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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 10, 2021 9:52:14 GMT
2021 has flat out sucked for female sung Rock & Roll albums ..... We're in the 8th month of the year - zero "great" female fronted albums for me (and just 4 by dudes either actually) and there have been several stunningly awful ones that I've made a lot of bitchy fun of..... Good news: my number 3 album act of 2020 - The Exbats - a dad and daughter may break the curse - an early encouraging review of their followup ............. Mattsby , also a fan of their last album........... "And the new songs? Well, they aren't public yet, so I'm not quite at liberty to talk about the songs track by track (I've only heard the mixes, not the final cut!) but if you dug the whip-smart lyrics, pop hooks and Hollies/Nesmithy Monkees melodies of last year's "Hits, Kicks and Fits," prepare for a deeper (and even better) dive into the same territory with forthcoming Exbats album "Now Where Were We."
It's a mature, nuanced album from a midcareer band (in addition to nods to the Hollies, you can almost hear some Everlys and early Byrds in the mix and maybe even a touch of the less navel-gazey sort of CSNY.) But it's still as modern and relevant as any Gen Z pop album out there (Taylor Swift's "Folklore" can eat its pretty heart out.) And, above all, it's FUN. That's something that has never changed about this band. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll wonder if they're really singing about Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine. Most assuredly they are. We wouldn't expect any less." www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/080621_tucson_sounds/tucson-sounds-bats-future/
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Post by chris3 on Oct 1, 2021 23:38:45 GMT
Sandinista! is one of the most underrated albums of the '80s, and it's a lot better than London Calling.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Oct 2, 2021 20:16:53 GMT
Updated: - Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" is a better song than ANYTHING Bob Dylan has ever written. I know Dylan's getting crapped on in this thread and that's probably because people act like he's the only poetic singer/songwriter from that generation who exists. But hello, can Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon get some props? I still love him though. However, my opinion about "Suzanne" is sincere. - I don't know if I've said this before, but it still stands. Pink Floyd's Animals is far better than Dark Side of the Moon and it's their best album, period. Also, Echoes is Pink Floyd's greatest song after Comfortably Numb. -Punk rock. Appealing statement for its time. But as I've gotten older, I now see a LOT of it (not all) as awful music. It was message over musicianship. If that's what you like, cool. But that doesn't mean I have to like to listen to your racket because of your message. -Kanye and Drake are "great rappers" to people who have not heard enough great rappers. May I suggest some Black Thought. -Fleetwood Mac was better when Peter Green was in it. I like Stevie Nicks and even I say it. Green is one of the all-time guitarists and had a fantastic, bluesy voice at that. -Led Zeppelin's best song is "Since I've Been Loving You" not "Kashmir" or "Stairway to Heaven". Robert's vocal performance is phenomenal and Jimmy Page's solo is possibly his best, certainly his sexiest. -Underrated singers, as in powerhouse vocalist types who get ignored: Keke Wyatt, Chante Moore (who can hit the same high notes Mariah can), and there's this girl named Haley Reinhart. I posted her performing "Creep" on here before and her Elvis cover "Can't Help Falling in Love" got her some more mainstream attention. She can sing any type of music amazingly. I love her "Bennie and the Jetts" cover most. - Nico almost ruins The Velvet Underground & Nico. Almost because "I'm Waiting for the Man", "Venus in Furs", and what I think is in the top 10 rock songs ever made, "Heroin" are all on there. -One of the greatest rap songs of all time is "I Gave You Power" by Nas. Such a clever narrative that shows his brilliance more than anything he's done. His finest work hands down.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 6, 2021 20:20:09 GMT
* If Tame Impala, The War on Drugs, Arcade Fire, and Vampire Weekend never existed, I wouldn't care one bit...... not one.....
