What originally started as a weekly “Show and Tell” music club between friends, slowly became RecordSpeak. Working as a publicist in the music industry, Amanda is constantly scouring music blogs and listening to what others have to say about the “it” band or song of the moment. This blog is Amanda putting her opinion on the table and sharing the great bands that you may not have heard of yet. With help from Jamey, a Raleigh music critic, RecordSpeak was born.
RecordSpeak is:
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Top Five Favorite Bands: The Beatles are too obvious right? Counting Crows, The Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Eat World, Vanaprasta, Copeland, Rise Against, Sunday Lane, Bon Iver, Nirvana, Jesse Thomas, Schuyler Fisk
Top Three Best Live Shows You’ve Seen: Darwin’s Waiting Room, The Receiving End of Sirens, and OFF!
Top Three Albums You Never Get Sick Of: “August and Everything After”- Counting Crows, “Futures” – Jimmy Eat World, and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”- 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, Steve Miller Band, and Billy Joel
Five Bands that Aren’t Signed and Should Be: Brighten, Hell & 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? 5 years ago I would have said Warped TOur, but Woodstock is the clear winner here.
Favorite Movies: Empire Records, Superbad, Almost Famous, Grandma’s Boy, Big Daddy, Step Brothers
Hobbies: Going to concerts, kickball, writing, camping, Super Mario World on Super NES, bike riding in DTLA, hanging out at artsy coffee shops and all that other hipster shit.
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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.
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