I don't mind the second two albums in their entirety when I'm in the rare mood, but they are the triumph of grim determination rather than great 7.5/10
On that note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY
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I don't mind the second two albums in their entirety when I'm in the rare mood, but they are the triumph of grim determination rather than great 7.5/10
On that note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf5ucFanpY
Superb. 9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUr1pSWTVI
This reminds me of working in the slaughterhouse....you didn't want to know that though....
I like a lot of Queen songs, but not this one. Plus, this song is how Lady GaGa came up with her name, so we can thank it for that, too. 2/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
The lead singer's hair is epic.
That was a great song! One of the best ever posted! 11/10.
Melville lives on, even in metal.
Leviathan is my favorite biblical... thing. 8/10
Here, have some redneck pride; this one is big in my town right now, you can hear it from every pickup's window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-XfthjK-bk
I'm glad I don't live in your town ;) 1/10
http://youtu.be/3GMpSxjFPbI
Roxy's stuff was always a triumph of arrangement over content. Try playing that on an acoustic guitar. It just doesn't work. Like wot they do it, though, it's wonderful. 8/10
From the same era.... 10cc can be really irritating, but they were also capable of some fabulous melodies and arrangements, of which this is one of my favourites. Ignore the rather trite and irrelevant video.
I've always enjoyed 10cc. 7.5/10.
More epic hair. (Don't miss the epic windmills at 4:22)
I'm going to give that 2/10 because I thought it was a huge improvement on the book.
Here's a band I haven't really considered for thirty-five years, and who turn out to be nothing like as funny or as tight as I remember. Still, there's something wonderfully straightfaced about them, and some affection remains, even though they are probably the direct ancestors of Opeth.
Good sir, not only do you put on display a poor taste in music with that statement, but a poor taste in literature! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
As to your song, I like some of BOC's stuff. That isn't among it. 3/10.
As to my previous song, it was incorrectly linked. You may have been asking, what epic hair? and been sorely dissapointed by the lack thereof.
One wouldn't want to disappoint. (Again, epic windmill at 4:22. :cornut:)
I'm afraid I was. 2/10 for the intro. it went downhill from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I saw this Guy on TV this morning. Great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzmZvwMNsw
Seasick Steve reminds me of a character in Jennifer Egan's a visit from the goon squad - Scotty Hausmann - it doesn't really move me, my appreciation of his music is mood related, and today the mood says 4/10
today this one suits me better http://youtu.be/qM5eYVlztJc
I'm afraid I found that a bit irksome. 3/10
I ought to despise the music of Andy Williams, but he's done at least three songs of which I'm inordinately fond, and this is one of them.
I'll pay that - just - it could do with a remix 6/10
I don't know why this exactly - it came on the wireless the other morning and I've been absently humming it ever since (I've heard it before over the years but it's got me for some reason)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFVk...eature=related
I wonder they don't get sick of singing that song. Good song though - haven't heard it in a while. 6/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
I remembered this one. Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLsAkeRd84
Enjoyable. 7/10.
I've really been enjoying this composer as of late.
That was alright. Not really my thing. 6/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jO8...eature=related
Interesting - just today I was curious about Musicology's career outside of Litnet and Googled his name followed by Mozart - whoa..!
As for this song, I find it hard to believe it became a hit anywhere, let alone in Europe, but it did - I'm at a loss - my gut feeling is telling me not to score it, but I feel I am obliged to find merit and I just can't, so 2/10 for the Rococo architecticture in the clip itself
Something sentimentally relaxing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBJolzNsLs
Not bad. It was relaxing.
How about a local band, from Belleville, IL. The frontman is a buddy of mine, and I was real impressed with his band's performance. He's a wonderful songwriter. Keep in mind this is shot only by some guy with a camera, so it doesn't sound nearly as good as it did there.
sort of reminds me of Kings of Leon :P and I like the umbrella pictures in the background. 8/10. Now, I just wanted to reply to this, and I don't really have a song in mind. So...how bout this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVi0IxC0yM
A lot of people say that, but I don't really hear it. Maybe it's because I hate Kings of Leon.
Mediocre band with a first-rate name. In fact, a little part of me was extinguished by that clip, because I've never heard the music of Husker Du before, and I've always felt they were, sorta, stored up for me to discover one day, and they might turn out to be the best band I'd heard in years. Oh well - another comforting candle of optimism snuffed out. 4/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Here's one where it worked though. I didn't discover this lot until I was well into my thirties.
Not bad. 6/10
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Yes, I remember that. That's why I made it a point to reply to that one. I happen to really like Kings of Leon. They have a couple of crappy songs that I don't care for and there is some douchery in some of their songs, but overall, I like them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Honestly, I haven't given them a fair chance. I just remember their first song being a really cool, kind of heavy-ish hard rock song that was pretty good, and then they decided to go in a different direction, which I just don't dig. This is the song I'm thinking of, and it's not nearly as enjoyable as I remember.
