[krastian]

Originally Posted by FruitLoop

Catch a Fire is Bob Marley's best album, with or without the Wailers.

Yr damn right.

[petitvulcan]

Jon Spencer is the greatest guitar player on earth (technically speaking)
Let me hear you say YEEAAAHHH !!

eric clapton is extremely overrated

I'm OK with that!
Plus: He doesn't play blues anymore (since quite a long time in fact!), It's only FM easy listening music now. (and a Tribute to Robert Johnson will not fool me.. He does that only to fill his lack of inspiration)

I hate Legend, the "best of" compilation of Bob Marley that somehow everybody seems to have.

Right! The sound is awful, I guess they remastered the songs and that's why they sound better on the original albums..

[Tickerwelly]

Trompe Le Monde is the best Pixies album.

[Proud Marie]

Originally Posted by noumenal

Cage is not a minimalist. By "minimalist", I mean the specific style of composition that began in the 60's and is typified by composers like Riley, Reich, and Glass. Cage is a modernist and minimlaism is usually seen as the "antidote" to modernism. The way you're using the word is very vague and could be used to describe lots of music. But when you're talking about music, people will assume that you're referring to the specific style of music, not just using a vague descriptive term. Keeps things from getting confusing. Anybody, even Encyclopedia Brittanica, who calls Cage a minimalist is being at best unlcear, but in my opinion, they're just plain wrong.

The only reason I jumped on you is that you said that Cage was crap - how much of his music have you actually listened to? You should listen to his stuff from the 30's and 40's - back when the minimalist composers were little kids.

i stand corrected. my music teacher in 4th grade really idolized him and brought in a bunch of his stuff, none of which i remember by name. She also called him a minimalist, lol. I might have misjudged him since i was in 4th grade, but i dont really like any of the cage stuff on syr4 either

[finding nobody]

i thought minimalist meant that the music is simple and they're very many (if any) over dubs and stuff. am i wrong?

[Glice]

Originally Posted by finding nobody

i thought minimalist meant that the music is simple and they're very many (if any) over dubs and stuff. am i wrong?

Sort of yes, sort of no. Minimalism is more a genre than a description, but that doesn't stop people getting confused and using the term to describe Morton Feldman, John Cage and Arvo Part as minimalist because their music is sparse - which would probably make Debussy minimalist as well. Sparse is not quite the same as minimal/ist - sparse is more a reflection on the use of space in the music. By contrast, the likes of Glass, Riley and Reich are thought of as 'properly' minimalist composers because the music uses a minimum of notes, dotes on repitition and is often systems based. I think, though I'm sure Noumenal will correct me if I'm wrong, minimalism is more defined by its systems-procedure than by the number of notes used.

Gah. That's not very clear. I'll try again later.

[Signpost]

eric clapton is extremely overrated
i dislike bruce springsteen with a passion..what the hell is he the boss of???

I agree with that.

[chuck norris]

Alternative/ indie music has reached an all time low in the past few years.

My unpopular opinion:

Shakira is not that bad. It is a good thing that music from outside the USA and Britain can reach a mainstream audience.

 

[Glice]

Shakira is fucking great. An unpopular opinion would be to say she sounds better in English, because this is the wrong opinion.

Oh, here's a good one, on a similar tip - Tatu are better in Russian.

[Inhuman]

Originally Posted by Glice

Oh, here's a good one, on a similar tip - Tatu are better in Russian.

haha, agreed

[HaydenAsche]

Originally Posted by Glice

An unpopular opinion would be to say she sounds better in English, because this is the wrong opinion.

I hate wrong opinions.

[Savage Clone]

Like your opinion that Xiu Xiu is good music?

[HaydenAsche]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Like your opinion that Xiu Xiu is good music?

Fuck You. Jamie Stewart is amazing.

Better than any lame-ass rythmless noise trash. Drone is dead.

[Savage Clone]

Tell that to the folks in India.

[HaydenAsche]

I don't speak their language or I would.

[Savage Clone]

You are fun to spar with.
That cloud of meth over Willmar is good for something after all.

[trance feeeedback]

I'd rather listening to "lame-ass rythmless noise trash", than a shitty "indie" band like Xiu Xiu.

chuck norris was right when he/she said "Alternative/ indie music has reached an all time low in the past few years."

[HaydenAsche]

Originally Posted by trance feeeedback

I'd rather listening to "lame-ass rythmless noise trash", than a shitty "indie" band like Xiu Xiu.

Who said you could have an opinion?

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

You are fun to spar with.
That cloud of meth over Willmar is good for something after all.

Yeah, I basically am tweaked out just by living here. Thankfully, I will be moving to the cities within the next 6 months.

FUCK WILLMAR!

[trance feeeedback]

[quote=HaydenAsche]Who said you could have an opinion?

quote]

ummmm.....I said I could have an opinion, "I love it when people are assholes."

[HaydenAsche]

Originally Posted by trance feeeedback

ummmm.....I said I could have an opinion, "I love it when people are assholes."

I love it when people can use the quote function properly.