21-Mar-2012, 7:53 AM
Hey, I don't like American punk...what can I say. Gimmie Buzzcocks, the Sex Pistols, the Adverts, etc. any day.
I'll take the "four front men" approach a step further and say that The Band had five front men. And they were a genuinely great band, imo. Not that the multiple front men approach necessarily had anything to do with it...
Weren't the Monkees a parody of the Beatles? I thought they didn't come out until 1967-ish, long after Beatlemania had hit the States.
I tend to agree that an album's best track is usually not a hit single. Actually, I can think of a lot of artists for whom their best-known song is far from their best (a few examples: Prefab Sprout's "The King Of Rock 'n' Roll," Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String," XTC's "Dear God," Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit").
I'll take the "four front men" approach a step further and say that The Band had five front men. And they were a genuinely great band, imo. Not that the multiple front men approach necessarily had anything to do with it...
Weren't the Monkees a parody of the Beatles? I thought they didn't come out until 1967-ish, long after Beatlemania had hit the States.
I tend to agree that an album's best track is usually not a hit single. Actually, I can think of a lot of artists for whom their best-known song is far from their best (a few examples: Prefab Sprout's "The King Of Rock 'n' Roll," Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String," XTC's "Dear God," Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit").
Quote:In Jr. High School, I would take a gummi bear, squeeze its ears into points so it looked like Yoda, and then I would say to it "Eat you, I will!". And of course then I would it eat.