I like the Keith Morris stuff with Black Flag but I can’t really bother giving a shit about the rest, especially most of the Rollins stuff. That said, I think a lot of his stuff with ROLLINS BAND is as cool as is it gets. Really aggressive but groovy and has some funky soul up in it.
Type O always bored me. I think Peter Steele was awesome and such a funny guy, but Type O just never connected. I did love Carnivore, though, haha!
Bad Brains is one of those bands that I always WANTED to like more than I could. The live energy is really something else, so I’m sure I’d have a much different attitude had I grown up in the area and witnessed them in the raw.
I totally get it because the songs I like (mostly their singles) I REALLY like but the rest of the songs are worse than “meh.” but I could see why they have a following for the people who like all of their songs the way I like a few of them.
I found Pete Steeles voice as a cool novelty. Their cover of summer breeze is perfect, I was never really rabid over Type O. They’re ok, I don’t dislike them.
You and I are in perfect sync on this one. Don’t get it, don’t like it.
1000%. I absolutely respect and admire his position and significance in the history of free speech versus censorship and pushing boundaries. The reason I often reference him, though, isn’t really because I’m the “odd man out” amongst a bunch of comedy fans, but it’s because 99% of the time, people dropping his name haven’t actually listened to him. It’s mostly tedious as fuck. God bless him, but if someone tells you they’re a fan and they’re under 75 years old, they are almost certainly full of shit.
Absolutely!!! Nobody under 75 has any frame of reference or proper context. Definitely respect for him for what he did for the 1st amendment.
I wonder how he would have turned out had he lived. Carlin adapted and stayed relevant a lot of people dont know he was getting arrested too for free speech along with bruce.
It might be time for me to give Waits’ music a shot again.
I had felt the same way about Captain Beefheart for a long time and a year or so back “Trout Mask Replica” finally clicked for me. I see Waits as kind of an extension of a similar trajectory, so maybe things will be different this time.
I think with Waits it’s more his voice and the atmosphere that comes with the music than it is the specific music or his lyrics. My first intro to Tom Waits was Primus’ Tommy the Cat and based on that particular song I was not a fan. I really don’t like that song anyway but Tom Waits didn’t help it either. But then Mrs. Smrf was already into him when we started dating and I learned that tommy the cat was not representative of his body of work. He kind of reminds me of a Leonard Cohen who never left the bar…
Oh yeah, I forgot to diss Tool. I like some songs here and there, but why albums like Undertow and Ænima are regarded as high as they are, I’ll never understand. I see some fans describe it as “progressive”, but there’s just nothing progressive about at least those two records. Same-y riffs everywhere, all the songs are in the same key, all the vocal lines are variations of 1 or 2. Bleh! That said, I’ve heard a few tracks I like from Lateralus, so I should probably give that one at least another chance before I completely write them off.
You might start with his first couple of albums which were more of a jazzy beatnik thing. He went fairly syrupy in the late '70s, doing an album with Crystal Gale for a soundtrack, then met his wife who introduced him to Beefheart and changed everything.
Dream Theater has a few really good records and one of the best songs ever in “Pull Me Under” but yeah, I agree. Awake is a banger front to back, then you have stuff like Falling Into Infinity that’s just prog for prog’s sake~
Agree with FLA. They have some cool songs but of the rivet Big Four they’re easily the Anthrax of the bunch.
Radiohead is the band I’ve tried the longest to like and have failed countless times. They have some cool jams and Kid A is a fucking KILLER album but I think I either missed the sweet spot of mental development or haven’t gotten there yet.
The first several Dream Theaters are REALLY good. They each had a distinct sound. For me everything since Systematic Chaos feels recycled and uninspired. Not bad, just not as memorable as what came before.
Radiohead is a band that I really want to explore. Apart from the singles, I don’t know much about them. My better half owns all of them on CD. I guess KID A is a good starting point?
“Kid A” may actually alienate you a bit at first – either that, or it’ll color your perception of Radiohead as one thing, when in fact they’re mostly different.
Start with “The Bends.” It’s an accessible entry point – epic guitars, great vocals, full-on 90s alternative. (The previous album, “Pablo Honey,” gave us “Creep” and little else.) Then go for “OK Computer,” which is seminal. End with “Kid A.”
Things begin to fall off after “Kid A.” Its follow-up, “Amnesiac” (kind of a companion to “Kid A”) doesn’t get enough credit. “Hail To The Thief” is too long, “A Moon Shaped Pool” is too quiet, “The King Of Limbs” is slapdash, and the love for “In Rainbows” just leaves me perplexed.
Kid A is the best in my opinion. Creative peak. But you should start with OK Computer, then move to Kid A and Amnesiac. The other albums are meh… but I enjoyed A Moon Shaped Pool.
And Jonny Greenwood, the guitar player, I think, as some nice solo stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPdP6JvfE8
That’s where I started. I’d heard “Creep,” but I never bothered buying Pablo honey. But “Fake Plastic Trees” was epic. So, good that I bought the CD, but the rest of the album didn’t rate next to Fake Plastic Trees. I just recently heard “high and dry” again and it was not bad… I should dust off the bends and give it another chance. I think I set the expectation bar so high after trees that there is no way I coulda liked it. It’s easily been 25 years since I’ve listened to anything other than trees off that album. (not counting high and dry the other day)
On my 3rd complete spin of the bends and it’s definitely better than I remember, but I certainly don’t understand the hype around them or the loyal cult following.