I feel that he was the most 'complete' pop musician in that he was technically excellent, an extraordinarily gifted songwriter, and in terms of live performance skills...
Well:
It's hard to argue with that. I love Bowie, don't get me wrong, but he can't match Mercury's command (and that's precisely the word) of an audience.
Albatross wrote: I feel that he was the most 'complete' pop musician in that he was technically excellent, an extraordinarily gifted songwriter, and in terms of live performance skills...
Well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0 It's hard to argue with that. I love Bowie, don't get me wrong, but he can't match Mercury's command (and that's precisely the word) of an audience.
Yes, but he never made Heroes. Granted, neither have anything on Brian Eno.
Albatross wrote: I feel that he was the most 'complete' pop musician in that he was technically excellent, an extraordinarily gifted songwriter, and in terms of live performance skills...
Well:
It's hard to argue with that. I love Bowie, don't get me wrong, but he can't match Mercury's command (and that's precisely the word) of an audience.
I feel David Bowie had more albums that were true classics (especially Heroes, Hunk Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars), the only Queen album I feel is a true classic is "A Night at the Opera" Queen may have had other solid albums or really
good songs but "A Night at the Opera" is there most consistent album in terms of quality songs (no filler imo), everything else you said I agree with though.
Albatross wrote: I feel that he was the most 'complete' pop musician in that he was technically excellent, an extraordinarily gifted songwriter, and in terms of live performance skills...
Well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0 It's hard to argue with that. I love Bowie, don't get me wrong, but he can't match Mercury's command (and that's precisely the word) of an audience.
Yes, but he never made Heroes. Granted, neither have anything on Brian Eno.
fething hipsters....
Mate, you should move over here and get a loft apartment in Manchester's Northern Quarter. You'd fit right in.
I feel David Bowie had more albums that were true classics (especially Heroes, Hunk Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars), the only Queen album I feel is a true classic is "A Night at the Opera"
That's probably a fair point, but the reason for that is the way Queen albums were structured around songwriting royalties - basically, they were more about ensuring everyone gets paid by having tunes on the record, which meant that some shocking songs ended up on Queen albums. You forgot about News of the World, though. Great Record. Also, Queen Live at Wembley is the best live DVD currently available. It literally changed my life.
Queen may have had other solid albums or really good songs but "A Night at the Opera" is there most consistent album in terms of quality songs (no filler imo)
Aha, here's the flip side of that coin, though - Queen, whilst they may have the less consistent albums, have a greater body of top-quality songs, The 'best-of' Test is usually a good measure of that. Bowie's is a double LP that could easily be a long single LP, whereas Queen have 2 full LPs of bona fide classic songs, with stuff still left out. It's understandable, though. They had four songwriters in the band.
Albatross wrote: I feel that he was the most 'complete' pop musician in that he was technically excellent, an extraordinarily gifted songwriter, and in terms of live performance skills...
Well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0 It's hard to argue with that. I love Bowie, don't get me wrong, but he can't match Mercury's command (and that's precisely the word) of an audience.
Yes, but he never made Heroes. Granted, neither have anything on Brian Eno.
I'm not sure if Brian Eno works as well as an example as his music is probably too intellectual or experimental to appeal to mainstream audiences, unlike Freddie Mercury or David Bowie who have mainstream appeal as well as being very competent musicians. Like one of my favourite
band is the Stooges but most people will never understand why I like them so much since it is too bizarre, primitive, aggressive for most people despite there tremendous influence on punk rock and being real modern for the time.
Eno can do pop music with the best of them though. Remember, he started out in Roxy Music, and has collaborated with a lot of artists on a lot of different projects.
Hell, ever hear of a little band called U2? A lot of their sound came from Eno.
Fafnir wrote: Eno can do pop music with the best of them though. Remember, he started out in Roxy Music, and has collaborated with a lot of artists on a lot of different projects.
Hell, ever hear of a little band called U2? A lot of their sound came from Eno.
OK fair enough, I don't know that much about Brian Eno (so I'll take your word on it) other than he seems to have released a lot of high quality materiel, I've only listened to few of his songs but I like what I've heard so far.
Right now, Hellacopters, Gluecifer, Turbonegro, and the supersuckers.
