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Title: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 05, 2006, 12:06:00 pm
Is it Dismemberment Plan??
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: PigIron on August 05, 2006, 12:16:00 pm
Biggest no-brainer on the planet...
 
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Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: jeffnar on August 05, 2006, 01:09:00 pm
i'm not sure when or whether certain people lived in Va. (ie-FROM there vs. LIVING there when they started to gain an audience), but how about:
 
 royal trux
 dave matthews
 dave grohl
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: bearman🐻 on August 05, 2006, 01:12:00 pm
I always had a weakness for True Love Always.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chokeychicken on August 05, 2006, 03:51:00 pm
dave matthews?  wow.  dave blows.  no thanks.  
 
 strike anywhere, maybe.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: RatBastard on August 05, 2006, 03:59:00 pm
DMB SUX
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: walkonby on August 05, 2006, 04:40:00 pm
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Originally posted by RatBastard:
  DMB SUX
only to people who don't like them.
 
 gwar sucks to those people who don't like them.  
 
 peter towsend thinks the white stripes suck.
 
 everything sucks at some point in time to those who believe it to be true.  i, myself, enjoy all bands mentioned in my post.  i'm sure i suck, as well.  this band from winchester, called the burning dirty band, could be a future "one of the best bands from virginia" . . . but you might think they suck.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: walkonby on August 05, 2006, 04:54:00 pm
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Originally posted by walkonby:
   
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Originally posted by RatBastard:
  DMB SUX
only to people who don't like them.
 
 gwar sucks to those people who don't like them.  
 
 peter towsend thinks the white stripes suck.
 
 everything sucks at some point in time to those who believe it to be true.  i, myself, enjoy all bands mentioned in my post.  i'm sure i suck, as well.  this band from winchester, called the burning dirty band, could be a future "one of the best bands from virginia" . . . but you might think they suck. [/b]
pete towsend?  who?
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: mrpee on August 05, 2006, 11:29:00 pm
Honor Role
 
 http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=honor_role (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=honor_role)
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chaz on August 05, 2006, 11:52:00 pm
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Originally posted by mrpee:
  Honor Role
 
  http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=honor_role (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=honor_role)
Are you from Richmond?  I used to work with one of the guys from Honor Role at Vatex (if you're from Richmond you should know what Vatex is).
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Jaguar on August 06, 2006, 12:41:00 am
Ceremony
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chaz on August 06, 2006, 08:32:00 am
Definately the sickest bunch of guys I've ever known...meet the Candy Snatchers from Virginia Beach.
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Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Chulahoma on August 06, 2006, 12:04:00 pm
i enjoy strike anywhere a lot.  anyone going to their show at 930?
 
 you all should check out a band called The Vita Ruins  www.myspace.com/thevitaruins (http://www.myspace.com/thevitaruins)  
 
 i know it says they're from DC and not VA, but they're really good and play their first show next friday at the black and the red.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 12:51:00 pm
strike anywhere?  jesus, is thi place infested with emo fuckers?
 
 punk scensters are hilarious, they are more uniform than preps.  black military ballcap, pant legged rolled up on the bike chain side to expose the tats.  what a bunch of FUCKING losers.  
 
 and to the person that mentioned Pete T. doesn't like the white stripes that is great, never heard that before.  Totally agree, jack White is a poseur.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Jaguar on August 06, 2006, 01:08:00 pm
Hey, welcome to the forum crowes654. I hope that you can take it as well as you can give it ... because there are plenty of others here who are ready and willing to do so. LOL
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chaz on August 06, 2006, 01:51:00 pm
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Originally posted by crowes654:
  strike anywhere?  jesus, is thi place infested with emo fuckers?
 
 punk scensters are hilarious, they are more uniform than preps.  black military ballcap, pant legged rolled up on the bike chain side to expose the tats.  what a bunch of FUCKING losers.  
 
 and to the person that mentioned Pete T. doesn't like the white stripes that is great, never heard that before.  Totally agree, jack White is a poseur.
Sounds like you've taken some sort of fetishistic notice of this uniform.  
 
 Looks like we've got another true authority in our ranks.  Poseurs, punkers, scenesters and losers of all sorts beware!
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 06, 2006, 02:25:00 pm
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Originally posted by crowes654:
  what a bunch of FUCKING losers.
anyone who spends their music interest being devoted to one band no matter what they release is a fucking loser, especially when they're as stridently middle-of-the-road mediocre as the black crowes
 
 honestly, did you at some point just decide to really like this band, and ignore the watered down sludge they play and the dozens of more exciting bands playing similar music?  or are you just ignorant?
 
