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Dick Ed

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  1. Ironically those who are in love with the Beatles and Zeppelin are the ones most guilty of this.
  2. I just thought the tactic may work on you. Who cares what the Zep fanboys think.
  3. Fans of A-ha include: U2, Morrissey, Leonard Cohen, Graham Nash, Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Travis, Oasis. Members of Travis and Coldplay have backed A-HA's keyboardist on his solo album. Chris Martin's vocals are an attempt to copy Morten Harket's style. Coldplay have covered more than one A-ha song live. Martin has spoken of his love for A-HA's album Hunting high and low. Q, NME and other mags should be read with a pinch of salt. YouTube - a-ha - Cosy Prisons: Video
  4. I'm actually looking forward to seeing people who share my disgust of some of those bands. So if I fail to attract their fans I'm on the right track. Zeppelin, I don't mind. I like them but they're way overrated ... a subject I don't want to get into further on this thread anyway. Call it superior or whatever but I like to think I have standards.
  5. Maybe it's because Aberdeen is not the centre of all things music...
  6. True. I was more or less asked for mine though. Now back to the topic. Damn, it sure is hard to find people unless you like ACDC, Oasis or Zep.
  7. I too love music for its own sake. For that reason I don't rate some bands highly just because some people say they're good.
  8. Don't ssh me, noob. Yes, let them! Let them do it in their basement, I fully support that. The bands punk were against were not millionnaires playing expensive guitars. But they probably did have to go beyond a mistuned guitar in order to play something meaningful. There was much going on with prog and other music besides virtuoso solos. Most of the bands that are mentioned were not self-indulgent, just well played. Music isn't just for anyone who didn't take the time to learn their instrument. Go have a good time but don't ask for a big label contract.
  9. Here's how I see it. The punk phenomenon was what it was because it pitted the punk bands against the so called establishment. They did the same with grunge. But how do they journalists still have an arguement when those very punk musicians liked many of those 'bloated' bands? Johnny Rotten was a Floyd fan and I've heard from someone who chatted with him outside a Duran Duran concert, he admitted to liking them. Captain Sensible or someone else from the Damned was on the Amazon.com artists section talking of how he liked the first King Crimson album and elsewhere he said he liked the Moody Blues. They called punk 'back to basics' but if you had that kind of approach what innovation would you ever have? I'm glad that punk existed, it's something else to listen to, but they had this attitude where they would have gladly done away with everything that had been achieved from Zappa, Beatles etc... a three chord Ramones or Chuck Berry song can only hold my interest for ... actually it doesn't 'interest' me much. I like melody and evidence of song writing, not fuzz guitars played within a 3 minute song span, I think punk was a music journalist phenomenon, they constantly have to drum up its impoitance for it to survive, because the music doesn't sell itself. Ironically these are the pretentious people, because they have to come up with the 'less is more' maxim all the time. Anytime people devote something to their craft, without trying to turn it into some kind of philosophy (punk, U2, REM, Radiohead) they say it's either pretentious (prog rock) or shallow (Duran Duran, Van Halen). And if punk blew away everything ... look at the bands that were the anti-thesis of punk, that started in 78: Van Halen, Dire Straits, Police, Kate Bush. Floyd were yet to release the Wall. Disco was huge. The same thing happened with grunge. They were trying to whitewash history as it happened. Nirvana were mainstream right? Well then let's judge them by mainstream standards. It was Pearl Jam that swept all the awards back at the 91 Grammy's and they were played a LOT more than Nirvana on Mtv, But now they would have you believe Kurt is the biggest thing of the 90s just like REM is now somehow the poster band of the 80s. I clearly remember that GN'R and Metallica absolutely dominated the airwaves along with PJ, so exactly how was grunge dominant then? Pearl Jam wasn't grunge. We always hear how grunge killed hair metal? But who were the other big bands from then? Def Leppard were HUGE, No.1's, airplay etc.. and so was Bon Jovi. Van Halen had a No.1 album on the billboards in 1995; I thought hair metal was dead? If Poison was a joke (they are) how come Every Rose is still a well known number? Motley Crue went to the top five in 1997.The way I remember it, the legend of Nirvana just exploded after Kurt killed himself. The constant behind the music specials made everyone think there was nothing in the 80s till kurt came alone and set it right and went wrong when he died. Well hair metal was around before Kurt and in some ways outlived him - it was only the record company fickleness that killed them. But not entirely, because the fanbase is still around. We just don't have any good albums to buy. Another thing. Rock didn't need grunge to remedy things. Groups like Skid Row and Motley Crue were already going in a different direction, towards more heaviness. Pantera were topping the charts without comprising themselves. All this was done without grunge, only it was ignored by the media. So Nirvana 'achieved' very little, These are just tales spun by the media because it sounds romantic, ooh punk blew away that and grunge did this. And America deposed Saddam and the Iraqi's cried with joy. :rolleyes:I wasn't around for punk but I know for myself that things were not as its portrayed.
  10. A few more details if anyone's reading. I like the more noodling era of Floyd, post Barrett - Animals era. Maiden - More of a Dianno and Blaze era fan. Halen - Roth almost entirely I'd also add old school thrash (Slayer, Testament) alongside the melodic Blind Guardian. I'm also totally sick of seeing Beatles/Zep gracing magazine covers and hearing about the 'importance' of punk music and Nirvana. Can't stand the UK music press.
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