Honest, though. Not everyone was into ´Zeppelin, dude!!´ or ´Floyd, dude!!´ or ´Classic Rawwwwwkkk, dude!!!´ Unless you were aged 15-30.
Tulsa Time and Promises were the hits. The latter was a duet with Marcy Levy who went onto to be Marcella Detroit, one-half of Shakesspeare´s Sister:
Music is a funny thing. I haven't listened to Backless in probably 25 years. Couldn't even remember the song Promises. Found it on Youtube and it came right back to me and I pretty much could remember all of the words as he sang them. Amazing how a song can jog your memory like that. TFK
Ditto. When I heard it as a kid I didn't know who Eric Clapton was. I just thought "Eric? That's an old man's name" When I heard it again a few years ago I went "Fuck me. Never knew it was him!" Catchy tune as well...the slide guitar mirroring the dual-vocals
On that first review. I've always preferred Christine McVie's songs over Stevie Knicks's but I always thought "Say That You Love Me" was corny as hell but I always liked "You Make Loving Fun."
I do that all the time on youtube. Find old ass albums I or my parents used to listen to and inevitably there are songs on there I completely forgot about but used to like. Play them and still remember all the words.
I'll give the edge to the Eagles based solely in the fact that each individual band member had solid solo careers which tells volumes of its superiority as musicians over Fleetwood Mac.
So your shit reasoning actually has nothing to do with the original thread question. Fleetwood Mac (the group) vs The Eagles (the group), you fuckin retard.
It has ALL to do with the thread queation: the group with the superior talent wins, you human excrement!
No it isnt. Its about which GROUP collectively makes the better, more pleasing-to-the-ears, and accessible music (subjectively-speaking of course), not whether Timothy B Schmidt is a better bassist than John McVie or where Don Henley's a better drummer than Mick Fleetwood...or whether the solo albums were better. Otherwise, its like saying Yes are better than Genesis because they're technically better musicians...
Geez, can't you just accept an opinion like everyone else? I am entitled to mine and you yours. I like both groups, but I gave the edge to the Eagles. End of the story. Should not be that difficult.
Incorrect, child-rapist. I pulled the covers off your shitty argument and I don't give a fuck about your lame reason.
When Fleetwood Mac would meet up before recording an album, the three song writers (S Knicks, C McVie & L Buckingham) would all present their songs to the band and the band would vote on which songs were good enough to record for the album. The song "The Chain" is actually a combination three songs (one from each songwriter) that had been rejected by the band previously.
Watched a Netflix documentary about The Eagles last night and what struck me: * what a total cunt Glenn Fry became in the 80s, 90s and beyond * how weak and feeble their two bass players are, Randy Meisner and Timothy B Schmidt * how ridiculously try-hard-to-be-a-crazy-guy Joe Walsh was/is * how you´d want to totally batter the little sneaky, rip-off manager, Irving Azoff The only guys that come off as half-decent humans are Don Henly, Don Felder and Bernie Leadon. The 1970s truly was the start of the snowball of greed & cuntism of showbusiness...
I listened to Lyin' Eyes again today, still love that riff but fuck me I forgot how corny the lyrics are "On the other side of town a boy is waiting, with fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal..." FUCK RIGHT OFF
Sure he does. He's read all the hipster critics rave about them, then listened to their albums and gone "hmmmm...so I'll agree with what the hipster critics say...
Yeah, Hipster critics... talking about records that were raved about before either of us were born Great point, you fucking git
You claim to be 47... Stagefright (the third record) came out in 1970 Kill yourself and what's left of your cunting family
I used to now someone exactly like cdogg...and it's uncanny how similar they are when it comes to music. I say 'used to' because that was before he had a sparring session with Colonel Mustard a few years ago and got stomped.
I am interested in a musician's point of view on what makes The Band so great. I like some of their songs but feel unsure whether they're worthy of their legendary status.
What made them great to me was the following: 1) superb songwriting... Robbie Robertson may be or may have become an unbearably smug cunt but there's no doubt his obsession with Americana combined with a formidable gift for both melody and lyric to produce remarkable songs... Some of them sound as if they were penned during the times they take place, a remarkable feat 2) Three amazingly distinct singers with inimitable styles... Levon Helm, Rick Danko and my favorite Richard Manuel ... Robertson often wrote his tunes with a specific singer in mind and all three had a knack for making these songs their own 3) Rock solid chops... The Band weren't flashy and they weren't virtuosos but they were pros, natural players who knew rock and roll inside out and knew how to deliver a song. Levon Helm was tasteful as fuck on the drums 4) Garth Hudson... the only member with "formal" musical roots and the least conventional keyboardist ever in a rock band... in particular his organ playing, he never played a B-3 at a time when it was practically the only organ used in rock and R&B... his musical choices were alien to rock and roll creating an odd, carnival-like texture that is part of why they were so "different"... most guys with his background were wankers like Keith Emerson dressing themselves up like Knights from the Andromeda galaxy playing tuneless prog rock that little English faggots like Mustard would later fap to 5) Influence... Big Pink came out in 1968 and was quite unlike anything else being produced in pop music at the time... At a time when psychedelia was king in rock music and the first strains of genuine hard rock were coming out, these guys arrive dressed like it's 1936 singing about stuff from the Civil War to the Great Depression like they were there... no guitar freak outs, no mind-melting light show... even their hair was normal length for the era... got a lot of popular music artists of the time suddenly thinking about maybe turning down and looking back They had a massive impact
