Popular bands/artists you just don’t get
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The hot Italian. Time for lunch....I think Fire House made a good move giving up music to focus on sub shops. Mmmmmmmm .... Hook and Ladder...
The only time those artists have ever been listed together for any reason.
I 100% would’ve put them in the 80’s based on memory. How they were a new band and winning awards into the 90’s is inconceivable.
As far as 80’s bands go, for me GNR is tops. Growing up, I LOVED Poison - and don’t get me wrong, even the haterest of haters has to admit they had some good joints - but listening to them for an album or 2, and then switching over to GNR or Metallica or even Motley Crue, there’s no doubt those latter bands were quality and Poison was closer to Warrant or Winger or Firehouse or Whitesnake or Great White ...
Funny enough, my first concert when i was about 9 or 10 was Aerosmith and The Black Crowes opened for them. I’d much rather hear Black Crowes nowadays than Aerosmith.
Nirvana is a band I never got into, but I can appreciate their place and role in musical history. I much preferred Alice In Chains.
Maybe you are 'flat out wrong' about your other opinions? Just a thought? I'm not wrong very often.
Regardless, I wanted to pop this back up because for whatever reason it has been a Radiohead couple of weeks and last year I missed the reissue of OK Computer with a few newly studio recorded Radiohead tracks (Lift, I Promise, Man of War)...that are just fantastic. I see why they didn't put them on OK Computer as they would have been a different band altogether...but it goes to show you they were making their best music between OK Computer and Kid A days.
I had a Professor Lhamon (not sure about the spelling) who asserted that Bob Dylan was the most brilliant poet of his generation.
I was also not really into Nirvana nor Pearl Jam in the 90s, I preferred Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Faith No More, and Alice in Chains BUT...as I’ve gotten older I kind of grew to really love both Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Since this thread is back I want to once again say how much I hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Since this thread is back I want to once again say how much I hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers
I’m forever near a stereo saying, “what the f$&: is this garbage?” And the answer is always The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
-Nick Cave
-Nick Cave
I heard DMB the other day for the first time since the mid 90's. I couldn't believe how badly and poorly they've aged. Matthews literally sounds like a joke affectation while singing and their music sounds like it belongs on Sesame Street. Eric Clapton, including Cream. Poser, wannabe black american blues guitarist from the 1920's/ 30's. Hendrix was everything he could only imagine and dreamt of ever being.
Ornette Coleman....weird shit that only people who pretend to like "modern art", could pretend to like. SRV besides the song "Couldn't Stand the Weather" prior to "In Step". By "In Step", he FINALLY found his own voice instead of copying lick by lick the sounds of Hendrix and the Three Kings ( B.B, Albert, and Freddie). Hell of a guitarist but might as well been a cover band prior to his last album before the accident. I did enjoy the album he put out with his brother prior to passing, though.
ALL rap. Garbage. Every bit of it.
A lot of the pussy 70's Singer/ Songwriter crap. I'd like to punch James Taylor in the throat. Springsteen....communist propagandist.....a wannabe Woody Guthrie.
I "get" Wynton Marsalis (staying in the vein of the OP) but I really had to stop the urge I had to throttle him on stage during a performance I was attending after he shit all over Miles Davis in the late 80's. The nerve of someone that built a career, at that point, of 100 % copying Miles's modal and cool jazz sounds, while calling Mile's out on his willingness to expand and try new sounds and ideas, while Miles moved away from the very sounds that he had created decades previously, and that Wynton had exploited for his own profit. I seriously gave it thought sitting in the audience but fortunately my girl at the time talked some sense into me.
Country....besides Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett, Chris Stapleton, and Sturgill Simpson (over the last 35-40 years or so) most of it is an absolute joke, particularly the last 15 years or so from Nashville. There are a few exceptions......but not many.
Pearl Jam and Nirvana.......no thanks, except for a few songs off the acoustic album from MTV appearance. Grateful Dead.......I never cared for their drug addled, meandering, meaningless live albums from the 70's and 80's. The unfocused stuff that never went anywhere pissed me off. That said, they had some beautiful songs from their studio albums during this time (particularly American Beauty) that I liked. Garcia was a hell of a guitarist but the whole band was just too stoned and lost for me for the most part, especially their live stuff which was supposed to feature their best work.
Ornette Coleman....weird shit that only people who pretend to like "modern art", could pretend to like. SRV besides the song "Couldn't Stand the Weather" prior to "In Step". By "In Step", he FINALLY found his own voice instead of copying lick by lick the sounds of Hendrix and the Three Kings ( B.B, Albert, and Freddie). Hell of a guitarist but might as well been a cover band prior to his last album before the accident. I did enjoy the album he put out with his brother prior to passing, though.
ALL rap. Garbage. Every bit of it.
A lot of the pussy 70's Singer/ Songwriter crap. I'd like to punch James Taylor in the throat. Springsteen....communist propagandist.....a wannabe Woody Guthrie.
I "get" Wynton Marsalis (staying in the vein of the OP) but I really had to stop the urge I had to throttle him on stage during a performance I was attending after he shit all over Miles Davis in the late 80's. The nerve of someone that built a career, at that point, of 100 % copying Miles's modal and cool jazz sounds, while calling Mile's out on his willingness to expand and try new sounds and ideas, while Miles moved away from the very sounds that he had created decades previously, and that Wynton had exploited for his own profit. I seriously gave it thought sitting in the audience but fortunately my girl at the time talked some sense into me.
Country....besides Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett, Chris Stapleton, and Sturgill Simpson (over the last 35-40 years or so) most of it is an absolute joke, particularly the last 15 years or so from Nashville. There are a few exceptions......but not many.
Pearl Jam and Nirvana.......no thanks, except for a few songs off the acoustic album from MTV appearance. Grateful Dead.......I never cared for their drug addled, meandering, meaningless live albums from the 70's and 80's. The unfocused stuff that never went anywhere pissed me off. That said, they had some beautiful songs from their studio albums during this time (particularly American Beauty) that I liked. Garcia was a hell of a guitarist but the whole band was just too stoned and lost for me for the most part, especially their live stuff which was supposed to feature their best work.
DMB.
Just about every other band/solo artist mentioned in this thread has a song or two that I like or can stand. But I do NOT get DMB. My girlfriend and I were listening to the DMB channel in the car the other day for about 10 mintues trying to understand the obsession. We just kept looking at each other saying "what the hell is this sh*t?"
Just about every other band/solo artist mentioned in this thread has a song or two that I like or can stand. But I do NOT get DMB. My girlfriend and I were listening to the DMB channel in the car the other day for about 10 mintues trying to understand the obsession. We just kept looking at each other saying "what the hell is this sh*t?"
I'm not a Dave Matthews fan at all, but I am a monstrous Carter Beauford fan. I will listen to DMB songs just to hear his absurd drumming. It cannot be overstated how good he is. And by good I don't just mean technically proficient. I mean GOOD...in every way.
Exhibit A...
The first 1:15 is a perfect example...Dave Matthews is almost unlistenable himself, while Carter's drumming is perfection. I wish Carter would leave DMB or at least do side projects. He's being wasted in that band.
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