bluetonium
Well-Known Member
U2 and UB40 stand out. Whenever red red wine comes on in particular I genuinely have to leave the room. Oh, and simply fcuking red and jamiroquai.
Shed 7 are one whose success always surprised me. I saw them earlier on in their career live and they we're so so poor that the crowd started singing "stick your rainbows up your arse" as they launched into to their best known song chasing rainbows, and ended up doing less than twenty minutes before retreating off stage.
As a rock and metal head I confess I have struggled to get into Pantera over the years which is odd as they should be my thing.
Other than that, pretty much every indie band especially the newer ones, I don't even know them. If we're in the pub or wherever, and my mate pipes up "ah, class tune, it's the whoever's" then I genuiunely haven't got a clue and struggle to see what is making them musically attractive. It's not that I mind the sound, it's just that I don't know them or their music, and from the whines coming out of the speakers I have no desire to investigate them further. I could try to name a few well know current popular bands which I'm told are proper class but just sound like feedback and whining to me, and my mates would have a heart attack.
But variety is the spice of life. In a way I'd speculate that music has, much like video games and books, become so easy to access and to produce that there is a wave of new material daily which really makes it hard to separate the good from the average from the poor.
One of my mates is a huge Nickelback fan, don't mind them too much myself and they do come in for a fair bit of unjustified criticism, but I think this song says a lot about them, plus just makes me think of dfs sofas adverts
Shed 7 are one whose success always surprised me. I saw them earlier on in their career live and they we're so so poor that the crowd started singing "stick your rainbows up your arse" as they launched into to their best known song chasing rainbows, and ended up doing less than twenty minutes before retreating off stage.
As a rock and metal head I confess I have struggled to get into Pantera over the years which is odd as they should be my thing.
Other than that, pretty much every indie band especially the newer ones, I don't even know them. If we're in the pub or wherever, and my mate pipes up "ah, class tune, it's the whoever's" then I genuiunely haven't got a clue and struggle to see what is making them musically attractive. It's not that I mind the sound, it's just that I don't know them or their music, and from the whines coming out of the speakers I have no desire to investigate them further. I could try to name a few well know current popular bands which I'm told are proper class but just sound like feedback and whining to me, and my mates would have a heart attack.
But variety is the spice of life. In a way I'd speculate that music has, much like video games and books, become so easy to access and to produce that there is a wave of new material daily which really makes it hard to separate the good from the average from the poor.
One of my mates is a huge Nickelback fan, don't mind them too much myself and they do come in for a fair bit of unjustified criticism, but I think this song says a lot about them, plus just makes me think of dfs sofas adverts