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Post by kaybli on Dec 22, 2023 14:48:10 GMT -5
What's your favorite Nirvana song? All Apologies [MTV Unplugged Version]
Do you have a favorite Nirvana song?
All Apologies is awesome. Its kind of basic but my favorite is Heart-Shaped Box. |
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Post by music on Dec 22, 2023 14:50:42 GMT -5
I have that CD by TTWS. Walk On The Ocean is a great song. I must admit Green Day has grown on me over the years. “Longview,” “Basket Case,” “21 Guns,” “Good Riddance,” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” are my favorites. I kind of look at them as one of the last links from Punk Rock of the 1970s and the incoming Grunge phenomena. Concur on Green Day. The punk reaction was such a needed course correction in the 1970s. Rock and Roll is a big tent, but somewhere in the corner of that tent there needs to be some edginess, whether it's from Jerry Lee Lewis or James Brown or proto-punk garage bands that nobody remembers today like The Shadows of Knight or The Music Machine or first wave punks like the Sex Pistols or The Ramones on up through as you say Green Day and Grunge. Obviously there is always going to be plenty of room for straight-ahead rock or power pop or narrative singer-songwriters or R&B, soul, country-flavored or lyrical ballads or any other genres you can name. But without some of the eff-you brand the corporate moguls will always push in the direction of lowest common denominator pap music for people who don't care about music. I remember both "Shadows of Knight" & "The Music Machine" very well. "Shadows of Knight" version of "Gloria" did much better than "Them" (Van Morrison). "The Music Machine" with a fuzz bass on "Talk,Talk" and farfisa on "People In Me". |
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Post by Max on Dec 22, 2023 14:56:25 GMT -5
I'm an old school rock guy. Agree about Knofler, he is really good also like his solo stuff. Recently pulled out the first Bruce Hornsby and the Range CD. Forgot how good of a keyboard player he is. Love the Band, Last Waltz is a good CD. Jackson Browne is always good. For some more under the radar stuff I really like David Bromberg and David Lindley. Marc Cohn first CD is also outstanding IMO. I wore out the cassette tape of that Bruce Hornsby and the Range album, buying the CD later. That album came out when it had been some years since hearing piano in a pop song that wasn't by Elton John or Billy Joel. David Lindley was a savant that was brought to me and many others by Jackson Browne. Jackson Browne is an incredible songwriter. One of my favorite concerts was for his solo acoustic album. My wife and I saw him in San Jose with great seats right in front of him about twelve rows back. He had only a sketch of a playlist, taking requests for over two hours, going from guitar to piano to guitar again. At one point, he brought out a drummer just for a couple of songs. While most were yelling out his popular songs, I shouted out "Late For The Sky," my favorite album of his that I believe is pure genius from 1974, well before he was a household name. Jackson Browne heard me, searched out the crowd and made eye contact with me and smiled, almost like he didn't expect to hear the request. He put down his guitar, walked to the keyboard and began playing "Fountain of Sorrow" and then two others off the album, including "Late For The Sky." When he left the keyboard to go back to his guitar, he looked back at me and nodded his head. Sometimes you don't realize how special an artist is until he is totally stripped by all musical accoutrements except for a single instrument. Many of his songs, I now prefer that way. More than anything, Jackson Browne's lyrics set him apart, very personal and fraught with emotion that anyone who has lived life is able to sublimate and connect with memories both happy and tragic simultaneously. 55, that's an excellent and cool Jackson Browne story! One of my favorite comedy movies is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I was watching the movie in a theater that had an excellent sound system and it was the first time I heard Jackson Browne's song "Somebody's Baby". Over 40 years later that's still my favorite Jackson Browne song. |
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Post by Max on Dec 22, 2023 14:57:14 GMT -5
All Apologies [MTV Unplugged Version]
Do you have a favorite Nirvana song?
