Well I'm not up on a lot of those initials. There's some one hit wonders that clearly haven't come to terms with their limitations. Lots of bands I only like one or two tunes by. C+W is horrible but I like a few classic Hank Williams tunes. Johnny Cash did a couple of good ones. Don't get the dislike for Fleetwood mac, Neil Young and the Eagles. Grunge rock and rap are pure you know what. I guess disco has it's utilitarian purpose. What I dislike the most is pretty well anything new and original since probably the early 90s. Lets face it, we've been there, done that. The only original harmonies that remain are the ones scribbled down 30 years ago and tossed into the trash accompanied by an expletive on it's way in. I remember the talk about the "end of days" regarding music way back then already. It is after all a finite mathematical calculation. But there's no despair. If one were to attempt to listen to every tune ever written just once, a life time would not suffice. And they've been plagiarizing each others' since the beginning. So why not just keep mixing and matching? |
I'm now officially without opinions on Kiss, but my failure to like them in middle school was a serious social handicap.
Another weird ZZ Top fact: Billy Gibbons guest starring on the TV show "Bones" as Angela's wayward father. I suspect him of lipsynching there, too!
John |
Blues as dance pop
Not a bad definition of rock n roll. Maybe not a perfect definition, but not a bad one.
Marty |
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Elvis. I hate his music but the movies were fantastic. |
Van Morrison makes me deathly ill...as does Al Stewart |
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Classic 70s Zz is solid boogie as it gets...they didnt age.well.after that... |
I like all classical and Flamenco tunes played on nylon string guitar except those from Esteban, Charo, and Roy Clark. |
That's hilarious Jdoris. True or not that lip synch rumor always bothered me because there was a point in my life I actually liked ZZ Top. Remember back then it was written in magazines so you really were taking a chance on your reputation by publishing information like that if it wasn't true. Regardless few bands have ever been accused of this and to still have this floating around 32 years later does not sit well with me even 30 years after I came to the conclusion that ZZ Top is not a good band. |
A friend of mine (the guitar tech for a pretty major act) recently saw ZZ Top and reported that they were lip synching. The Texas Blues as dance pop.
Like the a good bit of the records, tho (in smaller doses).
John |
That a boy Marty...u dont go to a zz top for the vocals...fwiw...the didnt lipsynch deguello tour...probably eliminator era...not prime zz anyway |
Billy Gibbons is a flat out monster. That particular flavor of Texas blues rock ain't for every taste, but that boy can play his ass off. |
Phasecorrect. I'm not so sure about that. I recall the 1980 Deguello tour where it was reported in several magazines that the band was lipsynching their live shows. |
I forgot to add ELO to my list. |
Donjr-You forgot Blackfoot-Black Oak Arkansas-The Outlaws-Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the Marshall Tucker Band. |
Easy with the elite attitude...Donjr...zz top runs circles around anything you can play.... |
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ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet and Lynard Skynard are examples of music only a high school drop out could enjoy. Throw in Kid Rock and you've got yourself the soundtrack for Deliverance II. |
10-05-12: Phasecorrect
Coldplay...music for bedwetters... I forgot about them and Nickleback. Yucks. |
Most pop music...and that includes rap. |
We got both kinds of music here....Country AND Western... |
Coldplay...music for bedwetters... |
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"Stariway to Heaven", "November Rain", "Pretty Woman", "American Pie" and Chevy altogether, all songs from Titanic including the movie(puke) and when Crhistmas comes, I use ear plugs not to listen to that cwap playin' at the department stores and groceries! It would've been a wonderful time of the year excluding songs LOL! |
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Nickelback. A few songs are ok. |
Billie Holiday--amateurish heroin-hazed delivery, very limited range (barely an octave)
Glenn Gould--Perfectionist manufactured music; too mechanical for my taste
Diva pop defined entirely by vocal gymnastics rather than singing
Leonard Bernstein--erratic tempos, sometimes so fast the orchestra could barely play it
I never picked up on metal except for Van Halen, and then only when fronted by DLR.
Maria Callas--hard, irritating voice
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Yu, Very insightful comments!
Everything Bach wrote was a prayer. He was a genius and a Lutheran, an inch wide and a mile deep. More focused and profound than simple, I would say.
Beethoven- He had a soul as large as Bach, and his early tutor was a Lutheran and disciple of Bach. But Beethoven did not share Bach's certainty, and instead asked divine questions in very human terms.
Brahms-Yes, after all this life long bachelor's motto was frei aber einsam. Free but alone.
Schubert's music at its best sings with a lyricism that would make even Mozart envious.
Bruckner= I always think of him as the Roman Catholic Bach. I would say the same of him as Bach. Everything Bruckner wrote was a prayer. The character of his music as compared to Bach reflects not only the difference in time but also the difference in theology. However, for a different Bruckner, please try Venzago's Bruckner 2. All I can say is wow! Mario Venzago is on to something.
Mozart-The singer of love and Mahler, the singer of nature, to quote Franz Welser-Most.
Now Chopin? Though I now love his music, it has not provided a window into his soul. For that reason, he will never be as dear to me as Bach or Bruckner, though his music brings me deep satisfaction. |
Hi Brownsfan / Tubegroover,
Thank you for your suggestions.
