All in the span of, like, three years too. Yikes.

(April 28, 2015 at 4:30 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: All in the span of, like, three years too. Yikes.

Was it on purpose??!

(April 28, 2015 at 4:28 pm)Alex K Wrote:

(April 28, 2015 at 4:26 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Alex, I've seen Tori live thirteen times.

Well, I never...
Have you ever seen night of hunters performed?

No- last time I saw her live was in 2005.  I'd love to, though.

(April 28, 2015 at 4:31 pm)Alex K Wrote:

(April 28, 2015 at 4:30 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: All in the span of, like, three years too. Yikes.

Was it on purpose??!

Hahahaha!  Yes; I just think of the fangirl I was then and it makes me cringe a little.

(April 28, 2015 at 4:31 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:

(April 28, 2015 at 4:31 pm)Alex K Wrote: Was it on purpose??!

Hahahaha!  Yes; I just think of the fangirl I was then and it makes me cringe a little.

Well, sooo much better than some of the embarrassing CDs I have lying around from when I was 16. That would be a thread all of its own - most embarrassing music fauxpas of your youth

Ole Jimi rubs some folks the wrong way, it's no big deal. Genius though he was, it's still about personal taste. Me, I don't get how someone gets a headache from "Castles Made of Sand", or "Third Stone from the Sun", but then I don't get why Britney Spears had a thriving career, either. This is probably why my biggest gig was in front of three hundred people, and not 30,000.

Glad to see some love for the Cars. Pop though they were, their first four albums were really, really good, to my ears. Like any band, they hand clunkers in the catalog, but they rocked without being long-winded, they wrote great melodies that weren't cloying, and their lyrics could sometimes be amazing.

Anyway, Steely Dan -- huge fan here, saw them in Santa Barbara back in 2003, think the world of them as songwriters.

SoundGarden was going to be in my first three. Badmotorfinger would be my choice for the best album of the 90s, no doubt.

Eric Johnson is simply amazing musician. Saw him in 1991, he killed it. He's better live than on record:




Jeff Beck, a huge influence on my playing:




And Brian, props for mentioning Vernon Reid, he's another huge influence on my playing and LC's first two albums blew my ears open completely.

Ah! Living Colour! My guitar teacher acquainted me with them, though that was around the time Stain came out, so that's what I mostly know.

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(April 28, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Ole Jimi rubs some folks the wrong way, it's no big deal.  Genius though he was, it's still about personal taste.  Me, I don't get how someone gets a headache from "Castles Made of Sand", or "Third Stone from the Sun", but then I don't get why Britney Spears had a thriving career, either. This is probably why my biggest gig was in front of three hundred people, and not 30,000.
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This should help you understand why Britney Spears has been successful:



Your mistake is trying to judge her by her music.  You need to look, not listen, and then it starts making more sense.  She looks a lot better than the ugly guys some people are listing in this thread.  

Take another look at the opening post.  It is asking about your top three pop/rock musicians.  But it does not specify that they be your top three for how they sound.  And that explains an earlier list that someone else posted, as all three of that person's picks are much prettier than most of those who have been selected by others.

But... why choose that if you can easily have hawt + truly talented both at the same time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY

(April 28, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Alex K Wrote: But... why choose that if you can easily have hawt + truly talented both at the same time!
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Different people have different taste on looks, just like they have different taste on music.  Also, in the case of Britney Spears, she was quite young when she was first becoming popular.  Although some of her fans were probably creepy older men, she was more appealing to a very young audience than older people tend to be.  For many years now, it is primarily the very young who have been driving popularity when it comes to musicians.

Keep in mind, I am only explaining her as a choice; she was not my choice (which, thus far, I have not given for this thread).  Further, "explanation" is the right word for what I am doing; it is not a justification that I am attempting.

If popularity among musicians were only about the music, there would likely be no dancing or skimpy clothing involved.  Those things are not music, and are fundamentally irrelevant to it as music, but they are significant when it comes to how people react.  The image that musicians project is a big part of their popularity, or lack thereof.