Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for what appears to have been a compliment SteelCurtain.
I guess the method to my madness is the fact that this forum is exactly what I was looking for in order to meet like-minded people and discuss what are normally classified as controversial topics.
Posts: 7085
Threads: 69
Joined: September 11, 2012
Reputation:
84
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:24 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 6:41 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: (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.
I dunno; I saw them live at HOB in SD for that tour, and they were awesome. I also saw Ben at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic last year and it was... awe-inspiring.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Posts: 7085
Threads: 69
Joined: September 11, 2012
Reputation:
84
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:35 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 8:34 pm)Jericho Wrote: 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.
Linkin Park? You have now fallen out of favor. Ugh. Yuk. Bad. Ew.
Other than that, I approve mostly. Incidentally, the old dude who owns my favorite medical marijuana dispensary has a son who was in Imagine Dragons. He told me the other day he's now in AWOLNation, but I'm having a hard time confirming it.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Posts: 15351
Threads: 118
Joined: January 13, 2014
Reputation:
117
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:39 pm
Any time he does something with a Philharmonic, the results are amazing. I like his live albums better as a rule.
I haven't seen him on tour for the latest album. If he comes to Nashville, I'll check him out.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:39 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 9:35 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: (April 27, 2015 at 8:34 pm)Jericho Wrote: 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.
Linkin Park? You have now fallen out of favor. Ugh. Yuk. Bad. Ew.
Other than that, I approve mostly. Incidentally, the old dude who owns my favorite medical marijuana dispensary has a son who was in Imagine Dragons. He told me the other day he's now in AWOLNation, but I'm having a hard time confirming it.
I'm sorry that my musical taste differs from yours.
Linkin Park is far from my favorite band (since most of my favorite artists are considerably older than myself). However, I do enjoy quite a few of their songs. Oh well...to each their own, right?
Posts: 7085
Threads: 69
Joined: September 11, 2012
Reputation:
84
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:43 pm
No. Not when it comes to Linkin Park. Ugh. Ick. Blech.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:47 pm
Well darn. I suppose that my only options now are either to forsake our possible future friendship or to convert to Anti-LinkParkism.
Posts: 3395
Threads: 43
Joined: February 8, 2015
Reputation:
33
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:51 pm
(April 27, 2015 at 2:34 am)Alex K Wrote: 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
I think you are not looking at the matter in the correct way.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Posts: 23070
Threads: 26
Joined: February 2, 2010
Reputation:
106
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 9:58 pm
I can't limit myself to three, that's just horseshit and I won't do it!
But, in no order, and without counting --
Took prog and gave it balls, took metal and gave it brains -- you choose:
Two guitars playing together never sounded so beautiful, and with impressionistic lyrics that leave you wondering what it means to you:
Elliot Easton on guitar. That's enough for me, the sonofabitch turns in one of my favorite solos here (at 3:04), with a nod to John Coltrane:
Sabbath has already been mentioned several times, and Jimi as well -- and I'll get back to this thread with some Jeff Beck and Eric Johnson. All of those guys knock it out. Also, I will clearly have to start a jazz and blues thread soon, because those are the two genres which speak to me most nowadays.
Great thread!
Posts: 5492
Threads: 53
Joined: September 4, 2014
Reputation:
55
RE: Your top three rock/pop musicians
April 27, 2015 at 10:07 pm
I second a jazz and blues thread. I'd weigh in more on the blues side, but I could stand to learn more jazz.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
|