Music General Music Discussion Catch-All

[Ace]

[odessasteps]

At least for today, lunchtime chain restaurant music list has been postponed due to to Xmas music. 

[DragonZombie]

Nirvana is alright, but Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were better.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

33 minutes ago, DragonZombie said:

Nirvana is alright, but Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were better.

Alice in Chains was the best of all, but all four were very different bands who all got lumped together simply because they were all from Seattle. 

[RazorbladeKiss87]

26 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Alice in Chains was the best of all, but all four were very different bands who all got lumped together simply because they were all from Seattle. 

If we're talking "grunge" bands in general, my pick for the best is The Melvins. AiC and Soundgarden are close behind. Nirvana has lost a lot of their appeal as I've gotten older.

[assfax]

My new obsession:  Jasmine records releases of these old awesome ultra raunchy early bluesman sides.  I'm starting slow, I've copped the Wayne Bennett, Pat Hare and Earl Hooker ones.  I was on a massive Gatemouth Brown kick lately as well.

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie]

Listened to AIC's "Black Gives Way To Blue" today. That album and the title track hits as emotionally hard as it did when it first came out in 2009. It's widely known the song is a tribute to Layne Staley. Reading about the song's background and what Jerry Cantrell went through is pretty gutwrenching. Fortunately, I've got my younger cat sleeping next to me to cheer me up. 

[twiztor]

On 11/30/2024 at 10:20 AM, odessasteps said:

At least for today, lunchtime chain restaurant music list has been postponed due to to Xmas music. 

my condolences.

[odessasteps]

2 hours ago, twiztor said:

my condolences.

Oddly, only about one in four places since then have been playing Xmas music. Perhaps that changes as we get closer. 

[RazorbladeKiss87]

On 12/3/2024 at 2:58 PM, odessasteps said:

Oddly, only about one in four places since then have been playing Xmas music. Perhaps that changes as we get closer. 

Our store radio has been sneakily mixing the Christmas tunes in. I prefer that honestly. Hearing "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" once every few days isn't too bad. 

[zendragon]

Body Count Perform Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" on Fallon

[Travis Sheldon]

19 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

Our store radio has been sneakily mixing the Christmas tunes in. I prefer that honestly. Hearing "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" once every few days isn't too bad. 

That song was recently made the official holiday song of the state of Tennessee.

[Pete]

Nicko McBrain is retiring as Iron Maiden's full time drummer after 42(!) years. What a run that man had.

[Travis Sheldon]

32 minutes ago, Pete said:

Nicko McBrain is retiring as Iron Maiden's full time drummer after 42(!) years. What a run that man had.

Well damn, I remember when he was the "new guy".

Way to go out on top, I suppose.

[DragonZombie]

Soundgarden Non State Actor

https://youtu.be/XR7W3gbdn3Y?si=Uz00huoHF8-_JpPh

[Cobra Commander]

category: songs I didn't realize were from this year and sound like they could have been from awhile ago..

"Ruined Me" - Muni Long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSPRJjf6Wpg

[Cobra Commander]

the "event tickets" thing on YouTube videos is how i'm now aware that there's gonna be a Ludacris concert on December 30th in... of all places.. Corbin, Kentucky

and I thought that was an interesting location for a Luda concert before I went to Wikipedia and found that Corbin was a sundown town after a race riot ran the local black population out of town..

If Vice was still doing documentaries like the one they had on the guy who managed coin toy machines, we'd need a documentary about the industry of musicians going to random small towns to do shows

[odessasteps]

That was a town for the Knoxville territory and later Smoky. 

[Curt McGirt]

On 12/6/2024 at 3:12 AM, zendragon said:

Body Count Perform Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" on Fallon

It wasn't no cover at all, but it was definitely the best thing since "Cop Killer" or the whole O.G. (Original Gangsta) record by Ice when I was a kid. Or him doing Exploited covers with Slayer. Fuck, that was the shit. Tell it, Tracy. 

[RazorbladeKiss87]

19 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

category: songs I didn't realize were from this year and sound like they could have been from awhile ago..

"Ruined Me" - Muni Long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSPRJjf6Wpg

That was for sure an early/mid 2000s sounding song. I could hear Blu Cantrell singing on that. Also, not sure how practical the unbuttoned jeans/boxers/gym shorts look is but I'm a fan. 

[DragonZombie]

There's more news out there about P Diddy and now Jay Z is implicated. P Diddy had lot of victims. 

[odessasteps]

I'd totally forgotten about this song (and movie) until I was watching a 2024 Human League gig on youtube.

Phil Oakley - Together In Electric Dreams

[cwoy2j]

On 11/30/2024 at 8:41 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

If we're talking "grunge" bands in general, my pick for the best is The Melvins. AiC and Soundgarden are close behind. Nirvana has lost a lot of their appeal as I've gotten older.

 

I've come to really appreciate Screaming Trees lately. 

[The Comedian]

Soundgarden, AIC, and Pearl Jam are all various shades of hard rock-to-metal. Nirvana jumps all over the lines of punk, post-punk, and pop-punk, but it's clear Kurt's real aspiration was towards post-rock. He's already heading there as early as "Papercuts". There's a reason he brought Albini in for In Utero. 

At this point I think Nirvana gets underrated due to ubiquity. 

[zendragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vzUh_55x2M

Best Nirvana cover? or Worst?