Here's a link to the original thread and here's a link to the second, more obscure edition.

 

This is the third installment! Hopefully we can get all of the following to get an artist of the day thread? It'd bring more discussion to the music folder anyway.[li]Guns N' Roses (GnR was an artist of the day here at NMB)[/li][li]Bruce Springsteen & the East Street Band[/li][li]Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers[/li][li]Heart[/li][li]Metallica[/li][li]The Rolling Stones[/li][li]Duran Duran[/li][li]U2[/li][li]Aerosmith[/li][li]Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band[/li]

 

I have no opinion on most of those bands, since I don't listen to any of them on any sort of regular basis.

 

However, I would like to say that I recently went to a Misery show; Misery is a Metallica cover band, and holy fucking shit, it really made me sad to realize that Metallica is so far removed from what they used to be.

 

Some guy behind me actually yelled "play St. Anger!" and I had to try pretty hard to resist the temptation to whirl around and slug him one. Of course, they didn't play anything later then "Enter Sandman", and that was the only Black album tune they played, so it was all good.

 

When they played "One", I lost it though. What a great tune.

Guns N' Roses - At their best, they were one of the most unique sounding bands of the 80s-90s. At their worst, they were a self-absorbed glam band who got on my nerves. I am in the camp who believe the Illusion albums should have been condensed inot one album.

 

Bruce Springsteen & the East Street Band - I think I like four or five BRuce Springsteen songs. 'Born to Run' is fucking great.

 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Now, I love Tom Petty. Seriously, at every point in his career, I can pick about 3 or 4 songs that totally rock. Favorite tracks include 'American Girl', 'I Need to Know', 'Rebels' and 'Don't Do Me Like That'

 

Heart - Man, I used to have the biggest crush on Nancy Wilson. As for the music? Maybe some select 70s songs but the 80s stuff is MOR trash.

 

Metallica - Everything prior to 1989 ruled the earth. Everything after 1989 sucked... HARD!

 

The Rolling Stones - The release of 'Beggar's Banquet, 'Let It Bleed' and 'Sticky Fingers' may be the best trio of abck-to-back albums ever released by any band (inc. the Rutles). They have great songs from every decade they have performed except from the 2000s. Seeing them in concert was one step in making my life complete.

 

Duran Duran - I hated hated hated them in the 80s. Looking back, I think they had some great pop songs.

 

U2 - Big fan of their 80s catalogue. Like every album, or at least severla tracks, through Zooropa actually.

 

Aerosmith - 70s Aerosmith was one of the greatest bands of all-time. 80s and 90s Aerosmith is embarassing even if it is the stage in which they made the most money. Fucking pitiful. Too bad they didn't OD and pull the plug when their catalogue wasn't infected with crappy ballads and bad puns for album titles.

 

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - I have about 40 minutes worth of Bob Seger on my computer that is some of the most powerful music I have ever heard. The rest of his stuff does nothing for me.

Thanks for trying, Goodhelmet, but it would appear that these threads aren't as successful as their wrestling counterparts. They just don't seem to be too popular. Maybe it's because we all listen to different shit or maybe it's because the community isn't as high on music as they seem to be at other parts of the internet.

I refuse to give up!!!!

 

Hell, look at half the threads I make that go unnoticed in ANY folder.

 

I think everyone here likes music.

Guns N Roses - Hell of a band, great vocalist, but terribly inconsistent, and I think they only pulled off one truly great album, but what an awesome album it was! I'm also in the goodhelmet camp that UYI as one CD with the fat trimmed would have rocked the house, but that's not what ended up happening. Speaking of that album, the alternate version of "Don't Cry" totally should have been the real version of it. Some of the worst songs off the set were picked as singles, and The Spaghetti Incident is too embarrassing to live. I always loved Axl's voice, just because he can conquer so many vocal styles and personalities within his style, all without straying from who he really is. Other vocalists, even the great ones, tend to sound the same on all their tracks, but Axl had an uncanny ability to sing whatever the material demanded, and I think it's his greatest strength. I don't think it's their best song, but I think "Welcome To The Jungle" is the best example of what the band itself can do when they're left to just have fun and throw it all out there.

 

Bruce Springsteen - I only like a handful of songs, but "Born To Run" is one of the best songs of its time, and it's easily the best thing he ever did. I like the workingman approach and I'm even a fan of his politics, but I don't know that a lot of his message really translates to good music like it should. Even "Born In The USA" was taken as this ultra-patriotic song when it's actually a lament about the way Vietnam vets were being treated upon returning to the US. That said, listening to the song as it is, not as its interpreted, it's a hell of a time capsule of liberal America's sentiment in the early 80s. "I'm On Fire" is another song of his I really like, but I've heard it covered in better fashion. I don't have much use for his catalog beyond that.

