Bands That Can Do No Wrong

Slaughternalia wrote: presdoug wrote: Anything with the late Helmut Koellen on it (Triumvirat, Jail, solo album)           All of his music is a constant source of meaning and inspiration for me He didn't actually write any of the music for Triumvirat. I wouldn't call it "his"

Just before the intro to the live track of "The Deadly Dream Of Freedom", Jurgen Fritz introduces the song as "written by our guitar player, Mr. Helmut Koellen" On the notes for the 2002 remastered Spartacus cd, Helmut is listed as a part composer for tracks 4,7, and 11.
         On "Illusions On A Double Dimple", Koellen is part composer for the track "Lucky Girl", and the single track from that period called "Timothy". In some cases, it is lyrics only, but i still call the writing and singing of lyrics part of the music. Even if he was never a direct composer himself at all of what he played, his unique and spirited way of playing music makes it at least partially "his".


Edited by presdoug - May 29 2011 at 17:12

I'm pretty picky and it's hard to find a band with more than a 2 album career that I enjoy everything from. If we include bands with short careers, then I enjoy everything Anglagard has released. Same with Aera and Agora, who both released only 2 albums. Same with Amygdala, The Cancer Conspiracy, cheval De Frise (2 albums and an EP)The Eleventh House, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Mouse On They Keys, One Shot, Rumah Sakit,Sleeping People, Te, . 2-3 weeks ago I would've given the title to Ahleuchatistas but their latest release is such a pile of garbage!

To find longer discographies I enjoy we'd have to go to the heavier side of things, and disregard badly recorded debut albums. Dillinger Escape Plan hasn't done any wrong since their release of genre-defyning Calculating Infinity and I can say the same about Cephalic Carnage as well. Both bands have been releasing albums that I enjoy from top to bottom for about a decade now

Anything with the late Helmut Koellen on it (Triumvirat, Jail, solo album)
          All of his music is a constant source of meaning and inspiration for me

I nearly forgot Roxy Music up to Manifesto

Edited by Big Ears - May 23 2011 at 14:28

Mosis wrote: anyone who said "tool" obviously hasn't listened to 10,000 days

anyone who said "tool" obviously hasn't listened to 10,000 days

Alitare wrote: I don't know a single band that has had a (relatively) prolific career and not given me something I don't like. King Cimson had Islands. Jethro Tull had... anything after Heavy Horses.

Riverside, Beardfish, and Porcupine Tree are the only bands I can think of that have never ever let me down with even one song.

What this forum makes obvious is that in most instances, each person who listens to 'their' music thinks that the  judgement they make about the quality of what they like is accurate, and everyone who doesn't agree is deaf or stupid. Trouble is, it's only accurate for themselves. My own faults or merits aside, there are some shining lights on here of independent thinking, those who will dare to say their favourite groups can be crap, or that the groups they hate have produced something worthwhile. That surely has got to be the hope for the future of music and this forum.