The Girls
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
The F.U.'s were from Boston too, no?
How about the Blake Babies (and thus Juliana Hatfield)?
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
MORPHINE
i've developed a pretty visceral hatred Boston accents from speaking to people in Massachussets on the phone at work all th etime, but it's still somehow mildly charming to me if Jonathan Richman or Mark Sandman is singing in the accent
― EDUARDO MANOSPENES (some dude), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
voted "Hitch a Ride": best song on the album imo...
― hard-core Anglophilic ass kisser (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
no ultimate spinach no credibility.
my faves on that list are the remains and ssd though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm a big phluph fan too. and a fan of the beacon street union.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
also: ill wind, bo grumpus, apple pie motherhood band, earth opera, and eden's children. i'm a big fan of the bosstown scene.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
also i like negative fx and dys.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
also, even though some of them might not all be technically from boston, i like coverge, the hope conspiracy, siege, and only living witness.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
new models -vs- november group
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
the freeze - vs- the proletariat
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda missing some important people here.
but working with the bands already on the poll, i'm torn between the pixies and burma.
― borntohula, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
modern lovers, easy
ss decontrol would be my #2
didja know somebody actually made a documentary about slapshot?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
No actually you forgot Godsmack.
A good thing, in retrospect.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The 'Smack is prob in my 10 worst bands ever, so yeah, I'd say so..
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha... "the `Smack"
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I was driving on Route 1 the other day and saw some amazing graffiti on a rock on the side of the road. It said RIP Brad Delp and had a pic of his face. Man, I wish I'd had my camera.
The correct answer to the poll is the Pixies with Modern Lovers a close second.
― Kringelbert Fishtybuns of Steel (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
things I didn't know about boston:
On March 9, 2007, Delp was found dead in his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire.[4] Delp, who was only 55, died from the smoke of two charcoal grills he lit inside his sealed bathroom. He was found by his girlfriend Pamela Sullivan lying on a pillow on his bathroom floor with a suicide note pinned to his shirt stating that he was a "lonely soul." The official cause of death was listed as carbon monoxide poisoning.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder how many people didn't open this poll cause they thought it was about the band boston, and not bands from boston
i very nearly did that
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
me too
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"The correct answer to the poll is the Pixies with Modern Lovers a close second."
No, actually it's not.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
bill magill, ladies and gentlemen!
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't mind me, i just hate that "the correct answer is..." bullshit. But I agree that Godsmack sucks.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I think we can all agree on that
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I find it profoundly depressing that Aerosmith and the Cars (both of whom certainly had their moments) both got more votes than the Modern Lovers.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill Magill, always such a delight.
If this were a poll about best song titles from Boston bands then Anal Cunt would have to win.
Also, I thought it was going to be about Boston the band too.
― Kringelbert Fishtybuns of Steel (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Me too, I didn't even open the thread til now because of it! I probably would've voted for the Pixies anyway.
And moaned about the Freeze and Jerry's Kids not being on it.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I was disappointed when I opened this and it wasn't about Boston, the band! I was all ready to stand up for "Don't Look Back" against "More Than A Feeling."
Anyway, good winners, but Magnetic Fields are notably missing and would have drawn some votes surely...?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, this poll really should have had a lot more votes, period. I voted Pixies, though.
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Thursday, 23 April 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
was i the only one who voted modern lovers? u all crazy
― domma sonner (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 April 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, you and Alex must have split your vote! ;)
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Thursday, 23 April 2009 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"Bill Magill, always such a delight."
I will admit that I am totally guilty of what I criticized ENBB for, so the criticism was probably unfair.
I vote Foreplay/Long Time.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
was i the only one who voted modern lovers mission of burma? u all crazy
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
― hard-core Anglophilic ass kisser (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― art-ghetto superstar (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
(since you guys missed my joke the first time :P)
― art-ghetto superstar (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
(voted Pixies too)
― art-ghetto superstar (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 April 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
As much as I like the Pixies, would I be tarred & feathered (more so than usual) to opine that they're somewhat slavishly overrated?
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree, but I don't think there'd be a ton of people lining up to join the club.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't like the pixies v. much at all, not really sure why tho
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 April 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry bro pixies are one of my favourite bands...
― art-ghetto superstar (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 24 April 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
No need to apologize.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 24 April 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
get one Rocks, you lameoids!
― \m/ anger on stick \m/ (Ioannis), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYr-AIoIOQ
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
lol nice
I work about a 3 min walk from those statues. That's exactly what it sounds like right now outside.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched that 3x btw. It's hilarious.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
And also now remember that I had a dream the other night in which I was singing Family Tree by H20. Weird.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
terrible song and they don't even live there apparently. smalley is in virginia
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
sorry this is buzza, forgot to log out
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's not good.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Who are they shouting out to in the middle - _____________ , dropkicks and blood for blood?
ssd
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Can't have a Boston list w/o The Neighborhoods.
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
DJ Steve Stanley, host of "The Now Sounds" on Luxuria Music Internet Radio interviews Bruce Arnold, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Howie Hersh and John Arnold of Orpheus. Show aired on April 18th, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1OyV4O00s4
kind of an interesting look into the bosstown sound, feat. producer alan lorber, bernard purdie (who i didn't realize is playing on the ultimate spinach records), and psych-pop group orpheus, including some early recordings of theirs as when they were known as the villagers.
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 September 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
(lorber isn't among the interviewees, i just mean his work is discussed.)
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Anyone know the late-80s early-90s Boston band The 360's? Less well known than anyone on this list, for sure, they're not on streaming services. Someone put one of their songs (below) on a mixtape for me in 1991 and I've always loved it. Kind of a more fun, female-fronted, neo-psych Smashing Pumpkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkwEvmHOn-U
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Friday, 18 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
i will listen to that tomorrow, sounds interesting!
also looking back at this poll which i haven't thought about in 10 years and where the fuck is galaxie 500?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 June 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Not much turnout, but I have a feeling Aerosmith would do much better these days.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Friday, 18 June 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link