Top 10 bands you hate but everyone else drools over! - Bilge

TM tiki mick Tiki Socialite SOCAL Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 4094	TM tiki mick Posted posted on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:07 AM On 2006-03-28 17:31, Kono wrote: The past couple years I've been kind of digging some bands that I absolutely hated when I was a teenager. Bands like Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers. Mind you, I haven't actually purchased any of their music but I have considered it (and I do need to get that BMG monkey off my back thanks to the TC I-pod pyramid scheme). They both have that ultra-saccharine AOR smoothness that sounds so exotic (yes, exotic) to me now. When I hear "Hey 19" I picture some dude in a denim leisure suit snorting coke and lounging in a beanbag chair. A life that I did not even remotely experience myself. Not too fond of The Beatles or Rush. The only one I can think of, off the top of my head, that really sets my teeth grinding is Alanis Morrisette. I know there are others but I can't think of them right now. The thing about steely dan and the doobie brothers is you have a powerful combination of both great songwriting AND top-flight musicianship. The doobies were even good before Michael Mcdonald joined, and then got even better. Steely dan? Well, those guys are absolute jazz musicians. Much like Toto secretly are jazz guys also. One band I am finding that I used to hate when I was a kid, but now kind of dig is Hall and Oates. I can't explain why! I also can't explain why exactly I don't like Dave matthews much. I mean, the musicians in his band are awesome, and they have obvious Rush influences, but for some reason, I don't dig them, and am actually bored by them. I think I should like them, but every song I have heard has left me cold.The tragically hip seem to me more interesting!

On 2006-03-28 17:31, Kono wrote:
The past couple years I've been kind of digging some bands that I absolutely hated when I was a teenager. Bands like Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers. Mind you, I haven't actually purchased any of their music but I have considered it (and I do need to get that BMG monkey off my back thanks to the TC I-pod pyramid scheme). They both have that ultra-saccharine AOR smoothness that sounds so exotic (yes, exotic) to me now. When I hear "Hey 19" I picture some dude in a denim leisure suit snorting coke and lounging in a beanbag chair. A life that I did not even remotely experience myself.

Not too fond of The Beatles or Rush. The only one I can think of, off the top of my head, that really sets my teeth grinding is Alanis Morrisette. I know there are others but I can't think of them right now.

The thing about steely dan and the doobie brothers is you have a powerful combination of both great songwriting AND top-flight musicianship. The doobies were even good before Michael Mcdonald joined, and then got even better. Steely dan? Well, those guys are absolute jazz musicians. Much like Toto secretly are jazz guys also.

One band I am finding that I used to hate when I was a kid, but now kind of dig is Hall and Oates. I can't explain why!

I also can't explain why exactly I don't like Dave matthews much. I mean, the musicians in his band are awesome, and they have obvious Rush influences, but for some reason, I don't dig them, and am actually bored by them. I think I should like them, but every song I have heard has left me cold.The tragically hip seem to me more interesting!

Post #223718 by tiki mick on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:07 AM