Best Band of 2017

smart to put "Queens of The Stonage" so that this thread doesn't pop up on josh homme's google alerts and we have him back here spamming the thread with self promotion again

Queens of the Stonage is a different band than Queens of the Stone Age, just like The Arcana is a different than Arcana and Arcade Fire

It's the French version.

smart to put "Queens of The Stonage" so that this thread doesn't pop up on josh homme's google alerts and we have him back here spamming the thread with self promotion again

yeah if there's one thing this thread doesn't need it's sneaky self-promotion, we're here to share our feelings about exciting new music like THE ARCANE's blistering long-player ALL MY YESTERDAYS, a platter chock-full of throbbing eldritch vibrations which commanded me to eat my dog and swear an oath of unending fealty to the old ones

and i gladly complied

There are a lot great bands on this list but in my opinion the best band on this list is WEEZER. If you've never heard Weezer, songs like "Destroy My Sweater" and "Buddy Holly" are hilarious and totally random but at the same time they still ROCK. Another great song of theirs is "Darling Don't You Go and Cut Your Hair." Now I know what you're saying, these songs sound goofy, but guess what? The lead singer went to Harvard, so there actually smart.

If you want to learn more, go to a (real) record store. Or another thing you could do, is pick up a copy of SPIN magazine, which has a lot of articles about bands like this. Check them out and remember to vote WEEZER!!!

I think my dad listens to WEEZER.

Also, they didn't do that Cut My Hair song, that was Marcy Playgroound.

yr dads p cool

Jawbox wow did they reform?

um, pretty sure Cut Your Hair is Weezer, saw it on "120 Minutes"

'Cut Your Hair' is Weezer but 'Buddy Holly' is Fonz & the Happy Days Gang.

Which reminds me, if you guys haven't already picked up a copy of HEY, SIT ON IT, the latest release by FONZ & THE HAPPY DAYS GANG, run out to your local record shop before it disappears! We're talking a double-sided platter with wall-to-wall tunes that will get your toes a-tappin'! A fresh-faced blast from the past, featuring the hit singles 'STILL EATIN' AT AL'S' and 'JUKEBOX (DON'T PUT ANOTHER DIME BECAUSE I'LL JUST HIT IT)', this album is guaranteed to be the centerpiece of your impending months-long 2017 bout of depression!

Actually no, 'Buddy Holly' was by Buddy Holly, that was the thing in the 1950s, you had to write a song about yourself, e.g. Bo Diddley, Iron Maiden.

I guess that makes sense if you listen to the lyrics. "Ooo wee ooo, I look just like Buddy Holly." I can't think of anyone who looks more like Buddy Holly than Buddy Holly, there fore it is him singing that song.

BUDDY HOLLY was a song by THE HOLLIES about the brother they had to kick out of the group

on my mp3 tags it says Buddy Holly (ft. Mary Tyler Moore) so mystery solved I guess

I believe that was the remix that the label arranged when they were trying to get Mary Tyler Moore's hip hop career off the ground. Her flow was still a little rusty on that single.

I'm very surprised that SMASHING PUMPKINS is not on this list. I know their name offends the "PC police" these days, but it was cool at the time.

The Arcana have a larger following in the US than the UK. This is perhaps due to the fact that all their releases to date have been distributed in the US prior to being available in other parts of the world, including Europe and Australia. Their appeal appears to be universal to all demographics, although they are often called an Alternative or Indie band. All three members have PhDs - this is the only band in the world for which this is true.

Smashing Pumpkins are great band indeed but I don't really think of them as a 2017 act if I'm being totally honest.

Why not you can still pick up an album by the Smashing Pumpkins in the year 2017, I think their appele is timeless and for every year.

They're really a 1979 band

That is true Old Lunch, truly great music transcends all times or as ARCADA would have it, YESTERDAY IS LIKE TOMORROW IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT

Best Band of 20171997
Thread title fixed.

The Best Band of 2017 should really have some relevance to the world political/cultural situation we are now in in the year 2017. That means Donald Trump, Brexit, Black Lives Matter, ISIS. The only real answer here is MUSE.

You can't spell museic without MUSE.

