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« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2012, 11:38:58 PM »

Quote from: IronDioPriest on May 07, 2012, 06:49:30 AM
Quote from: BMG on May 06, 2012, 11:34:06 PM
So after slamming Springsteen I figured I ought to come back and post some of the stuff that I do like so you can see how truly odd I am when it comes to music.  ::angel:: After all, most everyone on the planet likes Springsteen. I'm just odd that way.

I guess I'm odd too then. In fact, I'm really odd, because I have a pretty long list of musicians that "everybody" loves and says are the greatest ever, that I either can't stand, or at best I'm not as impressed as "everybody".

Bruce Springsteen
John Mellencamp
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
The Rolling Stones
Tom Petty
Janis Joplin
The Doors
The Who
Cheap Trick

Those are just the ones that spring to mind.


Dylan wrote many good lyrics, it wasn't a rock genre.
The Doors did one good album, otherwise a super list
of infamy.

Unmentioned in either category is that all time blues band, Cream.

Cream - Crossroads (Live At The Fillmore) Wheels of Fire

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« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2012, 11:48:18 PM »
I saw Cream.  Sophomore year, '69, local boys Catholic high school.  One of my first dates.  I don't remember a damn thing about the music.

If it's any comfort, IDP, I never could stand Joplin (scrEAming!  My friend admonished me, "it's not screaming, it's wailing".  Yeah, okay.) nor Hendrix (never will appreciate the "let me see how many notes I can play in a minute whether it makes musical sense or not").  Still don't.

Didn't really get into The Who, nor Cheap Trick, but I do still like Petty -- "... don't back down ...".

We've a ten-year difference in age, maybe it matters at some points and particulars, maybe it doesn't, and that doesn't account for the male/female approach to things either.
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« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2012, 12:45:57 AM »

and for the trainees...

Another one bites the dust Queen

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« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2012, 06:28:29 AM »
The Faces - I'm Losing You

They really should have been more popular then they were.
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« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2012, 06:52:30 AM »
Quote from: MNHawk on May 08, 2012, 06:28:29 AM
The Faces - I'm Losing You

They really should have been more popular then they were.

Yup. That there was a helluva band. Beck is one of my all-time faves. I just LOVE what his guitar playing evolved into. I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a special on the classic music channels of his band playing in a small nightclub to a bunch of VIPs. It's unbelievably cool, and for anyone unfamiliar with him or unconvinced of his unique virtuosity, it serves as a prime example. Must-see for Jeff Beck fans. You'll be calling people into the room saying, "Listen to THIS."
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« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2012, 07:15:05 AM »
I've liked Beck for a long time.  People forget he replaced Clapton with the Yardbirds and Jimmy Page started playing bass with them before becoming a lead guitarist.  His brief collaboration with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood was pretty good too.  The Beck-Stewart combo on "People Get Ready" in the mid-80's is one of my all-time fav's. 
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« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2012, 07:20:16 AM »
And while we're posting our guilty pleasures...another underrated band, at least before 1975 or so, then they became the most overrated band in history.

Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941 [Promo Clip 1967]

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« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2012, 07:32:34 AM »
DISCO?!

 ::saywhat::

I guess MNHawk wants to get beat up!

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« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2012, 08:09:56 AM »
You didn't listen!   

Bee Gees had been around a little longer than disco was. 
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« Reply #29 on: May 08, 2012, 08:15:18 AM »
You're right, I didn't...sorry, reflex move...I used to walk out of bars when house bands would play that vile so-called music...just the sight of those two words sent me over!
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« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2012, 08:29:10 AM »
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« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2012, 08:36:33 AM »
Disco? DISCO?!  ::gaah::  That crap's as bad as rap!
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« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2012, 09:01:22 AM »
It may even be worse!   ::lalanotlistening::

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« Reply #33 on: May 08, 2012, 09:02:53 AM »
Stuff I liked when I was younger I can't stand now like the Carpenters.  I hear it now I turn it off. (I still remember what I was doing when I heard Karen Carpenter died.  Kinda weird cause even when I was a fan I wasn't that much of a fan...I didn't own an album  ::whatgives::)
Didn't like Queen but now I love it...drives the kids nuts.  "Mom! Can you turn that down?"

Then there are the days I put on Dean Martin and the kids roll their eyes.

I rarely join in a conversation about music......because they're usually started by people who know way more about it than I do.  I'm happy to like what I like.

I'm going to hear this guy in concert this summer:

Mat Kearney- Lifeline

from the album City of Black and White by Matt Kearney--I love every song on that album and that doesn't usually happen for me
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« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2012, 09:26:06 AM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 08, 2012, 08:29:10 AM
Did someone say disco?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkURpZFniyk

People have WAY too much time on their hands to figure stuff like this out... but I'm really glad they do!
 ::cool:: ::hysterical::
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« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2012, 11:26:16 AM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on May 08, 2012, 09:26:06 AM
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 08, 2012, 08:29:10 AM
Did someone say disco?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkURpZFniyk

People have WAY too much time on their hands to figure stuff like this out... but I'm really glad they do!
 ::cool:: ::hysterical::

This is what I used to do - and I was pretty good at spontaneously recognizing the similarities and "morphing" one tune into something unexpectedly different. They have a term for it now - "mash-up" courtesy of software that makes it easy to lift tracks and loop, etc.

Except that I did it live...
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« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2012, 11:28:24 AM »
Except that I did it live...

Old School "skilz"!   ::thumbsup::
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« Reply #37 on: May 08, 2012, 02:22:51 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 08, 2012, 08:29:10 AM
Did someone say disco?


and that was the last time you'll get me to listen to those willingly

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Except that I did it live...

which is soooo awesome...I love it when I get to hear someone do that live
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« Reply #38 on: May 08, 2012, 04:03:10 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 08, 2012, 11:26:16 AM
Quote from: IronDioPriest on May 08, 2012, 09:26:06 AM
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on May 08, 2012, 08:29:10 AM
Did someone say disco?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkURpZFniyk

People have WAY too much time on their hands to figure stuff like this out... but I'm really glad they do!
 ::cool:: ::hysterical::

This is what I used to do - and I was pretty good at spontaneously recognizing the similarities and "morphing" one tune into something unexpectedly different. They have a term for it now - "mash-up" courtesy of software that makes it easy to lift tracks and loop, etc.

Except that I did it live...

I'm thinking that probably required some pretty good hallucinogens?

/I can't believe I watched that much of that...
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« Reply #39 on: May 08, 2012, 04:09:03 PM »
I like Disco.

I like to dance.   ::bustamove::

I like "Thriller". 

I like Dino, too (Chapel in the Moonlight; Return To Me).  And Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison and R.E.M. and ....
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