Our other favourite bands

[SteveMacD]

Guided by Voices/Robert Pollard (my actual favorite); The Byrds (and all shootoffs); Wilco; Cheap Trick; Big Star; the Breeders; Material Issue; and the Replacements have been getting up there. And, I've developed a major soft spot for old punk bands (Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, the Stooges, the Rings) as well as bands like Velvet Underground, Wire, and Pere Ubu. I find myself appreciating the ACTUAL eccentric artists (screw you Lindsey).

In addition to that, of course, I love all of the other (main) projects of the other guys in my triubte band. Especially The Tasties and our vocalist Jesse Remnant. Their songs just give me gooseflesh. The other guys' stuff is killer, too (if not available on CD). I'm one of the luckiest people in the world to work with such talent on such a casual basis. I mean, there's nothing quite as cool to having a big practice, and then singing along with somebody in the band's CD on the way home!

I tend to hate "mainstream" music. There's so much more worthwhile out there, that it becomes very limiting. That includes classic rock, BTW. Sure, there are songs that still get me there (Funk #49, Start Me Up), but so much of it is REALLY tired by this point.