It's like a time machine for my mind whenever I hear all those Imagine Dragons hits from 1997.

you can't spell imagine dragons without onanism

you can't even imagine dragons without onanism

hey guys, it's real cool that you want to discuss other 2017 bands like weezer and the smashing pumpkins, but we've already sort of established that this thread belongs to us THE ARCANAheads and their steaming hot release ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES. you can discuss these other bands in a number of other places.

back on the subject of THE ARCANA, we really gotta spread the word. I'm thinking our best bet is a catchy slogan that represents the band's brand and overarching philosophy. here's what I've come up with so far: "THE ARCANA: If you have a piss or scat fetish, this is the band for you"

"I shit on THE ARCANA and all I got was this lousy ILX post"?

voted Beatles

to those in the urethra stuffing and mutilation community, I appreciate that you support our favorite band and this great project we have ahead of us. however, I really think it's in THE ARCANA's best interest if we focus solely on reaching out to the piss and scat fetish community. I've crunched the numbers and determined that this is the best strategy to get THE ARCANA to coachella by 2019

oh shit dmac beat me to it lol

xp

I really just want to make sure that when people hear or google the words THE ARCANA, they immediately think of piss and scat based sex, and vice versa. I want to ensure that the next time someone collects, mixes and boils a slurry of shit and piss to insert into their rectum with an oversized turkey baster so they can then release it into the curious mouth of their best friend Chaco, THE ARCANA (website here: https://thearcana.wordpress.com/) is what's playing in the background

eh they were ok as a minor Laswell effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOgMpX-VdM

THE ARCACA

THE ARCANA'S ANAL ARC

that's actually a different band shakey, you unrepentant piece of shit. I believe THE ARCANA was formed in 2015!

don't you hate it when you try to start a conversation with someone who clearly knows nothing about music? I asked like 20 kids at school today if they'd ever heard of The Arcana and half of them just gave me blank stares...the other half thought I was talking about the English proto-shoegaze duo AR Kane and went off on these ignorant tangents about 'Pump Up the Volume and plunderphonics and The Avalanches. bunch of plebs, right? surely the folks on the I LOVE MUSIC have more refined taste in MUSIC, surely they can appreciate The Arcana's crisp chiming guitars and Beatlesque melodicism and soul-searching philosophical lyrics, right? WRONG! the best they can come up with is scat jokes and sarcasm and lazy puns. some people they were born in the wrong generation but I was obviously born into the wrong species, fml http://i.imgur.com/K8Z5C2F.gif

sorry but I think we're a ways off from incorporating bestiality into our THE ARCANA listening habits

Farmer Jones put on a THE ARCANA side, and before you could say 'everywhere a duck duck', the barnyard was fairly humming with cross-species copulation and copious coprophagia.

Let me get this straight...

A bunch of adults are using this thread to "optimize" associations between THE ARCANA and deviant sexual practices. Some random dared enter your precious safe space, so now you're going to make sure a struggling young band comes up in searches for urethra stuffing, right? Ha ha, so funny I forgot to laugh. You have no idea who THE ARCANA are or what they represent. From what I can tell, you haven't even given their music a chance.

But that's okay. THE ARCANA don't belong to you. They belong to the piss and scat fetish community. That's where they come from and who they made TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY for. A song like "Something's Coming Down" speaks directly and profoundly to the lived experience of every lonely teen who thinks she has to hide her laptop's brown folder from the world. Its truth will be heard no matter what a bunch of jaded, would-be internet critics do to drown it out.

Stop trying to make this about genital mutilation or emetophilia or whatever. You're just embarrassing yourselves.

There are so many good bands here, so it is difficult to say which one is the best in 2017. No doubt there will be more releases from all the bands in the coming months - so good, some not so good. Many of the bands may already have reached their peaks or even started to come down the other side of the hill. I'm not suggesting any band in particular fits this bill - it is all rather subjective. For example, I don't believe that The Beatles produced anything like the quality of material after 1968. Also, Pink Floyd did nothing before or after Dark Side of The Moon. These are all contentious statements and purely subjective.

My feeling is that the bands that are considered as popular over the last few years will continue to be so regardless of the quality of the material they release. People are very reluctant to embrace anything new without media affirmation, and it is quite true to say that the majority of the general public find it difficult to make choices and require steering by the media in a direction dictated by the media. Many (not all) of the individuals writing on this thread are effectively victims of this malady, sadly.

It is very interesting to observe people's reactions when confronted with something new. Fear and or mockery seems to be the course that they pursue. It is not necessarily their fault, but a consequence of the society the feel at home within. In any case, it is important to stand for what you believe in and as we still live in a country that has freedom of speech everyone is entitled to their opinions. I nevertheless, follow the ethos of one of our countries greatest humourists Groucho Marx: 'I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member'.

I'm pretty sure there are like 3 levels of irony i'm not getting here, but that post about "Destroy My Sweater" is one of the funnier things I've ever read on this site

There are a lot great bands on this list but in my opinion the best band on this list is WEEZER. If you've never heard Weezer, songs like "Destroy My Sweater" and "Buddy Holly" are hilarious and totally random but at the same time they still ROCK. Another great song of theirs is "Darling Don't You Go and Cut Your Hair." Now I know what you're saying, these songs sound goofy, but guess what? The lead singer went to Harvard, so there actually smart.

