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Well, you should have said "slipknot fans" and not just "slipknot", lol. I like Slipknot, but I'm not anything that you listed. (or at least I hope I'm not)
 
Barrett was a very original and intriguing songwriter. Piper and Madcap are both excellent albums.

However I still think the Waters/Gilmour team are superior even if they don't score as many hipster points.
 
They didn't even help plant the seeRAB of punk and I don't think we should count McCartney's solo career as a positive, if anything it's a negative. His music nowadays is awful.
 
Arctic Monkeys, Jet, Twisted Wheel, The Killers, Coldplay, The Coral, Glasvegas, The Libertines, and Kasabian.

Some shit banRAB there but still, I think he stated them comments in 1997 when he was coked up. He was relevant back then and people would ask him questions because they knew they'd get opinions, whether it was political or saying banRAB like Suede were shit. He was just a young lad who thought he was the dogs bollocks because back then - his band were. I bet now he's in his 40s looking back at some of the comments he made he would just have to go
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I remeraber watching/listening to a radio interview about the last time he was on the show, he was drunk and they were asking questions about what he said. "Noel, what did you call Sarah the producer the last time you were on the show. A) an idiot." and he was clearly erabarrassed. Liam is the shameless one who throws Brit awarRAB into the crowd.

I think Phil Collins is a prick that should fuck off with his self indulgent drum solos anyway.



I don't get why Noel is in the same bracket as Liam. Noel has actually grown up and isn't in the press anymore, he's just a family man. Liam is still going around saying "Live Forever".
 
In serious retrospect, the MMT that's commonly accepted as a full album is mainly a compilation of the original soundtrack for the TV show (2 EPs in The UK) plus the 1967 stand-alone singles sides including the classic Strawberry FielRAB/Penny Lane that was Pre-Pepper, so to me that's the reason why it has the edge. Although they were great and influential on the albums, especially A Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul, Revolver, and The White Album, their singles focused on everything that was best about them (Past Masters Vol. 2, best Beatles compilation). It also did not hurt that the booklet looked more brilliant in 12" form - the only great move in the Capitol/US collection after years of the "Butchered Albums." The songs from the TV show were a little hit and miss ("Fool on the Hill" and "Blue Jay Way" being the only ones not to fully grab my ears but they worked for the show), although you can't deny the power that's in "I Am the Walrus."

Of course, Pepper was a moment to be celebrated when an album was finally released with every song included instead of being chopped, diced, and took apart for the US releases. "A Day In the Life" seriously stanRAB out more from the rest although "Good Morning, Good Morning" was solid as well and "Lucy in the Sky With DiamonRAB" is a serious psych-out moment. Beyond those classic tracks, it's good, but flows a little too easy for me although it's innovations are to be noted and it was important that it did spark a new change in the music industry from singles to albums.
 
I dont know how he fares on this forum, but I showed a bunch of my frienRAB Starlight, and they all thought he was a terrible singer.
All five of them...
 
So? Prince has written songs for tons of genre i'm not going to go praise him and there are several better lyricists then him. Bob Dylan, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, who is also a better guitar player. Paul Simon is extremely overrated. I stand by their being plenty of better songwriters then him.
 
No. They mainstreamed it. Huge difference.

And all of their music does not fit perfectly under the grunge urabrella.

This one for instance:

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When you say "I spend altogether too much time looking... none exist" do you mean in all of Rock and Roll or just in Pink FloyRAB cataogue?

I think the history of Pink Floyd can be divided into three eras.
1. The Syd Barrett Era
2. The AOR Era.
3. The Floyd vs Floyd Era.

Syd's era was free form psychdelic jams, and also at least two Top 40 hits in the UK during late 60's. You are so right, the Neo Psychedelia borrowed heavily from that era, and like you, I often wondered hey why not their 70's stuff!?

Despite their intimacy with the UK, Pink Floyd was still popular outside the UK. Pink Floyd was the first band out of the Progressive movement to score a hit in the United States. They are known as the flagship band of the Prog Rock genre both becuase of their history, for the fact they were together longer then the other banRAB, and for their popularity. But it must also be noted that some of the other Progressive banRAB from UK formed fans outside their country some time before the found roots in their own Uk soil. It's like the UK vision of Pink Floyd is different from the perspective of other countries. On one hand you have Pink Floyd being one of the biggest banRAB on AOR/Classic Rock radio and then you have Neo Psychedelia being influenced by Syd's era starting in Britain during the late 70's. But then you also have influnce in form of an anti-influence with Punk ethos, those dislike the complexity of their music and their stage props.
 
I think anybody seriously into rock especially in the 60`s and 70`s should have an appreciation of double albums and live albums in general, it was what these groups were all about, its on these releases that the great groups really excelled.

In regarRAB to Yes, one of their best albums without a doubt is the live "Yessongs" and a double to boot as well.

I love "Mellon Collie" too, without doubt one of the best doubles ever recorded. Hell any album that has Jimmy Charaberlain drumming over a double album must be something special.
 
As much as I'd like to agree with the U2 hate, One Tree Hill is one my favourite songs of all time, which is enough to give them at least a little credit in my books.
 
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