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His technicality is great, but so is steve vais and joe satrianis and I don't care for them. Sorry but anyone can "write" better than that, it sounds like cheesy elevator music, his hits on the radio sound like the whitest most sterile interpretation of the blues. If we're talkin blues, I'll take Muddy Waters, B.B King, Brownie Mcghee & Sonny terry, Albert King, Duane Allman, Warren Hanes, Derek Trucks, Freddie King, and Peter Green to name a few way over Vaughan (happy with my spelling). I don't like his voice, I don't like his tone, and I feel like all his stuff is VERY sterile. Maybe it's due to his timing, the 80's were a very sterile time for music.
Well, in 13 pages, this is the only reference to Rush I can find. I highly disagree with you, especially considering that most mainstream radio stations have given them the cold shoulder for the better part of the last 40 years (with the exception of maybe three or four songs), yet they're still rocking with their final world tour this year (and they sell out their shows on a regular basis). Most people either love Rush or hate Rush. I suspect you fall into the latter group. Saddest thing is that most people who have never dug into their extensive catalog of studio albums have missed some of their greatest tunes (you know, the ones that mainstream radio has always been too commercial and pansy assed to play).
I could list a large number of bands that I feel are overrated, but I don't have the time or energy right now. So, I'll just throw out three off the top of my head.....
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rage Against the Machine
based my take on Rush on the extensive amount of air-play they got in my town while growing up and every song sounded the same to me and just didn't do anything for me then, or since.
post something that you woulld include as an integral part of their library (perhaps a deep track) and I'll give it a listen.
His technicality is great, but so is steve vais and joe satrianis and I don't care for them. Sorry but anyone can "write" better than that, it sounds like cheesy elevator music, his hits on the radio sound like the whitest most sterile interpretation of the blues. If we're talkin blues, I'll take Muddy Waters, B.B King, Brownie Mcghee & Sonny terry, Albert King, Duane Allman, Warren Hanes, Derek Trucks, Freddie King, and Peter Green to name a few way over Vaughan (happy with my spelling). I don't like his voice, I don't like his tone, and I feel like all his stuff is VERY sterile. Maybe it's due to his timing, the 80's were a very sterile time for music.
I thought Vaghan was actually an underrated singer. I love his cover of "Life By the Drop".
Have you listened to the albums Highway Companion and Wildflowers front to back? If you have and you can still say that fine, but those are 2 of the best albums ever recorded.
I haven't but will give one or both a listen. I've been pleasantly surprised by some music recommendations before.
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Madonna, Lady Gag, Robin Thicke, Taylor Swift, and a whole host of modern-- and not so modern-- singers I won't/can't call artists.
I wouldn't call them artists either, but in the case of Robin Thicke he's a plagiarizer to boot. His popular song "blurred lines" was a rip off of an old Marvin Gaye song. I knew when I first heard blurred lines it sounded familiar to me, but I couldn't place it. I'm surprised he actually had the audacity to rip off a well known artist like Marvin Gaye. That was a 7+ million dollar mistake on his part.
based my take on Rush on the extensive amount of air-play they got in my town while growing up and every song sounded the same to me and just didn't do anything for me then, or since.
post something that you woulld include as an integral part of their library (perhaps a deep track) and I'll give it a listen.
Define "integral". Per the dictionary, it is a track that "completes" their library. In my opinion, their library of songs is ongoing, as they evolve further with every album they make. Here's two tracks that I consider to be very "deep" (with lyrics).
And, an instrumental, which I'm sure you've heard before, yet gets virtually zero airplay (at least on modern radio). The "deepest" instrumental they have by far (and still played live regularly) Lifeson is an animal on the guitar....
Stevie Ray Vaughan (spelled correctly), incredibly underrated guitarist.
Good god, Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarist of all time list him at #12, TWELVE! Above Albert and Freddie King, Les Paul and Carlos Santana! If anything, Vaughan was way over rated. I saw him live in a small clubs and frankly I found him to be a sterile version of Hendrix.
Justin Timberlake - the song with Michael Jackson ("Love Never Felt So Good") sounds like a Timberlake-downgraded MJ song, that doesn't come close to MJ's high standards. It's a simple-minded song, which sounds like something that was rejected for production sometime during the 70s. "Soul" is something that Timberlake does NOT have in his music.
Rolling Stones.
Never learned how to sing.
Never learned how to really play guitars.
Built fortune on strategic marketing and appeal to low taste.
David Bowey. Voiceless son of a rich fabricant promoted by daddy and doing whatever weird crap possible to gain popularity with low taste crowd.
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