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Just pick two of your absolute favorite bands that are quite different

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I'll pick three: Bad Religion, The Dreadnoughts, and Days 'n Daze.

In some ways very similar - they're all "punk". However, Bad Religion has its roots in early 80s hardcore punk and has, with some notable exceptions like the song Cease (and the album Into the Unknown, which is hilariously bad and they wish the world would forget), maintained their "wall of guitars" and "oozin' awws" sound throughout their 40-ish years as a band. Also, their lyrical content generally is about societal and global issues.

The Dreadnoughts are a cider punk band that, at times is a bit like a Canadian incarnation of The Pogues or Gogol Bordello. They feature accordion in most of their songs, have done an acoustic album and a WWI concept album, and have a great catalog of acapella and accompanied shanties. They very much embrace folk music, especially polka. Lyrically, their most frequent themes involve sailors during the age of sail and shenanigans that they personally got up to.

Days 'n Daze is, what I'd say, straight-up folk-punk. All acoustic instruments that are fairly busking-friendly (guitar, gutbucket, washboard, trumpet) and vocals go from pop-punky to thrash screaming. Their lyrical themes generally involve anarchism, struggles with mental health and nihilism, parties, and interpersonal conflict.

While all three are "punk", they are very different musically and lyrically.

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Mental Cruelty and Open Mike Eagle

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Alice in Chains and Frank Sinatra

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Public Enemy and Orbital

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Tool
Susanne Sundfør

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Lovin' Spoonful and Poison Girls

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angelmaker

rainbow kitten surprise

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Between the Buried and Me

Chon

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I'll do two recent ones for me: Hail The Sun and Ginger Root.

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Twenty One Pilots and ELO.

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Superorganism and Electeic Callboy.

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NIN, and Ninja Sex Party.

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Let's go with: Decapitated & Bon Iver

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Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Electric Wizard

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I'll start: Vulfpeck and Tool

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Not my top 2 favs but they're both in my top list for sure

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Nice. Two of my tops! Despite the tonal difference, they get shuffled together a lot.

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So many to pick from. Red Handed Denial and Savlonic

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Slayer and The Beatles

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Tool and Muse.

Seen both live many times!

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Tiny victories

Stroke 9

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Love and Com Truise

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The Weeknd and Cattle Decapitation

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Drugs 'N Chugs, bby

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I just want the bread and bologna bundles to tuck away,
I don't work for free, I am barely giving a fuck away.

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Streetlight Manifesto and The Fall of Troy

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System of a Down and Indigo Girls

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Great song!

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Ella Fitzgerald and The Clash

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Wu Tang and Queens of the Stone Age

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Wu Tang and Molchat Doma

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Supergrass and Childish Gambino.

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Childish Gambino is also one of my faves

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Meshuggah & L'Impératrice

(live performance quality is a huge reason why they're in my tops)

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Animals as Leaders

Allen Stone

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The Dead South and Amon Amarth

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dillinger escape plan and prefab sprout. not sure you can get anymore different

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NIN and Cosmo Sheldrake

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The Chameleons and Supertramp

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The Beards and Breaking Benjamin

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Big|Brave and Bonobo

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The Beatles and Deerhoof

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NoFX and Emilie Simon

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