Sum Up the Band's Career

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I've been following Discographies over at Twitter. The idea is to sum up the body of work (studio albums only) for a band or artist very succintly (in this case, since it's Twitter, in 140 characters or less). I thought some of you more clever folk may enjoy coming up with some for phorum favorites.

Some samples from the twitter:

Weezer: 1 "Remember that nerdy guy from high school?" 2 "The one who couldn't talk to girls?" 3-7 "Why are you still hanging out with him?"

Van Halen: 1-6 Sean Connery; 7-10 Roger Moore; 11 George Lazenby.

Radiohead: 1 not a novelty; 2 not "alternative"; 3 not prog; 4-5 not of this earth; 6 not budging; 7 not (conventionally) for sale.

Wilco: 1 "easy rockers"; 2 "I bought a Peter Laughner CD!"; 3 "I bought a Beach Boys CD!"; 4-5 "I bought Jim O'Rourke!"; 6-7 "easy rockers."

Lady Gaga: 1 Pop as planetary spectacle; 2 "Duchamp put a urinal in an art gallery, but did it ever occur to him to wear one on his head?"

I think you get the idea. Could be fun!

[murlough23]

Jars of Clay:

1. Is this Christian music? 
2. Is this Christian music? 
3-∞. Are they still around?

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Jars of Clay:
3-∞. Are they still around? 

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heh. Discogs's Linkin Park one isn't bad.

[murlough23]

heh. Discogs's Linkin Park one isn't bad.

Care to repost for those of us who aren't Twits?

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Linkin Park: 1-4 "Quick! Into the time machine! If we can stop Run-DMC from meeting Aerosmith, this horrific future-world will never exist!"

[murlough23]

I think you'd have to stop a lot more people from meeting to prevent later disasters.

Also, never crossing rap and rock means no Rage Against the Machine.

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As if no Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith isn't tragic enough.

One could say the same thing about it being Pearl Jam's fault for Creed, and Nirvana's fault for the glut of post-grunge, but I don't think I would alter history, even if I could.

[murlough23]

As if no Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith isn't tragic enough.

I wasn't sure of your opinion on that particular crossover. I figured wiping RATM out of existence was a good enough threat to keep you from actually wanting to revise history by committing genrecide.

I mean, that'd be like wiping out Pearl Jam so that we would never have to deal with Creed and Nickelback.

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I don't love RATM, btw. They were pretty good, but it became redundant after a while.

[ewok20t3]

I'm not sure stopping Run-DMC from meeting Aerosmith would've been enough. They would've had to stop Anthrax from meeting Public Enemy and also convinced Mike Patton's mom to have an abortion. 

[murlough23]

I don't love RATM, btw. They were pretty good, but it became redundant after a while.

Just trying to illustrate that even by your standards, not everything that came from the genre was inherently bad.

I also don't think we can blame the rap/rock or nu-metal genres for the massive WTF that is Linkin Park's latest disc. I think you'd have to go back and kill Trent Reznor to prevent some of that from happening.