Biggest disparity in a Rock and Roll classic song and commercial garbage by the same artist...

Ladies and gentleman, I submit to you.....

CCR (John Fogerty)       Fortunate Son >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Centerfield

If anyone puts anything from David Bowie in this thread I will find you and yell at you!

Did somebody pee in your Cheerios?

Classic.


Commercial tripe for the simple minded.

LooseGoose wrote:Classic.


Commercial tripe for the simple minded.

Obsession.

David Bowie Ziggy Stardust ----the Apex
David Bowie Dancing in the Streets ---- the low point

Great Song!



What the fuck is this.



did you miss Al B. Sure?

Steve and Roc. We'll be talking.....

Oasis 90's albums

Oasis 00's albums

kingstonlake wrote:Steve and Roc. We'll be talking.....

Five Years is such an amazing song. That whole album is perfect from the first chords to the last. Then the 80's came along. Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

kingstonlake wrote:If anyone puts anything from David Bowie in this thread I will find you and yell at you!

So, you start a thread and Immediately say you’re unwilling to accept someone else’s truth.
THIS IS A POLL OF LIES!!

steveschneider wrote:Oasis 90's albums

Oasis 00's albums

Don't Believe the Truth was mostly okay.

I'll play:
Journey

I.B. Fine wrote:I'll play:
Journey

It was all commercial garbage.

I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Elton John in his prime was a great show, but then he went 80s pop ballads and it was clear he’d lost it.

tGreenWay wrote:I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Elton John in his prime was a great show, but then he went 80s pop ballads and it was clear he’d lost it.

Philadelphia Freedom was the beginning of the end.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Elton John in his prime was a great show, but then he went 80s pop ballads and it was clear he’d lost it.

Philadelphia Freedom was the beginning of the end.

That’s a pretty fair assessment. Well, that and Don’t go breaking my heart.

Stones exile vs. some girls.

DWags wrote:Stones exile vs. some girls.

I'm saying the latter was in the same class, but it does have some great songs.

How many songs can rock like Lies?

steveschneider wrote:

kingstonlake wrote:Steve and Roc. We'll be talking.....

Five Years is such an amazing song. That whole album is perfect from the first chords to the last. Then the 80's came along. Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

But then the 90s rolled in....

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Floyd Robertson wrote:

DWags wrote:Stones exile vs. some girls.

I'm saying the latter was in the same class, but it does have some great songs.

How many songs can rock like Lies?

Some girls = disco stones. I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

I'm saying the latter was in the same class, but it does have some great songs.

How many songs can rock like Lies?

Some girls = disco stones. I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

I'm a big fan of Some Girls. Especially the title track. Now Tattoo You is a completely different story.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

I'm saying the latter was in the same class, but it does have some great songs.

How many songs can rock like Lies?

Some girls = disco stones.  I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting   Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:

Some girls = disco stones.  I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting   Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:

Some girls = disco stones.  I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting   Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

Keith's best song. Also love Far Away Eyes and Miss You.

I get why Dwags didn't like this album in 1978. It did make Stones fans out of people that never listened before but it's a really good album.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

I'm saying the latter was in the same class, but it does have some great songs.

How many songs can rock like Lies?

Some girls = disco stones. I’ve softened over time, but couldn’t stand my friends blasting Shattered or respectable from the first fucking stones album they ever bought.

I was a huge fan of that album.

duffy munn wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

Keith's best song. Also love Far Away Eyes and Miss You.

I get why Dwags didn't like this album in 1978. It did make Stones fans out of people that never listened before but it's a really good album.

One of Keef's best lines described many people about then...... 


"I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well"

Classic.



Whatever this bullshit is.

Metallica - Anything prior to the Black album

Metallica - Anything from the Black album, Load and Reload

TheReal_LWS wrote:Metallica - Anything prior to the Black album

Metallica - Anything from the Black album, Load and Reload

The Black album was fine. They changed their sound but it's still a fucking solid album. After that they went to shit.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:
Classic.
Whatever this bullshit is.

The bullshit in this post is calling "Billy Jean" rock and roll.

Dr. Strangelove wrote:

steveschneider wrote:

Five Years is such an amazing song. That whole album is perfect from the first chords to the last. Then the 80's came along. Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

But then the 90s rolled in....

]

I have some respect for the Tin Machine phase. At least it was a sound and he was actually trying to do something. During most of the 80s he just sucked. Thank god he came back.

LooseGoose wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:
Classic.
Whatever this bullshit is.

The bullshit in this post is calling "Billy Jean" rock and roll.

Yeah, I don't care what you think. Sorry.

Rocinante wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:

But then the 90s rolled in....

