I will admit it, Day and Age wasn't their best album, but Sam's Town was!!! One of my favorite albums of all time!! I will say though, A Dustland Fairytale from their latest album is their best song ever!
I feel like, when listening to 'Sams Town'... Why don't I just listen to Born To Run?
Yeah but Sams Town is better!!!!
Sam's Town better than Born To Run.
Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
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Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
The boss is just boring to me, :twisted:
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Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
The boss is just boring to me, :twisted:
Check out his Hyde Park performance two years ago on YouTube. That DVD made me want to see him live.
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Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
The boss is just boring to me, :twisted:
Go see him live. Trust me on this one.
Though I'm not sure how anybody could find the song 'Born To Run' boring. I'm not trying to ride your ass hard on this, but I've just never heard anyone mentioning that.
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
The boss is just boring to me, :twisted:
Check out his Hyde Park performance two years ago on YouTube. That DVD made me want to see him live.
I was at that show, absolutely epic it was! How anyone could call it boring is beyond me, but each to their own I guess......
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van halen
poisen
motley cru
u2
def leppard
rhcp
foo fighters
nickleback
puddle of mud
shine down
the white stripes
and probably a shit load more
One of the Pearl Jam guys (might have been McCready) said that Def Leppard is one of his all time favorite bands. He said he used to go to their concerts and try to meet the band backstage after shows. (It's in the 'Immagine in Cornice' documentary where he said this.)
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Check out his Hyde Park performance two years ago on YouTube. That DVD made me want to see him live.
I was at that show, absolutely epic it was! How anyone could call it boring is beyond me, but each to their own I guess......
Me too. I don't get much of a kick out of the albums but that Hyde Park performance was right up there with the best. And that Hyde Park crowd were better behaved than at the PJ show last year.
If I ever meet anyone in the band that recorded "Play That Funky Music Whiteboy," they should fear for their personal safety. The most irritatingly shameless ripoff of Sly Stone's "Thank You Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin" I've ever heard.
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The chick singer Geddy Lee was in rare form last night. Opening night to their 2nd leg of their Time Machine World Tour. They were better than their last time here in South Florida 10+.
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Michael Jackson -- I can't say anything nice, so I won't say anything.
Britney Spears/Lady Gaga/ Katy Perry/ etc. Manufactured performance art does not equal music.
Motley Crue and their ilk. -- Call them hair bands, crotch rock, whatever. I came from a part of the country where they were inescapable. Oh, and Kid Rock.
The Black-Eyed Peas -- I HATE the Black-Eyed Peas!!! I call them "music for the semi-literate." I don't know how anybody can listen to that and not have their head explode.
Billy Joel -- loathe him.
"New country" -- I don't get it. My husband and I frequent a great sushi place that has some country song about drunk-dialing and/or booty calls playing on repeat -- It's a quarter to something and I'm drunk and I need some lovin'. Ugh.
I must be in a good mood, because that's all that's coming to mind. But I really, really hate the BEPs.
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Michael Jackson -- I can't say anything nice, so I won't say anything.
Britney Spears/Lady Gaga/ Katy Perry/ etc. Manufactured performance art does not equal music.
Motley Crue and their ilk. -- Call them hair bands, crotch rock, whatever. I came from a part of the country where they were inescapable. Oh, and Kid Rock.
The Black-Eyed Peas -- I HATE the Black-Eyed Peas!!! I call them "music for the semi-literate." I don't know how anybody can listen to that and not have their head explode.
Billy Joel -- loathe him.
"New country" -- I don't get it. My husband and I frequent a great sushi place that has some country song about drunk-dialing and/or booty calls playing on repeat -- It's a quarter to something and I'm drunk and I need some lovin'. Ugh.
I must be in a good mood, because that's all that's coming to mind. But I really, really hate the BEPs.
My Pandora stations have been playing a lot of Phoenix lately and I find myslef moving to the next song almost every time. And other than a song or two, I hate most of the Killers stuff.
YOU HATE THE KILLERS!!!! :( :( :( :(
Amazing what a dramatic decline that band took. Hot Fuss is one of my favorite albums of the decade. Sam's Town is just ok. Then that last album was pathetically awful.
