Too Much Of / Too Little Of
 

Vote for all the bands/artists you see mentioned on this forum way too much, and give an alternative of names you don't see mentioned on here often but you think they should.

I'll be counting the votes, so no particular deadline. Maybe a month or thereabout.

too much:
My Bloody Valentine (by a wiiiiiiiiiide margin)
Pavement
Deerhoof
Dinosaur Jr
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins (any mention is too much)
The Cure
Battles
Radiohead
Animal Collective
Liars


too little of... I could think of thousands here but I'll just mention a few I really think would be worth talking about more on here:
Koennjihyakkei
Slowdive
Swirlies
TFUL # 282
Harry Partch
Tim Hecker
Aidan Baker
Flat Earth Society
Thinking Plague
X-Legged Sally
Lovesliescrushing
Ahvak
Magma
STARS OF THE LID
Art Bears
Servotron
Phantom Limbs
Doctor Nerve
Fred Frith
Autistic Daughters
The Ex
Klimperei
Heroine Sheiks
Scissor Girls
Henry Cow
Massacre
Kazuki Tomokawa
Yukon
Xenakis
Terry Riley
Thank You
Fishtank Ensemble
Eat Skull
The VSS
Volcano the BEar
Blast
June of 44
Gastr Del Sol (surprisingly)
Yaphet Kotto
Sweep the Leg Johnny
Caroliner
Secret Chiefs 3
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Cerberus Shoal
The Residents

I was gonna say: take the time to think about it, that's why I didn't set a deadline.

is this thread a reaction to the new mbv thread? :D

too little of: double leopards
too little of: rubin steiner

too much of: smashing pumpkins

too much:
Polvo
Joy Division
Dinosaur Jr. (though fortunately, not that much anymore)
Pink Floyd (until Cantakerous' departure, now it's all quiet again)

not enough: Cocteau Twins, for example. Or Pan Sonic.

It is old news, really. Anyway, good alternatives you put there.

Yeah, I love Polvo, but they do get mentioned too much.

Also, would love to talk about Double Leopards more!

Slavo, didn't know you liked Pan Sonic. I LOVE them.

I edited my first response...

i think it's fine to have threads about shit bands.
the endlessly repeated threads (use the fucking search button), ratings, top lists, shit lists, cock lists, etc. etc. is what turns me off.

Too much:
MBV
Polvo
Pixies
Nirvana
Animal Collective
Deerhoof
Bowie
Lil Wayne

The biggest ''too much'' is really an assortment of ''underground'' music that is being hyped for the sake of being new and not neccesarily being all that good. And I don't just mean ''noise'', because that has its time and moments within my life, but just every new band that comes along that is name-dropped by thurston or by so and so. Some of them are actually good, others, well read above phrasing.

Now, too little? I dunno, I think the tenants of SYG cover most of the ground. Yes there, could be more discussion in the veins of the contemporary avante-garde movement, namely jazz and some classical artists. But, far as rock/experimental music goes there isn't much that hasn't been touched on. I'm not sayin that wiki copied our posts onto there page about said topics, but well, we get the point.

A bit too much of MBV ( but I don't care ), and Bowie ( anything is too much ), and too little Nirvana and Pixies.

is there really anything left to say about
The Velvets (replace with Eno era Roxy Music)
MBV (replace with AR Kane)
Lil Wayne (replace with Edan)
Hawkwind (replace with The Pink Fairies)
Dinosaur Jr (replace with Loop)
Pavement (replace with The Clean)
Nas (replace with Kool G. Rap)
Throbbing Gristle (replace with Cabaret Voltaire)
The Fall (replace with The Blue Orchids)
Barrett-era Floyd (replace with Soft Machine)
Can (replace with Amon Duul I & II)
The Stooges (replace with early Alice Cooper)
Autechre (replace with Black Dog)
Neil Young (replace with Neil Michael Hagerty)
The Bug (replace with Wiley)

I'm impressed that you avoided mentioning either the Ramones or the Cramps.

too much....... filler


not enough....... substance

Yes.

there should be more talk of:

avarus
bark haze
fat worm of error
graveyards
blood stereo
blue sabbath black cheer
circle
black metal that came out after 95 and doesnt sound like burzum (craft especially)
blank dogs
the howling hex
cloudland canyon
dog food
drunkdriver
the homosexuals
the adverts
pink reason
warmer milks

etc....

pan sonic bores me to absolute tears.

Avarus are obscenely overrated.

I'm in absolutely no position to complain given how much of a cunt I was in one of the rounds, but part of my losing interest in the first bout of mix swaps was down to a lack of feedback. So yes, bashful agreement here.

The Ramones and The Cramps.

Too much Bob Dylan, not enough Beautiful South. High time for their re-appraisal, methinks.