phronesis
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Post by phronesis on Feb 16, 2016 20:44:49 GMT -5
Jamiroquai is awesome--new jazz was a great movement. I'm a sucker for GnR and all music on the radio from 1950-2005ish. Justin Timberlake is friggin awesome, and the 20/20 Experience was pretty damn good (2013 album)--uber talented.
The Beatles created like three genres of music (or heavily influenced it), and I love almost every song. I'm more of a fan of Rubber Soul and Revolver (the birth of punk and the beginning of 'The Album' as we know it), but Abbey Road is just as good.
I like pretty much every genre but scream metal and pop country. Music is pure beauty.
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Post by scooter1027 on Feb 16, 2016 23:09:02 GMT -5
I respect Bowie, and the influence he provided for a myriad of great artists, but he was never quite my cup of tea. Radiohead though...don't you dare speak ill of Radiohead Definitely the best live show I've been to.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 23:10:00 GMT -5
I'm just super f*cked up. Sorry man. Lol I had to use the censored words feature because of you dummy. Sorry man, my bad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 23:14:15 GMT -5
A real mishmash. Basically if it's got a guitar and you can hear the words and it's not depressing, I'm in. I've never really grown out of my teenage phase, so I still love Guns n Roses and all that sort of stadium rock. Melodic guitars, big solos - I love it. At the moment I can't get enough Steel Panther. I'm going to see 'Thunder' at Wembley Arena on Saturday night. Prince is the best Superbowl halftime show I've seen (although I'm not a massive Prince guy - that was just one heck of a performance). I also have a bit of a jazzy thing going on, starting with Jamiroquai when I was a kid and more recently been listening to stuff like Gogo Penguin and Cinematic Orchestra. If it's got a bassline or a groove then I can forgive pretty much anything. And the Beatles were the greatest bad that ever lived. Side Two of Abbey Road is about as close to perfection as it gets. I think we can all agree that Prince was the best halftime show ever, and The Beatles were incredible. My two favorite Beatles albums are Sgt. Peppers, and Let it Be. In that order.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 23:15:57 GMT -5
I don't get the whole Bowie thing. Bowie isn't easy to get into, but when you finally feel it, you understand why he's so loved.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 2:28:55 GMT -5
Oh, but the best gig I've ever seen live was possibly Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z. I'm not really a fan, but my word does Timberlake put on a show. The kid does it all. The best live show I've ever seen is Wyclef Jean. You would never think it, but totally incredible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 2:32:15 GMT -5
I have to say I'm with Stephen as well. I'm not a huge music guy but I'd heard heroes and life on Mars and liked them but it wasn't until he death that I truely associated them with Bowie.
But then again being just 24 and sports mad probably doesn't make me a natural fit for Bowie and Radio head haha. I'm much more into the blink-182, sum 41 and bowling for soups of this world
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 4:19:48 GMT -5
I guess the thing that makes me think I'm doing it wrong is that Bowie was so loved before he died - it wasn't just a nonsensical "we'd better be nice about him because he's dead, and drag up some of his old buddies for some nice media interviews" that follow so many celebrity deaths - it was a genuine outpouring of grief and respect from just about everyone that was totally real. I don't 'dislike' his music - I think it's fine - but I would really like to understand what it is that everyone else sees that I don't.
Sum 41! I don't know if this is a thing for everyone, but to me there are songs which I unbreakably relate to a specific time in my life. I relate Sum 41 (and especially In Too Deep) to high school, and that rash of teen comedies (American Pie, and all that sort of thing) of the same era. Only last week I had an unexplainable urge to go and listen to All Killer No Filler (which I'm not sure I've ever heard from start to finish, or owned). Music is a strange beast.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 5:13:52 GMT -5
I guess the thing that makes me think I'm doing it wrong is that Bowie was so loved before he died - it wasn't just a nonsensical "we'd better be nice about him because he's dead, and drag up some of his old buddies for some nice media interviews" that follow so many celebrity deaths - it was a genuine outpouring of grief and respect from just about everyone that was totally real. I don't 'dislike' his music - I think it's fine - but I would really like to understand what it is that everyone else sees that I don't. Sum 41! I don't know if this is a thing for everyone, but to me there are songs which I unbreakably relate to a specific time in my life. I relate Sum 41 (and especially In Too Deep) to high school, and that rash of teen comedies (American Pie, and all that sort of thing) of the same era. Only last week I had an unexplainable urge to go and listen to All Killer No Filler (which I'm not sure I've ever heard from start to finish, or owned). Music is a strange beast. DUDE! American Pie! f*ck yeah! Sum 41! f*ck yeah...Lol. Man, I love that shit! With Bowie, it's the artistry. Most people that make music aren't actual artists. David Bowie was.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 5:17:13 GMT -5
I guess the thing that makes me think I'm doing it wrong is that Bowie was so loved before he died - it wasn't just a nonsensical "we'd better be nice about him because he's dead, and drag up some of his old buddies for some nice media interviews" that follow so many celebrity deaths - it was a genuine outpouring of grief and respect from just about everyone that was totally real. I don't 'dislike' his music - I think it's fine - but I would really like to understand what it is that everyone else sees that I don't. Sum 41! I don't know if this is a thing for everyone, but to me there are songs which I unbreakably relate to a specific time in my life. I relate Sum 41 (and especially In Too Deep) to high school, and that rash of teen comedies (American Pie, and all that sort of thing) of the same era. Only last week I had an unexplainable urge to go and listen to All Killer No Filler (which I'm not sure I've ever heard from start to finish, or owned). Music is a strange beast. My first valetines day present to my wife was an original pressing of Ziggy Stardust on Vinyl. She hated it. Hahahahahaha.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 6:16:01 GMT -5
My first valetines day present to my wife was an original pressing of Ziggy Stardust on Vinyl. She hated it. Hahahahahaha. It can't have worked out too badly for you...
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Post by phronesis on Feb 17, 2016 8:57:21 GMT -5
I would really like to understand what it is that everyone else sees that I don't. Rockies/Royals: Just listen to an album or two or three. I'd start with Station to Station, Hunky Dory next, then Rise and Fall of Ziggy. That sort of moves from rock (Young American was the hit song on StS, and he doesn't remember making it cause cocaine), to HD (Changes, Queen Bitch), through until you get to Ziggy. It's a nice progression, but by no means the only way to listen. There are so many albums, like 30 or something. But StS and HD are rock albums, and Ziggy is more spacy. I'd put on the headphones, sit down and listen. Or walk around and listen. Or lay down and listen. But, in the end, Bowie's about the album and how it progresses from track to track.
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Post by Turbanator on Feb 18, 2016 1:01:39 GMT -5
I had an arts elective a few semesters back, and took a "History of Rock" class. Really interesting stuff, I think we spent about a week on Bowie and his influence on the genre.
I used to listen to a good amount of Sum41 back in the day. Granted I was like 10-12, but still. Real pity how badly messed up Whibley got after they hit their peak though, but their stuff was never as good after Baksh left the band IMO.
Baksh had a couple of awesome projects he started working on though, "Brown Brigade" and "The Organ Thieves". Brown Brigade did an awesome cover of Hallowed be thy Name, which was the first Iron Maiden I ever listened to, and a big part of the music I listen to today.
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Post by bigfly73 on Feb 18, 2016 2:28:08 GMT -5
Sum41 is releasing a new album
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 5:19:13 GMT -5
Sum41 is releasing a new album If there was ever a quote I never expected to see on a dynasty baseball forum, it is quite possibly this one.
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