EWB's Favourite Bands 2010: The Results

[YI]

Who the fuck is Mike Snow?

Miike Snow are 3-guys from Sweden who released a fairly quality/chill electro-pop album last year, after being around years under various guises writing straight up pop songs for other acts (Britney Spears - "Toxic", "Do Something" etc, Madonna, Rachel Stephens - "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex", Christina Millian - "AM to PM" (what a tune) etc.). Their album's actually a really good listen. The gloss has went off it from last year, but I still flick a few tracks on every now and then, and like I said for Florence & The Machine, would probably fall in my top 25-albums for last year.

[Pesci]

Miike Snow are awesome. I can't remember how I first heard of them because I don't do much in the way of searching out new music - it might have been my recommendations on Last.fm, which I check from time to time. But I love their album and put them fairly high on my list. A sizeable part of my list has only released one album, because I get bored of listening to the same stuff over and over. I think I'll search out some of the bands I haven't listened to much before and get an album or two each, apart from the shitty metal stuff obviously. My tastes are so pop orientated now compared to what they used to be that it's ridiculous.

[METALMAN]

Jesus wept.

Costello, Pumpkins, West and Monkeys are alright. Rest can fuck off and die.

Jesus wept.

Fuck off and die EWB.

[Liam]

One of the members of Reuben looks a bit like an emo Jimmy Bullard. Brilliant.

But yeah, Reuben, Smashing Pumpkins and Deftones all work enough for me, plus earlier Dizzee Rascal is good enough.

Oh, and yeah, kinda agree with Skummy on Arctic Monkeys. Quite liked the early stuff, but outside of the odd song now, not really into their newer stuff.

Edited August 3, 2010 by Liam

[YI]

55. JOURNEY (81pts - 3 votes)

COUNTRY: United States

PLACE LAST YEAR: n/a

STUDIO ALBUMS: 13

FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!?: ANYWAY YOU WANT IT! THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT! ANYWAY YOU WANT IT!

54. ARCADE FIRE (81pts - 3 votes)

COUNTRY: Canada

PLACE LAST YEAR: n/a

STUDIO ALBUMS: 3

EVERYTIME YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES!: LII-IIIEEES! LII-IIIEEES!

53. AEROSMITH (81pts - 3 votes)

COUNTRY: United States

PLACE LAST YEAR: n/a

STUDIO ALBUMS: 14

LIV TYLER SO FINE!: I'D SUCK HER DADDY'S DICK!

52. BLINK-182 (92pts - 4 votes)

COUNTRY: United States

PLACE LAST YEAR: 89

STUDIO ALBUMS: 5

FUCK BLINK! THE ANGELS & AIRWAVES FILM IS APPARENTLY FINISHED!: "Tom shared a bit of the plot of the movie on ModCam, saying that the astronaut goes through a wormhole and meets God"...OH...MY...GOD! I hope Tom Delonge plays the part of God.

51. THE WHITE STRIPES (93pts - 3 votes)

COUNTRY: United States

PLACE LAST YEAR: n/a

STUDIO ALBUMS: 6

YOU CAN'T BE A PIMP & A PROSTITUTE TOO: ...well she can't be your ex-wife and your sister too

[GoGo Yubari]

The White Stripes are good. The Arcade Fire isn't my cup of tea precisely but their cover of "Brazil" is divine. The other three? Uh. No way out, no way out, no way out...

(I enjoy "Last Child" by Aerosmith despite myself, though)

[Sousa]

I maintain that Rocks is a good album.

And I cannot understand why Journey is suddenly popular again. I blame that fucking Family Guy episode.

[GoGo Yubari]

Also The Sopranos. And Glee. It's impossible to escape "Don't Stop Believin'" in some form at this point.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Aside from Journey (who I slightly liked before they were popular for Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' and Any Way You Want It, but now find overhyped to shit), that was a good five. Arcade Fire are great.

[GoGo Yubari]

Also I love all the Simpsons guest star images.

[Benjamin]

I blame Glee a million times over for Journey being popular again. Funny thing is, Don't Stop Believin' is one of their shittier songs in a long list of shitty songs.

That said, I totally marked out when I saw White Stripes. Best band yet.

Jonas Brothers to win, though.

[DFF]

Journey and Aerosmith are both great (especially live), The White Stripes have some cool tunes too. Arcade Fire are okay. Blink-182 were/are fun but vastly overrated (I personally prefer both Offspring and Green Day for pop-punky goodness).

[Skummy]

Journey are fucking awful, we don't need "ironic" revivals of shitty old songs, there are plenty of bands making shitty new songs as it is.

I actually don't really know The Arcade Fire. I just never really bothered - everybody was into them when they first came out, I never got round to listening to more than one or two songs. A track off the new album sounded good on the radio. Never bothered more than that.

Aerosmith are bollocks.

Blink 182 are one of my least favourite bands in the world. Pop-punk awfulness, again.

The White Stripes are nice. They're nothing amazing, but they're a good live band, and have a lot of great tunes. Probably don't deserve anything like the amount of success and acclaim they actually got, but that's all subjective. Would probably be universally adored by hipsters everywhere if they never "made it big".

[New Damage]

55. Journey

And you guys mock me for Puddle of Mudd. Regardless of that...

FUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFFFUCKOFF JOURNEY. FUCK.

Others I dislike too, although a week or so ago I re-fell-in-love with "I Miss You" by Blink the only song I like by them.

[Rich]

Your choosing of Puddle of Mudd renders all subsequent opinions null and void.

[GoGo Yubari]

Journey is a better band than Puddle of Mudd, in the same way that Plan 9 From Outer Space is a better movie than The Last Airbender.

[Sousa]

Puddle of Mudd is a band that got its big break by slipping a demo tape to Fred Durst, who then insisted that they get signed, so that pretty much takes care of them forever. When your band wouldn't have a record deal were it not for the intervention of the worst musician of our generation, then you don't get a seat at the table.

[New Damage]

You'll be happy to know that I also voted for Limp Bizkit too, then.

And you'll be happy to know that as they haven't been seen yet, Limp Bizkit will be up soon too.

[Baddar]

I, personally, am waiting to find out Alter Bridge's position this year. ^_^

[GoGo Yubari]

I just checked. Limp Bizkit are indeed going to show up somewhere since like four people put them on their ballot. Love is over.