boomac Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Big names that I never cared much for: Bruce Springsteen The Beach Boys Elvis - his movies were good! Pretty much anything I've seen on Leno or Letterman during the past 3 - 4 years. Any music that does not feature a human drummer on a real set of drums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBB Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 ---------------- On 4/4/2004 8:27:44 PM cluless wrote: Radiohead A Perfect Cirle. Two bands that fall into the realm of the music that I listen to...but fall flat. Oh. Yeah..I forgot, The Flaming Lips. ---------------- WARNING! Over exposure to Radiohead may cause side effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtDark Posted April 5, 2004 Author Share Posted April 5, 2004 ---------------- On 4/5/2004 12:43:19 AM Griffinator wrote: Ever listen to the earlier stuff - The Bends was one of the best albums of the last 25 years, IMO. ---------------- Yeah I have it. I like that album, but definitely not their current sound. I've heard Thom Yorke despises that cd looking back on it, like a bastard child or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluless Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 gtDark- GOTCHA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Scratch Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Whenever I go to an Irish-style pub and hear Celtic music, people are going crazy -- they love it and it's weird b/c they really seem to be in a sort of trance, smiling and wide-eyed, tapping their feet. I don't get it. I find Celtic music annoying (to put it as charitably as I can). In Celtic music, the singer always has a high nasal voice and sings something like "Down round the shipping yard, the lass did look upon me, I cast her a stare, raised me mug, and sailed off to sea." But don't say this stuff out loud in the pub b/c people stare at you like you've lost your mind. I'm sorry, but I lump Celtic music in w/ country western music. And I lump accordians in w/ bag pipes -- both should have been relegated to a museum of medieval musical instruments. I know this probably offended a lot of people (especially the Irish), but I just can't come to admire Celtic music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleandan Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Music I don't "get" when everyone else does get it. If I had to choose one person it would be Prince (or the symbol). I have heard genius bestowed upon him sooooo many times. I'll agree that he can play guitar pretty well, but I have never been able to figure out why there is such a deep following for his music. If I were to choose one style of music I don't get it would have to be, fusion/free jazz. I have a hard time making sense out of every person in the band playing their own song...all at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelman Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Anything that is on Mtv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Jabez Scratch, Yup, I love most celtic music, but authentic ones are a bit more pleasant to listen to. Accordian music is all over the world. German polkas and Irish squeeze box music. Tejano music of the southwest, and some others in Mexico that were adapted from German waltzes from a long time ago. One of the most fun weddings receptions I ever went to had a band with three members. An accordian player, and guitarist and a drummer. They rocked all night long, and everybody danced. Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 ---------------- On 4/5/2004 9:58:19 AM gtDark wrote: ---------------- On 4/5/2004 12:43:19 AM Griffinator wrote: Ever listen to the earlier stuff - The Bends was one of the best albums of the last 25 years, IMO. ---------------- Yeah I have it. I like that album, but definitely not their current sound. I've heard Thom Yorke despises that cd looking back on it, like a bastard child or something. ---------------- Actually, the way I understand it, it was Pablo Honey, their debut, that he despises so much. Who knows? He's become an eccentric and an art snob in the last 10 years, although they've made some great music along that road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtDark Posted April 6, 2004 Author Share Posted April 6, 2004 ---------------- Actually, the way I understand it, it was Pablo Honey, their debut, that he despises so much. Who knows? He's become an eccentric and an art snob in the last 10 years, although they've made some great music along that road. ---------------- Yeah you're right Griff. I don't know what I was thinking yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmk Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey......they all seem to moan searching for a note somewhere. Drives me (and my wife) nuts. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBB Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 ---------------- On 4/5/2004 7:31:32 PM Marvel wrote: Accordian music is all over the world. Marvel ---------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwoods Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Tracy Chapman and both country *&* western. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klipschfoot Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Eefin You many have heard it, but did not know what it was. In the foothils of Applachia where you cannot afford instruments, I guess you learn to improvise. Consider your music knowledge broadened. (Don't jam the server!