Kevin's Watch

I've got a stereo setup in my basement, where I max my volume all the way up and use the little "bass boost" as well. I'm surprised my neighbors haven't complained yet!

My favorite tunes to blast out loud:

"Iron Man", Black Sabbath
"Baba O'Reilly", The Who
"Thunderstruck", AC/DC
"Immigrant Song", Led Zeppelin
"Helter Skelter", The Beatles
"Layla", Eric Clapton

yep. there's that span, '67 - '77 that everything worth listening to was written. and no, i'm not being sarcastic.

Agreed! Thought I'd say it's 1965-1979: from Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds to Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Ahh, but that doesn't include Rush's Moving Pictures (1981)

If you include Moving Pictures, you are letting the EIGHTIES in. We don't want that, Rush doesn't want that. Rush will have to make the sacrifice.

How do I play? very ill indeed

Lord Foul wrote:If you include Moving Pictures, you are letting the EIGHTIES in. We don't want that, Rush doesn't want that. Rush will have to make the sacrifice.

What's wrong with the 80s?

If Moving Pictures won't suffice, how about 2112?

Yeah, 2112 was 1976 so it fits.

Ur-Vile, what's not wrong with the 80s?

Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, New Order, Ministry, Gary Numan, A-Ha, Bruce Springsteen . . . .

Ok ok I admit the fashion was bad, but the music is better than anything today.

cool. Cranking up Overture till the windows rattle is outstanding.

Lord Foul wrote:Ur-Vile, what's not wrong with the 80s?

Yes, a much shorter list.

Here's my pick for the top 5 decades, music-wise:

1) 60s
2) 70s (disco excluded)
3) 90s (everything before and after Nirvana excluded. If you ask me, In Utero was the last rock and roll album. Nobody has come forward to carry on the evolution)
4) 50s
5) 80s

now the 1780's had Mozart, I like Mozart.

I don't like Depeche mode.

Yeah, I was speaking in terms of pop music--like recently. The best music's been done by folks like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.

You haven't lived until you've played The 1812 Overture at full blast!

I wanna play Beethoven's 9th symphony at max volume, like Alex from A Clockwork Orange did.

That's a good one to blast, too.

Lord Foul wrote:In Utero was the last rock and roll album. Nobody has come forward to carry on the evolution

Don't get me wrong, I like Nirvana, but they were never the end all be all of the time or genre. Kurt had his inspiration from other contemporaries, and he didn't so much found anything as make everything more apparent. He was a charismatic leader, the archtypical manic depressive artist.

There can be no continuation of the evolution because when the floodgates opened, they let mediocrity pass through as well as talent, and there's a lot more mediocrity. It's like hope in Pandora's box. The evolution happened, and now you have to find the diamonds in the rough. There will be others, but they will never come in quite the same way.

If you're looking for something that isn't canned and marketed like everything else, there are still options, they're just really hard to find. Most of them, anyway. My picks (recommendations... in order from easiest to find to hardest) are Tool, APC, Queens of the Stoneage, Dredg, Calexico, Elysium Fields, Lusk, and maybe a band called Dainami (I've managed to find two of their mp3s off of mp3.com). Not quite my cup of tea, but other bands I've heard high praise of... Mogwai (also Sigur Ros and Godspeed, You Black Emperor!, though the only of those I really like is Mogwai), Muse, The Mars Volta. You also might like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Pixies, and Modest Mouse.

I think what I meant was that Nirvana made a splash that hadn't been made since The Beatles or Elvis. I just wonder if there's going to be another band to cut such a fiery swatch through not only the music industry but the world and its culture again. If not, I'm honored to live in a time where such history occurred.