This CD rocks!
Posted on 02/09/2008 6:47:13 AM PST by FUMETTI
Raises hand.
I dated a girl for 3 years whose family respirated country music.
I was permanently cured from ever liking it.
Feel same way about the Beatles tho. Had a roommate that obsessed on them and played bad beatles guitar for a couple of years. ‘Pod.
The Creation was an interesting group. I think the drummer for the group jumped out of a window, got paralyzed from the waist down, and then had a solo career. I believe his hit song was the cover of the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” and his performance on Top of the Pops in 1974 or so had the highest level of complaints of any performance on that show up to that time, because people were not used to people in wheelchairs performing pop...that was before the British group Manic Street Preachers had even more complaints because they performed a song on TOTP dressed like IRA terrorists...not a smart move dressing like that when the IRA threat was still huge in Britain.
I remember Black Oak Arkansas, “Jim Dandy.” The lead singer was known for much more than music...his clothing was so “spinal tap” tight it was almost shocking for even today.
I love Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Yes, on the progressive rock side.
Yes, I do.
I think GnR and Soundgarden attracted at that time, two completely different audiences; I am almost not surprised they were not well received.
I’m a big band (Ellington, Basie, Shaw, Goodman, Mingus, etc.), classical (Bach, Stravinsky, & a little of the Ludwig Van), jazz (Satchmo, Monk, Peterson, Montgomery, etc.), traditional (Gershwin, Berlin, Mercer, etc.), country (H. Williams Sr., Cash, Haggard, W. Nelson, etc.), blues (Muddy, Lightnin’, Hooker, House, etc.), rock (Elvis, Dylan, Stones) sort of conservative.
You are eclectice, that makes you well-balanced. I think it is good to have an appreciation of many different styles of music. I liked the brief “swing” music revival in the late 1990s...I even loved Brian Setzer’s Orchestra and their big band reworkings of the Stray Cats songs.
You are eclectice, that makes you well-balanced. I think it is good to have an appreciation of many different styles of music. I liked the brief “swing” music revival in the late 1990s...I even loved Brian Setzer’s Orchestra and their big band reworkings of the Stray Cats songs.
The problem with many Beatles fans is that they think they are the ONLY music worth listening to, and dismiss all bands after them as clones of the Beatles. I love them but I recognize the genius of many bands autonomous to any influence by the fabs. A number of Beatles fans tend to take things beyond musical admiration...collecting every bootleg, book, and DVD on them and becoming encyclopedias on the subject. I reckon only Elvis and Bob Dylan have similarly hysterical fans.
The problem with many Beatles fans is that they think they are the ONLY music worth listening to, and dismiss all bands after them as clones of the Beatles. I love them but I recognize the genius of many bands autonomous to any influence by the fabs. A number of Beatles fans tend to take things beyond musical admiration...collecting every bootleg, book, and DVD on them and becoming encyclopedias on the subject. I reckon only Elvis and Bob Dylan have similarly hysterical fans.
As far as country music is concerned, I very much like a select few (the names I mentioned in my post above), but am indifferent (at best) to most. Some is just downright unlistenable.
I love the Rolling Stones' country music parodies -- "Far Away Eyes" and "Country Honk", specifically.
Speaking of country, I bought the DVD set of the Johnny Cash show...he was a country musician who bought rock and pop acts on his show: he has Merle Haggard and other country artists on the set, but also Creedence Clearwater, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison, and others. It is a stellar set.
I’m from Yonkers also. Now living in the sticks of PA.
Iris DeMent....ack, gag, hurl....
It’s all good.
This CD rocks!
How did I not find this thread before??
I’m a rocker, although I do occasionally like some country...mostly early 80s stuff like Alabama (the “classic” era - “Take Me Down” and “Love in the First Degree, etc.”) Eddie Rabbit, Kenny Rogers, etc...when I’m in the mood for it.
Johnny Cash is amazing, especially his gospel recordings. Ever hear his last recordings, the ones he did for Rick Rubin. His version of NIN's Hurt is incredible: desolate, beautiful and haunting.
Yes. Country and rap are two categories of music that are basically the same in my book. I don’t listen to either.
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