General Music Thread

[Shane2 0]

It was just a point to illustrate how crap their music is tbh.

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Yeah well. Theres plenty of people that like their music. Otherwise they wouldnt have sold out an arena tour last year and almost sold out a bigger arena tour this year which doesnt start for 2 months yet!

[Shane2 0]

It only takes 50k people to fill an arena, and I have seen crappier bands fill bigger arenas than that before

[Jenson_Rules 0]

In a time when the charts are smothered with indie and alt music they are doing damn well for themselves.

[Shane2 0]

The thing is most of that is crap as well lol

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Well what do you like then?

[Shane2 0]

Avril Lavigne

Evanescence

Rammstein

The Darkness

Eminem

Nirvana

But to name a few

[Max Mosley 2]

And lets be honest, how are manufactured pop bands any better than rappers. Some rappers like Eminem are very quickwhitted and intelligent. What is intelligent about lyrics like "something kinda ooh kinda makes my heard to boom".

Yeah I agree. Eminem and many other (less famous) rappers are geniuses.

[dribbler 6]

I went on iTunes and listened to clips of all the songs. ANd each one sounded the same and that really is nt the sort of music i like. I really dont like any sort of rap/hiphop type stuff!

Look Ben, the idea with an album like 'Entroducing' is that you enjoy the sum of all its parts. You don't listen to clips and make judgements, the album isn't written to make that form of evaluation fair or justified. It's an album that can be enjoyed socially or in isolation. It covers a spectrum of moods from chill out to hard beats; it's an album for all occasions. It is ironic in places, spiritual and very clever. It uses samples that are relevant to my generation (30 somethings) and yet it caters for the teenager who wants to dance to it. I played it in front of my Grandad at a barbeque and he didn't bat an eye lid because it has the sound of social acceptance over generation spans.

If you do not like it, fair play to you. Why should you like it? Taste is a subjective argument. All i'm trying to suggest, as many are here is that instead of enjoying squirty cream and saying it's great because many people eat it, that you try double cream and take a bit of time to enjoy the subtle virtues and differences. This will sound patronising now, but often you will not appreciate the finer things in life until you get a little older and life gains more perspective. I remember the joy my father used to glean from sitting up to his dining room table on a sunday morning, eating his cooked breakfast and looking out into his garden at the birds feeding. 'What a bore' i used to think but now i find myself enjoying similar simple pleasures.

I think it important too for you to appreciate the root cause of so many peoples dislike for band like Girls Aloud. The girls can sing, they have sold plenty of CD's they are great to look at and they have a big following but they represent a small part of everything wrong with society today. They are throw away; they aren't here to stay because they are not significant, they don't improve or move the game on atall and the public grow more fickle by the day. We want the next big thing and we want it now. It wasn't always like this Ben. Bands were able to have an album that bombed and then come back. It made them what they were, it DEFINED them. These days bands are deliberately conceived to make huge ammounts of money quickly and are then destroyed when the next new band some along. There is something very wrong with that and that is why i despise them and the industry they feed.

Music is an ART. It should be protected and nurtured and not flogged to death for commercial means. People who have a true and deep appreciation of music understand this. Try and look at it this way Ben and you may begin to appreciate better music on a deeper level.

That's the last i'll say on the subject.

[dribbler 6]

Yeah I agree. Eminem and many other (less famous) rappers are geniuses.

Do you like Stuff like Cypress Hill too Muzz? If so, if you havent' already, check out a great album by The Gravediggaz called '6 feet deep'. The band are made up of off shoots from the Wu-Tang. It's deeply clever and as an appreciator of all things word clever, i think you would enjoy it.

[monza gorilla 1]

That's the last i'll say on the subject.

I'll believe that when I don't see it.

*admires eloquent post*

[Max Mosley 2]

Do you like Stuff like Cypress Hill too Muzz? If so, if you havent' already, check out a great album by The Gravediggaz called '6 feet deep'. The band are made up of off shoots from the Wu-Tang. It's deeply clever and as an appreciator of all things word clever, i think you would enjoy it.

I've heard of Cypress Hill and the Wu-Tang but haven't actually got round to checking them out much yet. Thanks for the advice - I'll definitely have a listen and get back to you!

I'll believe that when I don't see it.

*admires eloquent post*

*agrees. with both parts.*

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Avril Lavigne No

Evanescence I have both albums and like them

Rammstein Liked them a few years ago but no longer to my liking

The Darkness Very random. First album good, second was atrocious

Eminem I like his more fun stuff, not so keen on the serious stff though I like Lose Yourself

Nirvana Who doesn't like Nirvana?!

But to name a few

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Look Ben, the idea with an album like 'Entroducing' is that you enjoy the sum of all its parts. You don't listen to clips and make judgements, the album isn't written to make that form of evaluation fair or justified. It's an album that can be enjoyed socially or in isolation. It covers a spectrum of moods from chill out to hard beats; it's an album for all occasions. It is ironic in places, spiritual and very clever. It uses samples that are relevant to my generation (30 somethings) and yet it caters for the teenager who wants to dance to it. I played it in front of my Grandad at a barbeque and he didn't bat an eye lid because it has the sound of social acceptance over generation spans.

