Quote (Perkyass @ Jan. 12, 2005,13:25)
Music today frankly SUCKS!  Perhaps all the good bands are not as well known, I just think it's a damn shame that completely talentless people are the stars of Hollywood today.  Big Band, Oldies, Classic Rock, and Classical is practically all I listen to now.


Well, I don't know if I share that opinion. There's a lot of manufactured junk out there, but it's probably better than five years ago. No more annoying boy groups anymore, thankfully. Personally, I thought like 1995-2001ish was the worst period in music history.

In terms of music TV and radio though, gah... It's about as bad as it has ever been. I remember New Year's 2001, when MTV2 was launched. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. MTV2 played music all day, and from every genre. Then it became crap...

Wait, let's recap Viacom's history with music channels:

1981: MTV is launched... It plays music all day.
1985: MTV starts focusing on other things... VH1 is launched to play music videos.
2001: VH1 starts doing "Behind the Music" and "Top ___" things all day. MTV2 is launched.
2004: MTV2 starts playing old MTV crap. "MTV Hits" is launched to play music videos. Who knows how long that will last.

Good thing there's also FUSE.

As for radio... Wow... FM radio horribly sucks these days. Nothing but commercials and blabbering. Two weeks ago I got myself XM. 68 channels of commercial-free music and like 40 news and talk channels. Hell yeah.

So yes, TV and FM sucks.

Is that really the only music out there today? No.

I personally am almost as multi-genre as can get. I think all I exclude is country. And I even had a month-long phase where I didn't even exclude that.

My all-time favorite bands are Green Day and Sublime. But I also listen to tons and tons of hip-hop and sometimes even house/techno, especially when driving aggressively.

I like a lot of these "flashback" rock band that became popular in 2004, like Jet, Franz Ferdinand, and such. I'm also a big fan of U2 and the Rolling Stones.

It all depends what mood I'm in.

So, let's discuss some music! :buttrock:

Like I said before a lot of the good music never really makes it big....most are underground bands.  You have all these rap artists on MTV Hits now....they really don't play much of anything else.  No offense, but I'm not a huge rap fan.  What ever happened to good Classic Rock bands like, ACDC, Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Cream (Eric Clapton), CCR...etc etc etc.!?
Yes....AC DC, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, THE STONES!!...they live only on our MP3 players and dreams.  I miss them.  Thank god I've been stockpiling their songs from the internet. I don't even listen to the radio anymore. I burn CDs and then play them when I drive.  

Then again, I'm still a fan of Green Day, The Offspring, Rob Zombie, Powerman 5000, Five Iron Frenzy, and Electrasy...so new music ain't all that bad.......
You'll be happy to know that Green Day just retook the #1 spot for top selling album this week, away from Eminem:

"Green Day Back on Top

Punks' "Idiot" returns to Number One three months after release



In a slow post-holiday week for sales, Green Day reclaimed the Number One spot on the chart this week, selling 100,000 copies of their self-proclaimed punk-rock opera American Idiot, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is an impressive three months after the album's September debut at the top spot -- though with smaller figures: Idiot originally moved 267,000 copies.

Green Day bumped Eminem's Encore to Number Two (100,000), while Lil Jon's Crunk Juice held onto its Top Ten comeback for its second week at Number Three (80,000). Kanye West R&B protege John Legend's debut, Get Lifted, moved up three spots in its second week to Number Four (75,000), while Atlanta rapper Ludacris' The Red Light District held onto Five (74,000).


With no major releases last week, the rest of the Top Ten is a reshuffling of the Christmas-shopping favorites -- but at far lower sales numbers. Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled moved up four spots to Number Six, with 70,000 copies sold, and country star Shania Twain's blockbuster Greatest Hits jumps five places back into the Top Ten to Seven (69,000).


Jay-Z and Linkin Park's mash-up, Collision Course, dropped four to Number Eight (68,000); and Usher's unstoppable Confessions is still on the charts, down three to Number Nine (67,000). Meanwhile, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's sophomore effort, Breakaway, climbed three spots to crack the Top Ten again (Ten, 67,000). But Tupac's latest posthumous release, chart-topper Loyal to the Game, slipped six places back into the teens (Fourteen, 55,000).


The disappointment this week is Ol' Dirty Bastard's first posthumous release, Osirus, a record of new material recorded in the rapper's last months and released by his mother Cherry Jones' label. No doubt due to limited promotion and distribution, the album did not chart.


This week's Top Ten: Green Day's American Idiot; Eminem's Encore; Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz' Crunk Juice; John Legend's Get Lifted; Ludacris' The Red Light District; Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled; Shania Twain's Greatest Hits; Jay-Z and Linkin Park's Collision Course; Usher's Confessions; Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway."

