re: Which Bands/artists are universally liked on the Music Board?

Jason isbell threads seem to be overwhelmingly positive and frequent.

Dbt threads tend to turn into "yea but really isbell was the real talent" pretty fast.

Might he qualify?

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Might he qualify?

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You'd still have 4-5 people calling him "red dirt" idk

Herbie Hancock
Parliament/Funkadelic
Miles Davis

Avett Bros?

Went to the last 2 nights at Red Rocks. Might go again tonight.

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And we haven't even gotten to the songwriting and producing - that he's done for other people.

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You mean all of the great artists who went absolutely no place at his Paisley Park Records which eventually flopped? (And the artists Masters ripped off by Prince).

If the little pretentious a-hole hadn't fired more polished producers like Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (The Time)they may have helped him save the label. Outside of the Time(which ironically began to decline after Jam & Lewis departure) & one album hit Sheila E. I don't remember all of the great successes Prince had producing other artists.

Future Islands

For the record I do not now nor have ever liked Michael Jackson, since he left the Jackson 5.

Just fyi, I know some of your brains can't rap around that concept but try to realize it is true.

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And yeah I don't think anyone is going to bash Pink Floyd. That might be a safe one.


Not as polarizing as either The Who or Led Zeppelin.

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Polarizing? Well they go through a lot of Ray-bans no doubt.

Historically The Who and esp Zeppelin were far more popular in the mainstream and thus I would say accepted, than Pink Floyd, that isn't a statement of who is better or who is more beloved by their fans, it's just that The Who and LZ were well known for receiving heavy radio rotation when Floyd was still largely considered counterculture rock. Money from Dark Side was one of the few radio hit's from pre Wall PF era, while The Who and LZ had already enjoyed phenomenal success.

X-gen and beyond fans probably didn't have this bias in exposure and likely don't view them as marginally differing successful rock bands. A lot of the older generation really didn't know who Pink Floyd was until MTV came along and they saw Another Brick in The Wall video and placed the group with the song that had gained airplay.

Strangely enough the phenomenal work that is Dark Side, Animals and Wish You Were Here were largely unknown to the public at large when The Wall was delivered. In the days when Quad was still being considered as a viable replacement for stereo,, (I still have my quad additions of Atom Heart Mother and Dark Side among some others) you could hear a lot of Lynrd Skynrd, Billy Joel or Rolling Stones, without a peep of Pink Floyd getting played. At that time groups like YES, Genesis and Pink Floyd slipped under a lot of radar waiting to blow up.

Possibly shocking info for some of you youngsters, I know, well learnin you your rock history is why we are here.

75% of people on this board think Led Zeppelin sucks...they wouldn't qualify in this thread

Zeppelin definitely gets hate on here for ripping off blues artists. I get that to an extent (especially regarding a lack of mention in the writing credits) but c'mon. All music has strong influences to varying degrees.

I also say The Who > Led Zeppelin

Agreed.

It's hard to pinpoint the dislike for The Who. For The Doors it's people saying Morrison is a douche and for Zeppelin they claim the blues ripoff. But there remains contempt for The Who, and I never hear why exactly.

I will admit bias since they were my first concert (although I was a big fan before that) and they also were the halftime performers when the Saints won it all