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this happens all the time in music, though. look at post-rock, krautrock, post-punk, etc etc... they aren't so much descriptions of a SOUND, they're more just urabrella terms for a musical ideology or aesthetic. Swell Maps and Joy Division hardly sound similar, but they're definitely both post punk banRAB.

Classic rock is a particularly useless grouping though, in my opinion. I certainly don't think of Black Sabbath as a 'classic rock' band by any stretch of the imagination.
 
It's got the fiddle, and it's the Let It Bleed album version. I'd never heard that version except when playing the actual album. Otherwise it's always the fiddle-less one being played on the radio.
 
Personally, I don't think there's anything you can do on one instrument that you can't do on another.

Except maybe the triangle, I don't think you could do a particularly interesting solo with one of those.

But yeah. If people can let loose on the guitar, why not the drums? Though drum and bass solos work better when there's other musical accompaniment, since they are rhythmic instruments.
 
I've never had anything against Kiedis' lyrics... in fact I've always rather enjoyed them. But you're right, it is an unpopular opinion.
 
Just warning you...I have studied the Smashing Pumpkins like a religion, so I won't be able to stop myself from talking about them.

Don't misunderstand me about Adore. I love it...it is an amazing album. Lyrically, yes...it definitely is the strongest. However, I still stick to the idea that as Smashing Pumpkins and not Billy Corgan's solo project, Machina II was much much stronger. Pretend Adore never existed and go Mellon Collie to Machina to Machina II...it sounRAB like the natural progression the band should have been heading for the whole time. Billy Corgan even admitted that though Adore has grown on him over time, he still feels he didn't achieve the sound he was going for and considers it a failed project.

Also, Machina and Machina II sound completely different, so I'm not even sure you listened to them both the whole way through. Machina is a polished progressive "cyber punk" album as Billy puts it full of chord progressions that blend into one another (save for the few riff heavy moments like on "The Everlasting Gaze" and "Heavy Metal Machine"). Machina II maintains the progressive edge he was going for at the time while sticking to the pop sensibilities that made his other albums such hits. Honestly, if I were going to call anything cyber punk it would be Machina II and not I...I just seems like progressive alternative (yeah, I just made that genre up).
 
I brought up the fact that I mentioned those artists to debunk your idea that I think anything that isn't British and from the 60's-70's must be terrible. So there's -1 in your favor.

Hey listen, it's not my fault that every popular musician that dies because a bit of a 'trump card' for a few years after their death. I love Michael Jackson's music, and always have... memories of watching the Moonwalker film with the white suit, fighting gangsters, etc. from childhood. To this day I think you can put on almost any of his albums in a club and the night is set. That's my opinion plain and simple. I brought him up not to play a trump card, but as example of some 1980's music I like despite generally despising that decade and what it stood for. Excess and poor cliched production. As I said, **** the '80's. But I like Michael.

Prince is great, in my opinion. That is all on that.

Again Vampire Weekend and Gwen Stefani (an artist that I never defend career-wise, just that song) were brought up to once again debunk your UK/60s-70s nonsense.
 
Never was there a truer word spoken (or typed wat ever may be the case)


Kurt Cobian did kill himself get over it there is no massive conspiracy. This is generally what depressed heroin addicts do.

Manowar are the music equillivant to he-man and quite possibly the worst metal band of all time.

Dave Mustiane is a sour miserable little man with his head so far up is ass is hard to hear him talk. Plus megadeth are a terrible band let down buy mustiane's Sh!t Vocals and even sh!ttier lyrics

Hammet, Dimebag, Kerry King > Mustiane

Dragonforce Kickass

and so do the Eagles of death metal

Dave Grohl is not the best drummer in the world but he might be God.
 
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