But, post Cook, I’ve listened to quite a bit here and there. I like Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains and will have to get round to trying OLP at some point.

He’ll start to really make sense in a specific context when you do. He’s such an early 90s kid — it’s written all over his music. I fell in love with that sound all over again.

straight pop on my favourites list: too frequently the beats are aneamic and the lyrics are inane.

What a perfect description of 99% of current pop. It’s like a bunch of people sat in a room together (because it all sounds alike) and tried to come up with earwormy music… and that was the only requirement.

Melody, rhythm, funny or smart lyrics? Who needs ‘em!

I think the Foos are post-grunge, alt rock. Or just plain badass.

I think the Foos are post-grunge too. But just plain badass works best of all. Bwah!

But I do need to either have a strong beat or interesting/great lyrics – and, of course, preferably both – which is why there isn’t too much straight pop on my favourites list: too frequently the beats are aneamic and the lyrics are inane.

That’s freaky. I could have written that sentence. Makes sense that you’d gravitate to AIC after the fact. Lyrically Layne and Jerry pretty much put it all out there. It’s sorta eery listening to Angry Chair now.

I think the Foos are post-grunge, alt rock. Or just plain badass.

Posting here, because I went to bed last night before the conversation ended, so I don’t know whether anyone will see it, but what the hell!

I never got into grunge at all during the 90′s and, I believe, only Nirvana really made it in a big way over here.

But, post Cook, I’ve listened to quite a bit here and there. I like Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains and will have to get round to trying OLP at some point.

Is Foo Fighters Grunge or post-grunge? Either way, I love their stuff. Definitely my favourite of what I’ve heard so far.

Keel – I’m a music ho too. I just like what I like and don’t like what I don’t. Fashions and genres are pretty irrelevant. But I do need to either have a strong beat or interesting/great lyrics – and, of course, preferably both – which is why there isn’t too much straight pop on my favourites list: too frequently the beats are aneamic and the lyrics are inane.

Keel
01/31/2010 at 11:12 pm
fadetowhite: The Cure, The Eurythmics, Madness, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, PIL, plus Blondie and The Police and a couple of US acts – REM and Talking Heads (Oh and guilty pleasure Duran Duran). Edit: oh and Roxy Music and Tears For Fears and I liked odd songs here and there.

seriously: I preferred the grunge of the 90’s. Bands like Nirvana, Our Lady Peace, Nine Inch Nails, Collective Soul, and Jimmy Eat World. Ahh, the bands of my youth, which I have strangely been gravitating back to lately.

I liked both the group of bands/acts that fadetowhite cited as well as the bands that seriously did. Does that make me a musical ho?

Well, do you listen to your music mostly at night? Does it make make you happy before you go to sleep? Does someone else take a percentage of your music purchases even though they haven’t really done any work? (Couldn’t resist a Conan Ho-joke reference.) Y’all have excellent taste in music if I do say so myself. That list reads like my iPod. Although I’d tack DePeche Mode on to the 80s run down, and Alice in Chains would top my 90s influences list. RIP Layne .

Actually a lot[ not all] of these artists had their best music in the 70’s, even though they were still performing in the 80’s but it was the 70’s where their music was defined!! Of course that’s my taste in music & you may have liked their 80’s style which is fine but ,my point still stands that a lot of their more successful stuff was in the 70’s.

I get your point, but I really think most of those artists had their most successful work in the 80s, regardless of when they defined their own style. I guess the exceptions would be Billy Joel, Heart, Elton John or Rod Stewart. However, they were all still going pretty strong in the 80s and/or 90s, so I think they’re valid to. I love Billy Joel’s 70s and 80s stuff, but I think he changed his style quite a bit in the 80s too. MJ was singing before he could walk, but Thriller, which was one of his most career defining albums, came out in the 80s.

girlygirl
02/01/2010 at 1:32 am
over on the Pulse board they are saying that LLWD will be at #19 pop and #8 HAC when the official mediabase chart is released in the next few hours. so Kris will officially have a Top 20 Pop hit!

it is currently at #16 on iTunes (WWFM has slipped back a little bit, but not too badly — it’s at #23)

LLWD stayed at #16 on ITunes until just a short while ago, and is now at #17. WWFM is #26. I expect there will be further movements, but so far holding steady.

According to Pulse Kris is #18!:
21 18 KRIS ALLEN Live Like We’re Dying 3712 3235 477 21.847

Adam is #22:
28 22 ADAM LAMBERT Whataya Want From Me 2618 2234 384 18.623

Yay for Kris in the Top 20! Nice chart position, boys!

Actually a lot[ not all] of these artists had their best music in the 70′s, even though they were still performing in the 80′s but it was the 70′s where their music was defined!! In my opinion some went off track in the 80′s & actually returned with some better music in the 90′s[ eg Elton John]
Of course that’s my taste in music & you may have liked their 80′s style which is fine but ,my point still stands that a lot of their more successful stuff was in the 70′s.

it is currently at #16 on iTunes (WWFM has slipped back a little bit, but not too badly — it’s at #23)

I was NOT a fan of the hair bands, and treacle like Whitney Houston, and sorry Adam, never could stand Madonna and got over Michael Jackson very quickly. So yeah, I loved all the Grunge reaction to that, as well.

So guess I’m in the musical ho category as well. I’m okay with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxkK3RyweOE

I apologize if this is old news

That list suggests we’ve seen our next Idol winner, or will during this last week of auditions … if it weren’t for Kris Allen.

I just watched Season 8 auditions yesterday and Kris sang ONE sentence and came back to say, “I’m going to Hollywood.” At the time, I thought he was awfully cute but couldn’t tell what kind of a singer he would be. Nothing indicated that he would be in the Finale and the winner!

Sen.-elect Scott Brown says he’d like daughter Ayla to have another crack at “American Idol,” where judge Simon Cowell once described her performance as robotic and empty.

Things like this make me physically sick.

Having Garth Brooks or a Vince Gill as a permanent judge would be interesting to say the least. I don’t mind a country/pop artist as a judge.