comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
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comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 6 minutes ago
Bowie
Morrissey
Amy Winehouse
Adele
PJ Harvey
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You don't like the Beatles but you like PJ Harvey???
Says a lot that.
Definitely not a scouser are you?
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I was born in Liverpool but I certainly wouldn’t say I was a scouser, no. Not sure what that has to do with it though, you’d have to be a bit of a partisan moro… ahhhh. Okay.
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She sounds like a bag of cats being drowned in a lake. And she's an absolute fruitcake too.
Watched 10 mins of her at Glasto many many moons ago and had to walk away. It was absolutely awful.
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 34 minutes ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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No real interest in them myself. Good at what they did but have that boy band look about them
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 9 minutes ago
Elton
Bowie
Rod
McCartney
Lennon
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I wouldn't rate Lennon's or McCartney's solo careers that highly. Also: not all of their post-Beatles work was entirely 'solo' was it? McCartney released a lot with Wings; Lennon had Yoko Ono as co-credit for some of his material. All of this without mentioning the Frog Chorus.
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You mentioned it though
George Michael, Clapton, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey, Adele, Annie Lennox, Phil Collins, Amy Winehouse are some other shouts
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Annie Lennox is one of the best singers from the 20th century. Not my type of music but what a voice
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
She sounds like a bag of cats being drowned in a lake. And she's an absolute fruitcake too.
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Artists are famously mild-mannered, stable and conventional in how they present themselves, aren't they?
I don't like all of her work but it's always inventive, never boring or formulaic. Don't know how much you've listened to outside of the Glastonbury performance that you didn't get along with. 'Let England Shake' is an incredible album and good starting point.
Also wanna add in some Kate Bush love. Absolute genius.
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posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Robb #456 (U22716)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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I can’t speak for anyone else but have been obsessed by them since I was a kid. The journey they went on musically in just 8 years and the consistent quality for me will never be surpassed. I don’t mean as musicians as I’m sure there are far better technical ones out there but for what they achieved and how much they influenced what was to come is hard to equal.
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I often feel like I ought to like them more than I do. Not in a 'we're supposed to revere them' way but because so many of their songs are objectively great: they were able to do clever and original things again and again without losing the direct emotional punch of a pop song. I think maybe it comes down to over-familiarity. Most music loses impact when you've heard it too many times, and nothing is more inescapable than the Beatles if you're a certain age. These days I tend to find their more obscure tracks have more impact on me.
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Didn't realize the Beatles had any obscure songs.😄
Waited for every Beatles album to come out since their first and their progression as a band in such a short time is unmatched.
Music has always been a big part of my life and I've seen hundreds of the biggest and best and not so big bands live.
From the Animals to Zappa.
I come back to the Beatles every year or so and remind myself they really are that great.
Not really any other band can match the quality. They broke up nearly 60 years ago and don't sound dated like some bands that were out more recently.
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
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Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
Is anyone actually offended by the discussion? I find it interesting to read why people like/dislike certain things.
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Islington Spur (U18857)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 9 minutes ago
Elton
Bowie
Rod
McCartney
Lennon
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I wouldn't rate Lennon's or McCartney's solo careers that highly. Also: not all of their post-Beatles work was entirely 'solo' was it? McCartney released a lot with Wings; Lennon had Yoko Ono as co-credit for some of his material. All of this without mentioning the Frog Chorus.
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Maybe I'm Amazed
Live and Let Die
Two incredible tracks from maccas solo career. Check out albums Magic Pie and Ram some really cool stuff.
There's a song called UncleAlbert/ Admiral Halsey on Ram. Beautiful song
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I acknowledge I need to listen to more of his solo stuff before I dismiss it. Just looked up the titles you mentioned and can't see any reference to 'Magic Pie'. Do you mean 'Flaming Pie'?
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Apologies. Yes Flaming Pie 🥧
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
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Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
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I could tell you where I was and what I was doing the very first time I head Nevermind. My eldest brother ran into my room with a battered c90 cassette, sellotape over the ends and popped it into my ghetto blaster (probably can’t call it that now) and my word.
In fact the word would be ‘frisson’ because it physically affected me.
Not had that too many times (Metallica would be another), and a special moment for a 11 year old. No-one had made music like that before. Amazing.
