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East Coast Bias said:
I can listen to just about anything.......except country. My wife loves it, and I tried. But it's just not good. The whole cosplay/dressup that goes along with the concerts is ridiculous to me.

You took a metro north train from Bedford to the Garden, why are you dressed up like a cowgirl?
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Because the look is ******* hot!

My wife likes country (she's a North Carolina native, go figure), but hates what passes for country these days.

And while my tastes range from classic rock, to hard rock/metal, there is some country out there that is pretty damn good.
 
aufheben said:
Discover New Music Styles, Moods & Themes

AllMusic, Stereogum, not big on Pitchfork...other than that I peruse through record labels and producers I like. Wikipedia loops, etc.
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All Music looks pretty cool. I've been using Apple Music, but I find I've just been listening to what I already know.
 
So many places this thread can go. Let's try this. What are some of the seminal albums that you witnessed come out?

Black Album - Metallica - Not so much that it was their greatest, it wasn't (the previous 4 were ground breaking). But it brought them into main stream.
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses - single highhandedly killed off hair metal.
Nevermind - Nirvana - Ushers in the era of grunge and completes what GnR started and finished off the rest of 80s rock.
Chronic - Dr. Dre - Same as Black Album. Brought hip hop into main stream and into the suburbs.
 
True Blue said:
So many places this thread can go. Let's try this. What are some of the seminal albums that you witnessed come out?

Black Album - Metallica - Not so much that it was their greatest, it wasn't (the previous 4 were ground breaking). But it brought them into main stream.
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses - single highhandedly killed off hair metal.
Nevermind - Nirvana - Ushers in the era of grunge and completes what GnR started and finished off the rest of 80s rock.
Chronic - Dr. Dre - Same as Black Album. Brought hip hop into main stream and into the suburbs.
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I feel like Mother's Milk by RHCP was first album that made me stop and realize the next decade of music was already beginning. In that same vein, I think Blood Sugar Sex Magik was the album that confirmed it.

I also think Achtung Baby was another album that marked the coming out party of what would be tagged "alternative music."
 
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Metallica's black album is a great album -- if it weren't known as Metallica. If you put another band's name on it, especially an unknown band, many people would've said, holy crap, my mind's blown, right up there with Nirvana. But because it is Metallica, and the style shift, you know the rest...

Speaking of alternative music, I had on the Cure's Staring at the Sea singles collection last night.
 
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I also think Achtung Baby was another album that marked the coming out party of what would be tagged "alternative music."
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You think? Bands like New Order have already been putting out albums for a while. Or are you just saying that was the album that brought it to the mainstream?
 
will1066 said:
Metallica's black album is a great album -- if it weren't known as Metallica. If you put another band's name on it, especially an unknown band, many people would've said, holy crap, my mind's blown, right up there with Nirvana. But because it is Metallica, and the style shift, you know the rest....
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I do and don't think that it is necessarily fair. It is a great album. It is also the album that they purposely made with the idea of becoming a bit more mainstream. You will not fine a "Leper Messiah" type of track on there. But I like it all the same. Very good.
 
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You think? Bands like New Order have already been putting out albums for a while. Or are you just saying that was the album that brought it to the mainstream?
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I think that was the album that brought it to the mainstream.

For most breakthrough albums, it's usually about timing and finding the secret sauce for stirring people's hunger.
 
True Blue said:
So many places this thread can go. Let's try this. What are some of the seminal albums that you witnessed come out?

Black Album - Metallica - Not so much that it was their greatest, it wasn't (the previous 4 were ground breaking). But it brought them into main stream.
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses - single highhandedly killed off hair metal.
Nevermind - Nirvana - Ushers in the era of grunge and completes what GnR started and finished off the rest of 80s rock.
Chronic - Dr. Dre - Same as Black Album. Brought hip hop into main stream and into the suburbs.
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Really?

Appetite for Destruction was released in 1987, hit big in 1988. Hair metal really wasn't even a big thing yet, except on the "Sunset Strip", and with that fan base. Of course, there was Ratt, and Quiet Riot, among a few others, but they also fit into the standard rock, or even pop categories.

After Appetite was released, hair metal really came to the fore, mainly because other forms of "newer rock" had all but completely stopped being recorded. Sure, there were some newer bands out there, but nothing was really happening on the rock scene, outside of the hair metal bands became more popular than they should have been.

I graduated high school in 1988, and was in college when this was happening.

The Black Album was released in the summer of 1991, I think, and was being played on commercial radio stations like WNEW, BECAUSE NOTHING ELSE NEW WAS OUT THERE, except for "hair metal" that wasn't necessarily being played on traditional rock radio.

When radio saw the success of a Metallica getting commercial airplay, that opened the door for grunge to come to the masses. Don't forget, the "Seattle scene" had been happening since the mid-80's, yet nobody outside of the Pacific Northwest knew a thing about it. Once Nevermind made it to the masses, hair metal was killed off.
 
