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Matt - Phish - life affirming! Pink Floyd - depressing. Snowboards.
Great thread so far! Bookmarking this for future ideas.
Phish isn't depressing - it's awful. I can't even believe that people continue to refer to their noise as "music"...
As far as Floyd - life affirming might be a bit of a stretch - I just like pretty much all of it. Besides - who can't listen to "The Gnome" and not feel like getting up and dancing a jig?
But the snowboarding thing - that goes a long ways to explaining things...
Rollie Free wrote:Pink Floyd surprisingly on a lot of lists. I listened to them a lot as a teen and then one day realized they are the most depressing thing I've ever listened to and gave up on it.
Ditto. I tried, really, even seeing the Division Bell tour, but their music just makes me feel shitty.
Interesting... I've been listening to Floyd for 30-ish years (came to it late) and it has never depressed nor made me feel shitty.
Maybe I'm just not paying attention.
I like Pink Floyd too, I had to stop listening to them for the same reason. The Wall just depressed me. One of my friends borrowed it and I never got it back. Oh well, I didn't ask for him to return it!
I don't have five bands but I do have five DJs. Well, maybe three. Make that one I've flown across oceans to see and a couple back when I was younger I might go see if they were in town.
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. -- William Blake
summitrunner wrote:The Deftones
Deafheaven
Amon Amarth
Red Fang
Mastodon
Queens of the Stone Age
Metallica
Tool
Those Poor Bastards
Best mountain songs:
Where Dragons Dwell by Gojira
Mountain Song by Jane's Addiction
Mountain Sound by Of Monsters and Men
Red Fang, QOTSA, nice!
A few more Mountain songs:
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I Come from the Mountain - Thee Oh Sees
Mountain at my Gates - The Foals
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
Matt wrote:SOD was hilarious as long as you didn't take them seriously.
Haha SOD, classic. Right up there with GG Allen, and Dayglo Abortions as the most offensive punk/thrash bands of all time! Of course none of them could hold a torch to The Meatmen with such fine song titles as: "Orgy of One", "Mr. Tapeworm" "Crippled Children Suck", "Tescos Tender Love Ballad", and "I Sin for a Living" you knew you were for a wild ride... The craziest part is that in the early days, the singer, Tesco Vee, was a public school teacher by day and punk rocker by night!
"I want to keep the mountains clean of racism, religion and politics. In the mountains this should play no role."
- Joe Stettner
"I haven't climbed Everest, skied to the poles, or sailed single-handed around the world. The goals I set out to accomplish aren't easily measured or quantified by world records or "firsts." The reasons I climb, and the climbs I do, are about more than distance or altitude, they are about breaking barriers within myself."
FireOnTheMountain wrote:Hm, maybe Kaiman or Matt could explain Skinny Puppy to me....
Personally I never really got into the industrial bands like Skinny Puppy, Ministry, etc. The sampling and metal overdubs never really did much for me, and their lyrics, while sometimes provocative, were usually just boring and repetitive. That being said, the founder of Ministry, Al Jourgensen (who grew up in Breckenridge), is an interesting guy and I met him once in the early 90's when he was hanging out at Wax Trax records in the Capitol hill neighborhood of Denver.
Kai
"I want to keep the mountains clean of racism, religion and politics. In the mountains this should play no role."
- Joe Stettner
"I haven't climbed Everest, skied to the poles, or sailed single-handed around the world. The goals I set out to accomplish aren't easily measured or quantified by world records or "firsts." The reasons I climb, and the climbs I do, are about more than distance or altitude, they are about breaking barriers within myself."
