no. i personally find their music boring and uninteresting, and offensive that people think Johnny Greenwood is one of the best guitar players alive, since all he is is a horrific Tom Morello/Edge Wannabe.
i do personally like music with alot of layers, its one of the reasons i dig Muse, but, the music has top actually GO somewhere, not drag on and on....
LMAO Glimmer.... it all goes back to Velvet Underground anyways right?
u know what i find amazing about guitar effects...
dont know if you listen to Jeff Beck, but what that guy can do with just a guitar and amp is quite amazing. i used to use 6 pedals and i STILL coundt get remotely the same kind of phase and harmonic effects he does...
there's a velet's reviw on allmusic that mentyions that despite how they influenced 8 million bands it took a decade for one of the earlier recordings to sell...six figures...six figures. danm i was surprised.
but alot goes back to the vu....
also lets's throw in the first televison lp to the early edge/u2 influence thing too.nothing against borrowing/being influenced just wonder why the big press nver mentions thiese band influnce on early u2 ???
i read a few reviews of the last u2 singles comp cd and as usual the big press didn't give a danm. awesome...
gee i know nothing abour jeff beck. and now i exit these room in shame... ;)
LOL glimmer, why you gonna exit the room in shame, i can honestly say you are the 1st person ive ever chatted with that i actually feel like im playing catch up while talking about music, LOL, i usually feel mad superior to everyone when i talk about shit, but you make me feel way inferioir.
Television was great., one of the more underrated CB's bands ERA bands, and Tom Verlaine, his solo shit is awesome, i actually got introduced to him thanks to Renee, he did alot of the NON availeable soundtrack score shit in Love And A .45.
hey Chef, want some cool shit tio check out stoned?
Simplicity Is Beautiful by Juliana Hatfield....there are SO many guitar layers, in so many different way, one of the few times ive smoked, it blew my mind....
Diamond Sea By Sonic Youth....17 minutes of pure bliss....
and Depeche Mode's Violator album. this one time i smoked, i had NOTHING in my car, my gf at the time had been using my car, so i took all my tapes out, and, when i used that car one day, Violator was the ONLY cassette in it, it blew me away.
You know, I'm going to love anything Hatfield, she's got to be one of the most under played ooooober chicks around. I'll have to check out that Sonic Youth bit, but Depeche used to be one of my favorite things to listen to under the influence of the tweeds. Now it's Hillary Hahn, Mozart and Mingus. Mingus kind of always was in there, but the other two I just seem to zone out and do more 'big thinking', things like, "Wow, Hillary Hahn is HOT", or "God, I wish I had some sweet lovin' down by the fire", and the always favorite, "Where oh where did my little pipe go?'