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The Pogues, apart from that Christmas song that I didn't like at all, so I wasn't dying in hearing any more.
Stone Roses
Captain Beefheart, since they were mentioned earlier.
I wouldn't be able to identify any Iron Maiden or other metal bands apart from Metallica.
Also mentioned earlier, Robbie Williams. I don't think he made it big in America. I guess he lives in LA, though, so maybe I'm wrong and I heard one of his songs in a commercial or something like that and didn't know it was him.
Current big rock bands--Kings of Leon, Imagine Dragons, Chainsmokers, etc. No clue what they sound like.
Any major country star that is hugely famous in most of the US, but I think a lot of liberal coastal elites like me would be in the same boat. Brad Paisley? Florida Georgia Line? I have no idea.Last edited by Incandenza; 07-12-2017, 14:27.
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Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica, specifically) is something you really have to want to do. The first pass is - for want of a better term - virtually unlistenable. I mean, 'challenging' doesn't quite do it justice. It's experimental/art/math rock with really messy time signatures and convoluted structures. If you persevere and listen all the way through a few times, it reveals itself and is quite rewarding. But it's work, no doubt.
I'm not really selling it, am I?
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'Difficult Beefheart' is something of a myth imo. I'm assured that when I was a small child he and his group were my favourite music, until I grew old enough to want to distance myself from my parents' stuff. There's rhythm and melody there alright.
As well as Wouter's examples, Safe As Milk is a superb psychedelic pop/blues album. Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans N Moonbeams are slick pop/rock albums; the man himself was dissatisfied with them but the former is very good in places.
WOM doesn't mention that Troutmask is absolutely bursting with tunes, often three or more to a song. It's the only double album I can think of with no fat whatsoever.
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That and Moonlight on Vermont are the two I can listen to without having to really try hard. Most of the rest sounds like what other people must hear from Hex Enduction Hour while I’m boogying to Deerpark. I’ve got to be in the mood and willing to make the effort. A terrible bastard and Troutmask Replica was recorded under conditions of horrible cruelty, but then we have this fractured gem.
Mark E Smith sounds truly malevolent, but I’ve given up expecting musicians to be Politically Sound or decent people.
Billy Ocean is supposedly one of the nicest men alive (my ma had to finally usher him out of the local theatre box office after about 45 minutes of natter while he was introducing himself to the staff so she could sell the bloody tickets and he wouldn’t be late onstage). Wouldn’t give his records house room but.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 07-12-2017, 20:58.
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Have you heard Aumgn on Tago Mago yet, WOM? I know folk who claim to get a groove to that. There’s nothing to grab onto. At least Beefheart has hooks, Stockhauseny/musique concrete seems a whole new level of Difficult to my ears. Rule 1 of old Melody Maker was that whatever Simon Reynolds was describing didn’t sound as good as the prose. But I mostly had deaf ears back then, mostly.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 08-12-2017, 00:07.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostHave you heard Aumgn on Tago Mago yet, WOM? I know folk who claim to get a groove to that. There’s nothing to grab onto. At least Beefheart has hooks, Stockhauseny/musique concrete seems a whole new level of Difficult to my ears. Rule 1 of old Melody Maker was that whatever Simon Reynolds was describing didn’t sound as good as the prose. But I mostly had deaf ears back then, mostly.
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Lang Spoon wrote:Billy Ocean is supposedly one of the nicest men alive (my ma had to finally usher him out of the local theatre box office after about 45 minutes of natter while he was introducing himself to the staff so she could sell the bloody tickets and he wouldn’t be late onstage). Wouldn’t give his records house room but.
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Yeah, I can't count the number of times people have thought they're like...death metal or punk or goth or something because 'Grateful Dead' sounds morbid or edgy. They're, in many ways, like a funkier Eagles.
Now, I'll never forgive myself for writing that, because I loathe the Eagles, but the Dead's sound is generally Light Rock / Americana, but has also touched on country, bluegrass, blues, psychedelia and pop. But then they were around for 50 years, so they did a bit of everything.
[I'd bet a pint that you've heard 'Truckin' at least once in your life. The Dead did reasonably well in the UK in the early '70s, so I'd imagine there was some airplay happening.]Last edited by WOM; 08-12-2017, 12:14.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostA myth in what sense? You think TMR is an accessible/ unchallenging listen?
Add me to the folk who've never heard Bread or Ed Sheeran, and also Pearl Jam.
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Originally posted by My Name Is Ian View PostNot only have I never knowingly heard anything by the Grateful Dead, but I have really no idea what they're *supposed* to sound like.
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Well, depends if you like 4 minutes songs that are stretched out to 23 1/2 minutes, with shit-tons of noodling guitar work, drum solos, people walking off stage, walking back on, walking off, re-tuning their bass, etc.
Mrs WOM's patience was tested.
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Originally posted by Incandenza View PostCaptain Beefheart, since they were mentioned earlier.
Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View PostLang Spoon wrote:
If you're referring to The Going Gets Tough etc I agree, but Red Light Spells Danger..? Love really Hurts Without You..?
Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostFucker’s an MBE now.Last edited by Jah Womble; 08-12-2017, 14:45.
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I think that the only Pink Floyd song that I've heard in its entirety is "Another Brick In The Wall Part 2". Never listened to Dark Side of the Moon. No desire to. I've heard bits of some others.. "Money", for instance but I couldn't pick anything else out of a lineup.
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I've never knowingly heard anything by Kanye West, Stormzy , Metallica, Sleaford mods, alt j,Tupac or Marilyn Manson apart from his cover of tainted love, I probably know songs by all of them but haven't made the connection
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