Buddy Holly by Weezer. Good video too.

jfv wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:52 am

seby wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:58 pm Morning Glory by Oasis

+1

Also, Smashing Pumpkins could occasionally be okay (“Cherub Rock”). Would be even better without vocals.

Thinking about this thread made me listen to CR just last night! Quiet is not bad either. I saw SP for this tour and they were great live, but i have never been able to get behind them generally. Gosh it turned hard going pretty quickly....

I don't HATE them, but I don't generally dig Radiohead. However, this live version of Idioteque fucking rocks

^I was going to post this, but I didn't because don't hate Radiohead either; I just think they're second-rate and boring, and they do just enough synthesis and development from their influences to avoid being called copyists. It's funny and emblematic of them that their best song is built around a plagiarised sample.

The only good thing anyone associated with The Eagles ever made.

enframed wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:28 pm The only good thing anyone associated with The Eagles ever made.

I think there are a few Joe Walsh / James Gang fans who'd disagree

andyman wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:33 pm

enframed wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:28 pm The only good thing anyone associated with The Eagles ever made.

I think there are a few Joe Walsh / James Gang fans who'd disagree

Forgot about that, gets a pass. Was pre-Eagles though. Nothing Walsh made post-Eagles was any good.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:40 pm It's funny and emblematic of them that their best song is built around a plagiarised sample.

These words have been used against many a hip hop act.

But seriously that sample and the importance or unimportance of lifting it for an art pop song is a rabbit hole of a conversation that gets into the artistic and cultural value of ambient music and whether it should regarded similarly or different from "songwriting". But that's it's own thread.

On the Smashing Pumpkins note, I was thinking this was a decent song. It's not as good as I had thought, but shit it: