Barking Spiders

Actually I cant think of any big names that I haven't heard a good deal of. That's how I know I can enjoy disliking many of them with self-satisified justification 😁 I mean I cant abide The Rolling Stones, fr'instance but I've heard each of their 'seminal albums several times. By the by, I really don't get Exile On Main Street's seminal status

I always buy/have bought new releases by the following even if I've never heard a second of a single track off them Slipknot, Rammstein, Faith No More, Lamb of God, Eric B & Rakim, Underworld, Orbital, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Public Enemy, The Black Dog, Groove Armada, The Pixies, Yello, Filter, Killing Joke, Boards of Canada, Fluke, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, 808 State, Fila Brazillia, Juno Reactor, Autechre, Tosca, Monolake, The Field, Alice in Chains, Solar Fields, The Beastie Boys, Sounds from the Ground, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Ice Cube, Biosphere, Gojira, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Leftfield, F*** Buttons/Blanck Mass, Run The Jewels.

'kin love that track and the first time I saw/heard two basses on the same tune. IMO don't think The Cure ever bettered Faith, which Primary's on They had 2 basses on other tracks, Check out this live version of Pictures of You Maybe this isn't the best clip but Bob plays a 6 string bass on this tune

Kiss or AC/DC have kind of made me want to give up trying to improve my playing. After all, if you can become rich as Croesus over the length of a 40 year career by making simplistic chant alongs for fans to wave their ciggie lighters/mobiles to why bother wasting your time learning more than a handful of riffs and solos? Other than that I have zero interest in music made by virtuoso bass/guitar types. Most of what I've heard from well known bass/guitar wizards is as boring as feck. Give me the Ramones any day over Yngwie Malmsteen. Some, like Tommy Emmanuel are great to see live but I care little for his studio albums. His live appeal is as much about his personality has his playing.

Yep , Simple Minds were very much New Wave and Derek Forbes' bass is pivotal on all the albums up to and including New Gold Dream, IMO the last great album they made. As for Stuart Morrow I've long been bigging him up on BC. Check out the bassline to 'No Rest'.

Love that tune. Well worth digging out Play if it's lurking at the back of a cupboard somewhere

I'm referring to the fact in the US 'new wave' is taken to include all the New Romantic and synthpop stuff but not in the UK.

I guess if bass players were asked to name some good players from the New Wave era (UK definition not the US, which includes Level 42, Duran and synth pop! 😕) they would mostly come up with Norman Watt Roy, Bruce Thomas and Sting. I've recently being playing stuff from my punk/New wave collection, paying more attention to the bass, in particular the first 2 Undertones albums. Tasty bass lines by Michael Bradley throughout both. I think I recall Ali McMordie of SLF being mentioned recently on BC and their back catalogue is chocka with great bass. Just wondering who else's playing you think really stands out on which New Wave albums.

Right now it's waking up the neighbours with the Clash Hits Back compilation. A band whose music I've never fallen out with in my 41 years of music listening, Here's a live version of Police on My Back

Five or six groupies for the after show party and a bag of charlie

The late 80s -mid 90s threw up loads of great hip hop . I'll take those and add Eric B & Rakim, Naughty by Nature, PE, Ice Cube, Ice T, EPMD, KRS 1 and Cypress Hill. Currently the genre's gone down a bit of a hole but there is Run The Jewels, today's PE. They've made 4 cracking albums and show that rap isn't all about bling, beyatches and hoes.

Looks like these two were having a bit of a love-in with all those furtive glances and we shouldn't have intruded! Anyway, errm seems many of the 👍 comments are from bedroom bound teens unaware of Stu Hamm's 'Country Music', done nearly 35 years ago.

where's the rap ? 😁

Been playing a fair bit of While She Sleeps, for my money the best current rock band from the UK and the best metalcore band . After that I've been winding down with Substrata by Biosphere, possibly the greatest album of ambient soundscapes

I now mostly work from home and in the mornings I often listen to Paul Anthony and Wyatt's shows. While I hear all the songs played, I only listen to the 5-10% I like while the remainder is just aural wallpaper. I find it hard to believe that of the 10-12 songs that are played an hour on any music radio show someone would like more than a third at most.

I've come across many posts in fora of the this type, 'I like a range of different styles of music, NWOBHM, thrash metal, groove metal, black metal, drone metal, power metal, recycled metal...' Or what people usually seem to mean is they listen to daytime Radio 1, Heart, Smooth FM blah blah everyday and deal with whatever comes on

The Spotify /Amazon suggestion thing probably doesn't work for many people I guess. I regularly listen to Slayer, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Motley Crue and Rammstein but dislike most metalcore, hair metal and other extreme metal sub-genres. I'm big into the punk / new wave of The Clash, SLF, Buzzcocks, Undertones and Stranglers but find no space for Green Day, Blink 182 etc. For the funk is epitomised by P-Funk, early Kool ATG, Graham CS and Troublefunk but current funk bands do nothing for me. As for hip hop, it all peaked in the late 89s to mid-90s. The likes of Kanye West, Jay Z etc can't hold a candle to Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, Public Enemy. Dance/electronica stuff peaked with those acts formed in the late 80s-mid 90s but I've little shelf space for much from those starting out in the 21st century.

Not blown away myself and I'm a big slap fan.

Personally I wouldn't lump in drum n 'bass with grime as d n' b covers a wide range of styles from the stripped back hardstep, techstep, drill n' bass at the harder end to 'liquid funk' and 'ambient d n' b at the melodic end. Fr'instance Squarepusher's drill n'bass thing is very different from early Pendulum. Grime is more of an offshoot of rap and yes it sucks big time. IMO.

Bruce's main crime against music is that he inspired John 'Cougar' Mellencamp

Yep, that's a good description of mine too. They cover a broad range of many genres but only a relatively small number of bands or solo artists within each, which kind of messes with Amazon recommendations. Often on the radio you'll get a presenter asking a phone-in contestant what music they like. More often than not the answer is a bland ' I listen to anything reallllyyyyy' . Pity the presenter then can't spin a bit of Ornette Coleman or Killswitch Engage

Not forgotten in my world they're not. Cracking albums, all three of them.

I believe it was his audition vid as a replacement for Joey Jordison in Slipknot. Strangely Max Weinberg got the job.

Been reading some posts here where people they admit their music tastes are quite narrow, either by genre and/or era. Just wondering if those people with quite narrow taste have tried stuff they don't normally listen to but somehow just cant' get on with it. I'd be interested to know whether having narrow or broad tastes is more to do with brain bio-chemistry than social influences or exposure. Are any neuroscientists among us who might have an insight?