I asked above, do you pronounce Mary, marry, and merry differently? I suspect you do. About half (IIRC) or slightly more of Americans do not. (Actually, that percentage is the cot-caught merger now that I think of it. I have to look up the Mary one) ETA: looks like 57% merge Mary, merry, marry.
Anyway, Pink Floyd and the Dead for me for the thread.
Bob Seger. All his big classic hits (Turn the Page, Like a Rock, Against the Wind, etc.) are just him bragging about how great he is or was, and complaining about how hard it is to be so! Any song of his on the radio brings an immediate channel change.
Yes. Jon Anderson sounds like Geddy Lee drenched in estrogen.
Michael McDonald. He ruined the Doobie Brothers. Yep, I said it!
I think a lot of their later singles are fantastic. “In View” and “The Darkest One” and “It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken” are amazing. But those are the singles; album tracks are another story. Music at Work had precisely two good songs on it. Phantom Power was maybe the turning point…great track after great track, then the next album’s batting average had a serious dropoff
You’re Kirby McCauley, aren’t you? ADMIT IT!
Actually, your explanation fits like a glove. Now, can you explain how Willis (King Kong [1933]) O’Brien became “Willys” (like the Jeep)?
Thanks for this link!
But that means I’m posting from beyond the grave…
[ cue the eerie music ]
And no, I have no explanations for other continuity errors by others. But the whole beyond the grave thing brings up another class of well-regarded but don’t like.
ENOUGH with the posthumous assemblage of famous (well-regarded) artists materials and selling it as a whole class of material I don’t like.
If you’re releasing a collection of jam sessions, cutting room floor bits, fine, I get you, whatever, and I’ll give a grudging pass to “tribute” music after a passing. But it gets worse every year. It retroactively increases my dislike for what may have been a liked artist or band, as their heirs / estate / former bandmates try to cash in.
Similarly to many bands that after major breakups are performing as “XYZ Band” despite having only a single member (and often not the most talented) person performing as part of it, because they happen to own the rights.
Axl Rose… looking at you!
(what can I say, I was 13 when Appetite for Destruction was at it’s peak, and yes, I know a lot of the classic members have since rejoined)
I do.
I agree. To me, he lays the “salt of the earth” vibe on much too thickly for my tastes. I sorta’ put him in the “Bruce Springsteen of the midwest” pigeonhole.
That screeching saxophone that opens 'Turn the Page" is in itself as annoying to me as a gas leaf blower, and the song itself is glurge-worthy.
Just to be super nit-picky, “Supper’s Ready” doesn’t take up an entire album side on Foxtrot – there’s a short acoustic Steve Hackett piece called “Horizons” on that side too. But the live version on “Seconds Out” does take up an entire album side.
(Side note: you should check out Steve Hackett’s Live From Brighton album recorded during his “Foxtrot at 50” tour. He does an extended guitar outro on Supper’s Ready that gives me chills every time I listen to it.)
Yeah, I remembered that too some time after posting it, and I knew that someone would nitpick, I know my dopers. I was too lazy to correct myself and let it stand as an exercise for the readers, and the readers didn’t disappoint.
ETA: and thanks for the Steve Hackett recommendation! I found the album on my streaming service and will check it out.
This is a puzzle to me: I like metal. I like rap. I like left-wing sloganeering. But I can’t stand Rage Against the Machine. If I don’t like them, who the hell was buying all those records?
Well, I did - and Soundgarden, and the melding of the two as Audioslave. I freely admit I’m listening to the musicianship moreso than the content, so I might be an outlier.
And I think Uncle Frank would like the homage of your username - I think it’s a good thing 
Well, Kansas is Prog Lite, and Styx is not even that.
People old enough to qualify always say that, but it’s not true.
I wasn’t born yet when the Beatles broke up, but I have always loved their music, besides recognizing them as easily the most important popular music act / phenom of the 20th century and beyond.
There are exceptions, as you state so well. You are one of them, and I tip my hat to you. I often find, though, that people who “hate” the Beatles aren’t old enough to put their music in the context of the times in which they emerged. How can they?
I love the popular music of the “Swing” era, the 1920s-30s-and 40s, music recorded long before I was born. I only learned to appreciate that music when I reached adulthood. I’d guess that few of my peers share my appreciation, but I’m sure there are some.
The music of the Beatles will live on as long as there are folks like you who love it and keep it alive, and those of us who lived the experience when it was new and fresh thank you for it.
Yeah, I was five when Lennon was shot, so well past the time when they were the Hot New Thing. Always been a big fan of them, as was nearly everyone in my peer group growing up. Granted, I’m not exactly Speaking for the Youth any more, but per this article, Forbes found that in 2019, the Beatles were streamed more than 1.5 billion times, and about half of those were by people under 30.
And, of course, plenty of people at the time the Beatles were active hated them, despite being there at the “right time and age.”
That picture is a nightmare!
Humanity, Come Together.
Embarrassed to say I owned at least 1 album by each group. IIRC bought as part of my Columbia Record Club membership.
I own several singles from both, Kilroy Was Here by Styx as well as one of their Greatest hits albums.
I see nothing wrong admitting that I enjoy some of their stuff, and it can be fun pop music, but no I wouldn’t call it Rock much less Classic Rock, true.
I can guess by the look of the older guy holding the mike that he was some kind of bible thumping fundamentalist preacher-creature and this little stunt was in response to John Lennon’s infamous “we’re more popular than Jesus” flap.
For the record, he never exactly said that in the way it was interpreted. It was taken completely out of context and blown up into a big brouhaha by a bunch of small time politicians grasping a few headlines and religious types who had probably never even heard of the Beatles but who saw an an opportunity to con people out of dropping a few dollars more in the collection plate so they could get their Cadillac all shined up for the Sons of the Confederacy Parade.
They did the same thing to Elvis in his day. Had bonfires where they burned rock & roll records for a few moments publicity. Pure bulls–t.
The Rutles had it even worse — people were buying their albums just to burn them. And all they said was they were bigger than Rod (Stewart).