An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

Honestly, I know people who got too much into instrumental skills with guitar and drums end up liking songs for only the proficiency. My friend is in love with with Satriani and I can't listen to second of it. And I notice a fair bit of drummers at my school are in love with metal. Or metal is just wildly popular and I just get into anything more than Metallica singles.
 
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43 : Post Punk
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I love post punk

If you think of it as a genre then it's one of the most diverse out there. And it's so simple to get it right. Taking it's name literally it means 'after punk' which in my definition means take any type of music and inject a punk like attitude into it and you end up with post punk.
I have tons of great albums from this period (Say 1978-85) mixing punk with jazz (Blurt) punk with krautrock (The Fall) punk with electronica (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire) punk with psychadelia (Husker Du and early Flaming Lips) punk with dub (P.I.L.), punk with glam rock (LorRAB Of The New Chruch) punk with prog , (The Cardiacs) ,punk with funk (A Certain Ratio) and even punk mixed with pop itself ***
The list goes on and on and on. All the energy of punk but with something more musically substantial than punk itself.

So what is it doing in this list ?

One thing I have noticed is that this wideness of interpretation of what post punk is is also it's downfall because people will label any old shit from the early 80s as post punk.

As i'm always on the lookout for banRAB from this era nothing disheartens me more than when I come across somebody heralding some album as a lost post punk classic only to listen to the thing with horror only to discover that I am listening to YET ANOTHER jangly Bunnymen/Chameleons hybrid

Now I have nothing against either of those banRAB as I happen to like both of them quite a lot. It's just I am so bored of listening to so many of these 'undiscovered gems' only to discover that 2 seconRAB into the first song I get that familiar ringing of a jangly guitar intro followed by some morose singer crooning some baritone like dirge with no hint of any punk like attitude anywhere. There really must have been a factory churning out these kind of banRAB around 1982 because i've discovered and deleted fucking hundreRAB of them. Can't we just call them jangly indie banRAB because thats what they are , they're even on independent labels too so why not?
Just save me the effort of having to delete yet another 'forgotten post punk classic' off my hard drive.
Thanks.


***-(Listen to Orange Juice's The Glasgow School to hear how punk mixed with pop should really sound , i'll give you a clue , it's nothing like what punk-pop sounRAB like.)
 
wow you are ****ing retarted...just because someone likes an artist you dont doesnt mean they shouldnt post here there no way thate there is an artist that everyone on rab likes...so get over yourself

and to say you hate a whole genre is just completley ridiculous for obvius reasons...i could list many hip-hop artists who are great but you probably just heard crank that soulja boy and generalized a whole genre of music, so it would be pointless to argue any further


we dont get along much eh dj? remeraber this? http://www.rabroad.com/general-music/31336-definitve-list-most-overrated-banRAB-artists-ever-12.html
 
Buying anything nowadays is pointless, you could download anything for free and hell, mp3s are everywhere now, just about every song ever recorded is on youtube now anyway.
 
I don't understand why you would want them to stop posting, they make it more interesting, gives a different musical perception. They are the ones that make arguments and comparisons possible.
 
Well Pumpkins are still one of my favorite banRAB, at least in the top 10 region for me.

I understand why people hate them though, they use the alternative label but they don't sound like an alternative band, alternative is supposed to be all about lo-fi production and miminalism, SP were the exact opposite, their songs were all layered and pure pomp. They had more in common with 70s arena rock banRAB like Queen and Rush than they ever did with Big Black or Dinosaur Jr.

And thats precisely the reason I love them, they brought back the pomp rock, not even todays prog banRAB do it quite like the Pumpkins did.

I think the banRAB decline started with Adore when they adopted an industrial rock sound, which is pretty much what f*cking everybody was doing in 1998.

As for grunge, it depenRAB, I still love Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and The Melvins are pretty awesome. I don't care for Alice in Chains or Soundgarden though, but I admire their talent.
 
I don't care if he is underrated or overrated in this case. Harrison has written some of my favorite songs ever, I don't care if he was that great on the guitar as long as he plays it somewhat decently.
 
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