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Thrillho:
It seems to me that a lot of people describing The Stones or Dylan or whoever as folk or blues rip-off artists miss that a lot of folk and blues has always seemingly been constructed from a kind of pantheon of universal songs, riffs, lyrics and tunes that you'd meld into your own order. I mean a lot of people learn to write songs by either accidentally or deliberately ripping off other artists and stapling well known songs together into something new. And no, I don't just mean Noel Gallagher.
scarred:
Yeah I don't think that when an artist goes "Hey, what [band] did sounds cool, we should do something like that!" that it automatically makes it a bad thing, because -- almost 99% of the time -- the artist puts their own spin on an already established sound, transforming it and evolving it. That's how music works: "Hey, this is cool, let me try it my way."
Theriandros:
Every band that I dislike but happens to be popular.
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Patrick:
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--- Quote from: Patrick on 02 Mar 2010, 00:08 ---The Stones didn't do anything that the Beatles, the Who, or Cream hadn't already done leagues better.
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I've heard all of the classic output by all of these bands at some length and The Stones were significantly different to all of them. If you've spent any time with any of the records between Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street you might agree with me. The brilliance of The Stones was the fact that they created a new form of pop music which perfectly synthesised rock'n'roll, the blues, country, soul, R&B, folk and gospel. My knowledge of rock music is fair and I can't off the top of my head think of another band which attempted this, let alone succeeded. The Beatles dabbled in a lot of genres but never actually forced it all together into one cohesive sound. The Faces are vaguely comparable but didn't quite manage such a broad sphere of influences. Many bands have attempted to emulate it but as far as I'm concerned, nobody has really produced a convincing facsimile even all these years later. Not even The Rolling Stones, in fact.
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Pink Floyd dude, Pink Floyd
amok:
--- Quote from: Theriandros on 03 Mar 2010, 07:16 ---Every band that I dislike but happens to be popular.
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Yeah it's every band. Every band with fans is overrated.
The only honest bands are the ones with 0 fans who hate themselves and split up the next day. Sadly if anyone actually listened to them to test this theory they would become overrated. Schroedinger's indie.
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