My speakers sound like they are dying... although that may be because it's so loud the orks on my table are literally moshing since the desk is shaking
I used to listen to Pennywise a lot when I was in my late teens (About Time is great album) but I forgot all about them until I discovered thier new album while doing some random Youtube searching. Its suprisingly good.
Queen may have had other solid albums or really good songs but "A Night at the Opera" is there most consistent album in terms of quality songs (no filler imo)
Aha, here's the flip side of that coin, though - Queen, whilst they may have the less consistent albums, have a greater body of top-quality songs, The 'best-of' Test is usually a good measure of that. Bowie's is a double LP that could easily be a long single LP, whereas Queen have 2 full LPs of bona fide classic songs, with stuff still left out. It's understandable, though. They had four songwriters in the band.
I'll take you word for it but I've never been a big fan of "best of" albums as they usually just consist of a band's or artist's most well known songs, when they could have more obscure but equally good songs that you're missing out on but could get from other albums.
...I've never been a big fan of "best of" albums as they usually just consist of a band's or artist's most well known songs, when they could have more obscure but equally good songs that you're missing out on but could get from other albums.
This I definitely agree with. I don't like "best of" albums not only because you miss out on some other lesser known songs from artists (I know plenty of artists who my favourite songs would never appear on a collection, for a variety of reasons), but also because, in a lot of cases, songs are put on a particular order on an album for a reason, and the arrangement is part of the presentation. A song can gain a lot of impact when put in the proper context, and lose that impact without it (and this is how you tell a good DJ from a bad DJ).
Of course, I'm the kind of guy who almost always listens to his music album by album, rather than just by picking specific songs, so your mileage may vary.
...I've never been a big fan of "best of" albums as they usually just consist of a band's or artist's most well known songs, when they could have more obscure but equally good songs that you're missing out on but could get from other albums.
This I definitely agree with. I don't like "best of" albums not only because you miss out on some other lesser known songs from artists (I know plenty of artists who my favourite songs would never appear on a collection, for a variety of reasons), but also because, in a lot of cases, songs are put on a particular order on an album for a reason, and the arrangement is part of the presentation. A song can gain a lot of impact when put in the proper context, and lose that impact without it (and this is how you tell a good DJ from a bad DJ).
Of course, I'm the kind of guy who almost always listens to his music album by album, rather than just by picking specific songs, so your mileage may vary.
This is also true, I listen to music album by album as well.
Their first album was pretty solid, but this one just blows it out of the water. If you like alternative rock/pop, you have to listen to this album (The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap).
A beautiful song made even more beautiful by Daisuke's amazing interpretation.
An absolutely amazing album, one of those real 'solitude' albums. Easily one of the best albums of 2011.
Additionally, Kashiwa Daisuke's 2012 album, Re: is easily my top pick for best album of 2012. If you like good music, you absolutely have to listen to everything he's made.
http://vimeo.com/57685359 Can't embed from Vimeo, so here's the URL. It's REM's 'Losing My Religion' melodyned from a minor to major tonality. It's weird but it works.
Just finished my first Listen-through of Cult of Luna's New album 'Vertikal'.
Amazing! Really chuffed with the sound they've achieved in this album, doesn't really have the crushing heaviness or intricate multi-layered guitars of Eternal Kingdom/Somewhere along the highway but it's songs overall are far more coherent and easy to listen to. If not quite reaching the heights of some of the breathtaking strecthes in some of their previous tracks.
Just like the band Meshuggah You've gotta listen with the Volume Low! This isn't headbanger music to annoy your parents, it's thought provoking stuff. Higher volume makes the Growl Vocals far too prevalent when, just like meshuggah, they are only there to complement the guitar work and drums and occasionally add flavour with lyrics.
I'm listening to Lexmark's hold music... Been on the phone for 30 minutes, and I'm getting paid to do this... AND I get to bill a client since it's not our printer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WM-x__BOk .. tried to do the actual youtube post but i had to use the url instead... IM loving this video right now both the actual music and the visual stopmotion effects
Please tell me someone else here knows Sigur Ros?
They're absolutely amazing... entrancing, dreamlike music, made even better by all their singing being in Icelandic, and therefore not understandable to me.
