Originally started as a weekly “Show and Tell” music club between friends, became RecordSpeak. Both working in the music industry on separate side of the country, Amanda as a music publicist/manager in Los Angeles and Titus as a music director at FHU in Tennessee, they began talking regularly about the music scenes in their areas. Realizing that there were so many great bands that weren’t getting any credit, they decided to team up and make others aware of their findings. With help from Jamey, a Raleigh music critic, RecordSpeak was born.
RecordSpeak is:
<–AMANDA
Top Five Favorite Bands: Counting Crows, Jimmy Eat World, Copeland, Rise Against, and Schuyler Fisk (The Beatles are too obvious)
Top Three Best Live Shows You’ve Seen: Darwin’s Waiting Room, The Receiving End of Sirens, and Bad Religion/ Rise Against Tour
Top Three Albums You Never Get Sick Of: “August and Everything After”- Counting Crows, “Futures” – Jimmy Eat World, and “Help”- The Beatles
Worst Album Covers of All Time: Pantera “Metal Magic”, Cher “Take Me Home” , Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive!” and every Prince album
Worst Bands to Ever Play Music Together? Metallica, ICP, and Cradle of Filth
Record that Changed Your Life? Green Day- Dookie and Nirvana- Nevermind (First 2 CDs I owned)
Music You Grew Up On: Bryan Adams, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Randy Travis, Steve Miller Band, and Billy Joel
Five Bands that Aren’t Signed and Should Be: Brighten, Hell and Lula, Olin and The Moon, Have Gun Will Travel, and Vanaprasta
The Beatles or Elvis Presley? The Beatles
Michael Jackson or Prince? Michael Jackson
70s Punk Rock, 80s Hair Bands or 90s Grunge? 90s Grunge
Woodstock or Warped Tour? So tough… Woodstock was epic, but I have to say Warped Tour.
Favorite Movies: Empire Records, Superbad, Almost Famous, Grandma’s Boy, Big Daddy, The Client
Hobbies: Going to concerts, kickball, writing, tennis, Super Mario World on Super NES, bike riding in DTLA, hanging out at artsy coffee shops.
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<– TITUS
Top Five Favorite Bands: Dave Matthews, Say Anything, Third Eye Blind, mewithoutyou, Bon Iver
Top Three Best Live Shows You’ve Seen: Dave Matthews Bonner Springs, KS 06; Death Cab For Cutie Memphis, TN 09; Paper Route/Innerpartysystem Nashville, TN 09
Top Three Albums You Never Get Sick Of: I Get Wet (Andrew WK), Blue (Third Eye Blind), Menorah/Majora (Say Anything)
70s Punk Rock, 80s Hair Bands or 90s Grunge? 90s Grunge
Woodstock or Warped Tour? Warped Tour
Favorite Movies: Say Anything, High Fidelity, Shawshank Redemption, 500 Days of Summer, Away We Go, Runaway Bride
Hobbies: movies, The Office, History, planning weddings, guitar, running, live shows
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<–JAMEY
Top Five Favorite Bands: Oasis, Augustana, Joshua Radin, The Avett Brothers, and Mumford and Sons
Top Three Best Live Shows You’ve Seen: Paleface, Mae, and Dashboard Confessional
Top Three Albums You Never Get Sick Of: “Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt”- Augustana, “Cracked Rear View” – Hootie & The Blowfish, and “Bleed American”- Jimmy Eat World
Worst Album Covers of All Time: Kenny Rogers “Keep The Fire”, and the Bee Gees “Life in a Tin Can”
Record that Changed Your Life? The Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse
Music You Grew Up On: Hootie & The Blowfish, The Verve Pipe, Donny Osmond, Don McLean, The Beatles
The Beatles or Elvis Presley? The Beatles
Michael Jackson or Prince? Michael Jackson
70s Punk Rock, 80s Hair Bands or 90s Grunge? 90s Grunge
Woodstock or Warped Tour? Warped Tour
Favorite Movies: Clerks 2, Grandma’s Boy, Grease, Billy Madison
Hobbies: Writing, music, playing guitar.
