• WinegumZero
    • 4 years 10 months ago
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    		 I've always been interested in this, so I'd like to ask you all:

    What are your favourite local artists? You know, the bands that are famous and all but not internationally well known? My two favourite Dutch artists (who are not international celebs at all) are:

    Pete Philly & Perquisite (currently disbanded)



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OuTXj4Ll7U

    Pete Philly & Perquisite are two dudes who basically mash jazz and hiphop in the way (I think) it's meant to be. They released two albums (Mindstate and Mystery Repeats) under the moniker and are currently doing some solo projecsts.

    De Staat (The State)



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLrslkB1pG8

    De Staat are like Queens of The Stone Age on happy pills. Crazy idiots with a fetish for the cowbell. Their first single did pretty good in the popcharts and they're currently touring Europe and trying to finish their second album (I think). As they themselves put it: "All overwhelming you with special pow(d)ers, small vocabularies and tasty odours. The future is now bitch."

    So what do you think of these two examples of Dutch music? And show us some of your favourite local artists!
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    • jo8196
      • 4 years 10 months ago
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      		 Crooked X(Disbanded)
      "Frank N Furter, It's all over
      Your mission is a failure,
      your lifestyles too extreme,
      I'm your new commander,
      You now are my prisoner,
      We return to Transylvania,
      Prepare the
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      • Shazbot
        • 4 years 10 months ago
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        		 I'm from the Vancouver area. We don't produce much in the way of good music that i would be caught listening to.
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        • SSPig
          • 4 years 10 months ago
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          		 There's a great Pink Floyd tribute called the Pink Floyd Sound.
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          • AtariMan76
            • 4 years 10 months ago
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            		 Fixed & Dialated from Salem, Oregon
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            • Cosgrove
              • 4 years 10 months ago
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              		 Chomsky from the Denton, TX area.

              They have an 80's sound and quirkiness that I adore. That's coming from a guy who hates 80's music.
              http://www.myspace.com/chomskyband

              Edgewater (disbanded) from the Dallas, TX area.

              They were a hard rock band that were beyond amazing. They'd throw some heavy sounds at you and then switch to something very melodic and chill.
              http://www.myspace.com/edgewater
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORkPAQCIN0

              The Rocket Summer is from the Dallas area. Right now they are extremely popular, but isn't it always nice to say, "Hey! I liked them before they made it big."

              There's actually a lot from the Dallas area (Drowning Pool, Polyphonic Spree, Toadies, Secret Machines, Tripping Daisies, and Pantera), but I thought I'd enlighten y'all with some no-names. Also, there's some great bands that have come out of Austin, El Paso, Houston, and other towns.
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              • WinegumZero
                • 4 years 10 months ago
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                		 Actually there's this one guitar-playing homeless dude on Utrecht Central who is all shades of horrible. Goddamn I want to smack that guitar into his face.

                Oh and Cosgrove: that Edgewater sounds pretty good, and Stan Lee and fucking Lou Ferrigno are in their video! If that ain't cool I don't know what is.
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                • Cosgrove
                  • 4 years 10 months ago
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                  		 Hell yeah, WinegumZero. That song was on The Punisher soundtrack, so there is some sort of tie there.
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                  • SSPig
                    • 4 years 10 months ago
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                    		 Folk musician John Gorka is local and great.
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                    • System
                      • 4 years 10 months ago
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                      		 Sweden:

                      *ABBA (famous Swedish pop groupp of the 1970's and early 1980's)
                      *Jill Johnson (Swedish country singer of the 2000's)
                      *Kikki Danielsson (Swedish country and dansband singer, mostly between the mid/late 1970's and late 1990's)
                      *Gyllene Tider (Swedish pop band in the late 1970's and early 1980's, where Per Gessle was the singer before forming Roxette with Marie Fredriksson)
                      *Lotta Engberg (Swedish dansband singer, mostly between the late 1980's and early 2000's)
                      *Magnus Uggla (Swedish pop and rock singer since the mid/late 1970's, his lyrics are funny, more reflecting Swedish society, than traditional "-Yeah, love me baby" lyrics)

                      There are some more good. Since ABBA's 1974 breakthrough with the song "Waterloo" in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden has scored several music succeeses, internatioal with ABBA being followed up by Roxette, Europe, Ace of Base and the Cardigans.
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                      • HappilyDeranged
                        • 4 years 10 months ago
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                        		 Apartment 5: from Fayetteville, AR

                        http://www.myspace.com/apartment5


                        And check out Miracle Legion from New Haven, CT (disbanded since 1996)
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                        • One Louder
                          • 4 years 10 months ago
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                          		 Where I live now there's a homeless guy who hangs out in front of a convenience store that plays a bucket like it was a bongo drum. Sometimes I give him dimes.

                          When I lived in Ottawa I really liked Good2Go and saw them several times. They reminded me of early Blondie.

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BofmA0w6P0o
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                          • CobraCommander87
                            • 4 years 9 months ago
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                            		 Im from upstate new york and we have a few good home town bands that are largely known in the area.. Beers Metal is pretty popular but id have to say the most popular in this are is Scarred Theory.. untill one of the members decided to be a dick and the group split.. now the local powerhouse is called Eyes Of The Old.. they are the members of Scarred Theory who actually had talent and left when the other douche screwed them
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