Hi there,

It's great to read all your stories about Lowlife. I read that Eric is into Interpol. Not a bad choice Eric! And Lowlife girl is into SLAG.. (brilliant)

These are my favourite bands:

1. Sad Lovers and Giants
2. Comsat Angels
3. Catherine Wheel
4. Porcupine Tree / No-Man / Blackfield
5. Van der Graaf Generator / Peter Hammill
6. And also the Trees
7. Clan of Xymox
8. Peter Gabriel
9. Leonard Cohen
10.Marillion

I am interested in your favourite music. Perhaps the members of Lowlife themselves will tell us about their favourite music and influences on their music.

Regards from the netherlands

Interpol
Mark Burgess and all related
Nick Cave
Beatles
The Sound
And Also the Trees
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
The Ocean Blue
The Psychedelic Furs
Massive Attack
Felt
DJ Shadow
Nirvana
Pink Industry
John Coltrane
the Reegs
Abecedarians

Roxy Music
Brian Eno
The Fall
Colin Newman
Tom Waits
Killing Joke
tindersticks
David Sylvian
The Church
Slowdive/Mojave 3
Lanterna/Area/Moon Seven Times
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Galaxie 500
Breathless
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Sigur Ros

how could i forget sylvian and waits..

Here goes:

The Blue Nile
The Smiths
The Field Mice
The Orchids
The Wedding Present
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Doves
Elbow
Nick Drake
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions

amongst many others.........

Nick Drake and Lloyd Cole, of course!!

Yes Indeed, The Blue Nile, Mark Burgess & And Also The Trees

And
Joy Division en the first three albums of New Order.

The Field Mice should, of course, read The Field Mice/Northern Picture Library/Trembling Blue Stars.

Just for completeness.....

In no particular order

In The Nursery
The Chameleons
Japan ( showing my age!!)
My Vitriol
The Smiths
Wave In Head
Kitchens Of distinction
Talk Talk
The Associates
Slowdive

Ah! Cousin John is in town again ...
Listz? Alright then, in no particular order ...

01. The Sound / Adrian Borland (always nr.1)
02. The Chameleons / The Sun & The Moon
03. Sad Lovers & Giants / The Snake Corps
04. Kitchens Of Distinction
05. The House Of Love
06. Immaculate Fools
07. The Church
08. The Opposition
09. The Snake Corps
10. Echo & the Bunnymen
11. The Cure (first 3 albums)
12. The Waterboys (first 3 albums)
13. Clan Of Xymox (first 3 albums)
14. And Also The Trees
15. The Smiths
16. New Model Army / Justin Sullivan
17. The Ocean Blue (first 3 albums)
18. The Gun Club / Jeffrey Lee Pierce
19. Human Drama / Johnny Indovina
20. Catherine Wheel (where did they go!?!)

Have a look at Red Sun Records (www.redsunrecords.com) if you like any of these bands...

cheers
Rients

And Also The Trees
Fra Lippo Lippi (first 2 albums)
Breathless
The Asylum Party
The Bonapartes
Sad Lovers and Giants
The Chameleons
Ultravox (the john foxx years esp.)
Cocteau Twins
Durutti Column
Felt
The Ocean Blue
Riverside
The Decorators
The Sound
Ride

Lowlife
Helios Creed
Kramer
Psychic TV
His Name is Alive (Warn Defever)
Red House Painters
International Skyline
My Morning Jacket
Gary Numan
Sigur Ros
Kraftwerk
Soviet
Skinny Puppy
Jesus and Mary Chain
The The

The Church / Steve Kilbey
The Byrds / McGuinn / Parsons
Snow Patrol
Kings Of Leon
Bladdered / Cool Jerks
REM (Until Document)
The Gun Club
Blue Nile
Bauhaus / David J
The Jazz Butcher

..............and that will change in ten minutes......

Some many great bands already listed, which I agree with....which made me think to list mine in no particular order, a few are a bit more obscure, but worth tracking down:

joy division/new order
chameleons/sun & moon
lowlife/this scarlet train
breathless
and also the trees
modern eon
sad lovers and giants/snake corps/essence
red temple spirits
little nemo
monochrome set (early era)
FAC bands - stockholm monsters/wake/names/minny pops/tunnelvision
whipping boy
puressence
comsat angels
theatre of hate/spear of destiny
sisters of mercy/mission (pre 1988 stuff)
red zebra
spiral of silence
mecano (dutch band)
outsiders/second layer/sound/borland
party day
ballet m. ecanique/martin hall

Not sure how many of you know "this scarlet train"...but it is a great release with very pretty guitar arrangements. "pictureframe" made many tape compilation appearances for girlfriends.......

Marc

1st Loves

Lowlife
Puressence
INTERPOL
Bloc Party (the next big thing)
Billy Bragg
B-52's (I defy anyone not to dance to Rock Lobster)
The Wild Swans
Kitchens of Distinction
Broken Social Scene
Joy Division
The Smiths
My Wife and Children


I ABSOLUTE FECKING HATE LIST

Boy/Girls Bands
Anyone who can't play an instrument and claims to be a songwriter.
Realily TV shows
Dog Shit
Robbie Williams
Celine Dion
Rangers FC
People who Spit
Mustard
Bad Drivers
People who rip me off

HAIL

lowlife
sad lovers and giants
sound
chameleons
k. of distinctions
essence
snake corps
felt
love and rockets
dif juz
breathless
durutti column
convent
modern english
catherine wheel
ride
pale saints
slowdive
house of love
sun dial
swervedriver/toshack highway
opposition
the church

ciao a tutti da ROMA

So many to choose from. Here's a start......

The Doors
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Paul McCartney
ABBA
Queen
Guns 'n' Roses
Erasure
Nitzer Ebb
Spin Doctors
Live
Creed
Hootie and the Blowfish
Matchbox 20
Limp Bizkit
Hoobastank

You never mentioned that you were a fan of Little Nemo and Mecano....
Oh my gosh do you have The Bonapartes and The Asylum Party?
Fucking Fantastic.

I should have known to expect that from you though....You and your grand taste in music....Golly its been a while!

Couldn't help noticing the inclusion of Red Temple Spirits on your list. Got turned onto them as they toured w/a local (Lincoln, Ne, USA) band called For Against back in late 80's, early 90's... Do you have their material? Is so, would you take compensation to burn/copy it? Know any sites that might have their CD's for sale? You're the only other person I've found that has heard of this great band... Incidentally, I do have the limited letterpress 7" of "New Land" and "Exodus From Lhasa" from Independent Project Records. Do you know of For Against? If not, go to Words-on-music.com... A sure thing based on your list... Take care.

It is heartening to notice so many of my personal favourites amongst those of others.
A few of mine, in no particular order;

Red Temple Spirits
The Opposition
The Chameleons
Cocteau Twins
Danse Society
Christian Death (up to and including Atrocities)
Mephisto Walz
Siglo XX
Death In June
In Camera
Blue In Heaven
Sad Lovers And Giants
Snake Corps
The Sound
Dead Can Dance
Norma Loy
Spiral Of Silence
John Foxx
Cinema Strange
And Also The Trees....

and innumerable others.

Slowdive
The Cure
Clan of Xymox
Lowlife
The Church
Pink Floyd
Cocteau Twins
Melotron
Monster Movie
MBV

Here I go..

1. Current 93: I doubt any will ever replace them as my #1

the rest is just in a grouping depending on my mood:

Breathless
Lowlife
Chameleons
Joy Division
Sisters of Mercy
Ordo Equitium Solis
Sol Invictus
Sixth Comm
Jesus & Mary Chain
Early In The Nursery
post Rozz Williams and preRozz Williams Christian Death
Marillion (Only with Fish)
Fish
Pink Floyd
Terminal Cheesecake
Skullflower/Ramleh
Legendary Pink Dots
Crosby Stills & Nash
Some Alphaville
Bad Brains/7 Seconds/Agent Orange/ Subhumans (in my punk mood)
LaRue (in my christian mood:)
New Model Army
Screaming For Emily
Raison Detre/ In Slaughter Natives/ Nocturnal Emmissions
Swans

I really enjoy lists as it opens up new music ideas for me.

How about: best music store on the internet list?

I like:
Red Sun
ToneVendor
Twee Kitten
Soliemoon
Red Sun
Middle Pillar (for good gothic)
Durtro (for your Current 93)
Forced Exposure

Any other suggestions?

Lowlife
The Smiths/Morrissey
Pet Shop Boys
Shonen Knife
Blondie
Grandaddy
The Specials
Dusty Springfield
L7
Chemical Brothers
Rufus Wainwright
Green Day
St. Etienne
The Magnetic Fields
Weezer
Everything but the Girl
Belle and Sebastian
Patsy Cline

jeeez....I'm all over the place!

Just curious what year did everyone graduate?

1986 here.

In high school these where my favorite bands:
and also the trees
sad lovers and giants
cocteau twins
breathless
jesus and mary chain
the chameleons
joy division/new order
Felt
Echo and The Bunnymen
The Primitives


Now,
Wedding Present/ Cinerama
Magnetic Fields
Kings Of Convenience
Belle and Sabastian
Moose
Field Mice
Blueboy
Birdie
St Etienne
Razorcuts
If anyone want so to trade music let me know.
ygonz17@yahoo.com

Thank you, thank you, thank you. . .all of you ahem 'older folks' (I graduated high school in '98) who contributed these lists. I have discovered some amazing bands on this board. I feel like you came over, put something on my turntable and told me to listen. . .carefully. Here are my two bits in no particular order, with as few repeats as possible:

1.smiths/morrissey/elva snow (almost obligatory)
2.joy division/new order/electronic(first 2 records)/monaco(first record)
3.gene
4.the cure (up to and including 'wish')
5.depressed mode
6.psychedelic furs
7.echo and the bunnymen
8.adorable
9.tindersticks
10.viva death
11.face to face (the 'ignorance is bliss record', trust me some of you will love it)
12.clan of xymox (i don't get this 'only the first three albums are good' trope)
13.a northern chorus
14.engineers
15.wake
16.sad lovers and giants
17.afghan whigs/twilight singers
18.calla
19.cave in ('creative eclipses' and 'jupiter')
20.trashcan sinatras
21.the sound
22.the walkmen
23.spoon
24.christie front drive/antarctica/ova looven/the 101
25.elliot
26.husker du/bob mould/sugar
27.midsummer
28.hum/centaur
29.ultravox (post john foxx)
30.arab strap
31.talk talk/beth gibbons' solo record
32.the house of love
33.the go-betweens
34.the feelies/the chills/galaxie 500/luna/dean and brita
35.the lucksmiths
36.drowningman (the first record is the best)
37.the dears
38.rialto
39.tiger army
40.pegboy
41.the church
42.sunny day real estate
43.halley
44.samiam
45.the czars
46.leatherface/jesse
47.editors
48.saetia/off minor/hot cross
49.frank sinatra's bleak concept albums on capitol
50.the autumns

I'll stop there!

Sorry to go on for so long - hope there is something good in there for you. . .

From France, a country where we talk about coldwave to describe, Low Life, Cocteaus or Cure music, today my top 10 is, apart from Low Life:

Virginia Astley
Breathless
Cindytalk
Cocteau Twins
Durutti Column
Minimal Compact
Opera Multi Steel
Sleeping Dogs Wake
Swans
The Wolfgang Press

The Chameleons
The Essence
Dif Juz
clan of Xymox
Felt
Slowdive
Fields of the Nephilim
Cocteau Twins
Type O Negative
The Church

Lowlife
Sigur Ros
Helios Creed
Kramer
Psychic TV
His Name is Alive (Warn Defever)
Red House Painters
International Skyline
My Morning Jacket
Gary Numan
Sigur Ros
Kraftwerk
Soviet
Skinny Puppy
Jesus and Mary Chain

Let's make this discussion relevant for 2007!

Lowlife
Sigur Ros
Helios Creed
Kramer
Psychic TV
His Name is Alive (Warn Defever)
Red House Painters
International Skyline
My Morning Jacket
Gary Numan
Sigur Ros
Kraftwerk
Soviet
Skinny Puppy
Jesus and Mary Chain

Sigur Ros?

such an amazing band. saw them last year in portland and was by far the best live show ive ever seen.

1.ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
2.THE CURE
3.RAZORCUTS
4.THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
5.LOWLIFE
6.COCTEAU TWINS
7.THE CHAMELEONS
8.THE SMITHS
9.THE CHARLATANS UK
10.THE WAKE
11.MANIC STREET PREACHERS
12.LEGIAO URBANA
13.MCCARTHY
14.THE TRASH CAN SINATRAS
15.PRIMAL SCREAM
16.JASMINE MINKS
17.RIDE
18.GANG OF FOUR
19.THE WEATHER PROPHETS
20.THE LOFT
...

21.RADIOHEAD
22.CAPITAL INICIAL
AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE...

DÁ-LE BRASIL !!! VALEU...

All in the sort of soundslike:

For Against
www.myspace.com/foragainst
They're not new, but they have just released a new album, and it's fabulous.

Dragons
www.myspace.com/dragons1

Bell Hollow
www.myspace.com/bellhollow

Francis 7
www.myspace.com/francis7

Perverted by Language
www.myspace.com/pervertedbylanguagemusic
(OK - That's me so that's a cheap plug there)

1) Echo & The Bunnymen
2) The Smiths
3) Psychedelic Furs
4) Associates
5) The Cure (pre "Wish")
6) Icehouse
7) The Sound
8) Comsat Angels
9) Simple Minds (pre "Don't You Forget")
10) The Chameleons