Simply beautiful... very calming, even if the music video isn't all that interesting.
You may find it interesting to note that not all of Sigur Ros' music is sung in Icelandic - it's sung in a combination of Icelandic and 'Hopelandic', a made-up language. I once saw them supporting Radiohead.
Whoops! I did know that, I don't know why I wrote that it's all in Icelandic, I was just meaning that they're Icelandic and all that.
It doesn't really matter either way to me, the only way I can tell the difference is that hopelandic is usually just 1 phrase over and over again...
Did you know () has only one line on the entire album, just pronounced slightly differently?
Probably the best non-second wave Norwegian Black metal band: Taake! First song on what one website reckons is the 2nd best Black Metal album (above Filosofem!)
Black Veil Brides. My friend made a post on FB making fun of them. So checked them out after approximately 8 PBRs and a couple glasses of wine and discovered they are in fact AWESOME.
Out of the Velvet Underground discography I think I still like Velvet Underground & Nico (I like it's eclecticism) and White Light/White Heat (the most experimental out of there albums) the most, but Velvet Underground and Loaded are still excellent records as well.
Out of the Velvet Underground discography I think I still like Velvet Underground & Nico (I like it's eclecticism) and White Light/White Heat (the most experimental out of there albums) the most, but Velvet Underground and Loaded are still excellent records as well.
VU&N is fantastic, Heroin and Venus in Furs are some of the VU's best songs, and White Light/White Heat is as well (it's even my ringtone ), hell, I still argue that WL/WH is one of those songs that can be translated into any style or genre and still be amazing, it's just one of those transcendent songs. But I feel that VU just goes together as a full album better.
Loaded is also totally worth checking out, if you haven't already. It's more chart friendly than their previous albums, and John Cale is gone, but it's still quality music with its own charm.
Also, if you can get your hands on Batacan 72, give that a listen too. Some great performances on that one, and the best rendition of Black Angel's Death Song that I've heard.
Cheesecat wrote:
Have you heard Another Green World? By far, my favourite of all of Eno's works. Becalmed is by far my favourite song ever.
As for what I've been listening too...
Just came out, and I've just started listening to it. I've been waiting for this album for a while.
Out of the Velvet Underground discography I think I still like Velvet Underground & Nico (I like it's eclecticism) and White Light/White Heat (the most experimental out of there albums) the most, but Velvet Underground and Loaded are still excellent records as well.
VU&N is fantastic, Heroin and Venus in Furs are some of the VU's best songs, and White Light/White Heat is as well (it's even my ringtone ), hell, I still argue that WL/WH is one of those songs that can be translated into any style or genre and still be amazing, it's just one of those transcendent songs. But I feel that VU just goes together as a full album better.
Loaded is also totally worth checking out, if you haven't already. It's more chart friendly than their previous albums, and John Cale is gone, but it's still quality music with its own charm.
Also, if you can get your hands on Batacan 72, give that a listen too. Some great performances on that one, and the best rendition of Black Angel's Death Song that I've heard.
I own Loaded in CD form, I love the album it shows the band has good pop sensibilities and can still sound clever doing more poppy material.
Have you heard Another Green World? By far, my favourite of all of Eno's works. Becalmed is by far my favourite song ever.
Yeah, that seems to be most critic's favourite Brian Eno haven't listened to it yet the only Brian Eno album I fully listened to is Here Comes the Warm Jets which can be surprisingly catchy for an art rock album (probably because it combines the infectious qualities of glam rock with art rock).
It's too bad these 2 songs didn't make it on any of there studio albums as I think they're brilliant Stooges songs, the songs on Metallic KO as well might have made for a good studio album with a bit more effort and better sound quality, although hearing Iggy Pop baiting the audience is pretty
fun but it's not an album I would recommend (Funhouse and Raw Power represent The Stooges the best).
"Talkin' Sh*t About a Pretty Sunset" by Modest Mouse
This one makes me so emotional. I'm usually the coldest guy in the room, but this makes me melt.