* Imitation of Life is a better song than anything else REM did on their last 5 albums........maybe longer than that
* Adele naming her albums after her stage in life/ age is fncking annoying........looking forward to "70" when she starts singing about her arthritis and bunions
* You can tell dumb people that "Slash Your Tires" by Luna (1992) - which is one of the 90s very best songs - is a Strokes demo with a different singer and fool a lot of them
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Dec 7, 2021 0:32:43 GMT
Third Eye Blind's self-titled is straight up in the top 5 power pop albums of all time AT LEAST, that thing is just perfect hit after hit and has only aged even better with the passing of time.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 7, 2022 12:07:57 GMT
2022 edition:* Foals, Black Midi, Black Country, New Road, Idles will flood used CD stores with their catalogs in the next couple of years. Not saying they aren't good - but people will look at these and say "Why Did I Buy This Again?" one day....they will be the Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, The War On Drugs of their day...... * US Rock and Roll - by bands - is at a low point right now - none of the worlds best bands atm (with the possible exception of past their peak Parquet Courts / Spoon) - Fontaines D.C. ..... The Speedways ........or the best recent Rock albums like Wet Leg, Amyl and The Sniffers is from the US currently. * Pitchfork is single-handedly responsible for fostering bad music taste and wrong-headed criticial aesthetics on a whole generation - multiple generations - of people. * Olivia Rodrigo is mostly overrated hype who's had a negative influence - specifically on The Regrettes * Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 U" is a great Pop song though * "Eazy" has the best Kanye verses on it since New Slaves * Turnstile are not good ......like at all people....wtf * G.L.O.S.S - the somewhat obscure trans-feminist band (broken up) will be the Joy Division or Ramones of T-shirts of their era - has anyone ever noticed how many kids you see wearing their shirts in any big US city right now? I'm not sure many have even heard the band - it's the Black Lives Matter of band shirts
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 10, 2022 0:27:27 GMT
The more I try to listen to Animal Collective the more I think I just find them annoying as fuck...
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 22, 2022 21:00:01 GMT
* I used to really like The Regrettes - but "That's What Makes Me Love You" is utter shit - nothing good since What Am I Gonna Do Today?. What is happening to this girl, and this band - and I think I mentioned them first on this board so I'm not a recent convert ......... Why couldn't she be friends with Amy Taylor or something instead of Olivia Rodrigo because the field is kicking your ass - and not just Wet Leg either - since you decided you want to BE Olivia Rodrigo. Also stop cursing in every song - it doesn't even make sense to do it now. Not excited for this record at all.......surprise me Lydia - come on. * American Rock bands are awful atm - a couple years now actually. What great American band has emerged since Parquet Courts ? * A band that doesn't piss its audience off nowadays - is absolutely doomed to fail artistically because everyone thinks they're smarter than their fave band - yet we have a tremendously unsohisticated Pop music mass audience in 2022. That's Fontaines D.C's entire raison d'être - you can't know what their next song - or album going by their last one - will sound like or even how to assess it until you give it like 10 listens. They are marvelously difficult and not eager to please ..... * The recently announced break-up of French band Les Grys Grys - my number 4 album of 2021 for To Fall Down - will make them a cult band for their 2 albums - one of the best - actually THE best - of all recent non-US / non-UK / non-Australian Rock bands. They will be missed....... * I am not sure many people still really listen to Fiona Apple's last record - the best reviewed album of 2020 - in my circle of people who loved it upon release - now, not so much. * Black Sabbath with Dio for Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules was better than Ozzy's first 2 with Randy Rhoads for Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 22, 2022 21:13:57 GMT
* I used to really like The Regrettes - but "That's What Makes Me Love You" is utter shit - nothing good since What Am I Gonna Do Today?. What is happening to this girl, and this band - and I think I mentioned them first on this board so I'm not a recent convert ......... Why couldn't she be friends with Amy Taylor or something instead of Olivia Rodrigo because the field is kicking your ass - and not just Wet Leg either - since you decided you want to BE Olivia Rodrigo. Also stop cursing in every song - it doesn't even make sense to do it now. Not excited for this record at all.......surprise me Lydia - come on. Isn’t Lydia still with the guy from Wallows? That feels like a bigger influence on the new stuff than someone like Rodrigo tbh. But yeah I agree their new stuff is utterly boring. Really disappointing.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 4, 2022 20:27:09 GMT