I kinda agree with you here. Although I thought Sam's Town was fucking great, maybe even better than Hot Fuss. Day & Age was fucking terrible though...I'll agree with that.
Alice in Chains- I dunno what it is, but I could just never stand listening to these guys. Anytime one of their songs comes on the radio, I have to immediately change the station..
The Beatles - I don't hate The Beatles. But they've never done much for me. I've listened to a LOT of their songs, and while they're agreeable enough they're just not that earth shaking for me. But most of what I can't stand about The Beatles is the fans...saying you HAVE to like them or you don't like music at all, you have to like them because they've influenced thousands of bands...I don't get that attitude. I don't have to like one band to appreciate others. I understand they've had a historical impact, and ARE influential - but I shouldn't have to love them just for that alone.
Most classic rock - Just can't get into most of it. I like a bunch of tunes from Zeppelin, and some Rush, but that's about it. I don't know why it doesn't do anything for me, maybe years of my dad beating it to death in the car, but it just doesn't. Sometimes I think if these bands recorded their music in this decade, exactly note for note only with more modern production, I would love it.
Nickelback/Shinedown/Three Doors Down/etc - Generic, boring, contrived, hard to tell apart, etc.
Scene/"Hardcore" music (Brokencyde, Blood on the Dancefloor/Attack Attack!, Asking Alexandria, etc) - Scene music is basically crossing lame scene kids with whiny, autotuned voices over the worst elements of metalcore and throwing random techno shit in - it makes me feel like I need to have ADD or just be amazingly shallow to like it. For "hardcore" music, it's essentially metalcore with a breakdown in every song and once again, random techno bits. Most of it is just terribly derivative, not even that bad, to the point where I can literally not tell them apart, and I can't understand why so many kids my age love these kinds of bands when they're a dime a hundred.
Radio pop - I.E. the likes of Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Rihanna, etc. They border from boring to outright annoying, and the lyrics are usually some of the worst I have ever heard. "Tick tock on the clock party till you can't stop"...it's bad. The radio doesn't help it either, most of it wouldn't bother me if not for being at work or in a store and being assaulted with it the whole time - hearing Katy Perry sing Teenage Dream 10 times a day will make you hate it, and fast. On this note, I actually do like Lady Gaga, she can write decent songs and play the piano well enough, but her act is what grates at me. If she dropped it and focused on the music, she'd be 1,000 times better.
God...I feel better now.
Thanks EPOTTSIII!
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Cream. Good musicianship does not redeem shit music.
Oh wow, dude....how are you on Blind Faith or Derek and the Dominos?
Blind Faith is better, but it's a pity there was an ego-clash and as a project it failed. Also, there are some tremendous jams on the Layla album which justified the double album format. But Cream just sounded a bit poncy to me with the Peter Brown wanky lyrics, the pseudo-operatic vocal harmonies and the uneven quality of the material. They grate on me. I love Jimi, by contrast, with a passion, but Cream's albums leave me cold.
lynard skynard
david bowie
reo speedwagon
van halen
poisen
motley cru
u2
def leppard
rhcp
foo fighters
nickleback
puddle of mud
shine down
the white stripes
and probably a shit load more
One of the Pearl Jam guys (might have been McCready) said that Def Leppard is one of his all time favorite bands. He said he used to go to their concerts and try to meet the band backstage after shows. (It's in the 'Immagine in Cornice' documentary where he said this.)
You should hear a BBC radio show few years ago where McCready mentioned his music tastes (not sure which band), and interviewer asked 'what about the people with good taste', whole band was there, everyone guffawed.
Cream. Good musicianship does not redeem shit music.
Oh wow, dude....how are you on Blind Faith or Derek and the Dominos?
Blind Faith is better, but it's a pity there was an ego-clash and as a project it failed. Also, there are some tremendous jams on the Layla album which justified the double album format. But Cream just sounded a bit poncy to me with the Peter Brown wanky lyrics, the pseudo-operatic vocal harmonies and the uneven quality of the material. They grate on me. I love Jimi, by contrast, with a passion, but Cream's albums leave me cold.