True Blue said:
I do and don't think that it is necessarily fair. It is a great album. It is also the album that they purposely made with the idea of becoming a bit more mainstream. You will not fine a "Leper Messiah" type of track on there. But I like it all the same. Very good.
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It was an issue of timing for Metallica. They had the ability to go mainstream because nothing else was out there in a hard rock vein.

Going from speed metal to an "acceptable" version of "metal" to the mainstream rock fan's taste blew up their fan base by millions.

They knew exactly what they were doing.
 
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You could probably make the argument for most artists who go mainstream.

Though I've never been one to buy too heavy into the "art house" mindset that just because something is mainstream doesn't mean it's inferior. There are some people who would listen to 55 minutes of someone banging on pots and pans, while reading the phone book, and praise it as someone kind of deeper expression about the plight of man.
 
I do not consider Appetite for Destruction a hair metal album. It was a hard rock album, with content that went beyond the comparatively tamer themes that were sung about by hair metal bands. The album had a couple of songs that enabled it to fit into mainstream radio.

Metallica's black album was leans toward hard rock by an established metal band.
 
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will1066 said:
I do not consider Appetite for Destruction a hair metal album. It was a hard rock album, with content that went beyond the comparatively tamer themes that were sung about by hair metal bands. The album had a couple of songs that enabled it to fit into mainstream radio.

Metallica's black album was leans toward hard rock by an established metal band.
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Appetite was nowhere near "hair".

BTW, hair metal also holds a special place. There are reasons why Poison fans will never die off.

Agreed on Black Ablum being hard rock. Though much harder (aside from Nothing Else Matters) than what other hard rock bands were putting out, including my favorite Van Halen.

Also, as an aside, I can listen to Tupar and Biggie all day long.
 
NCRanger said:
After Appetite was released, hair metal really came to the fore, mainly because other forms of "newer rock" had all but completely stopped being recorded. Sure, there were some newer bands out there, but nothing was really happening on the rock scene, outside of the hair metal bands became more popular than they should have been.
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Not sure I agree. After Appetite, Brittny Fox seemed really bad. And Ratt could never measure up to that either.
 
I like all kinds of music, although it stops at the more extreme electronic music fields like Schranz or in the case of rock and metal, doom metal and extreme core and shit like that. I despise mainstream pop music and usually dig anything metal/rock.

Favorite bands:

'tallica: all the old shit up until the Black Album, after that only here and there. The tune of my youth.

Arctic Monkeys: Up until the crying lightning bs, I could listen to each and every song, hell I still know all the lyrics ... but these past LPs have been horribad.

System of A Down: Not much to say here, I know 98% of the songs and lyrics. Probably the most influential music I've ever experienced.

Jamiroquai: Just plain awesome. Had the fortune to watch them live at Rock am Ring 2006. Music for happy summer days and thoughtful rainy days too.

Coldplay: Fight me. I've listened to all their shit when I was younger. Helps unload emotions when sad. Also saw them live at Rock am Ring (priceless).

Classic/Progressive rock: Pink Floyd, Deep Purpdrank, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Gentle Giant, Porcupine Tree (!!!)

Diamond City Radio: I literally thought Bethesda had improvised and created several songs for Fallout 4. Nope, all original tracks from the 50s and 60s ... the most beautiful music I found these past couple of years.
 
Jabroni said:
Anyone into Peter Gabriel? Red rain is my favorite song of his, such a unique and diverse musician. Great lyricist too.
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Loved his first album. I remember dropping the needle on Moribund the Burgermeister, Solsbury Hill, Modern Love...great start after leaving Genesis.
 
Edge said:
I feel like Mother's Milk by RHCP was first album that made me stop and realize the next decade of music was already beginning. In that same vein, I think Blood Sugar Sex Magik was the album that confirmed it.

I also think Achtung Baby was another album that marked the coming out party of what would be tagged "alternative music."
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MM is probably my favorite era of RHCP. Obviously BSSM is their most famous and best album but I just loved the way they played on MM, the explosiveness, technical prowess, and energy. I can't think of another band where all the players at once played with that combination. Even AK on the vocals, many people especially in 2018 like to throw him under the bus unfortunately, but he had a fire and cleverness about his vocals and lyrics from that era.
 
Skjeikspeare said:
MM is probably my favorite era of RHCP. Obviously BSSM is their most famous and best album but I just loved the way they played on MM, the explosiveness, technical prowess, and energy. I can't think of another band where all the players at once played with that combination. Even AK on the vocals, many people especially in 2018 like to throw him under the bus unfortunately, but he had a fire and cleverness about his vocals and lyrics from that era.
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RHCP was one of the bands that just kind of gravitated away from me as I got older.

I loved their stuff until through the early 90s, but their output past 1994 became less and less my thing.
 
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