Music excites people far more than movies. Last night I was following the grammies. Insane the amount of passion blasted all over youtube comments box and social media all people who are so deeply in love and rooting for their girl or guy. Oscars don't generate that kind of passion. I'm not saying music is defined by the grammies just like movies aren't defined by the Oscars.... of course they're not - not even close, but it just shows that the level of fanaticism is different with music. Music is certainly not at a current highpoint in history or anything. It isn't on the level that TV is currently at, but it's at a much higher level nowadays than movies. When Jon Baptiste won Album of the Year last night, pretty much every comment was..... "Who?" and all the Swifties and Rodgrigettes had their girl as an Album of the Year winner tattooed on their forehead before the award was even announced. They can't see reality in any other way despite the fact that reality turned out different. They were pretty mad their girl didn't win.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 4, 2022 22:01:54 GMT
Music excites people far more than movies. Last night I was following the grammies. Insane the amount of passion blasted all over youtube comments box and social media all people who are so deeply in love and rooting for their girl or guy. Oscars don't generate that kind of passion. I'm not saying music is defined by the grammies just like movies aren't defined by the Oscars.... of course they're not - not even close, but it just shows that the level of fanaticism is different with music. Music is certainly not at a current highpoint in history or anything. It isn't on the level that TV is currently at, but it's at a much higher level nowadays than movies. When Jon Baptiste won Album of the Year last night, pretty much every comment was..... "Who?" and all the Swifties and Rodgrigettes had their girl as an Album of the Year winner tattooed on their forehead before the award was even announced. They can't see reality in any other way despite the fact that reality turned out different. They were pretty mad their girl didn't win. Think this just might be a reflection of social media trends, particularly stans. Musical artists have a much stronger cult of fans than movie actors generally, so it isn't surprising to me that Swifties would be all over YouTube comments for instance. But it is interesting to note even though it seemed last night the Grammys generate more passion at least for the top awards, they consistently get far fewer viewers than the Oscars - 16.6m viewers to 8.93m this year.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 4, 2022 22:09:57 GMT
Music excites people far more than movies. Last night I was following the grammies. Insane the amount of passion blasted all over youtube comments box and social media all people who are so deeply in love and rooting for their girl or guy. Oscars don't generate that kind of passion. I'm not saying music is defined by the grammies just like movies aren't defined by the Oscars.... of course they're not - not even close, but it just shows that the level of fanaticism is different with music. Music is certainly not at a current highpoint in history or anything. It isn't on the level that TV is currently at, but it's at a much higher level nowadays than movies. When Jon Baptiste won Album of the Year last night, pretty much every comment was..... "Who?" and all the Swifties and Rodgrigettes had their girl as an Album of the Year winner tattooed on their forehead before the award was even announced. They can't see reality in any other way despite the fact that reality turned out different. They were pretty mad their girl didn't win. Think this just might be a reflection of social media trends, particularly stans. Musical artists have a much stronger cult of fans than movie actors generally, so it isn't surprising to me that Swifties would be all over YouTube comments for instance. But it is interesting to note even though it seemed last night the Grammys generate more passion at least for the top awards, they consistently get far fewer viewers than the Oscars - 16.6m viewers to 8.93m this year. Just my impression.....but a great deal of those people were clearly foreign which indicated the Grammies weren't readily available in their countries on a platform that isn't YouTube or stream. I'm not sure how many foreigners per percentage watch the Oscars tho. Personally I've never seen an entire grammies in my life. Not even in 1999 or 2000 where i was watching every pop culture event in america. I've seen at least 5 full oscar shows in my life. Also, I imagine most of the watchers were BTS and Kanye fans and Rodgrigettes and during a year where Beyonce was actually nominated the amount of people watching would increase. I guess my main point is....imo in present time....Tv > music > movies. Sizable gaps between each.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 10, 2022 21:48:36 GMT
* I used to really like The Regrettes - but "That's What Makes Me Love You" is utter shit - nothing good since What Am I Gonna Do Today?. What is happening to this girl, and this band - and I think I mentioned them first on this board so I'm not a recent convert ......... Why couldn't she be friends with Amy Taylor or something instead of Olivia Rodrigo because the field is kicking your ass - and not just Wet Leg either - since you decided you want to BE Olivia Rodrigo. Did you see Lydia on that new album cover though? HOLY SHIT (Can't post it here tho.)
