Does the music of this decade suck?

[The Chairman]

just for ****s and giggles, write up a list of "older generation" bands/artists that you do like. i wanna see if i can be of service in the recommendation department.

Bob Marley & The Wailers
Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Queen
The Kinks
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hnedrix
Deep Purple
The Allman Brothers Band
Pink Floyd
Genesis
The Grateful Dead
Fleetwood Mac
The Doors
Aerosmith
Simon & Garfunkel
The Clash
The Ramones
Mott The Hoople
Guns N' Roses
Def Leeppard
Talking Heads
Neil Young
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Elton John
Billy Joel
Yes
U2
Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Carly Simon
The Beach Boys
Heart
The Faces
The Police

 

[Speedball]

^ Nice list, except Bob Marley. I'm not a very big fan of reggae.

 

[Cmill216]

Yeah, I had Speakerboxx / Love Below. My dad played it in his car all the time. I hated it then, and I still do today. Once the fad of "Hey Ya" wore off, I becam succeptible to how bad I thought it was.

"Hey Ya" isn't even the best song on The Love Below, so.... *shrug*

And I refuse to ever listen to a Jay-Z album the whole way through. For me, he's laid The Blueprint for what modern day rap has become: the ultimate promotion if the stereotypical black lifestyle, one that portrays women as little more than mere sex objects and that protrays the African AMerican cluture as nothing more cop hatin, ho promoitng "gangstas".

Then how you can classify it merely based on hearing a radio single? Everyone knows the meat of an artist's work is on their albums, and not what the label can sell with a video. Sit down and "force" yourself to listen to a Jay-Z album, and then feel free to make that kind of generalization if it does indeed stick. And preferably listen to either "The Blueprint" or "The Black Album", and don't dare buy "Kingdome Come" ('cause even great artists can make sh***y records).

As Jay himself said on "Renegade":


Say that I'm foolish
I only talk about jewels
Do you fools listen to music
Or do you just skim through it?

 

[The Chairman]

^ Nice list, except Bob Marley. I'm not a very big fan of reggae.

Bob is the greatest musician ever. In my opinion. Seriously, overlook the reggae part. He's far more diverse than that.

 

[The Chairman]

"Hey Ya" isn't even the best song on The Love Below, so.... *shrug*

Well I've heard the rest of the album, so...*shrug*.

Then how you can classify it merely based on hearing a radio single? Everyone knows the meat of an artist's work is on their albums, and not what the label can sell with a video. Sit down and "force" yourself to listen to a Jay-Z album, and then feel free to make that kind of generalization if it does indeed stick. And preferably listen to either "The Blueprint" or "The Black Album", and don't dare buy "Kingdome Come" ('cause he even great artists can make sh***y records).

As Jay himself said on "Renegade":


Say that I'm foolish
I only talk about jewels
Do you fools listen to music
Or do you just skim through it?

Look, I already stated my opinion on rap music. I can't stand it. I don't care for it. Therefore, if I'm not a big fan of rap singles, what makes you think I will like an entire rap album?

 

[Cmill216]

Look, I already stated my opinion on rap music. I can't stand it. I don't care for it. Therefore, if I'm not a big fan of rap singles, what makes you think I will like an entire rap album?

So be it.

You can go back to whining about how terrible alternative rockity rock is nowadays. I'm off to go listen to some crap rap.

 

[ultimatefan]

Bob Marley & The Wailers
Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Queen
The Kinks
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hnedrix
Deep Purple
The Allman Brothers Band
Pink Floyd
Genesis
The Grateful Dead
Fleetwood Mac
The Doors
Aerosmith
Simon & Garfunkel
The Clash
The Ramones
Mott The Hoople
Guns N' Roses
Def Leeppard
Talking Heads
Neil Young
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Elton John
Billy Joel
Yes
U2
Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Carly Simon
The Beach Boys
Heart
The Faces
The Police

Just to show you how people´s perception of music changes over time, if you lived back in the seventies and you liked The Clash, it was considered "Blasphemy" to like Pink Floyd or Genesis. From punks´POV, progressive rock was everything wrong with the world... Don´t even get me started on the Beatles vs. Stones battles...

 

[The Chairman]

So be it.

You can go back to whining about how terrible alternative rockity rock is nowadays. I'm off to go listen to some crap rap.

I don't really listen to alt rock, unless prog rock is considered the basis of alt rock. And not all the rock today is alt rock.

 

[The Chairman]

Just to show you how people´s perception of music changes over time, if you lived back in the seventies and you liked The Clash, it was considered "Blasphemy" to like Pink Floyd or Genesis. From punks´POV, progressive rock was everything wrong with the world... Don´t even get me started on the Beatles vs. Stones battles...

I am aware. I know Joe Strummer hated Led Zeppelin.

Nowadays, they're played on the same radio station.

