OT: Great Music

[Renegade 13]

Corporate and soulless? Uh oh...Fyron's been bitten by the "Hate society, gov't, capitalism; anarchy rules!" bug Just kidding, of course.

I would agree that Metallica's new stuff sucks badly. And so does country *shudder*

[Raging Deadstar]

Country Music eh? Trully a sign of Apocalypse

My personal favourites are Paradise Lost, Muse, Garbage, The Smiths, Apocalyptica, Seigmen, Beborn Beton and The Crüxshadows.

Although to be honest at the moment I've been listening to a lot more film soundtracks. Sean Callery's soundtrack to the tv show "24", Graeme Revell and Hans Zimmer are rarely off my playlist.

[Atrocities]

Kiss
Van Moreson
John Cugar
Uncle Kracker
Trik Turner
Pearl Jam
Matchbox 20
Van Halen
Journey
Air Supply
Eagles
Lynard Skinard
Creedance Clear Water Revival
Laura McKennet
Bonjovi

(sorry about the spelling errors)

[Baron Munchausen]

Yeah, the 'classic' rock of the 1960s and 1970s is still good. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who are the triad tied for 'greatest rock band of all time' and then you've got other interesting but slightly less famous/influential bands like Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimess) Young, or the Moody Blues. I think some of Zeppelin is good but they're not this 'fantastic' band that so many people seem to think they are. Some of the bands from the 1980s are pretty good but most of them turn out to have gotten started in the 1970s -- Genesis, The Talking Heads, Super Tramp, etc. (Hmm I guess Super Tramp was already famous inthe 1970s... ) U2 was around in the early 1980s, and I think their first few albums are actually their best. The 1990s and later are not looking so good. I wonder if the stuff being crapped out now will be considered 'good' in 30 or 40 years.

Besides the 'classic rock' field, though, I've become interested in various 'alternative' genres. But today the genres are so narrow that you'll usually only find a few bands that you like in any one category. Some of the so-called 'techno' bands are quite good. Delerium, for example. But lots of it is just boring noise. Same for 'New Age' music. Some of these artists are good, some of them are just useless and smarmy at the same time. Yes was much better 'New Age' music in its time. Too bad they've corroded so badly over the years. Can't stand any of their new stuff. (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, Alan Parsons Project and such stuff used to be called 'Art Rock' before all the sub-genres appeared.)

[Fyron]

Renegade 13 said:
Corporate and soulless? Uh oh...Fyron's been bitten by the "Hate society, gov't, capitalism; anarchy rules!" bug Just kidding, of course.

Britney Spears? Chistina Aguilara? The entire boy band phenomena? Blink 182? Note that not every bad modern "band" is corporate, but most make music that lacks soul. Dry, riveting stuff that causes physical damage to the brain upon hearing it.

Starhawk said:
I knew a girl that had 510 songs and 3 radio stations on her playlist hehe.

I like putting all of my music in one playlist, setting it to shuffle, and getting my own personal radio station.

[Randallw]

I have always wondered how Mrs Federlines writers got away with a song called "Hit me baby, one more time". What are they advocating, abuse

[Fyron]

That, or it could be a reference to statutory rape (she was what, 16 at the time?).

[Starhawk]

Yeah being that "hit that" is in reference to sex not abuse (unless we go to sexual abuse but we won't here).

Although to be honest she always had a squeaky irritating voice and the only reason my 14 year old "brain" (yeah let's say brain) liked her was her body heh. But as I got older alas I met real girls who had much nicer qualities (both physically and certainly otherwise) then that skank and I thank God recovered from my brief bout of britneysbodyidus

Now Agulara (sp?) has a good voice but she's just as much of a skank as Spears (spears get it lol) just she admitted it from the start while miss "I'm a virgin" didn't until recently.

[El_Phil]

Well at the moment the bands on the old Winamp playlist.

Black Grape
American Hi-Fi
Johnny Cash
Zero 7
Goldie Lookin' Chain
The Killers
Oasis
Iggy Pop
Pearl Jam
The Cure
Pendulum
Bloc Party
Rage Against The Machine

If you can find any pattern in that lot best of luck to you.

[Starhawk]

Most of that stuff came out before I was born? lol at least I think that's the pattern I noticed as those bands are all what late 70s early 80s