me!)

the jesus and mary chain are just white bread with some mold on it. maybe some ketchup.

The Dub Trio - A ham and peperoni italian with everything on it.

Autechre - sandwich with metal screws, coils, wires and lettuce.

velvet underground.... an empty plate because andy wants an arty absent sandwich to stand for something profound and shit.....

Kiss. Loads of bread, a big wedge of cheese and a layer of tongue. Oh, and lots of ham.

He's Italian. It'd have to be a homebaked ciabatta filled with mortadello ham. Lovely prepared by his mama.

Not by his mama, but 'just like mama used to make'.

Throbbing Gristle - Mattersons sandwich spread, on white bread, kept in a tin with a pair of soiled cotton panties.

Meat Loaf - a whole buffalo, surrounded by two giant rye slices, delivered by Harley-Davidson wielding Jim Steinman lookalikes.

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