Anyone listen to real music?

Ganjatopolis

Ganjatopolis

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I know that everyone has their own taste in music, and I'm gonna try not to offend anyone, but does anyone hear listen to good music anymore? I mean, the music that our lifestyle was started by, not rap and hip hop and whatnot. I can listen to rap when I'm at parties but only as a backdrop, not as music I would listen to in my spare time. What happened to bands like Simon and Garfunkel with their awesome vocals and guitar riffs, The Grateful Dead (even though we don't have a Jerry G.), Bob Dylan, etc. There are a couple new bands I ran across recently that I like, but I just can't stand today's angry metal (I had enough of it in the early 90's) or rap music because smoking pot is supposed to make you mellow, not angry about your bitches and hoes. Anyone else get me? Why can't anyone today enjoy The Allman Brothers, CCR, The Doors, Country Joe and the Fish, Pete Seeger, or Van Morrison. I have found some new guys showing promise though, Devendra Banhart and yesterday I heard this Ed Harcourt guy on the radio that sounded pretty good. Am I just lost in a culture that expands too quickly to keep up with, or do I have a killer taste in music? Well, thats just my little rant.
 
chronik4lyfe

chronik4lyfe

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wow... dude... ... man people have been smokin weed before we were even a civilized nation, so to say "our lifestyle" of smoking weed and listening to your definition of "good music" is completely off.. speak for your generation..not for the one before you.. and the one after you.. just my opinion.. "good music" is a personal preferance,
 
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ROC1977

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I listen to rap, rock, pop, soul, Blues, everything basically. All genres have good songs. Clasical music is great if your in the right mood.
The cd's I make up for my car could have anything on it.

At the moment I'm listening to Eric Clapton, Gun n Roses, The Who, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gay, Jamoriqui, Outkast (older stuff), and even a bit of Phil Collins. I just love the drums on In the Air tonight. lol
 
Psychedelics and Chronic

Psychedelics and Chronic

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Ganjatopolis said:
I know that everyone has their own taste in music, and I'm gonna try not to offend anyone, but does anyone hear listen to good music anymore? I mean, the music that our lifestyle was started by, not rap and hip hop and whatnot. I can listen to rap when I'm at parties but only as a backdrop, not as music I would listen to in my spare time. What happened to bands like Simon and Garfunkel with their awesome vocals and guitar riffs, The Grateful Dead (even though we don't have a Jerry G.), Bob Dylan, etc. There are a couple new bands I ran across recently that I like, but I just can't stand today's angry metal (I had enough of it in the early 90's) or rap music because smoking pot is supposed to make you mellow, not angry about your bitches and hoes. Anyone else get me? Why can't anyone today enjoy The Allman Brothers, CCR, The Doors, Country Joe and the Fish, Pete Seeger, or Van Morrison. I have found some new guys showing promise though, Devendra Banhart and yesterday I heard this Ed Harcourt guy on the radio that sounded pretty good. Am I just lost in a culture that expands too quickly to keep up with, or do I have a killer taste in music? Well, thats just my little rant.
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Go to a festival brotha. I listen to a shit load of music and I love the oldies as much as the new. Dead, Zepplin, CCR, Queen, Beatles, Doors, Allman, Warren Haynes, Hendrix, etc. etc. There is just so much new shit that is similar and good too
 
smartsoverambition

smartsoverambition

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i don't know what kind of rap u listen too but i believe it's one of the best to smoke to, especially when u've lived the life

ever heard life's a bitch by nas & AZ i listen to it at the highpoint of my high because the beat is smooth and every line has me saying "word"

i also like jazz in the background also
 
GrowTech

GrowTech

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yeah, if you turn on radio or music television these days, you will find out that (sadly) the guitar solo has died... :(
 
Wild

Wild

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I basically listen to every style of music apart from Country and Skiffle haha. However I do prefer the old rock and blues, because the majority of the songs were made whilst high, rather than nowadays when there are very few songs made whilst high. The oldies are almost arranged to mess with your mind a little.
 
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MTmix86

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I completely agree. I do like a fair amount of rap/hip-hop myself but for the most part don't listen to it when I smoke. A lot of my friends always want to listen to rap when they smoke and I have never understood that. For me I like listening to some of the more mellow classic rock, jam bands, reggae etc.
 
Tizzle312

Tizzle312

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i HATE country music so much it is not even funny
like whenever i hear a country song it just automaticly puts me in a bad mood , i dont know who started doing that god awful music
and i didnt even know people were really into it i thought it was like music for Farmers and shit
 
