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Originally posted by geniusHere we go(not in any order of preference).The Doors, King Crimson, Massive Attack, Marillion, Cold Play, ACDC, White Stripes, Stranglers, Sex Pistols, Byork, The Allmond Brothers Band, Bad Company, John Coltrane, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Rory Gallagher, Robert Fripp, Pink Floyd, BLACK SABBATH, Sydney Bechet, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Gong, Supertramp, RADIOHEAD, The Band, Paul Weller, Portishead, Dire Straits, Gomez, Jethro Tull, Suzanne Vega, Samual Barber, Beethoven, Chopin, anything except for Teen girls, ie: Britney Spears and boy bands ie: all of them.
what kind of music/bands do you all like? at the present moment i'm hooked on heavy metal and hard rock (iron maiden, AC/DC, Nirvana et al) and punk (greenday/sex pistols). does anyone like cheesy pop?!? 😛
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The list could be a lot longer, but most of the music is in the past, what has happened to the music industry?
Counting Crows (hopefully going to see them in February - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby is a stunning song and the first line in Round Here chills my spine *every* time, impossibly brilliant), REM, David Gray (Sail Away With Me is just tender and soft and gorgeous, much like the whole of White Ladder), Oasis (first two albums - Live Forever, Supersonic, Wonderwall were real soundtrack to life songs as I was growing up), Red Hot Chillies (latest album is more mellow, every bit as good as Californication and BloodSugarSexMagik), Vivaldi (Four Seasons and La Stravaganza especially), The Beatles (untouchable, the music world will forever be in debt to four lads from Liverpool), The Strokes (always makes me feel like dancing), Norah Jones (big shout out to Dave Tebb for that one!), Buddy Holly (dragged music into a modern era paving the way and inspiring many who followed, suggestions that Elvis was *the* man just astound me, Buddy Holly was), the Boss man Bruce Springsteen, Schubert (some of his piano pieces are the definition of beauty), Eminem (huge fan - anyone seen the video to "Without Me"? guaranteed giggle, Sing For The Moment is a masterpiece), Bob Dylan (wrote poetry to sing to), Dvorak (9th Symphony (those trumpets in the 4th movement!), Cello Concerto), Nirvana(for sheer impact and influence on what followed in the '90s) and greatest of them all, the man himself, Big Daddy Beethoven, pure, pure genius.
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I have a little bit of almost everything in my collection, with the exception of the category "Garbage That Is Now Being Played on the Radio," but the large majority of my collection is metal/hard rock. Favorite bands of all time-- BLACK SABBATH heads the list, followed by such well-known bands as Orange Goblin, Massive Volume, Fu Manchu, Hellacopters, Gluecifer, Hawkwind, Borknagar, Emperor, MONSTER MAGNET! (you HAVE to love an American band named after an episode of the Japanese animated series "Gigantor" that does a cover of a Hawkwind song...), Neurosis-- I could go on forever on this topic. The person who mentioned Jethro Tull deserves a round of applause, as well-- amazing band, and with more longevity than most bands even dream about. Here's a sweeping generalization to see if I can get some controversy going here-- there is NO music of quality and originality being made today, except in the realm of "underground" music. Okay, let the flame war begin😉
Originally posted by tenebr8And exactly how would you define "underground" music. I don't know how much controversy you can generate over such a "sweeping generalization", as you have rightly called it.
...Here's a sweeping generalization to see if I can get some controversy going here-- there is NO music of quality and originality being made today, except in the realm of "underground" music. Okay, let the flame war begin😉
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Originally posted by tenebr8I must be getting old because I just can't get into Hawkwind anymore... It was a time and a place sort of thing. I saw them live twice and even spent the duration of Silver Machine being carried above the heads of the crowd and ended up having my head poked into the bass drum... happy days ;-).
Hawkwind............The person who mentioned Jethro Tull deserves a round of applause, as well-- amazing band, and with more longevity than most bands even dream about
Jethro Tull, however, have for me, stood the test of time. I have all of their albums (some twice, vinyl and CD) and I managed to see them live about 10 years ago.
I'm getting more and more into classical music but I still like Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Wishbone Ash etc. (I also have everything by T.Rex but we won't go into that...).
I also like 'modern' stuff by bands like Travis but there certainly is an awful lot of dross around these days.
Best live concert, for sheer entertainment and energy, was Slade. Singing and dancing to Merry Christmas Everybody while not entirely sober was quite an experience.
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Originally posted by RhymesterThe best rock concert that I've seen was Roger Waters' Radio K.A.O.S. tour. An excellent show. Growing up, I was always a huge Pink Floyd/Roger Waters fan. For Pink Floyd, this would include the album "The Final Cut" and everything prior to that. The later albums released by David Gilmour without Roger should have been banned from using the Pink Floyd name.
