Random musical chat.

[Jairzinho]

I love blues. I love rock.

 

I hate blues rock.

 

Freddie King?

[TheHowieLama]

Up all night with

[Paul]

I have barely heard more than two or three "rock" (it's a massive genre, I know) tunes in ten years that I enjoyed. I once heard a definition of great as music as anything that has either balls or soul, but preferably both: I hear so little "rock" music that has either, but there's almost none that has real soul. I admit it's not a genre I explore much these days, but I'm familiar with most well know stuff and it all just leaves me cold. That said, there were two lads on Jools Holland last week who were fucking boss on just guitar and drums. The last thing I heard that was as enjoyable as them was The Dead Weather on there doing Cut Like a Buffalo.

[manwiththestick]

Would that be Royal blood you're referring to? The two guys on Jools Holland I mean.

[Boss]

I think The National Anthem is one of their best ever songs. The bass is fucking brilliant and I love the jazz improvisation stuff on there from the horns too.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with that, i think i posted national anthem on the ace bass thread, it's brilliant.

[cloggypop]

Would that be Royal blood you're referring to? The two guys on Jools Holland I mean.

Slaves. I much prefer them to Royal Blood myself.

[Mook]

Dave Gilmour's guitar solos bore the shite out of me & I find Dark Side of the Moon & Wish you were here incredibly dull.

 

I do like Meddle though.

[Bjornebye]

As this isn't an amnesty thread i'd like to proclaim most of you as counts and stress again that radiohead are over-rated. good yes but fuck me not the way you depressive fuckers prattle on about them. 

 

Oasis piss on them from a great height.

 

Radiohead are band for middle aged emo's 

 

Oasis are a band for drinking and wanking into peoples pockets. 

[Mook]

Radiohead are a bit overrated but Oasis are just shite.

 

"Soooooooonnnnshhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnne".

 

Their interviews are always worth a watch though.

[Boss]

Noels quite funny but Liam is, was, and has always been a twat of the absolute highest order. 

[Paul]

Would that be Royal blood you're referring to? The two guys on Jools Holland I mean.

It was a group called Slaves and the tune was called "Hey". I've just listened to a recorded version and it doesn't sound anywhere near as fresh as it did live though.

[Paul]

It absolutely amazes me that so many people who listen to a lot of music listen to very little that's new and will return to the same albums and artists over and over again for years on end. Don't get me wrong, I have favourites that I like to go back to, but the overwhelming bulk of what I'm listening to at any given time is new to me.

[Lee909]

Depends on what music you like surely?

 

I mostly listen to old stuff but then I like Blues and Southern rock and there isnt much new stuff about thst doesn't sound like somebody copying old artists. The only album I listen to from the last two years is Gregory Porters album

[KMD7]

Pete Doherty, despite being a complete knobhead, is one of the best songwriters of the past 10 years or so and Libertines should have become a better group than the Arctic Monkeys but didn't due to the aforementioned knobheadedness

 

The Rolling Stones should have split up after Exile on Main Street

 

Beck's Odelay should be much higher on the lists of all-time great records

 

Cat Stevens is much better than people remember and Father & Son is actually a good record destroyed by boy bands

 

Shaun Ryder isn't the greatest English poet since Yeats but he can still produce an intelligently twisted lyric better than most lyricists since Lennon

 

I don't really get Radiohead and sometimes think they are mostly a cooler version of Coldplay

 

 

Probably the above should be on the Amnesty thread

 

 

Oh yeah, and Imagine is actually one of John Lennon's worst songs (although that's still pretty good in relative terms)

 

Not a lot wrong with any of that.  

[TheHowieLama]

With long established genres it is hard to get past the established masters both as aspiring artists and as listeners.

[Scott_M]

Noels quite funny but Liam is, was, and has always been a twat of the absolute highest order.

Other way round. Liam is a twat but at least doesn't try to hide it.

 

Noel is really as dumb as Liam but tries to come over as some intellectual sort but sounds like some boring student cunt.

[Fugitive]

The Pixies were the most important band to come out of the 80's.

[Total Longo]

Oasis are just dullards. Great first album, nothing of any note since. The beak killed them.

[Total Longo]

The Pixies were the most important band to come out of the 80's.

 

*cough*

 

Five Star

[Fugitive]

[Spy Bee]

Oasis are just dullards. Great first album, nothing of any note since. The beak killed them.

Second album is class. After that a steady downward pattern.

[rubble-rouser]

The Pixies were the most important band to come out of the 80's.

 

Probably true, but doesn't make them any easier on my philistine ear.

[cloggypop]

The Pixies were the most important band to come out of the 80's.

Husker Du taught them everything they know.

[stringvest]

There's something for everyone in the Pixies catalogue.  

[Bjornebye]

Oasis are just dullards. Great first album, nothing of any note since. The beak killed them.

Nonsence. Utter shite that is