Subnormal Magazine Votes Taylor Swift- Best Boyfriend Dumper
“Now that you’re sick of seeing Miley Cyrus every where you turn, you can instead read about recording artists here that won’t leave you feeling like a cheap tramp after watching them – well at least some of them…” – Subnormal Magazine
Top Nothing List
While any ranking, rating, or review of art, film, fashion, or music is largely worthless and annoying, we here at subnormal add our incomplete and trite list to the annals of history for one reason and one reason only. We wanted to think of some of our favorite music we wanted to hear now, and we figured we might as well type it out to teach some of the teeny boppers a thing or two.
And so with that, the following are subnormal magazine’s abridged pick of the Top Music, in various genres, and in no particular ranking order. We know there are many hundreds of other great bands and singers out there that are not on these lists, but we have to end it somewhere.
For those of you college graduate readers who forgot what the word abridged means, that’s just a snotty way of saying this list has had some stuff chopped off it from the original created list, for one annoying reason or another. In this case, it’s because we want to entice you to lift a lazy finger and go look at the other site of The Hollywood Sentinel (listed below) where the full list is.
Best New Wave Bands of All Time
Psychedelic Furs
Depache Mode
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Culture Club
Devo
The Residents
Blondie
The Smiths
Mazzy Star
Missing Persons
Best Industrial / Dance Bands of All Time
Skinny Puppy
S.T.G.
Atari Teenage Riot
Nine Inch Nails
Ministry
Marilyn Manson
Front 242
Best Gothic Bands of All Time
Swans
Christian Death
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Bauhaus
Sisters of Mercy
Mission U.K.
Kommunity FK
Red Lory Yellow Lory
Fields of Nephilim
Best Rock Bands of All Time (Punk / New Wave)
Sonic Youth
Smashing Pumpkins
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Pixies
Husker Du
Afghan Whigs
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Iggy and the Stooges
Best Pop / Rock Bands (Modern)
Oasis
The Stone Roses
Ivy
The Cure
Best Solo Pop Artists of All Time
Madonna
Michael Jackson
(Note: best male and female vocalists are determined by vocal range, quality of voice, tone, pitch, and aesthetic)
Best Female Vocalists – Modern (Living)
Karen O.
Chrissie Hynde – Pretenders
Thalia Zedek (Live Skull)
Joni Mitchell
Diamanda Galas
Tori Amos
PJ Harvey
Patti Smith
Best Male Vocalists – Modern (Living)
Mick Jagger – Rolling Stones
Robert Plant – Led Zeppelin
Paul McCartney
Steve Perry – Journey
Dennis DeYoung – Styx
Greg Dulli – Afghan Whigs
Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden
Roger Waters – Pink Floyd
Phil Collins
Morrissey
Best Shock Pop Artist
Miley Cyrus
Best Heart-breaker and Boy Dumper
Taylor Swift
Best Punk Bands of All Time
The Clash
X-Ray Specs
Dead Kennedy’s
Dead Milkmen
Bad Religion
Bikini Kill
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Television
Lydia Lunch
Sex Pistols
Social Distortion
Best Drummer
Neil Pert – Rush
Steve Shelley – Sonic Youth
Best Guitarist
Lee Ronaldo – Sonic Youth
Thurston Moore – Sonic Youth
Dave Navarro – Janes Addiction
Best Bassist
David Williams – Michael Jackson, Madonna, and more (Guinness Book of World Records, most studio albums, guitar solo, “Billy Jean”)
Best Pianist / Keyboardist
Elton John
Tori Amos
Best New Artists (last 5 to 10 years)
Teegan and Sara
Empire of the Sun
Warpaint
Best Theme Band for Film or Television
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Davey Jones
Donnie and Marie
The Young Ones
Best Bands / Artists of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and All Time
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Patti Smith
The Everly Brothers
Tommy James and the Shondelles
Elvis
Rush
Queen
Styx
Genesis
The Ventures
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers
The Go Go’s
David Bowie
Aerosmith
Best Metal Bands of All Time
Ozzy Osbourne
Motley Crue
Ratt
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Best Rap Artists of All Time
Public Enemy
N.W.A.
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
See the complete list of artists at The Hollywood Sentinel in the link below, and go to the subnormal page via the table of contents table at the left of the screen once you are on that site. If that’s too confusing for you to figure out, then get off the drugs man.
SUBNORMAL MAGAZINE: Music Review
SKINNY PUPPY: VIDEO COLLECTION 1984-1992 DVD VIDEO (NETWORK)
8 tracks / music videos
There is something in Matrix theory which states that the dividing line between conscious awareness and the subconscious is called the limen, or liminal threshold. In the musical world, Skinny Puppy would accurately be described as the acoustical equivalent of the limenal threshold. Effectively burning down the dimensional barrier between conscious and unconscious awareness, seeping in to the cerebral cortex and central nervous system through the waveforms conscious level of sound, and yet concurrently, traversing the paths of the unknown, into the force of the matrix, subatomic power; dreamscapes, ecstatic dimensions, and terrorfests of the sleeping unknown. Skinny Puppy is the industrial / gothic / punk rock equivalent of psychotherapy on speed. Of nitro-ecstasy with stereophonic distortion ready to incite the revolution.
The imitable Skinny Puppy is as to industrial rock music as Gustav Klimpt is to the world of art. Legendary, masterful, otherworldly, and transcendental. The force of cEvin Key, and Skinny Puppy here combines like a fusion of atomic power perfectly contained in a tower of mass force barely able to contain itself. For sound is indeed a force of nature, and Skinny Puppy is like a tsunami packed in a Marshall stack of gun metal grey and black powder, ready to blow you into oblivion.
This collection has been out a while, and some of the songs are years old, but so is work by Pink Floyd and the Beatles. Works by the masters and classics never tire such is Skinny Puppy.
SKINNY PUPPY, video collection 1984-1992 (Nettwerk America)
Skinny Puppy is what I consider to be, one of the most important bands in the existence of musical history, past, present, and future. On this amazing DVD here we have some of the best songs of all time including STAIRS AND FLOWERS, FAR TOO FRAIL, DEEP DOWN TRAUMA SOUNDS, TESTURE, SPASMOLYTIC, and the other club classics including DIG IT, SMOTHERED HOPE, and KILLING GAME. Wow. If you already listen to Skinny Puppy, then you are wasting your time reading this, so just buy this for goodness sake, what are you waiting for? It’s masterful. And the videos are outstanding. If you do not know of this phenomenal band, and like stuff like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, then slide that stuff aside for awhile and listen to one of the originators that influenced it all””The best in the world, Skinny Puppy.
Sub Con Radio
Ogre from Skinny Puppy has just this week, released a great new radio station online, called subconradio dot com. On the station, which is a feed that plays for over two hours and then seems to disappear- at least it did on my computer. Music ranges from full original cuts of classic old industrial and new wave such as The Cure, to re-mixes of rap, new wave, experimental, funk and more by Skinny Puppy, with artists such as Diamanda Galas, NWA, and more, which is brilliant. Tune in to the site to get the specifics on when the show will happen.
Subnormal will be in Hollywood November 16th, meeting select models that the magazine will consider for publication in its future issue online. interested models should contact 310-226-7176.
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