http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/ Copyright 2008 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:46:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss If the undertaking of this four part series hasn't made it abundantly clear from the onset, I'm currently on what you might call a serious Smiths kick at present. For the last decade or so this has become sort of... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2006/01/special_feature_12.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2006/01/special_feature_12.html Pop Music Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:46:32 -0800 Forgive me any factual errors in the following tirade, but it must be expected that when charting what may, however embarrassingly, very well be the most dominant single factor of one's life for the better part of a decade, there... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2006/01/special_feature_11.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2006/01/special_feature_11.html Alternative Rock Music Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:03:15 -0800 The 2005-2006 English Premier League season began a couple months ago with newly promoted Wigan Athletic F.C. giving champions Chelsea an early season endurance test, narrowly losing 1-0 in the last minute. Normally a match with a small side like... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/10/a_bittersweet_h.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/10/a_bittersweet_h.html Spacemans Rock Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:38:29 -0800 The idea of things becoming cliche is pretty amazing. The ability for something just to become cliche is a testament to the power of that particular concept, right, because it must have been something that was successful enough or enjoyable... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/beachwood_spark.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/beachwood_spark.html Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:49:43 -0800 Let's just cut this one off at the pass. Steve Martin is not a band per se, BUT Steve Martin made some of the greatest albums of the 1970s, has won Grammys for comedy albums and for his banjo playing... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/funny_comedy_ga.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/funny_comedy_ga.html Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:38:26 -0800 A popular theory—mostly amongst people who have very little authority to devise such theories—suggests that the vast majority of people have defined their musical vocabulary by the time they've reached their early 20s. What this generally means is that your... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/bedhead.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/bedhead.html Independent Rock Music Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:28:05 -0800 Although it might be a difficult matter for some people to wrap their heads around, the idea of being both pop music-obsessed and a discerning music fan aren't always mutually exclusive. Like many other self-conscious music fans before me, I've... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/jens_lekman.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/09/jens_lekman.html Pop Music Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:36:15 -0800 Though it works against most of my preconceptions about the nature of music snobbery—that is to say, it is in some respects my very definition of snobbery—there is very little in this great big musical world that I enjoy more... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_moles.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_moles.html Art Rock Music Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:10:53 -0800 Earning his teaching certificate in the early '70s British Columbia, former struggling rock musician-turned elementary teacher Hans Fenger took a job at Belmont Elementary School in the semi-remote, "Canadian Bible belt" rurality of Langley, B.C. By 1975, Fenger was assigned... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/langley_schools.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/langley_schools.html Experimental Music Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:05:30 -0800 In 1991, the biggest album of the decade was released, Nirvana's Nevermind, as well the endlessly lauded Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and also big albums from The Pixies, REM, Slint. So, what album did Spin Magazine pick for... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/i_need_directio.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/i_need_directio.html Pop Music Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:38:45 -0800 There are moments on the Gris Gris' self-titled debut record in which tape hiss is the loudest discernible instrument. It could simply be that the sound of magnet on plastic is the only audible element that's not completely obscured by... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_gris_gris.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_gris_gris.html Rock and Roll Music Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:35:00 -0800 I have to start off by apologizing to Zac, Marisa, all guest writers who have contributed to the Greatest Band of All Time, all readers who enjoyed and up until this point maybe even trusted this place. I killed it.... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/hes_gone_the_gr.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/hes_gone_the_gr.html Rock and Roll Music Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:24:19 -0800 For me, The Cramps start in Ohio. I don't know if history supports me on this, because creation stories are alluringly murky at this point, but it my belief that The Cramps formed in 1972 in Akron, Ohio. This is... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_cramps.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/the_cramps.html Punk Rock Music Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:44:05 -0800 My tentative love affair with the Kim Deal began over ten years ago, under the sweltering August sun of George, Washington. A fairly heavy day for me: my first concert proper was to expose me to many a wonder, not... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/kim_deal.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/kim_deal.html Alternative Rock Music Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:29:43 -0800 An englishman who started a prog-ish rock band at the age of 16 (in 1967) went on to play in bands named Uriel, Khan, and Gong then had a solo career that included both blazing amazing prog albums on the... http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/four_ever_rainb.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/08/four_ever_rainb.html Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:01:44 -0800