Lamest Rock Band ever?

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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Strong Bad wrote: »

    Also don't get the hate for Rush! Moving Pictures is brilliant.

    When you live in Canada and all radio stations are required to play a certain percentage of Canadian content and literally every third or fourth song is a Rush song...the hate grows exponentially fast.
    With an April Wine song or two jammed in between.

    I'm an early Rush fan.Most anything after Grace Under Pressure is of little interest to my ears.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    2112, AFK, and Hemispheres all the way. The debut album and Fly By Night are both good too though.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited March 2016
    FTGV wrote: »
    nbrowser wrote: »
    Strong Bad wrote: »

    Also don't get the hate for Rush! Moving Pictures is brilliant.

    When you live in Canada and all radio stations are required to play a certain percentage of Canadian content and literally every third or fourth song is a Rush song...the hate grows exponentially fast.
    With an April Wine song or two jammed in between.

    no Tragically Hip thrown in?
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  • MrBuhl
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    nbrowser wrote: »
    Strong Bad wrote: »

    Also don't get the hate for Rush! Moving Pictures is brilliant.

    When you live in Canada and all radio stations are required to play a certain percentage of Canadian content and literally every third or fourth song is a Rush song...the hate grows exponentially fast.

    Is that true? I never knew - healthy doses of Triumph as well I imagine!
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  • daddyjt
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    Mikey081057 wrote: »
    U2


    Every time I see "The Edge" mentioned in the context of greatest guitarists, it makes me throw up.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited March 2016
    Sometimes (especially in on winter nights, when the atmospherics are most conducive) I sometimes listen to CKDO in (edit) Durham, Ontario. They have a pretty pleasant pop/rock oldies format. I did notice that they play relatively a lot of Canadian music, but I didn't suss that it was mandated. That said, I have found the 1960s/early 1970s Canadian pop very interesting, as most of it was unknown (to me, at least) in the mid-Atlantic at the time.

    I.e,, it ain't all bad. Given their format, they play little if any Rush, thankfully.

    Edit: hey, here's their real-time (more or less) playlist :- )
    (sorry 'bout the lack of formatting)

    9:32 AM Stuck In The Middle With You Stealers Wheel
    9:29 AM Carefree Highway Gordon Lightfoot
    9:26 AM Devil With A Blue Dress On/good Golly Miss Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
    9:19 AM Witchy Woman The Eagles
    9:11 AM Sunglasses At Night Corey Hart
    9:08 AM Take The Money And Run Steve Miller
    8:49 AM Danger Zone Kenny Loggins
    8:41 AM All Day And All Of The Night The Kinks
    8:37 AM Two Tickets To Paradise Eddie Money
    8:26 AM Oh My Lady The Stampeders
    8:22 AM There's A Kind Of Hush Herman's Hermits
    8:13 AM Take Me Away Prism
    8:10 AM China Grove The Doobie Brothers
    7:56 AM Don`t Forget Me (when I`m Gone) Glass Tiger
    7:52 AM Werewolves Of London Warren Zevon
    7:41 AM My Girl The Temptations
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  • mhardy6647
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    oh, just to be clear -- I am at best a lukewarm Led Zeppelin fan (I really like a smattering of their interesting songs, and I can generally take 'em in small doses), but I wouldn't consider them lame. Second-rate, yeah, but not lame.

    I mean, heck, side 2 of that untitled album with the guy with the sticks on his back on the cover is pretty darned entertaining.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2016
    Glam rock in general sucked; but I NEVER understood the "Ramones" thing. Seriously? I heard better potential at high school talent shows and local garage bands. Lump KISS in there too...bubblegum horse manure. You couldn't pay me $500 to sit in a room and listen to Ramones music for 30 minutes; it just wouldn't be worth the pain.

    Call me crazy, but I like genuine talent in my music--and singers that can actually sing.
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  • mhardy6647
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    I concur on both counts, FWIW.
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  • notified
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    The problem with most bands,and that directly relates to the use of LP's is that most of the albs suck,Most bands really only become truly enjoyable when you sort thru their catalog and mix a copy of their best work...The quality of sound may be reduced but the quality of music significantly improves!
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  • afterburnt
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    steveinaz wrote: »
    Glam rock in general sucked; but I NEVER understood the "Ramones" thing. Seriously? I heard better potential at high school talent shows and local garage bands. Lump KISS in there too...bubblegum horse manure. You couldn't pay me $500 to sit in a room and listen to Ramones music for 30 minutes; it just wouldn't be worth the pain.

