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Best Philly band. Hands down.
Pattern is Movement, that is.
What about The Loved Ones? I guess they’re not indie rock enough to be on the list…but still the best.
The nepotism on this list is AMAZING.
Also, lists are STUPID.
ALSO, also, Indie Rock Sux.
hey “DUDE”, you’re this upset over a rock and roll poll?
wah wah. mellow out, babypants.
which one of these bands is related to people who write for Magnet?
get a life.
Where’s My Golden Arm. Best Philly record of 2008. If you haven’t heard it yet, you need to.
Really.
Like a Fox’s new record, the album with the arm on the cover, is a great listen.
I could make a case for a couple of these bands-like Art DiFuria’s Photons, but the presence of Asteroid #4 sends the ranking through the stratosphere. No disrespect to “Chuckles”, at all/ever, but the best album by a Philly band in 2008 was These Flowers of Ours: A Treasury Of Witchcraft And Devilry.” As brilliantly rendered as *any* psychedelic album since 1966. An all-timer people will still be listening to 20 years hence.
you need to buy these flowers of ours and hear one of the best bands on the planet,forget just philly.. its not just the talent and the versatility..theyve truly tapped into and channell that magical 60s vibe.. as good as almost anybody..
cant believe they dont have abigger followng, but probably glad they dont.. then theyd turn into big-headed assholes and we like them theway they are..hey,are the three 4 tens still around?.. they should be on the lsit..
Heck, it’s Mondo Topless.The problem is that they are more of an export.They tend to play in other cities around America and abroad and their guitar player has produced at least one band on this list.
Despite the lack of any press they play and play and put out records on a good label
These Flowers Of Ours by A#4 iis one of the albums of the decade!!
But don’t just stop at listening to that their first album , Introducing, is a Psychedelic masterpiece.
This band are smoking right now and hopefully on the way to the success they richly deserve
Keep The Faith!!
You should check out Niagra Falls and their new album Sequence of Prophets on Honeymoon Music. They’re part of that whole New Age-y, Sun Ra-ish weirdness that Philly excels at. Parker-Spruce
P.S. I miss Need New Body, and Lenola, and the Cream Chargers, and Mile High, and Ty Cobb and 1929.
It’s nice to be in the poll and see people voting for us. Thanks (and thanks to valis for the props).
Is A4′s new album *really* the one of the “albums of the decade?” That’s some pretty serious praise. Harms, is that you posting as an A4 fan? I kid, I kid. But seriously, I’ve heard others praise it too. I’ll have to check it out.
I think Like a Fox’s new album is the best thing J. Laughlin has ever done. And really I like *all* these bands.
But I like Pissed Jeans the best. We need more fun like THAT in our clubs!
why don’t you *listen* to something before judging it?! or is that just from *jealousy*? anyone can piss their pants.
bobo…you probably misunderstood.
i was making a joke at harms. i’m not jealous at all of the A4. See the part where I praised Laughlin? and the part where I wrote “I kid, I kid,” and then said I want to check out the album because I’ve heard others praise it? I meant that stuff. Lighten up, baby. I’m in love with you.
and I still have more fun at Pissed Jeans shows than the shows of any of the other bands on this list. But that’s just me.
Don’t get mad…I’m just sayin’.
… could teach the kids a thing or two.
B
Capitol Years is best!
how we can have no mention of Turd Puppet is beyond me?!
To me, the capitol years’ melodies have been the best sounds to come out of the city for a few years now. Hats off to Magnet on giving them year end props for that last album.
However, as much as I love the Capitol Years, the artist that really gets me excited about philly right now is Kurt Vile, and frankly I’m kind of surprised not to see him on the list, although I guess he is included technically on account of his association with the war on drugs. I thought “Constant Hitmaker” was totally rad, and “Freeway” was the single of the year, from anywhere.
Another band from philly I think is great is Clockcleaner, though I certainly understand if they’re not included in any popularity contest. Babylon Rules was righteous though.
FInally, I want to mention Human Television, though I don’t know if they could technically be labeled a Philly band, and I’m sure they don’t have much Philly support. I thought their last record (from 05 or 06?) was pretty amazing.
where the hell is IKE???!!!!
love the War on Drugs! (but I’d like to see Kurt Vile on this list too…)
My faveorite band is Avenged Sevenfold
“The Day After Saint Paddy’s Day Massacre” is the best band in the Philly metro area right now.
I think they play Mojo13 on June 5th.
The Peace Creeps
I’ll be seeing them at Doc Watson’s tomorrow night, in fact.
I think the Philly club scene sucks ass. Most bands all sound the same. Whatever is the fad at the time, is what ALL of the bands sound like. Go to most clubs in, and around the city, and it’s hard to decipher one band from another. (well actually, not recently) Example, in the mid 80′s to the early 90′s it was “hair” band – metal, then in the early to late 90′s EVERYTHING was grunge and heavy rock in the philly area. Any band that did not sound remotely like any of this, was ignored. No matter how good of players they were or how orginal they were. Yet, I know all of you brain dead people will sit and argue and say how they all sounded different. But maybe that’s finally changing??? The last few clubs I was at recently in 2009, the bands seemed to be doing their own thing and people haven’t seemed to mind, as long as they sounded good at whatever it was they were doing…………
hey can u guys somehow put our band in the polls.our name is epic failure check us out thnx. myspace.com/teenangstrocks
Odessa Stair is a pretty sweet up and coming band, but they are pretty new. I gotta give it to Bardo Pond then.
this list left off Panic Years, Good Old War, pattern is movement….bands that are doing their own thing and having it work for them. stupid lists.