askchapo

Really early Grateful Dead is the shit. Like Live/Dead era when they were tripping balls and absolutely shredding every night.

You know I had an album called "Classic Rocks" that was either rock arrangements of classical music of classical arrangements of rock music and I can't remember which but it was cool.

The album version of Light my Fire. The radio version is good, but the 4 minute long electric piano solo just gets to me. It’s boring and the tone isn’t interesting enough to really justify how long it is

MC5 was pretty based

Bad bands: zeppelin, kiss, acdc, eagles, skynnyrd, feetwoos mac

Sick bands: ccr, the kinks, fucking HEART

I just hate the eagles, man

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As a radio programming format, yeah.

As music it’s pretty good. Even the band I bounce off of the most, kiss, has some cool stuff that never made it big and is fun to listen to.

Weirdly the thing that saves the music from the terrible clear channel/I heart radio format is the other stuff on the format it was released as.

i have always been kinda snobby but i detest basic bitch rock. verse chorus verse is an acceptable structure, but for like five straight decades we got music that was mostly about materialistic excess, and anything deeper was usually on the periphery - if you didn't want more music about girls, cars, sex, having a good time then I have bad news.

But I like everything that rose to technically and lyrically interesting heights, and i hope someday rock and roll can reinvent itself from the old and ossified thing it has become.