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 13, 2022 19:50:38 GMT
* There's more great things .........albums, EPs, songs, and um, female lead singer sex symbols - in the first 4 months of 2022 than in any full year in the MAR era.....my top records of this year right now could cover a whole year........across a lot of genres. * I could make a strong case that Fontaines D.C. who didn't even really exist as a recording act until singles in 2018 - are already the best Irish Rock band - artistically - of all time. Not kidding.... * Jimmy Page's lack of much new music - almost none of it worth hearing - since Zeppelin's demise (fine with me btw, not a fan ) is the greatest case of musical writer's block in Rock history. Especially with Plant being so active.....must drive him crazy. * The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were not only better than Arcade Fire back then - they've aged even better and are far more influential on current good music ...........and they did it while making fewer albums
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 21, 2022 6:42:35 GMT
* Couldn't give af about Michael Jackson - but he didn't define "the 80s" - he more just sold a lot of records in the 80s......he wasn't "the 80s" any more than Madonna, Springsteen or even U2 were, I'd say he was much less so actually - and that's just of his multi-million selling peers - and compared to Prince he's a far lesser songwriter, musician, overall artist AND performer - a lesser creator of all timer, and lasting studio albums too.
.....and I'm being nice and separating the artist from the art - and leaving out his criminal behavior because you know ...........that shit happened.
* The British seeing ALL Rock music as Pop Art - to dance to it, drink to it, fnck to it, and laugh about it - is why they periodically get left field, flirtatious knockouts from bands making their debuts like Wet Leg (2022), The Long Blondes (2006), Arctic Monkeys (2006), Franz Ferdinand (2004) and others that can storm the charts AND dance clubs and where in America we take it all too seriously and make far dumber records - and we get way more of stuff like Creed and Greta Van Fleet and (too many) others while we sit around in a parking lot smoking a bowl and eating funyuns........man.
* Power Pop is like heavy metal, punk and blues - a music built on a contradiction but it is far more contradictory than them actually in the odd specifics:
No one ever hears the best at it (apparently), so if you name someone famous who does it - true believers will scoff that you just think that's good because you "never heard blah blah blah - who were too good to sell (um)". But Power Pop is inherently POP - there is nothing in it that allows for cult fandom..........except, weirdly the Pop Charts themselves for 50 years and for the next 50 I'm sure........which of course, are so awful ...........they allow this genre of bands to somehow live on in the smallest niche............... like wonderful rats in an underground tunnel.......waiting to pounce.
* If you took the Kanye / Kim side over Taylor Swift back then........ok, I get it, I really do and Immina let you finish.......but admit it - no matter who you like as an artist- she was pretty much right, she didn't do anything wrong, that taping of her was a dick / bitch move .........and she won that battle.........and she won the war anyway ..........Take the L .......
