twas played on radio 1 today...

 

got me thinking.... its a great track, new sounding, cool, ticks all the boxes..... but..... it doesnt do anything for me! perhaps its because i cant attatch any sentiment to it, i duno, i should like it but i dont

 

are there any tracks that you should like (on grounds that they tick all the right boxes), but dont?

twas played on radio 1 today...

 

got me thinking.... its a great track, new sounding, cool, ticks all the boxes..... but..... it doesnt do anything for me! perhaps its because i cant attatch any sentiment to it, i duno, i should like it but i dont

 

are there any tracks that you should like (on grounds that they tick all the right boxes), but dont?

Waterfall is an immense tune, but She Bangs The Drums is better (imo) - maybe give that one a go, Rob?

"Waterfall" is a total CLASS tune dude..... You probably just dont get it cos it's not your generation of music perhaps..... I think you kinda had to "be there" I reckon.....

 

Getting back to the your quetion though, the "official" version of Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life" was like that for me... I should really have loved that tune, but just didn't.... I kind of knew why though as soon as I heard the demo version of the song though (which I did like) - it was the annoying "shouty" man that turned me off...... :lol: And perhaps the fact that the production on the demo version was less Poppy....

 

Sometimes how a song or album is produced can turn you off.... I was never really that big a fan of "Nevermind" mainly due to how it was produced... Live, the songs on it just totally kicked ass because they were how they were meant to sound - raw and hard-edged..... Over-producing a band can really spoil the songs, regardless of whether they're good.....

To be honest any track by the Stone Roses just goes over my head, never liked any of their music.

To be honest any track by the Stone Roses just goes over my head, never liked any of their music.

 

exactly! .... but why?.... we have broadly similar tastes in music, we should love this stuff.... but why dont we?

I think it's a case of wrong place wrong time.

 

I think it is the best album of all time and I never get bored with it. But then I was 20 in 1989 and it perfectly captured that time. It really was the beginning of the 90s. After all the drabness and cheesiness of late 80s pop here was a band who was arrogant enough to really really want to be the most important band in the world. So yeah attitude probably has something to do with it as well.

Edited January 30, 200916 yr by grebo69

exactly! .... but why?.... we have broadly similar tastes in music, we should love this stuff.... but why dont we?

 

The Stone Roses are one of these bands that kind of comes with a lot of other sort of baggage that's specific to a certain time and place, in the one sense, it was great that they captured the Zeitgeist as it were, and were inspirational to a lot of other bands, but it can also be a curse, because people who weren't there when it was happening would perhaps just turn around and say "dunno what the fuss is about....".

 

Also, the fact that their second album spectacularly mis-fired (and it all blew up in their faces in the end, same with Happy Mondays) didn't exactly help.....

 

I think it's a case of wrong place wrong time.

 

I think it is the best album of all time and I never get bored with it. But then I was 20 in 1989 and it perfectly captured that time. It really was the beginning of the 90s. After all the drabness and cheesiness of late 80s pop here was a band who was arrogant enough to really really want to be the most important band in the world. So yeah attitude probably has something to do with it as well.

 

 

The Stone Roses are one of these bands that kind of comes with a lot of other sort of baggage that's specific to a certain time and place, in the one sense, it was great that they captured the Zeitgeist as it were, and were inspirational to a lot of other bands, but it can also be a curse, because people who weren't there when it was happening would perhaps just turn around and say "dunno what the fuss is about....".

 

Also, the fact that their second album spectacularly mis-fired (and it all blew up in their faces in the end, same with Happy Mondays) didn't exactly help.....

 

maybe, but i wasnt there in the 60's but still 'got' the music ...

 

I was a wee bit too young for the Stone Roses. I was about 11 when they were on their way up and when I started to get properly into indie a couple of years later they were rather absent. I heard 'One Love' and thought, "well, that's not particularly worth the adoration". Instead we were totally taken by Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Charlatans, The Farm in 1990 then Carter USM and Ned's Atomic Dustbin in 1991. None of my friends had 'The Stone Roses' so I didn't hear it till years later. Then, around 1995, when I went to university I started an irrational hatred of them because they weren't 'my' band...and probably because nobody liked the bands I had liked. By this time they'd achieved some kind of weird mythical status among many who'd never heard them before despite 'The Second Coming' being largely pish.

 

But this was all just a bit stupid. I like the band but the songs don't mean as much to me as they probably would have had I been a couple of years older. I had a similar problem with The Smiths! Not Joy Division though as I'd discovered them for myself when around 14.

 

Anyway, there you go. Psychoanalysis over.

For me the best Stone Roses track was This Is The One.

 

It was also used for the into to the TV coverage of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002.

There doesn't seem to be a video for the song as it was just an album track.

 

This Is The One - (Audio Only)

Edited February 3, 200916 yr by Euro Music

I think it's a case of wrong place wrong time.

 

I think it is the best album of all time and I never get bored with it. But then I was 20 in 1989 and it perfectly captured that time. It really was the beginning of the 90s. After all the drabness and cheesiness of late 80s pop here was a band who was arrogant enough to really really want to be the most important band in the world. So yeah attitude probably has something to do with it as well.

I was too young to feel those days (to be honest I didn't care too much about music till 20 years old).

So, I'm a new fan of The Stone Roses (around 1yr and 1/2).

 

I like every single track from their debut album from the very first listen :)

Very few rock albums (including "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, S/T by Garbage and "Achtung Baby" by U2) can be so addictive to me.

 

PS I like also Ian Brown' solo albums (and of course his collaborations with UNKLE)