I really liked that, without quite knowing why. 9/10
Reminded me a little of this, in terms of approach.
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I really liked that, without quite knowing why. 9/10
Reminded me a little of this, in terms of approach.
What does where a band came from have anything to do with the quality of the music? Anyways, a lot of heavy metal bands come from nice, well-to-do suburban areas, and are rebelling against that very lifestyle.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
As to your song, I liked it. Bizzarre, but in a good way. 8/10.
Gentle Giant - "Free Hand"
I wasn't saying it had anything to do with the quality of the music. I was saying it was evident in the character of the music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
To a man of my age and background Gentle Giant are the occasion of skin-crawling embarrassment. I never owned a Gentle Giant album, but I know people who did, so I undergo mortification by association.
While we're in that area, here are some rather more melodic contemporaries of GG.
I like it. 7/10 Only four years to punk, and you can see why. They were funny times weren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9F_z0B2TA
Oh, please. GG was an artistic breakthrough. That song was popish, cliche-ridden rubbish. 2/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
And, my bad Paul, you posted that while I was making this post. That song isn't bad. 6/10.
Now, I must punish you, MarkBastable! I can only hope you're the one to rate this song, hahahahaha :devil:
I prefer the unplugged version. 1/10
Back for a moment to unreconstructed, unembarrassed rock music.... 'Allo.
Yeah, it is unembarrassed. I'll give it that. 3/5. Seriously, Mark, do you like anything recorded within the last 25 years?
Jaco was to bass what Jimi was to guitar.
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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I don't even like most of what was recorded in the previous fifty, as many of my ratings here have shown.
Johnny Rotten said that 99% of rock music was sh**, and he intended it to be provocative. I think he was unnecessarily generous to rock music, because a large proportion of it is worse than sh** - it's mediocre.
Not that that's specific to rock music - practically all creative output in literature, art, music, drama, dance, film and tv is rubbish. It has always been so. This isn't a modern phenomenon - I'm not blaming dumb popular culture - but rubbish is much more accessible now than it's ever been.
And that means that quite a lot of the stuff I like is rubbish. If I'm a bit different to most, it's because I know this. Essentially, I split the stuff on this thread into a four square grid.
Good stuff I like......... Good stuff I don't like.
Rubbish I like.................Rubbish I don't like.
The bottom right corner is the largest by several factors of ten.
Weather Report would come into the top right corner. Very clever, but utterly unmoving. 5/10.
As to my apparent antipathy towards anything recorded in the last 25 years, I think that the response to that might be less straightforward than simply quoting my age. It might have something to do with a truth about pop and rock music. I'll touch on that later.
In the meantime, here's something recorded in the last 25 years.
To my surprise, I rather liked that. The slightly folksy element really appealed. 6/10
How about some movie music?
The vid goes to proove Mark can tell his a*** from his elbow. Great song that.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I was imagining Old Errol swinging from something as this was playing, and then on the slow bits him gazing wistfully out to sea from the prow of a ship with a girl on his arm. Ah those old Sunday afternoon movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
6/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q
Thank you. Incidentally, I think that the built-in censor on this site is essentially American, so it'd probably let you get away with arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Which means that you can say that Sancho Panza was accustomed to getting around by plonking his arse on an ***.
Love Queen. 9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
An amazing guitar player.
But, Daddy, what's it for?
4/10 for tuning up an extra two strings.
Now this is technical genius.
5/10 for being an intentionally bad joke that alas went on too long (entire career), balanced out by at least being original once and a joke at all
Here's something I know you'll all really detest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY
I'm sure Mark would've, but not this guy. Love the Tull. 9/10.
If only all metal bands could be this good live.
For the record, I rather like aspects of the Tull, and this song in particular. Anderson had a cohesive world view, something worthwhile to say and he could summon the wit to say it. He was a bit of a closet conservative, but only in that nostalgic, tweedy, salmon-rearing way that's pretty much self-contained. Worth more than a cursory listen up to, say, Heavy Horses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
As to the metal band, I thought it was a work of unparallelled genius - limpid in its relevance, quixotic in its wit, mercurial in its virtuosity and palatial in its porcupine. A veritable 10/10, and it pains me that logic prevents the award of a higher accolade.
Not a million miles from the Tull, here's that friend of Zeps and Floyds, the inimitable and doggedly British Mr Roy Harper, the only man in rock music ever to contract anthrax having given the kiss of life to an ailing ewe.
I really enjoyed that song: smart, funny, and lyrical. 9/10
Here's one from one of my favorite bands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCP0G6z0aEo
Wait ... you liked the metal song? That's awesome! :hurray:I'm just not used to that happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
The hard rock and grunge bands of the 90s were my precursor to heavy metal, and I still love them. I long for the days when there was good rock'n'roll in popular music.
