Portishead takes a little deliberation. My heart says "Sour Times" but my head says "Half Day Closing." Or maybe it's the other way around.

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i agree. for me it's a toss up between her cover of "across the universe" and "i know".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtXZPFNhCuc

Some really good choices here. That Minutemen performance is killer.

Shirtless Driver: really good call on "Speedway" and glad to see another Fiona fan on the board. The emotion that she conveys is just gut-wrechingly beautiful. Had a chance to meet her back in Indianapolis in '99 when my cousin was her tour bus driver. She is a complete freak! The high point for me was sitting with Matt Chamberlain on the tour bus for 45 minutes watching episodes of Behind the Music. HUGE fan of his, but I did my best to keep that in check. Got to play his kit for a few minutes on stage and, for someone like me who's never played a professionally mic'ed kit, it was a pretty awesome experience. Watched the entire show from backstage and saw a drunken midget jump up on stage and start dancing with her for 30 seconds or so before being whisked offstage.

After the show, the band manager gave me 5 bills and asked me take the band (sans Fiona and Matt) out on the town. Damn, that was great night. The guitarist ended up marrying Lisa-Marie Presley a few years later.

One of my favorite artists is Adrian Belew. So talented and so versatile.

Here a song from Young Lions called "I Am What I Am" where he incorporates decades-old broadcast tapes from the Nashville radio evangelist Prophet Omega. Genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKs7o-xMU0 (accompanying video not by Belew)

Lastly, I love Drops of Jupiter.

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nick cave (and the dirty three).

"Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum". otherwise known as track 0 on "songs in the key of x". i really wish this was just part of the regular album because if you listen to it followed by the rest of the tracks, it sets the mood perfectly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzA_wmA2k0

Against Me! - Because of the Shame on the White Crosses album. Musically very good, but when I got into the lyrics... its a pretty intense story he/she has going there.

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Guided By Voices - I Am A Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV1fPyh53Ik

This is a no-brainer. Song is great in every way.

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Folk-punk band from Winnipeg. Four albums plus a John K. Samson solo album that may as well be a fifth. I love them all, but Reconstruction Site is their masterpiece. Along with John Darnielle and Yoni Wolf, John K. is one of the best lyricists going today. I like that he wrote a song in Shakespearean sonnet form:

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This crazy ska yiddish rave up of "Blinded by the Light" is currently my favorite Springsteen song going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCcPlAql6g

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Phish-Julius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCtsvVRsqv0

You can't typecast Phish. This sounds nothing like a jam band

Hello Dave - Golden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDC5CW-xoU


I can't defend it but for some reason I like this bubble gum type pop rock jam

The guy with the Stratocaster is how I picture Hawg Ass.

EDIT: The red Stratocaster. I don't know who the guy with the other Strat looks like. Maybe Goggles.

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Articles of Faith was by far the best hardcore band ever to come out of Chicago. Vic Bondi pretty much invented "emo". This is their best song, "Five O'Clock".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZZ98riW48

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RPB - That Hello Dave video actually made me angry.
I had to turn it off, this is not typical bullshit internet hyperbole, I HAD to turn it off after about 60 seconds.
But at least now I've got a new go-to song to spam my friends with on FB.

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I'm doxxing the shit out of that singer right now so I can go to his house and punch the living shit out of his smug fucking face.

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Not too many peole know that Hello Dave actually started as an Einstürzende Neubauten side project.

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So bad.

Anywhoo - everyone is allowed to like what they like (song wise, at least )

I happen to really unabashedly like this cheese-fest.
Keith Urban - Sweet Thing
But hey, at least he's fucking great guitar player, and seems like a nice guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCdd0Db_fM

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Wait, there is such a thing as Folk-Punk?

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I would say that both the Weakerthans and the Mountain Goats (the aforementioned John Darnielle) have overlapping folk and punk sensibilities, yes. Why? (the aforementioned Yoni Wolf) is both plus hip-hop. Yes, it works.

On that note, my favorite Mountain Goats song is and will always be "This Year," though many others have their respective inextricable places in my heart. To wit:

Alpha Rats Nest
No Children
Woke Up New
Dance Music
White Cedar
Philippians 3:20-21
Never Quite Free
High Hawk Season
Transcendental Youth

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Just odd mix of styles, thats all. Nothing wrong. Moving on...

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Japandroids
The House That Heaven Built

First song I heard after I got the news I was tenured so it has a tie to great memory.
Plus, my kids like singing the "oh oh oh oh oh" part.

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My favorite Phish song is Rift.

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It's not that odd if you think of both as fusing musical simplicity with social commentary.

Anyway, best Why? song, since I mentioned them, too, is "Gemini (Birthday Song)." "I want a verb and you give me a noun," love that line. Second in line is "Fatalist Palmistry" and "I sleep on my back 'cause it's good for the spine and coffin rehearsal."

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I discovered them when I was 18. They were playing on the sidewalk at Navy Pier

They got big enough to headline house of blues

They're like a twangy version of the worst kind of Dave Matthews


But yeah, I understand the hate. They did open the house of blues how with Fat Bottom Girls thgatg was cool

OK that version is worse than the album version and that guy didn't act like that. Very punchable


Which one of you commented? Haha

The Who
Eminence Front

Such a departure. I love this song. Mavericks used to use it from their intros too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnHLgxKUsEA

Totally agree with this. I love this song. I remember the first time I heard it, I thought it was either Pink Floyd or Alan Parsons for the first two minutes.

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JORR, you heard of a derpy local band called The Cleaning Ladys? I'd say their best song is "Billy's Got a New Girlfriend."

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Wally Pleasant
The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwlnmrgscYI

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Yeah, Brandmeier used to have them on all the time. Also, I think they wrote and played Murph's theme song, didn't they? "He's never been in a pressbox..."

Here they are rocking out with a 9 year old Jason Narducy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUkEDm66Idg

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nah, gotta be Wonderful Sex or That's Evolution