Your all-time favorite band

[Regan MacNeil]

Pearl Jam. Only seen them live once, tho. Caught them at Wrigley Field a few years ago.

 

[Huggy]

I don't know that he cares, oddly. I can't think of a significant artist who has made less of an effort to break the U.S. market. It's strange. Weller should be big here.



I'll go with Town Called Malice, Ghosts, Bitterest Pill, and Man in the Corner Shop before That's Entertainment.

I agree, I don't think Weller gave a toss about being a success in the US even though he did write this in To Be Someone (though as much as anything this could be him scoffing at the fame he did have while leading The Jam):

To be someone must be a wonderful thing
A famous footballer a rock singer
Or a big film star
yes, I think I would like that

He's one of those guys who does he wants, doesn't give a shirt what people think. And as much as I revere what he did with The Jam I have no interest in his Style Council days but have enjoyed some of his later solo albums.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Full House is one of the greatest live albums from a decade with loads of them.

"Whammer Jammer, baby!"

 

[Neutral Corner]

Been going down the Seger rabbit hole and found that Alto Reed passed in 2020. Colon cancer.

RIP.

Bob Seger Pays Tribute to Saxophonist Alto Reed After Bandmate's Death

One of the great stage names in rock music. Alto Reed and Magic deck.

I saw Seger with the SBB band several times, and Alto Reed was always doing a solo while standing on top of the PA stack, or hanging in a harness from the roof of an arena, swinging back in forth in a long arc while wailing on his horn. Rest well, sir.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Just one? Unpossible.

The Stones.
Bruce and E Street.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The Band.
The ABB.
Fleetwood Mac.

I retain a deep and abiding love for Little Feat, back when Lowell George was still alive.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I agree, I don't think Weller gave a toss about being a success in the US even though he did write this in To Be Someone (though as much as anything this could be him scoffing at the fame he did have while leading The Jam):

To be someone must be a wonderful thing
A famous footballer a rock singer
Or a big film star
yes, I think I would like that

He's one of those guys who does he wants, doesn't give a shirt what people think. And as much as I revere what he did with The Jam I have no interest in his Style Council days but have enjoyed some of his later solo albums.

As I get older my favorite Jam period shifts later and later. Now I find myself listening to the Style Council more than The Jam.

I've never gotten too heavily into the Weller solo catalog but "On Sunset" is one of my favorite albums of the past few years.

 

[justgladtobehere]

The Who
Replacements
Radiohead
Violent Femmes

 

[Slacker]

If I could do what George Thorogood does,
I would do it all day, every day, and long into the night.

You might not have seen this one. But it kicks ass, too.

 

[Huggy]

"Whammer Jammer, baby!"

If that's not the greatest harp workout in rock history it's at least in the discussion.

 

[Twirling Time]

BS&TESB



BS&TSBB

Sorry, missed the subtle difference.

I was trying to elicit the reply "I like BS&TESB."

 

[Twirling Time]

Instrumentally, "Funeral Pyre" and "Precious" are my two favorite Jam songs. The bass line on the latter is so groooooovy. Not to mention the phaser pedals on the guitars and the HORNS.

 

[Twirling Time]

There's a weird story why "Train In Vain" was left off of The Clash's "London Calling," but that was before my time and I don't feel like googling it.