So today I was out delivering hard liquor like I do pretty much do every week day during the week and I was thinking to my self "Gee I wish the radio stations would stop playing the same songs they have been playing 3 times a day everyday for the past 20+ years."
Any how I got to thinking after seeing Mr.Grocery Thrower make mention to the band Tool, I thought you know as far as bands go that have width and depth Tool would defiantly be high on the list, Tool is a pretty heavy, band they have a big following and have certainly been around for sometime, Schism, The Pot, 46&2, Sober and Stinkfist are all very heavy songs with a lot of depth. It really doesn't get much heavier then Tool, there a pretty hard band. I know Tool was around in the 1990's, but they were defiantly way more advanced and way beyond the entire grunge seen for sure defiantly ahead of that time and I know there not even roped into that genre and probably me mentioning "grunge" and Tool in the same sentence is sacrilegious I'll probably get in trouble because of that.
Now to me I think if any one asked I would say that Rush is my favorite band I think that Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Pert are a very very talented group of musicians Rush isn't certainly as heavy as Tool, but they do have a lot of depth. The more I think about it pretty much every song on Moving Pictures (1981) was a hit. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, Camera Eye, Which Hunt and Vital Signs however, that being said Permanent Waves (1980) was also a very big Rush album that had a lot of hits, Freewill and The Spirit of Radio being the big two hits from that album, however I also like Jacobs Ladder and Natural Science
Actually I would say Vital Signs the last song on Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Rush song or up there on the list defiantly top 5.
As far as the whole Seattle Sound and Grunge Rock movement of the 1990's goes it is fairly controversial, to some people the 1990's was a great musical decade and to others they say not so much. As far as the 1990's music seen was concerned really I don't care all that much about Nirvana I know out of all the big grunge bands they were the biggest, but Nirvana doesn't do it for me I'm an Alice In Chains fan and I can tolerate some Pearl Jam like the first Pearl Jam Album 10 had some good tunes on it of course all of those songs have been played into oblivion over the years on the radio and I can't listen to them any more because they have been so over played and I've heard them to many times. Actually Better man and Corduroy I have a higher tolerance for because they haven't been played as much and actually I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but after Pearl Jam's first album 10 the rest of there albums are really not all that great in my opinion. They have a very very loyal fan base, but I'm going to say it I think Pearl Jam is defiantly overrated. Like I said 10 had a lot of hits heck it was the album that put them on the map, but besides Corduroy and Better man which came after 10 I can't think of a single Pearl Jam song that made any waves. Really all of Pearl Jam's major hits were on there first album.
Stone Temple Pilots and Sound Garden never really did it for me. I tended to like Collective Soul better and obviously you had some big time one/two hit wonders like Everlast and 7 Mary 3 who only had 2 hits, Cumbersome and Waters Edge.
Like as far as 1990's bands go, to me I think Green Day while they may not have been as influential as Nirvana and Pearl Jam there music has certainly stood the test of time and has aged fairly gracefully. That's another thing and I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but I don't think Courtney Love's band Hole was all that bad actually I think Doll Parts and Celebrity Skin are fairly decent songs. Really I don't care about Courtney Love and Dave Grohl hating each other and Kurt Cobain and I'm sure Dave Grohl is a good guy, but that being said Foo Fighters and Nirvana I never was able to get into the whole Nirvana and Courtney Love Dave Grohl saga isn't anything I care about.
As far as bands go that I normally listen to:
Rush
The Cranberries
M83
Tori Amos (I think Tori Amos is a very talented piano player and in a class all of her own)
Some Blue October some not all
MSMR
Some of the Verve (Lucky Man is the song that comes to mind it's the song in the 2004 film The Girl Next Door where Emile Hirsch gets to dance with Elisha Cuthbert very jealous.)
Letters To Cleo (I like Kay Hanley)
Oasis (I like some of there songs, that being said I don't much care for Noel Galleger, I don't know any one who does.)
Joy Division (Transmission is there best song)
Concrete Blonde (There music is extremely dated and time has long since past them by, but Johnette Napolitaniano was a fairly good singer.)
Garbage
Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction they had a few legitimate hits and aren't overrated.
The Joy Formidable
Alice In Chains
Veruca Salt (I'm not afraid to admit it Nina Gordon and Louise Post they knew how to rock out and both of them were pretty easy on the eyes circa 1997.)
Any how I'm more on the alternative side of the line, just gravitated that way over the years. Alright enough about me what do you guys normally listen to? Also I've never had it, but I could certainly see Satellite Radio being a fairly good investment better choices of music to listen to and all that good stuff any of you guys ever deal with Satellite Radio?
