MUSIC: the official thread.

Quite a lot of posters here knowledgable and into allsorts of genres and eras of music and always come up with some great debates.
Post your favorite artists', random songs, albums, stories, etc

Much better than multiple threads going off at tangents.

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Good thread Magus :bears:

I've always thought there should be a music thread or forum. The mods (we are, we are, we are the mods) should sticky this topic.

Pulp are shit.

 

Slice, like yourself, there's lots of good knowledgeable and interested posters here - I dont know why there wasn't one before.

I don't like Pulp.
Never did in 1995-97 when they were at their peak. Still don't.

For me, 'Brit-Pop' was a two-horse race between Oasis and Blur.
The Verve were okay for an album or two.

 

QOTSA are the best band since Nirvana.

 

Good for one or two albums, but really, there's a lot of samey-sounding bands (usually because Dave Grohl is involved with them)

 

A lot of their stuff you have to listen to 3-4 times over to get used to them. The album 'songs for the deaf' is probably one of the best albums since Nevermind, imo.

 

I'm with Magus on this one, QOTSA ARE a good band, and Rated R and Songs For the deaf are good albums but they don't strike me as a great band, certainly not an era-defining one like Nirvana undoubtably were

 

In the scheme of things Pulp are pretty toilet, like everything in the Brit Pop genre. But Blur are the essence of toilet.

 

The Fall & Beefheart account for about 70% of my listening time these days. Pretty obsessed with both.

 

But the album 'songs for the deaf' is one of the best albums to come out since 2002.

 

fixed

 

*rock albums*

 

I have 'Songs For The Deaf'...it's ok, but like alot of new stuff, it doesn't warrant repeated listenings as does stuff from the 1960s/70s/80s.
I think this is down to two factors:
1 - Everything's been done to death
2 - Modern-albums/CDs are usually anywhere between 60-80 minutes in length - that's the equivalent of a double-vinyl albums from the era I mentioned.


And very few double-albums in music history are worth repeated listenings or are any good.

 

i listen to chopin

 

I've been listening to a lot of Marc Moulin/Placebo (not the gay 90s band) lately. Good stuff.

 

Anyone like metal?

Mastadon
Three inches of blood
Lamb of God
Iced Eath
Iron Maiden

 

Never got into metal, a lot of good musicians in that genre but the sound never appealed to me

 

I'm a guitarist so I just like a lot of music with technical guitar playing. Metal has a lot of really fast technical stuff. Cdogg probably doesn't think so though.

 

Gamma Ray
Heavenly
Pantera
Slayer

I used to listen to a lot of hardcore metal too as a teenager. Bands such as Stampin' Ground, Knuckledust, Sworn Enemy, Hatebreed and BioHazard. You familiar with any of these bands?

 

I liked the grunge era.

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, etc. For a while I was into that.

I like old school hip hop. Not the trash thats been coming out since the 2000s began.

Eric B and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, A Tribe Called Quest, etc was all great stuff.

And as a fellow Puerto Rican, I'm big into the old school salsa. I could talk about that all day.

 

I liked metal as a teenager, but find it kinda ridiculous now. Some Mastadon is great for what it is tho. White Zombie too

 

Pantera all da way.

 

I saw Slayer, Biohazard and Machine head play live. Awesome show. One of the loudest shows I have ever been too. I haven't heard of all of those bands, but I like Pantera and have heard some hatebreed. I'm more of a power metal fan than a hardcore fan.

 

Mastadon is one of the few new metal bands I like. They just have a different sound.

 

Probably my two favorite genre's are House/garage/light techno/ and lounge jazz music such as Cafe del Mar. I also have a lot of rap and R&B and a bit of alternative rock.

Only genres I really hate are metal and country.

 

I used to like only specific genres of music, mainly hard-rock, prog-rock, metal, etc.....but now, I've got so many different, diverse styles of music from the 1950s up to today that I can access and listen to at any time of the day.
That's the beauty of the iPod.

 

Big fan of Deep House at the moment, loving the Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz mix compilations

 

Not real metal though, is it?
It's like 'Fringe-Metal' that hardly anyone's heard of.


Or want to hear of.



In other words: :shit:

 

Stoner Music.

 

Back in the day I was big into Chuck Shuldiner's band Death, too. Their albums 'symbolic' & 'sound of perseverance' were brilliant, as i remember. You into them?