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Mark Knopfler should have stuck to guitar, his vocals are annoying.

Phil Lynott was a great singer and bassist, but wrote terrible lyrics
 
I love 90's music, and what has come to be called "grunge."

I would rather hear George Benson play guitar than Jimmy Page.

Robert Plant's vocals are way overrated, and are generally, unless watered down by Alison Krause, quite an annoyance.

Heart's old live versions of Stairway are better than Plant and Page's band.
 
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wok said:
Deep Purple > Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin
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VoidTerraFirma said:
You’re partly correct. They do have that one super popular album that kinda sounds like Pearl Jam...but again that’s not meat and potatoes, that’s all you can eat shrimp. And people love that.
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To me their first album Core was kind of lite nu-metal for angry frat boys.

Their next two albums quieted some of their worst impulses as they tried to sound more upbeat and glam. They had much better guitar tone and the singing improved a lot. They got better at writing hooks as Interstate Love Song is probably their most memorable song.

After that, their albums kind of bored the public and they went MIA from popular culture until Weiland finally died. You can see them try to repeat the formula on No. 4 and then the s/t album that no one listened to. With diminishing returns. Sometimes they did go back to aggro grunge riff mode and it really is a slog to get through those songs. Some of their later songs sound like they just recycle stuff they already did to see how their new singer of the week would do it.
 
Ok, in addition to my 90's unpopular opinion, I will add that though I much preferred Nirvana back in the day to either Pearl Jam or the later Foo Fighters band that came after Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Grohl and his band mates, found a way to survive and not freaking die from the disease that seemed to infect all those bands back then that I loved. (AIC, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, STP, and finally, Soundgarden and Cornell) . For that they get credit. And if I, and those surviving bands, from a conventional point of view, am less interesting as an advanced middle aged Dad, than I was a young student, I would argue the reverse is true, if one considers the paths we all tread to make peace with ourselves and this world in order to keep going. So, they all get points for that and now, I really respect PJ and like a lot of all of their work over the years, and respect their efforts to help the world, and love their live shows. And though some of the Foo stuff and Grohl can feel plastic and self serving and pandering (thinking of the last show I saw with them coming on after Bob Mould opened by himself with an amp and a guitar), I can appreciate how hard Dave and band try. So I give them credit too, and can enjoy their stuff for what it is, even if it is not truly great as compared to say Everlong, which is now just overplayed because Letterman.

ok, ramble over. I need more coffee. :wink:
 
Bones McHorror said:
How exactly does this analogy work then? It seems confusing on a number of levels.

STP in no way is some high brow taste that transcends album sales. They're a pretty basic meat and potatoes rock outfit.
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Me personally, I think STP was just a cut above most of the other grunge bands because of Dean DeLeo's guitar playing. He didn't use just standard chords, but used different chords and chord inversions most of the other guitarists in the genre didn't do.

They still aren't a favorite band of mine by any means, but I do think they were a bit more musically interesting than most in that genre.
 
Jbird said:
Me personally, I think STP was just a cut above most of the other grunge bands because of Dean DeLeo's guitar playing. He didn't use just standard chords, but used different chords and chord inversions most of the other guitarists in the genre didn't do.

They still aren't a favorite band of mine by any means, but I do think they were a bit more musically interesting than most in that genre.
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Every musician knows this. If you can’t recognize this...then you’re not a musician.
 
To an extent, bland music such as Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, (or go more bland if you wish) etc. can be fun if you realize it fills floors with people you care about, and you just roll with it and have fun with them.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
To an extent, bland music such as Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, (or go more bland if you wish) etc. can be fun if you realize it fills floors with people you care about, and you just roll with it and have fun with them.
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Floor filling should NEVER be a consideration when making music. That’s why there are a million shitty party/wedding cover bands all playing the same shitty songs
 
Jbird said:
Me personally, I think STP was just a cut above most of the other grunge bands because of Dean DeLeo's guitar playing. He didn't use just standard chords, but used different chords and chord inversions most of the other guitarists in the genre didn't do.

They still aren't a favorite band of mine by any means, but I do think they were a bit more musically interesting than most in that genre.
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Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both used inversions and extended chords, too.

In fact, I hear chords like that in so many styles of music just casually that I don't really think much of them. Only rock guitarists seem to think they are some type of black magic sorcery. :embarrassed: Country, blues, r&b, top 40 pop, folk, etc. definitely do not.
 
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