^ nice Screen name.

Coheed and Cambria - "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3"

At the Drive-In - "Invalid Litter Dept."

Thursday - "Understanding in a Car Crash"

[QUOTE=Robert Crumb]
X - Los Angeles
Sebadoh - The Freed Pig
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow[/QUOTE]
Good picks. Speaking of Daniel Johnston, today a friend of mine walked up to me wearing a shirt featuring [I]Hi How Are You[/I]'s artwork. I asked him if he was a fan and it turns out he's Mr. Johnstons nephew. He said he could hook me up with some free stuff. :cool:

The Who-Baba O'Reiley
Sufjan Stevens- Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Hearts! AND John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
-He needs two to encompass his two kind of styles
Slint-Good Morning, Captain
Black Sabbath-War Pigs
Incubus-Sick, Sad Little World

[QUOTE=Tomahawk]I've gotta disagree that [I]every[/I] band has a defining song. I think that for a lot of bands, it's impossible to sum up their entire sound with one song.[/QUOTE]

I think you're right.

[QUOTE=NachoChez]How can you possibly pick a defining Radiohead song?[/QUOTE]

You too.

[QUOTE=Tomahawk]I've gotta disagree that [I]every[/I] band has a defining song. I think that for a lot of bands, it's impossible to sum up their entire sound with one song.[/QUOTE]

What about like ACDC?

Pixies - Bone Machine
Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Train

[QUOTE=Mighty Morphin Power Ranger]What about like ACDC?[/QUOTE]
An exception to the rule due to awful-ness.

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain
Jesus Lizard - Puss
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot (still kicks major ***)
dEUS - Suds & Soda
Morphine - Thursday
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost (so underrated)
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Portishead - Glory Box
Nebula - Giant
Thomas Dybdahl - Make A Mess Of Yourself
The Delgados - Thirteen Gliding Principles (still blows my mind)

Sonic Youth - "Schizophrenia"
My Bloody Valentine - "When You Sleep"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945"
The B52s - "Rock Lobster"
Sigur Ros - "Untitled 3"
Mogwai - "Mogwai Fear Satan"
The Ramones - "Rockaway Beach"
Sex Pistols - a pile of crap oozing across a sidewalk
The Cure - "Boys Don't Cry"
Bright Eyes - "Something Vague"
X - "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"
Husker Du - "Divide and Conquer"
Devo - "Jocko Homo"
Ween - "Summer of '76"
Joy Division - "Transmission"
The Smiths - "Ask"

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
The Velvet Underground - uuhm, Heroin i guess.
Badly Drawn Boy - Stone on the Water or maybe Something to Talk About

The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize
Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar

Oasis - Morning Glory ( maybe Live Forever too )
Green Day - Welcome To Paradise
Guns n Roses - Civil War ( maybe November Rain or Welcome To The Jungle )
Clash - I Fought The Law
Eric Clapton - Strange Brew


But all groups mentioned above have so many good songs.
At the end of the day were just postring our fav songs for that group

[QUOTE=something vague]Sigur Ros - "Untitled 3"[/QUOTE]

Ehhh. He doesn't sing in that one.

I think their defining song is either Untitled 6 or Svefn-n-englar.

Nebula - Do it now
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Dino Jr - Freak Scene
Alice in Chains - Man in the box
Pixies - Holiday Song

Oasis- Columbia

[QUOTE=OrbDragon]
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
[/QUOTE]

No, if someone heard Usatisfied and liked it they would not necessary like anything else they made ever. Unsatisfied is really different from their other material. I mean, its all acousticy... I don't think any of their other sounds have a simlar sound to that. I'd say Seen Your Video or Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out encompass a lot more of the Replacements than Unsatisfied does.

Tommy Gets his Tonsils Out? No way brotha.

I'd go with Bastards of Young for the Replacements. Or maybe Left of the Dial.

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
ATD-I - Rasauche
Explosions in the Sky- First Breath of a Coma
Co&Ca- The Willing Well III: Apollo II: I'm telling the truth
Death Cab- Syrofoam Plates
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life

[QUOTE=YDload]
The Mars Volta- Eriatarka[/QUOTE]

I would say Cicatriz ESP would be a better example for TMV because it incorporates all of their weird and wacky guitar effected sounds and weird nothing synth and crzy screaming vocals and awesome bass and drum fills into one orgasmic piece of music.

Radiohead - Creep

In a nutshell.

