He's/She's Good...But?

[boopell]

This has made me realize I like less music than I hate. I could go on and on with a "don't like" list.

I guess that's why I have no patience with the radio--I constantly switch stations on XM with the remote in the car. I want to hear what I want to hear when I want to hear it. Anyone else the same way?

[Guest]

My daughter loved ELO. ('ello, she calls them.) I wonder what they look like now? I'll have to do my research when I stop laughing form all that's gone on today. I was up at 4:54 a.m., napped this afternoon and was giddy as all get out.

I STILL think Mick looks worn out! Paul is cuter than him!

[Danny S.]

Im into alot of Progressive music also. One band who has/had alot of incredibly talented musicians is Kansas.Unfortunatly all you hear on the radio is "Carry On my Wayward Son, and Dust in the wind" Steve Walsh has a great voice.Ive seen them several times, and they can duplicate their recordings live.

[ira]

I also never loved "CSN" or "CSNY".

To me it was O.K. if the "Marrakesh Express" left without me.-Ira.

[JohnO]

"I also never enjoyed Jethro Tull...Though I suspect they are good at what they do."

Yeah, but what exactly do they do? (Never figured this out....)

Also, Danny reminded me above.....U2 always came across (and still does) as so righteously self-important, that it's very hard for me to listen to their music. I'm reminded of a show they did last year, where Bono between songs started hitting his guitar gently every few seconds, then said into the mike - "Every time I do this, another child dies in Africa"....to which an audience member yelled - "then quit doing it, a**hole!!!"

Also agree on Rush....never could stomach them.

Ira - I'm right there with you on Fleetwood Mac (NOT the Peter Green version, just Buckingham-Nicks)....and on about 80% of CSNY. (Their new movie is so ham-fisted in its "message" that it's hard to watch, even for anti-Iraq war left-wingers!)

Another I haven't mentioned yet - While he's clearly the greatest blues guitarist from the UK (and possibly of all time, since he pretty much combined all the best of BB, Albert & Freddie King, Otis Rush & Buddy Guy), Eric Clapton, when he isn't doing straight blues or Cream, or backing another singer, drives me to drink, then sleep...an incredibly boring and bland solo act for the most part...especially when using the signal processors/flangers/Leslies on his guitar to the point that his sound is unrecognizable. He needs to just plug his axe directly into a tweed Deluxe and wail....AND forget that he ever heard of J.J.Cale or Delaney & Bonnie!

[marvin]

Wow! Do I ever love music that many of you hate:

Eagles, Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham), ELO, etc.

[pretender]

I'm with Marvin here-I love all the ones he mentioned. Also I've been a huge U2 fan since their first album.

[JohnO]

I could be wrong here, but I think one's age has a lot to do with one's likes/dislikes in music.

For example, I know very few Byrds/Burritos/Gene Clark/Gram P./Desert Rose Band/Chris Hillman fans who have much use for the Eagles or the other So.Calif. country-rock acts. Most fans of the former grew up as teenagers in the 60s; fans of the the latter in the 70s. Ditto, most fans of The Move don't care for ELO in the least.

Even within a specific band - 60s-mid 70s Stones fans aren't usually huge fans of the band once Ron Wood joined. Peter Green/Jeremy Spencer/Danny Kirwan/early Fleetwood Mac fans don't seem to care much for the Buckingham-Nicks version. Fans of Jeff Beck from his Yardbirds/J.Beck Group days don't particularly care for much of anything he's done since...and so on....There are few things everyone will ever agree on (other than that Dylan's never really been able to sing!...and even then, his older fans still put up with him...)

[hollies65]

I like both versions of Mac. If Buckingham were not in the band it would not be close. I am not crazy about the Stones after Taylor split.

