Bands you don't "get".

[TANGODANCER]

The Moody Blues?

Inkspots, Dubliners, Bee Gees? What are you on L.L.S?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The Moody Blues?

Inkspots, Dubliners, Bee Gees? What are you on L.L.S?

I don't get them Tango. The Moody Blues are like some band that wandered in from east coast America, but were all English. The fusion did nothing for me.
The Inkspots are just too esoteric for words. They are soooo far back in time that it's like listening to really avant garde sci-fi music, but on terrible analog recordings. I don't think I'd 'get' them in a million years, and yet at one time they were the world's biggest group.
The dubliners: impossible to fathom. You either do Steeleye span sort of rocky folk , or folk folk. Irish sea shanty folk I just don't get.
The Bee Gees. Squeeky voices. It's almost like they were part of the gestalt for the Jimmy Saville zeitgeist. Never have understood what they were doing to, or why they were doing it to, the music.

[clapton is god]

Now, I quite like The Inkspots. Very relaxing over a dinner party as background music. I only have one of theirs and, of course, its a 'best of' album. There's 24 tracks on it and 18 of them start with exactly the same dum de dum de dum de dum strum of notes

[TANGODANCER]

The Moody Blues?

Inkspots, Dubliners, Bee Gees? What are you on L.L.S?

I don't get them Tango. The Moody Blues are like some band that wandered in from east coast America, but were all English. The fusion did nothing for me.
The Inkspots are just too esoteric for words. They are soooo far back in time that it's like listening to really avant garde sci-fi music, but on terrible analog recordings. I don't think I'd 'get' them in a million years, and yet at one time they were the world's biggest group.
The dubliners: impossible to fathom. You either do Steeleye span sort of rocky folk , or folk folk. Irish sea shanty folk I just don't get.
The Bee Gees. Squeeky voices. It's almost like they were part of the gestalt for the Jimmy Saville zeitgeist. Never have understood what they were doing to, or why they were doing it to, the music.

Okay, fair enough, the Bee-Gees were all about Saturday Night Fever and not much else. The Inkspots are ancient history although they had their time. The Moodies, just love em from way back because I was around when they arrived, same with Eric Burdon and the Animals and Procol Harem, Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Manfred Mann etc. They weren't prolific in their output, but part of an era. Always been a folk and Irish music fan, although The Clancy Brothers were better than the Dubliners who had the advantage of more modern sound systems. (I always liked The Spinners and Houghton Weavers so I'll stand the boos ) It's not really about good bands and bad ones, more you like em or you don't.

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The Moody Blues?

Inkspots, Dubliners, Bee Gees? What are you on L.L.S?

I don't get them Tango. The Moody Blues are like some band that wandered in from east coast America, but were all English. The fusion did nothing for me.
The Inkspots are just too esoteric for words. They are soooo far back in time that it's like listening to really avant garde sci-fi music, but on terrible analog recordings. I don't think I'd 'get' them in a million years, and yet at one time they were the world's biggest group.
The dubliners: impossible to fathom. You either do Steeleye span sort of rocky folk , or folk folk. Irish sea shanty folk I just don't get.
The Bee Gees. Squeeky voices. It's almost like they were part of the gestalt for the Jimmy Saville zeitgeist. Never have understood what they were doing to, or why they were doing it to, the music.

Okay, fair enough, the Bee-Gees were all about Saturday Night Fever and not much else. The Inkspots are ancient history although they had their time. The Moodies, just love em from way back because I was around when they arrived, same with Eric Burdon and the Animals and Procol Harem, Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Manfred Mann etc. They weren't prolific in their output, but part of an era. Always been a folk and Irish music fan, although The Clancy Brothers were better than the Dubliners who had the advantage of more modern sound systems. (I always liked The Spinners and Houghton Weavers so I'll stand the boos ) It's not really about good bands and bad ones, more you like em or you don't.

To be fair TD, the list I put was truly of bands I don't get. Not much to do with like/dislike. Out of the list I actually like the Moody Blues, Grateful Dead, Amon Duul, and others - or at least some of their songs. I just don't get them as bands (for different reasons). There are others in the list that I hate (Wings, Supertramp) and I find it difficult to seperate the don't get from the don't like in their cases, mainly because I don't like them because I don't get them.
All the ones you mentioned there ^ (Animals etc) I actually like, and get. But the Animals, Price, Mann etc didn't do this fey east coast/English fusion thing - which is the reason I don't get the Moodies.