 you obviously spend a lot of time on the interweb defending them, why don't you use that time productively to listen to some fucking decent music and stop slurping the fucking black crowes for fuck's sake
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Jaguar on August 06, 2006, 02:40:00 pm
I think he fits right in on this forum. Why do you think that I welcomed him in?    ;)
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 06, 2006, 02:43:00 pm
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
  As much as I hate The Black Crowes, I like this guy's sense of humor.
agreed   :D
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 03:45:00 pm
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Originally posted by who the fuck are you?:
   
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Originally posted by crowes654:
  strike anywhere?  jesus, is thi place infested with emo fuckers?
 
 punk scensters are hilarious, they are more uniform than preps.  black military ballcap, pant legged rolled up on the bike chain side to expose the tats.  what a bunch of FUCKING losers.  
 
 and to the person that mentioned Pete T. doesn't like the white stripes that is great, never heard that before.  Totally agree, jack White is a poseur.
Sounds like you've taken some sort of fetishistic notice of this uniform.  
 
 Looks like we've got another true authority in our ranks.  Poseurs, punkers, scenesters and losers of all sorts beware! [/b]
Thanks for the complement.  Poseurs, punkers and scnensters......aren't they all one in the same?
 
 wait, i'm confused now...
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 03:49:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   
Quote
Originally posted by crowes654:
  what a bunch of FUCKING losers.
anyone who spends their music interest being devoted to one band no matter what they release is a fucking loser, especially when they're as stridently middle-of-the-road mediocre as the black crowes
 
 honestly, did you at some point just decide to really like this band, and ignore the watered down sludge they play and the dozens of more exciting bands playing similar music?  or are you just ignorant?
 
 you obviously spend a lot of time on the interweb defending them, why don't you use that time productively to listen to some fucking decent music and stop slurping the fucking black crowes for fuck's sake [/b]
i've made 5-6 posts on this board, and joined specifically to see what was being said about TBC and its hows at da Club.  
 
 You are putting words in my mouth, as i never said they were the be all or end all and they are but one of the hundreds of bands i love.
 
 do i love TBC and think they are great and vastly underrated?  guilty as charged, but i never said they were the only thing i listen to and that i occupy all my time defending them.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 04:03:00 pm
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
  I think he fits right in on this forum. Why do you think that I welcomed him in?     ;)  
i saw your slowdive choice on the on the other thread, i like that.
 
 but the whote stripes till blow.  
 
 anybody like the Lyres here?
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: snailhook on August 06, 2006, 04:52:00 pm
the lyres? i like 'em, and i personally know monoman (the "singer"). the dude's a fucking nutcase, and begged me to cover his shift at a record store in boston so he could get an $85 haircut. still, the lyres rock and are one of america's most underappreciated garage-rock bands.
 
 best virginia band? i like the honor role nomination, and to extend that further, i say breadwinner. other notables (past and present) include labradford, pelt, rake, wingtip sloat, orthotonics, the alternatives, kepone, the last days of may (w/ karl precoda of the dream syndicate), skywave, ceremony, valkyrie, pig destroyer, alabama thunderpussy, RPG, loincloth, beaten back to pure, and harm*stryker.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 04:57:00 pm
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Originally posted by snailhook:
  the lyres? i like 'em, and i personally know monoman (the "singer"). the dude's a fucking nutcase, and begged me to cover his shift at a record store in boston so he could get an $85 haircut. still, the lyres rock and are one of america's most underappreciated garage-rock bands.
 
 best virginia band? i like the honor role nomination, and to extend that further, i say breadwinner. other notables (past and present) include labradford, pelt, rake, wingtip sloat, orthotonics, the alternatives, kepone, the last days of may (w/ karl precoda of the dream syndicate), skywave, ceremony, valkyrie, pig destroyer, alabama thunderpussy, RPG, loincloth, beaten back to pure, and harm*stryker.
yeah, im just getting into them....really like it.  
 
 i saw al. thunderpussy and i have to disagree there, thought the singer was way cheesy.  their drummer was a madman, however.
 
 what about avail?  i don't usualluy vcare for that style of music, but they are good for what it is.
 
 lamb of god?  don't like em, but went to grade school and highschool with one of the members.  Catholic school, too?  whodathunkit?
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: snailhook on August 06, 2006, 05:24:00 pm
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i saw al. thunderpussy and i have to disagree there, thought the singer was way cheesy. their drummer was a madman, however.
 
 what about avail? i don't usualluy vcare for that style of music, but they are good for what it is.[/b]
did you see ATP over three years ago? if so, you saw them with their old singer, johnny throckmorton, who looked like david lee roth and was guilty of embarassing stage antics, like split kicks and imaginary baseball. he really took away from the heaviness of the band, but they ousted him and got another guy who was of the whiskey-throated lemmy type. they really came into their own with that guy, but he bailed out on the band because of a severe heroin addiction, and they are now looking for another singer. so musically, i dig 'em, but they still have to find the final pieces of the puzzle.
 