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 21, 2022 8:41:50 GMT
I don't know where else to post this, but here is the Top 35 all time best selling albums in America according to this list: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States-^yes, correct. Michael Jackson is a less musically gifted version of Prince who outdid him in nearly every facet. MJ is like Beyonce of the 80s. A showman. An entertainer. But he gets tiring. -Hootie and the Blowfish was a brief little gimmick in 1994, but I didn't think they sold that many records. (If you ask me) they're more like Sisqo. And the Baha Men. -Shania was HUGE apparently. I like Shania. You're Still the One is a really pretty song. (tho mainstream it may be) Still funny how many moms living in the South bought her albums. Lol. I remember those Shania CDs in every cabinet in every house living in the South in the late 90s and early 00s. She's more singles oriented than albums tho. -2000 was the LAST year music was able to involve the entire country. After N SYNC/Britney/Backstreet Boys tapered down, and Eminem declined badly..... music never brought the entire country together ever again. I remember 2000 distinctly.......it was a fabulous year - the post-Napster downloading revolution after 2000 really put a dent in an artist's ability to sell records. I'm guessing that's why Beyonce and Taylor Swift aren't anywhere to be found here despite them dominating these kinds of lists ordinarily. -I always love these lists. This IS America. Common America, at least. 1. 1976 Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) Asylum 38,000,000 38× Platinum‡ 2. 1982 Michael Jackson - Thriller Epic 34,000,000 34× Platinum‡ 3. 1976 Eagles - Hotel California Asylum 26,000,000 26× Platinum‡ 4. 1980 AC/DC - Back in Black Atlantic 25,000,000 25× Platinum‡ 5. 1971 Led Zeppelin - Untitled (“Led Zeppelin IV”) Atlantic 24,000,000 24× Platinum 6. 1977 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Warner Bros. 20,000,000 20× Platinum 7. 1987 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Geffen 18,000,000 18× Platinum 8. 1990 Garth Brooks - No Fences Capitol Nashville 18,000,000 18× Platinum‡ 9. 1997 Shania Twain - Come On Over Mercury Nashville (17,690,000)[4][5] 20× Platinum 10. 1974 Elton John - Greatest Hits Polydor 17,000,000 17× Platinum‡ 11. 1976 Boston - Boston Epic Records 17,000,000 17× Platinum 12. 1991 Metallica - Metallica Elektra (16,330,000)[6] 16× Platinum 13. 1977 Soundtrack / Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever RSO 16,000,000 16× Platinum‡ 14. 1995 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Maverick (15,550,000)[4][7] 16× Platinum 15. 1973 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Harvest/Capitol 15,000,000 15× Platinum 16. 1984 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend Island 15,000,000 15× Platinum 17. 1984 Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Columbia 15,000,000 15× Platinum 18. 1988 Journey - Greatest Hits Columbia 15,000,000 15× Platinum 19. 1994 Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View Atlantic (14,580,000)[4][8][9] 21× Platinum‡ 20. 1972 Simon & Garfunkel - Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits Columbia 14,000,000 14× Platinum 21. 1977 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell Epic Records 14,000,000 14× Platinum 22. 1978 Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974–78 Capitol 14,000,000 14× Platinum‡ 23. 1999 Backstreet Boys - Millennium Jive (13,890,000)[4][10] 13× Platinum 24. 1992 Soundtrack / Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard Arista (13,450,000)[4][11] 18× Platinum‡ 25. 1999 Santana - Supernatural Arista (13,110,000)[4][11] 15× Platinum 26. 1971 Carole King - Tapestry ODE 13,000,000 13× Platinum 27. 1984 Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain Warner Bros. 13,000,000 13× Platinum 28. 1985 Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston Arista 13,000,000 13× Platinum 29. 2000 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Aftermath (12,940,000)[4][10] 11× Platinum 30. 2000 The Beatles - 1 Apple/EMI/Capitol (12,800,000)[12] 11× Platinum 31. 2000 NSYNC - No Strings Attached Jive (12,680,000)[4][11] 11× Platinum 32. 1999 Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Jive (12,300,000)[4][10] 14× Platinum 33. 1968 The Beatles - The Beatles (“The White Album”) Apple 12,000,000 24× Platinum 34. 1969 The Beatles - Abbey Road Apple 12,000,000 12× Platinum 35. 1969 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Atlantic 12,000,000 12× Platinum
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 29, 2022 16:49:28 GMT
Let's see if I have this straight:
Pitchfork has not reviewed, covered, talked about CMAT (I think Rolling Stone too, but not sure) - and this record came out in February. The most exciting, goofy, hip "Country" album of the last several years - by far - that their audience (stupid conformists tbh, um) would love to know about and they haven't reviewed it, talked about her in any way at all.
