7:17 I gotta concur with the very eloquent words of the 16-year-old e-mailer with his suggestions of covering King Crimson and/or Yes on a future show. Yes has been my favorite overall band since the late '90s (and Crimson another one I appreciate/enjoy), with the prog doorway having been kicked opened by Rush in the mid-'90s. Having reflected on and threaded the influences of my musical tastes back to their sources, I'm fairly sure that being a massive Faith No More fan in junior high (via Angel Dust and The Real Thing) is what imbedded a generally open-minded, progressive, curious outlook on "different"/"weird" kind of rock music. Certainly most Yes music is far removed from anything in the metal world as a whole, but there are some selective moments among their discography that either later influenced metal players (particularly with Fragile and Close To The Edge in 1971-72), or the band themselves even dabbling in the genre with songs likes "Machine Messiah" (from 1980's Drama, which Dream Theater covered on their 2004 tour while opening for Yes.) Obviously Yes drew from a diverse range of influence, pulling in everything from folk, to jazz, to pop and synth-rock, but I think they could make for some interesting discussion if you guys perhaps focused on a few albums among their massive 56-year discography. As an aside, I've seen them live 16 times since 1998, across the multitude of shifting line-ups, and they're still going strong and putting out great albums in the 2020s, cranking out two (and a third on the way) just since '21.
DFD, Polkadot Cadaver, Knives Out and El Creepo are all projects Baltimore based Todd Smith and Jason Stapp created over the last 25 years or so. Clutch and (I think) Nothingface came up in that scene as well. Lots of cross pollination. Haken comes from my favorite place for new bands, Australia. Including KGLW, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and Karnivool(not so new).
In addition to Dog Fashion Disco some of the bands that came out in the middle to late 90s and early 00's that pushed the envelope of creativity: Mindless Self Indulgence Tub Ring (one album produced by Trey from Bungle). Foxy Shazam Screaming Mechanical Brain Ideamen Gruvis Malt Duct Tape Mustache The Alter Boys Polkadot Cadaver Circus of Dead Squirrels Retard-O-Bot Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Estradasphere Nuclear Rabbit The World Inferno Friendship Society Keep the video's coming, I'll keep watching them. Thanks.
Dig the Fight love. I remember when these albums came out, I was immediately hooked. War of Words must have been in my CD player for months. Would love to hear your takes on the Halford albums as well. Resurrection and Crucible are MONSTER records.
Peanut Butter Platypus! I said it in the last video and I'll say it again, I fucking love it when you guys talk about seldom discussed bands. I've always enjoyed Fight! Very underrated band.
When this band broke because of Rob's breakup from JP I was intrigued. I overheard some metal heads in a record store one day totally juiced about the new Fight album by former JP frontman Rob Halford. I don't think I've heard any tunes off of them, but I am kind of interested to hear how this goes.
I`m 100% team DFD/Polkadot. Been lucky to get to know DFD during their demo days & will always be a worshipper. Definitely "my favourite band of all time" (alongside around 50-100 other favourite bands/groups/musical artists of all time), they represent the epitome of modern, sophisticated, honest/"real", hard hitting (experimental alternative) metal music (performed with a great musical skill set. Hella tight live band too!!!!). For 1st hand DFD/etc content on the tube : th-cam.com/users/RazorToWristRecordsvideos Still strong since the late 90s, they`ve just (sorta! 2022 😏) released another true banger of an album with "Cult Classic". PS: i like your list, ferbie. It`s intruiging. Aside from DFD/Polkadot, Tub Ring is also populating my collection (with each and every one of their official releases. Retard-o-bot is nice as well. The rest I`m not sure about or pretty sure I dont know, sooo...... much to discover 😀... and i havent even really started to listen to the episode 🤪 So for now, back to u, Old Sparxxx
Awesome video Old Head and Eddie!🤘
It's always great to see you two talk about bands no one talks about and Fight is definitely one such band.
Thanks for that sweet little Damn The Machine tangent - that album is one goddamn masterpiece (way too few people even know about). ❤
7:17
I gotta concur with the very eloquent words of the 16-year-old e-mailer with his suggestions of covering King Crimson and/or Yes on a future show.
