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I like all of the banRAB you've mentioned (aside from Kings of Leon). Although I only know most of them from the radio (Foo Fighters I've heard their greatest hits, and I've heard U2's last album, and their both good, but aside from that.)

I have to say once you put MUSE in there? I cannot describe (I could but it would be a long paragraph) how I felt when I was first getting into music, and Black Holes and Revalations was one of my first albums. It doesn't hit me anywhere NEAR as hard as it did (probably because I've heard it about 100times by now), but it was breathtaking. Hullaballoo Soundtrack is pretty awesome too (though not at BHaR's level). Hell, even the new album (which, I agree, really is boring) has Exogenesis.

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If this strikes you as generic and boring, I dunno what won't.
 
I hate arguing over music genres, and yet in a striking sense of irony, it's really the only thing I ever argue about on this forum.

Once someone lures me in, I can't help but take the bait.
 
I tend to agree...a lot of the appeal that Soundgarden had for me were Kim Thayil's dragged-in-the-mud Sabbath riRAB and they were all but absent in everything but a few songs on DOTU. That being said, I still enjoyed a lot of the album once you get over that stuff. I usually reach for Badmotorfinger anyway...best album hanRAB down.

Speaking of Soundgarden, has anyone been keeping up with their "reunion"? I haven't had the time or interest to actually keep up with it.



Hmm...almost. The songwriting on Machina II was by far his peak. "Slow Dawn", "Vanity", "Speed Kills", "Real Love", "Let Me Give the World to You"...the list goes on and on. Even the hard rockers on that one like "Glass" or my personal favorite "Dross" are just plain awesome. It is beyond me why he didn't release those songs on "Machina"...that album would have been a sure fire hit.
 
Yeah, Vitalogy definitely isn't as good as Ten or Vs., but it's still a great album.

I think Yield is a step down from Vitalogy and No Code, but it still has several really good songs. "Given to Fly", "In Hiding", "Brain of J.", "Wishlist", and "MFC" to name a couple. Far from a bad album, but definitely not their best.
 
I hate U2 since around 2000... before that they were awesome... then they backtracked big time and made boring music like 90% of All You Can't Leave Behind... the next album was terrible, and No line on the Horizon has some promise, yet it somehow still falls short of expectations...

"I'll just go crazy if I don't crazy tonight"... what kind of lyric is that? Why doesn't he just declare "I'm going to go crazy" and spare us the convoluted english language mangling...
 
When you simply call someone not good, you shouldn't be expecting people who disagree with you to back up their claims, you should be doing it yourself.

Dimebag was an incredibly good guitarist regardless of what you think of his music.
 
Who did they rip off? Just don't disappoint me with your answer.

One time I asked a guy who The Clash were a ripoff of and he listed like 50 popular artists of various genres who have absolutely nothing in common and never influenced one band in such a way before. I hate it when people don't know what an influence is.

So assuming you are right and Sublime rips off everyone. If they ripped off everyone they would be a pretty diverse band wouldn't you say? I don't see how a band with very diverse influences could be that unoriginal. To be truly unoriginal is to rip off just one band and that's it.
 
I can't believe you. :laughing:

I made a very strong claim. And the best you got is bringing up his personal life and appearance? Thats not at all relevant to his music. Oh and he has a high voice. OMG GHEY.
 
Are you really claiming that anything *genuinely* new is being done? Perhaps in a very few isolated cases, yes, but the overwhelming majority of stuff I've encountered (as I was into prog prior to seeing the light and realizing that most stuff of any genuine worth was in "indie") have clearly been pretty banal and unremarkable reworkings of 70s music (e.g. most of Porcupine Tree, Phideaux Xavier etc). It is no wonder much of it receives such painfully little attention given how unadventurous and derivative it is in reality.

I will check out the archives, anyway, and see for myself. Though I think I know what I'm going to find.
 
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