'Classic' acts that you JUST DON'T GET...

[Rusco]

I agree with Shush and Ron B about Phil Collins and ELO. I would rather like Phil's progressive band like Brand X when he played drums (he was a killer drummer) than his stuff he started to make in the 80's. Electric Light Orchestra therefore is a strange band I've never been into. Like a men's falsetto choir wearing granny's flower hats and curtains. Yuck.

[Master Ray]

I know what you mean, Jimmy.  I really like Tom Waits who so rarely tours... the last time he played the UK (in not very big venues) it was £150 a ticket... 

[jimmie 8]

yes master ray some crazy prices friends went to see tom waits in edinburgh im sure they said if you bought tickets for the show you had to show id think it was to stop touts thats another pet hate of mine by the way did you say you bought the dvd local hero in asda lately was in pennan last year with my girlfriend where it was set one of the most beautiful places i have ever been and the weather was fantastic which made it even better

[Heno]

i couldn't be bothered seeing him live. i want isolation when i listen to him. there is no collective experience for me with tom waits. in fact i just wish he could play in the corner of the room when i need to be honest with myself and others.

[peternotbaldyet]

I might get hung for this, but I dislike Rush intensely. Journey, Foreigner, Reo Speedwagon, Huey bloody Lewis and Toto. There's a whole raft of classic American music that I find so pompous, overwrought and up itself, it makes me cringe.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

I might get hung for this, but I dislike Rush intensely. Journey, Foreigner, Reo Speedwagon, Huey bloody Lewis and Toto. There's a whole raft of classic American music that I find so pompous, overwrought and up itself, it makes me cringe.

Not by me you wont non bald bloke  I'll stand with ya' if the lynch mob arrive 

Agree with you entirely and can we add The awful Eagles to the list?

 

[Pol]

I will man the barricades with you Pete n Anna

[Shush]

Could we get away with adding Bruce Springsteen ? 

[Master Ray]

Could we get away with adding Bruce Springsteen ? 

Sir, you are now dead to me.

 

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Could we get away with adding Bruce Springsteen ? 

Sir, you are now dead to me.

 

Ooh...... ding dong............

Pistols at dawn Sirs

Can I be the Wench who drops the hankerchief?

 

BTW I don't think Springsteen would be in the same company as the  other bunch of indulgent egoistical noodling mother fuckers from the 99th layer of Hell - but sometimes he has displayed an ability to disappear up the bottom of his own ailimentary canal


 

[Rusco]

I might get hung for this, but I dislike Rush intensely.

I don't get shivers about Rush. Their hint of flirting with metal at the early days was quite good actually. You know Tom Sawyer, one of their classics? Here's their -81 live version of it.

Well Rush is not my big faves and I see many doesn't like Geddy Lee's voice so much. Couple of my friends are really into them. What I like in their stuff it's the rare "proggy meets metal" type of things. (I'm a LOT into early technical thrash metal bands that explored progressive side even further within the thrash genre.) 

[Master Ray]

Well, I'm not going to get into a 'pistols at dawn' scenario with Shush...  I've met the dude...


Springsteen is like Bowie... most folks remember him most for his most successful / least interesting period in the 80's... and like Bowie, his best stuff was in the 70's, but there's some damn good stuff in the last 20 years...

 

[Master Ray]

OK, I think that others have said that they ain't fond of Pink Floyd... I waver on that issue, depending on what album they're talking about... 

But this cult of Syd Barrett?  Some legendary lost genius?  Shit, you ever listen to his solo stuff?

Jeez, that's a 'just say no' scenario if ever there was one...

[rick a.]

Fun topic. Always a god time trashing the establishment!

Totally over-rated bands:
Led Zep.....had the best pr firm in music history. End of discussion.
Who.....some great singles, maybe one album that's listenable all the way through
Stones......should have retired after Mick Taylor left, didn't......
Pink floyd....One great album, Meddle...then just rewrites for the rest of their career
Grateful Dead...ugh

That will take care of the 60's.....70's up next

I'll have to give this some thought because I never listen to "classic rock" radio,ever.

[Intothewind]

I seem to like all these bands  but I have quite a wide taste in music...