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    What are the greatest George Harrison songs?

    If I needed someone Here comes the sun Something What is love From behind that locked door If not for you Love comes to everyone This is love Handle with care Looking for my life
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    most energetic lead singer

    Steven Tyler
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    Going to Giants of Rock weekend - advice needed please!

    Bluesy hard rock on this list (as far as I know and I don't know if any of them are any good): Black Star Riders (I think there is a strong Thin Lizzy connection there) Mick Ralphs Band Bernie Marsden Band Probably also Johnny Winter Experience (probably a tribute act since Johnny Winter is no...
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    Kanye West Fans Never Heard of Macca

    I thought that incident was a mistake that was seriously exaggerated by the wolves, I mean the tabloids (and the haters). Anyway, if an artist being a jerk is a reason for you to dislike his music... Say goodbye to your classic Chuck Berry, CSNY, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple (or anything else...
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    Kanye West Fans Never Heard of Macca

    This. Add gullible internet people to that who are eager to hate "dumb kids today" (here too apparently) and you've got an avalanche of unwarranted "d'oh" posts. But even if some of those young fans DON'T know who Paul McCartney is, that's perfectly uderstandable isn't it? I didn't discover...
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    popular bands that you hate

    I've Always "kinda thought that" as well, but because of this discussion I've examined the evidence a bit. Those "hit factories" were certainly around in the late 50's early 60's and were responsible for writing a lot of the hits by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers (they didn't write...
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    Who is your favourite artist / band from the European continent?

    Green Day are from California, but even if they were Irish: that's another English-language country and not on the "European continent". You mentioning "Boulevard of broken dreams" reminds me that I've overlooked Hanoi Rocks, another influential Scandinavian rock band who have a song by that name.
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    Who is your favourite artist / band from the European continent?

    A lot of attention (rightfully) goes to the English-speaking world, with the vast majority of classic rock acts hailing from the UK or the USA. Threads have been dedicated to Australia, Canada and Scotland as well. So what about the rest of Europe? Surely it's not a wasteland of bad accents and...
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    Who is your favorite Scottish music artist or band?

    My top five: Gerry Rafferty Del Amitri Nazareth Rod Stewart ('68-'73) Eurythmics A strange combination, but all are great.
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    Best Run of Three or More Consecutive Albums

    I can't believe that 12 pages in, no one has mentioned Love it to death / Killer / School's out / Billion Dollar Babies ... by Alice Cooper, yet.
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    25 greatest bands of the 60s and 70s

    1. The Beatles 2. The Rolling Stones 3. Bob Dylan 4. Stevie Wonder 5. Alice Cooper 6. The Kinks 7. The Byrds 8. Jimi Hendrix 9. The Beach Boys 10. Deep Purple 11. The Who 12. Led Zeppelin 13. Kate Bush 14. Buffalo Springfield 15. Neil Young 16. The Troggs 17. Jethro Tull 18. Aerosmith 19. Marvin...
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    Chuck Berry (Official Thread)

    Oh, speaking of "live" Berry recordings: he scored his last number 1 in the early seventies with a live rendition of a song called "My ding-a-ling". An intentionally dumb song, but listen to the version on the LP. It's almost like standup, Berry has these hippies singing along to this silly...
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    Chuck Berry (Official Thread)

    As a musician, there is no doubt about his legacy. He influenced everybody, you can hear the Stones and the Beatles but also Dylan in his songs. Even if he recycled the same riffs a bit often, but I guess rock 'n' roll was still being invented. As a human being... I'm not sure. I can't help...
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    The Most Beatle-Sound-Alike Band In Rock'n Roll History

    Here's a bunch of songs that reminded me of the BEatles when I first heard them. Some still do. Some of them were probably consciously trying to be Beatlesque. Smyle-It’s gonna be alright (’72) The singer is clearly trying to sound like John Lennon. Fickle Pickle-Let me tell you ('71)...
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    Jeff Lynne to perform ELO songs with orchestra at comeback show

    When I read that Jeff Lynne re-recorded some of the old ELO songs, I was hoping he did them in his current style - i.e. more rootsy, without the orchestra and endless backing vocals. I love the old songs, but listening to a few of them in a row is exhausting to me and I prefer Lynne's style of...
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    Ryan Adams (Official Thread)

    When I have a chance I'll put a couple of songs side by side to illustrate what I mean. Although it's not fair cause this can be said about any prolific songwriter. John Mellencamp said that Bob Dylan once told him that every songwriter only has 6 songs in him. He didn't believe it at first...
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    Ryan Adams (Official Thread)

    Oh yes, his music anyway. Especially his 2005 album, with "Easy Plateau", "Let it ride", "Dance all night"... Although I do find he tends to re-use the same songwriting tricks over and over again, essentially rewriting his own songs. With this song here, when the bridge comes after one minute...
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    Ryan Adams (Official Thread)

    Here's hoping. That "Gimme something good" song is a little boring though. Also, I know it's a tired comparison, but I could just imagine Bryan Adams singing that (and it would be one of his less exciting songs too).
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    Miley Cyrus Covers Zep Opinion Poll

    Isn't "Babe I'm going to leave you" an old folk song rather than a "Led Zeppelin song"? (Her version is clearly based on Jimmy Page's arrangement though, so I guess I just wanted to point that out needlessly.)
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    Strip my 50 Debut Album Collection

    If people only remove albums by artists they've heard about, prepare to be stuck with that one by Gypsy & The Cat. Anyway, 9. Bread - Bread 1. Animals, The - The Animals (UK Album) 2. Arlo Guthrie - Alices Restaurant 3. Beatles, The - Please Please Me 4. Blackfeather - At The Mountains of...
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    The best producers in rock history

    Mutt Lange is one of those producers who really puts his stamp all over the album. Maybe not every time, but you can tell which artists gave him more free reign than others just from looking at the song titles. You see, apart from being the King Of Unnecessary Punctuation, he also has a fondness...
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    Heavy / Hard Rock bands of the 60s?

    - Amboy Dukes - Pretty Things - not my cup of tea, but Vanilla Fudge - 70's band with some late '60s songs: Spooky Tooth ("Better by you, better than me") - Likewise: Grand Funk Railroad, Colosseum - The Nazz (Todd Rundgren's band, not Alice Cooper's which is more garage-y) - "Seven and seven...
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    Would you ignore a band's music due to political reasons?

    The political opinion doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the music, as long as it stays out of it. I do remember being dissappointed finding out that Alice Cooper is a republican, even though there is nothing wrong with that. One likes to think that their heroes are on the same page. But I hate it...
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    Survivor lead singer Jimi Jamison has died

    "Eye of the tiger" was not him though. He joined Survivor in '84 and was the singer on "Burning heart". He also had a well-known song of his own with "I'm always here", the opening theme to "Baywatch". Powerful singer, and apparently a nice bloke, too.
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    Best Forgotten Bands of the 70's.

    That's early 90's, and certainly not forgottten where I live (Belgium). Also, if you live in South-Africa, you shouldn't list Rodriguez as a forgotten artist. It's the only country were "Cold fact" was even a hit! I remember that when I was there (2003-2004), it was considered just as big a...

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