pierson Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 50s through 80s AJ? 50s - First half of the 80s...for me. After that...not so much. after 1985: some real crap....Jon BrionReplacementsPernice BrothersPixiesPrefab SproutJellyfishPosiesMaterial IssueMatthew SweetTommy KeeneDramaramaSugarElliott SmithOasisLemonheadsA Girl Called EddyBlue NileIvyWonder StuffJesus & Mary ChainTeenage FanclubTrashcan SinatrasSmiths/MorrisseyAdorableJohanEven Johansen/MagnetEd HarcourtMarjorie FairChoo Choo Train/Velvet CrushAimee MannDavid BowieGuided By VoicesPimlicoBlurAshChris Von SneidernRobyn HitchcockCrowded HouseNeil FinnFlesh For LuluChameleonsSomething HappensBoo RadleysAutuersBlack Box RecorderBlakes/ Readymade BreakupFountains Of WayneStrokesDenzilDodgyGrant Lee BuffaloJayhawksWilcoSam PhillipsTravisRialtoRyan AdamsMy Morning JacketVerveRed House PaintersWildheartsBill LloydMarshall CrenshawRichard BaroneHoodoo GurusLloyd ColePulpMazzy StarSaint EtienneKeaneNick HeywardThe Hold SteadyArcade FireNada SurfBelle & SebastianNoonday UndergroundThe 88House Of LoveBlack Rebel Motorcycle ClubDuffy/Lilac TimeDovesTsarTowers Of LondonHouse Of FreaksWaterboysThe VeilsLong RydersDancing HoodsElvis CostelloThe Sleepy JacksonGame TheoryGoldfrappXTCJesse MalinDamien RiceArnoldCousteau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Marshall Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Not gettin' this previous post here. What are you saying? This all came after 85? Well...no. Some clearly came before 85...in several cases well before. Some came after. Some...so what?Didn't say that everything was lousy after 85 ya know. It just got increasingly worse as styles changed and talent wained.Heck you don't need melodies anymore. How great is that? [if you don't have MUSICAL talent] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Just to clarify myself as well, I did follow the music scene into the '90s - and picked up on some good music (such as Jellyfish, Del Amitri & The Replacements). I just found it harder and harder to find an album released that was consistent and worth listening all the way through. You'd hear a song picked as the single, buy the album, and find that the rest of the album did not live up to the potential of the single. Someone mentioned Nickelback, I find loads of their latest release in the $1 bargain bin at The Exchange. Why?? Probably because most people bought the album for the song "Photograph" and thought that this was the band's sound - Alas, no other song on that disc is in the same league.I don't know whether the issue is the recording industry's lack of wanting to invest time into growing an artist, or that they don't want to sign experimental artists who record "outside the box". For instance, when Creed became the next Pearl Jam - how many sound alike artists came out of the woodwork... Again, this is the same recording industry who works with American Idol to find the next pop star! Anyone else's ears still in pain from hearing classic '60s songs slaughtered from the other night???!!! The Kinks should call their lawyers!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 I like to call "American Idol" "Oversinging Idol."Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallytosa Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hey Marv. I couldn't let Paula totally speak for me, but she's pretty much right about my tastes. I haven't searched out new music...I love my classic rock from the 70s. It's not that I don't think anything good is out there now, but I haven't heard anything I like, not that I've heard that much. So, I listen to what I like. Nothing wrong with that. It brings back memories and I never get sick of it. Though, I hear Rush is releasing a new album. Does that count?By the way, Paula is only 47, not 48. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hi Jeff. Maybe I'm caught in a time warp, but I'm still keeping in touch with the artists that I listened to in the 1970's (and the 1960's). Some of those artists, I will buy their music without having heard any snippets or previews(McCartney, Wilson, Carmen, Springsteen, Browne, etc). Whereas 'newer' artists, I need to be sold on their music much more.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I read so many favorable reviews of Radiohead and Coldplay I took the time to either buy CDs or listen to those of others and I was really disappointed. You read reviews for bands like My Chemical Romance, and all the verbal histrionics makes you think they're talking about the next Who. Then you hear a couple of the songs (MTV, VH1) and its just another rock band ripping off the general tonalities of the punk-new wave era.(77-83). Who needs this crap? That was a great album, "Who Needs this Crap?" came after "Who Are You" I think. I find alot of the new stuff irritating more than anything else. Hip-Hop and all that bologna beyond irritating, enough to drive anyone with any brain cells at all insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierson Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Not gettin' this previous post here. What are you saying? This all came after 85? Well...no. Some clearly came before 85...in several cases well before. Some came after. Some...so what?Didn't say that everything was lousy after 85 ya know. It just got increasingly worse as styles changed and talent wained.not quite....those who came before 85 (bowie, costello, church, etc) made music just as amazing as the stuff that broke them...i don't think things got worse.... people (the audience) got lazier and a lot more music was created... Pernice Bros & Jon Brion are current examples of artists as talented as those I cherish in the pasti think there's a lot more after 85 to seek out than there was prior to it (especially UK & Europe).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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