Frownland

The Velvet Underground's percussion is vastly under appreciated.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

James

I agree completely. Maureen Tucker is bae. And an interview she did a while ago made me cry.

Mondo Bungle

"The Real Thing" easily ranks in FNM's top five songs.

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James

I can't really get into Faith No More. Patton's voice really grates on me. At least with Fantomas and to an extent Mr Bungle it's not as front and centre.

Ninetales

agreed. faith no more blows

Chula Vista

James and Ninetales blow.

They did it first.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Ninetales

they were certainly not the first to make a terrible song

ribbons

Maureen Tucker was a real pioneer. Usually, she would play (while standing up) on a primitive kit with no cymbals, a bass drum on a stand, and a tom with one stick and one or two mallets. Moe was influenced in early years by the African percussionist Babatunde Olatunji and Bo Diddley’s rhythms. Her first exposure to Olatunji was on Murray The K’s radio show when Olatunji’s Drums of Passion was played as intro/outro music. She became such a fan that she took up a collection at her high school to have Olatunji perform there – and he did! A Verve press release characterized Moe’s precise, relentless style as that of a “human computer” (she had been an IBM employee, after all). A style that later influenced the pulses of bands like Kraftwerk.

John Wilkes Booth

how many more times is a howlin wolf rip off from what i remember... i dunno exactly what a "riff" is but youtube that **** and tell me they didn't steal it.

Neapolitan

Jim Croce had a better mustache than Frank Zappa.

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