THE CURE~ FOR FINE CITY

pisces iscariot · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject:

Not much of a list but it's good to know that there're others out here who share some of my fave bands too.
Wow Gary Chin-Chin, Search & Awie.....caya lah brader. Pheeewiiitttt Wink

Bands I Really Dig :
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
SMASHING PUMPKINS
U2
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
RHCP
Radiohead
Linkin Park
Incubus
Muse
Silverchair
Blur
Weezer
Sting
The Cure
Jamiroquai
Prodigy
Chemical Brothers
Earth Wind & Fire

Bands I'm Starting to Like a Lot :
Sigur Ros
Explosion In The Sky
Mogwai
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Arcade Fire
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Interpol
We Are Scientists
Bloc Party
Death Cab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
& also
Butterfingers (doing my bid to support our local/regional scene..hehe)

gonnyosa · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject:

oh yeaaaa I know Butterfingers...
quite well known in Jakarta too...
love to see their video. Kabus Ribut. =D
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pisces iscariot · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

ye ke?

i thought only siti nurhaliza was the only big thing to hit indonesia...hahahaa. i'm quite a fan of dewa, peterpan & samsons too Smile

eklektro · Boys Don't Cry Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 7

Hi All! I'm also mostly into "old school" rock and indie. In no particular order:

The Beatles (but of course)
The Rolling Stones (their 1960's and 70's stuff kicks more ass than anything that came after!)
The Who
The Velvet Underground
The Stooges
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Big Star
Roxy Music
David Bowie
Joy Division
New Order
Magazine
Buzzcocks
Bauhaus
Wire
XTC (Kaiser Chiefs learnt a lot from them)
Gang of Four (Bloc Party stole a lot from them)
Talking Heads
Patti Smith
Blondie
Television
Richard Hell & The Voidoids
The dBs
B-52's
Wall of Voodoo
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Damned
The Jam
The Stranglers
The Police
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Fall
Altered Images
Soft Cell
Ultravox
Gary Numan
Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark (only those records before Andy McCluskey started writing crappy Top 40-friendly songs like Locomotion)
Heaven 17
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Teardrop Explodes
Siouxsie & The Banshees
U2
Big Country
The Waterboys
Simple Minds
Cocteau Twins
The Smiths
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
The Jesus & Mary Chain
The Wedding Present (mostly from the 1985 - 1989 period)
R.E.M.
Husker Du
Sugar
Nirvana
Dinosaur Jr.
The Pixies
The Breeders
Throwing Muses
Belly
Inspiral Carpets
Manic Street Preachers

As for the "newer" or "younger" lot:
Death Cab for Cutie
John Vanderslice
Nada Surf
Bloc Party
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
Franz Ferdinand
The Magic Numbers
Interpol

Quite a long list from off the top of my head, I know, hehe! And there's more! And you know what? I still buy vinyl! Haha!

Easy Cure · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

hehe... nice selection... i spot cocteau twins there.. nice one... most of it is in my playlist too... Razz

Yram · CureHeads Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 22

The Beatles!!!! Of course!!! One thing i will always thank to my Dad...!

majorcure · CureFreaks! Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 31

Well it's gonna be tough for me to list out my fav bands/performers....well here it goes....

The Cure (somehow I always fall back on them......no matter how hard I try not to lol)
Oasis (perfect Brit band & love their 'no fuck' attitude...Live Forever)
Stone Roses/The Seahorses (yes, & I wanna be adored too ya'know......lol)
Led Zeppelin (yea, Jimmy Page got me to play guitar...& she's buyiiiing the stairway to heaven....)
The Beatles (Abbey Road, a real classic, a must for every1)
EMF (Shubert Dip for sentimental reasons....they started 'shuffling' not Melbourne ok lol)
Pink Floyd (David Glimore is the most underrated guitarist, besides RS)
Jethro Tull (puts me back to the country side.....wished i could play the flute)
Jimi Hendrix (God)
Roy Harper (same reason as Jethro Tull)
BB King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the old Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Freddie King, Mahalia Jackson, Taj Mahal, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf..........(hardship, pain, & rejoice....... )
Happy Mondays (same reason as Stone Roses & EMF)
America, Eagles, Grateful Dead, janis Joplins, (its nice to sing along sometimes lol)
Janet Jackson (yea i adore her since Primary 4 lol...what have u done for lately, oooohhh ooo ooohhhhh yeahhhhh)
House/Progressive House....any1 from Global Underground/Hed Kendi/Azuli/Pacha/Ibiza...etc...but not trance, my goodness, find trance so ah beng & ah lian lol sorry ah trance lovers (also I cant shuffle lol)
Massive Attack (Mezzanine a must), Soul II Soul, Prodigy (wow they were so powerful....), Groove Armada (another wow), Chemical Brothers (another wow), Deep Dish (wow), Faithless (wow), Umek (aiyo can go bonkers...headache after that), stereomovers (miss them s much), Nubreed (wow wow)..... lol
Siouxie & The Banshees (what a movement, dazzle...), Joy Division (love will tear us apart again.....)
Current crop of bands: I will leave em blank here coz no one caught my attention except Gorillaz, MOGWAI (very beautiful), The Kooks, Athelete, alright ahemmmm Coldplay.....
all 80's from Aha to bros to Style Council to .....all 80's & 90'sl.....lol
Ella (still gorgeous yum2 lol), Blues Gang (Julian Mohktar, love your attitude too), old Search (kau genggam, perasaan ku....)
Leslie Cheung (miss him tho), the old Sam Hui, Anita Mui (miss her too).....

Better stop or else it will take several more pages to write lol

majorcure · CureFreaks! Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 31

aheemmm my apologies.....forgotten to mention my 'father' Bob Dylan too...yes..you gotta serve somebody.......lol
opps also lynyrd skyntrd..free bird is the official anthem lol..
bob marley..ae yoo pass the dutchie 'ere..........
dire straits....yea they can make u sad too...............

gonnyosa · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:08 am Post subject:

Major: dont forget...
Sweeeeeet home alabama....
Where the skies are so blue....
Sweeeeeet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

hehehe...
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Robert comes to save South Park when it is attacked by that evil bitch Barbara Streisand. He morphs into Rob Mothera and with his super powerful robot punch Mecha-Streisand is blasted into outer space!

elise · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:15 am Post subject:

i love THE CURE,joy division,sisters of mercy,mission,chameleons,smiths,xymox,bauhaus,fuzzbox,clash,altered images,bow wow wow,adventures,xtc,new order,dead can dance,cacteue twins,church,translator,the room,the wedding,white china,wire train,lords of the new church,the the,the fall,the call,house martins,the care,wild swans,siouxie and the banshees,the jam,gene loves jezebel,b52s,sex pistols,xmal deuschland,softcell,red rockers,the cars,jesus and mary chain,killing joke,red/yellow lorry,specimen,cult,doors,coloufields,the dawn,fiction factory,china crisis,real life,when in rome,flock of seagulls,b-movie,flesh for lulus,lulu kiss me dead,waterboys,pale fountain,railway children,the sundays,wooden tops,ramones,gary newman,the damned,rem,identity crisis,deans december,ethnic faces,echo and the bunnymen,ebtg,pil,peter and the test tube babies,decsendence....beastie boys,bodycount,luniz,run dmc,queen,uglu kid joe,black flag,social distortion,and a lot lot more...