Are New Model Army your favourite band? Other favourite bands/artists

[Rusco]

And Eighties from Killing Joke too. Bands that are/were alive at the time when Nirvana loaned their riffs. It's a funny detail but I think it just tells how much they honoured those bands. (No ironics here.)

There's also an album where Dave Grohl plays songs with artists he's always been a real fan of. It's called the Probot.

[Rusco]

Before going too far with offtopics: Eighties

[lostockboy]

I really liked Sugar 'back in the day'... Beaster is a cracker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQ3sjv-lTI

I must get into Husker Du... only ever listened to Zen Arcade... where to go from their next?

In order of my preferences
New Day Rising (my fave album of all time)
Flip Your Wig
Zen Arcade
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Metal Circus
Everything Falls Apart
Candy Apple Grey
Land Speed Record

Also agree that Beaster was a cracking Sugar release, especially the song Tilted of it.
 

[Master Ray]

I really liked Sugar 'back in the day'... Beaster is a cracker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQ3sjv-lTI

I must get into Husker Du... only ever listened to Zen Arcade... where to go from their next?

In order of my preferences
New Day Rising (my fave album of all time)
Flip Your Wig
Zen Arcade
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
Metal Circus
Everything Falls Apart
Candy Apple Grey
Land Speed Record

Also agree that Beaster was a cracking Sugar release, especially the song Tilted of it.

Cheers, mate, will get stuck into that...

'Lostock'... hmm, I might have this wrong, but are you a fellow Cheshire person?  As in Lostock Gralam?  We may have gone over this before, but I sometimes post after a few beers... and, at my age, my memory isn't what it used to be... 

[Simon73]

The most important in my life trying to summarise (different styles for sure here):

- Coil (the mighty gods impossible to imitate);
- Bauhaus;
- The Cure (firsrt 4 albums);
- Skinny Puppy;
- Neurosis;
- Fugazi;
- Kylesa;
- Girls vs Boys;
- Black Sabbath (first 4 albums);
- Black Flag;
- Minor Threat;
- Turbonegro;


and hundreds of others great bands but these are some at the top................then lots of english punk 77 and following years.............Subhumans on top........Menace................

[gizzard]

The Stranglers
Killing Joke
SLF
The Damned
Smiths/Morrissey
The Jam
Manics
Goldblade
Skids
Hazel O Connor
Sinead O Connor
U2
Blondie
Buzzcocks
Pogues
The Alarm
Big Country
Sex Pistols
Sisters Of Mercy
The Clash
The Boomtown Rats

As you can see plenty of up and coming new bands....

[jimmie 8]

Nine below zero who supported the stranglers last year seen them many times and always put on a good show

[jimmie 8]

Also james who i saw last year for the first time was well impressed

[Guillaume]

NEW MODEL ARMY and Justin Sullivan my favourite bands, songwriters by far, since 1995, then...:

5 bands/artists i discovered last year:

THE SOUND (Adrian Borland had a wonderful voice and there were very beautiful melodies and lyrics in his band. Lots of emotions listening to this band, with beautiful songs like "Winning", "Silent air", "Total recall", "You've got a way", "Longest days", "A new way of life", etc  THE SOUND and Adrian Borland quickly became my favorite songwriters after NMA/Justin)

MEG MYERS (I really like her voice and a lot of her songs, I don't like everything she sings, 100%, but there is emotion and intensity in her voice and her music I think...songs like "Motel", "The morning after", "Numb", "Constant", "Feather", "Desire", "Funeral", "Little black death", "The underground", "Teenagers", "Last laugh", etc )

LARKIN POE (an exciting Blues/Rock band carried by the beautiful voice of Rebecall Lovell and the virtuoso guitar playing of her sister Megan. All their albums are good. Excellent live band, too.)

SAMANTHA FISH (Another talented Blueswoman! Again, like LARKIN POE, great voice, great guitar playing and great live artist. Songs:  "Daughters", "***** on the run", "Money to burn", "All the words", "Bulletproof", etc.)


MOLLY TUTTLE (talented Country/Bluegrass/Folk artist. Again, a very pretty voice and amazing guitar playing. Songs: "The river knows", "Save this heart", "Take the journey", "Dooley's farm", her cover of "Helpless" by NEIL YOUNG.




THIN LIZZY (I love Phil Lynott's voice and bass playing. My 3rd favourite band/songwriter after NMA and THE SOUND)

JOHN CAMPBELL (his Blues album "One believer" is one of my all time favourite albums...the title track for example, incredible..)

NEIL YOUNG

CRY OF LOVE (for their great Blues/Rock "Brother" album)

JANE'S ADDICTION and PORNO FOR PYROS (the 2/3 first albums of both of these bands)

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

TONY JOE WHITE

[Tarsier]

Thank you Guillaume for excavating this older thread, was interesting to read through

Are NMA my favourite band? Yes... but they gotta share the pedestal I have two all-time favourite bands which both fill a very different shaped hole in my soul so it's not possible to put one above the other - the other band being Meshuggah. I cannot put into words of how much I love those guys. They're masters of their trade, their rhythmical imagination is unique, out of this world. For me it's a pure physical pleasure to listen to Meshuggah and they're the only metal band that make me cry just out of sheer beauty of it. Still after all these years, they never fail providing never-ending goosebumps, and all those pleasurable tugs and shivers.... And live, even in a small venue, they're massive.
If I would be pushed to name ONE song, I think it should be Dancers to a Discordant System, because in its nine+ minutes it contains pretty much all the elements that are essentially Meshuggah. When that groove kicks in about six minutes into the song... that's some serious brain massage and ending with simple, haunting melody...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zFJKPOnXg

And here's a nine-minute instrumental with beautiful visuals from their new album, for those who can't stand growling
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Q1v4zRt1w

Sorry, I'll see myself out now. Quite literally - first time ever in Cologne so I should go have a look around... Cannot wait to see NMA tonight and tomorrow, it'll be beautiful!! And sweaty and ugly and all those things that makes our favourite music so wonderful