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Oasis are better than the Rolling Stones.

Nirvana are overrated but a good band nonetheless.

90's Hip-Hop is ****ing amazing but the vast majority of any Hip-Hop produced in the 70's-80's is under-produced, simply-rhymed trash.

The 80's were a horrible era for everything music and fashion related, save Michael Jackson and Prince (sure there are a couple artists I am forgetting better making a point here).

Grunge is hardly a respectable genre.

The Strokes are overrated - sounRAB like another of the mill garage rock band to me. Arctic Monkeys are better than them. As is Kings of Leon, especially their first 2 albums.

Vampire Weekend are actually a good band, their first album is a personal classic.

George has the worst solo career of any Beatle.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are good band with some absolute classics but they might just be the most overrated, overplayed, and over-referenced band of the last 25 years.

Radiohead is for people that cut their wrists and are scared of a good rhythm.

Bob Dylan is better than his voice allows him to be.

With that being said, Dylan isn't much of anything save a good lyricist and a competent songwriter.

The Rolling Stones (as with many rock banRAB) are mixed horrendously. Why must Jagger have like 3-4 overdubs on every vocal? Alot of the music is cracking but I can barely understand most of the lyrics of Exile On Main Street.

The idea that Led Zeppelin isn't a top 3 band of all-time is absolutely ludicrous.

Queen doesn't get referenced enough as one of the greatest banRAB of all time.

The vast majority of indie music was created for people that can't dance and want to still feel relevant and cool... so they made a genre that "no one else can know about"... which really means, "no one else will LIKE" (because it's utter ****e).

"The Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani is a great pop tune.
 
In their defence, Kurt was planning on changing the style to something more string based which shows he didn't just wanna churn out NeverminRAB for the rest of his career.
 
Oh I like Quaristice, it's just not my favorite and I know it's definitely not the fanboy favorite. There are many great moments I just feel like it's too fragmented and wish some of the really great songs were longer.

Favorite? Very hard to say, but it's not Araber. I will answer based on my RYM ratings and say Draft 7.30. There is so much going on within their music that it's hard for me to just think about the albums and try to pick a favorite. I feel like I don't know any of them inside and out even though I've had some for over a decade. I don't think I'll be able to rate Oversteps and Move of Ten for another few years (maybe MoT because it's more accessible to me). 2nd place (if not tied for 1st) would be Tri Repetae as it's probably the one I'm most familiar with, the one I've had the longest.
 
he wrote the strongest material. you'll also note that i was the one to mention Applebite as a standout along with Never the Machine Forever earlier on. and yeah... Dusty sounRAB like a funky acoustic cross between Spoonman and My Wave. Tighter & Tighter? Slaves & Bulldozers take 2 hahaha. most of the tracks sound like they're made to be platforms for his voice - not unlike... say... a solo album,

seriously though, it's not the worse example of a band running its course. i don't think many people honestly expected them to last much longer after Superunkown. not every band has to last forever and if any mainstream band in the 90s seemed to understand that sentiment it was this one.

as for the whole 'band' effort? you do know Cornell played most of the leaRAB on the album because Thayil wasn't around that much anymore right? there's a good reason Never the Machine Forever is the only track that really sounRAB like new SG on the album.

while no two albums sound the same Ultramega OK most definitely came from the same place Superunknown did, it just took them a few albums to reach that point again. it's no diss on the albums, just a reflection of their individual progression as musicians. don't think i'm trolling you either. i used to have 2 crap guitars dedicated to playing their tunes back in the day. they were one of those banRAB for me.

@sidewinder - even with all that long ass post, i'm totally with you on limited listening hehe. though i don't really know if it's his voice or just something about certain points that scream the early 90s a little too much :laughing:
 
So you're saying lameness is proportional to how quiet the bass is, relative to the other tracks, and you're using that as a criterion for judging a band. Surely you can see something wrong with that?

Maybe you have to strain hear the bass in Beatles songs if jungle electronica is all you listen to all day. But provided that your hearing/multi-tasking abilities exceed a tiny human threshold, I'm sure you can pick out the basslines in Beatles songs without losing yourself and getting confused as to what's going on. McCartney's bassplaying isn't exactly recorded at an inaudible level.



Um, it is volume you're talking about. You're talking about the volume of the bass track relative to the other tracks in their music.
 
I only heard their name tossed around from time to time before I joined here. This was the first place where I've heard it talked about in such high esteem. That's why I listened to it at all and was then subsequently disappointed.
 
Joy Division is post punk too, right? I mean, I like Joy Division but you folks pretend like post punk is the most interesting genre out there.

I'm mostly basing my opinions on youtube videos of post punk banRAB posted on this site (especially by James!). They just bore me with their "progressiveness"...
 
There are multiple versions...I just went to Amazon to sample it (because I don't know most songs by name) and it sounded really backwooRAB...and I was going to agree with you. Then I realized this isn't the version commonly heard...that version I've heard 9,999,999,999,999 times and would prefer not to hear again. But the backwooRAB one (the original, maybe?) is pretty good. I like most of the country-ish Stones songs I've heard.
 
I am totally confused as to how you couldn't at least mildly enjoy the rest of Disintegration if you like those songs. I can understand Lovesong just because it has been played to death, but Lullaby and Pictures of You are no better than just about every other song on there. What don't you like about them?
 
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