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Hands down Hello by Adele.
Every time I hear "I must have called a thousand times" I die a thousand deaths.
Love that song!
Stairway to Heaven (not even in LZ's top 10)
Born In The USA (not much of his stuff is good, except for Born To Run which is a masterpiece)
Early Beatles stuff
Oh yes that reminds me --- anything with Bruce Springstein's voice on it.
Sounds like a never-ending regurgitation.
One day I did a radio show, started off with "for the rest of the morning we'll be playing music like this" and started "Born to Run". I let it go eight bars and cut the turntable power off so it slowed to a stop, then opened the mic and said "April Fool!" and put on something completely different.
That was satisfying.
Springsteen? How about Bob Dylan! I don't know how his whiney voice and run-together words became so popular.
I used to think that, at first. Then I dug the words out of his mind and then the voice didn't matter any more.
Fatter o' mact, it becomes a co-character.
That said, Dylan's most overrated song was "Like a Rolling Stone". Enough already.
Didn't we have a discussion in which you talked about how important vocals are, and that you think rap isn't really music because of the vocals?
Peter Frampton "Do you feel like I do" which I disliked immediately and after hearing it several hundred times totally despise it. Frampton IMO was also way over rated.
Sacrilege....Stairway to Heaven (not even in LZ's top 10)
Born In The USA (not much of his stuff is good, except for Born To Run which is a masterpiece)
Early Beatles stuff
Oh yes that reminds me --- anything with Bruce Springstein's voice on it.
Sounds like a never-ending regurgitation.
One day I did a radio show, started off with "for the rest of the morning we'll be playing music like this" and started "Born to Run". I let it go eight bars and cut the turntable power off so it slowed to a stop, then opened the mic and said "April Fool!" and put on something completely different.
That was satisfying.
Who DO you like?
Marisa Monte.
Amirite, CrusaderFrank o meu irmao?
But that would be an entry for most underrated. This thread is overrated -- it's supposed to be full of negatives.
Sacrilege....Stairway to Heaven (not even in LZ's top 10)
Born In The USA (not much of his stuff is good, except for Born To Run which is a masterpiece)
Early Beatles stuff
Oh yes that reminds me --- anything with Bruce Springstein's voice on it.
Sounds like a never-ending regurgitation.
One day I did a radio show, started off with "for the rest of the morning we'll be playing music like this" and started "Born to Run". I let it go eight bars and cut the turntable power off so it slowed to a stop, then opened the mic and said "April Fool!" and put on something completely different.
That was satisfying.
Who DO you like?
Marisa Monte.
Amirite, CrusaderFrank o meu irmao?
But that would be an entry for most underrated. This thread is overrated -- it's supposed to be full of negatives.
Peter Frampton "Do you feel like I do" which I disliked immediately and after hearing it several hundred times totally despise it. Frampton IMO was also way over rated.
I have to take issue with this. Recall Frampton was in the supergroup Humble Pie. Steve Marriot was basically a prototype for SRV in the 80's.
You have some good points about Frampton and the song. The thread did say over-rated not worst tho. He was talented but I just couldn't see that he deserved the hype when "Frampton Comes Alive" came out.
As far Do You Feel Like We Do, it was overplayed on FM radio sure, but it was brilliant. Verse and chorus were basically circle of 5ths progressions much like Neil Young stuff. The talk box requires the voice to follow played notes. Then the Leslie. Etc.
Not everybody's cup of tea, but you can't deny them their place in pop history. Totally agree about Elvira...
Anything and everything by the Beatles.
Anything by taylor swift or lady gaga.I got losing my religion by R.E.M.
God I hate that song
Anything and everything by the Beatles.
I have the book where someone broke down all the vocal harmonies Paul did, and all the guitar and bass Paul did. And sometimes drums. Paul is one of rocks geniuses. I would say ten times more intelligent and creative than Frank Zappa. Paul's songs (The Beatles) are the basis for much of American rock music.
Anything and everything by the Beatles.
I have the book where someone broke down all the vocal harmonies Paul did, and all the guitar and bass Paul did. And sometimes drums. Paul is one of rocks geniuses. I would say ten times more intelligent and creative than Frank Zappa. Paul's songs (The Beatles) are the basis for much of American rock music.
I would have hung an "agree" on this post but for the unfortunate contrast with Zappa.
FZ didn't have McCartney's facility for melody (hell no one does) but he was starkly original and brooked no pretentiousness, admirably so. In that trait he outpaced McCartney and most everyone else just as McCartney does in melody.
Agree on the import of the Beatles body of work, but without Lennon's collaboration (and harmonies), McCartney's music was all melody and no edge. Just as without PM, Lennon's music was all edge with little melody.
Btw his drumming was eminently forgettable. To wit, "Dear Prudence" and "Ballad of John and Yoko".
Anything and everything by the Beatles.
I have the book where someone broke down all the vocal harmonies Paul did, and all the guitar and bass Paul did. And sometimes drums. Paul is one of rocks geniuses. I would say ten times more intelligent and creative than Frank Zappa. Paul's songs (The Beatles) are the basis for much of American rock music.
I would have hung an "agree" on this post but for the unfortunate contrast with Zappa.
FZ didn't have McCartney's facility for melody (hell no one does) but he was starkly original and brooked no pretentiousness, admirably so. In that trait he outpaced McCartney and most everyone else just as McCartney does in melody.
Agree on the import of the Beatles body of work, but without Lennon's collaboration (and harmonies), McCartney's music was all melody and no edge. Just as without PM, Lennon's music was all edge with little melody.
Btw his drumming was eminently forgettable. To wit, "Dear Prudence" and "Ballad of John and Yoko".
I could never take Paul seriously after, "Just Another Silly Love Song".
Anything and everything by the Beatles.
I have the book where someone broke down all the vocal harmonies Paul did, and all the guitar and bass Paul did. And sometimes drums. Paul is one of rocks geniuses. I would say ten times more intelligent and creative than Frank Zappa. Paul's songs (The Beatles) are the basis for much of American rock music.
Elvira was written in 1966, by Dallas Frazier. It was covered several times (including by Kenny Rogers), but far and away the best-known version (#1 country, #5 Billboard pop, #1 Cash Box pop) was the 1981 Oak Ridge Boys recording.I believe that someone should do the world a major service, and gather up every song ever performed by ABBA, being careful not to miss the very last copy of "Dancing Queen", and put them in a large pile some place in Iraq, and drop a thermonuclear bomb on them, making certain that not even dust particles remain, and that everything is vaporized. If they would also include EVERY disco song ever produced, from "I will survive", through "YMCA", then I would vote them in as dictator of the world for life.
And in an unrelated event, find every surviving member of whoever the hell sang, "Elvira", and make them eat every tape, disc, and record.
Because most of the people who like it were as baked as he was?Stairway to Heaven (not even in LZ's top 10)
Born In The USA (not much of his stuff is good, except for Born To Run which is a masterpiece)
Early Beatles stuff
Oh yes that reminds me --- anything with Bruce Springstein's voice on it.
Sounds like a never-ending regurgitation.
One day I did a radio show, started off with "for the rest of the morning we'll be playing music like this" and started "Born to Run". I let it go eight bars and cut the turntable power off so it slowed to a stop, then opened the mic and said "April Fool!" and put on something completely different.
That was satisfying.
Springsteen? How about Bob Dylan! I don't know how his whiney voice and run-together words became so popular.
Buffett is actually quite underrated as a lyricist.
