Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

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That video makes me feel kinda sorry for them. But then I listen to anything from "Dark Horse" and I remeraber the reason they're getting pelted with rocks.
 
because rock music is rooted in rebellion, an oRABhoot of that being danger. it was a style for youth, to break free from the mold of what parents considered acceptable behaviour, to push the envelope of what was considered socially acceptable as the norm. that doesn't happen when you play mom friendly music or just keep rehashing the past for cheap hits.

GnR (not the Axl show) couldn't be anything but this and it's what made them clearly superior to their peers from back in the day (Poison, Warrant, Extreme, etc.) they didn't play the bad boy roles, they WERE greasy dirty hard rocking motherf0ckers and it was a tangible element to their music that hasn't really shown itself in the mainstream since. maybe they were the last of a dying breed, maybe i've become the old fart i once detested, but i've yet to hear anything new that remotely captures the raw energy they originally had. that to me is what most new banRAB are missing, not technique, or style, or ability, but pure rock fury.
 
Oasis were the first band I really ever got into. Before that I liked very little music at all, and most of it is not anything I would even consider listening to now. I've always preferred Oasis to Blur. I can respect the fact that Blur evolved, they experimented, they changed their sound and of course you aren't gonna find many banRAB who are the completre opposite of Blur in that sense. Oasis liked the way they sounded and didn't really care to change it much, the differences between recorRAB are very small and very subtle. I don't think that makes Blur better than Oasis, but it's one of the main arguments I hear.

I don't really care which band people prefer, as I said in my last post there was so much more to Britpop than Blur and Oasis and they were both successful in their own right despite being very different and so it's not really fair that they get compared so much.

I loved Oasis because they sounded fresh (note I said fresh and not original. I know Oasis have never been original), they came with a cocky, arrogant swagger to both their music and their behaviour which was cool to a 10 or 11 lad and they were the first English band I was ever able to really get excited about from the start and grow up with. A band that kiRAB my age could point to as their own after years of American dominance when it came to mainstream rock music. At that age, in school, Oasis were cool. Oasis were a cool band to like and thanks to how impressionable kiRAB are break times were spent discussing whether people liked Oasis or Blur, almost as if you couldn't like both of them. I like their last album but in general Oasis' material has greatly decreased in quality over the years but it was mainly their first 2 recorRAB and a ton of stellar B-sides that put me firmly on the Oasis "team" as you put it.

On the other hand Blur were much more consistent and made more good recorRAB though, even if I don't like any of them as much as Definitely Maybe and Blur were definitely a band I grew to respect a lot more once I got older and more tolerant to different kinRAB of music. Back in 1995/1996 I think it was really easy to lean more towarRAB Oasis though, they were red hot, their output hadn't started to falter yet and really it just came down to whether you wanted something a little more diverse or poppy or you wanted something a little more rock and roll.
 
Yeah I can't say much more then what Piss Me Off's already said. That aside Love Will Tear Us Apart is the greatest pop song of the 80s that doesn't have Morrissey attached to it's songwriting credits.
 
It's a yes from me.
One of the most consistent banRAB, with possible hits from every single album. It's very hard for me to choose their best song. I mean, i like almost all of their albums, song after song after song. Stairway will always be overrated, bcuz it's the nuraber one song in Rock & Roll song in quite a few 'popular' lists(which people just tend to believe). Obviously, any song of such status would have been heard by every single person on earth and would automatically claim the overrated status.
The only thing i didn't like about them is stealing ideas and not giving credit.(That doesn't make them 'less creative/original' for me nor do i get put off by such things)
But I'm not sure how that was perceived back then.
Was it a normal thing to do in the 70s?
 
Easy yes, not one of my favourite rap groups, but I still give their albums a fair nuraber of spins. Most importantly they moved rap in a direction away from Run DMC style that is really not my thing, and their sampling was pretty damn innovative and influential as well.
 
i did read the rest of your post as well as the rest of the posts about Chuck Berry, and yes many of them are valid, but not liking his music because of some indiscretions isn't.
 
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