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fancyjamtime wrote:

syntaxfree07 wrote:I know that. I was disagreeing with the thread, in general.

What about it do you disagree with? The idea that critically lauded albums can be disliked? I don't mean to be argumentative. I just don't understand.

No. I guess you are right. I'm not going to start a nerblybear style argument over headnodability. My fault.

tmidgett wrote:

DazeyDiver wrote:Fuck I never thought someone would choose Who's Next over Sgt. Pepper's

Nice to meet you.

Fixing a Hole vs. The Song is Over - Who

Man, really? I mean, Fixing a Hole is pretty lame, but The Song is Over is just plain bad.

The rest of the record destroys anything on Sgt Pepper's. A Day in the Life is an achievement, but it has never moved me much.

hey no problem with different strokes here.

and 'the song is over' is bad.

but the fucking meh-ness of 'fixing a hole' is astounding. what irks me even more is that people think 'within you without you' is the one black mark on sgt. peppers. 'fixing a hole' aggravates the SHIT out of me.

p.s. for what is, in effect, a throwaway, teh drums on 'going mobile' are KILLER.

DazeyDiver wrote:the fucking meh-ness of 'fixing a hole,' 'getting better,' and that piece of shit 'lovely rita' is astounding. 'she's leaving home' is some maudlin bunk too.

Fixed Your Pepper

Dr. Geek wrote:

enframed wrote:

Dr. Geek wrote:- Black Flag, Dead Kennedys

both were for the most part a california thing, along with circle jerks (who i hate), who were more specifically an LA thing.

Kennedys were Oakland, I thought.

I lived in the area from which Black Flag emerged. No one ever talked about them.

oakland is in california. i don't know if the specific origin of dk was sf or oakland.

PEPPER! wrote: I also never thought the Sex Pistols were anything very special. People always defend them based on their impact on society or whatever, not the music.

i quite like the sex pistols' music, even the great rock n roll swindle.

B_M_L wrote:

FuzzBob wrote:I know you have to see her plucking her harp for the full-on "annoying screeching pixie plucking a harp" visual effect at her shows. Gag me with a fucking spoon.

It has nothing to do with the "visual effect". But meh.

What instrument do you play Fuzzbob?

The question isn't in any way a dig either - I'm just interested as most musicians I've met have been impressed by her, regardless of the voice - (which I quite like anyway).

I'm a guitarist, which may make sense after I explain: many guitarists are generally unimpressed by musicianship as an end in itself these days, after literally decades of enduring the whole "muso wanker guitar hero" thing. You can blow your load all over the fretboard all day long, but at the end of the day, you're still a member of Toto or Night Ranger playing crappy Toto or Night Ranger music. Motorinnnnn!!!!!

It never really occurred to me that JN is considered a "virtuoso" of the harp, but then again, it doesn't change the way the aesthete in me reacts to her music.

Abductor wrote:

DazeyDiver wrote:the fucking meh-ness of 'fixing a hole,' 'getting better,' and that piece of shit 'lovely rita' is astounding. 'she's leaving home' is some maudlin bunk too.

Fixed Your Pepper

God I Love 'Lovely Rita'

vockins wrote:

Dr. Geek wrote:- Black Sabbath

The older I get, the more I think this band is underrated.

No shit, man.

bigc wrote:

vockins wrote:

Dr. Geek wrote:- Black Sabbath

The older I get, the more I think this band is underrated.

No shit, man.

For real

Marsupialized wrote:

bigc wrote:

vockins wrote:

Dr. Geek wrote:- Black Sabbath

The older I get, the more I think this band is underrated.

No shit, man.

For real

I think Black Sabbath is underrated even by some of the people that love them. IMO they get plenty of credit for being an amazing heavy rock band, but they were more versatile and had more going on than just that.