How broad are your musical tastes??

[bobbydigital]

All artists start somewhere .I'm sure that not every main stream artist was handed a record deal the day they decided they wanted to be a musician ,so therefor to say that as soon as someone goes "mainstream" they lose whatever talent they had before is pretty silly. Money does however change people and I bet sometimes its reallly hard to focus on the quality of your next album when your driving a bentley and partying with the rich and famous.

 

[j_garcia]

Some bands? It should be ALL BANDS! Why the *&^$%^*$&* do they deserve to live that lifestyle, and have that money, if all they do is strum 4 cord crap (blink182 comes to mind)?

Blink 182 broke up. Never really liked them much anyway.

I never said Underground is the best, I said its what I have FOUND to be what I LIKE. Not all the music I listen to is underground hardcore either. Thrice, The Mars Volta are other bands I like, some of my favs. that rarely scream, and still can write decent music and lyrics.

The Mars Volta doesn't scream? Did we listen to the same band? I saw these guys last year open up for APC and I could barely understand what the guy was singing. It was a cool show, but man their songs just drag on f o r e v e r I think they played 5 songs (can't tell when one starts and another ends, kind of just jamming the whole time), but the show was like an hour to an hour and a half...

If I can pick up a guitar and figure out a song in 5 minutes, its was writen by an un-talented musician....IMO. Your confusing talent, with catch. A simple song can be catchy, but it will never go in my books under the talent column.

So are you saying you don't have talent because you didn't make it or you do because you don't have a contract making big bucks?

 

[Sheep]

The Mars Volta doesn't scream? Did we listen to the same band? I saw these guys last year open up for APC and I could barely understand what the guy was singing. It was a cool show, but man their songs just drag on f o r e v e r I think they played 5 songs (can't tell when one starts and another ends, kind of just jamming the whole time), but the show was like an hour to an hour and a half...

I know they drag on... I just listen until they get to the parts where its almost silent for 10 minutes, then I switch to another song. Frances the Mute(album) is their best.

SheepStar

 

[Sheep]

I do agree that bands like Blink182 are totally worthless but like I said about the White Stripes if you look there are some people who earned it.

Do I have to type IMO after everything I say? Yes IMO IMO IMO


The white strips are the same thing. I can play their songs in my sleep. Its catchy yes, but it didn't take any skill to write or play that stuff. IMO IMO IMO

SheepStar IMO IMO IMO

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I like a wide variety of genres but I have very narrow characteristics of music I like.

It has to be fast and peppy. I hate anything slow. It bores me. It depresses me.

I'll listen to anything from classical to jazz to rock to trance to electronica to polka to mariachi to what have you as long as it's uptempo.

Although there are a few genres I don't like no matter what the speed: rap/hip-hop, country, folk, and raggae.

 

[sts9fan]

The white strips are the same thing. I can play their songs in my sleep.

Your saying you could go toe to toe with jack white?? Give me a F'n break. You sound like a fool. How bout Jimi can you best his work?

 

[Sheep]

Your saying you could go toe to toe with jack white?? Give me a F'n break. You sound like a fool. How bout Jimi can you best his work?

Is there something wrong with me being able to play a guitar? Seven nation army isn't a very hard song to play. Same with blue orchid.

And just to let you know this is what I have played in front of 1700 people

Rage against the machine - Killing in the name
Rage against the machine - Bombtrack
Thrice - All thats left
Metallica - Enter sandman

Those are just a few. I been in a band for 3 years.

SheepStar

 

[sts9fan]

They have 1700 people up there??
Wow you are real good at covers huh? I'm impressed. I bet you are as good as all those bands.. Thats why you cover them insted of playing your own music in front of 1700 people.

 

[Sheep]

They have 1700 people up there??
Wow you are real good at covers huh? I'm impressed. I bet you are as good as all those bands.. Thats why you cover them insted of playing your own music in front of 1700 people.

The 1700 people is(was) my highschool. We played covers so the audience would have a good time.

Remember, If theres no audience, there ain't no show.

