Amused to Death
Footballguy
My revised tiers:
Top: Steely Dan
Mid: Styx
Crappy: Boston
Top: Steely Dan
Mid: Styx
Crappy: Boston
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Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
Must be nice to have a Dad that liked any of that music. My Dad was born in the mid 40s and hated anything not played by a big band. All the stuff I liked (which he should have appreciated) were bands like Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cream,etc.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
This is a horrible list. The high tier is possibly the worst set of groups ever put together by chimps. And what the #### is Frank Zappa doing with Bad Company and Steely Dan??? This reads like a Dan Lambskin draft list.Scoresman said:
You should be banned from any participation, commenting, or viewing of music threads.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Scoresman
Footballguy
how do you know the high tier are supposed to be the "best" bands? and I've already said this is like polishing a turd.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Maybe this is it. By the time I was born, the Eagles were long gone. I never had to deal with them during their peak.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I get that, but I still like them. Maybe that is just a guilty pleasure of mine. I certainly prefer them by a wide measure to the Journey, REO, Foreigner, Motley Crüe, Poison, etc.
Eephus
Footballguy
Their peak, such as it was, was relatively short. They weren't a commercially huge band until "Hotel California" and the greatest hits albums came out in 1976. They were still an opening act for the Stones the previous year. Once "Hotel California" came out their songs started getting played everywhere. They spent the next few years doing cocaine, arguing and recording "The Long Run". And thankfully that was it for them as a creative force. They respawned in the 90s to make up for all the money they snorted but I can't remember a single song from this period. They've had tremendous popularity for 40 years due to the unwillingness of late boomers to listen to new music and the unrelenting poor taste of proto-bros.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Beach Boys are crap? Wow, so wrong.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I have very diverse taste and rarely lean towards the overly popular end of the music spectrum, but I do love me some Eagles. Oh well, nobody is perfect.
Jim11
Footballguy
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I'm surprised you prefer European bands that promoted drugs, sex, violence, etc. over an ultra conservative American band that promoted traditional values.
Eephus
Footballguy
They have some good songs that are guilty pleasures but I loathe them out of principle.
Eephus
Footballguy
Jim11
Footballguy
Actually, I like several BB songs...more than the Stones, but the Stones were bigger internationally.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I didn't think you were ranking them on their world wide appeal. You calling the BB crap, seemed to make it a personal ranking.
Jim11
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Scoresman
Footballguy
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I nominate this for worst thread of the year
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
What's wrong with liking what you like? Who says you have to listen to new stuff if you don't like it?
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
zamboni
Footballguy
I don't know about worst, but certainly among the most misguided.
Carving out British bands from a broad-based music list is like cutting out pasta from a list of Italian foods.
Papa Georgio
Footballguy
Of almost every topic that gets started here the music ones baffle me as much as any. There are way too many music snobs. You'd be smart to not post about any band that has been remotely popular and you know...had a few hits.
Anyone mention Crosby Stills and Nash...Kansas?
Anyone mention Crosby Stills and Nash...Kansas?
zamboni
Footballguy
Nah - If you back up your opinion with sound reasoning, you'll do fine. Throwing out baseless opinions riles up the troops.
FWIW, I like the Eagles as well as most of the bands on the OP's list.
Papa Georgio
Footballguy
I guess this is my point to an extent. It's music, and it's my opinion that I like it. I am not sure how that can be argued.
I like a ton of stuff that would get my run off this board but at the same time I like a lot of stuff that even the music snobs would approve of. I worked in a music store for years so I have a pretty broad spectrum of music that I like.
Anyway back on topic...never been a fan of Bad Company except for 1 song that I can think of right now. REO is as cheesy as they get but they represent the time they came from extremely well so I like them. Styx...Foreigner?
Apple Jack
Footballguy
randall146
Footballguy
No thread has ever made me so irrationally angry as this one
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Who needs Brian when you have Stamos?
zamboni
Footballguy
Putting Steely Dan and Frank Zappa in "crap tier" wasn't a good start for the OP. May not be one's taste, but talk about throwing gasoline on a fire.
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Apple Jack
Footballguy
Framed this way, these would be granddad bands. Or homeless great-uncle. Dad rock would be Wilco and the National. Mostly mid-tempo smart stuff.
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Is Nirvana dad rock? Foo Fighters? 
FUBAR
Footballguy
same here, but the guy across the hall my freshman year in college overplayed their greatest hits album.
While I overplayed Stevie Miller's greatest hits.
Journey doesn't belong in that list.
