A band you "shouldn't" like.....

two fingers · #1 10-30-2009, 01:46 PM

So I come from a background of playing Blues, Jazz, Classic Rock, Funk, and (my favorite) Soul music (Motown, TOP, stuff like that). But there's a band that really doesn't fit into any of that I REALLY like......Incubus. I just watched the "Live At Red Rock" DVD (again) and Ben Kenny is NASTY on the bass (Lakland J bass with flats and a pick mostly). But the whole band is really good. The songs are (mostly) good. They did a great Police cover. Anyway......

My point.....

Do any of you REALLY like a band that doesn't fit into anything you play or usually listen to? Who is the band you don't talk about in front of your musician friends?

Eublet · #2 10-30-2009, 02:02 PM

Why shouldn't you like Incubus? They are very good musicians, and have dabbled in many of the music genre's you just listed.

bass player 48 · #3 10-30-2009, 03:53 PM

I can't really understand the question. Today I've listened to: The Beattles, Led Zepplin, Frank Zappa, Bootsy Collins, Hank Williams Jr, Johny Cash, and NWA... am I supposed to pick one or two genres that I like and ignore the rest? I've already been to Jr High - it sucked. I listen to whatever I want whenver I want now (and it's diverse). If I don't like something, it's because I don't like the song or the band - not the genre.

WalterBush · #4 10-30-2009, 04:07 PM

A very wise man (my classical guitar instructor in college) told me that 90% of any, and he meant ANY genre of music is unimaginative and recycled ideas made to sell albums to existing fans. That's fine, if that's what you want, and he was speaking strictly about people pushing boundaries musically, nothing more.

The other 10%, again in ANY genre, is doing something different and original, and one ignores that 10% at the risk of being stuck in a rut, or left behind musically, like a lot of bar-goers who seem to be stuck in the '70s (as far as listening to music is concerned, anyway.)

I search for that 10%, and I don't let anyone's idea of genre, propriety, or what I should listen to get in the way of finding something new or different to listen to.

Having said all that, I don't admit to many of my friends how much I like The Bangles or Stryper

two fingers · #5 10-30-2009, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bass player 48

I can't really understand the question. Today I've listened to: The Beattles, Led Zepplin, Frank Zappa, Bootsy Collins, Hank Williams Jr, Johny Cash, and NWA... am I supposed to pick one or two genres that I like and ignore the rest? I've already been to Jr High - it sucked. I listen to whatever I want whenver I want now (and it's diverse). If I don't like something, it's because I don't like the song or the band - not the genre.

"Picking a few genres" wasn't my point at all. I understand that a lot of us have very diverse musical tastes (as do I). It didn't really seem like a hard question at all. I was just asking if you have ONE band in your list of FAVORITES that isn't anything like the rest. Didn't seem all that tough when I typed it. Maybe I was wrong.

Eublet · #6 10-30-2009, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by two fingers

Maybe I was wrong.

I think the last sentence in your first post is what caused us to misunderstand you. You mentioned hiding bands from musicial friends, as if they that implies that they wouldn't approve for whatever reason.

Joe Gress · #7 10-30-2009, 06:36 PM

The Presidents of the United States of America.

iamlowsound · #8 10-31-2009, 01:09 PM

Michael Jackson. I usually say that I listen to him because the production is so good, but I actually like a good chunk of his music.

lowsound

two fingers · #9 10-31-2009, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eublet

I think the last sentence in your first post is what caused us to misunderstand you. You mentioned hiding bands from musicial friends, as if they that implies that they wouldn't approve for whatever reason.

Ah. I can see that. I kind of meant that part as a joke but I can understand why just reading it wouldn't make that obvious.

DoomandHeavy · #10 10-31-2009, 09:48 PM

I like Christian Death quite a bit, which might be odd as I normally listen to Heavy Metal and Punk. Most metalheads generally don't like Deathrock too much.

metalguy2 · #11 11-01-2009, 04:26 AM

I listen to a bunch of crap that doesn't fit in with my friends at all. I like Rush and a lot of jazz artists. 'Trane, Miles, Chick, and others.

capnsandwich · #12 11-01-2009, 04:32 AM

I'm into weird avant-garde jazz stuff like Planet X, Janek Gwizdala, Matthew Garrison, etc. but I seem to always come around and buy every new album that Dillinger Escape Plan puts out. I don't know, call it a secret fetish but they freakin' tear it up on stage and in the studio. One of the greatest bands to mix jazz with punk/metal since John Zorn and Naked City.

two fingers · #13 11-01-2009, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

I'm into weird avant-garde jazz stuff like Planet X, Janek Gwizdala, Matthew Garrison, etc. but I seem to always come around and buy every new album that Dillinger Escape Plan puts out. I don't know, call it a secret fetish but they freakin' tear it up on stage and in the studio. One of the greatest bands to mix jazz with punk/metal since John Zorn and Naked City.

Not THAT sounds like something I need to hear....even if only to say I did.

metalguy2 · #14 11-01-2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

I'm into weird avant-garde jazz stuff like Planet X, Janek Gwizdala, Matthew Garrison, etc. but I seem to always come around and buy every new album that Dillinger Escape Plan puts out. I don't know, call it a secret fetish but they freakin' tear it up on stage and in the studio. One of the greatest bands to mix jazz with punk/metal since John Zorn and Naked City.

John Zorn Naked City is classic!!!

And you have got to like Calculating Infinity. I listened to that one for months.

capnsandwich · #15 11-01-2009, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by metalguy2

John Zorn Naked City is classic!!!

And you have got to like Calculating Infinity. I listened to that one for months.

I love everything they've put out so far. I don't know but I guess I'm just a weirdo.

zagralin_arf · #16 11-05-2009, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eublet

Why shouldn't you like Incubus? They are very good musicians, and have dabbled in many of the music genre's you just listed.

Because they suck....

dozicusmaximus · #17 11-05-2009, 11:46 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg Its hilarious.

Pilgrim · #18 11-05-2009, 02:43 PM

The Don Ellis Electric Orchestra from the 60's and 70's. NEAT!!

Eublet · #19 11-05-2009, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zagralin_arf

Because they suck....

Unless you are joking, your comment reminds me of the kind of childish things heard in this video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URsqTsMfNqY

ThunderLizard · #20 11-05-2009, 03:44 PM

Two-
The Jackson 5. Love the bass lines but I won't mention it to anyone who's not a musician. They don't realize what a great band of studio aces created those records.