Barking Spiders

I generally agree though I like to hear the bass do more than just have a supporting role which is why I like funk, disco and 80s pop.To my ears there are very few solos on any instrument that serve the song which leads me to another unpopular opinion. Eddie van Halen was a technician not a musician. His band's music , like others of his ilk, is just a vehicle for vacuous plankspanking. The solo in Beat It is an abomination. What was Quincy Jones thinking, a rare misstep in a great career.

Like in French restaurants

I've in fact listened to it 4 times just in case something clicked but I'm still at a loss.

'Enormous room'..... tiny audience....I paused on the audience shot to do a count. They look as if they're attending a physics lecture on particle polarisation., which would've been more my thing 😲

+ 1 here. Some time ago I heard the Beeb wouldn't play any GB songs because of the connection. I've got a hits comp and they had many good singles so it's pity they've been tarnished

Ha ha i see I'm not the only pedant☺️

Sorry but I just had to do this ...Lieder. Leider = unfortunately.

That was mainly the alto, which I'd thought about deserving to be put in the skip due to the obligatory solo on many a $h01t3 pop tune. But it's been a fundamental part of the brass section behind many a great funk record so it shouldn't be.

What in particular? I take it you're not a fan of The Verve? From me he gets a 👍 for founding Dragonfly records and kick-starting the psy trance scene.

Also saw them at Glasto in 2013 and bluddy great they were too. A few years later I took the missus to Download as she likes System of a Down who were headlining. By some miles the best band there was Prophets of Rage. They played a mix of RATM covers and own material. The album's good too. Well recommended.

I've been enjoying streaming some of the more recent Coldplay albums, Mylo Xyloto, Ghost Stories and Music of the Spheres. All really good IMO. Coldplay are an excellent band. I bet most of the naysayers, trolls etc have never even listened to one of their albums. Here's a big fave ...

Musical instruments that should be taken to the local recycling yard and chucked into skips are Hammond organs, flutes, tenor saxophones, harpsichords as well as previously mentioned accordians. I've heard no music where the flute hasn't sounded sh**e, especially if it's played by hippies standing on one leg Tenor saxes sound like elephants f@rt1ng in a train tunnel Harpsichords only belong in the 18th century and should only be played by chaste young women in Jane Austen stories Hammond organs have no place in a just world. Any song featuring one automatically qualifies as one of the worst songs ever made

Who are these other people like Jacob Collier, apart from his siblings?

My money's on that absolutely!

Listening to any musical rendition done solo is one of the most boring ways of passing the time unless it's performed by Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Kottke or Adrian Legg and then it's more like a stand-up routine with music interludes. Solo bass gigs are the ultimate in snoozefests. The rule/law should be unless you've got funny/witty stage banter do not perform solo (music that is!).

They be the Red Hot Chili Pipers.

They are to basses what Centre Point is to architecture i.e. supposedly modern and cutting edge but actually an eyesore

I know this is definitely an unpopular opinion although the industry stats bear it out... hip hop / rap has been the dominant music genre of the last 30 years. And it's produced a helluva lot of great and good stuff. I tend to lean towards late 80s-90s stuff but also like Eminem, Jay Z and Drake. With his full band Jay-Z totally rocked Glastonbury 2008 and in doing so gave the middle finger to all the naysayers saying rap shouldn't be there.

here's quite an obvious one everyone of a certain age seems to've missed😉 I was about seven when it came out and I think it may be the very first tune I ever liked,

Not heard of them but will check them out next time there's a CD I want to buy. I try to support indie stores when possible - Head in Leamington Spa and Badlands in Cheltenham - though their 'electronica/dance ' sections are very small compared to other genres, which is why I have to use Amazon and Discogs.

Here's some dubtastic electronica from Thievery Corporation..

The problem I have with western classical music culture is that many of its followers often refer to it as 'art music' which is gag inducingly pretentious. I've also heard and read many also claiming it's superior to all other music, which is both elitist and ignorant as I bet most haven't given say 'classical' Chinese, Indian or Indonesian music a fair crack of the whip

Hmm I'm just over 50 and have got off my butt to find interesting recent and current indie/alt rock and to my ears most of it sounds derivative of post-punk/indie/alt rock bands of the 80s ands 90s. That said, I agree that many of the 'sacred cows' are overrated and not as good as many less celebrated ones from that era.

Other than getting CDs on Amazon and Discogs I won't do any online shopping. This is partly out of principle, as I don't want to contribute towards decline of trad retail businesses. Also how often do you hear about people getting stuff that doesn't fit/work or after a courier has lobbed it over a fence or or left it outside the front door only to get nicked. Besides, viz music stores what better way to spend time than having a play on something well outside your price range? And you get to have a good ole chat with the owner/manager.

Viz what I said about Britpop I don't include the stuff that broke ranks with the typical Britpop updated 60s English sound. Never had any time for Blur's first 4 albums but when they went grungy on the fifth, that's another thing. Song 2's a blast. 13 and Think Tank are pretty good too.