If you do not like it, fair play to you. Why should you like it? Taste is a subjective argument. All i'm trying to suggest, as many are here is that instead of enjoying squirty cream and saying it's great because many people eat it, that you try double cream and take a bit of time to enjoy the subtle virtues and differences. This will sound patronising now, but often you will not appreciate the finer things in life until you get a little older and life gains more perspective. I remember the joy my father used to glean from sitting up to his dining room table on a sunday morning, eating his cooked breakfast and looking out into his garden at the birds feeding. 'What a bore' i used to think but now i find myself enjoying similar simple pleasures.

I think it important too for you to appreciate the root cause of so many peoples dislike for band like Girls Aloud. The girls can sing, they have sold plenty of CD's they are great to look at and they have a big following but they represent a small part of everything wrong with society today. They are throw away; they aren't here to stay because they are not significant, they don't improve or move the game on atall and the public grow more fickle by the day. We want the next big thing and we want it now. It wasn't always like this Ben. Bands were able to have an album that bombed and then come back. It made them what they were, it DEFINED them. These days bands are deliberately conceived to make huge ammounts of money quickly and are then destroyed when the next new band some along. There is something very wrong with that and that is why i despise them and the industry they feed.

Music is an ART. It should be protected and nurtured and not flogged to death for commercial means. People who have a true and deep appreciation of music understand this. Try and look at it this way Ben and you may begin to appreciate better music on a deeper level.

That's the last i'll say on the subject.

I understand what your saying. But for a start Dairy products make me ill so the cream idea doesn't really work with me haha!

In general though I'm not a fan of hip/hop or rap because I find it boring. Often the lyrics are genius but I just don't like it really. But anyway I know I'm only young but I wil nearly always like club music and pop music as its the sort I like to listen too. I'm open to try anything but rap I just don't really like. Sorry but it just has no appeal to me.

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Knowing you lot you prob hate this however have any of you heard Beautiful Liar by Shakira and Beyonce. It's flippin fantastic and the video is pretty hot too!

[Jenson_Rules 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIHBRsy1lI

theres the vid. Love it! Easy to dirty dance to this when drunk in a club!

[Autumnpuma 0]

Knowing you lot you prob hate this however have any of you heard Beautiful Liar by Shakira and Beyonce. It's flippin fantastic and the video is pretty hot too!

Ha! My turn to surprise you....I quite like Shakira.

[dribbler 6]

Knowing you lot you prob hate this however have any of you heard Beautiful Liar by Shakira and Beyonce. It's flippin fantastic and the video is pretty hot too!

[Jenson_Rules 0]

Ha! My turn to surprise you....I quite like Shakira.

Good god! I personally prefer her Spanish language albums.

[Shane2 0]

For the record I agree with you about 1 thing, the darkness second album did blow

[pabloh20 1]

Ok, if people who like early fleetwood mac, bluesy, guitarist based music would like to have a listen to the attached and let me know what you think - other people can listen to it, but you probably won't like it!

You'll have to excuse the poor recording, not helped by compression either and the singing did actually sound better than this live, it doesn't seem to pick up well on the recording. And no it's not me, though I do wish it was me playing the guitar!

[Eric 0]

Not trying to dig up an old thread, but being a guitarist myself, I figured we needed a music thread, and since this came up in the search, I brought it back up.

I listen to a lot. Right now I really like The Raconteurs. For those who don't know, here's some vids:

Raconteurs - Level

If your familiar with The White Stripes, the guitarist and singer who looks like Jack White is Jack White.

I also like Incubus, Yellowcard, Nirvana, U2, blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, Arctic Monkeys, The White Stripes, Led Zep, Linkin Park, a lot of classic rock and indie/alt stuff. I also will listen to rap and stuff like that.

As for my own music career...hmm...I've performed "Hips Don't Lie" (Shakira), both song and dance before...I also did Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" with a friend before and broke out into some spastic stripper dancing...and I've screamed "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness in an intensely high-pitched voice...all at parties...but you didn't really need to know any of that...

As for my guitar, hmm, all my bands have sucked.

-Eric

[Argento Reloaded 1]

Ok, if people who like early fleetwood mac, bluesy, guitarist based music would like to have a listen to the attached and let me know what you think - other people can listen to it, but you probably won't like it!

You'll have to excuse the poor recording, not helped by compression either and the singing did actually sound better than this live, it doesn't seem to pick up well on the recording. And no it's not me, though I do wish it was me playing the guitar!

Good!!!

[elgo 1]

Ok,me too:

In English: Linkin Park,Green Day,My Chemical Romance,Red Hot Chili Peppers,Sum41,System Of A Down,Blink 182,Billy Talent,Dover,Incubus,Rise Against,Nickelback,Yellowcard,Snow Patrol,Avril Lavigne,Oasis,Guns&Roses,Led Zeppelin,U2,Rem,Maroon5...

In Spanish:Man

[Jenson_Rules 0]

We had East 17 (yes how bad is that!) at our Uni last night performing, all I can say is they did a set of 9 songs aparently, me and my mates stayed for one and then went back downstairs to the other club and got more drinks and danced to 80's and 90's classics. Was a good night!