EDIT (sorry, Comedian, totally meant to actually give your song a rating and then forgot): Like I said, I loved the 90s rock'n'roll scene, but Blind Melon was never a band I got into, but not because I didn't like them, just because I never got around to them. I quite enjoyed that song, though. 8.5/10.
This was one of my favorites. Quite a sad tune when you realize what the lyrics are about.
...I hate to sneeze on your pizza, but I think he was referring to Roy Harper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Did you edit your post or something, Mark? Because I could've sworn your post said you'd let someone else rate the metal song..... I'm 99% sure I didn't imagine reading that. In any case, I sort of thought there was some sort of mistake with that rating.
Thanks for your 10/10, though. You were completely correct in your assessment, despite your esoteric use of adjectives.
Yeah, I edited. I got bored.
Aren't you going to rate The Comedian's offering before serving up pumpkin?
Remedied. I had such a strong intention of giving a rating I even remember doing such. Probably got caught up in finding my own song to post. Happens quite often.
I have soft spot for the Pumpkins, but that didn't touch it. 5/10
This is my favourite version of what has become a compulsively-covered song.
I like the KD Lang version better but this one isn't bad. 7.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAm0YQMEcEs
Hmm, kinda catchy. 6/10.
All right, really liking this song right now, and the video made it all the better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3bL...1&feature=fvwp
Of course it didn't. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Well, the dancing made me laugh. A lot. What was with the headbanging? The songs was horrible, though, but for the laughing I'll give it 5/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by faithosaurus
I've had this song stuck in my head all day. Also, possibly the best technical drummer ever.
Ug, 1/10, I like that even less than I usual like your metal songs.
Hmm, here is a video from the early days of Canada's illustrious history of exporting banal pop artists to the USA. See, you guys should have seen Justin Bieber coming because we've done it before. We're pathological re-offenders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKcCaCgMLBE
Figured. Meshuggah is notoriously a-melodic and inaccessible, and are known for the driving rhythm that seems to pound into your skull. For most, it's quite unpleasant, but I love it. If one listens, though, you'll notice the drummer plays two distinct and separate beats throughout the same--quite impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Sweet! Something else to blame Canada for! Not only can we blame you for Bieber, but the whole of ****ty child pop-stars. 2/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Stick with this one, it becomes more melodic and accessible as it goes along.
Having watched the video all the way through, I note that you're using 'accessible' here in its rarely employed sense of 'merely irritating'. 2/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Here's Cale once more, covering another classic - and I have to say I prefer this to the original by a mile.
It seemed a little drawn out to me. I wanted to say to him "dude, every syllable doesn't have to last a full four-count".
That said, it's not terrible. 4/10
Here's one from the 'mats.
Pretty good. 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0
:smilielol5: Is there ever an end to your razor-sharp wit, Mark?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Love the ol' Bosstones. But, this one of my least favorite songs by them, probably due mostly to hearing it innumerable times when it was a hit. Still, 6.5/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Really getting to love Dvorak. Also love watching this composer as he can't help but sing along.
Dvorak is good stuff, even if I can only take late Romantic composers in small doses 8/10.
Here is the sound of the American West, as composed by a gay Russian Jew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqah1...eature=related
:lol: That gave me a chuckle.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I do like this piece, only if I can disassociate myself from all its commercial use, which is tough. When I can, though, it's a 8/10.
I must admit, though, I like this version better--probably a blasphemous statement to the classical community.
Quite jolly, considering. 6/10
Another adaptation of a classic, from the days when a keyboard player couldn't get into any decent parties unless he'd rearranged The Valkyries for glockenspiel and moog.
Personally, I think this one's a bit feeble and bloodless.
7/10. I was proud of myself for knowing it was from Holst's Planets Suite, Jupiter in particular.
My other favorite version of Hoedown. (Song starts at around 2:00 if you want to get right to it.)
Never listened to that type of music before. They were really good. 9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
My daughter used to listen to Bollywood music and watch the films, which is where I came across this version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hdjp1lEeWU
Sorry, but just not my thing, in any language. Though, I liked that it didn't take itself seriously and realized what it was: a goofy pop song, so I'll be really generous: 5/10.
I'm glad you liked Bela, Paul. I like to describe them as bluegrass jazz fusion. If there's another band out there like them, I haven't found 'em. The put on an absolutely amazing show, and their bass player is possibly the best alive.
Here's another of theirs, an original and a personal favorite.
Very good. they are excellent players. 9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
The name Big Country reminded me of these. They didn't do as much as they might have done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2o_Go4QWI