Greatest Male Solo Artist - Hank Williams vs Ozzy Osbourne

[mgw100]

At the risk of being exposed for the philistine I am, I don't really get why anyone would want to listen to Hank Williams if that OP track is anything to go by. It may have been ground breaking at the time and influenced later artists but it sounds like something you'd hear down the British Legion on a Sunday night.

 

Personally, I think guitar based music evolved pretty quickly in the 60s and the earlier stuff just sounds, well, dated.

[Captain Howdy]

Hank wins it for “I’m so lonely I could cry” alone

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, easytoslip said:

Righto never knew that, though I think i read something like that about Ike Turner. 

That might have been me.

I posted it on the Tunes that are just fucking ace thread a few weeks back.

[easytoslip]

17 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Bit of a jaw-dopper when I found it out, but From Hank to Hendrix isn't about Williams, it's about Cliff's mate Marvin, who was a big influence when Neil started playing guitar.

Blimey, who'd of thought that, nothing against Marvin like. 

[Harry's Lad]

50 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Love the broken amp accidentally making the fuzz tone. Knew about Link Wray and his broken amp but not this one. Broken amps a very important part of musical history. 

It's amazing how things happen. 

Cracking tune. I love 50's rock & roll.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Hank wins it for “I’m so lonely lonesome I could cry” alone

 

[SasaS]

1 hour ago, mgw100 said:

At the risk of being exposed for the philistine I am, I don't really get why anyone would want to listen to Hank Williams if that OP track is anything to go by. It may have been ground breaking at the time and influenced later artists but it sounds like something you'd hear down the British Legion on a Sunday night.

 

Personally, I think guitar based music evolved pretty quickly in the 60s and the earlier stuff just sounds, well, dated.

They don't come as dated as this any more.
 

 

[johnsusername]

Not the Brummie twat with his gruesome LA family. 

 

Hank all the way. 

[easytoslip]

That one with his daughter, on a roundabout or something, good grief, painful. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Neither. Good luck to the winner.

[Paul]

Hank Williams??? What the fuck? Not that Ozzy is anything special either, mind. 

[Harry's Lad]

4 hours ago, easytoslip said:

That one with his daughter, on a roundabout or something, good grief, painful. 

Was that Changes?

One for the worst songs of all time thread.

[aws]

Hank by a country mile. The greatest country singer and inventor of rock and roll. 

[Mook]

38 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

Was that Changes?

One for the worst songs of all time thread.

Changes is a great song. The version he did with Kelly was horrific though.

[Lee909]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

Changes is a great song. The version he did with Kelly was horrific though.

Charles Bradley version is brilliant

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

30 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Charles Bradley version is brilliant

 

 

Good that, I hadn't heard that version before.

 

 

[easytoslip]

4 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Was that Changes?

One for the worst songs of all time thread.

Yes they screech at other on the Witches Hat,that thing you seen in the park, ghastly to say the least. 

This competition about music has been good, it's good to read and acknowledge people's taste in sounds, though some are disagreeable and distasteful, that chap who said listening to Hank is like listening to something down the Legion, I agree but at the end of the day it's alright. Isn't it? 

[Lee909]

As I said some of older stars getting completely disrespected. 

[Mook]

I'm still laughing at @Elite saying Hank Williams looks like he should be in Toy Story.

 

Superb.

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, easytoslip said:

Yes they screech at other on the Witches Hat,that thing you seen in the park, ghastly to say the least. 

This competition about music has been good, it's good to read and acknowledge people's taste in sounds, though some are disagreeable and distasteful, that chap who said listening to Hank is like listening to something down the Legion, I agree but at the end of the day it's alright. Isn't it? 

I think it's a case of each to their own.

Hank Williams although legendary is definitely not for me and Ozzy although again legendary with Black Sabbath, was in my opinion never anywhere near as good solo.

Seeing as this is for the best solo artist, I couldn't vote for either.

That like listening to someone down the legion quip was pretty good though and the Toy Story one was hilarious!

 

[TheHowieLama]

Hank Williams like some fella down at the Legion hall?

 

That is like saying I am know a fella on the corner who can rap and he sounds like Jay Z.

[Mook]

7 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Hank Williams like some fella down at the Legion hall?

 

That is like saying I am know a fella on the corner who can rap and he sounds like Jay Z.

He said the Williams song in the OP sounds like something you'd hear down the British Legion on a Sunday night & it does. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to the individual I suppose.

 

Jay Z is a fucking terrible rapper by the way, can't criticise his ability to make millions though.

[Paul]

Jay Z really isn’t a terrible rapper. Whether he’s the greatest ever is a matter of opinion (not for me, by the way), but he’s certainly in the conversation. Or did you mean “terrible rapper” in the sense that you think all rappers are terrible? In which case, fair enough. 

[easytoslip]

Is there such a thing as a good Rapper? What's the difference between one doing rhyming words that a child can do, mo, yo, ho, to another, that they talk about,not sing, maybe it's about the dickhead hand signs or the idiotic videos about whatever they're blabbering on about. 

I know some might like it, but I feel incensed at the mere sight of the cunts, sorry a load of cack, no I'm not sorry its a load of shite. 

I've just risen and have a sore head, so please excuse my displeasure. 

[Mook]

1 hour ago, Paul said:

Jay Z really isn’t a terrible rapper. Whether he’s the greatest ever is a matter of opinion (not for me, by the way), but he’s certainly in the conversation. Or did you mean “terrible rapper” in the sense that you think all rappers are terrible? In which case, fair enough. 

No, I've nothing against rap & used to listen to it a fair bit as a kid. I think Chuck D & some of the guys in the Wu Tang Clan are good rappers (just some examples), I do not think Jay Z is a good rapper, not even close. As I said though, he seems to appeal to the masses & gets to rattle Beyonce so hats off to the cunt.