Brick Top

Brick Top

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GrowTech said:
yeah, if you turn on radio or music television these days, you will find out that (sadly) the guitar solo has died... :(
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I think that is in part because of the so-called evolution of music but also because in my opinion there just are not as many great guitarists out there and to write a song with a great guitar solo you need a great guitarist to play it.
A number of big name bands have managed to not rely on hard charging knock you down guitar solos. The Beatles are considered by some to be the best ever and how many of their songs had hard charging guitar solos? Even the Rolling Stones did not rely on them all that much in many songs and when they did, while they were good, they were not really hard and were very simple compared to what other groups wrote/played.
I think for some of us that are older we were almost spoiled in a way because at a time there were so many really talented guitarists and so many that some of them were very underrated in their era and would be considered far better than many playing today if they were still around and or active and of course as good.
Alvin Lee of "Ten Years After" was fantastic. If you have not seen the flick "Woodstock" and saw them play live doing "I’m Going Home" you have really missed something but with Jimi Hendrix around at the same time how much recognition could he have gotten? You can watch "I’m Going Home" from "Woodstock" on youtube if you never had the chance to see Alvin Lee in action.
Leslie West was another really talented guitarist but he never got the recognition from many what was due him. Toni Iommi of "Black Sabbath" was and is a great guitarist especially when you factor in that he lost the ends of two of his fingers and fingers the strings wearing rubber caps with pieces of leather attached to them so basically he’s playing without feeling in two of his fingertips. Randi Rhodes was fantastic but tragically his life was cut short. Ask yourself how often an Eddie Van Valen come along? The answer is not often. Duane Allman was great but again his life ended far to soon. There were so many absolutely great guitarists for a while that as I said many did not get the recognition they really deserved and the fans almost expected most every group to have someone really good, or like in the case of some of the Southern Rock bands to have several that were really good.
How about "The Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent or later George Thorogood? Neither were lacking in talent. Peter Frampton was no slouch when it came to making a hunk of wood scream and sing.
But those days have gone the way of the full service gas station. They’re history.
Just a little side note or bit of trivia about a band from the past that few remember and most never heard about was an all girl band in 1977 to 1979 called "The Runaways." It was originally made up of Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Sandy West and Miki Steele (who was replaced but later made it fairly big with "The Bangles") and then Jackie Fox took over on bass. If I remember right Joan Jett was only 15 when the band was formed and the oldest members were 17 so they were from 15 to 17 years old and they were the fourth largest seller of albums in Japan at the time trailing behind only Led Zeppelin, ABBA and KISS and were a big hit in Australia and a number of other countries but they were seen as something of a novelty act by many in the U.S. so they never topped the charts in the U.S. even though they still had a large following.
The U.S. just wasn’t ready for a bunch of hard playing rockin’ adolescent girls.
They were headliners and had "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers" and "The Ramones" and "Cheap Trick" and "Van Halen" and others opening for them but how many people here know much if anything about them?
Some of their songs are likely known to some here but that’s because they were later covered by other bands like how "Quiet Riot" had a big hit with "Mamma Weer All Crazee Now" but it was a "Runaways" song. Some know the song "Cherry Bomb" because Joan Jett still does it in her act but it was something she wrote along with Kim Fowley and was first recorded by "The Runaways."
You can find some videos of them on youtube and can also find out more about them at http://www.therunaways.com/
But to go back in time again we were spoiled by the likes of people like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page and David Gilmour and another that was really good but was underrated was Carlos Santana. Another to add to the list of underrated guitarist would be Martin Barre of "Jethro Tull." Listen to some of his guitar solos and then try telling me he wasn’t really good but Ian Anderson got most of the fame for the group and other guitarists got more media attention and many people even when "Jethro Tull" was at their peak didn’t know the name Martin Barre and that was a real shame.
The list could go on and on and many were truly great but between there being one or two catching most of the attention in "Rolling Stone" and other publications and there being so many great guitarists we just did not realize at the time how many really standout guitarists there were and now that there aren’t a bunch of them in newer bands we miss it.
 
BooRadley

BooRadley

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TOOL, Sarah McLachlan, Third Day, Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt, Frank Zappa, Primus, Declan Galbraith, October Project, [classic] Tina Turner, [classic] Teddy Pendergrass, Celine Dion (I know, I know), Waylon Jennings, Etta James, Trace Adkins, Johnny Cash, Disturbed, Burl Ives, Charley Pride, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Ray Charles, Julie Andrews, Willie Nelson...
 
chronik4lyfe

chronik4lyfe

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BooRadley said:
TOOL, Sarah McLachlan, Third Day, Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt, Frank Zappa, Primus, Declan Galbraith, October Project, [classic] Tina Turner, [classic] Teddy Pendergrass, Celine Dion (I know, I know), Waylon Jennings, Etta James, Trace Adkins, Johnny Cash, Disturbed, Burl Ives, Charley Pride, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Ray Charles, Julie Andrews, Willie Nelson...
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the Bold ones are the only artist i listen too out of that list
 
natmoon

natmoon

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I like to have a listen to all different kinds of music.
I like seventh son of a seventh son,the evil that men do etc..by iron maiden but i also like techno,trance,classical music.....blah blah etc....the list goes on.
Who can figure it,my only real answer is that most peoples tastes in music broaden with age just like the foods that they like to eat.
We still like a choc bar but we also like hot chilli peppers:eyesmoke:
 
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WhatAmIDoing

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I think everyone that's saying the guitar solo is dead, great guitarists are no more (or at least less common) now, etc. etc. (I'm stoned, I don't remember their sns, i don't feel like going back and quoting, this is my summary. lol)

...(and that wasn't a complete sentence. but that's okay :))

There are plenty of good no-name bands w/good no-name artists.

If you're looking for a young band akin to phish, the dead, dylan, etc. I suggest Tea Leaf Green. They were influenced by such bands, and definitly rock the guitar solos. See them in concert if you can. That's the best way. It's how I first really heard them. There were certain riffs that just sounded "Phish", others that were lyrically "Dylan", and stlyes that were definitly "Beatles", but it was originally done, and very well done indeed !!
 
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