Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="FoK"]I fucking loved them at age 14. That was one of my "learn to play guitar!" albums (along with <i>Nevermind</i> and <i>Facelift</i>.) We can't be held responsible for what we liked when we were young and more hormonally-influenced. If it makes you feel better, there's a nice Sublime-esque tragic edge to the Gin Blossoms in that they fired the guy that wrote all the good songs (Doug Hopkins) for being a drunk. When they got popular he killed himself. Nice![/quote] Hooray! We both suck(ed)! [quote]Barbie: Here's a couple of recommendations... I would have assumed that you already knew these albums, but I know how it is. My wife hasn't heard them either, because I played them to death before I got married and now I don't listen to them anymore, so Veronica may have done the same. [/quote] Whoa whoa whoa whoa hey-there, chief. I only listed the albums I purchased. This does not mean I didn't have a NIN fanboi period, Marilyn Manson phase, or that Veronica doesn't own literally thousands of CD/tapes/mp3 rips of them. [quote]<b>YOU MUST OWN THE PIXIES' <i>Surfer Rosa</i> and <i>Doolittle</i>.</b> Any greatest hits package is not enough... those two albums are absolutely required of anyone that likes edgy indie rock.[/quote] Been there, done them. Pixies rule, duh. Any band with Kim Deal almost always rules, and Pixies and Breeders are where she rules the hardest. [quote]Where's Sonic Youth? No <i>Daydream Nation</i>?[/quote] Fuck Sonic Youth in the ear. I hate them. [quote]At least one Tom Waits album is required as well, I think you'd like <i>Bone Machine</i>. (<i>Small Change</i> is my next favorite, but in a radically different style.)[/quote] OK, I've never heard of Tom Waits. Noted. [quote]Anyone that thinks that Trail of Dead is good needs to go check out the great bands that they allegedly sound like. Specifically, Jawbox's <i>For Your Own Special Sweetheart</i> and more especially Burning Airlines <i>Mission: Control!</i> which is the most kickass rock album of the past ten years and is probably my favorite rock album of all time. (It jousts guitars with <i>Doolittle</i> and they come back from the Renaissance Festival with Black Francis wrapped in guitar string but J. Robbins covered in half-digested refried beans and rice - I guess it's a draw.) [/quote] Jawbox, at least, I will check out - as well as Fugazi. Burning Airlines is not one of the bands I've ever heard ToD compared to, but I'll at keep an eye peeled. [quote]Also, Death Cab's evil twin is Dismemberment Plan... for some reason these bands are linked in my head. They use a similar aesthetic to reverse effect - they like to get crazy with the wacky effects, but unlike Death Cab there's no calmness, it's all hysteria. Their best song unfortunately, is only available on pirated mp3 ("Since You Died"), and I don't think anyone would care if you stole it since it's an out-of-print song by an indie band.[/quote] I know, I know. Everybody says 'Dismemberment Plan' and somewhere between 'Death Cab' 'ToD' and 'Interpol' they will also shout that I must listen to Modest Mouse. Yes, fine, I get the picture. [quote]GYBE reminds me of Glenn Branca, but it's probably better than him, so that's a possible recommendation if you run out of GYBE to listen to but it can wait.[/quote] No, GYBE apparently reminds everybody of Mogwai. To such an extent that, once again, you're the first person to even mention Branca to me. [quote]If you're only going to check out one, get <i>Mission: Control!</i>. I'm so serious. Fullofkittens P.S. I'll bet you <b>still</b> haven't checked out Velvet Teen yet, have you? They sound like a more rockified Death Cab - so much so that they got Death Cab's guitarist/producer Chris Walla to produce their album, and they've toured with them.[/quote] Egotistical self-jab: isn't Chris Walla the amazingly good-looking one? --SB[/quote]