[thebish]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Well I didn't want to stand accused of going too far, like but yes, ALL country music. Straight ont' fire.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Stop it. Both of you.
Johnny Cash is truly wondrous (even though he's a yank singing about yank things in a twangy yank accent). Plus the scene in the Blues Brothers where Jake Elwood and co do Rawhide is a masterwork of country music. How can anyone not love that.

[Gary the Enfield]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

Just no. The original Man in Black was a hell raising son of a bitch who married his true love and found God.

The depth of his music in both range and influence sets him apart as one of the '50's '60's and 70's biggest stars.

The technicality of something like Walk the Line, where he changes key 5 times during the song fills me with admiration.

There's humour there too. Check out 'A boy named Sue' and tell me it doesn't raise a smile.

Humanitarian to the end he allegedly donated some of his royalties to the Sioux nation (him being part Native American)

His last album, American Trilogy has some fantastic cover versions including Nine Inch Nail's 'Hurt' and Depeche Mode's 'Own personal Jesus' showed he wasn't scared to tackle contemporary music too.

I love Johnny Cash. Proper fella. Proper musician.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

Just no. The original Man in Black was a hell raising son of a bitch who married his true love and found God.

The depth of his music in both range and influence sets him apart as one of the '50's '60's and 70's biggest stars.

The technicality of something like Walk the Line, where he changes key 5 times during the song fills me with admiration.

There's humour there too. Check out 'A boy named Sue' and tell me it doesn't raise a smile.

Humanitarian to the end he allegedly donated some of his royalties to the Sioux nation (him being part Native American)

His last album, American Trilogy has some fantastic cover versions including Nine Inch Nail's 'Hurt' and Depeche Mode's 'Own personal Jesus' showed he wasn't scared to tackle contemporary music too.

I love Johnny Cash. Proper fella. Proper musician.

Hear, hear, hear (from a sedentary position)

[TANGODANCER]

To be fair TD, the list I put was truly of bands I don't get. Not much to do with like/dislike. Out of the list I actually like the Moody Blues, Grateful Dead, Amon Duul, and others - or at least some of their songs. I just don't get them as bands (for different reasons). There are others in the list that I hate (Wings, Supertramp) and I find it difficult to seperate the don't get from the don't like in their cases, mainly because I don't like them because I don't get them.
All the ones you mentioned there ^ (Animals etc) I actually like, and get. But the Animals, Price, Mann etc didn't do this fey east coast/English fusion thing - which is the reason I don't get the Moodies.

Fair enough L.L.S, and understood. My taste in music is really wide and ungrouped. The Moody Blues arrived out of nowhere and went straight to No1 in the pop charts. Around then, music was undergoing big changes from the crooner era being walloped by rock and roll (although they lived together for a reasonable time) before The Kinks and co changed it all again with new sounds and lyrics. The field became a big meadow and music benefitted from it all by widening tastes massively. I guess it's just gone on from there.Me. I just love it all (well, most of it, never been much of a heavy rock fan)

[Bruce Rioja]

^^ He may well have done and been all of those things, but at the very first sound of his voice I'm diving towards the off switch. Just can't bear to listen to him.

As such - I don't get Johnny Cash.

[Harry Genshaw]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Grrrr. If we were together indoors right now, I'd be asking you to step outside for that!
Since we're not - take a virtual beating for such heresy Bish

[TANGODANCER]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Grrrr. If we were together indoors right now, I'd be asking you to step outside for that!
Since we're not - take a virtual beating for such heresy Bish

Don't worry HG, I'm just playing Ray Stevens "Misty" in revenge, and tonight I might just watch "O Brother Where Art Thou" in total defiance.

[thebish]

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Grrrr. If we were together indoors right now, I'd be asking you to step outside for that!
Since we're not - take a virtual beating for such heresy Bish

It's dreadful stuff though. All about truck crashes and heroic dogs. Balderdash.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Anyone mentioned Johnny Cash yet? If not, Johnny Cash.

expand that out to ALL country music/

Grrrr. If we were together indoors right now, I'd be asking you to step outside for that!
Since we're not - take a virtual beating for such heresy Bish

It's dreadful stuff though. All about truck crashes and heroic dogs. Balderdash.

What's wrong with truck crashes and heroic dogs, you cannot get finer topics for a song. Much better than lyrics about chewing the heads off bats whilst being fellatioed...

EDIT not that I actually like much country apart from Johnny Cash mind.

[thebish]

Much better than lyrics about chewing the heads off bats whilst being fellatioed...

good point... Cliff Richard should have been banned....

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Has anybody mentioned Cliff Richard? What is the point of Cliff Richard, even with Hank Marvin?