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Musical Confessions
- Thread starter megadan
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-I can't listen to more than 30 seconds of Victor Wooten's solo stuff, though I've listened to Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Flight of the Cosmic Hippo and Left of Cool well over 10 times each (Big Country still maintains to be one of my favorite songs, though it is one of their more popular)
-I believe AC/DC, all 80s metal bands, ZZ Top, and The Black Crowes to be complete crap
-I sometimes act like I know more theory than I really do
-I sometimes feel bad, because I see players much better than me playing gear that is of lower quality than mine.
-I don't believe in my band at all
-My lead guitarist has been my best friend for around 10 years now, and I believe he's one of the main factors holding us back
-My favorite album of 2007 was Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope. I found it awesome.
-Some songs, like Round Here by the Counting Crows, I feel I connect with and have made me cry real tears for no reason while listening to them by myself.
Please don't laugh.
-I believe AC/DC, all 80s metal bands, ZZ Top, and The Black Crowes to be complete crap
-I sometimes act like I know more theory than I really do
-I sometimes feel bad, because I see players much better than me playing gear that is of lower quality than mine.
-I don't believe in my band at all
-My lead guitarist has been my best friend for around 10 years now, and I believe he's one of the main factors holding us back
-My favorite album of 2007 was Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope. I found it awesome.
-Some songs, like Round Here by the Counting Crows, I feel I connect with and have made me cry real tears for no reason while listening to them by myself.
Please don't laugh.
I'll keep going, I suppose. Get some more off my chest:
-Jack White is a genius. He's created some of my favorite music made in the past 10 years, and really took the idea of the garage band revival of the late 90's somewhere it needed to go. And no, I don't wish the White Stripes had a bass player. At all. (However, I do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would get the idea.)
-Continuing on the above, the new Raconteurs albums rules.
-I hate political music. With some VERY few exceptions (basically, the band mewithoutYou), I hate any music that tells me something about how I should feel. I thought that Green Day's American Idiot wasn't bad because it had bad songs, or that it was overplayed, I just thought it was liberal propaganda. I wish that all the members of Rage Against The Machine would stop acting like our Government is this tyrannical machine just 'trying to keep them down.' I wish that My Chemical Romance didn't want to speak out about teenage violence in 'Teenagers.' I hate the fact that Rise Against tells me to be a vegan. And for what its worth, I AGREE with all stances taken by that music. Really. I just don't like it being shoved down my throat.
-Jack White is a genius. He's created some of my favorite music made in the past 10 years, and really took the idea of the garage band revival of the late 90's somewhere it needed to go. And no, I don't wish the White Stripes had a bass player. At all. (However, I do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would get the idea.)
-Continuing on the above, the new Raconteurs albums rules.
-I hate political music. With some VERY few exceptions (basically, the band mewithoutYou), I hate any music that tells me something about how I should feel. I thought that Green Day's American Idiot wasn't bad because it had bad songs, or that it was overplayed, I just thought it was liberal propaganda. I wish that all the members of Rage Against The Machine would stop acting like our Government is this tyrannical machine just 'trying to keep them down.' I wish that My Chemical Romance didn't want to speak out about teenage violence in 'Teenagers.' I hate the fact that Rise Against tells me to be a vegan. And for what its worth, I AGREE with all stances taken by that music. Really. I just don't like it being shoved down my throat.
I agree. I don't mind people extressing their ideas or feeling but when it gets blatantly political I just can't deal with it. Over here it's mostly left-wing band I've come into contact with but it goes for everyone.
Amen to Tdogg's comment of "i love dream theater, but hate their singer"....I think he's just stuck in the 80's in every possible way while the rest of the band tries to move forward in time
I DON'T dig Elvis
I think the Stones are the most overrated band of all-time and they should've quit in the 70's
I just don't get all ga-ga over Rush at all
And with the exceptions of Kansas, Oregon and UK, I HATE bands named after places!
I think the Stones are the most overrated band of all-time and they should've quit in the 70's
I just don't get all ga-ga over Rush at all
And with the exceptions of Kansas, Oregon and UK, I HATE bands named after places!
- I don't own a bass
- I like simple bass lines
- My favorite guitarists use(d) lots of weed and feedback
- I like simple bass lines
- My favorite guitarists use(d) lots of weed and feedback
i forgot to mention that even though i do not like dave matthews, his band, and think that it is all over rated, one of my favorite songs is by dave matthews.
it is purely for sentimental reasons, but "stay or leave" gets me everytime, and i listen to it far too often.
it is purely for sentimental reasons, but "stay or leave" gets me everytime, and i listen to it far too often.
he makes it tough to introduce new people to the music, i always have to say " just ignore the vocals"
I also play guitar and danged proud of it!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
TOOL despite their high level of musicianship, bores the hell out of me! When are they ever gonna write something that ISN'T always in D and start using the remaining 11 keys? Get some variety going will ya!!!
Have no use for death/thrash/speed metal, it all sounds alike to me.
I consider rap a form of criminal behavior
Favorite 80's tunes, Devo's "Through Being Cool" and "Stealing People's Mail" by the Dead Kennedys
Mozart was way overrated as a composer
Signature model instruments and reproductions of famous people's thrashed instruments strike me as pointless and stupid (Fender's exact repro of Jaco's thrashed J-bass and the EVH Frankenstein guitar selling for $25,000 cases in point)
Never liked Fender basses, never will
Was ready to throw a party when Lou Pearlman, the mastermind behind those awful 90's boy bands was busted.
