The Roots Dylan Kanye (as a rapper. I rate his production as top five) Tupac Erykah Badu Common Kendrick Lamar (out of everything he's done, I can think of less than five songs I like and half that's with him as a feature) Wiz Mac Miller Aubs
I listen to a good many artists whose personal conduct ran/runs from questionable to revolting. I've been able to separate the art from the artist...til R Kelly. Within the past year or so, it's become impossible to hear him without my skin crawling. Officially done with that.
c’mon dude you can’t be serious,or you have not spent any time diggin to the moisture especially since you play guitar!
it’s endless
Appreciative of Zappa? Sure. I like what he stood for (anti-corporate and his ability to recruit insane musicians). Never got into his guitar playing, though. Steve Vai is cut from the same cloth and his playing makes my ears bleed.
Hot Rats is the only Zappa record I could Really get into. His songs are too scatterbrained for me and I find the subject matter too pretentious.
With all that said I would love to see this documentary!
RAJ said: Never got into his guitar playing, though. Steve Vai is cut from the same cloth and his playing makes my ears bleed.
Zappa is a lot more bluesy than Vai. I get the feeling that Vai really felt compelled to out-, er...out-Halen van Halen. It's like when "Scratch" World Champion DJs do whatever it is they do. It's certainly way beyond the point of music.
Check out that Vid I posted up there. Find "Cosmic Debris". Really nice solo. Love the metal pick tone. Edit: It's at 39' 41"
RAJ said: Never got into his guitar playing, though. Steve Vai is cut from the same cloth and his playing makes my ears bleed.
Zappa is a lot more bluesy than Vai. I get the feeling that Vai really felt compelled to out-, er...out-Halen van Halen. It's like when "Scratch" World Champion DJs do whatever it is they do. It's certainly way beyond the point of music.
Check out that Vid I posted up there. Find "Cosmic Debris". Really nice solo. Love the metal pick tone. Edit: It's at 39' 41"
Coltrane and Ornette Coleman are 2 cats that I just don't get. But yeah, duh, I should try a bunch of different albums before writing them off.
try this one too:
obviously I don't expect everyone to ride for things like Interstellar Space, but I never thought of A Love Supreme being a difficult record in any way.
Kendrick Lamar (out of everything he's done, I can think of less than five songs I like and half that's with him as a feature) Aubs
Kendrick is, for me, like System Of A Down: I get it and everything, but it mostly leaves me flat, but at the same time I'm heartened that something so charged and dense can get genuinely popular and engage broader culture. It's not for me, but I'm real glad it's out there for the kids to chew on. That sounds dismissive, but I don't mean it to be.
Your homeboy Drake, though, is baffling. I don't get that dude's appeal at all. He's good-looking and all (as long as he's not smiling), but he can't write, can't rap, can't dance, and can't seem to advance his correspondence-course mack. I've yet to hear a record by that dude that didn't sound like Adele, Jeremy Scott, and a Little Debbie Swiss Roll bound together into a single slowly rapping mummy. Like a remorseful Lloyd Banks, only less intimidating and more paid. No thanks.
I listen to a good many artists whose personal conduct ran/runs from questionable to revolting. I've been able to separate the art from the artist...til R Kelly. Within the past year or so, it's become impossible to hear him without my skin crawling. Officially done with that.
Yeah, I'm still working my way through dude, but I'm pretty close to the end. As recently as a couple years ago I had my physical media down to a couple singles with good instrumentals ("Happy People" and, god help me, "Freaky In The Club"), but I don't even fuck with those anymore, so I think that just leaves mp3s of "When A Woman's Fed Up" and "Be Careful." At some point I'll probably get there with those, too, though. Fuck that dude, for real and forever. (Gas face, too, to Chance The Rapper for putting him on one of two Chance The Rapper songs I halfway like. I get that Chano's like nine years old or whatever, and is, like Minnie Pearl, "just so happy to be here!", but still.)
I know the timing of this is shitty, but one of my big ones is Bowie. With the exception of maybe six or eight singles, I can only hang, not genuinely enjoy. I was born in '74, and I think if you're around my age and didn't have an older sibling or a cool friend to guide you around behind the curtain, what you were left with was the surface layer of Bowie in all his less-interesting 1980s ubiquity. And with that, you're gonna plateau. I was a teenage punk, uninterested in theatricality or performance or chameleonic quick-change, so to me the main message of Bowie seemed to be "It's okay--you don't have to mean things." I moved on, and never truly circled back.
