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Your favourite genre of music on 11:27 - Jun 11 by GlasgowBlue
I like the two Use your Illusion albums.
There is a good single album that could've been out of the Use Your Illusion albums (plus a handful of decent B sides that would've probably been fan favourites). I imagine they needed someone who wasn't a yes man to tell them to cut the crap
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Your favourite genre of music on 13:39 - Jun 11 with 856 views
Your favourite genre of music on 10:23 - Jun 11 by monytowbray
Gonna say I never got Pearl Jam either. But if we’re gonna benchmark Grunge scene hellscapes, surely Audioslave were worse?! Soundgarden + RATM = The blandest midddle-of-the-road rock imaginable was not what I expected.
I see your Audioslave and raise you Smashing Pumpkins. Billy Corgan is the Morrissey of 90's yank-rock.
I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
Your favourite genre of music on 14:48 - Jun 11 by solemio
He was most famous for playing the music of Bach. Trouble for me was that there was too little Bach and too much Gould.
His Bach was worse than his bite.
But which Bach? I have just pulled down the one Glenn Gould CD in my collection (it sits between Henryk Górecki and Eddy Grant...) to see that there are just under nineteen minutes of J.S. and twelve minutes of C.P.E. with almost six minutes of Scarlatti sandwiched between them. OK, alright, there are then another forty one minutes of J.S. after the C.P.E. but the liner notes mention that his early death prevented the recording of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas he had contracted to do as well as Scriabin, Liszt and more C.P.E.
There is a 'softness' to Gould's playing that makes the clockwork universe aspect of J.S. Bach more appealing to my ears but these things are all in the interpretation of the performer and what the listener wants from a piece of music.
My taste in music has evolved over the years, but of the two main genres I've mostly listened to:
- Goth: I've really really tried to like Siouxsie and the Banshees, but it just does nothing for me.
- Post-rock: God Speed You! Black Emperor - I know I should like them, I love so many bands of the same ilk, but I just find their stuff tedious.
On a related note - what about bands who's output evolves and you can't stand their newer work. For me it would be The National. From about 2007 - 2017 I probably listened to their albums more than any other band - probably about 40% of all music I listened to over that period was theirs. I'd comfortably put Boxer and High Violet in my top 25 albums of all time (and Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers would be close). Sleep Well Beast came out in 2017 and I wasn't remotely sure I liked it and I've probably only listened to it a dozen times - and then I am Easy To Find came out in 2019 and I haven't made it all of the way through the album - despite having tried several times. They're touring again and looking at some set lists they're only playing one song from the last two albums. I'm hoping they've realised they were pretty poor because a couple of the new tracks they're playing a much better.
Not a genre I know a lot about, but last week on 6Music they were focusing on this sort of thing with a selected expert to pick a tune each day. Anyhow the guy from Def Leppard picked a Kiss tune which he likened to a Motown classic, I could sort of see what he was saying , can't remember the tune though.
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Your favourite genre of music on 07:53 - Jun 13 with 569 views
Your favourite genre of music on 02:49 - Jun 13 by StNeotsBlue
Not a genre I know a lot about, but last week on 6Music they were focusing on this sort of thing with a selected expert to pick a tune each day. Anyhow the guy from Def Leppard picked a Kiss tune which he likened to a Motown classic, I could sort of see what he was saying , can't remember the tune though.
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