 
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 386
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:06 pm: |    |
I detest Creed...aren't they from, like, mid-Florida? Right there...that's a problem.
If I hear the word "passionate" and any member of RATM mentioned in the same sentence again I will slit my wristbands. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10165
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:10 pm: | |
Zach De La Rocha is very passionate. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1417
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:15 pm: | |
quote:I detest Creed...aren't they from, like, mid-Florida? Tallahassee to be exact, NORTH Florida.
RATM guitarist Tom Morello is very passionate about his heavy use of guitar effects, such as delay, modulation, wah, harmonizers, distortion, pitch shifters and feedback. |
Dabirch
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Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 2401
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:15 pm: | |
So is Leonard Peltier. |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 77
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:16 pm: | |
Creed and Coldplay are great bands Goat. They sell more records than most bands around. They play places like the Fox Theater and DTE Energy Theater. Are you one of those people that likes all that crappy Shoegazer crap from the 80's and 90's? I think Ride sounds like fart sandwiches! LOL.
(Message edited by yooper on September 14, 2007) |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10166
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:19 pm: | |
quote:Creed and Coldplay are great bands Goat. They sell more records than most bands around
number of records sold does not dictate that a band is good. |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 78
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:21 pm: | |
And the number of posts does not mean a poster is good! LOL! |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 387
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:21 pm: | |
Free Leonard Peltier!!!!!!!
Listen to "Vapor Trail" by Ride and then we can discuss the flatulence emanating from Creedplay and similar dreck. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1419
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:23 pm: | |
I agree Jt1. Take Bon Jovi vs. Dire Straits: Bon Jovi is corporate rock of the most lowest-common-denominator variety, but Dire Straits are pretty tedious themselves, Mark Knopfler's guitar playing notwithstanding. "Money for Nothing" may be one of the most annoying songs of the '80s, but Bon Jovi has to advance here, if only because one of their band members dated Cher. Shudder. The suckier: Bon Jovi. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10167
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:24 pm: | |
quote:And the number of posts does not mean a poster is good! LOL!
Agreed. I like to consider myself the Britney Spears of the DetroitYes world. Lots of posts, no substance and people think I'm unstable.
I'd rather not talk about the sex with Kevin Federline. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1420
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:27 pm: | |
Counting Crows vs. Doobie Brothers: The Doobie's also didn't know when to quit, and their Michael McDonald era is pretty weeniefied, but in their '70s heyday, they kicked serious ass, and wrote great singalong songs. Counting Crowes have done neither, and their desecration of Joni Mitchel's "Big Yellow Taxi" is one the suckiest of all time sucky cover songs. The suckier: Counting Crows. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1421
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
R.E.O. Speedwagon vs. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Both of these bands were classic middle of the road radio rockers at their commercial apexes. Seger, however, had some pretty significant back story: his late '60s releases Ramblin Gamblin Man and Mongrel were pile driving Detroit rock records, the place where the MC5 met Mitch Ryder; Seger's "2+2 = ?" is one of the more powerful anti-war songs of its era. He was still rocking hard and mean with 1974's Seven, but with 1975's Beautiful Loser he walked into the mainstream and spent the next five years sitting pretty near the top of the charts with a series of accessible, mostly harmless pop rock records. Right around the time that Seger's key commercial period ended, R.E.O. Speedwagon shot to the top of the charts with Hi Infidelity in 1980, capping a ten-year, ten-album slog through various sub genres of arena-ready rock. They got their arenas in the early '80s, but they were sharing them with Styx and Journey, so what does that tell you about the spirit of that age? The suckier: R.E.O. Speedwagon. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10168
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
When talking about the Doobie Brothers you have to consider the good Doobie and the bad Doobie as separate entities.
It's like Chicago. They were originally pretty solid until they decided to try to write songs fit for a seventh grade skating party. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10169
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:33 pm: | |
I give REO a little more credit. They embraced their suckiness, knew it and appreciated it.
They had no delusions about their suckiness. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10170
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:34 pm: | |
If you are taking requests - Can you do a Foreigner vs. Journey suckiness competition.
Eddie Money vs. the winner would be a nice addition. |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 79
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:34 pm: | |
My roommates listen to this girly music like the Jesus and Mary Chain and Dinosaur Jr. Sometimes I just want to smash the stereo! (I never would). When they leave to go to class I jam my Kid Rock CD! Even though he is from a suburb of Detroit. He is still Motor City all the way! |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10171
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:35 pm: | |
I have no hate for Dinosaur jr. The remake of Just Like Heaven is pretty humorous to me. |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 2320
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:41 pm: | |
Early REO, a la "157 Riverside Avenue," isn't too bad. The band reached their nadir with Hi-Infidelity and after.
What? No mention of ELO, a band that showed early flashes of originality and then sank into the muck of mediocrity? |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1423
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:44 pm: | |
Foreigner vs. Journey: No Contest. Journey's career path took the opposite approach of Foreigner, the first three albums by this Santana spin off band were critically and commercially tepid jazz-fusion flavored records, before they took on singer Steve Perry and broke huge with 1978's Infinity and 1979's Evolution. The jazz rock stuff was pretty weak, while the pop-rock stuff became annoying radio fodder for years to come: "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" is particularly shudder inducing to this day. I think, ultimately, this one comes down to the radio test: I don't switch the station when "Feels Like the First Time" or "Cold As Ice" or "Dirty White Boy" come on, but I'm quick with the dial when "Anyway You Want It" or "Open Arms" or (shudder) "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" come on. Foreigner were actually reasonably interesting through their first few records, when King Crimson alumnus Ian McDonald gave 'em some zip and cred. The suckier: Journey. |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 388
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:48 pm: | |
someone asked me for directions to Eph McNally's from the Greektown Casino loading dock. I told them it was around the corner. They thanked me and went on their way.
Jesus and Mary Chain are a jim dandy band...just don't hope for a great live show...at least in the early years...was more like an experiment in droning distorted feedback. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1424
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:51 pm: | |
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!
I was sitting on a mountain top.
30,000 feet to drop.
Tied me on a runaway horse
Uh huh, that's right, of course.
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!
One day, I met a girl named Sue.
She was feeling kind of blue.
I'm Dandy, the kind of guy
Who can't stand to see a little girl cry.
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy! |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 390
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:54 pm: | |
Foreigner--"urgent"....."jukeb ox hero".....while your argument for Journey as the suckier is compelling, I am not sure that one isn't more of a tie. |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 2322
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 3:59 pm: | |
LaVern Baker should have sued Black Oak Arkansas for ruining that one, Quozl. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:00 pm: | |
Foreigner's Album "4" sucked BAD, it included the above named songs.
Actually, I thought Foreigner started to go downhill when Head Games was released. |
Yooper
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Username: Yooper
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:00 pm: | |
Jukebox? I always thought it was joop-box! |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9815
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
J&MC are reuniting. The brothers Reed seem to have put their shit behind them. Not sure of a new album but at least they are playing together.
What about Huey Lewis vs A-Ha? |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 392
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:05 pm: | |
I thought it was "Reid."
How about Kajagoogoo v. Bananarama? |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9816
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:10 pm: | |
Detroit rulz, you are correct.
I was trying to think of the name Kajagoogoo. Bananarama had 2 hits (I think) while Kajagoogoo only had 1. However KGG played their own intruments while Bananarama just sang.
Human League vs Flock of Seagulls |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 394
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:20 pm: | |
The Rezillos v. The Revillos |
Waz
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Username: Waz
Post Number: 198
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:27 pm: | |
But Bananarama had one of their hits with a remake of a Motown song, "(He was)Really Sayin' Something" originally recorded by the Marvelettes. |