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DPD: 080 - Three of a Perfect Pair |
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Date: July 26th, 2008 Prokop Trios. Three people, three instruments. It’s pretty much the bare minimum one needs to make some kick ass tunes. Sure, there are a few of true ‘duos’ that don’t use any backing instruments, but it’s pretty rare.
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1: I Come From A Long Line Of Shipbuilders Bastro - Sing The Troubled Beast |
Selection by: darpino |
Noise rock power trios - a force unto themselves.
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Husker Du - Zen Arcade |
Selection by: prokop |
This packs pretty much everything I like into one little post-apocalyptic diddy. Musically it’s got the great Husker Du pop hooks, their wailing guitar grind, all with Mould sneering about mass destruction, big corporations, and folks to eager to sign up for it all again. Just a piece of cynic beauty. |
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3: Motorcycle Love and Rockets - Love and Rockets |
Selection by: diamond |
This bright light from the very disappointing 4th album, just kicks all kinds of fuzztone ass! I don't mind a band expanding their sound, evolving and all that, but these guys bread and butter was in that fuzzed out sound that put them on the map after the demise of Bauhaus. |
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own |
Selection by: darpino |
Conveniently for me, my favorite BRMC song also happens to be their best which makes my choice on how to represent this rock-n-revolutionary trio pretty easy. That said I put these boys through their paces by listening to all four albums and b-sides before relying on my initial gut instinct to use "In Like The Rose". BRMC are one of the very best "newish" bands out there and as a trio generate some really kick-ass sounds.
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The Young Gods - Only Heaven |
Selection by: prokop |
Who said I picked all power-trios. Hmmm, ok, this one kind of counts too. But really, AMG calls them Swiss electro-noise terrorists. Too kool for skool. |
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Covenant - Northern Light |
Selection by: diamond |
I originally wanted to use this for the Gods, Myths and Legends disc, but this legend didn't meet the criteria of existing legend, so it was disqualified. I remember some damn good times cutting a rug to this song at The Edge before it was knocked down to make room for the ballpark. |
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7: All Mine Portishead - Portishead |
Selection by: darpino |
One of the coolest sounding trios ever. This is far and away my favorite song by Portishead. It highlights their inventive production work, multi-instrumental talent, and Beth Gibbons' amazing voice unlike any other song they've done.
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Kepone - Kepone |
Selection by: prokop |
This song has more drive then Tiger Woods on the surface of the moon. I think it’s an awesome showcase of how a drummer and bassist make each other’s bed. And there’s some goddamned good screaming to boot. |
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9: Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell |
Selection by: diamond |
If The Pretenders were to form now, this is what they would sound like. While the music is good (much like The Pretenders) it's really just an accompaniment to the star of the show, the vocals. I don't want to say that Karen O is ripping off Chrissy Hynde, which some people will say, but she is an obvious influence on her style and it really works well. |
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Muse - Absolution |
Selection by: darpino |
This song gets me fired up. Turn it up!
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Killdozer - The Last Waltz |
Selection by: prokop |
I just can’t get over the amount of noise these guys can produce, and really it’s mainly from just two of them. I did feel a bit bad using a cover, as they really do have a lot of great songs themselves; however, the full power of this is pretty hard to deny. I mean the original Skynyrd version has 7 guys play this. Seriously, over twice as many people. And this is live, no added guitar tracks, no anything. Just two dudes strumming and one guy banging. No wonder Killdozer is better, they are twice as efficient. Best damn pig-fucking around if you ask me. |
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12: Fields Centaur - In Streams |
Selection by: diamond |
Due to its heavy usage of the deep, crunchy onslaught of effected guitar sound, this song takes a place on the podium of top 5 trios. Matt Talbot, the genius behind Hum has taken his wall of sound to new heights with Centaur, it's like Hum + I know some folks would disagree with me, but that's just like your opinion man. |
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13: In The City The Jam - In The City |
Selection by: darpino |
One of The Jam's classic anthems highlighting their classic rock-n-roll trio format. Wicked rhythm work, propelling guitar, impassioned vocals, and just the right amount of harmonized back-up singing. While The Jam had a great career and pumped out a lot of terrific songs, I feel their first album really highlights their trio-ness the most. In The City as an album and a song features a stripped-down style that fits in nicely with the British Punk era and relies heavily on simpler trio song-writing in a way that I love. Not to detract from Weller's later structural genius but to represent one of the best trios ever, I think this early work does the trick the best. |
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14: Fish Fry Big Black - Songs about Fucking |
Selection by: prokop |
"it went like this, as near as anybody can tell. he went to her family's fish fry, took her to the drive-in, porked her, then beat her to death with his boot. it is speculated that he was upset about the ease with which he got into her pants, when she had resisted his brother's attempts earlier. he threw the body into frenchtown pond, if memory serves, and went home. when the police found him the following afternoon, he was nonchalantly scrubbing out the cab of his truck with the aid of a garden hose."
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15: The Trees Rush - Hemispheres |
Selection by: diamond |
I know this is supposed to be a metaphor about oppressive governments, but I can imagine these guys sitting around, taking psychotropic drugs, reading Tolkein and writing this song based on the Ents from The Two Towers.
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