BTW, good job refuting my claims.

SHeepStar

 

[sts9fan]

So you are bragging about playing infront of a captive audience? You did not draw a 1700 person crowd. Talent shows don't count. Souldn't you be in school?

 

[Sheep]

So you are bragging about playing infront of a captive audience? You did not draw a 1700 person crowd. Talent shows don't count. Souldn't you be in school?

No, I'm saying some of the songs you know and love are not that hard to play. And because you don't know how to play, you think it is difficult, or ground breaking, but it isn't, its just a catchy riff.

SheepStar

 

[t3031999]

No, I'm saying some of the songs you know and love are not that hard to play. And because you don't know how to play, you think it is difficult, or ground breaking, but it isn't, its just a catchy riff.

Shee[Star

Even though I know most music isn't that difficult to play, the difficulty of playing the music doesn't reflect the talent of the musicians. Writing revolutionary music that people like takes talent. Take Led Zepplin, Stairway to Heaven, for example. Every guitar player on earth plays Stairway to Heaven, does that make them as talented as Jimmy Page or the band they play in as talented at writing music as Led Zepplin.

I've played in front of crowds of 20,000, but it was a completely different kind of music (symphonic), but that doesn't make me an expert of judging all music.

 

[Tomorrow]

Give me a F'n break. You sound like a fool.

Isn't it amazing how we can see parts of ourselves in others?

 

[j_garcia]

I understand what you are saying Sheep, but it's the way you present it that makes it sound over the top. It comes across as: "I can write; that means I am the world's best literary critic." or "I eat, therefore I am a world renowned expert on food." We all have opinions, that doesn't mean one is more believable than another; it's just an opinion.

 

[Buckle-meister]

If you haven't heard Alison Brown...Try the album Stolen Moments!...there's a cut on this album just for Buckle-Miser. It's called "I'm naked and I'm going to Glasgow."

Yeah, I bumped into Alison the other day. She said "All right babe (that's me)? How's it hangin'?". I replied "Oh, you know. A bit to the left. How 'bout we go to my place and I kin show ya".

Next day Alison walked just like a cowboy.

 

[sts9fan]

Complexity and talent do not have to go hand and hand. I apologize for calling you a fool but your popularity to talent correlation is as old as music and it really is bunk. I have been to over 500 concerts in my days( I am sure there are many you have gone to much more) and the best parts are not always the hard parts. Most of the time is synergy that get me off. A cool break down or tempo change. Anyway you know where I am going with this.

P.S. I just saw my favorite(still touring) band(moe.) for the 67th time last night. Am I crazy??

 

[j_garcia]

I haven't been to 67 concerts (maybe I have?), let alone seen the same band more than 5 times dude!!

 

[sts9fan]

maybe I am nuts. People have told me that before.

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

Regrettably narrow, I fear. Mostly classical. Some "mainstream" (i.e., swing and bop) jazz.

I really must break out of my rut. But even as a kid I was defiantly "unhip", preferring Beethoven to the Stones and essentially clueless about one of the great flowerings of rock in the late '60s. Alas, the one NPR/college station here that I relied on for the past several years to introduce me to new/alternative/just plain weird music (WDET) has gone all news and talk except for the wee hours when old farts like me are asleep.

Maybe there's some hope. Heck, not too long ago I heard some Wilco and thought, hey, I should get that CD...and even my grandson's Green Day stuff is kinda fun. But last I heard he was really into lounge music on vinyl (!). Sorry, reminds me too much of what I heard my parents playing. Except that I did dig my mom's Sinatra -- those classic Columbia LPs. I have them but they're in rough shape.

 

[Rob Babcock]

I've scored ten classical SACDs in the last three days or so. I bought six of the 3CH reissues on Living Stereo, and they're superb. Then I bought four or five from a guys at AudioCircle. Actually, I guess one was Muddy Waters "Blues Singer" and another was the soundtrack to "Brother, Where Art Thou?", but the rest were classical.

I'd hate to have to live without any rock/pop/newgrass, but it's impossible to imaging living without classical music!