 

[PhotoJones]

just off the top of my head:

Bob Marley & The Wailers
Led Zeppelin - the music (self-titled)
The Who
The Beatles - elliott smith, brendan benson, sondre lerche, bob pollard, guided by voices
The Rolling Stones - ryan adams (the gold album)
Queen - bobby conn
The Kinks
Stevie Wonder - donavan frankreiter
Marvin Gaye - cody chestnutt
John Lennon - bob pollard, guided by voices
Bob Dylan - ryan adams (the heartbreaker album), lucinda williams, SOME bright eyes
Jimi Hnedrix
Deep Purple
The Allman Brothers Band - kings of leon, warren haynes
Pink Floyd
Genesis - just keep listening to peter gabriel
The Grateful Dead - ryan adams (cold roses album)
Fleetwood Mac
The Doors - django haskins
Aerosmith - aerosmith sucks
Simon & Garfunkel - see above
The Clash
The Ramones
Mott The Hoople
Guns N' Roses
Def Leeppard
Talking Heads - byrne's solo stuff is pretty amazing
Neil Young - lucinda williams, gillian welch, calexico
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - black rebel motorcycle club, chris whitley
Elton John - the incredible moses leroy
Billy Joel
Yes - flaming lips
U2 - ryan adams (rock n roll album)
Marc Bolan & T. Rex - bobby conn
Carly Simon - beth orton, cat power, ben taylor
The Beach Boys - polyphonic spree, air, flaming lips
Heart - rilo kiley
The Faces
The Police - mutemath

and in no way is bob marley the greatest musician ever.

 

[Speedball]

Bob is the greatest musician ever. In my opinion. Seriously, overlook the reggae part. He's far more diverse than that.

I wasn't saying he wasn't.
I should have said that I listen to everything on that list but Marley.
He's an amazing artist, his style just isn't my cup of tea.

 

[The Chairman]

just off the top of my head:



and in no way is bob marley the greatest musician ever.

Thanks for the suggestion.

And Aerosmith and Simon & Garfunkel do not suck. And for my money, I've never been more moved by an artist's music than Bob Marley's.

 

[The Chairman]

I wasn't saying he wasn't.
I should have said that I listen to everything on that list but Marley.
He's an amazing artist, his style just isn't my cup of tea.

Fair enough.

 

[PhotoJones]

Thanks for the suggestion.

And Aerosmith and Simon & Garfunkel do not suck. And for my money, I've never been more moved by an artist's music than Bob Marley's.

aerosmith is a poor man's rolling stones. and i can't stand art garfunkel. i do like paul simon's solo stuff a LOT, though.

i LOVE bob marley, too. but bob's not a great musician. i don't even consider him to be a musician. bob was a political figure. he was a religious figure.

 

[Underoath]

(referring to Death Cab For Cutie)
One of the worst bands in history.

Different strokes for different folks. Don't even get me started on that list of bands you posted.

 

[The Chairman]

aerosmith is a poor man's rolling stones. and i can't stand art garfunkel. i do like paul simon's solo stuff a LOT, though.

i LOVE bob marley, too. but bob's not a great musician. i don't even consider him to be a musician. bob was a political figure. he was a religious figure.

That's what everyone calls Aerosmith. I guess it's somewhat true, but they have create dsome of the finest rock of the last 30 years. Though The Rolling Stones are their superiors.

Really, I love Art. I thin he's a superior singer to Simon. Different strokes, I guess.

Agreed on Bob to a degree. He wasn't a great musician in the way Page or Chuck Berry (my all time favorite artist next to Bob) was, but as a songwriter, he was one of a kind. Plus, few artists can claim having the impact on the music world as well as the social world that Bob did. His music pretty much freed Zimbabwe.

 

[PhotoJones]

That's what everyone calls Aerosmith. I guess it's somewhat true, but they have create dsome of the finest rock of the last 30 years. Though The Rolling Stones are their superiors.

Really, I love Art. I thin he's a superior singer to Simon. Different strokes, I guess.

Agreed on Bob to a degree. He wasn't a great musician in the way Page or Chuck Berry (my all time favorite artist next to Bob) was, but as a songwriter, he was one of a kind. Plus, few artists can claim having the impact on the music world as well as the social world that Bob did. His music pretty much freed Zimbabwe.

if you're going to listen to classic rock, i don't know why anyone would want to listen to aerosmith over the hundreds of other bands.

garfunkel's weird for the sake of being weird. i'm over it.

bob had a pretty feeble working knowledge of the guitar, and i'm being generous with that.
and as a songwriter, he was an anomaly. on paper, his songs are poorly written soundbytes. but when he sung them, they became more than words or lyrics. he was gifted in that way.

 

[The Chairman]

if you're going to listen to classic rock, i don't know why anyone would want to listen to aerosmith over the hundreds of other bands.

garfunkel's weird for the sake of being weird. i'm over it.

bob had a pretty feeble working knowledge of the guitar, and i'm being generous with that.
and as a songwriter, he was an anomaly. on paper, his songs are poorly written soundbytes. but when he sung them, they became more than words or lyrics. he was gifted in that way.

It all boils down. I love Aerosmith because I'm blown away by Joe Perry's guitar playing abilities. Plus, they're just a great, fun, energetic band.

Don't see how Art is weird, but eh, to each his own.

Bob said himself he had no education, so it's no surprise his words may seem weak at first. But "Redemption Song", "Buffalo Soldier", "Is This Love" and "No Woman, No Cry" are all beautifully written. His voice is amazing, too. It didn't hold a great deal of range, but the way he interpreted his songs was just stunning.

As for his guitar playing abilities, yeah he was pretty weak. He learned most of his abilities from Peter Tosh.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

The music of this decade has had its moments.