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by rose4emily » Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:44 am
Jethro Tull (stadium blues-rock, featuring Ian Anderson on the flute. That's right, a rock band whose frontman plays the flute)
Black Sabbath (blues-rock turned metal, with a hint of baroque counterpoint - at least for their first two albums)
The Beatles (you must live under a rock if you haven't heard of them, you should live under a rock if you don't like them)
The Zombies (like The Beatles, but a touch more artistic and musical - yet, on average, significantly less stoned)
Pink Floyd (the band that perfected the concept album with Water's genius psychological explorations, also the culminating point of British psychadelic rock)
Bauhaus (Goth band from an era when "Goth" had more to do with literature than fashion)
The Mistifs (Punk band with a wonderful preoccupation with cheesy Sci-Fi and Horror flicks)
DEVO (Punk, but with synths, the real rebels of the 80's)
Nine Inch Nails (Reznor may not be the super-genius most of his fans think he is, but he sure does know how to write a great album just off the edge of the mainstream)
Arlo Guthrie (Great folk musician with an equally great sense for comedic storytelling. Best explained with 8x10 glossy photographs with circles, and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one)
The Grateful Dead (Just beautiful music, esp. "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead")
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.