blandy Posted January 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Seat68 said: Yet he still has a job. Meta. That’s quality posting, right there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 15 hours ago, Xann said: If you think you hate Reggae? I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 My favourite reggae album is The Harder They Come OST, closely followed by a 2CD Trojan compilation. They get played about once every three or four years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 18 hours ago, bickster said: We're desperate, any lunatic can get a job on the cabs right now VT would appear to be quite a good recruiting tool then.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) On 18/01/2021 at 10:31, BOF said: This made me think of an idea though. What does everyone think is the best song in their least favourite genre? I'll have to go away and have a think about it. It's an exercise in which reggae song do I hate the least. Can I have Beastie Boys as rap artists ? If so , then I give you the best “rap” song I should add Jazz is by far the worst genre , however I refuse to acknowledge it as music hence the vote for rap Edited January 19, 2021 by tonyh29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 If I had to have a least worst Beatles song it would be Tomorrow Never Knows but it would have to be performed by someone else 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, bickster said: If I had to have a least worst Beatles song it would be Tomorrow Never Knows but it would have to be performed by someone else In the eternal Lennon v McCartney debate, it’s safe to say Team John will be celebrating this hard fought victory tonight. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Can I have Beastie Boys as rap artists ? If so , then I give you the best “rap” song I should add Jazz is by far the worst genre , however I refuse to acknowledge it as music hence the vote for rap If you're struggling with the generic 'jazz' then try swing jazz. It's much more accessible and is the best kind IMO. I wouldn't call myself a jazz fan but I am a swing jazz fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 23 minutes ago, bickster said: If I had to have a least worst Beatles song it would be Tomorrow Never Knows but it would have to be performed by someone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 3 minutes ago, BOF said: If you're struggling with the generic 'jazz' then try swing jazz. It's much more accessible and is the best kind IMO. I wouldn't call myself a jazz fan but I am a swing jazz fan. You mean the big band stuff? Ellington, Basie, etc.? Certainly more accessible than some other subgenres. I never try to persuade people about music, it's just down to unfathomable preferences. My preferred style is probably 1950s hard bop - small group jamming stuff, epitomised by the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus et al. I can easily see why some people would hate it, but for me it's tied up with a romanticised image of the postwar, pre-rock'n'roll urban USA - Kerouac and the beat poets, Chandleresque crime novels, classic b&w film noir, cold war paranoia and hip junkie musicians in smoke-filled night clubs. All to be vicariously experienced in the safety of my imagination. Doesn't everybody do that? Just me, then? Oh, OK... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 6 minutes ago, Genie said: It certainly wouldn't be by a bad Beatles tribute act like that. Something more like this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 @mjmooney I wouldn't persuade, but if someone is struggling to enjoy, or they're writing off an enormous genre of music then I'd help them get a foot in the door. Then maybe they get an appreciation for it; lose the suspicion and then progress from there. Swing is definitely a gateway (geddit?) into jazz. I'm not a big Duke fan tbh. Piano doesn't typically do it for me. All about the brass or a clarinet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 The only things I can think of that are utterly irredeemable are country and western and 80s music, everything else I can find a fair bit to enjoy. Bands it's a bit easier to find one you hate but like one particular song of theirs, I think we've done that before though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, bickster said: If I had to have a least worst Beatles song it would be Tomorrow Never Knows but it would have to be performed by someone else I seem to recall someone did a cover version a good few years back .... it was so bad you’d be yearning for the original edit - a Google on yahoo reveals it was Phil Collins , which explains why it was terrible.. here it is so you can suffer as I did Edited January 19, 2021 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: here it is so you can suffer as I did Yeah thats awful too, you still have to be very good to polish this turd. It's just their least worst song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 2 hours ago, BOF said: If you're struggling with the generic 'jazz' then try swing jazz. It's much more accessible and is the best kind IMO. I wouldn't call myself a jazz fan but I am a swing jazz fan. I was out in Krakow pissed one night ( well early morning to be accurate) , and had that ultimate dilemma ... go home or go to the only place that was still open , which happened to be a Jazz club ( this was around 1998 before krakow became a lads weekend destination so it wasn’t as spoilt for choice bar wise as it is now ) my love of all night binge drinking won the day but by god it was dreadful on the ears , my mate bailed after about 20 mins he couldn’t stands no more , I called it a night around 6 am but if I could relieve that night again I’d definitely take the early night 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: The only things I can think of that are utterly irredeemable are country and western and 80s music, everything else I can find a fair bit to enjoy. Bands it's a bit easier to find one you hate but like one particular song of theirs, I think we've done that before though. if you erase SAW and the similar bland over produced shite it spawned from your memory banks , 80’s music is still the best decade for music ... the good music was edgy and topical , it was about 3m unemployed , riots , fear of nuclear war ( obviously written before thatcher got her second and third terms and saved the country ) ... not like now where the only angst song writers seem to have is they can’t find a Starbucks or forgot the Wi-fi password 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 5 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: 80’s music is still the best decade for music The wrongest wrong statement ever seen on VT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Stop That Train, Clint Eastwood & General Saint, released on Greensleeves in 1983. To hear that come on in a decent loud venue, and have someone to dance with, man, if that was the only song issued in the 80’s it would make the 80’s one of the best music decades ever. Twelve solid inches, still available on discogs for the best £2.99 you’ll ever spend. Quote I need, I need, I need a woman(Big-a jump, hey-a)I want, I want, I want a good one(Oh yeah, me wanna) 'Cause if you miss the train I'm onAnd then you'll know that I am goneAnd you can hear the whistle blow five hundred miles Five hundred miles, five hundred milesWas he so damn sit on the voodoo fileAnd you can hear the whistle blow five hundred miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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