Music Blasphemy

[Clams]

The Felice Brothers make me sleeeeepy.

[tinnitus photography]

Nirvana was just the better band. Call it what you want to .

i saw nirvana open for eleventh dream day in chicago late 80's.
EDD tore the roof off the metro.
how's about them apples?
the fact that EDD never made it big.
that is not blasphemy, that is a travesty.

i remember seeing Rick poke his guitar neck through the suspended ceiling tiles @ TT's.

yeah, they were (are?) a very good band. weird how they didn't hit the big time.

[littlemamma]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

[Clams]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

And yet you hang with FNW???

[Tequila Cowboy]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

That's ok, the newest album I have from said Boss is nearly thirty years old.

[RevMatt]

my favorite 'grunge' bands:

Mudhoney
The Fluid
Das Damen
Screaming Trees
Lubricated Goat

I didn't know we could count Das Damen as grunge since they were NY CBGB's class of '84. But if we can they are number 2 on my list, after Nirvana

[beantownbubba]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

And once again, LM has the last word and a thread can be closed. Zero as in NONE???!!!! How is that possible? And you want to talk about dawes???!!!

I thought the conventional wisdom is that Pearl Jam isn't really a grunge band and it's wrong to lump them in w/ that scene - they're "just" a hard rock band that happened to come out of Seattle at the same time that grunge was making itself known/felt. That's a question.

[dime in the gutter]

nirvana was a punk band.

[littlemamma]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

And once again, LM has the last word and a thread can be closed. Zero as in NONE???!!!! How is that possible? And you want to talk about dawes???!!!

I thought the conventional wisdom is that Pearl Jam isn't really a grunge band and it's wrong to lump them in w/ that scene - they're "just" a hard rock band that happened to come out of Seattle at the same time that grunge was making itself known/felt. That's a question.

fuck! hook a sister up!!!!

[lajakesdad]

nirvana was a punk band.

EXACTLY

[tinnitus photography]

my favorite 'grunge' bands:

Mudhoney
The Fluid
Das Damen
Screaming Trees
Lubricated Goat

I didn't know we could count Das Damen as grunge since they were NY CBGB's class of '84. But if we can they are number 2 on my list, after Nirvana

'grunge' as a label is pretty damn loose to begin with, but i mainly included them since they put out a 7" on Sub Pop

[Smitty]

Pixies>Nirvana

[Son of Swamp]

I though Neil Young was the grandfather of Grunge?

[beantownbubba]

I own zero Bruce Springsteen

But at least you've seen Casablanca

[Clams]

I think we can all agree that Steve Earle's cover of "Breed" is awesome

I doubt we can all agree that snow is white.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Ok so since I was kind of provoked into this, I can no longer tolerate Pink Floyd. I was never a fan of The Wall but at one point I could listen to Dark Side Of The Moon, Animals & Wish You Were Here, but no longer. It all annoys me. I can still put on Piper At The Gates of Dawn for Lucifer Sam and Interstellar Overdrive but that's about it.

[scotto]

Ok so since I was kind of provoked into this, I can no longer tolerate Pink Floyd. I was never a fan of The Wall but at one point I could listen to Dark Side Of The Moon, Animals & Wish You Were Here, but no longer. It all annoys me. I can still put on Piper At The Gates of Dawn for Lucifer Sam and Interstellar Overdrive but that's about it.

I'm with you.
I picked up a copy of Dark Side a few months back, but only because I found a nice cheap original with all the stickers and poster and such.
At the time I thought it was a cool find (I haven't owned any Floyd since high school, circa 1977, when I had a similar original Dark Side and a cassette of Wish I taped from a buddy)--one of those "albums everyone needs to own." But after a couple of listens, I was starkly reminded of why I got rid of it in the first place.
I can appreciate 'em, I just don't dig 'em.

[Clams]

Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band of all time

Different strokes, as they say....

And you don't even smoke weed! You should try it, you'd like them a LOT more.

[Clams]

Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band of all time

Different strokes, as they say....

And you don't even smoke weed! You should try it, you'd like them a LOT more.

I know you're joking, but anytime someone says "band/movie/whatever X is way better on weed/drugs" I give them the biggest I can muster

I'm not joking.

[scotto]

Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band of all time

Different strokes, as they say....

