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Post by impulse on Nov 2, 2020 13:30:51 GMT -5
I think Seger is boomer dad music. Xer dad Rock I am told is Foo Fighters.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 2, 2020 13:30:55 GMT -5
The first 45 single I remember buying myself was Ma Baker by Boney M, a seriously disco rekkid. I like Boney M. The way Night Flight to Venus segues into Rasputin is pure musical genius. I own more than my fair share of Village People LPs too. My first memory of that tune is set during a hockey tournament in another town, during which another player and I were guests in the house of local volunteers. Their kid also had a treasury edition of Shazam!, which was my introduction to the Big Red Cheese! Two good memories for the price of one! (Three if you count the tournament itself, although we didn't win). |
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 2, 2020 13:31:01 GMT -5
My mobile DJ brother had two copies of the Night Flight To Venus album to keep the groove going between the two turntables for even longer, they were huge floor fillers at the time. Sometimes I could persuade him into getting a record I wanted, but only if it had the right BPM dance appeal, which is probably why I had to buy Seger and REO myself. I know funk and Doctor Hook records mostly thanks to him, he knows The Go-Gos and The (English) Beat because of me. Huge crushes on Bob Seger, Dirk Benedict and Mr. Lucas the substitute Maths teacher.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 2, 2020 13:42:57 GMT -5
Speaking of Bob Seger ..... well .... There I didn't say it! My sons believe that Bob Seger is quintessential "Dad" music. Not their Dad in particular, because I seldom listen to Bob Segar. Just that he generally represents "Dad" music. My wife says "Of all of Bob Seger's music your favorite song is a love ode to a stripper?!" But yeah I don't generally listen to him, but I don't actively change the radio if a song of his comes on. I think Seger is boomer dad music. Xer dad Rock I am told is Foo Fighters. As a Gen X'er myself I don't care for them much at all. But I will give them credit for their cover of Darling Nikki being better than like 98% of any song covered of Prince's that exist. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 2, 2020 13:50:39 GMT -5
I think Seger is boomer dad music. Xer dad Rock I am told is Foo Fighters. I wouldn't recognize a Foo Fighters song if it came up and bit me. |
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Post by impulse on Nov 2, 2020 14:01:50 GMT -5
Just what I read. I am not a huge fan.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 14:09:43 GMT -5
I was never a huge Foo Fighters Fan until I watched Sonic Highways on HBO. I really enjoyed that show and liked every track from the album it produced. However, going back to reexamine their older stuff after watching the show, I didn't find anything else by them I liked except for the handful of songs I already had. I liked the other artists the show introduced me to and the series was more a voyage of discovery about music than a Foo Fighter thing to me. From Bad Brains to Trombone Shorty, I discovered music I still enjoy from that show and still listen to, even though I haven't listened to Sonic Highways itself in a couple of years.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 2, 2020 14:12:24 GMT -5
I was never a huge Foo Fighters Fan until I watched Sonic Highways on HBO. I really enjoyed that show and liked every track from the album it produced. However, going back to reexamine their older stuff after watching the show, I didn't find anything else by them I liked except for the handful of songs I already had. I liked the other artists the show introduced me to and the series was more a voyage of discovery about music than a Foo Fighter thing to me. From Bad Brains to Trombone Shorty, I discovered music I still enjoy from that show and still listen to, even though I haven't listened to Sonic Highways itself in a couple of years. -M Trombone Shorty is the bomb. |
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Post by impulse on Nov 2, 2020 14:21:07 GMT -5
I liked a handful of songs, and finally got around to listening to their first album. That one really impressed me. It has a feeling hugely energetic and really speaking to its time. They have a couple other songs after I like, and they are usually good for at least a decent song or two per album, but I could probably not name 10 Foo Fighters songs period.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2020 23:42:25 GMT -5
I'm a Gen X-er (an early one) and I guess my "dad music" would probably be the Police. Maybe someone would say The Cars or Cheap Trick. I don't care. New Wave was the first subgenre of music that really grabbed me and that is my stuff, though I came to Glam Rock and punk later, once I actually got to hear the stuff. Heavy Metal strode right along with New Wave, for me.
I don't mind Bob Seger; but, I don't own any of his albums. Same with Steve Miller Band and others of that time frame. I liked my stuff a bit more high energy.
I will admit to some disco, though more individual songs than groups. Disco had some good stuff, within the right context. The fake disco stuff that got used on tv shows and movies, of the era, was far worse than just about anything on the charts.
I generally experienced music of the era as singles, so I am more song oriented than bands. There are a few bands that I have all of their albums or a good chunk of them: David Bowie, Blondie, INXS, The Police, Fine Young Cannibals, The English Beat, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Queen, Los Straitjackets, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Man or Astroman, Laika & the Cosmonauts, The Pet Shop Boys, U2, REM, The B-52s and, my favorite, Concrete Blonde.
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Post by berkley on Nov 3, 2020 0:04:34 GMT -5
I like Bob Seger a lot but he's one of those artists whose albums I've never felt compelled to buy, I suppose because I felt I heard enough of them on the radio, etc as it was. Steve Miller would be another one in that category.
I have nothing against disco, and didn't even back in the day, other than that it was so very much over-exposed on the radio. To me it was just a sub-genre of r&b or soul or whatever you like to call it that was blown out of proportion for a few years. Like most things, there was some good stuff, a small number of really great records, and a vast majority of mediocre or just plain bad.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 3, 2020 0:07:35 GMT -5
I was never a huge Foo Fighters Fan until I watched Sonic Highways on HBO. I really enjoyed that show and liked every track from the album it produced. However, going back to reexamine their older stuff after watching the show, I didn't find anything else by them I liked except for the handful of songs I already had. I liked the other artists the show introduced me to and the series was more a voyage of discovery about music than a Foo Fighter thing to me. From Bad Brains to Trombone Shorty, I discovered music I still enjoy from that show and still listen to, even though I haven't listened to Sonic Highways itself in a couple of years. -M Trombone Shorty is the bomb. Saw him live a couple years ago at a PBS event... he's amazing. Also, I'm a lefty, and have always been a bit proud of it. My dad is also a lefty naturally, but thanks to 60s catholic school with nuns, he actually writes right handed, and played sports lefty. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2020 0:45:04 GMT -5
Disco disturbs me. I don't mean that as a joke. It's so dream-like and eerie. It's like alien music.
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Post by berkley on Nov 3, 2020 1:00:57 GMT -5
Disco disturbs me. I don't mean that as a joke. It's so dream-like and eerie. It's like alien music. Some of the string arrangements can do that but for me in a good way, creating that dreamlike effect you mention. I like instrumentals like the Love Unlimited Theme, etc. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 3, 2020 4:28:49 GMT -5
Kind of related but how have I NEVER heard this before?
There just aren't enough hours in the day.
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