tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post110258271577381071..comments2023-11-29T12:25:25.631-08:00Comments on Dumpster Bust: Online Media Cultist: DB Up in Your Ear: Top Punk Bands List... Or Is It?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-49256778050266883472009-01-22T23:54:00.000-08:002009-01-22T23:54:00.000-08:00EVEN by wow gold the standards gold in wowd of the...EVEN by <A HREF="http://www.kaufen-wowgold.de" REL="nofollow">wow gold</A> the standards <A HREF="http://www.wowgoldvip.de" REL="nofollow">gold in wowd</A> of the worst financial <A HREF="http://www.wowpl.de" REL="nofollow">buy wow gold</A> crisis for at least <A HREF="http://www.wowleveln.de" REL="nofollow">wow gold cheap</A> a generation, the events of Sunday September 14th and the day before were extraordinary. The weekend began with hopes that a deal could be struck,<A HREF="http://www.maplestorymesosshop.com" REL="nofollow">maplestory mesos</A> with or without government backing, to save Lehman Brothers, America''s fourth-largest investment bank.<A HREF="http://www.wowpl.de/buy-gold.asp" REL="nofollow">sell wow gold</A> Early Monday <A HREF="http://www.mesosoon.com" REL="nofollow">buy maplestory mesos</A> morning Lehman <A HREF="http://www.mesosoon.com" REL="nofollow">maplestory money</A> filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It has more than <A HREF="http://www.maplestorymesosstore.com/maple-story-power-leveling.asp" REL="nofollow">maplestory power leveling</A> $613 billion of debt.Other vulnerable financial giants scrambled <A HREF="http://www.maplestorymesosstore.com" REL="nofollow">maple money</A> to sell themselves or raise enough capital to stave off a similar fate. <A HREF="http://www.wowleveln.de/buy-gold.asp" REL="nofollow">billig wow gold</A> Merrill Lynch, the third-biggest investment bank, sold itself to Bank of America (BofA), an erstwhile Lehman suitor,<A HREF="http://www.wowpl.de/power-leveling.asp" REL="nofollow">wow power leveling</A> in a $50 billion all-stock deal.<A HREF="http://www.wowleveln.de/power-leveling.asp" REL="nofollow">wow power leveling</A> American International Group (AIG) brought forward a potentially life-saving overhaul and went <A HREF="http://www.maplestorymesosstore.com/maple-story-power-leveling.asp" REL="nofollow">maple story powerleveling</A> cap-in-hand to the Federal Reserve. But its shares also slumped on Monday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-19983421182333485032008-05-30T16:58:00.000-07:002008-05-30T16:58:00.000-07:00I'll admit to being relatively new to punk and to ...I'll admit to being relatively new to punk and to not having heard all or even most of the bands on this list, but surely Green Day is not greater than The Clash??????? Do Green Day even deserve a place on the list because I can't help thinking there must be many better [and more influential] bands/songs out there . . . And where the Hell are The Velvet Underground????? I think many would agree to their being extremely influential in the punk movement . . . not least the artists themselves! And also, I did not see The Pogues on this list, who are an absolutely brilliant punk/alternative band who mixed Irish national music with punk rock, and who were the first to do so . . . what a strange world . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-1102631506567147882004-12-09T14:31:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:31:00.000-08:00A not-so-quick side-note on Kerrang! magazine:
I ...A not-so-quick side-note on Kerrang! magazine:<br /><br />I lived in a small town in the South of England during the long, dreary winter of '96 - '97. For a laugh, my friend Nirav and I (together, we made up The Yanks in our little corner of Kent) bought an issue of Kerrang! magazine as it featured pull-out posters of whatever alt-rock / metal acts were popular at the time: Kula Shaker, Pearl Jam, etc. <br /><br />For a second laugh, I entered a contest that advertised as winning some kind of alt-rock prize in London. I answered an incredibly easy quiz question (the answer, strangely enough, was Pearl Jam) and Kerrang! I had won. <br /><br />So Nirav and I got to attend the UK premiere of a documentary called Hype! which chronicled the exploitation of the Seattle music scene circa The Grunge Years. N and I were hoping for a Dave Grohl or Courtney Love sighting, but it turned out to be a much more low key affair. <br /><br />After the film's showing, a great majority of the quiet/nerdy/music geek/teenie bopper audience headed home, but N and I were looking for kicks in the Big City, cooped up most of the time at the Nag's Head Pub in Chatham as we were. We stuck around afterward and managed to take part in, with the assistance and cooperation from some of the Kerrang! UK editorial staff, a raid on the open bar at the little theater we were at. Well, the bar wasn't quite open -- we managed to pilfer stocks of the good stuff that were supposed to be off limits. <br /><br />After some later and uninteresting pub hopping (the Kerrang! folk decided the Yanks-as-contest-winners weren't very hip to hang with after the heist, I'm afraid) I remember walking back to the Late Night Bus with two huge shopping bags filled to the rim with bottles of wine, champagne, and even a liter or two of German beer.<br /><br />It was an interesting night.Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204239335140313863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-1102630503658043112004-12-09T14:15:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:15:00.000-08:00The Souls are great, and thier sound has not lost ...The Souls are great, and thier sound has not lost any of its crisp, upbeat edge over the years. I even won my wife over on them with repeated airings of The Toilet Song:<br /><br />Who's gonna throw the toilet<br />Who's gonna throw the toilet off the roof?<br /><br />Great stuff, great ambivalent angst-ridden lyrics. I mean, who doesn't want to throw a toilet off the roof sometimes?<br /><br />They hail from your neck of the woods (Philly - or nearby.... Jersey?), Ms. Fiend, if I'm not mistaken.<br /><br />~EBStaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204239335140313863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-1102630120838126442004-12-09T14:08:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:08:00.000-08:00I used to go to Bouncing Souls shows all the time ...I used to go to Bouncing Souls shows all the time when I was in high school. I hadn't thought of them in years.girlfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480126228032447962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157958.post-1102606664817493292004-12-09T07:37:00.000-08:002004-12-09T07:37:00.000-08:00I think NOFX is a borderline great punk band, so I...I think NOFX is a borderline great punk band, so I'm not disappointed to see them on the list a few times. I'm not very familiar with their entire canon, so it's difficult for me to nit-pick with album should be where. That being said, their live albumn, "I Heard They Suck Live," is one of the better live albums I've ever heard, and captures their energy quite a bit better than their studio sound. <br /><br />Weaker moments and the Machines, eh? No need to be (partly) in the closet about it, friend. I would certainly put "Battle Hymns" in the Top 10. While you wouldn't call The Suicide Machines extraordinarily innovative (but Punk isn't really an innovative form, is it?) they fuse ska and punk about as well as anyone, ever. They also possess an infectious energy, a great horn section (key for any ska-punk act -- this is where Less Than Jake fails at times) and the ability to mix in a variety of rock, pop, and metal stylings to keep things interesting. <br /><br />So step out the closet and shout it loud!<br /><br />Anyway, you're right: the Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs list was far more interesting and obviously well compiled. The Elder Statesman of rock mags does lean a little heavily, as always, on classic rock for my taste -- but let's face it, it aims at a Baby Boomer demographic. <br /><br />But that's an entirely different argument.Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204239335140313863noreply@blogger.com