[kj] Music wanker poll

[GREG SLAWSON]

Pylon (US 80s) but I actually love the band

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On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:34 AM, "Brendan Quinn" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:


> Given that name-dropping Killing Joke (esp ‘early’ Killing Joke) is the music-wanker equivalent of a triple word score in Scrabble, the poll question is as follows:

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> Which artist or band would you name-drop to get the highest possible score at a music-wanker convention?

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> Criteria include but are not limited to: lack of attempt at commercial success / downright self-sabotage, uniqueness, humour, social commentary, mental illness, artistic pain, substance dependency, early / mysterious / humorous death, ability to use ancillary wank-terms such as ‘musique concrete’, ‘the sound of the earth vomiting’ and so forth.

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> I’m going with ‘What is Pere Ubu?’

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