I always mock Pitchfork but this may be a low point - and Pitchfork frequently reviews Country (Miranda Lambert, today).
People who think The Grammy's or Rolling Stone are corporate shills but let Pitchfork off the hook are way too kind to their daily vulgarity......I can pretty much guarantee this will win some End of Year polls (it's my number 5 or 6 atm)......and they're going to get to it 2 months late at the earliest?.........and that doesn't even mention other good records they are missing (a ton) .......but this is a much a bigger deal.....
GTFO
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Post by futuretrunks on May 9, 2022 23:48:54 GMT
Kendrick Lamar sucks and hasn't been good since Rigamortis and Buried Alive. Most overrated clown in hip hop right now.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 17, 2022 19:34:42 GMT
* You know you're an overgrown man-child when every time you now hear the phrase "The Great Replacement Theory" - you start to say "Yeah, well it was always around........ but when Hootenanny came out in 1983 that's when it went to a whole other level"
* The Strokes and The White Stripes were both great bands - sometimes still are in The Strokes case - but The Strokes ever being called a "gimmick" was ridiculous compared to the Stripes and their whole "are they married or not or brother & sister........ and btw we're only using Black, White, Red" routine.
* Pat Benatar being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is so sweetly goofy and random that I'm half expecting Quarterflash and Laura Branigan to get in next.
* The Lumineers were / are a fncking awful band. I don't mean they make bad records - though God knows they do - they are a terrible band in that they seemed to instantaneously create a fan following of blah, plebby people who apparently had never heard any music at all prior to them - or seen any live.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 22, 2022 17:03:16 GMT
* Assessing the followings of The Cure vs. The Smiths tells you everything about "rivalries" between almost all bands - in the US anyway. They weren't alike (rivals almost never are) but often overlap with fans and depending on your level of commitment to either: if you're a cynic you could call The Cure careerists.........if not you admire Robert Smith's work ethic with a kind of awe..........if you're a cynic The Smiths were aloof and odd........if not you'd champion Morrissey's "doomed" aesthetic creations as proof that he was not a careerist. * Stephen Duffy is the most perplexing Pop Star or guy who acts like a Pop Star that I can think of - at least in the UK. Never heard of Stephen Duffy? Well, there ya go...... * Olivia Newton John - when she is not nice - is extremely sexy far sexier than female singers who acted sexy - "Make A Move On Me" is the good girl gone wrong Holy Grail of the 80s - "Got nowhere to go? All my time is free?" Jesus - back off........pressure, yanno?!? Also, the song is terrible........when it's not sexy. * Jimi Hendrix with "Dolly Dagger" is a great and misogynistic song (not a contradiction, at all, especially in Rock) - almost on a level of The Rolling Stones "Under My Thumb" or "Backstreet Girl" - yet it's never really talked about as being either..........probably because it's too cool and playful to be taken "as seriously" (aside from the guitar playing) where the Stones were too cool and precise ........and too good ........not be taken as tremendously offensive (outside of their mastery of composition).
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Post by pacinoyes on May 31, 2022 19:49:57 GMT
* Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" is one of the best and wisest songs - her best vocal (not kidding) - sad and funny - in the American musical canon - apart from Rock and Roll which it somewhat approximates in its POV ........... and it's entirely because of her performance. There are plenty of sadder songs - and some funnier - but rarely both - combined into one as singular as this because of the vocalist herself.
