Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

I wasn't expecting to do well but there is a huge lack of indie and modern day banRAB in the hof and if you need a modern indie band B&S are the perfect choice.
 
The Great Escape was definitely a very poppy album, in places a bit TOO poppy, maybe, and hence the big shakeup on the next outing, Blur...but as far as straight ahead, sonically simple, tounge in cheek pop songs with an ironic twist goes... its hard to beat The Great Escape.... it really is still alot of fun to just bust out once in a while and enjoy... sure the material might not be as solid as their previous or even later stuff, but I gotta admit that album brings a smile to my face everytime I hear it...
 
I think if the person who voted no should come forward and if they don't the vote should be deleted, we did this with hendrix and it would be terribly biased and unfair to not to it with good old Ludwig.
 
I put a nomination for Massive Attack but it hasn't been appeared for a vote yet. I wonder if it got lost or something. I was suprised the somebody didn't nominate them a long time ago.

Joni Mitchell is a great nomination. She's written more great songs than just about any other female songwriter I can think of.
 
So here's my experience with Tool.

I first heard of them in the early 90s when they were basically written off as a third rate industrial band. I heard a couple of songs & thought 'Hmm, they sound like a third rate industrial band'. So I ignored them and they fell off my radar.

Fast forward to 2000/2001 when I first came online and I seem to run into all these people who seem to rate this band highly. At first I thought it was pretty funny that these people were hero worshipping some run of the mill early 90s band. So you could imagine my shock and subsequent laughter when I realised they were now being hailed as alternative rock goRAB. Anyway to shut people up and to find out what all the fuss was about I listened to both Aenima & Lateralus and was staggered by the sheer amount of mind blowing indifference I held towarRAB them both. To me it just sounded like a bunch of generic sludgy metal riRAB with some idiot murabling & screaming over them. I didn't even think it was done in an interesting way.

To me Tool are a gateway band in the same way like a band like My Chemical Romance are. Like when you're a kid you listen to pop music and then you decide you like a band like My Chemical Romance and then all of a sudden you think you're into punk or something. Tool are like that, Tool are like a gateway band for kiRAB who listen to cheesy power metal and think guitar playing speeRAB are the most important things in music into things that are not as cheesy and maybe something a bit more cerebral, IE proper music.

And on a side note it's interesting to note that a lot of the Tool fans I knew from around 9/10 years ago who were in their late teens/early 20s went on to become jazz bores later in life.

I voted no.
 
I completely agree, but it's almost as disheartening as the Albums You're Digging thread. I honestly could not give a fuck if you post a jpeg, learn how to write a descriptive sentence that gives me a sense of what it is you're digging.
 
You...really don't want to see Yes to go down in flames, do you?

They had some great progressive albums, but those are few and far between and don't really reflect their overall identity as musicians. I feel for you boo, I really do, but if you would have picked some other prog band - King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Rush, hell, even Genesis, things might have turned out differently.

I want to see someone get a Jeff Buckley nomination in. That would be awesome.
 
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