 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Man, they ROCK! Like goodhelmet, I can think of at least a handful of great songs from any era of his career. My personal favorite is probably "Breakdown", just because I think that's the song where his voice tells the story better than in anything else I've heard from him, although there are cases for other songs too. Too many people buy his Greatest Hits albums and not enough people own Damn The Torpedoes, a great album that I grew up listening to because my hippy parents would blare it in the mornings when getting me up for school.

 

Heart - Ann Wilson has some amazing vocals, and I really like their 70s stuff. Great band backing up her singing ability, and some great singles, even if they never really put out a blowaway album. One album of all their best stuff would be remembered as one of the best albums of the 70s, but taken apart, they're not nearly as powerful. "Barracuda" and "Magic Man" are two of my all-time favorite songs.

 

Metallica - Very sad. When I hear their modern music, it makes me think they never realized why they were so fucking great early on. It wasn't because of the velocity of their music or that they played hard and fast, it was because they didn't put together songs, they put together compositions. The S & M album tells all about their downfall, because everything post-Black Album sounds like shit and everything prior to it is amazing. I always saw them as the rock and roll Beethoven/Bach hybrid, even if they weren't quite as theatrical. The songs used to be journeys and now they're just masturbation sessions. Listen to "Fuel" and "Master of Puppets" back to back. Yeah, the instrumentation on both is strong and the pace is pretty similar, but the difference tells you everything you need to know. "Fuel" has go-nowhere, mean-nothing lyrics that don't really suit the style of the song at all while "Master of Puppets" is a rollercoaster, and you almost want to jump into the song and save the guy from himself. I don't know that they ever fully understood what it was they were doing and why what they were doing was so well-received. They were once fighting the tide until they realized they could make more money joining in.

 

Who are the Rutles?

 

Rolling Stones - Love them. Most of what I could say about them is just common sense, so I don't really fully know how to elaborate. I think they've managed to age without totally embarrassing themselves -- granted, their peak is long gone, but compare their reputation in 2005 among their longtime fans to that of Metallica and tell me who has done a better job of at least staying true to their music and message. I don't know if Mick Jagger is the best frontman of all time, but without him, whoever is the best frontman of all time wouldn't be nearly as good.

 

Duran Duran - They had some really good pop songs that were lost amidst the advent of MTV and screaming girls, which is unfortunate, because they were actually pretty good at what they did. "A View To Kill" is a terrific song that I think has aged really well. I think history has been kind to them in terms of giving them credibility, although I think one of the reasons they look so good by contrast is because they were so much better than all the crap boy bands that have followed them. Their videos couldn't really be touched by anyone not named Michael Jackson or Madonna at the time; in fact, scratch that, as Madonna's videos improved after Duran Duran had come and gone.

 

U2 - They don't have a single album where I like every track, but they also don't have a single album where I don't at least like something, most recent release excluded. I think Bono becoming the posterboy for commercial activism has hurt them in some ways, and I think their politics turn off people who would love their music otherwise. They have never been afraid to change with the times or experiment, which is nice, but to say the results have been mixed every time they've done that is an understatement to say the least. "New Years Day", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "All I Want Is You" and Those Three Songs From Joshua Tree are my favorites from them.

 

Aerosmith - Love the 70s stuff. Drugs almost always result in great music, and sobriety typically disappoints. Sad, but true. The one song they've had that I've liked post-70s is "Livin' On The Edge", and I think Alicia Silverstone was as responsible for their commercial success in the early 90s as the music was.

 

Bob Seger - "Turn The Page" is the best life-on-the-road song I can think of, and I love "Strut" as kind of a funk-rock anthem, but I don't have much use for anything else he's done.

Loss, why did you ask who the Rutles are?

 

Anyway, the Rutles are a spoof on the Beatles as performed by the Monty Python guys. The movie takes a look at the mythical band and their rise and breakup. The movie also features guest appearances from the SNL and SCTV guys from the 70s and even George Harrison himself. I'll make you a copy of the movie and send it your way next trade.

I asked because I had no clue who they were.

What I meant was, why did you bring them up in the first place?

 

 

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...lx6ibkg96akx~T1

Because you mentioned them when you talked about the Stones.

 

The Rolling Stones - The release of 'Beggar's Banquet, 'Let It Bleed' and 'Sticky Fingers' may be the best trio of abck-to-back albums ever released by any band (inc. the Rutles). They have great songs from every decade they have performed except from the 2000s. Seeing them in concert was one step in making my life complete.

I have no idea why I put Rutles there when it should have been Beatles.