hmmm funny that just sounds like shouting and screaming for the sake of it to me !!!, but hey each to their own i guess, mind you they said that Elvis was the work of the devil with his snake hips when he hit the stage early doors...
Probably my favourite band. Doolittle is certainly my favourite album. Ever. Only The Fall, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey & The Smiths come close for me.
And with regards Radiohead - I've loved them more and more with every album post OK Computer. They were on the verge of being a Britpop band with Pablo Honey and The Bends. I'm delighted they pulled it back from the brink and went full scale into weirdness. Kid A is magnificent.
Pablo Honey is more Grunge based than Britpop, and The Bends is certainly leaning more towards the heavy alternate rock than Britpop. It's easy to bundle them in with that genre because of the time period, but when you listen to their music, and then listen to britpop, they are different. It runs along the same lines as Blur's and Suede's later work. In Rainbows is their best post-1997 album by a mile IMO.
John Lennon is one of the biggest pricks to ever walk the earth and his solo music is 95% dirge. FACT.
They were definitely a more straight down the line proposition on those days, with the odd hint at something more. They've now carved out a niche were they can go literally anywhere, and still be credible. I listen to a song like Creep now, and maybe even Just, and they're just too generic for me to stomach really. I would encourage them to indulge themselves further and further. Perhaps not Britpop then - but standard indie/alternative rock. Post-97 they came to life.
I disagree massively. It doesnt matter how good his guitar is, if the lyrics are **** it doesnt work. Morrissey and Marr were the perfect foil for each other to make the greatest band the world has ever seen.
My tastes are diverse, but a good tune is important. If I was on a desert island I choose da Brudders - great 60s style pop melodies fused with fast, buzzsaw guitars. The perfect formula. The Ramones don't get praise because they don't do complex guitar solos and their songs are formulaic. But music is a simple art form. If it sounds good, it is good.
I agree that Pablo Honey is very generic, but everything after certainly isn't. Just is IMO the weakest song on The Bends, but is still fantastic. Their live performance at Glastonbury in 97 (which I was given a bootleg of) is probably the best way to listen to the pre-experimental era.
I follow a lot of guitar stuff online and every young guitarist seems to be obsessed these technical shredders like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert. To me it just sounds like noise.
Yeah, I'm less impressed with shredders than someone who churns out massive, complex riffs like Mick Thompson does.
Da Vinci isnt his surname, he's called Leonardo. Is this modern phenomenon of using this as his supposed surname down to Dan Brown?