[JohnO]

I was over-generalizing regarding Fleetwood Mac. Truth be known, I'd say there were at least 4 distinct versions of Mac, as far as their sound, and maybe more, depending on who's counting. The Green/Spencer/Kirwan version counts as 2 versions to me, going from a straight blues band to a more rock & roll-oriented group. They lasted about 3-4 years, followed by Kirwan/Welch/Christine McV/various others (Weston, Dave Walker), which lasted maybe 4-5 years, and then Buckingham-Nicks, starting in '75. There have, of course, been other variations (Vito, Dave Mason, Dorsey Burnette's son Billy, etc.). I think I still like the US release "English Rose" and "Kiln House" (with Spencer/Kirwan but no Green) best of everything they've ever done, sales figures notwithstanding. So few people realize that the first FM album featuring Buckingham-Nicks was the band's 10th or 11th album, depending on how you count 'em......and that the original band was big in the UK, with their first 3 albums all hitting the Top 10 there.

[hollies65]

The radio here [WMMS] played the crap out of 'Bare Trees'. I'll take any version with Buckingham...I lost interest after Green "left" until Lindsey made the scene.

[marvin]

Re Fleetwood Mac, I never knew much about them UNTIL their Buckingham/Nicks-AM radio hits. It was then that I became a fan of Buckingham. I also think he should ditch FM and stick to being a solo artist.

[hollies65]

I agree. I would perfer an album of nothing but Buckingham songs anyday.

[Tony Cartmill]

MADONNA - after her "True Blue" album in the late 80's, she's had about 3 songs I've heard since then that I like. The rest seem like sophmoric drivel.

I think that proves she was taking early co-write credits with others on quality songs she had little to do with.

Why, that sexy ambitious bitch!

[JohnO]

I bought the first Fleetwood Mac album in '68, a year after I first heard Peter Green and John McVie in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (on the "Hard Road" album, with Aynsley Dunbar on drums). Green had been hand-picked by Mayall to succeed Eric Clapton, amid a lot of publicity and fanfare in the UK music rags.

When he & John McV. split from Mayall to form Fleetwood Mac, Green's successor in the Bluesbreakers was an 18 year old Mick Taylor. (Andy Fraser. later of Free, played with Mayall a couple of years later, as a 15 year old...John had a knack for finding musical prodigies).

While no singles from the debut FM LP made the charts (all Chicago Blues - a continuation of what they'd been doing with Mayall), the original Mac, after adding Danny Kirwan for their second album, had several huge overseas hits -"Albatross" (#1 in the UK), "Oh Well", "Man Of The World" and "Green Manalishi"(sp?) all made the Top 10 in the UK and Europe. Green left after "Then Play On", but I didn't really lose interest in the band until Jeremy Spencer left after "Kiln House".

Never really regained interest in them at all....to me, they were more of a laid-back mellow LA band once Buckingham-Nicks joined them.

[Tony Cartmill]

Well, John...All that info tells me one thing...

You're old. :p

[hollies65]

Heh...I've posted youtubes of 'Albatross', 'Oh Well', 'Rattleshake Snake' and 'Homework' here. I don't think I got one reply to any of them!

[hollies65]

Buckingham's songs tend to be a bit more upbeat than his co-horts. Tusk is full of great stuff. 'The Ledge' anyone?

[Laura]

The ones Marvin mentioned I do like. I also like Fleetwood Mac, although I know little of the earlier stuff. I also like CSN or CSNY, the Byrds, Poco, that stuff too. Madonna makes me barf.

[JohnO]

"Heh...I've posted youtubes of 'Albatross', 'Oh Well', 'Rattleshake Snake' and 'Homework' here. I don't think I got one reply to any of them!"

You might have from me, if my %$#&*$% PC could play the goddamn videos!!!! As a general rule, all I can dredge up is the title of the video, and the video itself won't play. As another general rule, I don't post comments about just titles....

"You're old."

Tony - Yeah, I know, but I prefer that to the alternative! Also....please consider that you're posting on a board dedicated to someone who, at 59, is even older than me (by 2 years)!.....