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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2021 9:51:55 GMT
60s - Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown - Their punkiest song ever........with Page's punkiest guitar solo ........ should have called it a career after this song ammirite?
70s - The Eagles - The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks - Because these humorless stiffs made a funny joke ..........once...........but didn't realize they were more likely to be the frat douchebags they were singing about so does it count?........
80s - U2 - 11:00 Tick Tock - Martin Hannett produced this .......and gave them a sound - spacious, airy and threatening - on record they never quite got again while contemplating changing their band name to the less catchy but more accurate US4 - Jesus and His Disciples ......
90s - Pearl Jam - Corduroy - It's more the combination that I don't like them too much usually and their fans are a bit much to take........this has a cool intro and a very cool fade out ending .........and their singer isn't heard during either......Coincidence? Hmmmmmm
00s - The Shins - New Slang - The least annoying song from a band that were Garden State approved to absolutely fnck up your life.........or something. This video references The Replacements, Minutemen and Husker Du (among others) - which literally they should be castrated for.......if they had any balls I mean......the fncking gall......
10s - Cage The Elephant - Cold, Cold, Cold - New Rock Pretenders that mainstream people loooooooooooove and I think sort of sounds like a billion other bands in a blender except on this song which proves any track that mixes a 60s Stones vibe with a lyric about a "doctor fixing you" (cause he's got the dope, gettit?) hits the jackpot baby.......the "Bad Case of Loving You" of its time.
Whatcha got MAR?
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Post by urbanpatrician on Dec 11, 2021 12:02:52 GMT
I wouldn't say I dislike them.... but Beach House probably exemplifies this for me. They're pretty major stuff for someone I can only get into one song by them. Space Song. That's kinda the one that everyone listens to tho. If they choose to ignore the rest. I first heard that song whirling in an outdoors mall in a white collar district.
I would say some of the entry-level 00s bands like Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins. I like Oxford Comma, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations, I'll Follow You Into the Dark, and Simple Song.... pretty much just one song each. Again those are bands that never cross my 34 year old mind. If I'll go to a show of theirs, I'd be way too old - their audience is probably comprised of majority white male 16-25. So it's more disconnect than dislike, really.
On the other hand, I'll probably be the only one under 60 at a Rolling Stones concert. I don't dislike them, because I rarely actually dislike anyone really, but there seems to be a huge gap between Ruby Tuesday and all their other stuff. Maybe it's more "I can't get into them" than anything else. But Ruby Tuesday is..... really pretty. (in two words)
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jan 1, 2022 7:37:09 GMT
No, you're not right, Pacinoyes.  And Zeppelin I would've been flawless without that song. Actually, you pinpointed why I hate it. Don't want to hear them remotely punky.  Classic hard rock only, baby. Oh and Silver Soul > Space Song when it comes to Beach House. Kendrick Lamar's producer has good taste for sampling it. Myth is absolutely stunning. How did Space Song blow up so big, btw? Was it on a film soundtrack? It has 44 million views. That's crazy. Bohemian Rhapsody is the perfect example for this topic because it's a masterpiece of a song, but I can't take the rest of Queen's songs. Pearl Jam- Black is another good example, for sure Edit: Oop. I had to remove that last one because I just looked at it and hung my head in shame. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 11, 2022 21:11:33 GMT
I never really got The Cure tbh except for a couple songs........ but some kids who don't know the 80s too much think The Cure DEFINED the 80s (interesting theory  ) and really love them ......in addition to people who really love them of course - their "real" fans are pretty obsessive too........ if they were The Cure, imagine that awful disease ammirite? Kidding, kidding.... |
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Post by DaleCooper on Apr 12, 2022 0:25:04 GMT
I think my best example of this is Aerials by System of a Down. Of course, since I don't really like the band I haven't listened to all of their stuff, but that's the only song that I've properly liked and I absolutely love it. They cut their usual silly, fun vocals for a straight metal song and the riff is a real cracker. I guess they have a few other song I don't particularly mind but nothing comes remotely close to Aerials.
Then Gimme Shelter is sort of one of these for me as well. I don't particularly dislike The Rolling Stones, I think they're a decent to good rock band and they have more good songs than Gimme Shelter obviously, but that one is just one of the greatest songs ever written (with the single greatest feat of all time). For me, it's leagues ahead of everything else they've done.
I guess something like Do I Wanna Know (and R U Mine?) would fit the bill as well. No song of theirs ever caught my attention apart from those two, neither on records or when I saw them live. Really like those two though.
