First off, thank you, LoCO readers, for indulging us in last week’s experimental Humboldt Approved. It went way better than expected and produced arguably the most thoughtful responses of any of our dumb polls yet. For better or worse, you have encouraged us.  

For this week’s Humboldt Approved we’re going to keep it simple, stupid. Historically, we would argue that Humboldt County has overachieved musically. So, simply, of all the bands you can remember that have ever made a joyful racket behind the Redwood Curtain, past or present, whose noises are most firmly embedded in your ear/heart? 

In case you have not caught on to how voting works ‘round here, let us restate it for the umpteenth time.

To vote, look through the comments of this Humboldt Approved poll. If someone has already nominated the answer you would give for this week’s category, click the upvote arrow. If you don’t see your desired Humboldt Approved answer nominate it in a comment for others to upvote. (Please be careful to not duplicate answers; redundant answers will be deleted and potential associated upvotes will be lost.) Feel free to make your case by replying to/cheering on the answer you love most, but again the number by the arrows on the initial nomination is what counts.

You can vote for as many nominees as you deem worthy but, of course, the more you do that the more watered down your initial vote becomes. That’s math.

We reserve the right to delete superfluous/lame comments that make the voting/comment section hard to sift through. Please try not to get offended when your comment battle reply is deleted. We’re trying to do something here.

While many weeks we look for two winners — one winner from the metropolises of Eureka and Arcata, and one from Humboldt’s smaller communities — due to the nature of this category, this time we’re gonna limit it to one. Voting closes next Friday at noon and soon after a winner will be declared.

Now, please honor some local band’s musical legacy with some spirited nominatin’.