Barking Spiders

It's kind of weird as I've leapfrogged right over Black Sabbath, NWOBHM, Iron Madien , Judas Priest and all the US stuff from the 80s to those bands that took a cue from Pantera e.g. Lamb of God, Gojira etc plus Slipknot, Rammstein, early Slayer and a few metalcore bands like While See Sleeps. I draw the line at Nordic black metal, Behemoth and all that very dark stuff. But there's heavy and there's also heavy in another way as in 'difficult' or 'inaccessible'. I'm a big fan of Warp style electronica. I've played some Autechre to friends and it does their heads in as does minimalist German techno e.g on the Kompact and Kompost labels.

Stax 👍, 60s Motown 👎. Never cared for the 60s era of Motown as it seemed to me to be as manufactured and formulaic as anything Stock, Aitken and Waterman ever put out. After all, didn't Berry Gordy get his inspiration from the Detroit car manufacturing industry? Things got much better with Barratt-Strong when things got funkier and the lyrics moved away from the Baby Love kinda stuff. Stax stuff always felt more organic and less produced.

To be fair to Davie 504 he's actually among the best YT bass bods, as is Charles Berthoud. That said I've got zero interest in subscribing to their channels. If you don't get to play live what's the fkin point? Anyway as for that OP vid, hmm it was a bit shoite.

Driving down to my boat in the car it was and this evening it's been 90s drum n bass from Omni Trio and various fine fingerpicking tunes by Leo Kottke

Yep, for me listening to/playing music is visceral. I prefer stuff where the music's generally visceral (trance, downtempo, metal, funk, grunge, drum n' bass, punk/new wave/post punk, hip hop) and the lyrics can be sardonic, satirical, acerbic, darkly humourous, anti-establishment or pro environment (Clash, Public Enemy, Dead Kennedys, Gojira, Lamb of God, Rage Against the Machine)

With you all the way there but no Buzzcocks or SLF?. Been a long time of the DK's and was playing Give Me Convenience or Give me Death in the car today I just can't get into prog at all, not the 70s bands big time or cult, nor anything since. That said when some of the 70s UK proggers changed tack that's another matter. Up to the Belew-Levin era I can't take King Crimson but Discipline is a cracker.

I was too young for original punk/new wave so Grunge was the first scene that appealed to me. 30 years later it still sounds as good. Never cared for NWOBHM and apart from Slayer's seminal albums never got into thrash though I was well into Bush era Anthrax (that's John not the time of Dubya's presidency). Then along came Slipknot, Lamb of God , Killswitch Engage and metal all got a whole lot better. + 1 hear for NIN. BTW ex NIN guitar geezer Richard Patrick went onto form the great and underrated Filter whose first three albums are the bomb.

My understanding of 'grunge' is that it's less a description of the music and more to do with the punkish reaction against the corporate AOR and spandex & hair bands that dominated US rock in the 80s. A bit like 70s punk which again was more defined by attitude than a musical style.

Yeah , sometimes there are sound people who are philanthropic, eco-friendly and with good personal politics but who make music I dislike and I feel sort of guilty not liking it, JBJ being one of them and Springsteen and Neil Young among others

I think Nirvana deserve the kudos that came their way but Alice in Chains were/are numero uno

Except for the bass!

This vid could be a good reason!

The Beat, now you're talkin' . One of the best live bands I've ever seen and can't think of any of their tunes I don't like.

Is it churlish of me to have a pathological dislike of Madness? Gimme the gloom of early Cure and Joy Division any day over the chirpy and chipper not quite cockernees. I'm struggling hard to find one Madness song that doesn't make me want to pierce my eardrums with kebab skewers.

Viz Morrison the other main drawback if he's somewhat of an a-hole.

I'm no NY expert but I understand Harvest is meant to be his best. That's got Heart of Gold on it.

I've just been playing some of his stuff and will upgrade my view of him from 'good' to 'great'. Like Bob Dylan, he's a top notch songwriter but maybe others do better versions. I do like his politics though. He seems a pretty sound geezer

I'm no fan of NY, mainly cos of his voice but I do like Heart of Gold. Objectively speaking I do think's he's a good songwriter. Have to agree about Marc Almond. I've got several 80s electronic/synth pop compilations but always skip the Soft Cell tracks

Not even one tiny Beatles tune?😊. I can't abide their twee mop top period but once they discovered the joys of LSD etc, grew their hair on their heads and faces they produced a wide variety of tunes. For me more hits than misses. The Doors are generally woeful but I do like LA Woman. Have to agree with you viz Rod Stewart. To me he's a repulsive man of little talent and can't be forgiven for travesties such as the Great America Song book albums, Merry Christmas Time Baby, Still The Same, Great Rock Classics of Our Time and Soulbook. He's a vastly inferior singer to all those who did the original songs on these albums. Weird thing is they all went platinum in many countries.

This thread wasn't meant to be about sticking to my list though, just any one track by anybody. As for Aerosmith-Stones, don't tell me Steven Tyler didn't model himself on Mick Jagger?!

I'm not the biggest U2 fan either but it annoys me the way these (probably) teenage nerds locked away in their bedrooms write off Edge as being cr@p on YT etc, just because he doesn't shred and uses effects. There's no doubting he's influenced thousands of players in U2 wannabe bands. I think he's a pretty inspiring player

Prompted by a post on another thread viz a comment on ABBA, of those bands/artists that have put out a lot of (varied) music everyone must surely like at least ONE song, or even one album maybe? So, of those you generally don't care for, what's the ONE song you do like muchly? Here goes.. AC/DC (Johnson stuff) - I like a fair few Bon Scott era tunes but the only one from the Johnson era for me is Shoot To Thrill ABBA - they're a band I appreciate a lot more than choose to listen to, though by a long way I think their best song is SOS Rush -normally wouldn't touch these guys with 2 bargepoles attached end to end but Far Cry is pretty great Yes - their prog proper stuff leaves me cold but Owner of a Lonely Heart is a minor classic Genesis -same can be said for this lot but Misunderstanding's a gem Rolling Stones - never ever got this lot and like the Beatles they should've quit in 1970 but The Last Time is a classic Aerosmith - a poor man's Rolling Stones and I cared no more for their post-drugs stuff than their wasted period, but No Surprize, from the generally dire Night in The Ruts, is still a cracker Kiss - a band who I've consistently disliked over many decades but I'll turn up the volume if Shout It Out Loud comes on the radio

Generally I've no time for Eagles though I did like One of These Nights and for a while Life In The Fast Lane. As for CCR they seem to be a perennial fave on Planet Rock. For the life of me I dunno why. To my ears they sound very pedestrian, as rudimentary as AC/DC and I can't stand the guy's vocals.

Yeah totally forgot about her. Come to think of it, in my previous post I was only thinking about bands as singer songwriters never even cross my mind. I've never had any singer-songwriter albums, male or female, not one. I've heard all I ever need to hear from Dylan, Mitchell, Neil Young, Springsteen, Van Morrison etc on the radio to tell me that's enough.

As an aside, which do you rate as the Cure's 3 best albums? I guess many would go for Disintegration, Kiss Me and maybe Wish. For me it's 17 Seconds, Faith and Pornography with Bloodflowers and Disintegration not far behind.