* "Cultural Appropropriation" - a BS term used by wackadoodles who you should avoid at all costs - is particularly repulsive in describing music. If great artists imo (The Rolling Stones) and lesser ones imo (looking at you - Zep) didn't borrow, steal, swipe, pay homage to the Blues - those songs - and the artists who made them - would have often languished or been forgotten. It's not merely "logical" and necessary - it's also right and genuine - not a system of cultural oppression or theft (GTFO) - but an act of love and inclusion. To claim otherwise is to not only misunderstand the entire artistic impulse but to do it cynically. That goes for every instance of it............every.........one........
* Pat Benatar's "Invincible" and "Sex As A Weapon" - are essentially the same song except inverted lyrically and in qualities - the first has better verses / weak chorus and the later has a great chorus / weak verses. That should have been combined into one song - called 'Sex As An Invincible Weapon"..........um.....
* The Fratellis - "Flathead" was a genuinely terrific single - but it doesn't end well - rarely has a song started so dynamically and ended so low key and anti-climatic
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 3, 2022 18:01:20 GMT
* The Grateful Dead - ponderous hippies who can right fnck off - were more "Punk Rock" in spirit - not sound - than The Ramones who were of course infinitely better.
The Ramones wore a uniform, the Dead wore whatever they wanted, the Ramones did an album and then a tour like clockwork, the Dead toured and recorded with no schedule at all - they never pushed product. The Ramones wrote songs that fit a pattern of replicability - the Dead's songs were impossible to know what they would sound like from song to song - they had no rules...........fnck 'em anyway........
* Aretha Franklin - great as she was - never wrote or sang a song as romantic, sweet, and um, awesome as Kirsty MacColl's original version of "They Don't Know About Us". Because nobody ever has done that at all......so it's not Aretha's fault either.......
* Paul Westerberg looks to be having so much fun in Joan Jett's Backlash video - their one new song collaboration - it's almost shocking they didn't team up more and do more videos tbh
* Paul Westerberg and Joan Jett's cover of Let's Do It is a better record than Backlash is actually...........um.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 16, 2022 8:44:16 GMT
* None of The Replacements had driver's licenses in the 80s. None of The Speedways have driver's licenses right now.
Both wrote very great Rock and Roll love songs set on buses ......which is the least Rock and Roll - and arguably the least romantic - of all mass transit vehicles......
* I don't know one song by Lizzo ...........and I still feel I know waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much about Lizzo........and it would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler if I didn't know anything at all about Lizzo
* Lily Allen is married to David Harbour - which is awesome for him - though she could write a great putdown song about David Harbour I bet and I'm putting money on that happening one day
* Unchained is the best Van Halen song which may not be odd to say - but since it came from album 4 .......it might be odd to say that ......hmmmmmm
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 16, 2022 8:54:27 GMT
* Unchained is the best Van Halen song which may not be odd to say - but since it came from album 4 .......it might be odd to say that ......hmmmmmm Not sure what my fav Van Halen song is, but Unchained would probably be in the top 5. I quite like that whole album too... I haven't listened to it in a while but I think I might like it more than VHII and Women and Children First at least
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 3, 2022 22:03:19 GMT
* Ryan Adams was never that good.......never ......not in Whiskeytown, solo, covering Taylor Swift etc .....I can count his really good songs on my two hands and still have fingers left over. * I like Radiohead ......at times a lot (OK Computer, In Rainbows), The National at one time a lot (Boxer, Alligator), and The Smiths (Queen Is Dead, non-album singles, most of Strangeways) but in general their fans can be a lot to deal with .....and often - with some exceptions - not a whole lot of fun at parties. * Patti Boyd Harrison might have loved Eric Clapton, but giving in to Eric Clapton because he locked himself in a room and shot dope for a year because he was all lovesick set a real bad precedent to every overly sensitive singer-songwriter who thought he was Clapton, the girl in his English class was Patti Boyd........ and his original composition was Layla...... * Tool's Ænima is the most aggressive putdown song of a city or state ever........it's better because it's about California .......because fnck California - and if that song was about Maine it would just seem really, really mean
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