Fogerty and CCR. Great songs/music. “Proud Mary”, “”Travelin’ Band”, “Fortunate Son”, “Put Me in Coach”.
Personality - egotripping ahole
Lou Reed: Had a voice that could take wallpaper off in seconds.
Crosby, Garcia, Dylan, Lennon, Zappa. Highly overrated. Hard to dance to anything they sang.
Phil Spector - His “Wall of Sound” was awesome, aka The Philly Sound, and Ronnie Spector was pretty good on most songs. Ronettes doing “Sleigh Ride” is awesome too.
Santana - Good musician (”Natural”, “Something’s Coming Up”.
Politics - a communist sympathizer ahole. Should be ashamed of himself.
Springsteen - 50/50. Early stuff was very good, esp. “Glory Days”, “Dancing in the Dark” (could have been a Star Trek episode title); “Freeway of Love” (I think he did that one with Aretha Franklin, always a queen of rock and soul).
Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead. Didn’t they do “Truckin”? My wife likes them but a lot of their stuff does sound like they are on drugs and singing/playing inside a 40 foot trailer.
Bad article on the 20 worst Country Music Singers. Tobey Keith, Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift - rock! Rascal Flats should be on this list because they are so nasally-off tune that they could strip paint off a wall in no time flat.
Re the 20 Hottest Women of Rock/Music/Country. They left out Lita Ford, the blond sister in Heart, the lead female singer of Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, etc.
Re old time Rock and Roll young women as good lookers and singers - Linda Scott (I’ve Told Every Little Star, Never in a Million Years, etc).Anette Funicello - she was DISNEY. Shelley Fabrere; Sherry Jackson (Star Trek episode - who cared if she could sing or not); Mary Wells (if you hadn’t seen her in that tight, full-length white dress she performed in, then you have not seen one beautiful, talented woman. Miss her. I’ll also throw in the Mandell Sisters - now that would have been one helluva triple date, if you could survive it.
I guess my age is showing but some of the “Golden Oldies” women in music were just that - beautiful, talented, quietly feminine, and pretty wholesome.
I thought the 20 hottest women rockers list sucked. I think most of the women on that list are skanks. The Ronettes had more sex appeal in one act than all those others put together. When women try too hard to be sexy, they aren’t.
“Early stuff was very good, esp. “Glory Days”, “Dancing in the Dark” (could have been a Star Trek episode title); “Freeway of Love” (I think he did that one with Aretha Franklin, always a queen of rock and soul).”
None of that 80s stuff is what I would consider early Springsteen. Post 70s he lost edge in direct proportion to gaining pomposity.
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