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re: Pet peeves in albums or songs
Posted on 12/21/20 at 7:08 pm to Hoodie
Posted on 12/21/20 at 7:08 pm to Hoodie
The out of place song. I don’t know if they think it’ll be a radio hit or the artist just got obsessed with it and had to include it, but it kills the vibe of the album.
Southeastern by Isbell has this problem. Great album to listen straight through, but then Super 8 comes on and wrecks it all to hell.
Southeastern by Isbell has this problem. Great album to listen straight through, but then Super 8 comes on and wrecks it all to hell.
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Posted on 12/21/20 at 9:34 pm to Hoodie
Records originally released in mono, then released later in fake stereo. Examples are early Beatles records.
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:02 pm to Bushwackers
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Intro to Band in the Run
Do you have human ears?
Posted on 12/21/20 at 10:37 pm to Bushwackers
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Intro to Band in the Run
Wow, really? The sequence of guitar double stops alternating with synthesizer taken over by the wistful vocals is very evocative to me. Then again, I also like the intro to "Venus and Mars." lol
BTW, anyone who doesn't own the Bluray of "Rockshow" (1980) needs to get it. Sad to realize the lead guitarist, Jimmy McCullough, died of an overdose in 1979 before the film was even released. Also ironic that he played his anti-drug song "Medicine Jar" during the set and wasn't known as a junkie. Crazy.
Posted on 12/22/20 at 8:15 pm to Hoodie
I've never liked several minute long screeching guitar solos. No one cares how talented the guitarist is, just play shite that actually sounds good
Posted on 12/24/20 at 7:21 am to CAD703X
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singing "chew" instead of "you"
This!!! So cringy when a singer sings “Don’t Chew, Forget About Me”. Lol
Posted on 12/24/20 at 11:57 am to blade brown
Songs predicated on the word bitch.
Tambourine's on stage, in the audience, or most anywhere but a child's hand.
Audience sing along's where you can't here the audience.
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Words that you can't understand are bad enough, but there are whole genre's were this is actively sought out and pseudo perfected. Which to me reeks of either being afraid or ashamed of the lyrics.
Tambourine's on stage, in the audience, or most anywhere but a child's hand.
Audience sing along's where you can't here the audience.
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Words that you can't understand are bad enough, but there are whole genre's were this is actively sought out and pseudo perfected. Which to me reeks of either being afraid or ashamed of the lyrics.
This post was edited on 12/24/20 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 1/7/21 at 9:36 am to Hoodie
Simultaneous but different solos in a song.
Tony Immomi is famous for this.
Sleeping Village and Lord of this World are 2 examples.
Listening to learn them is difficult and I just have to follow the most dominant one.
Tony Immomi is famous for this.
Sleeping Village and Lord of this World are 2 examples.
Listening to learn them is difficult and I just have to follow the most dominant one.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 10:46 am to Hoodie
Not a fan of the chant at end of Fearless, wish they would’ve just done an instrumental coda
Posted on 1/8/21 at 7:49 am to Pooturd
I think this is a generational thing and am not challenging your opinion. Late '60s through '70s had great guitar playing, solos included (Stairway, Freebird, Blue Sky, etc.). The '80s post-Van Halen hair metal solos were awful and felt more like filler than a part of the song. Nirvana helped push the gratuitous solo out of style, but still had sloppy ones. Radio formats across all genres had the final say so... verse, chorus, verse chorus, bridge, outro in 3:30 minutes or less.
There's the live side of the equation where the musicians are interacting with one another. They most often don't care so much about the commercial aspect (Jazz & Fusion, Jam Bands, etc.). When everyone on stage falls into the pocket, they can feel it and it's pretty awesome. This is hard to achieve and drives everyone to play again the next night. It's more about their experience and is probably similar to how surfers aspire to catch the perfect wave.
Teenagers in 1980 wanted to hear shredding guitar notes like Eddie Van Halen. Teenagers today have no interest in an instrumental solos. In the end music is simple... if it sounds good to the listener, then it sounds good and each generation has their musical "thing."
There's the live side of the equation where the musicians are interacting with one another. They most often don't care so much about the commercial aspect (Jazz & Fusion, Jam Bands, etc.). When everyone on stage falls into the pocket, they can feel it and it's pretty awesome. This is hard to achieve and drives everyone to play again the next night. It's more about their experience and is probably similar to how surfers aspire to catch the perfect wave.
Teenagers in 1980 wanted to hear shredding guitar notes like Eddie Van Halen. Teenagers today have no interest in an instrumental solos. In the end music is simple... if it sounds good to the listener, then it sounds good and each generation has their musical "thing."
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:54 am to The Boat
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On my 8-track when my favorite song goes from Channel 2 to Channel 3
This is why in my teen years I had cassettes.
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The Stranger song begins with whistling and the last track of the album ends with the same whistling.
If that whistling started and ended the album it would have been nice continuity.
Nice idea! I bet if Billy Joel was asked about that today he might place his hand of his chin and go "hmmm...".
Posted on 1/9/21 at 9:15 am to 88Wildcat
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Orchestras and string sections in songs by bands with no business using them. It's one thing to do it if you are the Moody Blues or ELO but otherwise, particularly in country songs--because nothing says country like a bunch of fat balding guys in tuxedos reading sheet music-at best it comes off as pretentious and artsy-fartsy. At worst it saps all of the life and energy out of a song.
I disagree. ‘Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold’ by Mike and the Moonpies is a masterpiece.
Posted on 1/9/21 at 10:33 am to Hoodie
The sudden alarm clock ringing in the intro to Time after the chill fade of On the Run.
Posted on 1/9/21 at 2:05 pm to Hoodie
Songs that whine about hard hard life on the road is.
Posted on 1/9/21 at 2:42 pm to Daktari
stupid studio experiments...
I absolutely hate the tremolo effect on the vocals at the end of Crimson and Clover... Such a great song that kinda ends on a downer...
I absolutely hate the tremolo effect on the vocals at the end of Crimson and Clover... Such a great song that kinda ends on a downer...
Posted on 1/9/21 at 4:51 pm to TFTC
Snapping fingers intros and verses over minimal guitar notes into programmed drums for the choruses.
AKA every song on pop and country top 40 for about 5 years now.
AKA every song on pop and country top 40 for about 5 years now.
Posted on 1/11/21 at 9:27 pm to RockAndRollDetective
quote:I think the solid state screeches at the beginning and end of “Jungle Love” are worse. Would have been a great rocker without it.
3. The synth washes at the beginning of "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller.
For me, BB King’s Now Appearing at Ole Miss is an outstanding performance ruined by unnecessary post-production overdubs (credited as “Sweetening” on the liner notes) by noted samba percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, who had no business working on a blues album.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 8:52 am to DeltaTigerDelta
Ruining a a great song with a stupid arse outro.
See, e.g., "I am trying to break your heart" by Wilco.
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See, e.g., "I am trying to break your heart" by Wilco.
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Posted on 1/20/21 at 9:36 am to lpgreat1
quote:Killer Queen
Snapping fingers intros
Posted on 1/20/21 at 10:27 am to Hoodie
Albums with excessive fade-outs. It's okay maybe once on an album, but fading out almost every song shows that an artist can't write a complete song.
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