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That's a nice eclectic mix. Especially love Bastard Noise and M.B.. Do you listen to New Blockaders?

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I could list bands all night so I'll try to stick to five. First that come to mind are:

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Killing Joke
Joy Division
King Crimson
Morphine

And that's bands only, because artists there's quite a few folk I admire. Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker... and, for my money, the two solo albums by Rowland S. Howard are far better than many bands' entire discography.

I really like Tweedles, Freakshow, Commercial Album, and I absolutely love River of Crime and Demons Dance Alone. But me they're kinda like Coil in that their catalog is ridiculously big so I have no hopes of ever hearing it all, and even then I really don't know what to make out of half the stuff I listen to. Sometimes I love it on first listen. Sometimes it grows on me. Sometimes it never does. :(

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Let's see. . .

Pixies, The Gun Club, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Joy Division, REM ('81-91), The Feelies, Beat Happening, The Smiths, Galaxie 500, The Field Mice, The Monks, The Velvet Underground, The Cramps, The Magnetic Fields, They Might Be Giants, Philip Glass, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Belle and Sebastien, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Electrelane, The Walkmen, The Thermals, Beach Fossils, Surfer Blood, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Stereolab, The Drums, His Name is Alive, Unrest, Pavement, Crystal Stilts, Jay Reatard, The Fall, Josef K, Mazzy Star, Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Widowspeak, Wild Nothing, Dirty Beaches, Wire, Mission of Burma, Devo, Swell Maps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Soul Coughing, Real Estate, Shimmering Stars, Girls Names, Secret Cities, Holiday Shores, Seapony, Twerps, Weekend, Wild Beasts, and Young Marble Giants

. . .to name a few!

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I agree there on those albums, except Commercial Album which I never listen to (too short tunes for me to get involved). A few other favorites, Mark of the Mole, Diskomo/Goosebump, God in Three Persons (a bit too dark for me), Cube E: Live in Holland, Live At the Fillmore, Disfigured Night.

Lately they have started producing recordings of all their live performances. The most rabid fans love it. But that's when I gave up. I stick with the old stuff.

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So many, but those I've listened to the most and the longest would be the Legendary Pink Dots and Nine Inch Nails. Death in June, Joy Division/New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Beth Orton, Mazzy Star, Massive Attack, Fugazi, Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Tool, Portishead, and Roxy Music would be other lifelong favorites, albeit I listen to them more inconsistently. In the last few years, I've been really keen on Haus Arafna, Rome, Can, Adult., and Florence and the Machine.

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The Residents's sarcastic version of the politically correct "We Are the World" ("Just For You").

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Exquisite early black metal.

Other great black metal and viking metal bands are Bathory, Burzum, and Enslaved. HELL TOR!

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Among many others:

Cowboy Junkies

Dire Straits

Mazzy Star

My Bloody Valentine

Radiohead

Soda Stereo

The Doors

The Rolling Stones

The Stone Roses

The Strokes


Favorite solo artists:

Bob Dylan

Lou Reed

Mark Knopfler

Tom Waits

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That's a great track. I always thought that and "Battle Of Epping Forest" were really gutsy in the way they just barely hang together but pull off something really impressive in the unlikely combination.