creepy deja vu ...

//and BTW who is josh homme???

Dude... where have you been?

I believe I have said this before... GET OUT OF THE HUTT!

//best years for music was on course 1966 - 1975, of course music peaked in '75 then began its horrible downturn in the 80's, rising again in the early 90's only to crash back to an all time low today.....
90% of everything is crap (A quote from some guy who was quoted by my friend recently,) so the level of good stuff has probably stayed at around about the same level throughout the ages. It is just a question of what you hear.

// so the level of good stuff has probably stayed at around about the same level

i agree, everyone knows 99 luftbalons and no-one knows antiworld, yet they're both by the same artist

pixies were pretty much 89 as well :) although it could be argued that the 80's didn't stop till about 92

hell yeah violent femmes! i can't wait!

niceguyeddie: everything on your list rocks, steve albini is a crazy mofo, shellac - prayer to god, love it.

hmm in hindsight i didn't really make much of a point with the nina hagen thing, what i meant to point out was that a lot of stuff gets overlooked, regardless of being good or not. you're not going to know everything about music in your generation, so it's even less likely that you'll know the good hard to find stuff from another.

//The Pixies, Nick Cave, Slint (well... 1989,) Big Black, The Violent Femmes (omigod they're coming!!!,) The Go-Betweens, Thrill Kill Kult, lots and lots and lots...

Great list there (except I've never really liked the Violent Femmes, don't know why), but why is is that everyone always leaves off the guitar-slingingest band to ever exist... The Stray Cats? They were fucking geniuses! And I don't think you can mention Nick Cave without also mentioning the Pogues.

i was stoked to find a nick cave / shane macgowan duet single at a secondhand record store awhile ago, covering "it's a wonderful world"

doh, you're right, stupid brain :)

//And I have the video. Haha!

So do I, sugar. So do I.

put on the mask and dance for daddy!

How could i forget! that album seems like so long ago, i was thinking of the albums i've been listening to of late, there's been so many of them.
Nice selection of NZ music though Achilles, you should definately listen to Mother Gurus self titled though, i'm assuming you haven't or it would have been on you list. How could it not

//what drives me to like a band's music is a sorta empathy of some kind I can feed off
it's exactly that, all of their issues are real with so much depth and meaning, you feel completely enlightened after listening to them, especially after a live show

listen to them all, it can't hurt you too much :)

And what about the rest of them, man?
They're all fucking choice :)

Thats a lot of good albums! (wish i owned more of them than i do!) Man, I always end up forgetting ones in these list topics. I definately should have had Pluto and At The Drive In and the Datsuns and the White Stripes on my list.

Dude... I quoted you on that "90% of averything is crap" in the forums yesterday... didn't mention a name though...

Iron Maiden... The wicker man is damn fine song....

And thats what I like about you Acidess, your impeccable sense of humour! you can be so unpredictably funny sometimes! ha ha i still can't get over the candy floss thing!