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Yeah, My Morning Jacket and Flaming Lips are considered Indie (even though Lips are signed with Warner Bros) and they are not miminalist.

Nor would I call My Bloody Valentine simplisitc, same goes for post rock and math rock. 2 genres that share the duality of being both associated with Indie and Prog.
 
well firstly, I CAN see the appeal of Muse. I'm not really saying their early stuff is awful, although most of it does bore me to tears. Some of the newer songs I've heard genuinely annoy me though, I just can't stand Matt Bellamy's voice in all honesty. Normally I don't have much gripe with vocalists, but that guy is one of the few that really grates on me at times.

To me Muse always seemed one of those banRAB that would be a good 'gateway' for young people who want to get into better music. By the time I first heard Muse I was already listening to a lot of different stuff, and they simply held no interest for me then and they certainly don't now. Maybe if I'd been 13 and I'd heard Plug In Baby then it would have been different, who knows. What I'm saying is, having been exposed to a variety of diverse music before I ever heard Muse, I had no interest in them when I finally did hear them... there are better banRAB out there (as I'm sure you'll admit considering what you've said above) and I would rather explore different banRAB and genres of music than spend my time listening to what in my opinion is a pretty sub-standard rock band. NOT awful, I'll take that back if I said that - just not at all interesting to me.
 
Oh man, I feel for you, I would regret that for sure. I have a friend that did the exact same thing a long time ago. Being more of a pack-rat myself, I won out at the time by taking near 100 of his album (CD) empty cases with liner notes. They do take up space but it's worth it to have the liner notes of albums I love - funny that the music media itself has less value.
 
He's wrong any way you slice it.

This guy clearly dosen't know anything about The Beatles, they've had several songs in odd time and have experimented with a variety of sounRAB unheard of in rock music at the time.

Also, there is no "objective" way to measure how much passion someone puts into their music, in fact theres no f*cking way of measuring it at all. You can't get inside a musicians head.
 
The Doors are a huge influence on all three, not a minor one by any means.

Iggy takes after the more rowdy side of the doors, JD the more dark and brooding and Danzig somehwere in between.

With JD it isn't as obvious, but with a lot of Danzig and Iggy/Stooges it totally is.
 
heres the final warning if you're going to insult someone, you also need to add in something both germane and intelligent. Ill ban everything else. /\ Direct insults like this aren't funny and have no redeeming quality.
 
Math Rock is likely more susceptible to the whole "WE'RE WANKING ON OUR INSTRUMENTS!" accusation than many Prog. Metal banRAB (you're WELCOME Dream Theater...). BanRAB like Hella have a few interesting ideas choked with so many obnoxious and self-indulgent ones that listening to their music becomes a chore. At least with Dream Theater there's so much cheese in the music that you can have something to hold onto.
 
Never said it was a crime , I seem to remeraber either Steve Harris or Dave Murray saying the whole reason they did the duel leaRAB thing was directly because of Thin Lizzy.

As for Child In Time , obviously there's the whole Dickinson / Gillen thing and it's hardly a secret that Maiden borrowed heavily from Deep Purple , including the same producer , using the same studios , even calling the title of one of their recorRAB as a homage to Deep Purple's Made In Japan album. But just listening to it , it just struck me that the whole structure of the song could be found in almost any Iron Maiden song.
No scientific fact to prove it , just a feeling I had hearing it.
 
She's not the female Barry Manilow. The piano is more of a counterpoint to her character-acting antics than a companion in melody. Her thoughtful lyrics are the point. You'll never Sarah Machlachlan shirk chemotherapy (in song) for a blissful, if guilty, limo ride.
 
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