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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 26, 2015 at 10:55 pm
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Define "top."
My three favorite artists are:
1. David Bowie
2. John Darnielle
3. Damon Albarn
This is more on the "artistic/theatrical/creation/narrative" side than the musical skill side; I definitely don't think these three are the most, I dunno, skilled musicians or singers or songwriters (though I think Darnielle is without question one of the greatest lyricists of all time), but they're the three that really... umm... resonate with me?
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 12:19 am
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(April 26, 2015 at 6:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If we're restricting it to musicians specifically:
Sorry for not being clear, I mean three bands/solo artists whose overall finished products, as TRJF says, 'resonate with' you the most.
(April 26, 2015 at 10:55 pm)TRJF Wrote: 3. Damon Albarn
He was a very close runner up for me.
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 1:32 am
Very good people here, I cant have a top three... my taste is too eclectic and each genre has "tops". I like Jack White, Keith Moon, Harry Nilsson. Off the top of my head.
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 1:58 am
Top three? No way. The best I can do is top six... and even this changes around:
In no particular order:
The Black Keys
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Anything Dave Grohl does
Muse, although their recent stuff has them falling slightly out of favor with me
Anything Ben Folds does
Anything Jack White does (with the exception being that horrible collab he did with ICP- it was either him taking them seriously (yeah, right), or him being a complete dickhead by pretending to be serious while trying to pull off irony. Either way, it doesn't shed a nice light on him).
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 2:25 am
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Ok, we had dream theater and sabbath, but this here list needs moar metal \^^/
So this is going to be a metal only list, which is painfully hard to limit to three
2. Thomas Gabriel Fischer
As a famous swiss cough candy commercial said - Wer hat's erfunden? Die Schweizer!
His bands helped start almost all of extreme metal, from black to death, and even Napalm said that were majorly inspired by their sound. He's still one of the stylistically confident people in extreme music, and such an interesting guy. One can only hope that he doesn't kill himself in desperation over writing the next album
2. Black Sabbath / Iommi
and they invented the genre to begin with. Raw brummie power ^^
3. early Sepultura
I just like them so much better than the other Big Howmany of thrash. Raw and uncompromising, they brought their unique Brazilian perspective and passion to the genre.
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 2:27 am
Britney Spears
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 2:34 am
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I can somehow see Britney and Lady Gaga as very influential to their genres. But Katy fucking Perry? She's teeeerrrrrible. She can't sing
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 6:41 am
(April 27, 2015 at 1:58 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Anything Ben Folds does
Yuhp.
I was literally just listening to the eponymous Ben Folds Five last night. Love that album. Not into the album that came out last year where he got together with the band. It was sadly like a 45 year old trying to recreate the punky off beat magic that was Ben Folds Five.
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 8:34 pm
I grew up with a father who loved Classic Rock, so my choices are a reflection on what I heard the most as a child.
#1: Led Zeppelin (I know they are not perfect and have had a lot of controversy based around them and their music, but I love them)
#2: Rolling Stones (Their music never fails to get me pumped)
#3: The Doors (A rather odd choice, but I love them nonetheless)
Honorabe Mentions (favorite newer bands): Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park, and Ed Sheeran.
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RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 8:37 pm
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