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Well, I wouldn't exactly rank Seal that high, but he is OK, and considerably better than any hip-hop act ever.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i think the answer to this is "The Field"

― modestmickey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

for at least a few more weeks, that is

― modestmickey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Who?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

adam and his ants band

― Alan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Adam & The Ants were just about image, not music.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i think the answer to this is "The Field"

Can think of quite a few people that will hate that once they hear it. Sounds okay if you like electronica though

― the Dirt, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno; I keep getting these indistinguishable promos in the mail - the Field, Field Music, Freezing Field etc. - and they all sound like bad Beta Band impersonations.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure i remember some music from the adam & his ants band

― Alan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The "music" all sounded alike and was generally very tuneless.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno; I keep getting these indistinguishable promos in the mail - the Field, Field Music, Freezing Field etc. - and they all sound like bad Beta Band impersonations.

You are, I think, confusing them with Fields.

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

lol. that's a thread in itself - bad bands with "field" in the name

just spitballing... Sonic Youth? Prince?

― the Dirt, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The "music" all sounded alike and was generally very tuneless.

yet infinitely more entertaining than today's popular AOR bands.

― blueski, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

There are no popular AOR bands today.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Os Mutantes?

Interestingly, if you google "I Hate Kraftwerk", most results are duplicates of someone saying "I Hate Kraftwerk... Not!"

― the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

the only proper google hit for "i hate adam and the ants" is class:

A similar game to kippering is the game of 'Aaaaah'! To win a round of Aaaah, simply get someone to correct a blatantly false statement. For example;

A and B are listenind to the radio. Wham!'s hit single Careless Whisper begins playing.
A : I hate Adam and the Ants
B : This isn't Adam and...
A : Aaaaah!

http://www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?a=k&sa=20

― Alan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

come on, who doesn't like slayer?

see? nobody.

― m the g, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The Field, Fields, it all blurs into one shade of Hampshire puce.

Not like the good old days of the mighty FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM!!!!!!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno; I keep getting these indistinguishable promos in the mail - the Field, Field Music, Freezing Field etc. - and they all sound like bad Beta Band impersonations.

Really, if you can't hear the difference between The Field and Field Music, maybe its time to hang this whole "music" thing up, no?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

In some cases, life really is too short.

Field Mice, though, they were a nifty combo.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Whigfield?

― NickB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The Whigfields of the Nephilim would be awesome.

― NickB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Gracie Fields of the Nephilim.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

There are no popular AOR bands today.

Yes there are. Any guitar music popular with people over 18 qualifies in this argument. Adam & His Ants are better than all of them.

― blueski, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

How about Field Mob, Field Day or Fieldwork? That word is starting to lose its meaning.

― the Dirt, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

High Fieldelity - the birth of a genre

― the Dirt, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Or an even worse novel ("My top five fields" etc.).

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

There are no popular AOR bands today.

99% of British guitar music to thread.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"Field" is the 2007 equivalent of last year's "Wolf". I propse Fieldwolf or Wolffield.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Field of AIDS

― modestmickey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Beethoven's a good bet too, but I suspect you'd start a flame war with that on a classical music board

Huh? I'm sure some exist but, speaking as a classical musician, I've never met a classical musician or fan who didn't admire at least some Beethoven. Many people would say that some famous pieces like "Fur Elise" are overrated though.

― Sundar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

horace andy

― lfam, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure some exist but, speaking as a classical musician, I've never met a classical musician or fan who didn't admire at least some Beethoven.

Ditto. I've hardly ever heard anyone with bad things to say about LvB, discounting those who would foolishly write off classical music altogether.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

99% of British guitar music to thread.

What wouldn't be classified as AOR in 1980 isn't AOR today either. Music is timeless. Genres don't change.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw. Beethoven I did pick on purpose. You will have those who consider Bach and Handel "too pompous and affected", Mozart and Haydn "too simple and too twee" and most post-Beethoven classical "too complex".

Beethoven sort of fits between all those.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Mozart - "too simple". sure.

― willem, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Leonard Cohen!

― stephen, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I've hardly ever heard anyone with bad things to say about LvB,

Chuck Berry? :)

discounting those who would foolishly write off classical music altogether.

Well, OK, that settles it :)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Field" is the 2007 equivalent of last year's "Wolf". I propse Fieldwolf or Wolffield.

...on fire.

― Will M., Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Leonard Cohen = over my dead body

― Sundar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm embarrased to suggest ABBA, Elvis Presley got to me finally, I'll bet everybody likes at least one Dean Martin song, does anyone hate Madness? I think T Rex was probably the best suggestion

― roger whitaker, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link

all those have their detractors.

no one's moaned about os mutantes yet.

or prince afaik.

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link

daft punk?

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link

If you'd suggested daft punk 3 years ago - I'd have agreed - but now I couldn't bear to listen to any track,

I'm off to find an os mutants track now - never heard of them :)

― roger whitaker, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Ah yes, teh Os Mutants.

I gotta agree with Avalanches, though.

All different types of people go in for them. Even bogans.

― Drooone, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link

You've gotta come at this thing sideways: apart from maybe Geir, I bet everyone here would at least sorta like Ayalew Mesfin's "Gud Aderegetchegn."

― nabisco, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Never heard of it.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link

mmmmmm, based on the fragment here (track 14) I'm not convinced.

http://www.amazon.com/Ethiopiques-Vol-13-Ethiopian-Groove/dp/B00008VGND

― StanM, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm not entirely convinced by the avalanches. it's a bit mild for me.

― the next grozart, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link

i love 'frontier psychiatrist' but the rest of that avalanches album irritated the hell out of me

― lex pretend, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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