All Apologies is awesome. Its kind of basic but my favorite is Heart-Shaped Box. Great choice! |
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Post by music on Dec 22, 2023 15:09:17 GMT -5
I'm an old school rock guy. Agree about Knofler, he is really good also like his solo stuff. Recently pulled out the first Bruce Hornsby and the Range CD. Forgot how good of a keyboard player he is. Love the Band, Last Waltz is a good CD. Jackson Browne is always good. For some more under the radar stuff I really like David Bromberg and David Lindley. Marc Cohn first CD is also outstanding IMO. |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 22, 2023 15:11:00 GMT -5
55, that's an excellent and cool Jackson Browne story! One of my favorite comedy movies is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I was watching the movie in a theater that had an excellent sound system and it was the first time I heard Jackson Browne's song "Somebody's Baby". Over 40 years later that's still my favorite Jackson Brown song. There was a woman adjacent to where we were sitting, who shouted for "Somebody's Baby" for the entire concert. Finally, he played it right near the end. Jackson Brown wrote and performed that song expressly for the movie "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," which is simply wonderful in so many regards, filled with laughs and what are now cultural memes. Anyone from our era knows exactly what "You just don't know Damone" means. And, who didn't have a "Mr. Hand"?  |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 22, 2023 15:17:18 GMT -5
I'm an old school rock guy. Agree about Knofler, he is really good also like his solo stuff. Recently pulled out the first Bruce Hornsby and the Range CD. Forgot how good of a keyboard player he is. Love the Band, Last Waltz is a good CD. Jackson Browne is always good. For some more under the radar stuff I really like David Bromberg and David Lindley. Marc Cohn first CD is also outstanding IMO. Man, Mark Knofler may be my favorite guitarist. There is something about the holes he leaves, where the playing isn't that intrigues me. I can listen to "Sultans Of Swing" just for his guitar playing, over and over. The vibe he creates with melodic blues riffs, playing a self-taught finger-picking style on the lead guitar role. No one else like him. |
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Post by music on Dec 22, 2023 15:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Dec 22, 2023 15:22:49 GMT -5
I'm an old school rock guy. Agree about Knofler, he is really good also like his solo stuff. Recently pulled out the first Bruce Hornsby and the Range CD. Forgot how good of a keyboard player he is. Love the Band, Last Waltz is a good CD. Jackson Browne is always good. For some more under the radar stuff I really like David Bromberg and David Lindley. Marc Cohn first CD is also outstanding IMO. Man, Mark Knofler may be my favorite guitarist. There is something about the holes he leaves, where the playing isn't that intrigues me. I can listen to "Sultans Of Swing" just for his guitar playing, over and over. The vibe he creates with melodic blues riffs, playing a self-taught finger-picking style on the lead guitar role. No one else like him. My favorite guitar riff ever is from "Money for Nothing" |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Dec 22, 2023 15:24:59 GMT -5
Of the crooners, to me Dean Martin was hands down the best. Had a friend who knew many of them and said, Dean was also a really good guy, Sinatra not so much. I've always been a big Knopfler and Jackson Browne fan. I rank Knopfler among the great rock/blues guitarists. Right up there with Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King and Santana. Joe, Dean Martin was also a favorite of everyone in my parents house. Perry Como was a close second. There was a good reason why Elvis dubbed Dean, The King of Cool! And Steve McQueen who was also called the King of Cool once said, "not me, Dean Martin is the King of Cool!" |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Dec 22, 2023 15:26:07 GMT -5
Man, Mark Knofler may be my favorite guitarist. There is something about the holes he leaves, where the playing isn't that intrigues me. I can listen to "Sultans Of Swing" just for his guitar playing, over and over. The vibe he creates with melodic blues riffs, playing a self-taught finger-picking style on the lead guitar role. No one else like him. My favorite guitar riff ever is from "Money for Nothing" His playing on "Sultans of Swing" is legendary! |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Dec 22, 2023 15:35:32 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Dec 22, 2023 16:52:16 GMT -5
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Post by music on Dec 22, 2023 16:58:31 GMT -5
I joined a lead group in Pueblo that small business people use to give each other leads. Since there is an aroma therapy and a powdered juice owner in the group I figure that i’ll Do business with them if at all possible. Hopefully I won’t have to tell the aroma lady her products stink, nor the juice lady that her juices taste bad (that ain’t right)... If you live in CO, you might be familiar with this highly underrated band... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiTSJfHyjeM |
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Post by music on Dec 22, 2023 17:03:24 GMT -5
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