12A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 7, 2002 ARTS THE END OF THE LINE: 41-50 BEST BANDS Continued from Page 11A 41. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - One of the three godfathers of rap music, he is the creator of the cutting and back- spins that dominate the music today. Created a then-innovative sound by working with the who s who of golden age hip-hop. He and his group, the Furious Five, dominated the airwaves before you even came into your miserable existence. 42. Pink Floyd - When you re 'on acid, they suddenly become like Socrates, they make perfect sense and you wonder why no one else is looking at the colors pouring forth from your boom box, colors you can smell. Roger Waters is a god, and their jam sessions make Phish look like grandpa s polka band. Even their newer mate- rial has a refreshingly trippy quality that seems less store-bought than their many pseudo-indie I love drugs progeny. 43. The Doors -- Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore were overshadowed by UCLA film student turned sex icon leader singer Jim Morrison. Their 1967 self titled debut is one of rocks strongest first attempts, but their subsequent albums never matched the energy and audacious- ness of the album. The whole record has a consummate feel of profes- sionalism, which really gives the songs a big boost. 44. Weezer - Their debut ironically melded KISS stadium rock with the Beach Boys pop sen- sibilities. Fueled by the smash-hit Buddy Holly, Weezer rose imme- diately to fame. However, it was the morally bankrupt brainchild of singer/songwriter/dictator Rivers Cuomo Pinkerton that solidified Weezer musically. The darkly sexu- al record opened Cuomo s soul and desires to world and gave main- Stewart plummet- ed into his Do you think I m sexy suck- fest, he and soon- to-be Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood were recruited to lead The Faces, who lived the booze and women lifestyle to the extreme. They are r e m e m b e r e d mostly for their one major hit, Stay With Me and the use of Ooh la la at the end of Rush- Courtesy of Elektra more, but A Nod it? Is As Good As Wink To A ... Blind Horse is an enduring album. 46. Pearl Jam - They came together artistically just as Nirvana was dressing up the early 90s in flannel. Pearl Jam s first effort, Ten, is a hard-rock throw-back to the 70s with painfully-thoughtful lyrics by front man Eddie Vedder. While their later efforts have lacked the originality and intensity of Ten and Vs., they still stand as the true disciples of grunge-godfather Neil Young, and the fact that Vedder did- n t parish as a young, tormented artist should not be held against them. 47. The Meters - Unlike the hard, cornered funk of James Brown, the New Orleans funk of The Meters is full of organ grooves and mellow rhythms. The group, led by Art Neville, never achieved any great measure of popular success, but their laid back style has been a massive influence for funk of the last decades. 48. Metallica - Don t let recent events and albums cloud the truth: Metallica, for much of the 80s and for the early part of the 90s, WAS metal, not just a part of the genre but the genre in and of itself. Angry, bludgeoning songs about war and death like Battery and Disposable Heroes driven by lightning fast downstrokes and patches of doublebass sold hun- dreds of thousands of albums and concert tickets all without the aid of MTV and radio. Metallica s brash and unforgiving songs spoke to a generation of working class white teenagers like nothing else could, heavily influencing a generation of young metal-ers. 49. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Lucid tenta- cles test n sleeved/ n joined n jointed jade pointed/ Di amond back patterns/ Neon meate dream of a octafish/ Artifact on rose petals/ n flesh petals n pots/ Fack n feast n tubes tubs bulbs/ In jest incest injest injust in feast incest/ n specks n speckled speckled/ Speckled speculation/ Fedlocks waddlin feast/ Archaic faces fren- zy/ Ceramic fists artificial deceased/ n cists rancid buds burst/ Dank drum n dung dust/ Meate rose n hairs/ Meaty meate rose n hairs/ Meaty dream wet meate/ Limp damp rows/ Peeled n felt fields n belts/ Impaled on n dae- man/ Mucus mules/ Twot trot tra la tra la/ Tra la tra la tra la/ Whale bone fields n belts/ Whale bone farmhouse/ Cavorts girdled n lat- ters uh lite/ Cavorts girdled n lat- ters uh lite/ Uh dipped amidst/ Squirmin serum n semen n syrup n semen n serum/ Stirrupped in syrup/ Neon meate dream of a octafish. Fuck yeah. 50. Tenacious D - Comedy rock has never been so serious. They call themselves the greatest and best band in the world. They are the Thor and Loki of pop music, mightily overweight slinging acoustic guitars and clever songs like a musical sharp-shooting Lego- las. They take no prisoners, only women s hearts for their plunder. They are the D. s 0 Only thing missing is the naked Indian. Get stream music a too personal shot in the arm. While Weezer s third LP displayed subpar songs from the previous two, it ushered in a renais- sance from the band that had fallen off the face of the earth. 45. The Faces - Before Rod ' e S 2 4pril Graduation Fair 1/ Buy your cap and gown, order your class ring, and join the Alumni Association all at one place! The Graduation Fair is designed to take the stress out of graduation! 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