April 28, 201312 yr I'm sorry but Alex has been arrogant in the extreme in the past, done to others exactly what people have been doing to him in this thread showing scant regard to other's taste. I have learnt to shut up about his taste. Each to their own but the basis of his liking music is unfathomable to me (i.e. liking it solely on the basis of an artist's looks or gender.)That's a fair point, I guess. I personally haven't seen this arrogant side of him (maybe I've just been blind to it?) but I have seen him voice his opinion on someone's countdown or discussions before (and again getting shot down for them, despite some other people voicing their difference of opinions), but I thought that was just him showing his opinion and things but wording it in a less cohesive way, due to English not being his mother tongue. (I don't want to make excuses for him, but that's generally how I saw it before :lol:) The whole "only liking it on the basis of an artist's look or gender" thing is baffling. But each to their own again I guess. :lol: The problem I have is some people seem harsher on Alex than they would if it was any of the more "bigger/popular" characters on here, but maybe that's just down to those posters knowing what they can get away with saying and what they can't.
April 30, 201312 yr That's a fair point, I guess. I personally haven't seen this arrogant side of him (maybe I've just been blind to it?) but I have seen him voice his opinion on someone's countdown or discussions before (and again getting shot down for them, despite some other people voicing their difference of opinions), but I thought that was just him showing his opinion and things but wording it in a less cohesive way, due to English not being his mother tongue. (I don't want to make excuses for him, but that's generally how I saw it before :lol:) The whole "only liking it on the basis of an artist's look or gender" thing is baffling. But each to their own again I guess. :lol: The problem I have is some people seem harsher on Alex than they would if it was any of the more "bigger/popular" characters on here, but maybe that's just down to those posters knowing what they can get away with saying and what they can't. well said, I enjoy Alex' (well-researched) lists even if I dont agree with them all. As for specific tastes in music, thats hardly unusual amongst many people - I've known plenty of people who think unless it's an electric guitar and drums it's not music, or unless it's shouting loud fast metal it's not music, or if it's not shouty rap it's not music, or if it's not with a full orchestra and 2 hours long it's not music, or if you can't dance to it spaced out on e's it's not music.... Most people on buzzjack are music enthusiasts, why else be on here, so I'd guess that automatically makes most folk here a bit more passionate and varied in music tastes, which is brilliant. I used to be very opinionated in my taste in music in my 20's (cos I was passionate about it) till one day I was taking the mickey out of a young big metal fan's fave bands (just banter, I thought, cos he only liked metal) and he told me to shut up and said he didn't give an eff what I thought. Which, looking back, he was quite justified in doing - I was well out of place and felt very stupid about it. As for this list, well I'm not going to support them all, but there's a fair few that I think anyone would agree belong in a list of the greatest female acts (even if not favourites, which isn't quite the same thing:)
May 1, 201312 yr Glad to see Abba quite rightly at 1, Alex:) Good to see some good old stars in here that time has largely passed by, like Mary Hopkin and Lynsey De Paul. For most of the early 70's Lynsey De Paul was the only British female singer-songwriter (with barry Blue) in the singles charts regularly. People have forgotten that until madonna came along in the wake of punk icons like Blondie & Siouxsie Sioux that women were usually not in control of singles chart pop music in the UK, nowadays they dominate... :)
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