TOOL despite their high level of musicianship, bores the hell out of me! When are they ever gonna write something that ISN'T always in D and start using the remaining 11 keys? Get some variety going will ya!!!
Have no use for death/thrash/speed metal, it all sounds alike to me.
I consider rap a form of criminal behavior
Favorite 80's tunes, Devo's "Through Being Cool" and "Stealing People's Mail" by the Dead Kennedys
Mozart was way overrated as a composer
Signature model instruments and reproductions of famous people's thrashed instruments strike me as pointless and stupid (Fender's exact repro of Jaco's thrashed J-bass and the EVH Frankenstein guitar selling for $25,000 cases in point)
Never liked Fender basses, never will
Was ready to throw a party when Lou Pearlman, the mastermind behind those awful 90's boy bands was busted.
- I'm more akin to relate to and enjoy throbby punk/post-punk sounding basslines that contribute to a sense of melody and/or lay down a solid yet prominent foundation than daring feats of manual acrobatics a la jazz. I've never really been able to dig what some people refer to as "wanking". Just not my thang. Regardless, I hate the snobbery that relates to both genres.
- I play by ear. I've never taken lessons, and couldn't tell you what notes I'm playing (partly due to laziness, partly due to lack of time and money for lessons and parents who frowned on me taking music lessons as a kid)... I just kind of play what sounds right. All in all, I suppose that makes me a fairly ham-fisted player, which is something I'd like to change.
- I hate the Mars Volta... everyone I know freaking loves them, but I just think it's dreadful.
- I hate "artistes".
- I hate "indie" singer/songwriters who are flogging that dead horse to the point where it's barely there anymore.
- I don't get everyone's fascination with Feist and the whole Broken Social Scene phenomenon here in Toronto. It just bores me to tears.
- I play by ear. I've never taken lessons, and couldn't tell you what notes I'm playing (partly due to laziness, partly due to lack of time and money for lessons and parents who frowned on me taking music lessons as a kid)... I just kind of play what sounds right. All in all, I suppose that makes me a fairly ham-fisted player, which is something I'd like to change.
- I hate the Mars Volta... everyone I know freaking loves them, but I just think it's dreadful.
- I hate "artistes".
- I hate "indie" singer/songwriters who are flogging that dead horse to the point where it's barely there anymore.
- I don't get everyone's fascination with Feist and the whole Broken Social Scene phenomenon here in Toronto. It just bores me to tears.
Good song, nothing to be ashamed of. I actually downloaded Steve Winwood's album "Back In The Highlife" last week on Itunes.
Here goes:
-Jack White is the best thing to happen to modern rock in a LONG time, and +1 to the man saying the new racontuers album rocks, it covers so many genres, combines good drum and bass along with Jack White's amazing ability to weave a story that connects to the emotion of the music (See White Stripes "Ball and Biscuit")
-I Love jam bands, even if their **** is the same thing over and over, nothing gets me dancing like phish's album, Picture of Nectar. Galulah Papyrus man, Galulah Papyrus.
-That being said, I hate camping out at festivals, the people make me want to kill myself.
-Radiohead was the worst live show I've ever seen
-The best live show I've seen was from a small local no-name band, Tennessee Homegrown Band, or THB Link Removed
-I love jazz, but theres no way that one instrument can dominate (sorry Jaco) I feel the great part of jazz is that, a whole group of people can revolve around one main thought, and toss it back and forth in little trade-off solos.
-Bob Marley changed my life and eventually lead to me dreading my own nappy head. Reggae is the ultimate music form, completely unconventional in that jazz sense, uttlerly catchy lines like pop music, thumpin bass because last time I checked, we all love that. and finally a strong social message that is never negative and only focuses on moving foward for the better. Music is about sharing!
One Love.
T
-Jack White is the best thing to happen to modern rock in a LONG time, and +1 to the man saying the new racontuers album rocks, it covers so many genres, combines good drum and bass along with Jack White's amazing ability to weave a story that connects to the emotion of the music (See White Stripes "Ball and Biscuit")
-I Love jam bands, even if their **** is the same thing over and over, nothing gets me dancing like phish's album, Picture of Nectar. Galulah Papyrus man, Galulah Papyrus.
-That being said, I hate camping out at festivals, the people make me want to kill myself.
-Radiohead was the worst live show I've ever seen
-The best live show I've seen was from a small local no-name band, Tennessee Homegrown Band, or THB Link Removed
-I love jazz, but theres no way that one instrument can dominate (sorry Jaco) I feel the great part of jazz is that, a whole group of people can revolve around one main thought, and toss it back and forth in little trade-off solos.
-Bob Marley changed my life and eventually lead to me dreading my own nappy head. Reggae is the ultimate music form, completely unconventional in that jazz sense, uttlerly catchy lines like pop music, thumpin bass because last time I checked, we all love that. and finally a strong social message that is never negative and only focuses on moving foward for the better. Music is about sharing!
One Love.
T
Melvin Gibbs' work with Rollins Band is the only 5-string bass, that to my knowledge I listen to. It's not like I have anything against people who play them, I just can't think of a single band or artist I listen to, where the bass player has a fiver. Even the groups that play lower than a D use 4 stringers, weird.