 i loved avail when i was 15, and they are certainly great for what they do. i just can't get too into that type of music anymore.
 
 lamb of god are ok...i neither love them nor dislike them. they have their metal moments, but some of it is just by-the-numbers thrash/grind. put them on a nu-metal bill, and they totally slay.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chokeychicken on August 06, 2006, 05:33:00 pm
yeah, strike anywhere is all kinds of emo.  way to classify, asshole.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Sir HC on August 06, 2006, 06:09:00 pm
Would Fugazi count, Dischord house is in Virginia.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: crowes654 on August 06, 2006, 06:30:00 pm
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Originally posted by chokeychicken:
  yeah, strike anywhere is all kinds of emo.  way to classify, asshole.
you're right, man, my bad.
 
 they're really just all kinds of off-kilter noise.  i love the way they totally over-emote and scream in the vocals(because they can't sing worth a damn and don't know the defintiion of the word melody).  good stuff, either way.
 
 btw, the best va band is Virginia Coalition.  Those mofos gots da roots babay!!!  they rawk!!!  ahahah!
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: heckyeah on August 07, 2006, 01:12:00 am
Is this a trick question?  Nothing good has ever come out of Virginia.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: TheREALHunter on August 07, 2006, 08:08:00 am
Pentagram bitches!
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: I Dare on August 07, 2006, 08:19:00 am
avail.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: MindCage on August 07, 2006, 09:49:00 am
*Insert Fairfax-based band from 1995 here*
 
 
 MindCage
 Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
 Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com/)
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: chokeychicken on August 07, 2006, 09:59:00 am
avail is probably up there.  along with engine down and denali.  (RIP, respectively)
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: eilo97 on August 07, 2006, 09:59:00 am
my favorite band from VA is Cracker.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: mrpee on August 07, 2006, 10:33:00 am
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other notables (past and present) include labradford, pelt, rake, wingtip sloat, orthotonics, the alternatives, kepone, the last days of may (w/ karl precoda of the dream syndicate), skywave, ceremony, valkyrie, pig destroyer, alabama thunderpussy, RPG, loincloth, beaten back to pure, and harm*stryker.
   
Snail is right on the pulsebeat, as usual. Pelt were (are?) are phenomenal band ---capable of magical, homemade moments that few others could match...when they were on.  Orthotonics ---featuring Rebby Sharp, who teamed with Pen Rollings in Butterglove (precursor to Breadwinner)---- were incredible too.
 
 I think it would be interesting to separate out 'Best Northern Virginia' band, since NoVa aint really much like the rest of the state. And on either count nobody has mentioned Scream. Or am I severely dating myself with that admission?
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: BookerT on August 07, 2006, 10:35:00 am
ectoslavia!
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Fico on August 07, 2006, 11:07:00 am
OAR, Junk Food, Mr.Greengenes, Vicki Nova.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: smakawhat on August 07, 2006, 11:47:00 am
Lamb of God.. wouldn't call them "the best", but at least they are from VA
 
 oh heck with it... who CARES!
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: TheREALHunter on August 07, 2006, 12:47:00 pm
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Originally posted by mrpee:
 I think it would be interesting to separate out 'Best Northern Virginia' band, since NoVa aint really much like the rest of the state. And on either count nobody has mentioned Scream. Or am I severely dating myself with that admission?
If anyone considers Scream 'dated' then they need to learn some fucking musical history, good choice.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Venerable Bede on August 07, 2006, 12:52:00 pm
aren't silver jews and sparklehorse from virginia?
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: snailhook on August 07, 2006, 01:10:00 pm
i should be shot for forgetting pentagram. easily one of the best VA bands.
 
 silver jews are based in tennessee, even though dave berman went to UVA.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Venerable Bede on August 07, 2006, 01:27:00 pm
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Originally posted by snailhook:
  silver jews are based in tennessee, even though dave berman went to UVA.
i knew they formed at UVA, but. . was unsure if berman still lived in virginia.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 07, 2006, 01:43:00 pm
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  aren't silver jews and sparklehorse from virginia?
Sparklehorse was from just outside Richmond (Enon), but it appears he has relocated to North Carolina. If he/they still count, they get my vote.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: MindCage on August 07, 2006, 02:45:00 pm
Best vocalist goes to Jason Miller of Godhead.
 
 MindCage
 Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
 Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com/)
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: boweswana on August 08, 2006, 11:16:00 am
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Originally posted by MindCage:
  Best vocalist goes to Jason Miller of Godhead.
 
 MindCage
 Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
 Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com/)
And I don't know what you meeeeean.....
 When you say that I'm uncleeeeean...
 
 That was a great song.
Title: Re: Best band from Virginia?
Post by: RatBastard on August 08, 2006, 05:44:00 pm
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  aren't silver jews and sparklehorse from virginia?
I dont know but Firehouse is!