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[MarkBastable]

I really liked that, without quite knowing why. 9/10


Reminded me a little of this, in terms of approach.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Judas Priest - along with Saxon, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard - emerged from the neglected industrial heartlands of Great Britain in the Seventies, and forty years later that provenance really shows. They're as threatening, unpredictable and outrageous as a nice cup of tea and a slice of Victoria sponge. If this really is the Devil's music, then Beelzebub must have hung up his pitchfork and opened a yarn shop in Dudley. .

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.

As to your song, I liked it. Bizzarre, but in a good way. 8/10.

Gentle Giant - "Free Hand"

[MarkBastable]

What does where a band came from have anything to do with the quality of the music?

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.

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.

[Paulclem]

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.

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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9F_z0B2TA

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

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.

Oh, please. GG was an artistic breakthrough. That song was popish, cliche-ridden rubbish. 2/10.

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

[MarkBastable]

I prefer the unplugged version. 1/10



Back for a moment to unreconstructed, unembarrassed rock music.... 'Allo.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

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.

[MarkBastable]

Yeah, it is unembarrassed. I'll give it that. 3/5. Seriously, Mark, do you like anything recorded within the last 25 years?

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.

[Lokasenna]

To my surprise, I rather liked that. The slightly folksy element really appealed. 6/10

How about some movie music?

[Paulclem]

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.

The vid goes to proove Mark can tell his a*** from his elbow. Great song that.

[Paulclem]

To my surprise, I rather liked that. The slightly folksy element really appealed. 6/10

How about some movie music?

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.

6/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q

[MarkBastable]

The vid goes to proove Mark can tell his a*** from his elbow. Great song that.

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.

Which means that you can say that Sancho Panza was accustomed to getting around by plonking his arse on an ***.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

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.

6/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q

Love Queen. 9/10

An amazing guitar player.

[MarkBastable]

But, Daddy, what's it for?

4/10 for tuning up an extra two strings.

Now this is technical genius.

[MystyrMystyry]

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