Speaking of rock, is Labs smoking it? Dude posted like 5 times. That's chemical enhanced productivity right there.
A couple of days ago, one male lifeguard said to another male lifeguard, "So-and-so said there's a hot new guard." You know what the other one said? That's right, gswift. This is not a compliment.
What's hilarious is that the first lifeguard kept asking, and finally the second one said, "Oh yeah, there's this new girl who looks like Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings, but hotter."
I normally stay out of these discussions, but I just had to say, "Wait a minute, for a minute you didn't know what he was talking about and then you remember that there's a new guard who's hotter than Liv Tyler?"
Fifty-something-guy noted that when the topic was hotness, this guy could only think of himself. Funny, because true.
What about all of those who never stopped rocking? Even if they made some poorly executed TV shows. <cough>ozzy osbourne<cough>
Yeah, new people. Rocking has taken a toll on poor Ozzy.
The more I think about, the better the question seems. It really does seem like we've lost the rock.
If it didn't take a toll on you, it wouldn't be rocking.
Surely there must be people out there rocking. I mean, these dudes are Finnish, but that still counts? Not to mention these guys.
I am struggling to think more metaphorically, but am having some trouble.
The Laswell/Yoshihide/Yoshida trio album Episome rocks.
It's been too long since I've watched that Lordi video.
Fucking King Brothers fucking rock...
http://www.emusic.com/album/10604/10604932.html
I rocked tonight. We played a show in Harrisonburg. Apropos to your Liv Tyler discussion, the headliner covered an Aerosmith. Then, during Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls", this girl was rocking out, and I tried to explain to her—her being the same person who ten minutes before opined that going to the beach was gay—that perhaps another descriptor was in order.
Oh, and sometimes we play "Tequila Makes Her Close Fall Off," which I play completely tongue-in-cheek, so you can see how that rocks. Clearly, you're just getting old, ogged.
Do the King Brothers have monster costumes?
And going to the beach is gay? WTF?
Keep rock alive, Stanley. Is any of your stuff online?
17: I was equally perplexed. She has "lots of gay friends." Perhaps they frequent the beach? I really don't know.
18: I shall keep the dream alive. The main band; The schlocky cover band that makes a lot more money but hasn't accepted any offers for a new name, notwithstanding the Band Name Thread.
(N.B., not me playing drums on that second band-link; no hating.)
Jesus, that Kings Brother video. No way am I watchintg a solid 5 minutes of that.
With respect to Stanley, I think we've figured out that rock sucks.
I always identify much more with the people that are listening to music.
The best band name ever was in a different Unfogged thread.
Music, yes; headbanging, not so much.
Here, gswift. More monster costumes. And then more satanic imagery. And finally, some solid guitar action.
Sleeping People of San Diego rock.
I take it that King Brothers are somehow related to Guitar Wolf?
And some people would disagree with 22.
Nice crappy drum sound there on the Sometime Favorites.
27: YOUR MOM rocks.
(Happy Mother's Day, ben's mom.)
The guitar on that Horton Heat song definitely rocks. I was listening to a White Stripes song today that rocked, but then I realized that they've been around for almost ten years. Kids need to rock; that's what's wrong with this country today.
Maybe the kids are all blogging instead. I blame emo.
At the awesome hour of 11pm? That's not very rock. You should be going out to have a beer.
For those about to rock, I salute you.
I saw Horton Heat on new years 2000, and the nice security guards repeatedly pulled (illegal inside CA) cigarettes from my disgracefully drunk lips. Then they brought me water, This is punk rock in the new millennium.
I've got a commentary without much to say.
Queens of the Stone Age rock mightily.
Holy crap, how is it I don't own any Queens of the Stone Age?
This video, for example, has it all. Monsters, fire, a ridiculously good looking woman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tt9luHleBM
[by way of evidence for the former]
Also, if you are looking for more old-school rock,
Wolfmother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPPnGsdh0A
, or The Datsuns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWVxGFIpPB8
or Mastodon,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIhKRKSpvbI
. There's tons of it out there.
