Cream
The Police
Rush
Grand Fun Railroad
Triumph
Jimi Hendrix Esp.
Steely Dan
Buddy Holly & the crickets
Decent bands…
Nirvana
Stray Cats
Muse
Silver Chair
Roxy music
Husker Du
& last but certainly not least…
The Bee Gee’s
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Nirvana 3 man band and Dave Grohl (spl) to me is a fucking genius idiot savant when it comes to music. Loved Nirvana and foo fighters and queens of the stone age.[/quote]
Since Nirvana has been brought up I was in my final year of high school when Kurt Cobain died and having enjoyed/influenced by their music for years prior definitely came as a blow. A feeling of almost “what’s happening to music?” (ok I was younger and more naive back then and at 16 didn’t know much about the world). It was an impact at that time in my life. By first year university I heard Dave Grohl (the drummer so to speak) was starting a band and didn’t really know how long that would last. That was 1995. Today, Dave Grohl/Foo Fighter’s music stands as an amazing anthology.
How many of you are pissed off with the music today? Are bands today really that shitty or do we remember the bands of our era better and with a higher standing than what they deserved?
Cream
The Police
Rush
Grand Fun Railroad
Triumph
Jimi Hendrix Esp.
Steely Dan
Buddy Holly & the crickets
Decent bands…
Nirvana
Stray Cats
Muse
Silver Chair
Roxy music
Husker Du
& last but certainly not least…
The Bee Gee’s
[/quote]
Nirvana 3 man band and Dave Grohl (spl) to me is a fucking genius idiot savant when it comes to music. Loved Nirvana and foo fighters and queens of the stone age.[/quote]
Since Nirvana has been brought up I was in my final year of high school when Kurt Cobain died and having enjoyed/influenced by their music for years prior definitely came as a blow. A feeling of almost “what’s happening to music?” (ok I was younger and more naive back then and at 16 didn’t know much about the world). It was an impact at that time in my life. By first year university I heard Dave Grohl (the drummer so to speak) was starting a band and didn’t really know how long that would last. That was 1995. Today, Dave Grohl/Foo Fighter’s music stands as an amazing anthology.
How many of you are pissed off with the music today? Are bands today really that shitty or do we remember the bands of our era better and with a higher standing than what they deserved?[/quote]
No, todays music definitely sucks, but everything is cyclical and good music is coming back around. It’s just taken longer than normal (15+ years) this time. Within the next 3-5 years talentless ass clowns like lil Wayne and Rihanna will be gone and we can enjoy the next wave of legitimately talented musicians.
Cream
The Police
Rush
Grand Fun Railroad
Triumph
Jimi Hendrix Esp.
Steely Dan
Buddy Holly & the crickets
Decent bands…
Nirvana
Stray Cats
Muse
Silver Chair
Roxy music
Husker Du
& last but certainly not least…
The Bee Gee’s
[/quote]
Nirvana 3 man band and Dave Grohl (spl) to me is a fucking genius idiot savant when it comes to music. Loved Nirvana and foo fighters and queens of the stone age.[/quote]
Since Nirvana has been brought up I was in my final year of high school when Kurt Cobain died and having enjoyed/influenced by their music for years prior definitely came as a blow. A feeling of almost “what’s happening to music?” (ok I was younger and more naive back then and at 16 didn’t know much about the world). It was an impact at that time in my life. By first year university I heard Dave Grohl (the drummer so to speak) was starting a band and didn’t really know how long that would last. That was 1995. Today, Dave Grohl/Foo Fighter’s music stands as an amazing anthology.
How many of you are pissed off with the music today? Are bands today really that shitty or do we remember the bands of our era better and with a higher standing than what they deserved?[/quote]
No, todays music definitely sucks, but everything is cyclical and good music is coming back around. It’s just taken longer than normal (15+ years) this time. Within the next 3-5 years talentless ass clowns like lil Wayne and Rihanna will be gone and we can enjoy the next wave of legitimately talented musicians.
