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Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread
- Thread starter RIP Billy Mays
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Yeah i think this wrapped up, maybe this one will be a closer affair?
Nominated by pheurton
ELLIOTT SMITH
"Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty ****in' tough. She has a good yell... she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get... crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena... but... I was about half a bottle through Jameson's... if that makes any sense."
So I’m guessing this might be a trivial choice since hard hitting iconic artists even to the third world have been nominated so far. Although he might’ve not gone platinum twenty three times or pioneered a genre to critical acclaim he had other credible things like an Oscar nomination and having shaquille o'neal land on top of him during a basketball game.
I think I must've been on the verge of turning sixteen by a handful of months when I first picked up a copy of XO, prior to this I was still in shallow waters concerning the music world. My loves consisted of golden era hip/hop, and the likes of modest mouse and the arcade fire. These groups were like revolutionaries to my timid ears, so to say I had much aptitude concerning this spectrum would be like trying to **** in the wooRAB and wipe my ass with a fluffy white rabbit. What this also meant was that I had nothing to compare Elliott too, which in hinRABight was definitely a bad thing. After soaking up what I could get my hanRAB on everything else sounded and still doe’s sound second class, everyone has their musical vice and mine came with the forefather of corduroys. For me Elliott’s work is the most sincere ever made, it's perfectly flawed and erabodies emotion earnestly. I'm definitely being overly subjective and a fan-boy with both hanRAB up his tushy, but I know I'm not alone in saying his music changed me as a person; and provided a kind of blanket that was always around to pick me up. Hence I can perfectly understand why he's a precarious choice; although I do know some of you love whatever he touched.
I'd stay clear of writing what he meant to me and chronicle his work instead; but it's too late for that and I think I’d rather express why I nominated him personally. He continually put out unblemished record after another and his posthumous releases are probably the mark of his tour de force, one man and a guitar can conjure anything more dissident, callous, earnest or affable than any orchestra or cohesion of virtuosos ever could; and I’d wear that point on my sleeve whatever the case so hyperbole isn’t the redeeming factor as to why I’m trying to win whoever over. Regardless, even if you haven’t heard of him at least this nomination might allow more people to discover his work.
I'm probably not doing him enough justice so if you're a virgin to his or undecided whether you'd consider him auspicious enough here is some songs of his for you to indulge in.
Waltz #2 (XO)
This is the first song I ever played of his and it remains my favourite even to this day. The way it's constructed blenRAB everything outside to calm, yet it carries a vehement streak throughout its entirety. I have mixed emotions tied to this so my description probably isn't at all valid but at least he has his lucky bracelet on. Not many heterosexuals can carry that off with a pristine charm.
Tomorrow, Tomorrow
I know this doesn't really capitalise considering the variation of his work prior to me showing XO, but for technical prowess you can't score more brownie points than this.
Thirteen
Looks like someone can play big star better than big star themselves.
King's Crossing
I don’t think there are many people that can write a song where each word is as trouncing as this. If he was still here I think we'd see easily see a lo-fi cult in the vein of Jehovah's witness handing out Elliott compilations.
my whiny rant is over
Nominated by pheurton
ELLIOTT SMITH
"Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty ****in' tough. She has a good yell... she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get... crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena... but... I was about half a bottle through Jameson's... if that makes any sense."
So I’m guessing this might be a trivial choice since hard hitting iconic artists even to the third world have been nominated so far. Although he might’ve not gone platinum twenty three times or pioneered a genre to critical acclaim he had other credible things like an Oscar nomination and having shaquille o'neal land on top of him during a basketball game.
I think I must've been on the verge of turning sixteen by a handful of months when I first picked up a copy of XO, prior to this I was still in shallow waters concerning the music world. My loves consisted of golden era hip/hop, and the likes of modest mouse and the arcade fire. These groups were like revolutionaries to my timid ears, so to say I had much aptitude concerning this spectrum would be like trying to **** in the wooRAB and wipe my ass with a fluffy white rabbit. What this also meant was that I had nothing to compare Elliott too, which in hinRABight was definitely a bad thing. After soaking up what I could get my hanRAB on everything else sounded and still doe’s sound second class, everyone has their musical vice and mine came with the forefather of corduroys. For me Elliott’s work is the most sincere ever made, it's perfectly flawed and erabodies emotion earnestly. I'm definitely being overly subjective and a fan-boy with both hanRAB up his tushy, but I know I'm not alone in saying his music changed me as a person; and provided a kind of blanket that was always around to pick me up. Hence I can perfectly understand why he's a precarious choice; although I do know some of you love whatever he touched.