]

I have some respect for the Tin Machine phase. At least it was a sound and he was actually trying to do something. During most of the 80s he just sucked. Thank god he came back.

Shocking.

Rocinante wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:

But then the 90s rolled in....

]

I have some respect for the Tin Machine phase. At least it was a sound and he was actually trying to do something. During most of the 80s he just sucked. Thank god he came back.

Yep. I enjoy his last album but the 70s are off the charts. He was cranking out five star albums one after the other.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

The bullshit in this post is calling "Billy Jean" rock and roll.

Yeah, I don't care what you think. Sorry.

You keep rocking to that.

Anyone a fan of Genesis?
Talk about extremes, Lamb Lies Down to Invisible Touch.

Jimmy Buffet White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean to Cheese Burger in Paradise.

Fleetwood Mac was 3 different bands, so hard to really compare, but the Peter Green version was a blues band, Bob Welch version was Bare Trees era, then Buckingham Nicks and .... pop goes the weasels.

Can't really blame any of these guys/girls, I like money, too. Just goes to show, the mass public prefers to spend money on crap music.

duffy munn wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

LooseGoose wrote:

I always liked "Before they make me Run" off that album.

Keith's best song. Also love Far Away Eyes and Miss You.

I get why Dwags didn't like this album in 1978. It did make Stones fans out of people that never listened before but it's a really good album.

Seriously, I've softened on it, maybe because now it's a "classic", but when I first heard it, I hated it. Here's an article which takes in old criticisms of it, that maybe I felt like at the time.

Maybe it was me not liking the fact that many of my friends picked this album up and finally became a stones fan, when they could have been playing exile full blast for 6 years. I don't know. It's good and it's bad I guess. Like some of the songs, but some, to me just suck. I mean do you realize how many people became stones fans on "Miss you"? Jesus But before you read a review of some girls, here's an explanation of why exile is so damn good.

"Exile found the Stones finally becoming that which they'd always wanted to be, that which they'd always worshipped: existential bluesmen crafting art-for-art's-sake out of nothing more than desperate necessity. For all of their country flirtations in this period the band was always, at its core, a group of rhythm and blues musicians. And during the recording of Exile on Main Street they became, for a small meaningful moment, the greatest R&B band in the world. If this sounds hyperbolic, listen to the uptown din of "All Down the Line," with its raucous out-chorus ("won't you be my little baby / for a while"--the Ronettes with a time limit) and soaring horn lines. Or the heart-stopping ferocity of "Happy," Keith Richards' autobiography distilled into three minutes. Or the glorious, lusty grandeur of "Tumbling Dice," simply the finest soul tune Jagger and Richards (or damn near anyone else) ever wrote and arguably Charlie Watts' finest hour."

https://www.popmatters.com/151478-rolling-stones-some-girls-deluxe-edition-2495916961.html

DWags wrote:
Seriously, I've softened on it, maybe because now it's a "classic", but when I first heard it, I hated it.   Here's an article which takes in old criticisms of it, that maybe I felt like at the time.

Maybe it was me not liking the fact that many of my friends picked this album up and finally became a stones fan, when they could have been playing exile full blast for 6 years.    I don't know.   It's good and it's bad I guess.  Like some of the songs, but some, to me just suck.  I mean do you realize how many people became stones fans on "Miss you"?   Jesus    But before you read a review of some girls, here's an explanation of why exile is so damn good.  

"Exile found the Stones finally becoming that which they'd always wanted to be, that which they'd always worshipped: existential bluesmen crafting art-for-art's-sake out of nothing more than desperate necessity. For all of their country flirtations in this period the band was always, at its core, a group of rhythm and blues musicians. And during the recording of Exile on Main Street they became, for a small meaningful moment, the greatest R&B band in the world. If this sounds hyperbolic, listen to the uptown din of "All Down the Line," with its raucous out-chorus ("won't you be my little baby / for a while"--the Ronettes with a time limit) and soaring horn lines. Or the heart-stopping ferocity of "Happy," Keith Richards' autobiography distilled into three minutes. Or the glorious, lusty grandeur of "Tumbling Dice," simply the finest soul tune Jagger and Richards (or damn near anyone else) ever wrote and arguably Charlie Watts' finest hour."

https://www.popmatters.com/151478-rolling-stones-some-girls-deluxe-edition-2495916961.html

Exile on Main Street may be the quintessential rock album of all time IMHO
The disparity between that and Some Girls is what makes Some Girls seem so shitty, and I hated it when I first heard it (Stones doing disco?!) though in hindsight it's a decent album, just can't hold a candle to EOMS