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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Nov 29, 2012 0:30:45 GMT 1
Well the Beatles' White Album was a direct precursor to heavy metal so I acknowledge their influence on my own style. Michael Jackson is indeed over-hyped as is "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". And people say Axl Rose is arrogant...
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 29, 2012 0:33:09 GMT 1
Johnny Cash is over-rated. He has great skill and a few great songs, but little else. I think people like him because he's cool, not because he's good.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Nov 29, 2012 0:44:34 GMT 1
Johnny Cash is over-rated. He has great skill and a few great songs, but little else. I think people like him because he's cool, not because he's good. But combine him with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson and you've got "The Highwaymen": one of the best country lineups of the 80s.
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Post by jklinders on Nov 29, 2012 1:56:24 GMT 1
Johnny Cash is over-rated. He has great skill and a few great songs, but little else. I think people like him because he's cool, not because he's good. But combine him with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson and you've got "The Highwaymen": one of the best country lineups of the 80s. I love this song But Cash was someone I could take or leave for the most part.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 29, 2012 2:00:52 GMT 1
Ooh, very much agreed - I love that song so much!
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Post by Battlechantress on Nov 29, 2012 4:42:23 GMT 1
I never really got "into" Michael Jackson's music in the 80s, but I was watching clips of him dance with the mute button on one night (I'm pretty sure it was part of some retrospective after he died), and damn that guy could *move*. Fred Astaire might well have been impressed.
I generally prefer the Beatles over the Stones, but I don't consider either over-hyped. I could do without ever hearing another song by Wings on the radio, however.
Edit: Cash did a decent version of "Hurt", IMO, but... yeah, I think people only care about him now because of the albums he did with Rick Rubin honestly. He might well have faded into obscurity otherwise.
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 29, 2012 6:09:19 GMT 1
I agree with every word of that.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Dec 1, 2012 10:50:11 GMT 1
The HYPE...it;s to much!
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Dec 10, 2012 4:53:39 GMT 1
Speaking of Dragonforce...
Here's Eric "Erock" Calderone doing a cover of the Dragon Ball Z Kai theme and schooling Dragonforce on their own song (Through the Fire and Flames)
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Post by Cali on Jan 7, 2013 23:46:30 GMT 1
Whitesnake.
Fuck Whitesnake. Fuck them up, down, backwards, and in circles.
Listening to them, Poison, or Cinderella is like having a butt in your face with the cheeks all the way up to your ears.
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Post by jklinders on Jan 7, 2013 23:49:01 GMT 1
Whitesnake was over hyped? Really? honestly, I don't think anyone has ever said to me "wow, I just think whitesnake totally rocks?"
Besides aren't they as a band more or less off of everyone's radar?
they weren't totally horrid but they were hardly the shit either.
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Post by Cali on Jan 7, 2013 23:49:47 GMT 1
They were pretty popular, actually. Had a few Top 100 Billboard hits. God knows why.
And they always play on my classic rock station.
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Post by jklinders on Jan 7, 2013 23:55:02 GMT 1
Garbage was on the top 100 all the time in the 80s. On the radio too. I know they were popular, but a lot of crappy hair bands were.It could be worse, like I Ran, from A Flock of Seagulls *shudders*
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Post by Cali on Jan 8, 2013 0:02:11 GMT 1
Sorry to say Linders, I actually love the sound that band had, particularly 'Space Age Love Song'.
They were however, the worst lyricists ever, and their music videos were abhorrently stupid.
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Post by jklinders on Jan 8, 2013 1:29:14 GMT 1
that explains why you and I don't see eye to eye music.
'nough said.
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