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re: Who, if anyone, do you consider a legitimate musical genius in the last 50 years
Posted on 1/16/16 at 11:58 am to Methuselah
Posted on 1/16/16 at 11:58 am to Methuselah
Gilmour, Wright, Mason, Waters
Page, Plant, Bonham, Jones
Lee, Lifeson, Pert
Mercury, May
Lennon, McCarthy
I'm gonna stop now.
Page, Plant, Bonham, Jones
Lee, Lifeson, Pert
Mercury, May
Lennon, McCarthy
I'm gonna stop now.
This post was edited on 1/16/16 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 1/16/16 at 12:31 pm to Methuselah
Prince
Waits
May, Mercury
SRV
So many, but I always automatically go to Prince. Easily 1.
Waits
May, Mercury
SRV
So many, but I always automatically go to Prince. Easily 1.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 12:36 pm to Methuselah
mike patton
figured he might be mentioned in here
figured he might be mentioned in here
Posted on 1/16/16 at 2:30 pm to Methuselah
Prince is the only one I can really consider a "musical genius" however there are several other that are extremely, extremely talented. Paul Simon, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Jerry Garcia, Neal Pert. Though he doesn't make the type of music that most of those on this board listen to, I think Kanye West even deserves to be mentioned with some of these names.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 8:05 pm to Petroleum Adam
DJ Premier
Dr. Dre
RZA
Dr. Dre
RZA
Posted on 1/16/16 at 8:10 pm to DB10_AFC
quote:
DJ Premier
Dr. Dre
RZA
Posted on 1/16/16 at 11:37 pm to ag3ntpurpl3
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Everyone is putting a lot of old timers up, and I agree with most of them, but for newer artists:
If you are putting up all of those newer people I think Zach Condon certainly deserves a spot on that list ahead of many.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 11:38 pm to Kafka
John Fogerty. His was the name that immediately came to mind when I saw the thread title.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 11:55 pm to Methuselah
I agree with a lot of mentioned artists and just have to laugh at others, but here is an artist not mentioned that I believe is a genius:
Ben Harper
Ben Harper
Posted on 1/17/16 at 12:11 am to Kashmir
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david gilmour roger waters paul mccartney pete townsend brian wilson stevie wonder george harrison john fogerty john lennon michael jackson
that clown couldn't read or write music and couldn't play any instrument with proficiency.
never produced a record on his own.
he could sing a melody and have to rely on others to put it together. being a great entertainer doesn't equate to musical genius.
Posted on 1/17/16 at 12:32 am to Methuselah
Jerry!
LINK
Listen frickers...I've seen Eric and Jimmy and Stevie...and they are all technically good....nothing but adoration from me.
Jerry was on another level of humanity. He had something in him that made his lope so intoxicating. I can remember many a time walking into a joint and hearing nothing but his guitar dancing through some jig...and seeing everyone enthralled by the ethereal spider on the wall he created. It is indescribable how unusual and how magnetic his playing was. His sound was completely unique and I've yet to hear anyone duplicate it satisfactorily.
Look at the beauty of Pig!!!
LINK
Listen frickers...I've seen Eric and Jimmy and Stevie...and they are all technically good....nothing but adoration from me.
Jerry was on another level of humanity. He had something in him that made his lope so intoxicating. I can remember many a time walking into a joint and hearing nothing but his guitar dancing through some jig...and seeing everyone enthralled by the ethereal spider on the wall he created. It is indescribable how unusual and how magnetic his playing was. His sound was completely unique and I've yet to hear anyone duplicate it satisfactorily.
Look at the beauty of Pig!!!
This post was edited on 1/17/16 at 5:32 am
Posted on 1/17/16 at 1:06 am to Methuselah
Kris Kristofferson is the most brilliant man to have walked this planet IMO, no exaggeration. It's like music was just another one of his hobbies and he has written the most astonishingly genius lyrics this planet has ever seen.
This post was edited on 1/17/16 at 1:08 am
Posted on 1/17/16 at 2:57 am to Geert Hammink_43
and how do you know that, numb nuts?
This post was edited on 1/17/16 at 2:59 am
Posted on 1/17/16 at 4:10 am to Flame Salamander
Jackson Browne
Dave Grohl
Prince
Chris Cornell
Dave Grohl
Prince
Chris Cornell
Posted on 1/17/16 at 9:40 am to NOFOX
quote:
Zach Condon
I've only heard a few Beirut songs so I can't really comment on his genius (much like Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon)
Posted on 1/17/16 at 12:28 pm to Kashmir
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and how do you know that, numb nuts?
numb nuts? that's top shelf stuff there. if you can, try reading up on Jackson. his producers, quincy jones in particular were hugely responsible for putting Jackson's ideas and melodies to tape.
Posted on 1/17/16 at 3:38 pm to ag3ntpurpl3
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I've only heard a few Beirut songs so I can't really comment on his genius (much like Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon)
You should look into him more. Guy is incredibly impressive. Has been composing since a young teen and can basically play any musical instrument. He created Gulag Orkestar at 18-19.
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While it may sound like an entire Balkan gypsy orchestra playing modern songs as mournful ballads and upbeat marches, Beirut s first album, Gulag Orkestar, is actually the work of 19-year-old Albuquerque native Zach Condon, with an assist from Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw). There are no guitars on this album; instead, horns, violins, cellos, ukuleles, mandolins, glockenspiel, drums, tambourines, congas, organs, pianos, clarinets and accordions all build and break around Condon s deep-voiced crooner vocals, swaying to the Eastern European beats like a drunken twelve-member carnival band. Though young, Condon has already recorded several albums of astonishing diversity. He recorded under the name Real People when he was fifteen, crafting an electronic record inspired by his love of the Magnetic Fields. At sixteen, he recorded an entire doo-wop album that sounds a bit like like Frankie and the Teenagers. Although he was a straight-A student, in 2002 Condon dropped out of school to travel Europe, cavorting and partying with the locals wherever he went. During one of these evenings that he was first exposed to Balkan gypsy music, blasting from an upstairs apartment. Condon went to investigate, and stayed up all night with a Serbian artist, going through albums country by country, note for note. Gulag Orkestar is the direct result of what he learned that night. This past winter, Condon headed to Sea Side Studios in Brooklyn s Park Slope where, along with Barnes and A Hawk and a Hacksaw s Heather Trost, he added percussion and violin overdubs to his original compositions. The resulting record sounds like a Neutral Milk Hotel from behind the iron curtain (for those playing along at home, look into the Boban Markovic Orchestra). Gulag Orkestar is a glorious sweep of music, striking in its emotional content and stunning in its scope.
Review ...awe-inspiring, wonderous, almost intangible composition of raw talent, emotion, and complexity, reminding us why we listen to music.. -- I Guess I'm Floating, May 3, 2006 This kid...is a genius, who...has created one of the most diverse and creative albums of 2006 thus far. -- Skatterbrain, May 2, 2006 stunning spring-to-summer gypsy-cum-klezmer pop...beautiful and disarming -- Pitchfork, May 4, 2006
This post was edited on 1/17/16 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 1/17/16 at 9:19 pm to NOFOX
chuck berry
django reinhardt
Jerry garcia
Lowell George
john Coltrane
Miles Davis
django reinhardt
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