If you want to learn more, go to a (real) record store. Or another thing you could do, is pick up a copy of SPIN magazine, which has a lot of articles about bands like this. Check them out and remember to vote WEEZER!!!

― it me, Thursday, June 1, 2017 12:53 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is very interesting to observe people's reactions when confronted with something new.

dead

Beautiful thread, I nailed my dick to a board and voted for The Arcana

Many (not all) of the individuals writing on this thread are effectively victims of this malady, sadly.

super dead, like actually beyond dead

No doubt there will be more releases from all the bands in the coming months -

you guys wanna hear about the most romantic/sensual experience of my life

No doubt everyone here is skipping school or college

demographic nailed

it's all been downhill since 1977#ROADRUNNER#EMI

The negativity in this thread is sad, but it's understandable. We're all lost and confused, trying to figure out how to navigate fifteen credit hours every semester while getting zero credit for our hours of pain. There's no quad big enough to contain my pain, no frisbee ultimate enough to quell my sorrow. I watch people line up at the credit card sign-up, eager for their free t-shirt emblazoned with 'FUTURE CONSUMER' in foot-high letters. This computer lab is a den of shame, true, where I sit in an eternally-frozen moment and contemplate the gravity of 'like'-ing the Facebook picture Tina Wolczyk from that party where losers like me could've never dared crash...but this lab is also a cocoon, where I can feel myself changing and growing while I listen to my optimally-sequenced fan edit of the album TOMORROW'S YESTERDAYS ARE TODAY'S TODAYS by THE ARNANCA on an endless loop, growing and changing and one day emerging as a fully-formed perma-temp with a degree I'll never use and student loans that I'll never pay off. And even if that glorious day never arrives, I will always have memories of my ACARNA-woven chrysalis, and of that time in 10th grade when Helen O'Malley let me touch her boob (overshirt, but still).

see now i feel bad because up until this point i've assumed that dear marty is a member of this band or, god forbid, an independent contractor being paid actual money to go on this ill-fated word of mouth quest on the worst possible choice of message board

now i'm thinking what if he's a personal friend or family member of THE ARCANA ?

like this poor brother-in-law really doesn't need to hear every detail of my world famous piss and scat fetish parties

While we make our scat jokes, martyfalling is marshalling an army of unjaded new registered users to vote in this poll and enshrine The ARCANA as the best band of 2017 for all eternity

the RYM migration was bad enough

the best band of 2017 should be We Are Scientists but I guess THE ARCANA is the next best thing

Let's face it: there's some people posting in this thread who are CLOSE-minded. It's easy to fall into routine habits. I even do it myself sometimes!

And there's a time and a place for that. For example, if you don't like a band (for example, Weezer) there are many places that opinion can be shared. Believe me, there is PLENTY of room for competing fans/fandoms on the Internet. I'm not arguing there isn't.

But what I don't get is, why you would come to this specific board, to share these opinions. When what you could be doing is LISTENING to the bands on this list and figuring out which ones you LIKE. Instead of making CLOSE-MINDED JUDGMENT STATEMENTS about stuff you're not even trying to understand.

As for calling everyone on the board losers... Well guess what! Not everyone posting here is some guy in mom's basement with a toy collection. Some of us have graduated college and are pursuing diverse careers. Some of us are even entrepreneurs! (Try googling "blockchain".)

The funny thing about all of this is that I'm not even mad. I just think it's funny how some people behave. My point is let's keep the board focused on the MUSIC.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

do you think Haim is pronounced like Cory's last name (ie. Feld-man)

― President Keyes, Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quality lol, previously undiscovered

Can't wait for the poll results!

If The Arcana don't win this poll then I'll eat my own scat

shoobedoo be bop om nom nom

Fuck Despacito. These r real bands that make real music.

So hard this poll. I can’t vote just for one. I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs because the music from these bands get me high.

Dear children,

This is music. Learn it. Love it. Pass it on.

listen to these artists, they will change your life.

yr dads p cool

I called and told him you said this for Christmas

This list is missing Rammstein tbh.

is martyfalling a high concept sock? was "the arcana" invented purely for the purpose of this troll? how much money went into this?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Voted jawbox but should’ve voted for Arcana.

Write in for the Beatles

kewl band

It makes me feel very sad to see so much hatred and ridicule in the world. This thread seems to exemplify this. But let us face the facts: why are we even contributing to this thread? Simply, because we are all sad losers, including myself, with nothing better to do with our lives. No doubt everyone here is skipping school or college because they are seen by their peers as outcasts and misfits - why else are we here? Nevertheless, life goes on even if all of us here feel like giving it up. I don't much like Weezer.

― martyfalling, Wednesday, June 7, 2017 6:32 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink