recently, while we were in soCal for a visit, our good friend ruth schultz posed a question that was to suck up a few hours of my life. “what influential band would you erase from history, knowing that not only was that band gone, but any bands that would spawn from their influence?” genius. too many times have we played the “what are your top 5 bands of all time” game, this was much more diabolical. from this, i’ve seen friend turn on friend. yesterday, this same question was brought back up via twitter and a few friends got involved. what resulted was an interesting twitter thread that i’ve recreated for you. i had to reverse each and every post from bottom to top to make it readable (as twitter has the newest posts at the top, like an email) which took a while, but was worth it.
a few things to know:
if you’ve never twittered before 1) start and 2) you’ll see posts that include @stevelucky or @notBrit. the symbol @ followed by a username denotes that that post is directed toward that user.
you’ll see a few links in the posts. unfortunately, i’m unable to make them active links. if you really want to check them out, you’ll have to type them yourself.
since a twitter post is limited to 140 characters, you’ll find a few abbreviations (mostly band names). those abbreviations are as follows:
SY = Sonic Youth
RHCP = Red Hot Chili Peppers
NY Dolls = New York Dolls
GBV = Guided by Voices
YHF = Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (a Wilco album)
VW = Vampire Weekend
DMB = Dave Matthews Band
BSP = British Sea Power
PJ = Pearl Jam
The people involved in the conversation (in order of appearance):
@stevelucky = steven heller
@notBrit = ethan smith
@jaydmcferson = jayd mcferson
@JaredCovington = jared covington
@NathanUsher = nathan usher
with all that being said, click the link below to read the entire conversation. it’s a 640k .png that’s a little over 9000 pixels high. have fun.
and while you’re at it, sound off below as to the influential band that you’d erase from history. the more inflammatory, the better!
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