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GG singers are endurable for me without being enjoyable, unlike say Ian Anderson who I can't abide after about 1972.

Robert Wyatt is a musical genius and one of the finest songwriters that's ever lived, but his twee whimsical Englishman voice can sometimes grate on me over the duration of an album.

Had to admit to myself in the end that this is my opinion too, sorry St Robert.

getting pretty annoyed at the existence of steely dan lately. sometimes because you can doesn't mean you should. i go through phases with them. sometimes their records are okay, sometimes i hate them because ugh yuck what am i listening to. i've never thought of them as anything more than tolerable and even their best songs as second or third tier competitors to their peers.

I don’t think being ambivalent to Steely Dan is particularly controversial?

who are Steely Dan's peers? not peerless in the sense they are greater than every other 70s band but they are pretty unique in the classic rock canon. maybe Boz Skaggs?

i'm using peers in a very general way here: anybody who released a record that made any chart in the 70s is a peer of anyone else who released a record that made any chart in the 70s.

So even their best songs are second or third tier competitors to… any song that made any chart? I take it back, that is controversial

"When Austin posts in circles it's a mad thread" - Tiers for Peers

sometimes because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Steely Dan’s appeal eludes me but let’s please give Austin credit for making this a must read thread again.

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Steely Dan’s appeal eludes me but let’s please give Austin credit for making this a must read thread again.

― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:13 AM

thank you, but my next controp is that no discussion thread on any forum —especially not one that i've posted in— has ever been a "must read." all the same, you are too kind.

happy 22222 everybody!

dumb luck, my friend, won't suck me in this time

brb gotta start a new topic: "communicate only with steely dan lyrics"

definitely not a must read, either.

I am definitely sensing a lot of must when I read this thread

you and me both, friend.

bodhi saba, would you take me by the hand

that one may have been a stretch but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_(condiment)

bodacious newbies--such as your friend--will never be welcome here

for all steely dan ever broke through here i couldn't call them in any way unique, notably they just sound like a mix of other bands on an off day (thin lizzy playing a toto album track but without any real interest)

I bet you could approximate any band with a linear combination of all other bands. I bet glenn is doing it...right now.

That description could actually work if all you've heard is "Reeling in the Years".

thin lizzy playing a toto track....from the future

Axl Rose was never as impressive a singer as some people may want you to believe.

Cool, so he can sing five octaves... his tone for half of it still sounds like shit to me.

I liked Guns N Roses better when they were called Aerosmith.

Didja ever hear the Axl parody on the first Bloodhound Gang album? The track is called "Shitty Record Offer"… it’s pretty funny

LOL. When the Village Voice temporarily showed scans of the original newspaper pages for every Pazz & Jop poll, Glenn Kenny submitted this joke for the 1988 poll's comments section: "How many members of Guns N' Roses does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "F*** you! Suck my ****!"

imo axl has a good voice but also one that starts to grate very quickly

good thing he didn't make many albums

just like i'm sure that the sky is blue and water is wet, i'm very sure that axl rose is a muppet. please reference the miss piggy-esque yowls heard on "knockin on heaven's door." remember some years back when somebody posted the isolated vocals of a van halen song? i need the axl rose ones for that song in my life.

Most vocal coaches actually shit on Axl's technique. He's a baritone who came up with a screechy falsetto that fit the sleazy nature of their music. I love his vocals, but he's a good bad singer IMO

Lana Del Rey makes laughably bad music.

the isolated vocals of a van halen song

this is still one of my favorite things in the world and i listen to it at least once a year

axl rose is a muppet.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/a5446f2af0c3f9ea7d14f900d79619e3/c73c14591fc24780-c3/s640x960/2587fa1debb58f20b5adbfc2a1601c71f8533072.jpg

Alex, that opinion is more unpopular than controversial

There were many of us in the "Video Games" era.

Alex I suspect Joan Crawford Loves Chachi will be your best friend for that opinion

Practicing my kegels
Eating lots of bagels
Video games

absolutely loathe LDR

Rabies is the best Skinny Puppy album.

That is controversial for Skinny Puppy fans, uncontroversial for people who only know "Worlock"

Fans know Rabies wasn't a true SP album. The Process... now that would probably raise some eyebrows.

I'm not saying it's better than their other work by a huge margin...but it's appreciably better. The songs are hookier, the guitars work really well in context...it's a really good record. Once upon a time, Al Jourgensen had really good pop instincts, and he brought them to that project.

With Jourgensen on board, I'm surprised it wasn't called "Rabies Home Journal" or something

Ronald Rabies

Agreed, but the hookier songs and rock guitars are exactly why it isn't as beloved by fans. It's just not a real SP album. They should have just called the band Rabies and had it be a one-off side project like a lot of other great stuff Jourgensen was doing back then.