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Post by lordb on Nov 22, 2015 15:20:02 GMT
The stones have been shite since exile on main st "shite" is perhaps a bit strong but I agree with your general thrust post Exile. Good use of the phrase 'general thrust' Should be inserted more often
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Nov 22, 2015 17:05:48 GMT
The Wella Fella is an interesting conundrum. He hit the zeitgeist of Punk with The Jam and five decades later he's still knocking about as everyone's {except your good self} favourite coffee table upstart. He's a bit of a musical magpie, like Bowie. If Steve Marriott had survived then perhaps there would have been no need for the Bard of Woking. Paul will leave an impressive legacy of songs in his wake {for a bluffer}. B-sides and extras etc reveal real gems. From 'Strange Town', 'Eton Rifles', 'Butterfly Collector', 'Town Called Malice', 'Funeral Pyre', 'That's Entertainment', 'The Great Depression' etc etc.. he penned some beauts. Whilst never really being Punk. He was an astute social commentator considering his youth. His inner thoughts committed to vinyl and the pages at 18/19yrs old. It all still stands up. If not presaging the Indie/dance crossover, then he at least encouraged it with his more soul based Style Council stuff.. 'Long Hot Summer', 'You're the Best Thing' etc. At the forefront of remixes/extended versions and so forth. Forged a path for more dancier mid-eighties music that followed. He hitched his bandwagon to Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis etc when British guitar music had taken a hit from Rave {with a capital E} and helped to keep the idea of guitar based bands alive. He's continually promoted new artists from Tracy to Tame Impala. Amongst the 'stuff he's coiled out' {brill imagery} Weller's cherry picked some psychedelia {Uh Oh}, folk {Wildwood], Grimy Blues {Wake Up the Nation} along the way, and made a decent fist of the job. He could always have turned into Sir Ben Elton. I havn't checked up but I can imagine him having some kind of web presence/online label or summat going on. All the while he's kept his private dabblings relatively private, and his politics reasonable too. I'm not ared about seeing the Weller Band in a forest, but he's a talented fella, I think you're being harsh Skank. {*I may have been inhabited by the spirit of MickMillsLoveChild} Heh heh! That's me told. His earlier stuff is fine by me. Excellent, enjoyable and ahead of the wave in many ways, as you describe. I ain't knocking it in any way whatsoever. It's his output in the years since hitching himself to Brit Pop that disappoint me. It is entirely lazy, poorly produced and unoriginal; as though he forgot punk rock and what followed and regressed directly back to the early seventies. Probably to the stuff he started out playing. Bands playing that material were 10 a penny back then - until punk came along and killed them all off. Anyway about Bob Dylan... I rated Weller's recentish 'Wake Up the Nation' vibe. As for the Owd Croaker Bob. I get his lyricism and his part in musical history, I liked his 'themed' radio shows, but I just can't engage with his voice. I always think his songs sound better covered by other artists, except perhaps 'Subterranean Home Sick Blues'. I generally zone out when I hear his voice.
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Post by juggusheadus on Nov 22, 2015 17:46:03 GMT
The Smiths U2 The Rolling Stones The Stone Roses
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2015 19:00:02 GMT
Abba couldn't sing a note at the Euros
Bob Marley his backing group were better than him
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Post by turtlefox on Nov 22, 2015 19:19:54 GMT
Iron Maiden.They can play but what utter dross. Music for teenagers
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Post by maninasuitcase on Nov 22, 2015 19:47:17 GMT
Oasis - sheee-ite music from an overhyped bunch of wankers.
Don McLean - dreadful music which makes me wanna vomit
Those are the first 2 that immediately spring to mind.
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Post by robstokie on Nov 22, 2015 22:46:17 GMT
Bon Jovi U2 One Direction/ Any X factor wank
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 23, 2015 6:52:16 GMT
"shite" is perhaps a bit strong but I agree with your general thrust post Exile. Good use of the phrase 'general thrust' Should be inserted more often The chance would be a fine thing...
