My Favorite Bands

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My Favorite Bands
(Reviews)

Suicidal Tendencies
KilGore
Salt
Dave Matthews Band
Static-X

Suicidal Tendencies: (Punk)

Mike Muir – Vocals
Mike Clark – Guitar
Dean Pleasants – Guitar
Josh Paul – Bass
Brooks Wackerman - Drums

Ingredients: One cup NOFX, a pinch of Metallica, a heaping teaspoon of Love and Rockets, a tablespoon of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a sprig of 80s big hair rock.

If you like punk, rock, or even metal, you’ll love these guys. Although they can be slightly offensive with lyrics like, "I sat and watched as she bled…" and, in the same context, "I took a picture cause I thought it was neat," they are great musicians and songwriters. The bassist is a Flea clone. He’s what would have happened if Flea went dark. The guitars are pretty generic late 90s and even some late 80s, but they’re good at it! This is one of those bands that you have to listen to more than once to like, but after you’ve got a good taste of it, you won’t want to eat anything else. J hehehe

Best Songs:	Send Me Your Money	Institutionalized	Mommy	Go Skate
Album:	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts	Prime Cuts
Reason:	Bass +Lyrics	Funny – great	Offensive	Bass + Lyrics

More Information:
http://www.sony.com
Fan club:
Suicidal Tendencies
PO Box 388, Venice, CA. 90294

Kilgore: (Metal)

Ingredients: Guitar + Distortion + Angry guy

My favorite metal band of all time. If you like Metallica, System of a Down… If you like any metal at all, you’ll like this. They don’t have a phenomenal bassist, but it’s metal, you don’t have to have Les Claypool to be a good band. (Although Claypool tried out for Metallica and was "too good" to be in the band). I think they were at Ozzfest last year; so if you recognize the name, that’s probably what you know it from. A Search for Reason is their best album, and the only album of theirs that I own. I lost the CD case, so I don’t know the names of the songs, but it doesn’t matter anyway. All these songs are from A Search for Reason.

Best Songs:	Track 1	Track 9	Track 12	Track 4
Reason:	Lyrics + Guitar	Guitar + Drum	Vocal + Guitar	Vocal + Guitar

Salt: (I guess… well… maybe…. Alternative?)
Nina Ramsby -- vocals and guitars
Daniel Ewerman -- bass
Jim Tegman -- drums

Ingredients: Great melodic female singer who can get really pissed + early-90s-ish rock guitarist + non-show-off drummer + great melodic bass player

Salt is my by far my favorite band with a female singer. (Not to be gender-biased, but I don’t like most "girl-bands." I have no categorical problems with women in general). Great melodic singer and good harmonies. Funny and/or emotional lyrics. Good bassist with a great tone. Nothing too flashy, but everything is melodic and tight. They don’t need to show off.

Best Songs:	Honour Me	G. D. Carneval	Undressed	So I Ached
Reason:	Just GOOD	Bass/Voc/Guit.	Lyric/Drums/…	More upbeat

All these are from Ausculate, their greatest album ever.

Dave Matthews Band: (Rock with a violin and a sax)

Carter Beauford: Percussion and Background Vocs. Stefan Lessard: Bass (one of my choices for Best Bass Awards)
Dave Matthews: Guitar and vocs.
Leroi Moore: Saxes, pennywhistle, and clarinet.
Boyd Tinsley: Violin.

So far, this is the most popular group on my list, and, despite their "trendiness," DMBand is one of the best groups ever. Their old stuff, Under the Table and Dreaming and Crash, is really good music, but once you’ve heard their new album, Before these Crowded Streets, the other albums become obsolete. I’ve sure you’ve heard Don’t Drink the Water, Crush, and Stay (Wasting Time), on the radio before, and these are three of the best songs on the album, but there are many great unpublicized songs on this album. The song that the album’s name is based on, The Dreaming Tree, is my favorite song on the album. It is about his dreaming tree, which may be an actual tree from his childhood or a symbolic thing, but it’s very sad and melodic. Great song. I have to talk about Crush again. It is such a great song. It’s one of the few songs that the radio stations in Atlanta have played lately that I actually like. It’s got a great bass line, which is relatively easy and I plan to write out for yall soon. Another great song on the album is The Last Stop. It’s very different from the rest of the album. It has a very, I guess, Middle Eastern(?) type sound. Then the last, but not least, song on my list, is Pig. It’s a song where he’s "just thinking out loud." The main theme of this song is, "Don’t burn the day away." It’s just one of those songs that would be great for lying out on a hammock in the middle of the summer. It makes me think of Camp Calvin, if any of yall have been there before.

General Overview from Before These Crowded Streets:

Songs:	Crush	The Last Stop	Pig	The Dreaming…
Reason:	Bass/Lyric	It’s just good	Lyric/Bass/Guit.	Lyric/Bass/Guit.

Check out their web site:
www.DMband.com

Static-X
Techno-metal band. The singer has a cool haircut.

Wayne Static: Lead singer, guitar, programming
Koichi Fukada: Guitar, keyboards, programming
Ken Jay: Drums
Tony Campos: Bass; low, scary background vocals

Ozzfest Reviews:
First of all, if you don't go to Ozzfest this year, you deserve to be kicked. I saw it in Atlanta, and I'd have to say that it's the best concert I've ever been to. It was set up with two stages. The second stage was facing the line into Lakewood Ampitheatre, and the other was the main stage. The first band to come on the second stage was a band I'd never heard of, Static-X. They were great. They were extremely loud. Everyone coming into the parking lot could hear every word they screamed. The music was very high energy metal, and everyone in the audience was going at it. This was quite a feat, cause nobody was drunk yet, and most of the time people just stand there and stare when they're sober at a concert, but that was no problem for Static. The only two songs I remember now are Push It and Bled for Days. I remember just those two because I found a casette with those songs on it at the end of the concert. Push It is, as far as I know, their most popular song. It has very few obvious techno influences. It just sounds metal to me. The other song, Bled for Days, is much more techno-ish, but it's also very metal. The singer does some funky stuff with his voice in this one. Anyway, this band is great, and anyone who's cool will be at the Ozzfest near you. Also, check out their new album, Wisconsin Death Trip, which includes Bled for Days and Push It.

CcharlieD's Static-X Shrine
Official Band Page
Official Fan Club Page

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

If you want me to add any band to this list, just write me!