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
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I could tell you where I was and what I was doing the very first time I head Nevermind. My eldest brother ran into my room with a battered c90 cassette, sellotape over the ends and popped it into my ghetto blaster (probably can’t call it that now) and my word.
In fact the word would be ‘frisson’ because it physically affected me.
Not had that too many times (Metallica would be another), and a special moment for a 11 year old. No-one had made music like that before. Amazing.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In late 1991 these albums all came out within 44 days of each other …
Soundgarden - BadMotorFinger
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik
Pearl Jam - Ten
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Black Album
Never before or since has there ever been that much quality release so close together
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Slack Alice: Amorimmers Are Anti United (U9489)
posted 3 minutes ago
Why do The Stone Roses always enter conversations like these?
They had 1 quality album and that’s it. Their second album was poorly received and they’re notoriously shiyte live.
Also haven’t released an album for about 30 year!
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That album might be one of the best British albums ever made. That's why.
When I think of what music represents town best it's not Oasis, or the Mondays, New Order or The Smiths. It's the opening few bars or Adored, Waterfall, Resurrection, Sally Cinnamon etc. Always has been and always will be.
Second Coming was a very good album too as a stand alone piece of work. The reason it suffered was because the one that came before it was perfect and it was never going to live up that I'm afraid.
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Overated album, very good but nowhere near perfect
The Word and Eurotrash opened my eyes to a world that was different to the generic plaid Bournemouth I grew up in.
The Clash
The Beat
UB40
The Specials
Burning Spear
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’... (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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The Beatles are the best at what they did and always will be. Hard to put them in a box because they covered practically every modern music genre other than House or reggae
Massive Attack
Bee Gees
Chas & Dave
Rolling Stones
Soul II Soul
Worldwide no-one gets close to Parliament/Funkadelic in terms of musicians and songwriting. Eddie Hazel>Jimi Hendrix
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 minute ago
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
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Probably nostalgia but I feel that as music was less accessible it then more special back then. You really had to go out of your way to acquire it. Saving up money and buying something physical seemed more of an event, you really had to go out of your way to get it.
One of your mates would get a copy of a bootleg that you’d never heard and you’d all go round to listen to it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love being able to get whatever I want, immediately, now but there’s certainly less mystique as a result.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’... (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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The Beatles are the best at what they did and always will be. Hard to put them in a box because they covered practically every modern music genre other than House or reggae
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It just doesn’t move me, at all.
There are a lot of people who like Coldplay and Snow Patrol too, which is something I just don’t get, although I think they probably cry after cex.
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 8 minutes ago
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
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I'm a bit older. So it was the first time hearing "The Prophets Song" by Queen for me. Just jaw dropping.
But there's good music in every era. We've got The Last Dinner Party these days. And English Teacher. To name but two.
With the Beatles you have to go through about 30 crap songs to find one good one. A lot of their stuff is on par with Steps and B*witched for pure cheese.
Good songs with lyrics about the emotions of been teenagers in them especially evoke strong emotions amongst the teenagers of the time.
Smells Like Teen Spirit in the early 90s is a great example. As was like Teenage Kicks in the 70s post punk New Wave.
A bit Alan Partridge perhaps but my earliest memory of being blown away by music was the intro to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Listened to that over and over again. Then weirdly, the next time was when NWA arrived on the scene and we at school traded tapes of their music and couldn’t believe the bad language and felt like the biggest rebels ever. I’m sure kids these days learn the worst swear words in kindergarten and smoke vapes aged 3.
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posted on 3/3/25
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 6 minutes ago
Bowie
Morrissey
Amy Winehouse
Adele
PJ Harvey
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You don't like the Beatles but you like PJ Harvey???
Says a lot that.
Definitely not a scouser are you?
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I was born in Liverpool but I certainly wouldn’t say I was a scouser, no. Not sure what that has to do with it though, you’d have to be a bit of a partisan moro… ahhhh. Okay.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
She sounds like a bag of cats being drowned in a lake. And she's an absolute fruitcake too.
Watched 10 mins of her at Glasto many many moons ago and had to walk away. It was absolutely awful.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 34 minutes ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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No real interest in them myself. Good at what they did but have that boy band look about them
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 9 minutes ago
Elton
Bowie
Rod
McCartney
Lennon
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I wouldn't rate Lennon's or McCartney's solo careers that highly. Also: not all of their post-Beatles work was entirely 'solo' was it? McCartney released a lot with Wings; Lennon had Yoko Ono as co-credit for some of his material. All of this without mentioning the Frog Chorus.
