"Soon all of us will have these special names. Names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate"
- Professor Brian O'Blivion
Minimalism, Guns.
Chinese, Japanese etc.
Definitive artists: 13th Floor Elevators, 45 Grave, A Tribe Called Quest, Hasil Adkins, Amon Duul II, The Animals, Louis Armstrong, Bad Brains, Bauhaus, Big Black, The Birthday Party, Blackalicious, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blind Willie McTell, Blondie, David Bowie, James Brown, Busdriver, Butthole Surfers (1983-1988), Can, Captain Beefheart, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Damned, The Dead Kennedys, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Deltron 3030, Devo, Bo Diddley, Dr. Dre, Dr. Octagon, The Fendermen, The Freestyle Fellowship, Funkadelic, G.I.S.M., Gerry & the Pacemakers, CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER, Goblin, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy & the Stooges, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, The Kinks, KMD, Latyrx, Huddie Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Lightning Bolt, Paco De Lucia, The Mad, MC5, The Meters, The Mills Brothers, Minutemen, Ennio Morricone, Os Mutantes, NASA Space Universe, Nine Inch Nails, Carlos Paredes, Parliament, Peanut Butter Wolf & Charizma, Pharcyde, Barrett era Pink Floyd (and some Waters era), Primus, Rage Against the Machine, The Residents, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, The Rolling Stones, Rudimentary Peni, Ruins, Sabicas, Scratch Acid, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sly & the Family Stone, Bessie Smith, Sonic Youth, The Sonics, Suburban Lawns, T. Rex, Television, Three Dog Night, Ritchie Valens, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Link Wray, X, The Yarbirds-------------------------------------------------Def initive genres: Rock 'n Roll, Rockabilly, Decadent pop music from the 50's & 60's, METAL (Primarily Doom & Sludge, but this is not exclusive), punk (especially when it is taken to any sort of physical or creative extreme), early psych/garage, New Wave, most pre WWII and early electric Blues, FUNK , Afro Beat, latin, Doo Wop, Soul, Experimental, Industrial, rockabilly, hip hop of all kinds, first wave ska, swing & big band, pre - be bop jazz, folk, glam, surf... anything that successfully incorporates wailing, noise, funky and/or technical bass, samples of natural disasters, synth, hokey lyrics about vampires, latin polyrhythms, wah, heavy reverb, falcetto, drum machines, slide guitar, crunch, sexy female vocals, or obscure/home made instruments would be really nice to hear more of.--------------------------------------------------Honorab le Mention:Big Brother & the Holding Company, Black Star, Blue Cheer, Leonard Cohen, Danger Doom, Desmond Dekker, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, The Fall, Faust,The Flesh Eaters, Jackson C. Frank,The Germs,Elmore James, Bert Jansch, Jefferson Airplane, The Jesters, Love, Ricky Nelson, The Oblivians, Roy Orbison, Pere Ubu, The Pixies, Portishead, Public Enemy, The Red Crayola, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redd Kross, The Roots, Dave Van Ronk, The Vaselines, The Ventures, The Violent Femmes etc.
Galaxy Invader, Apocalypse Now, F For Fake, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Down By Law, Dead Man, Rashomon, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Haunting, The Devils, Black Christmas, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, Phenomena, Sisters, The Omen, The Exorcist, The Silence of the Lambs, Zombie, The Third Man, Wolfen, Carnival Of Souls (1962), The Conversation, Donnine Darko, Harold And Maude, American History X, Withnail And I, Wait Until Dark, Cool Hand Luke, 8 1/2, Solaris (1972), Papillon, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Mullholand Dr., Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, All The Presidents Men, Lenny, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Shivers, The Brood, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Who's That Knockin' At My Door, Mean Streets, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill vol. I & II, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead, Knife In The Water, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, The Fearless Vampire Killers (or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck!), Diabolique, Le Corbeau, Alien I and III, Se7en, Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Delicatessen, Amelie, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, Bad Timing, Revenge of the Ninja, Ghoulies II, C.H.U.D. (Cannabalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers)
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND... HE DON'T GIVE A DAMN
A tale is nothing but a long booty, and this is a tale that I win in the end.
I choose to keep those who contribute anonymously and remain so respectively humble in the closest regard. I have most respect for that degenerate sect of humanity I will never completely understand; they consist of the individuals who immortalize their girlfriends by carving their names into bathroom mirrors, the perpetually jogging, and the elderly who so mercilessly shoplift from Trader Joes. Not to mention every television actor who ever lived.