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Post by Crunchy Col on Nov 20, 2019 11:44:28 GMT
I always enjoy reading what people have to say about the big names - especially when it's disparaging.
This was posted earlier today on the Beece:
Bravo!
Can you at least see where he's coming from? Maybe you can, but you still dig those Big Rock Records.
Maybe our old Fishy friend should be disbarred from the thread because he only likes things recorded in Barnsley car parks in 1981.
And no limp dismissals of REM because we do that half the time anyway.
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Post by loveless on Nov 20, 2019 12:23:40 GMT
An old friend and I had a version of this conversation recently - "I sure love it, but I totally get why people would hate it."
Much as I love, say, the Doors...I get the opposing view 100%.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 12:31:10 GMT
It's strong, big flavours. You love 'em or you hate 'em. Bombastic is one of those words I really dislike in this context too btw. It's just a bit rote.
Led Zep were absurd (well, Plant was) but Zep without Plant and his lemon squeezing and banshee wail they wouldn't be Zep. Similar to Jimbo and the Doors. His arty pretentiousness is a key ingredient of their magic.
In terms of major bands I don't like....Eagles....Floyd post Syd leave me mostly very cold.
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Post by rayge on Nov 20, 2019 13:12:05 GMT
I take it you mean those considered 'major artists' by those on this board, there's no point on going on about Celine Dion, say, or Mariah Carey. Or Bryan Adams. And I guess by 'not like' you mean actively dislike, rather than being completely indifferent to, otherwise I'm going to be forced to drone on and on about people like Bowie, Elton, the Beatles, the Pretty Things, the Hollies, etc.
Otherwise, people I've already kvetched about more than once: Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Nick Drake (major in this company), ELP, Jethro Tull, Caravan, waters/Gilmour Think Void, Stevie Winwood (after Spencer Davis group especially), Cilla Black, Pat Boone, Miles Davis (mostly), Stevie Wonder (after mid-sixties), Marvin Gaye (ditto), James Brown (double ditto), George Benson, Beck, Travolta (and anyone else who espouses Scientology...) I'll return when I've calmed down
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 13:31:56 GMT
I suppose the major artist who I find most disappointing is Springsteen. All the songs seem to sound very similar. It feels like he found a formula very early on and just stuck to it. There are any number of major artists I'm quite apathetic about as I'm not really a "classic rock" kind of guy.
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Post by nolamike on Nov 20, 2019 16:25:41 GMT
Pretty much any group featuring Clapton, even the "good" ones like Cream, Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds, and Derek and the Dominoes. I wouldn't say I "hate" them or anything, they just... fail to hook me, and I never find myself wanting to put them on, despite having quite a few records in the collection. Of course, his solo stuff is almost entirely terrible.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 16:30:20 GMT
I suppose the major artist who I find most disappointing is Springsteen. All the songs seem to sound very similar. It feels like he found a formula very early on and just stuck to it. There are any number of major artists I'm quite apathetic about as I'm not really a "classic rock" kind of guy.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Nov 20, 2019 16:30:57 GMT
Floyd post Syd leave me mostly very cold. For me they're probably the only major artist whose appeal (and like you I'm talking about the stuff they made after Syd left) I still find completely bewildering. Surely people don't enthuse over those records? I try now and again with Animals (parts of Meddle and DSOTM I can just about tolerate), and it's just awful by any reasonable standard.
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Post by nolamike on Nov 20, 2019 16:32:55 GMT
Floyd post Syd leave me mostly very cold. For me they're probably the only major artist whose appeal (and like you I'm talking about the stuff they made after Syd left) I still find completely bewildering. Surely people don't enthuse over those records? I try now and again with Animals (parts of Meddle and DSOTM I can just about tolerate), and it's just awful by any reasonable standard. I listened to DSOTM for the first time in at least twenty years the other week. It was... fine. But I was amazed that THAT album became the massive-selling, super popular thing that it did.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 16:36:29 GMT
There are soooo many.....
You should probably exclude Beatle talk on this thread as well.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 16:36:47 GMT
Animals is the kind of shit Yomp would praise to the heavens. An arid nightmare of adolescent ersatz Orwellian bollocks made by a man who thinks he's way much smarter than he actually is.
One wonders how Gilmour tolerated the cunt for so long.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 16:37:12 GMT
For me they're probably the only major artist whose appeal (and like you I'm talking about the stuff they made after Syd left) I still find completely bewildering. Surely people don't enthuse over those records? I try now and again with Animals (parts of Meddle and DSOTM I can just about tolerate), and it's just awful by any reasonable standard. I listened to DSOTM for the first time in at least twenty years the other week. It was... fine. But I was amazed that THAT album became the massive-selling, super popular thing that it did. The cover
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Post by Crunchy Col on Nov 20, 2019 16:56:12 GMT
and showing off their new 'hi-fi systems'
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 20, 2019 16:58:14 GMT
And weed
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 17:02:31 GMT
Most Springsteen leaves me cold. I think he's bombastic and meandering and writes pop music novels that barely deserved to be short stories. There are probably three or four songs I'd put on a playlist. Of all his albums, I like the Seeger Sessions the best and they aren't even his songs, which proves my point to me at least.
Adam Raised a Cain is the only song I can stomach all the way through - and barely. Some start out okay, like Candy's Room, and a few others, but they get boring half way through.
In that vein, although he's not a major major artist, is Tom Waits. I think he's a poser with his sub-Bukowski shit.
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