Our Band Could Be Your Life poll

Re: later Black Flag stuff, My War is def worth hearing but I like In My Head even more

Realize this won't be a popular vote, but I saw a ton of Replacements shows in their first few years. Loved 'em more than anything else on this list by far.

Like:
Sonic Youth
Beat Happening
Dino Jr
The Replacements
Big Black
Fugazi
Husker Du

Dislike:
Black Flag

Even heard enough:
Mudhoney
Butthole Surfers
Minor Threat
Mission Of Burma
Minutemen

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100+ votes is pretty good turnout

Poor calvin

yeah i'm fine w/ beat happening, enough time has passed, but there was no way in hell i was voting beat happening. that said calvin is the hero of this book. voted fugazi as that's the one i'm by far most likely to listen to nowadays, would guess sonic youth is the one i've listened to most (over husker du) but that's mainly sheer volume of releases. except for mudhoney, beat happening, and i guess butthole surfers (all of whom i like)(like those first few butthole surfers way more than any mudhoney or beat happening, they just fell off pretty hard and became supertiresome in general for me), i love every group up there.

I think this book would have been improved with some levity towards the end - I would possibly have made some room for Camper Van Beethoven, for example. Sonically, there's some 'spirit of punk' right there (compared to one or two groups who talked the talk but sounded not unlike everyone else)

Ian MacKaye's problem with T&G ("they were the ones who smoked cigars and ate ribs") - what's that about? It seemed like a contemporaneous interview.

wasn't T&G was pretty well respected? i thought i heard they uniformly did 50/50 recording contracts with bands

maybe that's not that great, idk

i wonder if ian mackaye has ever had a conversation with paul westerberg about the proper performance state of mind

I always took that "cigars and ribs" remark as reflecting a pretty clear culture clash between the Dischord wing of steadfast DIYism and the T&G/Albini/"pigfuck" wing. It's easy to imagine that the guy who wrote the lyrics to "Suggestion" might look askance at the part of the scene that plays host to a band called Rapeman.

It's also a working class midwest mindset vs. activist/political east coast mindset.

Trying to think which of the midwest punk/indie bands of the era ever got political. Not the Effigies, Naked Raygun, Big Black, Jesus Lizard, Killdozer ...

Effigies 'We're Da Machine' is v pointedly political

but yeah there was an avoidance of hectoring or anything that might resemble it in nearly all cases

toxic reasons?

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