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Oscar the Grouch
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quote: Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat: This is why I like 6 Music, because they play good music, irrespective of category. You can get jazz, metal, indie, instrumental all in one day.
Isn't it strange? I love all sorts of music from all over the world. I thought I would love 6 Music when it started. Every time (and I mean EVERY TIME) I listened to it, I switched off after 15 minutes, having been bored out of my mind.
quote: Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat: Music is music is music. Some of it is good, some of it is bad; some I like, some I don't. But it is all music.
Absolutely.
There are very few genres of music that I cannot listen to. House and Trance would probably be the only thing I can think of. I'm not too keen on Country and Western, but I love a bit of Dolly Parton! I love the Blues but can't abide B.B. King. That's how it goes.
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Barnabas62
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quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: .. but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
.. I've had a brainworm since I read that ...
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mousethief
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quote: Originally posted by Barnabas62: quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: .. but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
.. I've had a brainworm since I read that ...
Here's an earworm on a similar topic.
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Timothy the Obscure
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: Is this a universal differentiation between "rock and roll" and "rock" or your own idiosyncratic one? I tried to find something on the web to explain when the "and roll" got dropped but without success.
My own observation (having been there at the time, as I know you were) that by 1966 "rock & roll" was no longer in current use, except to refer to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, etc. It came back in about 1968-69, with what was then called the "rock & roll revival" (CCR, the Band, Cat Mother, and--most egregiously--Sha Na Na). It was in 1969 that the Stones began calling themselves "The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band." Before that everyone called them a rock band (most would have said the second greatest).
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Barnabas62
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: quote: Originally posted by Barnabas62: quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: .. but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
.. I've had a brainworm since I read that ...
Here's an earworm on a similar topic.
That made me smile!
Confession time. The brainworm was ''Jolene. Jolene, Jolene, Jole-e-ene" but the lyric got twisted into "which bit, which bit ...." Coupled with giggles and guilt.
Sorry. Too much information.
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by Fr Weber: quote: Originally posted by Sioni Sais: I don't think we can disregard the influence of New Orleans jazz either. Early R'n'R had a lot of brass, which is rare in blues and country.
Depends on what you mean by "a lot"--wasn't it usually a single saxophone?
Looking at some early R'n'R line ups that's so, but I can hear horns on recordings. Then again there's rock with brass sections too, not to mention the notorious sax soloes, which IMNSHO are fit only for the elevator.
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moron
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quote: Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls: As for my runners-up, I would plump for Uriah Heep and Slade.
The (double) album version of _Live_ ended with a rock and roll medley (not, alas, available on later CDs) which is worth a listen.
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Piglet
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: quote: Originally posted by Barnabas62: quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: .. but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
.. I've had a brainworm since I read that ...
Here's an earworm on a similar topic.
That link told me that the video wasn't available. Perhaps it's just as well ...
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quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
Dare I ask what bit?
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Oscar the Grouch
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quote: Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...: quote: Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch: but I love a bit of Dolly Parton!
Dare I ask what bit?
If you have to ask, you probably won't understand....
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Kelly Alves
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Y'all don't make me throw Juice Newton at you.
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Bob Two-Owls
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quote: Originally posted by moron: The (double) album version of _Live_ ended with a rock and roll medley (not, alas, available on later CDs) which is worth a listen.
It is available on Spotify though.
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Sir Kevin
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Stones ; No argument! I would have said Led Zeppelin if I had ever seen them but I have not and did see the Rolling Stones twenty years ago. Zep did not invent heavy metal anyway: that was done by an obscure US band called Blue Cheer. Their first album on vinyl predated them by at least a year.
Greatest guitar player of all time remains of course, Jimi...
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mousethief
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quote: Originally posted by Sir Kevin: Stones ; No argument! I would have said Led Zeppelin if I had ever seen them but I have not and did see the Rolling Stones twenty years ago.
I think a very good argument could be made that LZ is not a rock band but a blues band.
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Canucklehead
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quote: Talk about your pretentious rubbish. "Look at me! I can tell an Ayn Rand fairytale about how evil collectivism is! Ooooo!"
This made me chuckle. Also, Neil Peart was number 2 on Blender's list of worst rock lyricists - surpassed only by Sting. Maybe it's the Canadian in me, but I don't mind small amounts of Rush. My vote goes to the mighty Zeppelin.
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Canucklehead: I don't mind small amounts of Rush.
Me to! Sometimes my enjoyment lasts almost to the end of a song.
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mousethief
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I suppose it's telling that my favorite Rush numbers are "La Villa Strangiata" and "YYZ." Every time I hear "Trees" I want to bash Neil Peart in the teeth with Joyce Kilmer.
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Sir Kevin
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief:
I think a very good argument could be made that LZ is not a rock band but a blues band.
The Stones were a blues band too when they first started out. Sir Michael could really wail on the harmonica on cuts such as "Midnight Gambler"!
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Fr Weber
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: quote: Originally posted by Sir Kevin: Stones ; No argument! I would have said Led Zeppelin if I had ever seen them but I have not and did see the Rolling Stones twenty years ago.
I think a very good argument could be made that LZ is not a rock band but a blues band.
There's no question that they played blues songs, and that the blues looms heavily over their work. But "Your Time Is Gonna Come" isn't a blues song at all; neither is "Good Times Bad Times" or "Black Mountain Side" (which is actually an old Irish folk song). And that's just the first album!
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mousethief
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So you're saying that in order to be a "blues band" a band has to play NOTHING BUT BLUES? Ever? At all?
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: So you're saying that in order to be a "blues band" a band has to play NOTHING BUT BLUES? Ever? At all?
They would best be described as a rock band heavily influenced by the blues. Actually there is a better description, backed by successful lawsuits, but I'll still refrain from giving it in deference to the Ship's copyright policy. Which, in regards to the lawsuits, is a bit ironic.
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leftfieldlover
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quote: Originally posted by Sioni Sais: Sorry everyone, but The Groundhogs are the original and the best. The only excuse for not rating them is that you haven't heard them. Split is one of the great LPs of all time.
I like early Alice Cooper too. There's hardly a weak track on Love it to Death or School's Out.
I saw Groundhogs live in Reading when I was about 17 - and I sat on the stage! Great album.
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leftfieldlover
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Pink Floyd are my all time favourites, with Led Zep a very close second. The Stones are good - are they in their 70s now? I can remember enjoying bands like Ten Years After and Family, years ago. What ever happened to them? An album I still play every now and again is Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 'Hot Rats'. It hasn't dated at all. These days I love Faithless, but I'm not sure if they would be classed as rock and anyway, they have split up. [ 17. December 2014, 12:36: Message edited by: leftfieldlover ]
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Welease Woderwick
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Apologies for thread necromancy but I had a sudden urge to have a youtube moment with Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy doing I'm a Rocker - still as mindblowingly brilliant as ever.
I'm a bit of a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan as well but find Zep quite dated these days.
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