Yes and Genesis have both written simple songs with Melody, energy , attitude and lyrics though !What is your definition of 'good'? If you just mean musicianship or technical virtuosity then we might as well all just listen to Yes and Genesis churning out 15 minute guitar solos and be bored to sodding tears. Good music doesn't have to be complex. Melody, energy, attitude, lyrics, all have roles to play.....
I was thinking of putting in an animated GIF with Harry Hill looking sideways to the camera, shrugging his shoulders.Obviously got their followers on here, but seventh when The Who are 12th...... looks down and shakes head slowly.
Personally I think you can only make an assessment on what you've got. Paul Lake played relatively few games for City. Didn't stop him being a quality act. I can think of two bands that I have high regard for based on fairly minimal output. The Stone Roses are one. The other is The La's. And, as has been said many times on this thread, this is about favourite artists rather than great ones.....albeit that sometimes you get 2 for the price of 1! I will have a meltdown though and lament the death of society if Oasis top the poll ahead of The Beatles, The Stones and Bowie! ;-)In The Alarm's case, they wrote music about a subject they were passionate about and it comes out in their performance. I like Mike Peter's voice in a way that I don't like Ian brown or Paul Weller's voice (although Weller did go on to make an excellent solo album in Wild Wood) and the band have a big sound that I like. They also achieved what they did without a loud of journalists ramming it down people's throat, and that can be said for a lot of bands.
On "Spirit of '76", they are closer to Springsteen than U2 (and Springsteen is my number 1 artist) and on the Change album, they have a huge guitar sound which sounds fantastic. I didn't have them in my 15 by the way, but they'd be in my top 50. I think their music is rooted in rock and roll in a way that The Stone Roses isn't, and I'm more often than not, I'm going to like a band with that sound.
Look, I accept that I am in the minority and as I said, I have no problem with The Stone Roses being in there. It's just that I can't think of a wider gap between output /achievement and adulation in modern rock and pop. I would rather say these things than just label things as "shite" or "best ever" without any context - I don't expect people to agree with me.
Great music will always find a way of making it to the mainstream. Arctic Monkeys made the number one from downloads and word of mouth over the Internet. They made the news at the time for doing it without the marketing.That's the bit I'm really struggling with. To my ears, there's nothing on that qualifies as great.
It's average, untrammeled indie rubbish. IMO, Chris Whitley and Counting Crows made the greatest debut albums of all time, but most people won't have heard them, they weren't peddled by the press and so naturally they'll never be considered as such.
Where's the heart, emotion and poetry on The Stone Roses debut? Obviously we look for different things and that's fine, but anyway, I've said my piece and I'll leave it there.
The LAs are from Liverpool?Ask a Mancunian forum (albiet with many non mancs on it) to list favourite bands and people get shocked manc bands feature.
I m sure if this was liverpool forum The La's, The Coral and Zutons would all featre.
If we were in brum, neds atomic dustbin, wonderstuff and Elo would get a mention.
As the saying goes it is what it is.
I think we're all agreed - it's an open forum and music is subjective right up until the point where we disagree with it........... ;-)Personally I think you can only make an assessment on what you've got. Paul Lake played relatively few games for City. Didn't stop him being a quality act. I can think of two bands that I have high regard for based on fairly minimal output. The Stone Roses are one. The other is The La's. And, as has been said many times on this thread, this is about favourite artists rather than great ones.....albeit that sometimes you get 2 for the price of 1! I will have a meltdown though and lament the death of society if Oasis top the poll ahead of The Beatles, The Stones and Bowie! ;-)