Yes has been my favorite overall band since the late '90s (and Crimson another one I appreciate/enjoy), with the prog doorway having been kicked opened by Rush in the mid-'90s. Having reflected on and threaded the influences of my musical tastes back to their sources, I'm fairly sure that being a massive Faith No More fan in junior high (via Angel Dust and The Real Thing) is what imbedded a generally open-minded, progressive, curious outlook on "different"/"weird" kind of rock music.
Certainly most Yes music is far removed from anything in the metal world as a whole, but there are some selective moments among their discography that either later influenced metal players (particularly with Fragile and Close To The Edge in 1971-72), or the band themselves even dabbling in the genre with songs likes "Machine Messiah" (from 1980's Drama, which Dream Theater covered on their 2004 tour while opening for Yes.)
Obviously Yes drew from a diverse range of influence, pulling in everything from folk, to jazz, to pop and synth-rock, but I think they could make for some interesting discussion if you guys perhaps focused on a few albums among their massive 56-year discography. As an aside, I've seen them live 16 times since 1998, across the multitude of shifting line-ups, and they're still going strong and putting out great albums in the 2020s, cranking out two (and a third on the way) just since '21.
DFD, Polkadot Cadaver, Knives Out and El Creepo are all projects Baltimore based Todd Smith and Jason Stapp created over the last 25 years or so. Clutch and (I think) Nothingface came up in that scene as well. Lots of cross pollination. Haken comes from my favorite place for new bands, Australia. Including KGLW, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and Karnivool(not so new).
In addition to Dog Fashion Disco some of the bands that came out in the middle to late 90s and early 00's that pushed the envelope of creativity:
Mindless Self Indulgence
Tub Ring (one album produced by Trey from Bungle).
Foxy Shazam
Screaming Mechanical Brain
Ideamen
Gruvis Malt
Duct Tape Mustache
The Alter Boys
Polkadot Cadaver
Circus of Dead Squirrels
Retard-O-Bot
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Estradasphere
Nuclear Rabbit
The World Inferno Friendship Society
Keep the video's coming, I'll keep watching them. Thanks.
Mind Over Four, Ignorance, White Trash, Urban Dance Squad also amazing bands!
You could do Acid Bath. They had only two albums.
And please do Biohazard ranking
Dig the Fight love. I remember when these albums came out, I was immediately hooked. War of Words must have been in my CD player for months.
Would love to hear your takes on the Halford albums as well. Resurrection and Crucible are MONSTER records.
Peanut Butter Platypus!
I said it in the last video and I'll say it again, I fucking love it when you guys talk about seldom discussed bands. I've always enjoyed Fight! Very underrated band.
When this band broke because of Rob's breakup from JP I was intrigued. I overheard some metal heads in a record store one day totally juiced about the new Fight album by former JP frontman Rob Halford. I don't think I've heard any tunes off of them, but I am kind of interested to hear how this goes.
Thanks for reading my email guys :)
I`m 100% team DFD/Polkadot. Been lucky to get to know DFD during their demo days & will always be a worshipper.
Definitely "my favourite band of all time" (alongside around 50-100 other favourite bands/groups/musical artists of all time), they represent the epitome of modern, sophisticated, honest/"real", hard hitting (experimental alternative) metal music (performed with a great musical skill set. Hella tight live band too!!!!).
For 1st hand DFD/etc content on the tube : th-cam.com/users/RazorToWristRecordsvideos
Still strong since the late 90s, they`ve just (sorta! 2022 😏) released another true banger of an album with "Cult Classic".
PS: i like your list, ferbie. It`s intruiging. Aside from DFD/Polkadot, Tub Ring is also populating my collection (with each and every one of their official releases. Retard-o-bot is nice as well. The rest I`m not sure about or pretty sure I dont know, sooo...... much to discover 😀... and i havent even really started to listen to the episode 🤪
So for now, back to u, Old Sparxxx
A band called Times of Grace only did 2 albums well so far… ha❤