If You Could Change One Aspect Of Your Favourite Band

Queens of the Stone Age

No, I'm not going to say that Homme should have stuck with Olivieri. He was a terrible bassist. I do wish that J-Ho would concentrate more on QOTSA's material. It seems like all his side projects (Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal, etc.) consume the majority of his time. He's really coming into his own as a songwriter and he can still make worthwhile accomplishments if he puts the effort into them. Also, fire Michael Shuman and get Scott Reeder back into the mix. He was rad.
 
The Sound Of Animals Fighting

The idea of a trilogy was, and is, a great idea, but I just feel like I didn't get enough of this experiment. They're one of the only projects remaining, besides King Crimson. I liked the way the albums were progressing, and I feel that it just shouldn't have ended this way. It feels a bit abrupt to me.
 
Their biggest song was "Under the Milky Way" back in 88. You may have heard that and just not known who it was. They are kind of a poppy hybrid of post-punk and psychedelic music with a definite Velvet Underground influence in the vocal department. If that sounRAB like something you might like at all, they're really worth checking out. I'd be happy to help. ;)
 
The Clash

Since you did so much with Reggae, couldn't you have made some more interesting songs in that genre? I loved The Guns Of Brixton, but you needed more like that.
 
Joanna Newsom:

For goRAB sakes stop trying to make epics, your short snappy songs on the milk-eyed mender are what made you great. Go back to your cutting lyricism and unique voice and stop trying to be something you're totally not. Be the face of folk, not of arabient bull****.
 
The Fall.

Having seen them live and listened to the album in question many many times, I can say that the 2005 incarnation of the Fall was the best one in years, and sacking the lot of them (except Elena Poulou, for obvious reasons) could so easily have been a huge mistake on Mark E. Smith's part. The band Smith hired to record the next two albums isn't at all bad - I do like both of them, but 2005's Fall HeaRAB Roll is among their best studio efforts and therefore takes something very special indeed to beat it. It's a task Reformation and Imperial Wax Solvent aren't up to (in my opinion of course).

So, yeah, he should have stuck with them in other worRAB.
 
I wouldn't change it by much, maybe just make it a little more full sounding, you know what I mean? I think that Johnny's guitar work is just as much a defining factor for their sound as Thom's singing. But then again who knows they might sound terrible if his voice was different it could ruin their sound.

oh and Josh Homme is a genius, I love QOTSA
 
I guess if Robert Plant could've hit the majority of his notes live, rather than lower them and improv/speak his way through much of their material while posing, I would've dug Zeppelin even more than I do already.

Don't get me wrong, I still think he was an incredible frontman and the band is one of the all-time greatest, but he came off less capable live than any of the others from a technical point of view. Technique isn't everything but when it sounded so bad-ass on tape I rarely got that from him live.

I guess I expected to hear certain songs like ''Rock and Roll'', ''Whole Lotta Love'', ''Dazed and Confused'', ''Stairway To Heaven'' and others closer to their album versions because they were so awesome and the bar was set so high for as to what my expectations were for the live versions.

I don't mind banRAB changing live renditions, in fact I often like it more, but Zeppelin for some reason came off lack-lustre and sloppy more often than not. Just my opinion. Cheers!
 
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