Best rock song?

 

Why, Young's Needle and the damage done.

Dude, I'm never getting out of Strawbery Fields Forever. I just placed it on 9th spot when I made my Top 20 of all time (and what a pain in the ass that was. Even Top 50 proved out to be nigh-impossible...) so nyaaahh!

 

by the way, give me one modern songwriter (for the record, Frank Black/Black Francis era dudes are too old. They're, like, all middle aged or something) that's on par with

 

 

Well, you've certainly managed to take the conversation somewhere..? I hope the top 20 and 50 thing was meant to be ironic.

 

No, I'm dead serious. I'm quite... unorganized person over all, but I have this perverse thing for listing stuff. All time best movies, all time best singles, all time most influential artists, most idiotic thing I've seen this year etc.

 

As far as influence and the 60's and 70's thing, most art is influenced by what occurred previously whether it be because of extrapolation, blending, or counterpoint, so thats somewhat inherent.

 

Well of course. But you're missing the point. Innovations (whether it be wah-wah pedal or subverting typical song structures) in that era were numerous and there's a lot things about which you could say "never heard anything like that before".

 

Not so much today.

 

 

I guess there are people who listen to the same music there whole lives, people who read the same books, look at the same pictures, I just have a shorter attention span.

 

When I dig something they stay on my whatever you want to call them lists. (If forced to name) there's two albums I always go back to and those are PF's Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. In anime equivalents are Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and some other films e.g Grave of the fireflies. In literature... yeah, you get what I mean.

 

That doesn't mean I'm not searching for new stuff either; in anime last new item that made me go "O_o" and has really good chances at ending up in that list was Haibane Renmei.

 

 

As far as your songwriters list goes, you can just look back at my post in these music threads, everyone I listen to I think is a talented songwriter.

 

well, I'll check out some of them when I'm done with my current era of focus, namely late 60's important albums (last I got was The Kinks's The Village Green Preservation Society, awesome stuff). I've also been checking out some Zappa albums but so far I've been far too scared to give listen to them.

 

 

oh and not Kraftwerk as much as Brian Eno

 

I'm not so sure. There were many important 70's acts in formation of electronic music and I'd say Kraftwerk and Brian Eno are pretty much equal in importance.

 

 

Sielun Veljet - Peltirumpu

Edited December 21, 200817 yr by Xard

oh and I listen a lot to same stuff. Because it's ****ing awesome

 

Syd Barret - Here I Go

 

Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

 

First I thought it was meh

 

Now I've been listening it non-stop for whole day like true junkie

David Bowie - Breaking Glass

You're such a wonderful person

But you got problems oh-oh-oh-oh

I'll never touch you

Darling Violetta - Smaller God

 

Yes, I like that part of the game. Go die in a fire.

huh?

 

Esbj

Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams

Opeth "Ghost of Perdition"

TV on the Radio -- Lover's Day.

 

Haven't spent much time with it yet, but tentatively it seems to me that the critical hype about the new album is mostly deserved.

New Guns and Roses CD, Chinese Democracy. Next in the changer is Def Leppard, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.

i keep hearing the one song on the radio and i don't really care for it. of course, i'm from st. louis and i have a pretty good memory, too. my roommate at the time was at that concert in one of the rows effected, btw.

 

taks

Beirut ~ The Penalty

opeth - in my time of need

eagles of death metal - wannabe in LA

Semisonic - Closing Time

Anais - Peut'etre Une Angine (silly, silly French song)

deathstars - cyanide

Some christmas music on the radio. Sounds like Bing Crosby's White Cristmas.

Total Annihilation - The March Unto Death

 

This game has a top notch soundtrack. Just top. And I see a lot of Opeth and Deathstars and Beirut around here - this board's a good place to be

deathstars - synthetic generation

 

maybe you've just been a bad (or good?) influence on us sammy

Heh, if I had you'd all be listening to FotN all the time

 

Blue

Edited December 27, 200817 yr by samm

 

Too bad they split up, they rocked

Switchblade Symphony - Dissolve