It definately doesn't get any better than Crass. I love the songs that Eve Liberty does, especially Where Next Columbus and Shaved Women. But all of her songs are amazing. If you like them, Rudimentary Peni was on their record label. The singer/guitarist was in the mental hospital and wrote this ENTIRE album while he was in there about him being some fantasy pope named Pope Adrian the 37th. All of the songs are amazing, there are a few with guitars that put you into a trance with him making weird noises and then ending in some weird prayer in Latin that turns into the singer barking.Naurek wrote:I like old school rap, like...Run DMC.
Mostly, I like lots and lots of music. The Pixies, Black Flag, Crass, Descendents, Misfits, Dils, Juliana Hatfield, Liz Phair, Madness, Specials, Vandals, Voodoo Glow Skulls, John Mayer, Rage Against the Machine, Sundays, Morrissey, Smiths, Beatles, etc. etc. I have a removable harddrive with about....15K songs on it, and growing.
Modest Mouse is definately amazing but their newest album was an over produced piece of crap directed to put on the raido, unfortunately. I feel artists should just say how they feel rather than try to fit the standard of an audience.
I have been listening to a synth/acoustic band called Xiu Xiu lately, they have a lot of influences from Joy Division. Unfortunately, they're quite depressing as a lot of their songs are about real experiences from the singer, i.e. his father threatening for years on end to kill himself and then doing it, his brother caught molesting young children, and the stereotype applied to the male and female gender and how he was picked on his whole life. He also wrote an amazing song when his niece was born and about how she'll be just as messed up as the rest of his family when she grows up.
If anyone likes completely satirical music with extremely talented artists, I would suggest the Dead Milkmen. They're hilarious, they have a song about people capitalizing on the blues and a blues' artists stabbing out his own eyes so that he could be more 'blues' and sell more records.
