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But it's also hard to overlook that first time I heard Boston. What is this, and where do I find more of it? It was so different from anything I'd heard. A few other bands produced that experience. Both approaches work for me.
This isn't necessarily so. It depends on the individual. My experience with thrash and late eighties glam has changed over the years. I now think that it's the stupid kids like me that were listening to that stuff, while kids who were listening to 120 Minutes and stuff like that were ahead of things. That's in retrospect. I used to find that music redundant, boring, and crusty, which is anything but the case now.
Totally makes sense. My tastes in '70s music are all over the place because I have no connections to the social scenes that certain bands/genres represented. But I feel about Candlebox and Seven Mary Three the same way you feel about Boston and Styx.
Yea. He was amazing for sure. I'm def more of an old school Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog(my fave)guy, but all his stuff is great.
That doesn't account for my experiences hearing the Beatles and other Brit Invasion bands for the first time. Or Green Day or tons of others. Also, I didn't listen to music with a lot of other people. I was listening to the radio for the most part.
Can't go wrong here. My personal favorites are his relationship songs. "Boots Of Spanish Leather" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" are two that have always stuck in my mind as possibly the best.
I was going to be cheeky and test those waters by possibly eliminating two big artists with a collaboration that really might arguably be each huge artist's best song, but decided the draft had already seen enough problems getting off the ground without immediate controversy. But I cackled at the thought.
I was thinking mainly of a particular one-off, though this particular artist has a spectacular full-on collaboration album too.
Hmmm, I don’t know who this would be and am intrigued.
Well, it’s just my opinion and we should await clarification from the commish. I could be looking at it wrong.
Narrator: This guy had to cancel those LSATs because he'd eaten three bowls of raisin bran and it moved him right in the middle of the exam with no recourse. Everybody, when he relayed that story later, found a circumstance such as that to be a laugh riot. He knew the test so cold that he could even identify the experimental section and took that section for his bathroom break, but couldn't chance it in the end.
I'll PM you if you want.
I completely agree. Still arguably my favorite decade of music and I was 34 in 2001. There was a lot of great music released in the aughts.
Yeah, Mobile Fidelity is often at 45 RPM, faithful to mono, and splits the works into two LPs. That means the track ordering isn't consistent with the original LP, but they do it for fidelity of sound, apparently.
Yeah, the aughts were great for music. Also, you're only a few years older than me!
I could play this card. There are a few of these waiting to stir up trouble.
I planned on taking Fields of Joy in the later rounds. I was the only one who drafted him in Genrapolooza so figured he'd be there.
If anyone thinks Ebony and Ivory is the best song by either of them they should be forever banned from these drafts,lol.
Another artist I almost always take. Van and Dylan off the board gives me some freedom.
Dammit, is this just because I don't adore The Beatles??!!This shtick is already taken by KarmaPolice.
I also don't get how someone can't evaluate music that was out before they were born (I certainly didn't experience The Beatles real-time). "Damn, man, I might be into that Amadeus dude but I wasn't there for it so how would I know."
I think tarred and feathered and have an ipod shuffle loaded with nothing but this song set on permanent repeat and a set of pink dayglo beats headphones superglued to their ears for all eternity would be more appropriate
Personal thoughts on squistion's complaints: I get it. In a first draft of this sort, it's easy to worry and nitpick. I've possibly been known to do that even when not my first draft.Add to that that he is, in my opinion, even above timschochet as the most picked-on and derided person on the board,* and it's easy to have concerns. Who else had people changing their avatars just to make fun of them, not in a good-natured but in a mean-spirited way? (I note that one of our drafters might still have such an avatar, which I hope he'll change.)
But music drafts are the one place on this site where I feel people come together and overlook any ####, political or otherwise, and just enjoy the discussion and getting to know people on a different plane.** I mean, even rock and I became dear friends (I hope) through these threads. So c'mon in and don't worry, squistion, all are welcome here, and you can just have a good time.
*I know some would argue that some of it is deserved, which is neither here nor there.
**I have had at least three participants in music drafts that I had to take off "ignore." And I was happy to get to know different aspects of their personalities and lives.
100% on the first bolded. There are people I have grown to really dislike in the PSF, but all's good when we are talking about music and movies.
I think the connections E was talking about just makes it harder to break those emotional connections for the negative or positive? There's still a handful of bands that I will forever have that emotional connection to from the HS/college days - RH, Pumpkins, Soundgarden, etc.. There are a handful of bands now that I love like Black Crowes and Pink Floyd that in order to get there with those bands there was a lot more negative b.s. to get over because of groups that listened to them or just my perception of the bands and songs.
