Since it's a Friday and a bye week for the Ducks, it's time for a traditional SportsTalk digression. Chatted yesterday about how insulting it is that crap like Bryan Adams, Journey and some of the other weenie groups are considered Rock & Roll. It's time to list our favorite albums by decade and your 5 most pathetic artists. Here's some food for thought. You can e-mail me you suggestions if you prefer not to post.
ST's Lame List(subject to alteration)
Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi
ST's masterpiece albums:
1960's: Beatles/White Album, Hendrix Experience, Stones/Beggars Banquet, Zepplin I & II, Doors/Strange Days, Who/Tommy & My Generation, Dylan/Blonde on Blonde, Creedence/
1970's: Led Zep/Physical Graffiti & Houses of the Holy, Creedence/Cosmos Factory, Who/Who's Next, Aerosmith/Toys in the Attic, Pretenders/Self Titled, Elvis Costello/My Aim is True, Police/Outlandos D'amour & Regatta de Blanc, Van Halen I, Jethro Tull/Aqualung & Songs from the Wood, Alman Bros/Live at the Fillmore, Clapton/Slowhand, Neil Young/After the Gold Rush, David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust, Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon, Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Ramones/Rocket to Russia, Sex Pistols/Never Mind the Bullocks, Stevie Wonder/Songs in the Key of Life, Boz Scaggs/Silk Degrees....OH WHO THE HELL AM I KIDDING...THERE ARE A MILLION FROM THIS DECADE
1980's: Pretenders/Learning to Crawl, Police/Ghost in the Machine & Syncronicity, Stones/Tatoo You.....
1990'S: Nirvana/Nevermind
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As much as I obsess over sports, thanks for diving into my area of expertise (as former radio host also, and having worked for years in the music biz...and just a walking-talking music encyclopedia in general).
My personal favorites:
1960s:
The Doors - The Doors
Self-titled debut had every song as a classic with enough depth to prevent it from becoming stale over time, and over time has shown just how ahead of its time it truly was.
1970s:
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
This was during the dark times for the boys, when they weren't selling any records and going through a very avant-garde experimental phase. Lightyears ahead of its time in terms of ethereal soundscape experimental rock, groups like Radiohead, Doves and Sigur Ros today are selling tons of records developing further on the sounds Brian Wilson was creating at this time.
1980s:
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Started initially as a four-piece hardcore group emulating DC's Bad Brains (hence the BB of their name) they switched to a hip hop trio (the 4th member was drummer Kate Schellenbach, who later formed Luscious Jackson-the first band signed to the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal Records) that was more of a heavy metal album than anything, but was so fresh and innovative to the burgeoning hip hop world that it was roundly accepted and proved to be a real watershed moment when hip hop began to be accepted by all as a valid form of music. The punk and hip hop movements grew up side-by-side in New York in the late 70s and the two intermingled openly in their development, but this record (along with Run DMC's s/t debut and Raisin' Hell) were the first popular examples of the rock and rap genres melding in a way that worked.
1990s:
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Political, angry, loud, dangerous, in-your-face, fresh, original, passionate...Everything that real rock SHOULD be, and openly embraced the exploding hip hop culture as well. It laid the foundation for what would be often imitated but rarely matched. Quality musicianship, incredibly intelligent lyrics, and definitely cranked to 11; it equally inspired people to get angry and politically active while at the same time read a book.
2000s:
Easyworld - This is where I stand
British power trio following the 2nd British invasion rock/electronic meld formula made popular in the late 90s by Feeder/JJ72/Electrasy/Elastica/Republica/Blur, etc., they were the forgotten group coming too late in the movement to make an impact, but this album stands out as one of those true hidden gems that everyone SHOULD have heard. Fronted by David Ford, who has gone on to a very successful solo career reinventing himself as the British Tom Waits-esque barfly singer-songwriter, Easyworld's material was only ever released in the UK and Japan so good luck finding it, but a record that I have never been able to stop listening.
...as for musical posers, fraudulent puppets on strings manufactured by record labels and shoved down a naive public's throats, "artists" that I refer to as nothing more than "freelance karaoke experts" there are so many out there it's tough to single out any as standing above and beyond the thousands of others of absolute crap.
Here are some that come to mind immediately in no particular order: Creed, Milli Vanilli, Avril Lavigne, Bobby Sherman, Leif Garrett, Limp Bizkit, Busted, etc.
And a special thumbs down to the once relevant artists who sold their souls and adhered to record label demands to go bubblegum pop: Jewel, Vitamin C (Eve's Plum), Blink-182, Sugar Ray (originally the metal band Shrinky Dinks)...
steve - on friday levi stubbs of the four tops past away, I can't help myself,Baby I need your loving,and the huge hit Ain't no woman like the one I've got, Now that was music. I do like your call on Boz Scaggs-Silk Degrees. Lastly I saw an interview with Kevin krohnin the lead singer with REO Speedwagon, he said that when they started out they were just a garage band, started getting some play time in the mid 70's on FM with the song "Ridin the storm out" and a couple of others. In 1980 they came out with High Infidelity, a couple of songs hit the pop stations, soon they were being called a sell out . As he said , some pimpley face music geek decided that they were a sell out because they now were being played by pop stations, as he said if making money makes you a sell out, he would rather be a sell out
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