Mike
Any how I got to thinking after seeing Mr.Grocery Thrower make mention to the band Tool, I thought you know as far as bands go that have width and depth Tool would defiantly be high on the list, Tool is a pretty heavy, band they have a big following and have certainly been around for sometime, Schism, The Pot, 46&2, Sober and Stinkfist are all very heavy songs with a lot of depth. It really doesn't get much heavier then Tool, there a pretty hard band. I know Tool was around in the 1990's, but they were defiantly way more advanced and way beyond the entire grunge seen for sure defiantly ahead of that time and I know there not even roped into that genre and probably me mentioning "grunge" and Tool in the same sentence is sacrilegious I'll probably get in trouble because of that.
Now to me I think if any one asked I would say that Rush is my favorite band I think that Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Pert are a very very talented group of musicians Rush isn't certainly as heavy as Tool, but they do have a lot of depth. The more I think about it pretty much every song on Moving Pictures (1981) was a hit. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, Camera Eye, Which Hunt and Vital Signs however, that being said Permanent Waves (1980) was also a very big Rush album that had a lot of hits, Freewill and The Spirit of Radio being the big two hits from that album, however I also like Jacobs Ladder and Natural Science
Actually I would say Vital Signs the last song on Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Rush song or up there on the list defiantly top 5.
As far as the whole Seattle Sound and Grunge Rock movement of the 1990's goes it is fairly controversial, to some people the 1990's was a great musical decade and to others they say not so much. As far as the 1990's music seen was concerned really I don't care all that much about Nirvana I know out of all the big grunge bands they were the biggest, but Nirvana doesn't do it for me I'm an Alice In Chains fan and I can tolerate some Pearl Jam like the first Pearl Jam Album 10 had some good tunes on it of course all of those songs have been played into oblivion over the years on the radio and I can't listen to them any more because they have been so over played and I've heard them to many times. Actually Better man and Corduroy I have a higher tolerance for because they haven't been played as much and actually I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but after Pearl Jam's first album 10 the rest of there albums are really not all that great in my opinion. They have a very very loyal fan base, but I'm going to say it I think Pearl Jam is defiantly overrated. Like I said 10 had a lot of hits heck it was the album that put them on the map, but besides Corduroy and Better man which came after 10 I can't think of a single Pearl Jam song that made any waves. Really all of Pearl Jam's major hits were on there first album.
Stone Temple Pilots and Sound Garden never really did it for me. I tended to like Collective Soul better and obviously you had some big time one/two hit wonders like Everlast and 7 Mary 3 who only had 2 hits, Cumbersome and Waters Edge.
Like as far as 1990's bands go, to me I think Green Day while they may not have been as influential as Nirvana and Pearl Jam there music has certainly stood the test of time and has aged fairly gracefully. That's another thing and I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but I don't think Courtney Love's band Hole was all that bad actually I think Doll Parts and Celebrity Skin are fairly decent songs. Really I don't care about Courtney Love and Dave Grohl hating each other and Kurt Cobain and I'm sure Dave Grohl is a good guy, but that being said Foo Fighters and Nirvana I never was able to get into the whole Nirvana and Courtney Love Dave Grohl saga isn't anything I care about.
As far as bands go that I normally listen to:
Rush
The Cranberries
M83
Tori Amos (I think Tori Amos is a very talented piano player and in a class all of her own)
Some Blue October some not all
MSMR
Some of the Verve (Lucky Man is the song that comes to mind it's the song in the 2004 film The Girl Next Door where Emile Hirsch gets to dance with Elisha Cuthbert very jealous.)
Letters To Cleo (I like Kay Hanley)
Oasis (I like some of there songs, that being said I don't much care for Noel Galleger, I don't know any one who does.)
Joy Division (Transmission is there best song)
Concrete Blonde (There music is extremely dated and time has long since past them by, but Johnette Napolitaniano was a fairly good singer.)
Garbage
Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction they had a few legitimate hits and aren't overrated.
The Joy Formidable
Alice In Chains
Veruca Salt (I'm not afraid to admit it Nina Gordon and Louise Post they knew how to rock out and both of them were pretty easy on the eyes circa 1997.)
Any how I'm more on the alternative side of the line, just gravitated that way over the years. Alright enough about me what do you guys normally listen to? Also I've never had it, but I could certainly see Satellite Radio being a fairly good investment better choices of music to listen to and all that good stuff any of you guys ever deal with Satellite Radio?
Mike