And you don't even smoke weed! You should try it, you'd like them a LOT more.

Maybe I should give that a try before I sell my copy.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I cannot listen to Pink Floyd if the sun is out, it's gotta be nighttime for me to put them on

[Tequila Cowboy]

Pink Floyd is probably my favorite band of all time

Different strokes, as they say....

And you don't even smoke weed! You should try it, you'd like them a LOT more.

I know you're joking, but anytime someone says "band/movie/whatever X is way better on weed/drugs" I give them the biggest I can muster

Honestly I think there's validity to it. Back in the day when I'd be in some dim basement with a bunch of people sitting on bean bag chairs passing a J, lights low listening to the trippiest shit we could find, I liked Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes and a host of other prog rock. You'd sit there passing the J and look at your buddy and go "Duuuuuude" when some weird noise would pop up or whatever. I haven't listened to music that way in twenty five years, and it's not for lack of umm partaking, but rather just what I look for out of music, and frankly when I first listen to something I almost always do it sober.

Music has to fulfill a few things for me; 1. I have to be able to relate to it on an emotional level in a way that it ether teaches me something, reminds me of a set of feelings or connects to a viewpoint I hold consciously or subconsciously. 2. Alternately to point #1 it could paint a picture in my head like a mini movie. DBT does this for me as do The Hold Steady and others. (some bands hit both points for me others one or the other) 3. Assuming it hits either 1 or 2 it has to do something familiar musically, before doing something unfamiliar. ie. the old saying "you can't break the rules until you know the rules". I'm all for innovation but it has to be based in something real and concrete first before going on a tangent. Wilco is a perfect example. Break Tweedy's songs down to the point where you can play them on acoustic guitar and they're really quite simple. It's the flourishes, not the structure that takes them to other places. 4. If it's rock/folk/country/blues it has to have guitar. Not every song, but the artist band had better be based there or I'm not going to dig it. (jazz has different rules for me.) 5. The vocals have to be interesting. I don't care if the vocalist is rasping it out through cigarette ravaged pipes as long as there's something interesting.

In progressive rock and it's more recent progeny (Radiohead after The Bends comes to mind) I don't find these core things that I need. I can respect it, I can certainly understand it's value to others, but liking it is beyond me.

[beantownbubba]

You know what Shonna says: There are no rules

[lajakesdad]

music (listening, playing, seeing live), movies, food, sex, are all better with weed

i remember one time being in a room, passing a pipe around. My buddy puts on Floyd's Animals album. I was totally tripping out on all these crazy sounds. I had never heard it or haven't since.

[dime in the gutter]

pre crash skynyrd was far superior to the allman bros as a rock band and I love the allman bros.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

pre crash skynyrd was far superior to the allman bros as a rock band and I love the allman bros.

ABB transcended rock, Skynrd didn't..... not that one is better than the other, but different. and I'm a big fan of both, just bigger ABB fan

[Smitty]

pre crash skynyrd was far superior to the allman bros as a rock band and I love the allman bros.

ABB transcended rock, Skynrd didn't..... not that one is better than the other, but different. and I'm a big fan of both, just bigger ABB fan

Skynyrd totally embodied rock in a way that no other band other than the Stones did for me - dirty, raunchy barrroom rock

[Son of Swamp]

i was watching an "educational film" and it had a piece of music i thought was catchy... So i did some research and found it was a New Order song....

So, i watched a few videos... and i feel very bad about this... but i kinda like them... Hows that for Blasphemy (i also secretly enjoy Tears for fears...)




I'll go delete my account now



j/k

[scotto]

i was watching an "educational film" and it had a piece of music i thought was catchy... So i did some research and found it was a New Order song....

So, i watched a few videos... and i feel very bad about this... but i kinda like them... Hows that for Blasphemy (i also secretly enjoy Tears for fears...)




I'll go delete my account now



j/k

It's not blasphemy to like what you like. There's some great New Order stuff, no reason to feel bad about liking it.
But now, Tears for Fears, I don't know.

[Clams]

So, i watched a few videos... and i feel very bad about this... but i kinda like them... Hows that for Blasphemy (i also secretly enjoy Tears for fears...)


I'll go delete my account now



j/k

Its okay man, sometimes you just have to shout shout, let it all out.