As to my opinion of the top 10:

Green Day's American Idiot: Amazing, their best album in a decade.
Eminem's Encore: Pretty good... There's a bunch of good songs on it, and he continues to prove he's a true genius.
Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz' Crunk Juice: Haven't listen to this one yet... I've found that Lil' Jon's better when simply featured in other artists' songs than having whole tracks with the East  Side Boyz.
John Legend's Get Lifted: No clue who this is...
Ludacris' The Red Light District: Downloaded it and starting to get to like it. "Get Back" is such a great song. "Number One Spot" and "Large Amounts" are great too. Luda always puts me in a good mood.
Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled: I'm not a big fan of that "Soldier" song. It sounds so cheap. "I need a soldier" blah, blah. I haven't heard most of the rest of the album though.
Shania Twain's Greatest Hits: Haven't listened to it.
Jay-Z and Linkin Park's Collision Course: I really, really, like it. It's a great idea. This pulls it off way better than that underground "Grey Album" where Jay-Z's Black Album is mixed with the Beatles' White Album.
Usher's Confessions: Except for "Yeah!" I don't think I like any of Usher's songs. Too depressing and/or slow.
Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway: Gah.

My sisters are obsessed with Green Day and Blink 182 all the sudden. I don't know where it came from and they stole all my CDs. Best CD ever made: Fourty Licks by The Rolling Stones.    Hands down.
Quote (MarkyG @ Jan. 13, 2005,23:29)
Best CD ever made: Fourty Licks by The Rolling Stones.    Hands down.

I love that collection! And "Don't Stop" is a great new song.
And I've been listening to it for the past forty minutes again, and am loving it!
I forgot some of the greatest bands of all time....may they forgive me and allow my soul to enter Valhalla......KISS, Guns 'n Roses, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister...oh god...no one tell anyone that I left those out.....oh gloiben......
"Shattered" song about NYC. I love that song...it's a good one to work out to.  If none of you know it, it's the song Collin Farrel was working out to in SWAT.
"The music thread" seems to crop up in every forum at least once ^_^. Well, to prove that not all music sucks (but I agree that most of the high-profile artists are crap, really. Oh, and last time I checked, music was not made in Hollywood - and thank god for that), so to prove that some is ok, here's my top list, cut-n-paste from a similar thread at a different board

English:
Queen
ABBA
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Destiny's Child
Depeche Mode
Rage Against the Machine
System of a Down
Eminem
Enigma
Jenifer Lopez

German:
Samy Deluxe
Rammstein
Falco
Die Toten Hosen
Fettes Brot
DJ Tomcraft

Russian:
Time Machine
Nautilus Pompilius
DDT
Kino
Lyube
Bravo

Some may not like my taste in music, but, do I give a shit?  :cool:
Dude, all I know is I need to wake up at 6 EST to go to work... So if you're awake at NOON in Vienna or anywhere in central EUROPE, please call me: +1 315 601 1865... Thank You!!!!!!
I totally forgot about Van Halen....c'mon....who doesn't like Van Halen, huh?
i have to say, even though music today is no where near as great as it used to be, i've been going to vans warped tour every summer since i was like...15. good times, good times. i actually ran into john otts at my first warped tour, if any of you remember him? i hate crowdsurfers, though, and chicks who try to mosh. grrrrrrrrrrrrr just want to beat them.
Quote (gift @ Jan. 24, 2005,20:51)
i actually ran into john otts at my first warped tour, if any of you remember him?

Hahah, this summer while a couple of us in Vienna checked out the former Vino's, I saw the following message written in the men's bathroom:

"John Otts is God"
John Otts...man...I could have lived the rest of my life without remembering that stain on humanity.
Quote (Perkyass @ Jan. 13, 2005,12:08)
What ever happened to good Classic Rock bands like, ACDC, Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Cream (Eric Clapton), CCR...etc etc etc.!?

The Rolling Stones are scheduled to come out with a new album this summer. Yes, a new album, not a new compilation. It will be their first since 1997's Bridges to Babylon.

http://www.billboard.com/bb....0735012

AC/DC's coming out with a new album this year too. It will be called Strap it On.

Led Zepplin hasn't existed since On September 25, 1980, shortly before embarking on the U.S. leg of the tour, drummer John Bonham died of an accidental asphyxiation after an alcohol binge.

Eric Clapton brought out a new album last year, called Me and Mr. Johnson (an album of Robert Johnson covers).

As for CCR, John Fogerty bought himself out of his contract with Fantasy Records and eventually established a successful solo career.

I'm looking forward to the Rolling Stones' and AC/DC's albums this year.
Awesome!  Oh I'm really looking forward to those!
Sweet.  Even though "Strap It On" kind of sounds like some weird S&M sort of thing.  I hope that these albums are as good as their old stuff.  Or I will cry bloody tears and wallow in abyss of hopelessness that is my empty soul.  Or I'll just toss it and get pissed.
Well, Strap it on sounds very AC/DCesque.
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