Probably get shot down, but,
Joni Mitchell.
I get that she’s a great songwriter, but I just can’t get around her voice/vocal delivery. God knows I’ve tried…
Janis Joplin for me, never understood the hype with her.
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Probably get shot down, but,
Joni Mitchell.
I get that she’s a great songwriter, but I just can’t get around her voice/vocal delivery. God knows I’ve tried…
Every album after Justice is dead to me.... I played that album to death when it was released, I was horrified when I first heard The Black album... Goodbye teenage angst ! , Hello commercial sh*te !
Not a great deal of hype,bar joining the "27 Club".Janis Joplin for me, never understood the hype with her.
Not a great deal of hype,bar joining the "27 Club".
Sometimes you just have to close your eyes and open your ears.
She made her mark in the music industry with her voice not her looks.
Rate highly.
Yeah, I can't stand her voice!
I don't rate it at all.
If you don’t like Janis, you don’t understand the Blues.
Concur, there were some awesome songwriters and artists during the 60's and 70's that shaped and influenced future music far more than some people realize.
Just to name a few women (and not the most famous artists) of that era; Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Karen Carpenter, Dione Warwick - here's another:
I don't know man, you've just listed some incredibly famous superstars from that era!
Good country is great!
Bad country is ******* horrible. (Like any genre really)
I must admit I didn’t like it until a bit later in life, but there is some great stuff out there.
This is an example. The first song he ever wrote apparently.
I first heard it on the tv series ‘Ozark’ and just had to find it.
Yeah, his voice sounds very ‘country’ but such dark lyrics.
Radiohead are divisive. There is not one single thing pop or entertainment about them and they don’t give a fu**. I can see why people do not like them or get them. They just make their music. My fav band of all time but I doubt I know anyone else who is much of a fan.
I think there is also the issue that they are not necessarily even trying to put on “a show”. They are just doing their thing and you can take it or or leave it.
I always find this fascinating. No one expects Leonard Cohen to get people dancing in the aisles.
And Coldplay are the complete opposite. The entire thing is a show. The whole thing is pop and show biz and get them dancing in the aisles. Coldplay have some great tunes but at the end of the day it is commercial in every way from painting your pianos and guitars to match the album themes (pure sacrilege and a crime against guitars) to preplanned marketing JV’s.
I think everyone gets Coldplay - it is what it is - pure pop.
OK Computer still sounds amazing 25 years later - actually sounds more modern each year.
The Bends sounds great, but also like it's stuck in 2000 (I get it was realised in 1995), with Coldplay, Keane, Travis et al. Great album, but seemed to spawn a hell of a lot of diet coke pop rock bands.
Amnesiac is probably the only album that sounds remotely dated to me, but again, I think that is more based around the kinds of artists they were borrowing from. Portishead, Nightmares On Wax. The perfect late night electro-jazz album. Life In A Glass House is a Top 10 Radiohead track.
The Stones? Really? Sorry, have to disagree hard on that one.The Rolling Stones
Jeff Buckley
The Stones? Really? Sorry, have to disagree hard on that one.
Have a few listens to Sticky Fingers and tell me there ain’t brilliance running all the way through!
The 18 to 23 year olds at work talk as if Tones and I is the second coming of the Beatles or Elvis. I don't get it.
The 18 to 23 year olds at work talk as if Tones and I is the second coming of the Beatles or Elvis. I don't get it.
For what its worth, I don't hate her and I don't think her music is as bad as others say it is, I just find it interesting how they hype her up compared to her contemporaries that have bigger libraries. I can understand the appeal for say, Dua Lipa.Aside from the subjectivity of ones musical taste, I think the younger generation's 'celebration of mediocrity' is also at play here.
Toni Watson no doubt has talent, but the reality is, she's thus far simply produced one and half hit songs, one album, performed at a few local festivals, went to US for a few gigs and then, thanks mainly to Covid restrictions has not been able to do much else.
Also, in a ruthless industry always looking to promote the next 'diva', what is not helping her potential success is she is carrying some extra kilo's and above the shoulders the 'Janis Joplin look' is always a hard sell.
Having said that, her rags to riches story is marketable and if she can produce a few more catchy tunes to a niche market and earn a decent living, then good luck to her...
Modern Metal, and all its sub gemres, is every bit as bad as country in this respect. Possibly even more so.Right at the moment I could add any contemporary country - particularly American - band or singer.
How the f*** do people keep listening to the same story over and over again:
‘I don’t need to be rich to be happy I’ve got my high school sweetheart wife making me pumpkin pie and my American flag and that’s all I want.
Oh, and here’s a 1-4-5-dominant minor chord progression to go with it.’
Yeah true, though that blues w***ery is so OLD now and meh. Thing is, you could be the best guitarist since Hendrix, people genrally are not going to give two *s.I definitely understand why people don't really like John Mayer but he is an incredible guitar player. His 'Live in LA' concert is great, particularly the John Mayer Trio set which doesn't really have any of his more 'poppy' tracks but is more blues oriented. I do wish he had stuck down that path a bit more
so overrated.My "fallen out of love " band would be Oasis. Loved them back in the day. These days I rarely listen to them. I still think they are great musicians. But their music doesn't do much for me these days.
The Rolling Stones
Jeff Buckley