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgb Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 I think you mean Pablo Honey. That was the CD Creep was on. The Bends, while less experimental than recent works, is definately signature Radiohead. I Wish I was Bulletproof, My Iron Lung and Street Spirit (Fade Out) are three of my all time favorite Radiohead sonds. Yeah I have it. I like that album, but definitely not their current sound. I've heard Thom Yorke despises that cd looking back on it, like a bastard child or something. ---------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 ---------------- On 4/6/2004 1:44:29 PM dgb wrote: I think you mean Pablo Honey. That was the CD Creep was on. The Bends, while less experimental than recent works, is definately signature Radiohead. I Wish I was Bulletproof, My Iron Lung and Street Spirit (Fade Out) are three of my all time favorite Radiohead sonds. ----------------- Exactly. Thom Yorke once said about "Creep" that: "All I'm going to say is that it paid for my house." Iron Lung and Street Spirit are two of my faves as well. I don't think there's a song on that album that I don't like, really. It's just such a powerful record, from beginning to end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space_cowboy Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 The reason you "don't get it" is because most of you don't have any formal music training, you listen to all the BS on the radio or your musical "ceedees" and think you know it all. Unless you have have any experience with piano or an instrument or band or orchestra, you really have no idea what you are talking about. I also don't really care for some of what ya'll are bashing, but it does have a beat, maybe not your beat. Beat me Daddy Eight to the Bar. Space out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 ---------------- On 4/6/2004 11:49:48 PM space_cowboy wrote: The reason you "don't get it" is because most of you don't have any formal music training, you listen to all the BS on the radio or your musical "ceedees" and think you know it all. Unless you have have any experience with piano or an instrument or band or orchestra, you really have no idea what you are talking about. I also don't really care for some of what ya'll are bashing, but it does have a beat, maybe not your beat. Beat me Daddy Eight to the Bar. Space out. ---------------- Whoa, slow down there buddy. First off, I have a hell of a lot of musical training. Been playing piano for 26 years, guitar for 13, bass for 11. Extensive music theory training - studied college-level theory in my spare time my senior year of high school. Don't make assumptions, bro. Secondly, there's a lot of the stuff that's been mentioned that you, as a literate musician, should recognize as being simpleton garbage with no depth, no complexity, and no ingenuity. It's not about "your beat" it's about rehashed garbage that's as transparent as a cube of lemon Jell-O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 The worst type of music any human can "compose" is COUNTRY...it gets on my nerves so bad I get muscle spasms and start to growl! COUTRY can only be enjoyed if a babe with unnatural large gifts "sings" with volume on MUTE In position number two we have...drumroll please... Anything that is manufactured POP,just played over and over on local airwaves in north america.No talent,remove the looks and what have you got? NOT MUCH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgb Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 People like what they like. I don't think formal music training has much to do with it. Just because I can understand why a piece of music was written the way it was, doesn't necessarily mean I'll like it. "Art people" think I'm a cretin because I think Jackson Pollock was a spastic orangutan who managed to hoist a magnificent scam onto a bunch of beatniks. It may be shallow, but I like Rembrandts and Monets. I can look at them all day long, but I won't give Warhol or Pollock more than a passing glance, usually in revulsion or at least, befuddlement. Same with sports. I can watch baseball all day, any team, doesn't matter, because I love the strategies and intracacies of the game. I love to watch the pitcher and hitter battle for the advantage, I love the amazing effortlessness defenders put forth to field balls that even "good" players would muff. I know most people can't stand to watch a baseball game they have no interest it, I understand, and I'm not going to call them names or think them lesser people because of it. ---------------- On 4/6/2004 11:49:48 PM space_cowboy wrote: The reason you "don't get it" is because most of you don't have any formal music training, you listen to all the BS on the radio or your musical "ceedees" and think you know it all. Unless you have have any experience with piano or an instrument or band or orchestra, you really have no idea what you are talking about. I also don't really care for some of what ya'll are bashing, but it does have a beat, maybe not your beat. Beat me Daddy Eight to the Bar. Space out. ---------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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