I like Orbison, but arguing personal taste to someone is silly. MrDibble doesn’t like Orbison’s voice. It is personal taste.
Wings was just a little too “pop” for my taste. Paul McCartney said “There’s nothing wrong with a good pop song” and he’s right, but the Willburys seemed to be a little more interesting to me.
I’m sorry, The Willburys aren’t poppy?
Here’s the the thing … Wings was McCartney in his prime, moving on from the Beatles. The Traveling Willburys were a cash grab super group with slapped together songs that made sure everyone got a line just like We Are the World. So, Wings is the obvious correct answer, you heathens.
No Ono Plastic Band in this equation?
I compare his voice to Aaron Neville. Both relied HEAVILY on falsetto. Maybe that’s what’s behind Mr. Dibble’s distaste. Personally, I love both of them.
As for the OP, Wilburys. Wings is pop music. It’s good pop music, but it’s pop music. It’s about as deep as a mud puddle. It’s over-produced; very little meaningful lyrics; sung and performed pitch perfect. Their music had no soul. Yeah, Wilburys was a concoction; there was a lot of stars stepping all over each other, but the song writing was amazing, and you could hear the fun that they were having together.
Never heard of Chopped Liver. Who did they record with?
Ringo and his All Star Band were never really a band - did they ever release a studio album? Did a series of tours with a revolving cast of old stars in rehab (someone described the first tour as the “Drying Out Tour”); even the live albums didn’t sound coherent.
Plastic Ono Band - was that a real band, or just John Lennon’s backup for an album and tour?
Can’t stand the Beatles or any of their spinoff bands. I do enjoy Traveling Wilbury’s though. Question was a little like, “Which do you prefer on your hotdog, hot bile or mustard?”
The Traveling Wilburys were, in fact, a “spin-off” band of George Harrison.
I’m biased, but I think that’s an inaccurate description of the Wilburys. The five of them came together to collaborate on making and recording a song to be used as the B-side of one of Harrison’s singles, and enjoyed working together so much that they decided to make an album together. The first album may have been “slapped together” a bit, simply because, due to schedules, they only had a couple of weeks in which they could all work together, but it was pretty clearly a labor of love for the five of them.
Well yeah (which is to say I totally forgot that). But it was a better crew to run around with and sounded unlike Beatles.
Naah, I like Beach Boys, Earth Wind and Fire, The Darkness, Scissor Sisters, the aforementioned Del Shannon’s Runaway. Also local mbube music (you probably know The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.) Falsetto isn’t the issue.
I think it’s something along the lines of a fake-y kind of melodrama? In the voice? I can’t qualify it better than that, but that’s what I see as a commonality between Orbison, Elvis and Cash that I don’t like.
I get it. I feel the same way about a lot of music - can’t stand Celine Deon or Whitney Houston for that reason.
Well, most of Celine Dion’s music is horribly painful.
Whitney, I like quite a bit better and really enjoyed some of her earlier peppy stuff and bluesy stuff. But I’m guessing you’re talking about songs like “I Will Always Love you”? I agree, that one is an assault on my ears. she actually did one of the best Star Spangle Banner renditions I’ve ever heard.
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody was fun and I enjoyed it.
Boy, you and I are at opposite ends. Whitney Houston’s Star Spangled Banner is an abomination. She has no respect for the song - it’s entirely about her voice and how she can show off her vocal prowess. Singing our National Anthem is not about you - it’s about our nation. Sing it like you mean it. Ask not what the National Anthem can do with your voice, but what your voice should do with the National Anthem.
I hate anthem singers that use it as an opportunity to show off their voice. I am a firm believer that you should only be performing music that has meaning to you. I’m not saying everything has to be deep and meaningful.
I’m saying you have to believe in what you’re singing. Sing the anthem with respect, not with arogance.
Has anyone else been seeing the thread title for the better part of a week and wondered what the heck?
Why Wilburys and Wings? There’s almost no overlap in music style or fan base. This is like staring a thread “Ozzy or Pavarotti?”
(Do it, Happy, I double-dog dare ya)
I mean, what would your friends say if you walked into the bar, sat down with them (ahhh, remember sitting down at a bar with friends?..sigh) and immediately asked “Wilburys or Wings?”
My friends would say “That’s comparing apples and orangutans, man…”
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On topic, I vote for the Wilburys.
But, if we were comparing post-Beatles output from each of the fab four, I’d vote McCartney. Maybe I’m Amazed and Admiral Halsey (which weren’t Wings, just Paul) gave me hope after the breakup.
Ever heard Sacha Baron Cohen’s version? 
Wings was Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band. The Willburys were George Harrison’s post-Beatles band. Both men were in the Beatles.
And no one is going to vote the Plastic Ono Band as better than either Wings or the Traveling Wilburys.
That’s the same way I feel about Wings. That “band’s” oeuvre would not have been much different without the contributions of Denny Laine and Linda McCartney. In structure, the Wilbury’s are more like Ringo’s All-Star Band,
I’m afraid to click on this…
Humor is humor. I can’t get too upset at Rosanne Barr’s anthem at a baseball game - she’s a comedian, not a singer. What did they expect to come out of her mouth (or her hands…)? Although, were I there, I would probably have been upset. They shouldn’t have asked her, and she shouldn’t have said yes.
Sacha is using this to make a point (and, it takes a lot of balls to make fun of our national anthem at a rodeo) (yes, I clicked on it). I’m not a fan. Cohen is doing an art piece, and that’s fine. The producers of the rodeo were expecting a performance of our National Anthem, so he bilked them. They probably should have done more due diligence and figured out that this wasn’t a real attempt; maybe they really were in on the joke, in which case they bilked the audience. Were I there, I would be upset.