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Post by Skankmonkey on Nov 23, 2015 7:09:48 GMT
Heh heh! That's me told. His earlier stuff is fine by me. Excellent, enjoyable and ahead of the wave in many ways, as you describe. I ain't knocking it in any way whatsoever. It's his output in the years since hitching himself to Brit Pop that disappoint me. It is entirely lazy, poorly produced and unoriginal; as though he forgot punk rock and what followed and regressed directly back to the early seventies. Probably to the stuff he started out playing. Bands playing that material were 10 a penny back then - until punk came along and killed them all off. Anyway about Bob Dylan... I rated Weller's recentish 'Wake Up the Nation' vibe. As for the Owd Croaker Bob. I get his lyricism and his part in musical history, I liked his 'themed' radio shows, but I just can't engage with his voice. I always think his songs sound better covered by other artists, except perhaps 'Subterranean Home Sick Blues'. I generally zone out when I hear his voice. I'll own to not being much bothered by Dylan's later output, but then again I'm fairly ambivalent about most music post 1980. I suppose his last great album for me was Desire. He seemed to enjoy himself in the Wilburys, and I don't begrudge him that, but it didn't do a great deal for me. He seems to have gone corporate just now. I can forgive him most things. Masters of War still makes my spine shiver.
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Post by Bagwash on Nov 23, 2015 7:53:26 GMT
Weller is the biggest bluffer in the music biz today. The turgid stuff he's coiled out this last 20 odd years was avalable and played better by jobbing bands every Sunday night at the George Hotel in 1973. Modfather my arse. The Wella Fella is an interesting conundrum. He hit the zeitgeist of Punk with The Jam and five decades later he's still knocking about as everyone's {except your good self} favourite coffee table upstart. He's a bit of a musical magpie, like Bowie. If Steve Marriott had survived then perhaps there would have been no need for the Bard of Woking. Paul will leave an impressive legacy of songs in his wake {for a bluffer}. B-sides and extras etc reveal real gems. From 'Strange Town', 'Eton Rifles', 'Butterfly Collector', 'Town Called Malice', 'Funeral Pyre', 'That's Entertainment', 'The Great Depression' etc etc.. he penned some beauts. Whilst never really being Punk. He was an astute social commentator considering his youth. His inner thoughts committed to vinyl and the pages at 18/19yrs old. It all still stands up. If not presaging the Indie/dance crossover, then he at least encouraged it with his more soul based Style Council stuff.. 'Long Hot Summer', 'You're the Best Thing' etc. At the forefront of remixes/extended versions and so forth. Forged a path for more dancier mid-eighties music that followed. He hitched his bandwagon to Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis etc when British guitar music had taken a hit from Rave {with a capital E} and helped to keep the idea of guitar based bands alive. He's continually promoted new artists from Tracy to Tame Impala. Amongst the 'stuff he's coiled out' {brill imagery} Weller's cherry picked some psychedelia {Uh Oh}, folk {Wildwood], Grimy Blues {Wake Up the Nation} along the way, and made a decent fist of the job. He could always have turned into Sir Ben Elton. I havn't checked up but I can imagine him having some kind of web presence/online label or summat going on. All the while he's kept his private dabblings relatively private, and his politics reasonable too. I'm not ared about seeing the Weller Band in a forest, but he's a talented fella, I think you're being harsh Skank. {*I may have been inhabited by the spirit of MickMillsLoveChild} Excellent post Cheees,agree with most of what you say. For my own part,Weller is and has always been one of my favourite artists.The majority of his back catalogue(especially The Jam material)is,imho superb.Some of his recent stuff,Sonik Kicks especially, is too 'experimental' in my eyes,would rather see him on stage with his guitar bouncing around like a reborn punk. Anyway,my contribution to the thread,and I've got my tin hat on firmly in place is Led Zeppelin.I am not a lover of the Heavy Metal/Rock genre but have listened to a couple of there albums and I don't get it.I can understand there appeal but not the global worship. Still,theres not right or wrong in music and I realise its down to individual taste but to nominate The Beatles
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Post by jpm64 on Nov 23, 2015 15:32:53 GMT
Cold Play and The Police Both have/had sanctimonious boring twats as front men
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Post by capto on Nov 23, 2015 15:45:59 GMT
Yes & most other prog rock bands Oasis - just cannot get into them
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Post by Billybigbollox on Nov 24, 2015 19:29:22 GMT
The Wurzels. Fucking splitters.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 19:30:06 GMT
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Post by scfcwebby on Nov 25, 2015 20:40:19 GMT
Both of you wash your mouths out!
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Post by lastoftheldk on Nov 27, 2015 0:31:34 GMT
Cool and the gang. Queen
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