I gotta come in and disagree with a few things in here.

Firstly, The Decline by NOFX. Hell No! Typical NOFX would be a short, fast, fun song, maybe with a cool but short guitar solo, and Fat Mike singing about something random and irrelevant, that somehow seems to make sense to many. The Decline is an epic, and as amazing as it is, just goes against what is typical NOFX. I'm thinking more along the lines of 'Leave It Alone' 'Dinosaurs Will Die' or 'The Idiots Are Taking Over'

Secondly, Civil War by GnR. A slow mellow song. Again, very good song, but just think about what we all know and love Guns n Roses for. Big, powerful songs with a riff which drives it's way into your head, and a solo which blows your head apart. Not a slow mellow number like civil war. Maybe Paradise City would do it better.

Another thing, imagine how tough it would be to find a Red Hot Chili's song to sum up their sound. That would be an impossible task. Perhaps create a short compilation to define it, but thats tough. I'd say this comp:

Higher Ground
Under The Bridge
Fight Like A Brave
Scar Tissue
Cant Stop
Apache Rose Peacock
Get On Top
Purple Stain

It's tough because every time they bring out someting new, thats exactly what it is, new. Like Bon Jovi's new album is just typical of their last two (not inc This Left Feel Right) which kind of sucks really. Theres NO change whatsoever.

Prince - "When Doves Cry"
the Band - "The Weight"
Rancid - "Radio"
Wilco - "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"

[QUOTE=AlkoholikMouse]I gotta come in and disagree with a few things in here.

Firstly, The Decline by NOFX. Hell No! Typical NOFX would be a short, fast, fun song, maybe with a cool but short guitar solo, and Fat Mike singing about something random and irrelevant, that somehow seems to make sense to many. The Decline is an epic, and as amazing as it is, just goes against what is typical NOFX. I'm thinking more along the lines of 'Leave It Alone' 'Dinosaurs Will Die' or 'The Idiots Are Taking Over'

Secondly, Civil War by GnR. A slow mellow song. Again, very good song, but just think about what we all know and love Guns n Roses for. Big, powerful songs with a riff which drives it's way into your head, and a solo which blows your head apart. Not a slow mellow number like civil war. Maybe Paradise City would do it better.

Another thing, imagine how tough it would be to find a Red Hot Chili's song to sum up their sound. That would be an impossible task. Perhaps create a short compilation to define it, but thats tough. I'd say this comp:

Higher Ground
Under The Bridge
Fight Like A Brave
Scar Tissue
Cant Stop
Apache Rose Peacock
Get On Top
Purple Stain

It's tough because every time they bring out someting new, thats exactly what it is, new. Like Bon Jovi's new album is just typical of their last two (not inc This Left Feel Right) which kind of sucks really. Theres NO change whatsoever.[/QUOTE]


And in all that GnR blabber, I've realised that the whole time I was thinking of Patience, not Civil War for some reason. Just ignore my rambles. Everyone else does!

[QUOTE=rbv]Explosions in the Sky- First Breath [i]After[/i] Coma[/QUOTE]

fix'd... sorry, I'm a fanboy.

Anyways, I think that Explosions' defining song would be either [i]Memorial[/i] or [i]With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept[/i].

test icicles - scene damage
the cribs - mirror kissers
the libertines - death on the stairs
sigur ros - se lest
babyshambles - arebours
death from above 1979 - romantic rights
the blood brothers - burn piano island burn

i dont really understand they question , but if someone wanted to here a band , i would play those songs for them to show what they sound like

[QUOTE=sgrevs]I would say Cicatriz ESP would be a better example for TMV because it incorporates all of their weird and wacky guitar effected sounds and weird nothing synth and crzy screaming vocals and awesome bass and drum fills into one orgasmic piece of music.[/QUOTE]

and im going to disagree with you both and say

the mars volta - roulette dares

and

atdi - one armed sissor

I don't see how bands like Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and Velvet Underground could have defining songs for a sound. All three were very experimental and had different sounding albums.

Can you even compare Daydream Nation to Goo?
Amnesiac to Pablo Honey?
Punk VU vs alt VU

[QUOTE=the pope.]and im going to disagree with you both and say

the mars volta - roulette dares

and

atdi - one armed sissor[/QUOTE]
I totally agree with those! My honest favorite songs from each band.

yeah

those would be the songs i would introduce those bands with
either one armed scissor , or quarintined