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

ted the grass said:
I see...I will forget passion, soul and melody and concentrate on social commentary, career length and sobriety as my key drivers for selecting musical favorites/ ( Thats half my list gone!
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Career length should be pretty important to picking a top 15 -- I can make a tremendous greatest hits album from The Doors, and maybe 3 of them from REM and all would be better than the one useful record the The Stone Roses did, who's a band who will be rated higher by the folks here than either The Doors or REM. I love the Stone Roses, but I mean . . . come on.

I don't find much "passion" nor "soul" in the Doors, but I find them atmospheric and interesting with some great tunes -- but their schtick waned, they didn't grow, and then The Lizard King OD'd or whatever. REM I thought evolved much more musically. From Chronic Town up to Monster, they put out 11 quality pieces (including that first EP, plus the B-sides, plus the Greatest Hits) with the possible exception of Green.

As I said, I like the Doors fine -- I love Manzarek, who was a musical genius on some levels, and Krieger was good, but not Peter Buck, and Densmore was a nobody musically, not remotely close to Berry. And Mills is one of THE most underrated bassists around, even still.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
I liked the Doors fine, but REM was better at -- playing music, having a long career, releasing records with mostly all good songs without much filler, keeping songs under 5 minutes, eliminating idiot solos, having something interesting to say about social structure (though it took them five albums to accomplish that), and -- most of all -- not having a drug-addled wastrel drunk as a lead singer who never would have been anything had he not been good-looking . . . you know, shit like that.

At least Ray Manzarek produced X, a band no one else here put in their top 15 but me I'm guessing.
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No didn’t have X in my top 15 but you’ve reminded me to give Under the Big Black Sun another listen, love that album. Didn’t connect so much with their others but maybe I should have listened more?
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Career length should be pretty important to picking a top 15 -- I can make a tremendous greatest hits album from The Doors, and maybe 3 of them from REM and all would be better than the one useful record the The Stone Roses did,
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You've made lot of great statements on these musical threads, Foggy, but this may be your best yet.

Except for the "one useful record" bit, of course.
 
journolud said:
No didn’t have X in my top 15 but you’ve reminded me to give Under the Big Black Sun another listen, love that album. Didn’t connect so much with their others but maybe I should have listened more?
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UTBBS is my favo(u)rite of theirs, but Wild Gift is fantastic too ("Universal Corner" is my fave song of theirs, followed by "Blue Spark" and then a bunch of contenders for 3rd). Also very strong: Los Angeles and More Fun In The New World. 4 very, very good records was enough to sneak them into my list. Effectively no weak songs on any. And great live too.
 
RobMCFC said:
You've made lot of great statements on these musical threads, Foggy, but this may be your best yet.

Except for the "one useful record" bit, of course.
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"Useful" is a euphemism. It's in my top 50 for sure. What's more important (to me), my wife loves it too (we rarely see eye to eye on music), and even better, my oldest ADORES it -- as I may have noted, Stone Roses t-shirts are a regular choice for school.

There might be only 3 records my whole family can come together on -- Stone Roses, the soundtrack from "Hamilton" . . . . and the record I will pick when my turn comes up again on your thread :)
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
"Useful" is a euphemism. It's in my top 50 for sure. What's more important (to me), my wife loves it too (we rarely see eye to eye on music), and even better, my oldest ADORES it -- as I may have noted, Stone Roses t-shirts are a regular choice for school.
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God, they must have a real shortage of decent music in California!
 
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