Innnnnnnteresssting.
I love Cream. I guess I never gave a fuck about the lyrics so much.... it's rock music, so it's about the sound most of all. Because it's brash, and because it's ridiculous. But you know, I fucking love Rush too. If a band can jam like the world's gonna end tomorrow and make everyone around them look like chumps, I'm lovin it. But earthiness is good sometimes too.
Actually all good music has to have some earthiness to it, because there are some bands that can really play, but they sound completely phony. Sometimes pretense can be a good thing, and it's hard to explain why, but there's a point where it just becomes too much.
Muse is a good example of a band that overdoes it. They have built a large following with many pointing to their live show as part of their greatness, and they do seem to perform their material well, but their material is fucking awful. There doesn't seem to be any point to their music except showing off their expertise at regurgitating the latest blend of the rock & roll formula. The singer dude is obviously ripping off Thom Yorke's style, but he has none of the depth. The guitar work is flashy without any feel. Seems like their allure has already begun to fade with the public. OK, enough picking on Muse.
Kings of Leon makes me laugh. The dude's singing is really silly.
Good thread. Just a few weeks ago I thought there should be a thread like this. I thought maybe it would be too bitchy, but it's good to get shit like this off your chest sometimes. :thumbup:
Michael Jackson -- I can't say anything nice, so I won't say anything.
Britney Spears/Lady Gaga/ Katy Perry/ etc. Manufactured performance art does not equal music.
Motley Crue and their ilk. -- Call them hair bands, crotch rock, whatever. I came from a part of the country where they were inescapable. Oh, and Kid Rock.
The Black-Eyed Peas -- I HATE the Black-Eyed Peas!!! I call them "music for the semi-literate." I don't know how anybody can listen to that and not have their head explode.
Billy Joel -- loathe him.
"New country" -- I don't get it. My husband and I frequent a great sushi place that has some country song about drunk-dialing and/or booty calls playing on repeat -- It's a quarter to something and I'm drunk and I need some lovin'. Ugh.
I must be in a good mood, because that's all that's coming to mind. But I really, really hate the BEPs.
Amen
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Really? I mean... Really? I could see you LIKING it better, but Born To Run is an absolute classic album for a reason, with the title track being arguably one of the best rock and roll songs of all time. Thunder Road? Jungleland? Born To Run is one of the great American musician's masterpiece, Sam's Town is a good album by a good band.
The boss is just boring to me, :twisted:
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Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Though I'm not sure how anybody could find the song 'Born To Run' boring. I'm not trying to ride your ass hard on this, but I've just never heard anyone mentioning that.
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I was at that show, absolutely epic it was! How anyone could call it boring is beyond me, but each to their own I guess......
One of the Pearl Jam guys (might have been McCready) said that Def Leppard is one of his all time favorite bands. He said he used to go to their concerts and try to meet the band backstage after shows. (It's in the 'Immagine in Cornice' documentary where he said this.)
Gibson Amphitheatre (Los Angeles): 10/7/09
The chick singer Geddy Lee was in rare form last night. Opening night to their 2nd leg of their Time Machine World Tour. They were better than their last time here in South Florida 10+.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Britney Spears/Lady Gaga/ Katy Perry/ etc. Manufactured performance art does not equal music.
Motley Crue and their ilk. -- Call them hair bands, crotch rock, whatever. I came from a part of the country where they were inescapable. Oh, and Kid Rock.
The Black-Eyed Peas -- I HATE the Black-Eyed Peas!!! I call them "music for the semi-literate." I don't know how anybody can listen to that and not have their head explode.
Billy Joel -- loathe him.
"New country" -- I don't get it. My husband and I frequent a great sushi place that has some country song about drunk-dialing and/or booty calls playing on repeat -- It's a quarter to something and I'm drunk and I need some lovin'. Ugh.
I must be in a good mood, because that's all that's coming to mind. But I really, really hate the BEPs.
No let it out. Great post.
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I kinda agree with you here. Although I thought Sam's Town was fucking great, maybe even better than Hot Fuss. Day & Age was fucking terrible though...I'll agree with that.