Kendrick Lamar (out of everything he's done, I can think of less than five songs I like and half that's with him as a feature) Aubs
Kendrick is, for me, like System Of A Down: I get it and everything, but it mostly leaves me flat, but at the same time I'm heartened that something so charged and dense can get genuinely popular and engage broader culture. It's not for me, but I'm real glad it's out there for the kids to chew on. That sounds dismissive, but I don't mean it to be.
Your homeboy Drake, though, is baffling. I don't get that dude's appeal at all. He's good-looking and all (as long as he's not smiling), but he can't write, can't rap, can't dance, and can't seem to advance his correspondence-course mack. I've yet to hear a record by that dude that didn't sound like Adele, Jeremy Scott, and a Little Debbie Swiss Roll bound together into a single slowly rapping mummy. Like a remorseful Lloyd Banks, only less intimidating and more paid. No thanks.
I listen to a good many artists whose personal conduct ran/runs from questionable to revolting. I've been able to separate the art from the artist...til R Kelly. Within the past year or so, it's become impossible to hear him without my skin crawling. Officially done with that.
Yeah, I'm still working my way through dude, but I'm pretty close to the end. As recently as a couple years ago I had my physical media down to a couple singles with good instrumentals ("Happy People" and, god help me, "Freaky In The Club"), but I don't even fuck with those anymore, so I think that just leaves mp3s of "When A Woman's Fed Up" and "Be Careful." At some point I'll probably get there with those, too, though. Fuck that dude, for real and forever. (Gas face, too, to Chance The Rapper for putting him on one of two Chance The Rapper songs I halfway like. I get that Chano's like nine years old or whatever, and is, like Minnie Pearl, "just so happy to be here!", but still.)
I know the timing of this is shitty, but one of my big ones is Bowie. With the exception of maybe six or eight singles, I can only hang, not genuinely enjoy. I was born in '74, and I think if you're around my age and didn't have an older sibling or a cool friend to guide you around behind the curtain, what you were left with was the surface layer of Bowie in all his less-interesting 1980s ubiquity. And with that, you're gonna plateau. I was a teenage punk, uninterested in theatricality or performance or chameleonic quick-change, so to me the main message of Bowie seemed to be "It's okay--you don't have to mean things." I moved on, and never truly circled back.
Kendrick Lamar (out of everything he's done, I can think of less than five songs I like and half that's with him as a feature) Aubs
Kendrick is, for me, like System Of A Down: I get it and everything, but it mostly leaves me flat, but at the same time I'm heartened that something so charged and dense can get genuinely popular and engage broader culture. It's not for me, but I'm real glad it's out there for the kids to chew on. That sounds dismissive, but I don't mean it to be.
Your homeboy Drake, though, is baffling. I don't get that dude's appeal at all. He's good-looking and all (as long as he's not smiling), but he can't write, can't rap, can't dance, and can't seem to advance his correspondence-course mack. I've yet to hear a record by that dude that didn't sound like Adele, Jeremy Scott, and a Little Debbie Swiss Roll bound together into a single slowly rapping mummy. Like a remorseful Lloyd Banks, only less intimidating and more paid. No thanks.
I listen to a good many artists whose personal conduct ran/runs from questionable to revolting. I've been able to separate the art from the artist...til R Kelly. Within the past year or so, it's become impossible to hear him without my skin crawling. Officially done with that.
Yeah, I'm still working my way through dude, but I'm pretty close to the end. As recently as a couple years ago I had my physical media down to a couple singles with good instrumentals ("Happy People" and, god help me, "Freaky In The Club"), but I don't even fuck with those anymore, so I think that just leaves mp3s of "When A Woman's Fed Up" and "Be Careful." At some point I'll probably get there with those, too, though. Fuck that dude, for real and forever. (Gas face, too, to Chance The Rapper for putting him on one of two Chance The Rapper songs I halfway like. I get that Chano's like nine years old or whatever, and is, like Minnie Pearl, "just so happy to be here!", but still.)
I know the timing of this is shitty, but one of my big ones is Bowie. With the exception of maybe six or eight singles, I can only hang, not genuinely enjoy. I was born in '74, and I think if you're around my age and didn't have an older sibling or a cool friend to guide you around behind the curtain, what you were left with was the surface layer of Bowie in all his less-interesting 1980s ubiquity. And with that, you're gonna plateau. I was a teenage punk, uninterested in theatricality or performance or chameleonic quick-change, so to me the main message of Bowie seemed to be "It's okay--you don't have to mean things." I moved on, and never truly circled back.