[/quote]
Todays music does not suck, the shit that gets played on the radio may but, those that no what they want find it. Just take a look in the new music thread.
Cream
The Police
Rush
Grand Fun Railroad
Triumph
Jimi Hendrix Esp.
Steely Dan
Buddy Holly & the crickets
Decent bands…
Nirvana
Stray Cats
Muse
Silver Chair
Roxy music
Husker Du
& last but certainly not least…
The Bee Gee’s
[/quote]
Nirvana 3 man band and Dave Grohl (spl) to me is a fucking genius idiot savant when it comes to music. Loved Nirvana and foo fighters and queens of the stone age.[/quote]
Since Nirvana has been brought up I was in my final year of high school when Kurt Cobain died and having enjoyed/influenced by their music for years prior definitely came as a blow. A feeling of almost “what’s happening to music?” (ok I was younger and more naive back then and at 16 didn’t know much about the world). It was an impact at that time in my life. By first year university I heard Dave Grohl (the drummer so to speak) was starting a band and didn’t really know how long that would last. That was 1995. Today, Dave Grohl/Foo Fighter’s music stands as an amazing anthology.
How many of you are pissed off with the music today? Are bands today really that shitty or do we remember the bands of our era better and with a higher standing than what they deserved?[/quote]
No, todays music definitely sucks, but everything is cyclical and good music is coming back around. It’s just taken longer than normal (15+ years) this time. Within the next 3-5 years talentless ass clowns like lil Wayne and Rihanna will be gone and we can enjoy the next wave of legitimately talented musicians.
[/quote]
Todays music does not suck, the shit that gets played on the radio may but, those that no what they want find it. Just take a look in the new music thread.[/quote]
I should’ve said “Todays popular music sucks”. There was a time when what was played on the radio was legitimately good. That has not been the case in the last 15 or so years, but it is coming back around.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I hate the Beatles but Rush truly sucks.
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mostly cause they’re Canadian, right?
I feel the same way~[/quote]
Dude, I didn’t even know they were Canadian. Now I hate them even more…
j/k of course. The singer’s queer voice is enough reason to hate them.[/quote]
Couple of months ago up in Portland went to a festival with a chick I was seeing, and at the onset of one of the entrances there was a series of head shops, and in this series was a knife and sword shop. We’re making the rounds and as we walk into the sword shop the first two things I notice are that they’re playing Rush, and that the man and woman working there clearly have no interest in helping us and look like what you’d expect Rush fans to look like. We look around long enough for songs to change twice and it was clear they were listening to a Rush album, and I broke out laughing. There was something very right about walking into a sword depot owned and operated by snobby Rush fans.
[quote]GorillaMon wrote:
Yes, at least a bit…though, I can certainly think of far more overrated bands/artists…Radiohead, Prince & Nirvana all spring to mind. [/quote]
Prince? Not a huge fan but he is amazing. Good basketball player too, or so I have heard.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I hate the Beatles but Rush truly sucks.
[/quote]
Oh God, there is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart![/quote]
Danny Carey: just as polyrhythmic as Neil Peart ever was, plays with more power, has a better feel for odd, complex and compound time signatures and, well…TOOL fucking rocks and Rush sucks.
John Bonham: not as flashy/technical as Peart, better feel for the groove/pocket, better sense of dynamics, arguably as technically-gifted as Peart despite not displaying it often (Achilles Last Stand and Black Dog are as progressive as anything from Rush), made odd time signatures groove better than Peart (Black Dog, The Ocean), had impeccable sense of the 6/8 time signature (Since I’ve Been Loving You), better sense/placement of ghost notes and NO ONE can say they’ve had the influence on modern-rock drumming that Bonham has had. There really isn’t anything out there by the likes of Chad Smith or Dave Grohl or Jimmy Chamberlain that Bonham wasn’t doing 40 years ago. And, oh yeah, his right foot.
