Blue Moon Top 100 Bands Artists - Full List of Artists (pg 287)

Dr Jacoby said:
Out of curiosity, where did Alice in Chains finish?

They may be depressing but I consider them to be the best grunge band ever. Staley and Cantrell were talented guys.
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Pos #202, 3 points and just the one vote.

Notice that the 3 most well-known grunge bands got in. The top 3 or 4 Americana acts are in, a handful of Aussies, a few soul acts. It won’t surprise you when I say the famous rock acts from 60s and 70s are to come. AOR isn’t well represented. And the reason why most countries/genres have been marginalised? Because it seems that most people on here seem to like indie stuff.
 
RobMCFC said:
AOR isn’t well represented.
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There is a musical god after all......
The most depressing musical era of my life was leaving school at 16 in 1979 and spending 4 years working in a parts department of a Ford main dealer and having wonderful Radio 1 piped through the whole garage on a daily basis 8 hours a day....
REO Bastard Speedwagon, Chicago, Foreigner, Toto, Styx, Journey, Survivor, Asia and you can also throw in the likes of Rainbow, White Snake, Ian Gillan and other poodle rock shite...... all soundtracked my 4 years of working in the worst job I ever had. Even today when hearing.one of those bands (which is hard to avoid living in Florida) I get instant flashbacks to being an apprentice in a job I despised
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
There is a musical god after all......
The most depressing musical era of my life was leaving school at 16 in 1979 and spending 4 years working in a parts department of a Ford main dealer and having wonderful Radio 1 piped through the whole garage on a daily basis 8 hours a day....
REO Bastard Speedwagon, Chicago, Foreigner, Toto, Styx, Journey, Survivor, Asia and you can also throw in the likes of Rainbow, White Snake, Ian Gillan and other poodle rock shite...... all soundtracked my 4 years of working in the worst job I ever had. Even today when hearing.one of those bands (which is hard to avoid living in Florida) I get instant flashbacks to being an apprentice in a job I despised
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Ha ha. Admittedly, it’s not my favourite music these days, but I do enjoy a bit of Survivor and Bon Jovi. Just a bit surprised that a few of these bands didn’t sneak into the lower reaches. I suppose Van Halen and Cheap Trick were the closest to this genre.

Some of these singers - e.g. Jimi Jamison could teach your boy Morrissey a thing or two about singing :)
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
There is a musical god after all......
The most depressing musical era of my life was leaving school at 16 in 1979 and spending 4 years working in a parts department of a Ford main dealer and having wonderful Radio 1 piped through the whole garage on a daily basis 8 hours a day....
REO Bastard Speedwagon, Chicago, Foreigner, Toto, Styx, Journey, Survivor, Asia and you can also throw in the likes of Rainbow, White Snake, Ian Gillan and other poodle rock shite...... all soundtracked my 4 years of working in the worst job I ever had. Even today when hearing.one of those bands (which is hard to avoid living in Florida) I get instant flashbacks to being an apprentice in a job I despised
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REO is the outlier — they did a couple of great songs before they went pop, literally and figuratively. Foreigner was good for a couple of decent ones early on too. Toto as well. I even owned that Asia record (they were a “supergroup”, remember?) In contrast I DETESTED Chicago.

But then there’s Styx and Journey, arguably two of THE most annoying bands in the history of music, largely because they were so popular here for so long. Journey especially as they are from San Fran (I apologize on behalf of my city for foisting them upon the universe). Even so, both had a tune or two that stuck in the ears.

The problem with ALL those bands is that they should have been one or two hit wonders but instead made music their careers and turned out utter dross. As bands, they sucked. They should have all been like Saga. Or John Waite. Or Mister Mister. Or Kajagoogoo. Or A-ha. Do a hit, take your money, then please break up and go away forever. Argh.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
REO is the outlier — they did a couple of great songs before they went pop, literally and figuratively. Foreigner was good for a couple of decent ones early on too. Toto as well. I even owned that Asia record (they were a “supergroup”, remember?) In contrast I DETESTED Chicago.

But then there’s Styx and Journey, arguably two of THE most annoying bands in the history of music, largely because they were so popular here for so long. Journey especially as they are from San Fran (I apologize on behalf of my city for foisting them upon the universe). Even so, both had a tune or two that stuck in the ears.

The problem with ALL those bands is that they should have been one or two hit wonders but instead made music their careers and turned out utter dross. As bands, they sucked. They should have all been like Saga. Or John Waite. Or Mister Mister. Or Kajagoogoo. Or A-ha. Do a hit, take your money, then please break up and go away forever. Argh.
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I love AOR and disagree with you massively on this front. They can sing, play and write songs with melody; might not been seen as original or some other pseudo shit but they sound good and that pleases me.
 
OB1 said:
I love AOR and disagree with you massively on this front. They can sing, play and write songs with melody; might not been seen as original or some other pseudo shit but they sound good and that pleases me.
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Yep, with you there. This is what I was saying about good songs and melody vs noise and difference for the sake of it.

I mean, I could record the sound of me scratching a cheese-grater with a rusty nail and it would certainly be different, but would it be worthy? I suppose some find beauty in “different” sounds, but I never understand why a lot of those AOR bands get bad press in the UK when others who wouldn’t know a good tune if it hit them on the head get hailed as the sound of a generation.

I suppose the critics always have to be seen to be flagging up something new.
 
OB1 said:
I love AOR and disagree with you massively on this front. They can sing, play and write songs with melody; might not been seen as original or some other pseudo shit but they sound good and that pleases me.
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Okay — you’re right — I maybe went a little overboard.

To each their own — but some bands have one or two good tunes or records in them and then the quality drops, a lot. I’d argue that was true for most of those bands. I listened to and like songs from all of them, even Styx (maybe not Journey but we overdosed on them here so that’s not their fault — the San Francisco Giant play “Lights” at EVERY home game). But I think all of them save Asia who was only around for a bit and REO who was actually really good when they were harder fit that pattern IMO.

Though now that I think about it, Foreigner did more than a few tunes I liked, actually (all destroyed by the incredibly irritating “Waiting For A Girl Like You”). Chicago did none however.

“Corporate rock” is called that for a reason. It’s not really a fair label but certainly when Big Radio started buying stations over here and hooked up with Big Labels, a lot of what I thought was pretty blah “Big Rock” got popular. I personally blame Boston for inventing it. And yes I like Boston. I like them the same way I like a Hostess cupcake. When i really want one, and I’m starving, it’s delicious, but (a) I realize I could have gobbled the same calories but had something much better and (b) I feel guilty about it afterwards.
 
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Really impressed with #16, appearing tomorrow morning. I was familiar with 4 or 5 of their hits but spent an hour listening to another 10 songs tonight.
 
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