(03-31-2022, 05:52 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Pink Floyd has a ton of hits. Never get tired of them. I like Led Zeppelin. Only issue I have was discovering the amount of music they ripped off to make their own hits. They barely hid the tunes they stole.
With that said, When The Levee Breaks, Friends, Achilles Last Stand, All Of My Love, Trampled Underfoot & Thank You hold up well. I like Plant's solo work as well. Darkness, Darkness, In The Mood and Big Log are good out on the highway after midnight tunes.
Might get some interesting takes on this. I am 33. So, maybe I missed something. The Grateful Dead? Mehhh. Frank Zappa? Mehhh. I liked a few songs here and there but I have a hard time investing into it for too long outside of a very, very few select tracks.
Also. Same for the Beatles and Elvis. There. I said it. LOL. I used to play Danzig a lot too as a teenager and in my early 20's. Just can't stomach them anymore. Same goes for Marilyn Manson. Yet, still like Reznor and NiN stuff.
Also. Mike Patton, from Faith No More. Hit or miss for me now these days. Midlife Crisis is still solid. Epic is overplayed. Queensryche is another band I skip on now. Unless it's Silent Lucidity. Have a hard time skipping that.
Dream Theather still slaps in the speaker. Burned out on Anthrax though.
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as a teen (right around 1990), worked in an actual factual record store, and the owners were bonkers about Elvis. There's maybe 3 of his songs that I can tolerate.
We were one of the last places in Cleveland that sold vinyl, and also stocked a lot of Polka and C&W before guys like Garth Brooks and such blew the doors open on that scene, so we had niche business, but always had business.
I'll listen to Danzig for the music value (III is a great, bluesy sound), but most of the lyrics are lost on me. I think a lot of bands are either steering into the genre's mainstream fandom or just scribbling anything for the sake of shock value more than actually saying something meaningful on a personal or societal level.
I remember my Queensryche phase. And Def Leppard. a lot of the mainstream, "pop" music is the stuff I drifted from. I think that's the locust nature of popularity - consume, consume, consume, leave a hollow husk, move on to the next thing to consume - applies to TV, music, everything. Some of it might still be GREAT music, but that overconsumption sours the palate.
I'll agree with you on the dead, my ex was severely into them, and while I won't deny their musicianship and that a lot of the music is something you can move to, it's never been something I sought out.
(03-31-2022, 06:24 PM)Jags Wrote: (03-31-2022, 04:48 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: The Doors were musically tight, but Morrison, geez. That band was wasted (literally) on him.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, i go to the lavatrine
And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Plus one! And please refresh my memory where the heck this is from. I heard it long ago and to this day it pops in my head out of nowhere.
It's the lumberjack song from the MPFC series. Starts out as a barbershop scene, but the barber is just playing a tape of idle chatter a barber would make with sounds of scissors snipping, never once touching the client's hair. Client notices, and the barber admits he never wanted to be a barber, citing the rustic lure of being a cross-dressing lumberjack (NTTAWWT).
(and I think it's lavatory, just Britishized to sound as lav-a-tree)