The Beatles - I don't hate The Beatles. But they've never done much for me. I've listened to a LOT of their songs, and while they're agreeable enough they're just not that earth shaking for me. But most of what I can't stand about The Beatles is the fans...saying you HAVE to like them or you don't like music at all, you have to like them because they've influenced thousands of bands...I don't get that attitude. I don't have to like one band to appreciate others. I understand they've had a historical impact, and ARE influential - but I shouldn't have to love them just for that alone.
Most classic rock - Just can't get into most of it. I like a bunch of tunes from Zeppelin, and some Rush, but that's about it. I don't know why it doesn't do anything for me, maybe years of my dad beating it to death in the car, but it just doesn't. Sometimes I think if these bands recorded their music in this decade, exactly note for note only with more modern production, I would love it.
Nickelback/Shinedown/Three Doors Down/etc - Generic, boring, contrived, hard to tell apart, etc.
Scene/"Hardcore" music (Brokencyde, Blood on the Dancefloor/Attack Attack!, Asking Alexandria, etc) - Scene music is basically crossing lame scene kids with whiny, autotuned voices over the worst elements of metalcore and throwing random techno shit in - it makes me feel like I need to have ADD or just be amazingly shallow to like it. For "hardcore" music, it's essentially metalcore with a breakdown in every song and once again, random techno bits. Most of it is just terribly derivative, not even that bad, to the point where I can literally not tell them apart, and I can't understand why so many kids my age love these kinds of bands when they're a dime a hundred.
Radio pop - I.E. the likes of Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Rihanna, etc. They border from boring to outright annoying, and the lyrics are usually some of the worst I have ever heard. "Tick tock on the clock party till you can't stop"...it's bad. The radio doesn't help it either, most of it wouldn't bother me if not for being at work or in a store and being assaulted with it the whole time - hearing Katy Perry sing Teenage Dream 10 times a day will make you hate it, and fast. On this note, I actually do like Lady Gaga, she can write decent songs and play the piano well enough, but her act is what grates at me. If she dropped it and focused on the music, she'd be 1,000 times better.
God...I feel better now.
"Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
424, xxx
Ben Harper
Oh wow, dude....how are you on Blind Faith or Derek and the Dominos?
Blind Faith is better, but it's a pity there was an ego-clash and as a project it failed. Also, there are some tremendous jams on the Layla album which justified the double album format. But Cream just sounded a bit poncy to me with the Peter Brown wanky lyrics, the pseudo-operatic vocal harmonies and the uneven quality of the material. They grate on me. I love Jimi, by contrast, with a passion, but Cream's albums leave me cold.
You should hear a BBC radio show few years ago where McCready mentioned his music tastes (not sure which band), and interviewer asked 'what about the people with good taste', whole band was there, everyone guffawed.
Kesha
Creed (I love Alter Bridge however, I guess Scott Stapp is the defining factor of horrible music)
Switchfoot
Red
Innnnnnnteresssting.
I love Cream. I guess I never gave a fuck about the lyrics so much.... it's rock music, so it's about the sound most of all. Because it's brash, and because it's ridiculous. But you know, I fucking love Rush too. If a band can jam like the world's gonna end tomorrow and make everyone around them look like chumps, I'm lovin it. But earthiness is good sometimes too.
Muse is a good example of a band that overdoes it. They have built a large following with many pointing to their live show as part of their greatness, and they do seem to perform their material well, but their material is fucking awful. There doesn't seem to be any point to their music except showing off their expertise at regurgitating the latest blend of the rock & roll formula. The singer dude is obviously ripping off Thom Yorke's style, but he has none of the depth. The guitar work is flashy without any feel. Seems like their allure has already begun to fade with the public. OK, enough picking on Muse.
Kings of Leon makes me laugh. The dude's singing is really silly.
Good thread. Just a few weeks ago I thought there should be a thread like this. I thought maybe it would be too bitchy, but it's good to get shit like this off your chest sometimes. :thumbup:
I'm curious.... if you were forced to listen to one Cream song, which one would you pick? Is there a Cream song or two that you do like?
And your thoughts regarding Jimi's cover of Sunshine of Your Love?
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