...Best live concert, for sheer entertainment and energy, was Slade. Singing and dancing to Merry Christmas Everybody while not entirely sober was quite an experience.
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Okay-- I would define "underground" as music that, if it is played on the radio at all, is only played on non-commercial radio stations (i.e. college radio)-- bands that are only written about in small-press music magazines, etc. I was just hoping that someone would try to defend any of the pap polluting the airwaves these days. No luck so far...
Rhymester-- I would love to have seen Hawkwind! But I know what you mean about "time and place"-- they are definitely a nostalgia trip for me. And being into bands like Yes and Genesis seems to lead a lot of people into classical music-- that's exactly what happened to me. After hearing Emerson, Lake and Palmer do Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," I hunted down the original, and was blown away.
Originally posted by tenebr8Tim, I think that's an unfair statement. I suppose it boils down to precisely what underground means but remember, there's a MASSIVE amount of music that doesn't get played much, if ever, on mainstream radio stations but gets plenty of coverage in mainstream music magazines, album charts (a much better place to find good music than the singles charts) and is very well known thanks to word of mouth. But in any case, Radio 1 (mainstream) has been known to play stuff by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Lost Prophets and many, many others (I'm not very au fait with music at the moment - I'm sure someone else knows better), which surely falls into one or both categories of quality or originality.
there is NO music of quality and originality being made today, except in the realm of "underground" music. Okay, let the flame war begin😉
Have you listened to any of the following?
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way (Track 7 is especially superb)
Counting Crows. Quality.
Radiohead - Kid A, Amnesiac, OK Computer (tell me they're not original!!)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (he's 22, from Birmingham, UK, and truly original, he's also got most music critics dribbling in ecstacy...)
Lost Prophets - The Fake Sound of Progress (they're a metal band Tim!! Iron Maiden are fans allegedly. They're also from Pontypridd, Wales, which, for anyone who has been to Pontypridd will find it quite hard to imagine that the town could produce one of the best "current" metal bands in the world)
Wyclef Jean
Massive Attack
[Here's part of a review I found on the Streets - A self-described "day in the life of a geezer", Original Pirate Material, to put it plainly, is the most vivid evocation of life as a young person in the UK since Blur's Parklife, and yes, even The Clash's first album. Skinner, also manages to paint the most lucid, dryly humorous portrait of lower-class life since Pulp's Different Class; his tale of one "geezer"'s struggle for identity, for redemption also brings to mind the films of Mike Leigh (most notably High Hopes and Naked), and even Irvine Welsh's novels Trainspotting and Glue. It sounds like a hip-hop album but it's not, it sounds like two-step but not, spoken word, but not. Combining elements of UK Garage, rap braggadocio, touches of punk, R&B, ska, and even a hint of Beat poetry (whether he knows it or not), this 22-year-old Birmingham native has come from out of nowhere and given us a record with undeniable power and imagination]
And yep, as Andrew says, there's a lot of bland plastic music out there but there's dodgy stuff being made whatever the time period. It might not seem quite so easy to recall it from yesteryear because you're more likely to remember only the good stuff.
Qality is very subjective and a matter for personal opinion, but as for originality, "new" sounds in recent years have moved very mainstream, in the last 7-10 years garage music has risen above the surface, in the last 15 a lot of different types of dance music (house/trance/acid etc) have become massive and certainly no longer underground. Rap music hardly existed and was certainly not mainstream in the '70s. Thanks to DMX and Grandmaster Flash in the early 80s, Dre and 2Pac in the late 80s/early 90s and Eminem, Nas, and Nelly nowadays rap music has gone massively mainstream, and, personally I find Eminem both original and quality and different to a lot of the monotone "I'm the baddest there is cos I'm, erm, badder than you" rap music that preceded (I know a great many disagree and think he's ridiculous)
I refuse to accept that from garage, rap, hip-hop, an explosion of new-wave r&b, dance music and so on in recent times there is NO music of quality or originality!!
Mark
jazz*1,000,000....I'm a out of practice jazz guitar player....as well as a free style rapper(also out of practice, although I amuse my friends).I also build instruments(currently working on touch style instrument..a.k.a.warr guitar/chapman stick, wich is a guitar/bass in 1..that U play like a piano..2 parts at once).Jazz influences R ;;;Coltrain,Monk,Miles,Mingus.Hancock.Corea,Oregon,Holland,Parker,Hunter,Redman, and Mildau..2 name a few...Rap😛::::hyroglyphics,del,Souls of mischief,Black star, aceylone, Kool Kieth, black Eye Peas, J5,and PE 2 name a few more...but I love all music...I first learned Mettalica on guitar as a kid.......