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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:46:24 GMT -5
i forgot about the talking heads when i was considering other bands as boring as r.e.m. With good reason. To even imply Talking Heads are boring is nonsense. i'm not implying it. i'm saying it. the talking heads are boring. if i wanted to listen to david byrne singing, i'd just get my friend drunk and listen to him hiccup all night. |
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Post by kool on Dec 20, 2006 21:48:07 GMT -5
Here's a few off the top of my head ... I may even agree with a few of these. The Kinks really weren't that good. Aside from a few noteworthy singles, their rep is vastly over-stated. Gang of Four made one great album, and should have broke the fuck up after that. For a band that made one decent album, they were better than the Sex Pistols, but probably not as good as the Stone Roses. Johnny Cash recorded the same album 42 times, and it was predictable every single time. Black 47 were the greatest Irish-American punk/hip-hop/anthem band. The fact that they are the only band in this genre speaks volumes. The Finn Brothers total musical output is better than the total musical output of Misters Lennon and McCartney. The Rolling Stones are just a mediocre band who were in the right place at the right time in the sixties. You could've had five stuffed shirts acting vaguely menacing and they would've gotten the same acclaim. Any rock song that lasts more than six minutes has some form of wankery involved. Instrumental wankery is worse than lyrical wanking, which is why Yes suck and Bob Dylan doesn't (all the time). Bob Dylan and Neil Young both need people to tell them "What the fuck are thinking? This SUCKS!" The fact that neither has such advisors explains the last album from each. Neil Young can't sing. Michael Stipe is a sexy beast. Oh wait, that last one might be true! I was actually agreeing with all of this, but when the Dylan praise and Neil Young bashing began, you lost me.  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 20, 2006 21:48:49 GMT -5
Every single Beatles release is better than Pet Sounds. Agreed. |
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:49:08 GMT -5
that gang of four bashing was lame. is there anyone on the planet who has ever heard anything they recorded except for entertainment! anyway??  |
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 20, 2006 21:49:24 GMT -5
Johnny Cash recorded the same album 42 times, and it was predictable every single time
woah. I think its written into your Constitution that you have to love Cash (or at least say you do).
Bob Dylan should retire to a ranch & reminisce about the only three great albums he recorded (Blood on the Tracks, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, in that order).
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:50:03 GMT -5
Every single Kraftwerk song is better than every single Beatles or Beach Boys song. agreed also. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 20, 2006 21:50:13 GMT -5
that gang of four bashing was lame. is there anyone on the planet who has ever heard anything they recorded except for entertainment! anyway?? I have. Used to have Songs of the Free back in high school, when they were still a band. There was no need for them to release anything after that first album -- except maybe the Hell With Poverty EP. |
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:50:48 GMT -5
blood on the tracks is sooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking good though, he still gets a space in heaven for it.
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:51:41 GMT -5
actually i have 100 flowers bloom, a gang of four anthology. but apart from to hell with poverty it's pretty much useless.
so i agree with you but i still think gang of four are untouchably great because entertainment! is so revolutionary.
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Post by kool on Dec 20, 2006 21:51:56 GMT -5
You really only need one AC/DC album. It's like owning their entire discography.
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:52:47 GMT -5
You really only need one AC/DC album. It's like owning their entire discography. i'm pretty sure just one SONG will do. same goes for the ramones, frankly. |
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Post by Galactus on Dec 20, 2006 21:52:55 GMT -5
The Pogues are total crap, so are Violent Femmes. Janis Joplin is terrible and so are Joan Beaz and Tori Amos.
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Post by kool on Dec 20, 2006 21:54:20 GMT -5
Tori really is just a bootleg Kate Bush, aaah.. but what a lovely bootleg she is. |
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2006 21:54:21 GMT -5
don't even get me started on tori amos. or any other waifs in white at pianos. SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU!!!!
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Post by Kensterberg on Dec 20, 2006 21:54:22 GMT -5
Leonard Cohen is a tuneless, morose poet who should never have stepped up to a microphone, much less into a studio.
John Lee Hooker could not sing. A note. To save his life.
Drinking is a good thing for rock stars. Listen to the Replacements before and after Westerberg got sober.
Jim Morrison was a great songwriter, a profound poet, and a fine decent human being. Oh hell, that won't fly even on this board!
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