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JR8 wrote: For the record I have wide taste, from gospel, to death-metal via baroque. The only requirement is that it be 'real' (which rules out 99% of todays chart music) and accomplished in it's own way.

poodlek wrote:

JR8 wrote: For the record I have wide taste, from gospel, to death-metal via baroque. The only requirement is that it be 'real' (which rules out 99% of todays chart music) and accomplished in it's own way.

What determines "real" music for you?

poodlek wrote:Any and everything as long as it's good/has entertainment value, so that includes Lady Gaga but excludes most of the kife you mentioned.

Ah ha, a rare bird on ExSg then, we might even be approaching some kind of agreement!

I studied music and growing up I was a total music snob and listened exclusively to classical and jazz.

Oh wow, cool! That's interesting, as I came to jazz very late (about the same time as gospel). My thinking was/is that you need to have quite a developed musical knowledge to 'get' what quite a lot of jazz is doing. Then again, if you studied it I suppose you had that young.


Consequently I am just now having a 90s renaissance and am discovering how totally awesome the Foo Fighters are.

Ah ha!!
I have just the Youtube link for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW2AKkwJb_c
Queens Of The Stone Age - Avon (Feat. Dave Grohl)

This is why the Foo Fighters are so bloody great, because everyone in that band is a bloody good musician giving it absolutely everything. No one is a passenger. Look at the above link and see how Grohl absolutely turbo-charges the QoTSA, it's classic. Sometimes I watch that and wonder if QoTSA can believe what Grohl is pumping out!

Also on my 90s playlist are Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Chili Peppers, Sublime, etc. My go-to artists these days are Elbow, Jamie Cullum, The Band, Ben Folds, Queen and Lyle Lovett.

Yep some stuff in there I like too. If favourite bands were a palette of different colours I might be on a slightly punkier side to yours. I have quite a lot of time for what might be considered conceptual music... hmmm.... suppose originality figures quite large for me. That is why the jury is still out on Lady Gaga, I really don't get her at all. Though she has gone from outright dismissal to there could be something here worth paying attention to.

Rock on!

JR8 wrote:

poodlek wrote:

JR8 wrote: For the record I have wide taste, from gospel, to death-metal via baroque. The only requirement is that it be 'real' (which rules out 99% of todays chart music) and accomplished in it's own way.

What determines "real" music for you?

Hi PoodleK, well I suppose we might all define that differently. To me 'real' means a musician with actual skills. They are musical artists, and so being able to do the equivalent of some loose form of an impression of say a Monet painting (scuse the pun) carries little weight.

So that rules out identikit boy-bands who are little more than stud-cattle run by giant corporations. Bleating 16 year old boys who sound like their balls are long overdue dropping. It rules out a vocalist who depends on Auto-Tune. It rules out a band that cannot play live anything rem(otely resembling what they've done in the studio. It rules out 98% of Asian pop that all seems to be whining on and on about unrequited love and the intended's parents not accepting the singer as worthy of their daughters' (and it is always a daughter it seems) attentions.

What kind of music are you into?

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Lady gaga is eccentric in her own right, she's an exhibitionist like Madonna Though Fantasia is also addictive. Bruno Mars is a master piece, that deserves recognition. Heavy Metal is just another world.

I love all music, but strangely enough, it must be live to have the lasting effects!

JR8 wrote:I read through it but to be honest it seems to be mostly people just naming songs which doesn't really do a heck of a lot for me.

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JR8 wrote:

poodlek wrote:

JR8 wrote: For the record I have wide taste, from gospel, to death-metal via baroque. The only requirement is that it be 'real' (which rules out 99% of todays chart music) and accomplished in it's own way.

What determines "real" music for you?

Hi PoodleK, well I suppose we might all define that differently. To me 'real' means a musician with actual skills. They are musical artists, and so being able to do the equivalent of some loose form of an impression of say a Monet painting (scuse the pun) carries little weight.

So that rules out identikit boy-bands who are little more than stud-cattle run by giant corporations. Bleating 16 year old boys who sound like their balls are long overdue dropping. It rules out a vocalist who depends on Auto-Tune. It rules out a band that cannot play live anything remotely resembling what they've done in the studio. It rules out 98% of Asian pop that all seems to be whining on and on about unrequited love and the intended's parents not accepting the singer as worthy of their daughters' (and it is always a daughter it seems) attentions.

What kind of music are you into?