Music Choices

[jlcct]

Another thread got me wondering something. What would be your most influential band? For me I'll say the Stone Temple Pilots and more specifically Core because I didn't listen to music before them. I wore out two tapes on bus rides alone. That was about a three year phase.

One more question. What song would you come out to if you were closing a game? ....I'd go with either Red from Chevelle or Passenger from the Deftones. ..or Shove It from the Deftones. If I were Joe Nathan it would have been Change by the Deftones. I like the Deftones

I'm soo sick of Enter Sandman although that probably is one of the coolest song names you'll hear. and the song was pretty good. ,,,,a million years ago.

[FrankEC]

I'd come out to F**k You by CeeLo.

[bravos4evr]

Most influential band on me? led Zeppelin no question about it.

If I was closing in the MLB I think I'd come out to either Glamorous by The Jesus Lizard or War Pigs by Black Sabbath

[Andy G.]

The most influential band on me is The Killers. Through them I have realized my appreciation for all the 80s music my dad's always been listening to: The Cars, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, New Order, David Bowie, Dire Straights, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, A Flock of Seagulls and so on.

[Lauren T.]

Music isn't enough of a driving force in my life for me to have a most influential band, but I've said for years my intro song would be Survivor's Eye of the Tiger.

[The Rap]

Most influential band? You guys are all too young because no one was more influential than the Beatles who played a key role in the sounds and style of a whole generation.

[Dreamscape]

But the discussion is the most influential band to one person, not music or other bands. Maybe you missed the premise.

[The Rap]

I understand but the Beatles influenced millions which is just multiples of one.

[Dreamscape]

:rolleyes:

[bravos4evr]

I bet Elvis was prolly the single most influential music figure....... He influenced billions (which is just lots of millions!) :-)

[seenjhon]

Good sharing. thanks.

[The Rap]

I bet Elvis was prolly the single most influential music figure....... He influenced billions (which is just lots of millions!) :-)
I don't agree with that althiough I admit he was influential. I remember 1956 and his debut on the Ed Sullivan Show with my parents and how they just sat there with their mouths open seemingly in shock.

[bravos4evr]

Jeez, they are even spamming our fun threads now!

[The Rap]

Rolling Stone magazine just came out with the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." The last pages exhibit the multitude of judges they used. It confirmed for me the Beatles status as the best ever as they had 5 of the top 15 which were;

1) Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles)
2) Pet Sounds (Beachboys)
3) Revolver (Beatles)
4) Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
5) Rubber Soul (Beatles)
6) What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
7) Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones)
8) London Calling (The Clash)
9) Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan)
10) TheWhite Album (Beatles)
11) Sunrise (Elvis Presley)
12) Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
13) The Velvet Underground and Nico (The Velvet Undeground)
14) Abbey Road (The Beatles)
15) Are You Experienced? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

[Dreamscape]

No Weird Al? A travesty!

[bravos4evr]

I like the Beatles a lot, but Sgt pepper is the most overrated album of all time. I would say Revolver, Rubber Soul and The White Album are all superior to that one.


These lists from Rolling Stone are wayyyyy to 60's heavy IMO. No led Zeppelin or The Clash, or The Ramones that high. No Pink Floyd in the top 10 (and they aren't my favorite, but C'mon, Darkside of the Moon isn't in the top 10?)

[The Rap]

Sgt Peppers changed music forever. The very fact that the Beatles went into the studio and began composing a long story and then consider all the new instruments that were introduced. I understand when those who are too young to have lived through that time fail to understand the overall effect the Beatles had on a whole culture but no band ever did like they did.

As far as the rankings take it for what it is a compilation of what many people in the music world felt. But it remains so subjective and do you know why? Because individual musical tastes ar so subjective.

Some great albums like "Tea for the Tillerman" (#208) by Cat Stevens and the first Santana album (#149) were like perfect albums from the first track to the last and should have been ranked higher.

[The Rap]

Darkside was #43

[Agent-X-]

I like the Beatles a lot, but Sgt pepper is the most overrated album of all time. I would say Revolver, Rubber Soul and The White Album are all superior to that one.


These lists from Rolling Stone are wayyyyy to 60's heavy IMO. No led Zeppelin or The Clash, or The Ramones that high. No Pink Floyd in the top 10 (and they aren't my favorite, but C'mon, Darkside of the Moon isn't in the top 10?)

I see these top lists as having the same problem that occurs when ranking top 100 video games of all time. Critics often have to grapple with ranking based on influence or overall actual quality. Some of the more recent video games are waaaay better than the original Super Mario Bros., yet that game still lands at #1 in several all-time top lists because it introduced elements to gaming that had never previously been done and it's still a lot of fun to play. Would I choose to play it over newer games? Probably not.

I actually don't like the Beatles much because of how staunchly they are hyped even today, and frankly I don't enjoy listening to their music. I imagine that's how quite a few younger gamers feel when they see Super Mario and Zelda cracking the top 5 lists instead of Halo, Elder Scrolls, and Modern Warfare. I'm sure it's a matter of creative perspective (revolutionary vs evolutionary improvement) and not just a matter of taste.

[Andy G.]

Rolling Stone Magazine is pretty bad. I've had people tell me that their non-music journalism is actually pretty good. I wouldn't know because I've never read it. But I read their album reviews sometimes, and I usually check out their "All Time Greatest" lists such as this one. Every time I walk away thinking about how silly the folks at Rolling Stone are. They're the worst kind of hipsters. I find their music journalism to be useless. It's not even good for entertainment purposes.

[Dreamscape]

Rolling Stone may have once been an authority on music, but it's really only readable for their non-entertainment articles...i.e. politics, social issues, etc. I realize how tough it is to write top 10/100/500/1000 lists...even if it's just one person. However, aren't all these lists static and foever changing? They are meaningless the second they are written.

[Chris_Moderato]

No Humanoids from the Deep (http://www.reverbnation.com/humanoidsfromthedeep)? A travesty!