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Non-Beer Discussion by CUREPERRY
I was just thinkin to myself today that it is amazing how music form the 70s and 80s has come back into style. Like I just went to The CUre's curiosa festival last month. Their new Cd is great. Ive been listening to it a lot at my job at UMG, but no one seems to mind. In fact the younger employees always ask me who I am listening to. Funny. A new generation in love with the cure.
20 years ago
One of the things I haven't seen mentioned here is Blues. My gawd! It's the beginnings of all rock music! Just listen to some Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and earlier artists like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and B.B. King. While I have to agree with others and say rap is NOT art, I have a basis for this belief. Old blues artists told a heartfelt story as well, but added wonderful music to go along with it. No need to just yell and scream and "get yer gat." On a personal note, Brett: when you go to Nashville, you need to go to Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar located in Printer's Alley and listen to Stacy Mitchhart. Awesome band, awesome guitarist. On a sadder note, drink quality beer before you get there, the selection is limited to Abita and macro swill.
This message was edited by pksmith at 9/19/2004 9:21:59 PM.
In Reply To #8 I became familiar with Roots on last season's Chappelle Show. I had no idea that they had 8 albumns so far. Anyway, I'm listening to the Roots fan station on Launch right now. In Reply To #9 Thanks for the tips on the Nashville spots. You and Bluez need to make plans to attend Memphis in May next year. Great blues & bbq, ans it's not that far of a drive for you.
In reply to #7. How can you say that the Cure was one of the FEW great bands of that era? The 80s was killer and loaded with great bands,many of which got things rollin. Here are just a few. Metallica,Slayer,Anthrax,Helloween,Voivod,Venom,Black Flag,Dead Kennedys,Oingo Boingo,Ministry,Godflesh,Man O War,New Order,Agent Orange,Exciter,Sisters of Mercy...Need I go on?
In Reply To #11 The '80's are the middle ages of Rock & Roll. The music of the decades preceding and subsequent to the '80s was simply more innovative, and to me, better. I do see your point about heavy metal though. If you like metal, you ought to stick with the '80s music.
In Reply To #6 While you raise some good points, Cott, it's the commercial stuff that has turned off alot of us "old timers" to the music style..(not that we were ever turned on in the first place)....I am sure there are talented (C)rap artisist out there who are good people and have good messages....hell, there may be even some Christian (C)rap artists for all I know....but all it takes is one stereotype with me.....A stereotype that evolved in (C)Rap's infancy back in the early 80s....I thought it was garbage then, and that's when everyone in my age group started to get into it....All I am saying is that I don't like the sound of the music...Maybe that's where I failed to make my point....yeah there could be some good that comes out of it along with the "kill the cops and the white people" scuzoids that seems to have more of an appeal, but I just don't like the sound of the music in general as well.....the same goes for the other music styles that I mentioned.....are all pop songs bad?....hell no.....there may even be one or two country songs that I might get into.....but I can tell you, they will be few and far between... Oiz
In Reply To #9 PK, you are speaking my language! The Blues are definitely where it's at! Especially Rockin Blues. Whenever I work out, I make damn sure I take my Stevie Ray Vaughn box set to the gym with me. It gets me going when I am on the crosstrainers. A little Robert Cray, Fab T-Birds, and some Alman Brothers mixed in, and you have one happy blues fan! Oiz
In Reply To #14 Hey, guys. New to the forum. Didn't know where to jump in, so here's where I started. Yeah, big fan of the blues. Love SRV, can't believe he's gone. Saw the Fab T-birds and The Allman Brothers live. Been to Memphis in May. Cottrell and Brett, I saw Johnny Cash live there. The man was a genius. Saw him in Jackson, MS, too, at Jubilee Jam. For real roots blues, though, you gotta find the sweaty, cramped, out of the way dives in the bad part of town. We used to go to the Subway Club in downtown Jackson, which didn't even OPEN 'til midnight. Jesse Robinson and the Knee-deep BLues Band, with Big Daddy Robinson, "500 Pounds of Blues" (R.I.P.) and Levon Lindsay (also R.I.P.). Who played the mouth harp most nights? Greg "Fingers" Taylor, who was one of the original Coral Reefers with Jimmy Buffett. Ah, those were the days...
In Reply To #15 Hey Lang, welcome to the site. Nothing like music to start some banter. Oiznop - just out of curiousity, did you check out that link I posted? I was curious what you would think of something like that. I find it's a hard song for anyone to hate. In an interview a couple months back, the drummer called it their "Freebird" because they hear "THE SEED!" screamed throughout their set at every concert. Again, not expecting you to like it, just wondering what you thought.