Also, Josh Homme (from the Queens of the Stone Age) has the Desert Sessions project. Which is great too -- the volume with P.J. Harvey on it rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veEekm2FWHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4O3LnDsPik
Plus, P.J. Harvey is just generally teh awesome.
So no one watched the Eurovision Song Contest last night then?
I watched bits of it. Not the whole show, so missed about half the 'songs'. I did see the small Serbian woman with the big voice, though.
Eurovision definitely rocks. Except that it was pretty dull and even Wogan's sterling efforts couldn't keep me there.
Another band from my son's circle of friends. Brag brag.
46 is dark, by the way. As it develops.
I'm all rocked out. Now I listen to late night jazz for the low stress levels.
I went to see Acoustic Ladyland a week or two ago. They are, arguably, a jazz band*, but they rock like a bastard.
They're probably the loudest band I've ever seen (in the confines of a smallish club, anyway).
* the members all have jazz backgrounds, anyway.
I was rooting for Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I had difficulty recently finding a band that rocked musically but didn't have a singer who sounds like a whining ponce. All the masculine-sounding rock vocalists are funneled into the "alt-country" movement and record nothing but derivative yawnfests (Ryan Adams, Jackie Greene), while bands with completely un-rock-like singers are free to rock as hard as they want (Coheed and Cambria being the ne plus ultra here, and in different ways the Thermals, the Killers and the Hold Steady).
How about My Morning Jacket? Check out their live album.
Thanks, dudes! Some of that stuff shades a bit close to metal for me, but lots of it is clearly rock! anymore!
The Eagles of Death Metal are relevant to any discussion of rocking. As are DFA 1979, The Prostitutes, The Hives, Towers of London, The Slack Republic, Mama Shamone... all kinds of quality rawk in the oughties.
EODM, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, Marah, The Sword, Boris... so many different ways to rock
The Modey Lemon really, really rock. As far as their two nationally released albums go, "Thunder and Lightning" > "The Curious City".
Check out the Moaners too.
The Thermals (this is my favorite song of theirs, but it doesn't sound great live here)
The Dillinger Escape Plan rocks.
So no one watched the Eurovision Song Contest last night then?
OMG NOOOOOOO!!!!
After being exposed to the magic that is Eurovision on our trip to Greece last year, we were SO wanting to see it this year. I don't even know if it was showing anywhere on American television, but I am sad beyond words that I forgot to check.
What highlights should we watch on YouTube?
Ryan Adams
Did the Ryan Adams and the Pink Hearts album ever get released? 'Cause we saw them at SXSW in '01, and they definitely rocked.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum rocks.
61 is correct.
58 is not. Nothing can rock if its tempo and meter are changing three times a minute.
re: 59
The Russian entry was fairly good in a kitsch way -- an attempt at Girls Aloud style pop.
Man, without even leaving my bed I can see Hot Snakes, McLusky, Shellac, The Ponys, Marnie Stern, Ladyhawk and Ted Leo. Even random indie bands come out with some great rock-in-a-traditional-sense songs. This is even assuming that we're excluding noise rock (I'm bending this rule with Shellac), drum-based madness, and hardcore from consideration.
Also, the first two Strokes albums were basically nothing but Rock.
Ogged, you're hopeless.
You guys are just making these band names up aren't you?
66: The knowledge that that video exists helps put everything in perspective.
Did you guys hear? Jerry Falwell dropped dead!
Falwell dropping dead, I mean. The cookiemonster vocals, eh.
Did he? Hold on, I'll go post it in another thread.
I take it back. That video rocks in spite of it all. And you can never have too much religious zombie imagery.
This story is pretty amazing. I hope that someone really talented will write an awesome and gripping book about all this ten years from now. (But who? Tom Wolfe could have done it before he got old and Republican. Ron Rosenbaum, ditto.) Also, this kind of thing makes me hope that somewhere in Justice or the FBI or CIA or somewhere there is a mid-level functionary who can be the next, American, John LeCarre.