Top 5 really boring musical acts everyone buzzes off

[Rushies tash]

1 hour ago, Red74 said:

How boss is it seeing superfans of the Top 5 really boring musical acts everyone buzzes off getting upset when their number gets called 

Yup. I almost regret suggesting that I personally find Nick Cave boring. Almost.

[stringvest]

4 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

Yup. I almost regret suggesting that I personally find Nick Cave boring. Almost.

You've got to get behind Porno Nick

 

 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

15 hours ago, Mook said:

I've heard plenty of their stuff & that's the conclusion I have come to. 

 

I'm not interested in comebacks or debating it.

 

Check the thread title if it bothers you. A lot of people buzz off them, I think they're shit.

+1 

 

[Boss]

6 hours ago, Mook said:

I completely agree with all of that & that's exactly what I meant in my initial post about them.

 

Take this clip for example, it sounds like a bunch of 15 year olds who can't really play their instruments yet having their second ever rehearsal.

 

Personally, I'd be chuffed if I could sound like that in my second rehearsal, but I understand what you mean. They chose to play like that though. If you listen to this Lou Reed track five years earlier you can see his ability to write a conventional pop song...

 

 

The point of The Velvets was to strip back all the obsession with music theory and just play how you feel. The guitars were tuned to drones, Mo Tucker mostly played a floor tom and a snare. It was anti-music, but it wasn't that way because none of them could play. "I'm gonna move right in" shows off Morrison's skills as a guitar player. John Cale produced many great records - like the first Stooges record. They had talent, they just chose to express themselves in that way. You might like Loaded more than the other records if you don't like the atonal stuff. 

[Bjornebye]

Kraftwerk. Ross Gellers keyboard, 80's science programme theme-song gear. 

[Boss]

6 hours ago, stringvest said:

Lennon was done by 1971.  Everything else he produced after that was terrible.  Same with George.  Living In The Material World in 1973 was weak, but it remains the last listenable album he produced.  McCartney went longer than them both in terms of producing music of any merit. 

 

There's truth to what you're saying, but Band on the Run and Ram aren't as good as Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, in my opinion. Both of them fizzled out by 1973 for the most part. If The Beatles stayed together for another four years, the albums they would've produced would've been extraordinary.

 

I just like Lennon more because his music is more intense. Lennon would've given McCartney more edge, and McCartney would've given Lennon's music a more polished tapestry of sound. The two of them complimented each other so well. I accept that McCartney had greater longevity, but Lennon had a much higher peak - in my opinion, of course.

[Bjornebye]

Pisses all over anything by Lennon, McCartney and George from a great height 

 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, stringvest said:

Apart from Give Ireland Back To The Irish?  McCartney's solo output is actually not pure gush, certainly not compared with the drippy shite like 'Love' that Lennon wrote.  

I've no skin in the game here, apart from my unrivalled knowledge of the Beatles  not allowing me to read cliched stuff like that without comment.  

I think that when it comes to The Beatles that like a certain sports team we all follow,their combined talent was/is phenomenally better than their individual merits. In my view at least.

[Total Longo]

On 13/11/2021 at 21:32, Red74 said:

Rocket Man

Saturday Nights alright 

Your song

are his 3 greats. The rest wouldn’t make me wanna stand and watch him play them for 3 hours. 
 

Better interviewee than singer for me. Reckon he’d be brilliant company on a night out tho. Defo on my list for my imaginary dinner table night.

I'm not a big fan of Reg but "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is lyrically and musically superb. His problem is that, like a lot of musical artists once they hit a certain age, the quality dips alarmingly.  

[Total Longo]

17 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I think that when it comes to The Beatles that like a certain sports team we all follow,their combined talent was/is phenomenally better than their individual merits. In my view at least.

Spot on. There was nobody to reign in the ego's once they all went solo. Lennon released just the one (admittedly brilliant) solo album in Plastic Ono Band, Harrison released a triple album (the biggest ego trip in the game) and McCartney brought out simplistic nonsense like Mull of Kintyre and The Frog Chorus. Their post Beatles careers were definitely more miss than hit.      

[Mook]

11 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

I'm not a big fan of Reg but "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is lyrically and musically superb. His problem is that, like a lot of musical artists once they hit a certain age, the quality dips alarmingly.  

The well runs dry too, you can't expect songwriters to keep coming out with classic songs and albums, decade after decade.

 

They're all only human.

[Total Longo]

10 minutes ago, Mook said:

The well runs dry too, you can't expect songwriters to keep coming out with classic songs and albums, decade after decade.

 

They're all only human.

This is true, they also get more conservative with their releases as well. 

[Arniepie]

On 14/11/2021 at 09:03, stringvest said:

Lennon was done by 1971.  Everything else he produced after that was terrible.  Same with George.  Living In The Material World in 1973 was weak, but it remains the last listenable album he produced.  McCartney went longer than them both in terms of producing music of any merit. 

When did he do working class hero,watching the wheels,jealous guy,mind games and imagine?

Genuine question as everyone one of them was suoerb.

[Bruce Spanner]

26 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

This is true, they also get more conservative with their releases as well. 

Tom Waits & Scott Walker to name two.

[Total Longo]

9 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Tom Waits & Scott Walker to name two.

Oddly enough i was going to go back in and edit that post to say Scott Walker was a huge caveat to this, but i forgot.  

[Total Longo]

16 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

When did he do working class hero,watching the wheels,jealous guy,mind games and imagine?

Genuine question as everyone one of them was suoerb.

Watching the Wheels was 1980, the rest were all on Imagine or before, so 70-71.

[Arniepie]

21 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Watching the Wheels was 1980, the rest were all on Imagine or before, so 70-71.

Didnt he have a break for about about 5 years?

If I had to choose ,I'd prefer Lennon's work but like everyone has said,they were better as a collective unit.

[Mook]

23 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Watching the Wheels was 1980, the rest were all on Imagine or before, so 70-71.

Mind Games was '73.

 

Great song but the album is very patchy.

[KMD7]

Sad thing is we'll never know what Lennon might have wrote later on in life. He might have wrote some great stuff.

[Total Longo]

3 minutes ago, Mook said:

Mind Games was '73.

 

Great song but the album is very patchy.

Didn't even see that! 

[Total Longo]

2 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Sad thing is we'll never know what Lennon might have wrote later on in life. He might have wrote some great stuff.

I highly doubt it, but as you say we'll never know.

[Bjornebye]

10 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

I highly doubt it, but as you say we'll never know.

I think the world to this day would benefit from Lennon still being around. Not sure what his music would have been like. 

[stringvest]

3 hours ago, Arniepie said:

When did he do working class hero,watching the wheels,jealous guy,mind games and imagine?

Genuine question as everyone one of them was suoerb.

70, 80, 71, 73, 71.

 

Mind games is a terrible dirge though imo.

[Tony Moanero]

7 minutes ago, stringvest said:

70, 80, 71, 73, 71.

 

Mind games is a terrible dirge though imo.

I think Mind Games is great. Walls and Bridges was mid-70s, wasn’t it? #9 Dream and Whatever Gets You Thru the Night are superb.

[Arniepie]

Working class hero and watching the wheels are massively underrated imho.

Lennon's work was definitely more challenging and personal (god,mother,jealous guy etc)while McCartneys seemed more radio friendly. 

Probably why they worked so well together,they got a mixture of the 2.