What I always wanted to post, but was too affraid to do

Bob Dylan: One good song (The Hurricane) Don't reccomend me stuff. Can't stand the voice.

Miles Davis: guess I'm not smart enough (that would be a typical comment of a Miles' fan. )

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

John Lennon.
I like the beatles, but I think they're overrated. But that's what others probably say about Elvis.

U2
Smashing Pumpkins
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthrax
Gary Moore
Alice In Chains
Dream Theater
Jefferson Airplane
Stevie Wonder
Marshall Crenshaw

I've never liked Genesis much, either. A friend gave me a free copy of Foxtrot a long time ago (he somehow had two), and I've listened to it a few times and it wasn't particularly bad, just never really did anything for me. Haven't heard anything else by them, admittedly.

Lots of people I've met at jazz camp have been shocked at my extreme distaste for Birdland by Weather Report. Honestly, I don't get how anyone can stand that song, it sounds like the opening of a cheesy PBS documentary.

I used to like Stevie Ray Vaughan a lot, have since lost all taste for him, don't listen to him at all anymore. I haven't liked anything I've heard by Primus (about half of Sailing the Seas of Cheese), just seems like humor that's more stupid than funny mixed with technical jerking off.

And I get lots of surprised responses about certain music that I do like. Everyone sees me as someone who would listen to jazz, I guess they never see the rap, punk/hardcore, and occasional metal coming.

I have a friend who calls it elevator music, and he's also mentally challenged.



I've always felt very little for Elvis's "musicianship". I can listen to 'Don't Be Cruel' and 'Return to Sender' all day and can easily leave the rest. His version of 'Hound Dog' not only doesn't make sense, it's rather pale. Similar to, and gods love her and keep her always, Aretha's take on 'Respect'. It just doesn't make any sense.

Oh, yeah, and 'Kentucky Rain' is one of my favourite tunes.

The Squirrels are going to be very busy, I can see.




I never understood the nonsense about Elvis "stealing" Black music.


And the best thing that happened to Big Mama was his covering her song, which lead others to cover it.


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It made her and her estate a lot of money she/they would never have made. Just like Arthea made a whole lot of money for DA MAN's estate.



It wasn't even his idea to cover it and he really hated having to sing the song to a dog on the Steve Allen show.

I detest Rush. Nothing about his voice is appealing to my ears. Also, Rush fans are crazy annoying, an entire band can not be built upon an 'epic drummer', and if it can, it's not Rush.

Hmm...maybe they should have been on my list too.

Nah, I like Rush, but I can take them or leave them. I don't mind Geddy's voice, but I think Neil Pert is the most over-rated drummer in the history of music next to John Bonham and Lars Ulrich. That said, I think Alex and Geddy are under-rated on their instruments - they're above and beyond Pert in my opinion. But as a band, they're on my B list of rock bands...maybe C.

But you're right...I'll take Magma, Ruins, or Univers Zero before I look at Rush for great drummer-lead rock bands.

Um...what? I dunno if you're a Led Zeppelin fan or not (knowing your tastes, I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't, I guess), and I think we can all agree that Moby Dick is perhaps the worst influence on drum solos ever to occur, but there's no getting around the fact that John Bonham revolutionized drumming, and in a way without which huge developments in rock, particularly heavy metal, never could've occured without. Sure, there're two sides to the coin, it spawned a ton of shitty music as well, but that occurs with most major advancements.

I didn't say anything about the "stealing" theory. I've just never found the major part of Elvis's catalogue overly interesting. Elvis is by far the most famous 'musician' that I don't particularly care for. And the whole King thing, sorry I don't buy it. Muddy Waters began doing in '48 what Elvis has been mostly credited for. Wynonie Harris had the stage presence (though not the manners) in the mid-40s that Elvis aspired to. Elvis may or may not have "stolen" black music (personally, I'd put more heat on Sam, but he was a brilliant businessman), but Elvis most certainly got more recognition than the aforementioned - and those whose songs he covered - because he wasn't the same colour as they were, and he was a better singer and better looking than other white performers of the time. The King though? Sorry, that's Chuck Berry.

And I sing to my dog all the time. He digs The Odds.


And I don't like Woody Guthrie either. Or early Dylan.