What are you listening to, right now................
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Crikey, some interesting opinions posted on this thread overnight.
Beatles criticism is ridiculous. First to do it, and do it time and tie again. Genius albums such as Sgt Peppers towards the tail end of their career. Amazing genius fantastic musicians. Fair enough if you don't like them - each to their own. Pretty sure Hendrix guitar work would be considered run-of-the-mill now ... does that make him any less of a legend?
I'm a late bloomer to the stones. Probably early noughts when I bought their forty licks best of that I realised I pretty much so loved every song on it. Went through a fair bit of their back catalogue and didn't mind it, but not too much above it. I love their live stuff though. A long time since I put on any of their music which wasn't live. Richards & Wood guitar playing live is probably the best I've seen.
Led Zeppelin. I really should love this band. They spawned my favourite genre of music and individually as musicians they are epic. But I can only say I don't mind them. Never felt the urge to listen to their music over and over again as I have for others. Immigrant song probably my favourite.
Appetite best tracks. CAn't believe out to get me was rated as the best by somebody. It's like John Wick all over again. That song has "filler" written all over it. It's always Jungle for me, always. But so many epic songs. I now have my kids sining along to paradise city when it comes on which is a proper Dad moment. Agree with @Hooroo ... when paradise comes on the radio, the volume goes straight to 10.
Skynrd. I dig most of what I hear of these. I love Free Bird and generally really enjoy a lot of music from that area of the States. Southern Rock is pretty cool. Bought a car once and they had left a CD called Best Of Southern Rock in the stereo. Did enjoy it. Had some America, Crowes, Skynrd as probably the biggest names with some Neil Young as well. Odd place for a Canadian!
Glad I've cleared all of that up for the rest of you. Consider yourself enlightened.
He changed the game. Before him it was all inoffensive twanging guitar work coming from groups like the Beatles.
Hendrix sounded like he came from outta space. Still does. Fantastic singer and frontman too.
Fantastic singer? Come on ..... He could carry a tune, but that was about it. No disagreement on his front man ability though.
Changed the game indeed. Hence, why I disagreed with the synopsis of the Beatles.
I think he had a great bluesy, soulful voice. People probably forget that though cos he also happened to be the greatest guitar slinger that ever lived.
I don't see how the Beatles changed the game anymore than the Stones, Animals, Yardbirds, Who etc.
So that might be the stupidest comparison I've ever seen.
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Beatles are shit
Yeah, like John Wick.
You're both loons.
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@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Crikey, some interesting opinions posted on this thread overnight.
Beatles criticism is ridiculous. First to do it, and do it time and tie again. Genius albums such as Sgt Peppers towards the tail end of their career. Amazing genius fantastic musicians. Fair enough if you don't like them - each to their own. Pretty sure Hendrix guitar work would be considered run-of-the-mill now ... does that make him any less of a legend?
I'm a late bloomer to the stones. Probably early noughts when I bought their forty licks best of that I realised I pretty much so loved every song on it. Went through a fair bit of their back catalogue and didn't mind it, but not too much above it. I love their live stuff though. A long time since I put on any of their music which wasn't live. Richards & Wood guitar playing live is probably the best I've seen.
Led Zeppelin. I really should love this band. They spawned my favourite genre of music and individually as musicians they are epic. But I can only say I don't mind them. Never felt the urge to listen to their music over and over again as I have for others. Immigrant song probably my favourite.
Appetite best tracks. CAn't believe out to get me was rated as the best by somebody. It's like John Wick all over again. That song has "filler" written all over it. It's always Jungle for me, always. But so many epic songs. I now have my kids sining along to paradise city when it comes on which is a proper Dad moment. Agree with @Hooroo ... when paradise comes on the radio, the volume goes straight to 10.
Skynrd. I dig most of what I hear of these. I love Free Bird and generally really enjoy a lot of music from that area of the States. Southern Rock is pretty cool. Bought a car once and they had left a CD called Best Of Southern Rock in the stereo. Did enjoy it. Had some America, Crowes, Skynrd as probably the biggest names with some Neil Young as well. Odd place for a Canadian!
Glad I've cleared all of that up for the rest of you. Consider yourself enlightened.
He changed the game. Before him it was all inoffensive twanging guitar work coming from groups like the Beatles.
Hendrix sounded like he came from outta space. Still does. Fantastic singer and frontman too.
Fantastic singer? Come on ..... He could carry a tune, but that was about it. No disagreement on his front man ability though.
Changed the game indeed. Hence, why I disagreed with the synopsis of the Beatles.
I think he had a great bluesy, soulful voice. People probably forget that though cos he also happened to be the greatest guitar slinger that ever lived.
I don't see how the Beatles changed the game anymore than the Stones, Animals, Yardbirds, Who etc.
So that might be the stupidest comparison I've ever seen.
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Beatles are shit
Yeah, like John Wick.
You're both loons.
I found it amusing but then again I'm pretty low brow, after all I'm not a Beatles fan.
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
In other news, I've found a Remastered version of And Justice for all on Spotify which is somewhat better than the original. I might need to adjust my Metallica album rankings.
Massive fan of Eye Of The Beholder.
So you're saying you can actually hear the bass on it ?
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@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
With Che Fu? That would have been awesome. Last saw them live at whatever the Waikato Uni pub was called back in the day.
Gurus? I saw plenty of O-week concerts there.
For Led Zep, side 1 of Physical Graffiti is were it's at. The Rover, Houses of the Holy, Kashmir.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
With Che Fu? That would have been awesome. Last saw them live at whatever the Waikato Uni pub was called back in the day.
Gurus? I saw plenty of O-week concerts there.
For Led Zep, side 1 of Physical Graffiti is were it's at. The Rover, Houses of the Holy, Kashmir.
Weirdly, your mention of Gurus pushed the actual name into my head - The Wailing Bongo.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Weirdly, your mention of Gurus pushed the actual name into my head - The Wailing Bongo.
They were in the same building weren't they? Gurus might have been upstairs.
No idea. Gurus rings no bells with me. I can't even picture what that area of the campus looked like.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Exactly how I feel about Oasis ... but look at their success!
Oh I fucken despise Oasis and the two fuckwits who front them........
Consensus at last!
I don't like Brit pop at all, and my musical tastes were already set before the 1990s.
I do give the Beatles their due and their deep cuts are often better than the hits. I have seen the 2 living Beatles live and both were bloody good concerts.
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman man that was refreshing to hear! 👍🏻
You're welcome!
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman Sorry.. What I meant to say was "deep sigh"
Seems to be quite a lot of that going around!
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@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Weirdly, your mention of Gurus pushed the actual name into my head - The Wailing Bongo.
They were in the same building weren't they? Gurus might have been upstairs.
No idea. Gurus rings no bells with me. I can't even picture what that area of the campus looked like.
In from the Cowshed side, Gurus was the building straight ahead of you. Used to have Student Job Search on the ground floor, a tuck shop / cafe to the right (back in my day everybody called it Jackie’s after the lovely lady who used to run it), “Upstairs Gurus” was upstairs. Inside if you went to the right past the tuck shop there were doors on your right ( so doubling back on yourself) that opened into the Wailing Bongo. Inside Bongo’s, late 80s, probably O Week 1988:
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@JC I used to do a show on the student radio out of the Cowshed in '83. It was still Radio Contact back then with a very weak AM transmitter and aerial on the roof. Would have been Contact FM by the days of your picture.
Saw (and drank with) various bands in that 'hall' as we used to organise gigs.