Posted on 03/25/2011 1:05:27 PM PDT by GSWarrior
Wow, I feel like an idiot! I always though Casey’s Last Ride was a John Denver original. The Cash version is absolutely fantastic.
Genesis with/without Phil Collins
Any for any one that says Phil Collins is a great musician I have three words for them:
Su-Su-Sudio
And Def Leppard rates up with Phil and Genesis on my “Can’t push the button fast enough to change the station” List.
Both utter crap in my opinion.
How anyone can call Def Leppard “Rock” when they play the same drivel album after album is beyond me.
Gimme Sabbath, Purple, Heep, Rainbow and all their spinoffs.
All this thread proves is that people have different tastes in music. This is why I like baseball - you can statistically prove that certain players (like Derek Jeter) are overrated.
Awesome. That is the funniest thing I read all week.
I would say they are better with the other guy. But I can’t remember his name! :)
As these types of threads go, this one has been pretty civil.
It’s one of those things. Genie or Samantha, Gates or Jobs, Pirate or Ninja, Dylan or Cohen. You just have to pick one. I go with Dylan. Just a personal preference. But I’ve a huge affinity for Cohen as well. And although I only know the popular stuff I must say that “Famous Blue Raincoat”, “That’s No Way to Say Goodbye”, “Hallelujah” and “Sisters of Mercy” are some of the best written songs I’ve ever heard.
No slight against Rush (love them), but Pavement had one of my favorite lines ever . . . and it was about Geddy Lee’s voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrM4UjaQmY
Did you write in invisible ink so that I didn’t see something?
The Beatles and Dylan completely revolutionized popular music. No one who appreciates music can deny this and expect any credibility.
After Revolver the Beatles were wildly inventive and wrote dozens of great songs. Any one who writes a COUPLE of great songs is worthy of not. But when they just flow out our their pens with more great ones than poor ones the writers are in a select group of Immortals.
Teen Angel, Chapel of Love, etc. are not bad music they are just not Rock and Roll. There is a place for pleasantries but they were killing R&R. Elvis couldn’t hold back the tide by himself. The Beatles took Rock and Roll beyond itself and it is no accident that major symphony orchestras play their works even now.
Which reminds me of another of my overrated bands “The Moody Blues”.
I completely agree with Clapton being over rated. He is fantastic as -essentially- a studio musician lending a hand to other musicians . . . but on his own . . . he’s about as stale as a day old can of Kenny Loggins.
Ha! I grew up in the nineties . . . so my conception of sloppy is somewhat skewed.
WRT Joni Mitchell. I only note that not only did she record a CD of Dylan’s possibly “plagiarized” songs. A few of the HUNDREDS from the pen of the Master but she hasn’t managed to create 1/100th of his output. As to his “phoniness” it is a fact that his bands consistently have great musicians in them who are anxious to play with him. I mean mg The Band and Tom Petty’s band have been his band.
Though I don’t care what a couple of non-entities think of Dylan or his character, it is particularly stupid to think that a musicians character has anything to do with his music.
Take Miles Davis, for example. He was one of the moving forces in Jazz for about 40 yrs but for what I have seen was one of the biggest A-holes you could find, a nasty piece of work by any standard. While Duke Ellington (known as “Sweet Man” for his personality) was beloved across the world popularly and personally. Yet both produced great stuff.
Thanks for the correction. While I had always appreciated Willie I was stunned when I played that CD.
Nirvana leaves me totally cold I might have a couple of cds but don’t play them. Neil Young falls into that category after his first albums too. That whine is a total buzz killer and try to make love to a woman with it on.
So Neal Young doesn’t help with getting the groove on? Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6eewqgGs_Q
Her, and she is very pretty. I put it in to show that she has brains, too. Maybe I like her so much because she reminds me of a very pretty girl in high school that I had a crush on.
There is more variety in the Beatles’ opus than in all the bands playing at their time combined and multiplied by a factor of five. Facts? Hilarious, stuff.
You are displaying serious musical ignorance with the over the top remarks.
If he wasn’t dead I would think you are Frank Zappa advertising for his Beatles’ mock “We’re Only In It For the Money”.
I have to agree with jtal. When Robin Macy fronted (i.e., before Piggie Maynes and Maynes's father) they were awesome, straight Bluegrass (well, maybe not technically...) with wonderful vocals and instrumentals. Macy and the Erwin sisters clashed (the latter wanting to go more pop), so she was forced out.
"Thank Heaven for Dale Evans" is a great album!
Led Zep - Most overrated band ever.
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