Note: This is not the song to be rated, someone's going to have to bite the bullet and rate the Born of Osiris song I posted. :nod:
About that Born of Osiris song - if there were no vocals, I could have said that I liked it. I'm not a big fan of that - reminds me of some Pantera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jA-W1p3Pp4
:yesnod:
I dig it. 7.75/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRrRFe11eg
One of my favourite songs. 10/10Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Another of them.
Another classic 9.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3-q...eature=related
I like that - especially the implication of the lyric when sung by a guy. In that vein, I've always thought it'd be really effective for a gay singer to cover this...Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
10/10 - love the comments, especially:
"I won $50 off a couple black guys who didn't believe Dusty was white."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1bi4emEkk
I will say 7/10 since my epilepsy was not happy with the flashy parts, haha. But good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyXNRrsk4A&feature=lhpa
That was funny enough 8/10. (I liked the sax solo over the eighties rhythm bit too)
This is a bit of weirdness from long ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI
Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
I had that song on a punk compilation I bought in about 1979. I didn't think Skyhooks sounded very punk. And it turns out they don't look very punk either. 6/10, for nostalgia's sake.
Then again, the criteria for inclusion on that album were pretty generous. The Talking Heads were on it.
But so was this - which is about as punk as America ever got.
The less punk America is the better. That song was a bit annoying. 4/10.
One of the very few indie bands I like. I think I may have posted this before, but oh well.
So this is an apposite illustration of my incapability when it comes to understanding your dislike of indie bands. Because I've always thought that you're operating on the basis of a category error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
If you think 'indie' is a style, then not liking it makes sense, as long as you can reference an identfiable commonality of style that characterises indie bands. But you've cited both Arctic Monkeys and Fleet Foxes as 'indie' and I can't see that they have anything at all stylistic in common, although you don't like the former and you do like, exceptionally, the latter.
If 'indie' is circumstantial - because indie bands are those that have signed to labels unaffiliated to the majors - then it's difficult to see what they might have musically in common that you'd be able not only to dislike, but to predict that you'd dislike.
And if indie is an attitude - which would mean that you dislike what they intend to do - then anyone who you liked would by definition not be indie by dint of you liking what they did. Unless, I suppose, you felt that they failed to do it, and you liked the failure.
So I don't understand, at a logical level, why you are so against indie. What characterises indie? And what is it about that you don't like? And, given that Fleet Foxes are whatever indies is, what is it that makes them so? And given that they are indie, what is it you like that differentitates them from whatever it is that they share with the indie bands that you universally dont 't like?
Me, I thought they were alrightifyoulikethatsortofthing. 5/10
Got indie, if yer want it.
I didn't create the genre of "indie," so it isn't like I am just making it up when I call both Arctic Monkeys ajd Fleet Foxes indie. Someone did before me. I don't seem to like most of what is labeled indie, and some I do. Maybe this is the case because there is such a disparity in the sounds of indie bands. And I base my opinions on how the music sounds alone, but if a band I dislike turns out to be pompous, it doesn't help. I don't dislike any band solely because of their attitude; I like plenty of extremely pompous bands.
As to why I like some indie bands and dislike others--how is this confusing? Since when does one have to like or dislike all in a genre, whether the genre label be arbitrary or not? I don't completely discount whole genres based on preconcieved notins like some people do with, oh, let's say something like heavy metal.
I'm pretty sure that has been covered by several gay singers in every drag bar in the Western hemisphere ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Ian Dury doesn't do much for me, but I don't hate it, 6/10. I actually like Richard Hell though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYW6V4UrIo
I couldn't think of anything good.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
Fair enough. I wasn't suggesting, though, that you should like or dislike all indie. I was wondering what you felt was the categorical quality that identifies indie.
Me, I can't see what characterises the genre. I mean, what characterises the heavy metal genre is inherent to the music. What characterises country is inherent to the music. What characterises folk is inherent to the music. So it sort of makes sense to say that generally one doesn't like heavy metal or country - even if the edges of the category are a bit blurred.
But there seems to be no common musical characteristic of the stuff that's called indie. Wikipedia suggests that the term covers "punk, psychedelia, rock and country" and reckons that it has to do with "an ethos more than a musical approach". So it's not a musical genre really. It's an attitudinal position. Though I'm buggered if I can see what attitudinal position is shared by Fleet Foxes, Arctic Monkeys, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Fratellis and the Cranberries.
Electronic dance music. I have never like it I'm so sorry but never in my life have I gone through a period of thinking it was anything less than horrific. Though did I listen to the end of the song because I liked the lyrics.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
:)
Okay so I came up with this after searching my extensive list of Youtube favourited videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfcSfEz1wQ