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You mentioned it though
George Michael, Clapton, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey, Adele, Annie Lennox, Phil Collins, Amy Winehouse are some other shouts
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Annie Lennox is one of the best singers from the 20th century. Not my type of music but what a voice
posted on 3/3/25
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
posted on 3/3/25
She sounds like a bag of cats being drowned in a lake. And she's an absolute fruitcake too.
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Artists are famously mild-mannered, stable and conventional in how they present themselves, aren't they?
I don't like all of her work but it's always inventive, never boring or formulaic. Don't know how much you've listened to outside of the Glastonbury performance that you didn't get along with. 'Let England Shake' is an incredible album and good starting point.
posted on 3/3/25
Also wanna add in some Kate Bush love. Absolute genius.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Robb #456 (U22716)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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I can’t speak for anyone else but have been obsessed by them since I was a kid. The journey they went on musically in just 8 years and the consistent quality for me will never be surpassed. I don’t mean as musicians as I’m sure there are far better technical ones out there but for what they achieved and how much they influenced what was to come is hard to equal.
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I often feel like I ought to like them more than I do. Not in a 'we're supposed to revere them' way but because so many of their songs are objectively great: they were able to do clever and original things again and again without losing the direct emotional punch of a pop song. I think maybe it comes down to over-familiarity. Most music loses impact when you've heard it too many times, and nothing is more inescapable than the Beatles if you're a certain age. These days I tend to find their more obscure tracks have more impact on me.
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Didn't realize the Beatles had any obscure songs.😄
Waited for every Beatles album to come out since their first and their progression as a band in such a short time is unmatched.
Music has always been a big part of my life and I've seen hundreds of the biggest and best and not so big bands live.
From the Animals to Zappa.
I come back to the Beatles every year or so and remind myself they really are that great.
Not really any other band can match the quality. They broke up nearly 60 years ago and don't sound dated like some bands that were out more recently.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
posted on 3/3/25
Is anyone actually offended by the discussion? I find it interesting to read why people like/dislike certain things.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Islington Spur (U18857)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 9 minutes ago
Elton
Bowie
Rod
McCartney
Lennon
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I wouldn't rate Lennon's or McCartney's solo careers that highly. Also: not all of their post-Beatles work was entirely 'solo' was it? McCartney released a lot with Wings; Lennon had Yoko Ono as co-credit for some of his material. All of this without mentioning the Frog Chorus.
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Maybe I'm Amazed
Live and Let Die
Two incredible tracks from maccas solo career. Check out albums Magic Pie and Ram some really cool stuff.
There's a song called UncleAlbert/ Admiral Halsey on Ram. Beautiful song
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I acknowledge I need to listen to more of his solo stuff before I dismiss it. Just looked up the titles you mentioned and can't see any reference to 'Magic Pie'. Do you mean 'Flaming Pie'?
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Apologies. Yes Flaming Pie 🥧
posted on 3/3/25
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
posted on 3/3/25
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I could tell you where I was and what I was doing the very first time I head Nevermind. My eldest brother ran into my room with a battered c90 cassette, sellotape over the ends and popped it into my ghetto blaster (probably can’t call it that now) and my word.
In fact the word would be ‘frisson’ because it physically affected me.
Not had that too many times (Metallica would be another), and a special moment for a 11 year old. No-one had made music like that before. Amazing.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’t like woke (U6374)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 14 minutes ago
Facking hell this thread.
Your favourite 5 bands/artists are YOUR favourite 5. Probably picked from YOUR teenage and growing up years evoking YOUR memories of good times, being young and carefree larging it up in your home town.
They are really unlikely to be neccessarily, everybody elses favourite top 5. So why pisss on their chips and be offended when somebody pisssses on yours.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with the sentiment - people can get very 'snobby' when it comes to music, films etc. If it's what you like, it's what you like
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Im quite interested to see what bands/artists regular posters on here choose actually and what era they hail from. For example it seems to me the 1990s was an important decade for popular music and culture for many on here (which is compeletely different to someone like me for example) and I am interested to hear how it affected and shaped them. Im not really interetsed to hear them slag of others though who dont agree with them that 'their time was the best ever' and that ' compared to mine your choices are crap'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I could tell you where I was and what I was doing the very first time I head Nevermind. My eldest brother ran into my room with a battered c90 cassette, sellotape over the ends and popped it into my ghetto blaster (probably can’t call it that now) and my word.
