EWB's Favourite 102 Artists for 2009!

[YI]

6. FAITH NO MORE (234pts - 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3)

PLACE LAST YEAR: #42

COUNTRY: UNITED STATES

STUDIO ALBUMS: 6

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5. NINE INCH NAILS (245pts - 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1)

PLACE LAST YEAR: #8

COUNTRY: UNITED STATES

STUDIO ALBUMS: 7

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[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Faith No More?! Couldn't tell you a single song they've written.

NIN I don't really care for (my old housemate loved them though) although "they" have been involved in some rather groovy remixes including Aphex Twin.

[New Damage]

Bah, the blandness of NIN. I think FNM will be the highest ranked artist I voted/care for now, so it'll be a case f seeing if Muse come top or not now.

EDIT: Oh, wait, we haven't had Metallica yet have we? Nice.

Edited November 21, 2009 by TheModernWay

[Dingle]

Fucking cunts. THom yorkew has a sense of humour, just his lyrics take a backseat to the music itselkf. And myxomatosis isn't experimental? HA! It's one of the more experimental alongside wolf at the door (itgirl.ragdoll). His live shows show he has humour, just he doesn't deal with one on ones veryh well and well I'm not very with it and will post a more structured argument tomorrow but if you were to follow his stuff, blanket statements like "miserable bastard" wouldn;t really sit well, especially from you skummy since you love the smiths so much. I figufred you'd see past the down hearted lyrics.

It might be experimental, but it sounds like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs.

The Smiths aren't just miserable, though - Moz's lyrics are absurd, often tongue-in-cheek and very often incredibly funny.

Now I'm in a better state to debate >_>. But yeah, I'm surprised that you aren't even a fan of stuff like Karma Police, Street Spirit, Creep, The Bends, No Surprises. And whilst Thom Yorke's lyrics aren't really comedic, some of the stuff is pretty insightful and observational. I was more attacking the statement that he's a miserable cunt, which isn't really true because he comes out of his shell quite a bit when doing live shows. That's all I can be bothered debating because I can see this turning into "my bands better than your band".

[YI]

4. THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM (258pts - 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3)

PLACE LAST YEAR: #4

COUNTRY: UNITED STATES

STUDIO ALBUMS: 2

QUOTE: But if there is someone to be compared to – he’s [bruce Springsteen] not a bad person at all to be compared to. It’s the Killers ones that piss me off. I’ve seen that a couple times and that makes me mad. Those guys are a bunch of fucking corndicks.

3. MUSE (315pts - 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4)

PLACE LAST YEAR: #1

COUNTRY: ENGLAND

STUDIO ALBUMS: 5

JAZZ CLUB: ...nice

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I like Muse. I shall be seeing them live in January on their Japan tour (first time I've seen them live in 10 years) and that jumper is lovely.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Holy shit Gaslight made it high.

[Gazz]

The Katy Perry t-shirt is better

[probablyoliver]

So it's between the Beatles and who?

[GA!]

Metallica.

[Clawson]

If Metallica wins we should all be taken out back and shot.

[GoGo Yubari]

SPOILER FOR EVERY EWB MUSIC LIST: Metallica wins.

[GA!]

SPOILER FOR THE NEXT FIVE ARTIST LISTS: The top three are Muse, Metallica and The Beatles.

[Clawson]

Starting to almost look like you can peg Gaslight into a top five spot as well.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Gaslight is another victim of being overhyped. I have five or six NIN albums, love them (sidenote: lol @ guy who likes Nickelback calling anything "bland"). Muse is OK, I like uhm.. Absolution I guess it is. I like Mike Patton a lots.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

To be fair, Gaslight are only overhyped on EWB.

And their second album can't possibly be overhyped.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I know. Seeing as EWB was the first place I ever heard of them and all the pining and the hype here is what got me to check them out.. I was pretty disappointed.

[Dingle]

I do have to agree with the blandness of NIN. I love With Teeth and certain older tracks and I planned on seeing them on their NINJA tour before my ex put a spanner in the works for that. But on the whole, I just can't really get to grips with most of their stuff. Muse are brilliant and deserve their high ranking. Gaslight don't surprise me for being there, and I'm glad they are this high as they are one of my top five bands, but it's expected on EWB due to YI's pimping. Absolutely brilliant band though that are bloody good live, write some cracking songs and you can dance your face off to a lot of songs or reflect on lost loves with songs like Blue Jeans or Here's Looking at you Kid.

Fuck metallica.

[Walker]

I don't normally comment on things I didn't vote in, but if Metallica wins I'll be really disappointed in all of you.

[Cactus Drags]

Faith No More?! Couldn't tell you a single song they've written.

I would guess you'll almost certainly have heard Epic before, with a lesser possibility of From Out of Nowhere or We Care a Lot.

Metallica's early stuff was fan-dabi-dozi (essentiallyanything pre-The Black album), they seem to get a lot of flack from the dreary indie lot (hi Jouzy!). They've completely lost hte plot in recent years though.

Who the fuck compared Gaslight to the Killers, how does that work?