    Call me crazy, but I like genuine talent in my music--and singers that can actually sing.

    So no Young or Dylan for you?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2016
    You nailed it.

    However, in their defense---they were instrumentally/arrangement sound.
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  • mhardy6647
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    edited March 2016
    I run hot & cold on Neil Young -- which is actually probably an endorsement. I think he's one of those guys (as is Dylan) who tries actively to confound expectations.

    That said, is Neil Young lame? Yeah, kinda. Literally.
    Shortly after Neil's birth in 1945, the Young family moved to the rural town of Omemee, Ontario, which Neil would later fondly describe as a "sleepy little place."[26] (The Youngtown Museum in Omemee, recently moved to Lindsay as part of Old Gaol Museum, is a tribute to Young).[27] Young suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario.[28] Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, then aged nine, also contracted the virus in this epidemic.[29]

    - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young#Early_years_.281945.E2.80.9366.29
    emphasis added

    sorry, I couldn't help but throw that in.
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  • Nightfall
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    The Ramones in the lamest rock band ever thread? In the same breath as Nickleback and Poison? Lord have mercy...
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • afterburnt
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    The Ramones were not lame by virtue of the fact that they meant to be lame lol
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2016
    afterburnt wrote: »
    The Ramones were not lame by virtue of the fact that they meant to be lame lol

    You're on a roll! If I want teen agnst, I'll go back in time and slap my son in the back of the head again...LOL
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  • Nightfall
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    steveinaz wrote: »
    I'll go back in time and slap my son in the back of the head again...LOL

    :D
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited March 2016
    Hey Steve

    tell me you atleast kind of like this song? :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0Hvt6hTmA

    for me this is one of those songs that has the potential to clip a Tweeter! B)
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  • FTGV
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I run hot & cold on Neil Young -- which is actually probably an endorsement. I think he's one of those guys (as is Dylan) who tries actively to confound expectations.

    That said, is Neil Young lame? Yeah, kinda. Literally.
    Shortly after Neil's birth in 1945, the Young family moved to the rural town of Omemee, Ontario, which Neil would later fondly describe as a "sleepy little place."[26] (The Youngtown Museum in Omemee, recently moved to Lindsay as part of Old Gaol Museum, is a tribute to Young).[27] Young suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario.[28] Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, then aged nine, also contracted the virus in this epidemic.[29]

    - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young#Early_years_.281945.E2.80.9366.29
    emphasis added

    sorry, I couldn't help but throw that in.
    Omemee is only a 20 min drive from my place but I have never stopped in to the museum.Not a big Neil fan.
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  • polk500
    polk500 Posts: 1,171
    Meatloaf man how I hate his music, But the wife loves it and she know how to stream music so I can't break the CD...

    Cheers
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  • Toolfan66
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    I'm glad I'm old enough to enjoy the fine wine of music yet young enough to enjoy the mad dog 20/20 of music...
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  • afterburnt
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    MD 20/20 is fine wine, is it not?
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  • Toolfan66
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    Uh, No!!
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    edited March 2016
    Blue Oyster Cult

    (Did anyone see The Stoned Age)?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ww_7siV07g&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_ww_7siV07g&has_verified=1
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  • FTGV
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    Godzilla,one of the dumbest rock songs ever.
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  • mhardy6647
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    I have to say one word in defense of Meat Loaf (besides his debut in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show") -- OK, five words.

    https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw
    I couldn't take it any longer
    Lord I was crazed
    And when the feeling came upon me
    Like a tidal wave
    I started swearing to my god
    And on my mother's grave
    That I would love you to the end of time
    I swore I would love you to the end of time

    So now I'm praying for the end of time
    To hurry up and arrive
    'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
    I don't think that I can really survive
    I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
    But God only knows what I can do right now
    I'm praying for the end of time
    It's all I can do (ooh, ooh)
    I'm praying for the end of time
    So I can end my time with you

    I think that's the only Jim Steinman song I can actually stand to listen to :- )
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,221
    I love Bat out of Hell, it's a fantastic album...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    pre-"Bat"...

    https://youtu.be/pMRl55U0eDw
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    I was able to endure 1:11 of that Ramones song. I didn't hear anything that any garage band (pick one) couldn't play with 5 minutes of practice.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited March 2016
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I was able to endure 1:11 of that Ramones song. I didn't hear anything that any garage band (pick one) couldn't play with 5 minutes of practice.

    In fairness to the Ramones -- I think that's just what they were goin' for.
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