In fact the word would be ‘frisson’ because it physically affected me.
Not had that too many times (Metallica would be another), and a special moment for a 11 year old. No-one had made music like that before. Amazing.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In late 1991 these albums all came out within 44 days of each other …
Soundgarden - BadMotorFinger
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik
Pearl Jam - Ten
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Black Album
Never before or since has there ever been that much quality release so close together
posted on 3/3/25
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Slack Alice: Amorimmers Are Anti United (U9489)
posted 3 minutes ago
Why do The Stone Roses always enter conversations like these?
They had 1 quality album and that’s it. Their second album was poorly received and they’re notoriously shiyte live.
Also haven’t released an album for about 30 year!
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That album might be one of the best British albums ever made. That's why.
When I think of what music represents town best it's not Oasis, or the Mondays, New Order or The Smiths. It's the opening few bars or Adored, Waterfall, Resurrection, Sally Cinnamon etc. Always has been and always will be.
Second Coming was a very good album too as a stand alone piece of work. The reason it suffered was because the one that came before it was perfect and it was never going to live up that I'm afraid.
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Overated album, very good but nowhere near perfect
posted on 3/3/25
The Word and Eurotrash opened my eyes to a world that was different to the generic plaid Bournemouth I grew up in.
posted on 3/3/25
The Clash
The Beat
UB40
The Specials
Burning Spear
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’... (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Beatles are the best at what they did and always will be. Hard to put them in a box because they covered practically every modern music genre other than House or reggae
posted on 3/3/25
Massive Attack
Bee Gees
Chas & Dave
Rolling Stones
Soul II Soul
Worldwide no-one gets close to Parliament/Funkadelic in terms of musicians and songwriting. Eddie Hazel>Jimi Hendrix
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 minute ago
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
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Probably nostalgia but I feel that as music was less accessible it then more special back then. You really had to go out of your way to acquire it. Saving up money and buying something physical seemed more of an event, you really had to go out of your way to get it.
One of your mates would get a copy of a bootleg that you’d never heard and you’d all go round to listen to it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love being able to get whatever I want, immediately, now but there’s certainly less mystique as a result.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
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comment by Robbing Hoody - I call everything I don’... (U6374)
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I’m convinced that there are a great many people who lie to themselves about really liking The Beatles, let alone the solo stuff.
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The Beatles are the best at what they did and always will be. Hard to put them in a box because they covered practically every modern music genre other than House or reggae
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It just doesn’t move me, at all.
There are a lot of people who like Coldplay and Snow Patrol too, which is something I just don’t get, although I think they probably cry after cex.
posted on 3/3/25
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 8 minutes ago
Robbing, my experience of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was similar to what you describe. For me it was when Nirvana appeared on The Word with Terry Christian.
I guess teen years are the optimal time for that feeling. Inexperienced enough that you can't hear all the influences a song is building on. Mature enough that you want to hear unfamiliar sounds.
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I'm a bit older. So it was the first time hearing "The Prophets Song" by Queen for me. Just jaw dropping.
But there's good music in every era. We've got The Last Dinner Party these days. And English Teacher. To name but two.
posted on 3/3/25
With the Beatles you have to go through about 30 crap songs to find one good one. A lot of their stuff is on par with Steps and B*witched for pure cheese.
posted on 3/3/25
Good songs with lyrics about the emotions of been teenagers in them especially evoke strong emotions amongst the teenagers of the time.
Smells Like Teen Spirit in the early 90s is a great example. As was like Teenage Kicks in the 70s post punk New Wave.
posted on 3/3/25
A bit Alan Partridge perhaps but my earliest memory of being blown away by music was the intro to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Listened to that over and over again. Then weirdly, the next time was when NWA arrived on the scene and we at school traded tapes of their music and couldn’t believe the bad language and felt like the biggest rebels ever. I’m sure kids these days learn the worst swear words in kindergarten and smoke vapes aged 3.
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