MUSIC: the official thread.

Great minds...

Oh, add "Dr. Sardonicus" for the 70s

 

These are my favorites per decades:

60's:
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"


Dusty Springfield "Dusty in Memphis"


Simon & Garfunkel "Sounds of Silence"

The Who "Tommy"

70's
Santana "Abraxas"


Sly & The Family Stone "Greatest Hits"


Curtis Mayfield "Superfly"

Isley Brothers "Isley Greatest Hits"

 

70's
Soundtracks:

George Martin "Live & Let Die"


Lalo Schifrin "Enter The Dragon"


John Williams "Star Wars" & "Close Encounters of The Third Kind"

 

I dont seem to like anything anybody at fightbeat likes. :: I guess me and cdogg could listen to the Dubliners and some 60s girl pop together.

 

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We got Roy Orbinson too, actually. Plus, if you solemnly promise to skip all the Paul McCartney songs, I'm down with Revolver.

 

deal (although, how a melody as gorgeous as "For No One" isn't delicious candy to your ears is something I find puzzling)

 

It's saccharine, powder puff fare like all his stuff. Blackbird's a really nice song tho, thats one I do voluntarily listen to sometimes :Thumbs:

 

I disagree. I don't think it fits that category at all. It's basically a sad love song.

To me, the McCartney you rightly ridicule is The McCartney of post-Beatles fame and the McCartney of such Beatles dreck as "Ob la di Ob la da", "Honey Pie", "The Long and Winding Road", "Maxwel's Silver Hammer" etc. ... But there was more to him than that and "For No One" is a prime example... those lyrics could have very well been written by a Roy Orbison... He had a sure hand with a ballad and was able to tackle romantic sorrow quite well on many occasions... I think it's a bit unfair to lump a song like that or "Follow The Sun", "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", etc. in with the "Granny music" as Lennon derisively (and somewhat hypocritically, given some of his own horrendous missteps) called it

 

Favorite bands of all time: #1 New Order -I can hear the world in their music. #2 The Beatles-I grew up with their music and it means a lot to me. #3 is ever changing. Right now that spot is vacant.

 

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Can a mod sticky this thread?

Anyway;

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Do you actually listen to Zac Brown Jimmy? I'll admit, it's one of the only country bands I actually like.

 

I have the most eclectic tastes here.

 

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Never "got" "Tin Lizzeh" really

A handful of tracks where I thought "that's okay", but for the most part I find it pretty silly, comically macho hard rawk

The lyrics are often fucking hilarious

"Jailbreak", especially... with it's town that apparently has so many prisons that an escape will be happening "somewhere" in the town. There's so many jails, that nobody can pinpoint where Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham and the rest will hatch their BREAKOUT! ... Then there is the funniest part of the song, where Lynott says "Hey there, good lookin' female, c'mere" ... ridiculous.

I like "The Boys Are Back In Town", it's catchy, I like the sound of the track, the structure of it, the chords and whatnot. Again, the lyrics are hilarious... "The Boys" sound fucking awful. You are having a nice time with your friends at the local Pub, laughing about things, perhaps playing some pool. All of the sudden, "The Boys" show up... they highjack the Jukebox, they smash chairs and tables, drink themselves into violent inebriation, smash mugs onto some poor guy's head who wasn't bothering anyone, leer at and assault the local women... if those chicks don't wanna know, forget 'em! ... The Boys sound absolutely awful, the last people you'd be happy to see. The Boys are Back! [The Boys are Back!]

 

It's a silly, overly dramatic track with shite production, but "Black Rose" contains a sort of trad-Irish section that is pretty nice and features an astonishing Guitar solo by Gary Moore

 

Probably the best, two-guitar attack of alltime.
WTF are you on about cdogg? ::

Lizzy were the bollocks!

 

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You're wrong...WRONG....WRONG!! :fightme:

 

Hard rock's pretty cheesy full stop. Thin Lizzy are among it's least offensive purveyors, besides G'N'R. I do quite like their take on whiskey in the jar.

 

No way, man

Some of that stuff is unlistenable shite... Maybe it is because I'm an American, but shit like "Cowboy Song" is cringe-worthy, so horrible are its lyrics. And the wanna-be Van Morrison little breakdown in the middle just sounds so blatantly derivitave.

I've gotta think there's been a good 50 rock groups with a more interesting two-guitar set-up than Thin Lizzy. Gary Moore is a pretty remarkable guitarist, I admit (though his own music is dreaded British heavy blues, which sucks so fucking hard) but Gorham and the other guy from the Jailbreak era (Downey? was that his name?) were basically servicable hard rock guitarists. The thing, too, is that outside of the soloing, the two guitarists basically played the same thing together 90% of the time, which is redundant and fails to utilize the fact that there are two different guys playing.

Take for instance, one of Hut's faves, Television. Now, I never much cared for Television because I can not deal with Tom Verlaine's voice at all, but they had exceptionally interesting guitar interplay, regardless of whether or not Verlaine or his co-hort were truly fantastic guitarists. I'd rather listen to inventive, sensitive, intricate interplay of Television's guitars than the conformed riffing of Thin Lizzy any day.

One of the reasons I love the Rolling Stones so much (in their glory years anyway) is because Richards/Taylor or Richards/Brian Jones were NEVER, EVER playing the same thing at the same time, even in the most simple three chord songs, they played different voicings or one plays off the beat, etc. ... One of the reasons I find metal music so dull is that the tendency is to have just riff-riff-riff, each guy playing the same thing at the same time, other than taking turns soloing... you have two musicians... use them, for fuck's sake

 

yup

that isn't bad

 

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Just a great, GREAT live band...crowd never failed to ignite and they had that ability to get what a LOT of hard-rock bands don't: consistently good Top-10 hits, year after year!
I went to see them just past-prime in 1981 at Christmas at a small, 1,500 capacity hall and it still is the best gig I've been to, to date.

Furthermore, they have the un-officially 'Best Live Album Ever':

 

Rowdy Roddy Piper on guitar in the white shirt

 

Same. I never really think of or know what they're saying... it's just part of the tune.

 

Same. I never really think of or know what they're saying... it's just part of the tune.

 

Team building exercise. Let's find something we all like.

I'll start...

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