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This is such an awesome thread.

Wait, wasn't this in Ain't It Fun?

How 'bout that one? God, His Bobness, and the Godfather of Grunge.

That is wonderful.

But the trinity is God, The Big Man, and the Boss

Peter Tosh, he was the heaviest lyrically and the least afraid to speak his mind. Some of the things he has said are enough to scare me shitless just thinking about how true it is. The greatest reggae artist ever.

I think Bob ranks above Jimmy Cliff however.

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=87151

It's a phenomenal record.

He hasn't lost his voice at all.

didn't start the thread to cause rows & give personal attacks to other members, if this is your agenda, stay the fuck out

Actually, that's exactly why this thread was started.

It wasn't bad but your timing was off at times and it's just blasphemous to play that solo on an Epiphone.

They are great!

"I heard it through the grapevine" is my fav song!

Somehow whenever I hear "I put a spell on you" I need to turn all the lights off but one and chill out drinking a scotch. Cliche I know, still it's true - so please don't laugh...

Both those songs are better in the original versions; Marvin Gaye and Screamin' Jay Hawkins respectivley

New York Dolls

he always comes into my threads stiring up shit,

i wish he'd stick to dressing up as tracci guns & fuck off

You stop wishing that my homeland is blown to pieces and I'll stop stating facts in your illiterate threads.

(and by the way...that Rolling Stone quote about "the only band that matters" has been a longstanding joke in the punk community since its inception)

I really do not care. To me it is true. General opinion doesn't matter to me. I still think AFD is a poor album in comparison to UYI I, and nobody will change that opinion (for example).

General opinion must matter to you,if you're going to use slogans from a magazine.

So I use a slogan from a magazine that fully matches what I think, and it's because general opinion matters to me?

(and by the way...that Rolling Stone quote about "the only band that matters" has been a longstanding joke in the punk community since its inception)

I really do not care. To me it is true. General opinion doesn't matter to me. I still think AFD is a poor album in comparison to UYI I, and nobody will change that opinion (for example).

JFK assassination,segragation,lack of civil rights,KKK,cold war

breezy fun times

Oh thank god! I'm sick of people viewing the time as one of peace and love. People don't understand that the youth of the 60's endured more hardships than most other generations, they struggled to get their message across, it wasn't an easy going fun time.

"Scarecrow" is a classic album with some fuckin' great songs. i could listen to Mellencamp all day long.

Yeah, but comparing his overall output to the other two reveals several flaws. Uh-Huh, Scarecrow, and The Lonesome Jubilee are classics, no doubt, and I agree, Mellencamp is very easy on the ear while also containing some substance, while Seger's voice can get tiresome after a while. But still, aside from those three albums, I don't think Mellencamp has produced anything to compare to Seger and especially not anything to compare to Petty's consistently fantastic output.

My boss is a big fan and she got me into them. Really great band.

I only have a best of cd from them and a Fogerty DVD (The Long Road). So what are their best albums that I should check out?

Well, they produced 4 beyond brilliant album and the rest were pretty great too. I'd say:

Green River

Bayou Country

Cosmo's Factory

He's got this assured rhythm through even the most frenzied Tom Fogerty solo.

For example, at the end of "Suzie Q" where the guitar gets really fast, he picks up pace a little but he's still playing this great rhythm, not just slamming the drums. It's not that remarkable, but I love it.

What a fucking amazing band. They produced so many amazing records, and Doug Clifford's drumming is one of the sweetest things that my ear will ever hear. He's got this assured rhythm through even the most frenzied Tom Fogerty solo.

I'm sure the Mellencamp vote was Madison.

Actually, it was mine.

Curious. You really think Mellencamp has made albums better than Full Moon Fever and Damn the Torpedoes?

I'm sure the Mellencamp vote was Madison.

Dio owns Ozzy in every way possible.

Yes.

Any thing by either Green Day

I disagree

seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

and your feet flyin' up in the air

singin' "hey diddle diddle"

with your kitty in the middle of the swing

like you didn't care

so I took a big chance at the high school dance

with a missy who was ready to play

wasn't me she was foolin'

'cause she knew what she was doin'

and I knowed love was here to stay

when she told me to

I love me some smith, but this has always been my most hated verse in the world

That's a great lyric. I love the "I was a high school loser/never made it with a lady till the boys told me somethin I missed, and my next door neighbor had a daughter had a favor so I gave her a li'l kiss... like this".

Springsteen

Never, ever, mention him in a worst lyric thread... ever.

Johnny Thunders is the epitome of brilliance. What a fucking genius.

Amen to that! or Ameeen as the case may be.

Do you have Lipstick Killers?

those early mercer sessions? shit yeah! you know what you should get? this dvd u can get of the dolls like hours of footage shot by Bob Gruen of em, its great!!!!!!

Yeah! Dude that shit is fucking unbelievable, I have the dvd. It's amazing. The New York Dolls are to me the greatest fucking punk (protopunk, whatever) band ever! The whole early CBGB scene was fucking phenomenal... Also Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers were a great band...

I love Johnny Thunders so goddamn much.

Johnny Thunders is the epitome of brilliance. What a fucking genius.

Amen to that! or Ameeen as the case may be.

Do you have Lipstick Killers?

Johnny Thunders is the epitome of brilliance. What a fucking genius.

u'd be suprised, i've heard very little of like...bands that are HUGE. Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith (i know the tasters choice ones but not a lot further in) Thin Lizzy, Queen, Pink Floyd, Cream, Eric Clapton, just...MOST of it i know jack shit about. Jeff Beck (im jus reeling off names here that i like, KNOW are famous jus from hearing em tons) just...oh TONS of people i know like, 50s rock n roll, a lotta punk, DEEP into hip hop, DEEP DEEP DEEP and like...the rest is just odds and ends, bands that just i heard a song here a song there and got into just cuz they sounded good, i know VERY little about a lot of the music a lotta people on here talk about.i dont...ok, this is gonna sound SOO predudice and...its not my predudice but its the predudice of the kinda people i chill out with, my "friends" i guess. music is somethin you hear in a car or a club or maybe you know some guys who wannabe MCs and shit and Beatles, Aerosmith etc etc rock n roll basically is like, whiteboy music? that sounds AWFUL doesnt it? just the folks i know i guess. WAAAAAY off topic

The only reason this happens is because you just haven't got as many albums as us, what you do know about music is truly remarkable, and I agree with ODS, you have a great ear for music, you know good shit when you hear it.

See, again here's what I sometimes get annoyed at. Now you say it's a great album, in that other thread which you posted in today you said it's awful. Get an opinion man. I guess spontaneity doesn't matter as much to me as it does to you. As far as I'm concerned, the Clash set out to make a great album, and they planned it well enough to succeed. You're right, it is planned, but to me rock n' roll doesn't have to be spontaneous to be great. You hold vastly different opinions on what matters in music. What I think you should do is think objectively for a second.

I can name tonnes of very well-thought out and planned albums, mostly concept albums, the Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Brian Wilson... They all planned their albums very well, they didn't just write what came to their head, they set out to write about shit they wanted to write about, and they succeeded.

You think you don't know as much about music as me, you're vastly mistaken. I may know more about rock music, maybe even blues, probably a lot more about reggae, but you know a SHITLOAD more than me about 50's rock n' roll, and hip-hop in particular. Eventually at age 30 or so we'll probably know as much about the same types of music, till then we'll have to use our expertise on different genres.

By the way, please get the four Cream albums as soon as possible. They were beyond amazing.