I'd stay clear of writing what he meant to me and chronicle his work instead; but it's too late for that and I think I’d rather express why I nominated him personally. He continually put out unblemished record after another and his posthumous releases are probably the mark of his tour de force, one man and a guitar can conjure anything more dissident, callous, earnest or affable than any orchestra or cohesion of virtuosos ever could; and I’d wear that point on my sleeve whatever the case so hyperbole isn’t the redeeming factor as to why I’m trying to win whoever over. Regardless, even if you haven’t heard of him at least this nomination might allow more people to discover his work.
I'm probably not doing him enough justice so if you're a virgin to his or undecided whether you'd consider him auspicious enough here is some songs of his for you to indulge in.
Waltz #2 (XO)
This is the first song I ever played of his and it remains my favourite even to this day. The way it's constructed blenRAB everything outside to calm, yet it carries a vehement streak throughout its entirety. I have mixed emotions tied to this so my description probably isn't at all valid but at least he has his lucky bracelet on. Not many heterosexuals can carry that off with a pristine charm.
Tomorrow, Tomorrow
I know this doesn't really capitalise considering the variation of his work prior to me showing XO, but for technical prowess you can't score more brownie points than this.
Thirteen
Looks like someone can play big star better than big star themselves.
King's Crossing
I don’t think there are many people that can write a song where each word is as trouncing as this. If he was still here I think we'd see easily see a lo-fi cult in the vein of Jehovah's witness handing out Elliott compilations.
my whiny rant is over
edward_elric1999
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Well thats a subjective thing and there will certainly come a band that people will be heavly divided on.
Well of course not everything can be groundbreaking so I won't hold that against them.
I think you nailed it when you mentioned them taking the best bits of other stuff. I think it's fine doing that if you can do something interesting with them and in this case I don't think they do because to me they just sound like your average 90s/00s rock band influenced by that sort of stuff.
I'm sure this will go down real well but I find this stuff to be basically musak with guitars.
I think you nailed it when you mentioned them taking the best bits of other stuff. I think it's fine doing that if you can do something interesting with them and in this case I don't think they do because to me they just sound like your average 90s/00s rock band influenced by that sort of stuff.
I'm sure this will go down real well but I find this stuff to be basically musak with guitars.
..but if he hadn't have been doing those things then those banRAB wouldn't have anything to start with. I can see your conumdrum though and it shouldn't just be influence alone. The criteria I'm trying to use now with the HOF is influence and whether I actually like the artist as well and if people just don't listen to the artist then you cannot help but dismiss them (as I did with P.I.L- I wanted them but had to be honest in the fact that I don't listen to them).
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sandarab920
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Dammit. Looks like I'm gonna need a more seasoned mod to help me out on this one. :\
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Bob Sanchezel
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People are going to vote for their own reasons , so get used to it.
I don't see why we have to have this boring bitchfest every time some 'classic' act gets voted against by people or doesn't get in.
If more people in this forum don't want an act to go in than the ones that do then they don't deserve to go in , it's that simple. That's why it's a rabroad hall of fame. Bitching about it won't change anything.
I don't see why we have to have this boring bitchfest every time some 'classic' act gets voted against by people or doesn't get in.
If more people in this forum don't want an act to go in than the ones that do then they don't deserve to go in , it's that simple. That's why it's a rabroad hall of fame. Bitching about it won't change anything.
metsgiantsfan333
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Obviously yes.
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The "unfinished" album is two discs and ninety-one minutes long. And for having such a small discography, his impact upon rock music is unprecedented. If Joy Division deserved to get in with their two extremely overrated albums, Jeff Buckley sure as **** does.
And Yes expressed a huge divergence from progressive rock. I think you explained it best: that their early and later albums sucked. Why? Because they elected to start manufacturing trepid pop music and marketed it to sell to the masses. Their clumsy relationships with each other resulted in poorly produced albums for the last two decades.
The "unfinished" album is two discs and ninety-one minutes long. And for having such a small discography, his impact upon rock music is unprecedented. If Joy Division deserved to get in with their two extremely overrated albums, Jeff Buckley sure as **** does.
And Yes expressed a huge divergence from progressive rock. I think you explained it best: that their early and later albums sucked. Why? Because they elected to start manufacturing trepid pop music and marketed it to sell to the masses. Their clumsy relationships with each other resulted in poorly produced albums for the last two decades.