EDIT: Forgot to give name of band
Been waiting for a while. This does not sound like Underworld, very much its own sound. Gives me an early Brian Eno vibe (Warm Jets/Tiger Mountain/Green World/Before & After Science)
Must thank Albatross for posting their first single in this thread a while back. Been waiting for this to come out ever since. It's all kinds of amazing.
A huge mix list. Pretty much all the 'good' music in my media player dumped into a single playlist. What's playing RIGHT now? A techno remixed version of 'Kiss the Girl' from The Little Mermaid. (It was playing some Me First and the Gimme Gimmes when I clicked on this thread, but before I got around to reading it, the song ended )
I was bouncing around from video to video on youtube before I got a notion to listen to 'Hurricane' by 30 Seconds To Mars. Lets just say that the video is a wee bit weird and I won't be linking it here (NSFW)
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through I'm a horse soldier, eternal, through and through
And it's up and away in the morning! For the tears that our mothers have cried! But the sea she had called me, and you may call me balmy, but I went to her just like a bride! And it's up and away in the morning!
For some reason there isn't a good version of this song that isn't one of those annoying lyric videos or 240p. Even their record label couldn't be arsed to upload an HQ version of this.
Apparently this song is like seven years old but I never heard of it til I heard the dubstep remix a few weeks ago.
Teaser songs to Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich Kramer by The Ruins of Beverast, which is this year's personal hype album for me as I am pretty sure this is going to be album of the year for me.
Hate to pull the hipster card, but you've probably never heard of this band. Which is a real shame, since they were so damn good. Even more of a shame is that they broke up because they couldn't get big enough to keep performing. Haven't every really heard anything like them before, haven't really heard anything like them ever since. But god damn, they're just so good.
I don't really listen to songs, it's more like devouring albums
But;
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Daniel Powter
Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist
Pink Floyd - The Wall
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The true lives of the fabulous killjoys
I have been doing some musical sleuth work. Over the past few weeks a case has been building in my office against Katy Perry's recent Hit 'Roar'; An enjoyable enough pop ditty. However something about it was fishy, something sat i'll in my tummy. The Production sounded mighty familiar, after some time musing i cracked it.
The Production in Katy Perry's global hit 'Roar' was stolen from M83's 'Outro', of Persil Advert fame.
Listen to the uplifting, sweeping, notes during the chorus of Katy Perry's Female empowerment ballad. Most notably 3.01-4.00 (a pity as her vocals ~3.10 are strong in and of themselves).
Spoiler:
I don't need a timestamp here as those sweeping notes make up more or less the entire song.
^Heard a friend talking about lawsuits. Didn't realize that it was taken from freaking M83. I could understand people not noticing if it were from a band under the radar, but M83 is like... kind of popular (moreso than they deserve, honestly, but they're still decent).
V. V. Brown - Samson and Delilah
Really quite good.
Also this:
Vincent I Watson - Serene
The album title sums it up pretty damn well. Definitely worth checking out if you're into ambient music.
I've been really blown away by this album. I mean barring just because its something new from the singer (when was the last Ladytron album out again...), and well I have a thing for Glaswegian singers (in that I like that they're only comprehensible by everyone else when they're singing).
Wyrmalla wrote: I've been really blown away by this album. I mean barring just because its something new from the singer (when was the last Ladytron album out again...), and well I have a thing for Glaswegian singers (in that I like that they're only comprehensible by everyone else when they're singing).
Spoiler:
Nice find mate! Will need to check that out.
I love SoulwaxFM on GTAV and they've introduced me to so many new artists. One of my particular new faves is this track, this isn't the remix but it's still top quality. Will be checking out several albums because of this game.
Another album of AC OST reprises by Khota Hoshino and FreQuency. Holy crap, it's so amazing.
One of the most moving songs I've heard in a while, just amazing. The AC games tend to be very much love-or-hate, but the music is absolutely amazing, and entirely capable of standing on its own merits.
I can almost guarantee this song will get stuck in your head, it's always nice to hear something so genuinely joyous. Look out for the appearance of a certain 90's dance classic about halfway in. (I'm not sure the Americans will remember it, more of a European chart-topper).
I did know that, I don't know why I wrote that it's all in Icelandic, I was just meaning that they're Icelandic and all that.
), hell, I still argue that 
they remind me a wee bit of Nightwish and Within Temptation
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