HellToupee
Footballguy
Jim 11= John Stamos??
zamboni
Footballguy
HellToupee
Footballguy
Bryan Brown was in Full Body Massage , that goes a long way in my book
Doug B
Footballguy
Everyone approaches music differently. One thing I like to do is separate the musicianship from the material -- they can be reckoned separately and can offer value in music that I wouldn't choose to listen to recreationally.
For instance, my dad was also born in the 1940s. He was probably born 7 or 8 years too early to really get into the British Invasion, or the Doors, Hendrix, or anything like that. His favored style was old country-western and acts that carried on that tradition. Never was my cup of tea. At all. But over time, I grew to learn that Chet Atkins and Roy Clark were basically the Hendrix and EVH of country music, and started listening just for their guitar parts. And I could appreciate their musicianship during the piece, even if I'd never put a country record on the turntable myself.
I'd invite people who were born in the '80s and '90s to approach the British Invasion, classic rock, seminal metal, etc. in the same way. Even if you're not a fan of those sounds, it's worth it to explore the history of groundbreakers in those genres. It's also worth it, IMHO, to explore the top-end instrumentalists in those genres. You might "hate the Eagles", but Felder & Walsh's interplay on "Hotel California" is objectively skillfully rendered and is a moving piece of music divorced from the overall song itself.
Do you have to be into Journey's material to appreciate Steve Perry's vocal chops? Into Styx to appreciate Tommy Shaw and James Young's guitar work?
I know the OP carved out an exception for British bands, but I still feel like it's important to note that British Invasion bands like the Yardbirds and the Beatles were very much bulding on the sounds of American acts such as Little Richard and The Imperials. Once you check around and get a taste of the history of post-WWII popular music, you won't be so hasty to affirm that no American music transcends generations. The truth is that popular music, of any nationality, nuilds upon itself over time and carries forward even into the current cool stuff young bucks are listening to today.
For instance, my dad was also born in the 1940s. He was probably born 7 or 8 years too early to really get into the British Invasion, or the Doors, Hendrix, or anything like that. His favored style was old country-western and acts that carried on that tradition. Never was my cup of tea. At all. But over time, I grew to learn that Chet Atkins and Roy Clark were basically the Hendrix and EVH of country music, and started listening just for their guitar parts. And I could appreciate their musicianship during the piece, even if I'd never put a country record on the turntable myself.
I'd invite people who were born in the '80s and '90s to approach the British Invasion, classic rock, seminal metal, etc. in the same way. Even if you're not a fan of those sounds, it's worth it to explore the history of groundbreakers in those genres. It's also worth it, IMHO, to explore the top-end instrumentalists in those genres. You might "hate the Eagles", but Felder & Walsh's interplay on "Hotel California" is objectively skillfully rendered and is a moving piece of music divorced from the overall song itself.
Do you have to be into Journey's material to appreciate Steve Perry's vocal chops? Into Styx to appreciate Tommy Shaw and James Young's guitar work?
I know the OP carved out an exception for British bands, but I still feel like it's important to note that British Invasion bands like the Yardbirds and the Beatles were very much bulding on the sounds of American acts such as Little Richard and The Imperials. Once you check around and get a taste of the history of post-WWII popular music, you won't be so hasty to affirm that no American music transcends generations. The truth is that popular music, of any nationality, nuilds upon itself over time and carries forward even into the current cool stuff young bucks are listening to today.
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Yeah, well his putting Zappa on that part of the list in the first place made about as much sense as you plucking Zappa off of it, while leaving Steely Dan and all their Jazz Rock awesomeness to rot with Bad Company.
Neither's to everyone's taste, but if you actually enjoy musical talent, there ought to be a tier with Zappa, Steely Dan, and the Beach Boys, and it sure as hell shouldn't be the crap one.
Amused to Death
Footballguy
Not to diss the Beach Boys as I've never been much of a fan, but you're correct in your assessment of the bolded. Today's play queue is heavy with Zappa. Some live '74, some live '70, Burnt Weenie Sandwich and Waka/Jawaka.
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glock
"Don't grumble, give a whistle!"
Scoresman: As a dad who was the son of a swing era music lover- unable to reeally share anything of our respective music tastes in my formative years(mid-late '60s)- just be glad that when you become a dad you will be able to do so. No matter how "Dad Rock" your music will become to he/she, the roots that bind your respective rock genres/eras will at least be evident. If you both try.I honestly don't know what's going on in here. I'm a dad.
Otherwise, GL with this silly "hate" nonsense.
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