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Dylan
Kanye (as a rapper. I rate his production as top five)
Tupac
Erykah Badu
Common
Kendrick Lamar (out of everything he's done, I can think of less than five songs I like and half that's with him as a feature)
Wiz
Mac Miller
Aubs
I listen to a good many artists whose personal conduct ran/runs from questionable to revolting. I've been able to separate the art from the artist...til R Kelly.
Within the past year or so, it's become impossible to hear him without my skin crawling. Officially done with that.
Zach Brown Band
Jimmy Buffet
Kenny Chesney
and I can go on....
And I am Northern
GTFOOHWTBS
c’mon dude you can’t be serious,or you have not spent any time diggin to the moisture
especially since you play guitar!
and admit to getting into the dead?
one of the first examples of two hand tapping in a guitar solo on a rock lp
then.......
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it’s endless
I'm just being real.
I'll play A Love Supreme over and over again every once in a while, but I honestly don't get it, even though I'm trying to.
maybe you should just say you're not into jazz?
Hey,
I'll say the artists I don't like (or never got into) that everybody likes include (in no particular order):
-cosign on Common
-Elvis Presley
-cosign on Tupac
-Jay-Z
-Coldplay
-Taylor Swift
-Naughty by Nature
-Dire Straits
-New Edition
-Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
-Heavy D & the Boyz
-Lil' Wayne
-Too Short
-Smokey Robinson (I like certain songs)
-Diana Ross (I only like a few songs here and there; weak voice-related)
-co-sign on Jimmy Buffet
-Dave Matthews Band
-Patti LaBelle (her yelling grates on my nerves)
-Luther Vandross (I only liked his early stuff)
-Alicia Keyes
-Alanis Morrisette
-Katy Perry
-Guns N' Roses
-The Cranberries
-Bon Jovi
-Rihanna
-Maroon 5
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Hot Rats is the only Zappa record I could Really get into. His songs are too scatterbrained for me and I find the subject matter too pretentious.
With all that said I would love to see this documentary!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexwinter/frank-zappa
Check out that Vid I posted up there. Find "Cosmic Debris". Really nice solo. Love the metal pick tone. Edit: It's at 39' 41"
You ever hear this record?
This was the most "palpable" of his records...It's a home recording with a heavy Zappa influence.
But most of my collection IS jazz, which makes it all the more frustrating.
I dunno. I'll play that shit again tonight and see if it sticks.
Try a different Coltrane album.. How about the one in my avatar? @para11ax
To contribute to the multiple bad looks in this thread, I'll throw CAN into the ring.
I've tried, and I'm sure will try again, but they've never lived up to the hype for me. Great drummer though.
Coltrane and Ornette Coleman are 2 cats that I just don't get. But yeah, duh, I should try a bunch of different albums before writing them off.
Maybe even Booker Ervin > Coltrane some days
I can't get with Ornette either.
Or a lot of Wayne Shorter's stuff.
Maybe it's because I am a moronic bass player who wants almost everything to swing, but life is too short for some meandering shit.
try this one too:
obviously I don't expect everyone to ride for things like Interstellar Space, but I never thought of A Love Supreme being a difficult record in any way.
Your homeboy Drake, though, is baffling. I don't get that dude's appeal at all. He's good-looking and all (as long as he's not smiling), but he can't write, can't rap, can't dance, and can't seem to advance his correspondence-course mack. I've yet to hear a record by that dude that didn't sound like Adele, Jeremy Scott, and a Little Debbie Swiss Roll bound together into a single slowly rapping mummy. Like a remorseful Lloyd Banks, only less intimidating and more paid. No thanks.
Yeah, I'm still working my way through dude, but I'm pretty close to the end. As recently as a couple years ago I had my physical media down to a couple singles with good instrumentals ("Happy People" and, god help me, "Freaky In The Club"), but I don't even fuck with those anymore, so I think that just leaves mp3s of "When A Woman's Fed Up" and "Be Careful." At some point I'll probably get there with those, too, though. Fuck that dude, for real and forever. (Gas face, too, to Chance The Rapper for putting him on one of two Chance The Rapper songs I halfway like. I get that Chano's like nine years old or whatever, and is, like Minnie Pearl, "just so happy to be here!", but still.)
I know the timing of this is shitty, but one of my big ones is Bowie. With the exception of maybe six or eight singles, I can only hang, not genuinely enjoy. I was born in '74, and I think if you're around my age and didn't have an older sibling or a cool friend to guide you around behind the curtain, what you were left with was the surface layer of Bowie in all his less-interesting 1980s ubiquity. And with that, you're gonna plateau. I was a teenage punk, uninterested in theatricality or performance or chameleonic quick-change, so to me the main message of Bowie seemed to be "It's okay--you don't have to mean things." I moved on, and never truly circled back.
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