For me,
Bach - spiritually simplicity (borrowed from Furtwangler)
Beethoven - emotionally humane
Brahms - solitarily loneliness
Schubert - lyrically subtlety
But I just simply can't capture the inner core of Chopin's music. Being a classical music lover for the past 30 years, more than a few times I seriously decided to understand Chopin's music and tried to listen to his music systematically. The results were very disappointing. Ironical as it is that I can even find something enlightening in Bruckner's music.
Whenever my daughter's piano teacher suggests Chopin's piece to her for practicing, he withdraws the idea at once as he realizes his student lives in a no-Chopin-but-everything-else residence.
Poor girl!
Happy Listening. |
Jimi Hendrix and any similar guitar style. It's like torture. |
Interesting comments about Chopin. I know several folks over the years that have told me they don't care for his music. I can't say I like EVERYTHING he composed but surely Yu, being a solo piano aficionado there must be something among his works that would appeal to you. Don't give up! |
Yu, I felt the same way about Chopin for years. My wife and daughter took up piano and began to work on Chopin night and day. It did not take long for me to grow to love his work. Curious, because most people find his music extremely beautiful at once.
Beethoven? Bach? Brahms? Schubert? Most definitely. Chopin and Liszt, I just did not get. Finally, this wonderful music clicked. |
Chopin! I have more than 500 piano solo CDs but no Chopin. I can NOT sense the "beauty" in his music. Not at all. |
I couldn't agree is Ozzy more. I can't stand DMB yet pretty much everyone loves them. The only DMB song I can stomach is Satellite. |
Oh, and Bon Jovi. Spare me. |
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"I also don't care for all those melancholy, flat singing female Brazilian Jazz vocalists."
You may not care for some of them but have you really listened to all of them or is it just the melancholy ones you dislike? :) Yeah, there are a lot of gringos that don't like the Brazilian sound but truly there are some really great Brazilian female vocalists and it ain't all melancholy. But I hear you, and you aren't the first to complain. Most of the audiophile guys I know don't like it either. |
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My test is: have I ever bought an album? If so, do I continue to listen to it? On that score, your list coincides with mine. I would add Sinatra to that list (Tony Bennett is NOT I repeat NOT on the list) and the blues as a genre. |
Ragge; to my ears most of it sounds like a never ending loop of boom, pop, tch, tch. I also don't care for all those melancholy, flat singing female Brazilian Jazz vocalists.
To each his own, YMMV, etc.,etc.. |
Nodding my head at a lot of choices here and also noting that the majority of them are pretty long in the tooth.
Clapton is pretty boring isn't he but he's forgiven as he was the mastermind behind ' Concert for George' and that was a ripper!
Just tried some Winston Marsarlis(wrong spelling I know) for the first time, it's a live concert and I was somewhat underwhelmed by it all. Makes you not want to try the rest of an album when you pull it off after the first track. |
Since we're blaspheming, Clapton (great player, boring music), Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd. Keep being told I should like them but cant. Really dont get Floyd. I listen to utube quite a lot (type in "full concert" and a ton of stuff comes up. Tried listening to a PF concert the other day and gave up after 15 minutes. |
Anything with Lindsey Buckingham and/or Stevie Nicks. They've made bubble gum rock and roll an artform.
Honorable mention:
Norah Jones
Phil Collins
David Bowie
Lady Goo Goo
Madonna
Sheryl Crow
Time to hang up the spikes:
The Who
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Aerosmith
Guns N Roses
AC DC |
Reading this thread inspired me to go read the billboard top 100... I can't say I know more than 10 or 15 songs, and none of those are even remotely listenable. What a shame |
FWIW Eva Cassidy doesn't do a lot for me either, including "Blues Alley." |
Just checking the CD I have...
Time after Time. Did I grab the lessor of her albums then?
I might not like what the 'Madding Crowd' likes but I don't have a closed mind to music...I like YES for ...* sake :D
'At the Blues Alley' duly noted. Thank you Z(excuse the abbreviation!) |
Try the "At Blues Ally" CD. Icon? I don't know, but she was a fine vocalist. |
@08-13-12: Timrhu.
Ha ha, yeah I saw it and I thought: "This guy's just checking, so I'll let it go through to the keeper."
My turn now. Your wondering; "What the...hell is the keeper?"
Oh, and yeah I am pretty thick on a lot of things: Thick= dense...lol it's all a bit of fun.
I bought a few second hand cd's for about 5 bucks in mint condition and they arrived in the post well packaged and in immaculate mint condition..one was unopened, completely minty.
I'm listening to my first ever recording by Eva Cassidy and I'm wondering what all the fuss is about? She died young(tragically?)and did three albums[?].
Yep she has a nice voice and the acoustic guitar is nice and a couple of the arrangements...but gee whiz, I dont find a lot there that represents 'Icon' status. Do you guys? |
Billie Holiday
Bob Dylan
David Bowie
Michael Jackson
U2
Whitney Houston
Nirvana
Radiohead
White Stripes
Kings of Leon
I'm proud to say I have never purchased any of their recordings! |