Hotel California by The Eagles is another one. But honestly, I cannot even recollect a single of their other songs, don't know if that's because I've never heard antything else by them or if all the songs were just that forgettable.
If we're including artists I'm gonna go with No Time To Die. At least up until that point I had actively disliked every song I had heard by Billie Eilish, and No Time To Die is pretty much my favorite song from the 20's as of yet (and my most listened song in the past five or so years). Generally can't stand her whispery style of talk singing, but here she actually sings and the overall composition and how it builds is just phenomenal and she actually does have a beautiful voice when she sings. I will say, however, I haven't really listened to her new album fully I think, but I have liked at least one of the songs on there.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 14, 2022 11:31:38 GMT
True story - There was a group of horrifying "Rock" bands that fooled millions - MILLIONS - into thinking they were playing Rock and Roll in any conceivale way when they weren't even close - bajillion selling acts of anyonymous piece of white bread (if they were in a movie they'd ALL be played by Ethan Hawke) - Third Eye Blind, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20. Their frontmen, Stephen Jenkins, John(ny) Rzeznik, Rob Thomas were like The Satanic Triumverate of Unhip Utter Shit - that somehow kept selling records by the mere fact that they were "cooler than Train". Yet I love this song......though if you repeat this I will pretend that I was drunk but.........great chorus though. |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Feb 6, 2024 5:56:37 GMT
This thread only has 5 posts..... weird.
Matchbox Twenty is the band you always want off your television screen in '99/'00, but you can't remove them. The white soft rock The Fray kinda stuff....... tho I shouldn't diss The Fray.... lots of mid-to-late-00s girls grew up listening to them, where I never met anyone who's ever felt nostalgic about Matchbox Twenty.
Some more:
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
Gigantic - Pixies (I don't hate them, I just don't dig them as much as their guys do)
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 6, 2024 9:20:23 GMT
I never really got The Cure tbh except for a couple songs........ but some kids who don't know the 80s too much think The Cure DEFINED the 80s (interesting theory ) and really love them ......in addition to people who really love them of course - their "real" fans are pretty obsessive too........ if they were The Cure, imagine that awful disease ammirite? Kidding, kidding.... Btw I know I'm obsessing over that The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend (2024) album but The Cure's influence is all over that record in a Twee, homespun way.......not sure anybody who likes The Cure (I do like their singles album - so that's more than just a couple songs - too harsh pacinoyes^) would make the connection but it's there in the deceptive way that everything about that PITA Umbrellas album is  ......and hey if 2024 ended in the first week in February that shit would win my album of the year, huh? * My OG post in is thread is pretty fuuny btw in that bitchy pacinoyes way that is my bread and butter...... * One from the 2020s I've talked about before is Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U (2021) - a perfect Pop song of subject, presentational style, aesthetics and attitude................which she has now rewritten, in increasingly stupid, inferior ways many, many times ................and which she'll never match again - like Lady Gaga won't match Bad Romance and well you get the idea.......she'll never match the video either which goes into presentation.......the act of visualizing and conveying is particularly keen - especially the popcorn bit |
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Feb 6, 2024 10:24:08 GMT
I never cared much for these guys, but this is about as perfect as a pop song can get.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 6, 2024 15:00:37 GMT
I've never been big on The Rolling Stones, but I can't deny this:
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Post by Archie on Feb 6, 2024 15:09:52 GMT
I've never been big on The Rolling Stones, but I can't deny this: How can someone not love Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St?  |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Feb 7, 2024 19:54:42 GMT
I've never been big on The Rolling Stones, but I can't deny this: How can someone not love Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St? It's the rock and roll flawlessness of Beggar's Banquet for me.  |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 13, 2024 11:04:33 GMT
Tonight a couple of girls said I looked like someone who would like Morissey, Radiohead, or PJ Harvey and I said "None of the above"
So that made me listen to Morrissey tonight, and I can safely say I really dig Girlfriend in a Coma. The only Smiths song I really really like (tho all their stuff is extremely listenable)......................... This Charming Man used to be in my all time overall Top 5 - it has slipped baaadly.
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And Zeppelin I would've been flawless without that song. Actually, you pinpointed why I hate it. Don't want to hear them remotely punky. 
Classic hard rock only, baby.
) and really love them ......in addition to people who really love them of course - their "real" fans are pretty obsessive too........ if they were The Cure, imagine that awful disease ammirite?
......and hey if 2024 ended in the first week in February that shit would win my album of the year, huh?
