Music discussion thread

[pasag]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Because....?

His sense of humour, he was the most grounded Beatle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Concert for Bangladesh. Always hard to choose between John and Paul but George has always been a favourite.

[Swervy]

[QUOTE=BoyBrumby;1661373 He couples "try" with "sky", "do" with "too" & "can" with "man"; you can almost hear the rhyming dictionary being turned.



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hehe...do you think he needed a book to come up with those?

[James90]

Originally Posted by Swervy

hehe...do you think he needed a book to come up with those?

Reminds me of this

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by Perm

Have heard a couple songs from Chinese Democracy, fairly rubbish. I wouldn't bother with it, it's not even the real GnR.

As Gelman said, the blues is gun, I personally like most of the sinks I have heard from that album, I first heard some of them 7 years ago though so it will be a bit strange listening to them as "new" songs. Saw this version of GNR in 02 as well, agree that it's not real GNR, but Axl is such a frontman live, there's noone better

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[GIMH]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Beautiful Boy is a bit comfy, don't you think? Pretty enough, but a bit of a middle aged song by his standards. I wouldn't rank it amongst his finest work anyway.

WRT Imagine, I think you're right to some extent. Repetition has paled it quite a lot, but whenever I hear it I can't help but think that if John had've known it'd be so ubiquitous he'd have spent a bit longer on the lyrics. He couples "try" with "sky", "do" with "too" & "can" with "man"; you can almost hear the rhyming dictionary being turned.

Not a fan of Imagine's lyrics myself, too Marxist for my liking mind you

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

I don't think he was, if memory serves it was why he didn't leave the US from about 1971 onwards, because he was worried about getting back in what with his various "un-American" activities. Nixon's regime certainly spent a long time trying to deport him in the early-mid 70s.

As for McCartney staying close to his roots, I wouldn't have said East Sussex was that close tbh.

LOL, what I meant about Macca is that you always see him up here, comes and plays concerts in Liverpool and most importantly still has the same accent that he had 40 years ago

[cpr]

Originally Posted by pasag

His sense of humour, he was the most grounded Beatle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Concert for Bangladesh. Always hard to choose between John and Paul but George has always been a favourite.

Pretty much agreed tbh

[pasag]

http://www.nme.com/news/the-decemberists/39146

[BoyBrumby]

Here's one for our antipodean musos: what's happened to all the Aussie bands? In the 80s you produced some genuinely great bands: The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, The Church, Crowded House (kinda... ) with obviously Sir Nicholas's boys active too.

Since then: very little. Or very little that's made an impact up here. I don't mind Jet, but wouldn't dream of mentioning them in the same breath as the others. Even Wolfmother (not my cuppa char, tbh, but I at least knew who they were) have given it away now. Where have all the Aussies gone, people?!

[pasag]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Here's one for our antipodean musos: what's happened to all the Aussie bands? In the 80s you produced some genuinely great bands: The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, The Church, Crowded House (kinda... ) with obviously Sir Nicholas's boys active too.

Since then: very little. Or very little that's made an impact up here. I don't mind Jet, but wouldn't dream of mentioning them in the same breath as the others. Even Wolfmother (not my cuppa char, tbh, but I at least knew who they were) have given it away now. Where have all the Aussies gone, people?!

Yeah it's quite bare, Augie March are great but can't think of anyone else of note at the moment. On the songwriting front, I read this article a couple weeks back - link

[Top_Cat]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Here's one for our antipodean musos: what's happened to all the Aussie bands? In the 80s you produced some genuinely great bands: The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, The Church, Crowded House (kinda... ) with obviously Sir Nicholas's boys active too.

Since then: very little. Or very little that's made an impact up here. I don't mind Jet, but wouldn't dream of mentioning them in the same breath as the others. Even Wolfmother (not my cuppa char, tbh, but I at least knew who they were) have given it away now. Where have all the Aussies gone, people?!

You mean good or popular? There are quite a few popular Aussie bands around.

Aussie music scene is tough to make a go of if you don't play pub rock or rock of some sort. As someone in a fusion-type band, I can relate! Wasn't entirely upset when Wolfmother folded, though.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by pasag

Yeah it's quite bare, Augie March are great but can't think of anyone else of note at the moment. On the songwriting front, I read this article a couple weeks back - link

Interesting read, thanks. McLennan sounds interesting; comparisons to Scott Walker & Brian Wilson are high-praise indeed. Will have to check him out.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

You mean good or popular? There are quite a few popular Aussie bands around.

Aussie music scene is tough to make a go of if you don't play pub rock or rock of some sort. As someone in a fusion-type band, I can relate! Wasn't entirely upset when Wolfmother folded, though.

Ha, the former, definitely.

I mean, obviously I'm aware of your Silverchairs, your Grinspoons & your Savage Gardens and I'm sure they keep kept their record companies' accountants very happy, but peuuw.

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by pasag

http://www.nme.com/news/the-decemberists/39146

Boy do The Decemberists suck. They just plain suck. The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever did suck.

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by NZTailender

Boy do The Decemberists suck. They just plain suck. The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever did suck.

I'm a huge fan. I hate NME though. In fact, i hate all music critics. They're physically not capable of writing an article with no bull**** in it.

[pasag]

Originally Posted by NZTailender

Boy do The Decemberists suck. They just plain suck. The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever did suck.