Mookie Wilson

Favorite Group:
The Human League or Adam & The Ants or maybe someone else.

from your profile? are those not new wave bands?

that's probably the most naive statement i've seen on this forum so far. that says to me that you think you have such great instincts when it comes to music that you can immediately identify amazing music on the first listen. i believe that to be impossible. i think many musicians write songs that are intended to be listened to many times over before a deep and real appreciation for them can be achieved. and then they can be listened to countless times in future, whereas songs that sound great the very first time you hear them tend to wear off and become played-out much more easily.

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Would you not agree that it's a little foolish to make an assumption based on a couple of bands? What if I'd gone for a couple of my favourite folk metal bands instead... would I suddenly only have the right to comment on folk metal?

I don't mean to come across rude (I really don't) but you seem far more naive in this case. As we hopefully all know, music means something different to different people. I do believe that I can judge a song on the first listen. Why? Because the songs I've loved on the first listen I still love, and the songs that didn't grab me on the first listen I still don't like. It may be the case that you have to listen to songs several times before they do something for you but to extend that to other people is bizarre.

Again, you shouldn't be confusing your own subjective experiences with 'the truth'. I am still listening to the songs I loved immediately 15 years ago.

Urban Hatemonger

I've owned Grace since around 1998

I still don't think it's that great

Sorry.

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=ladyface=

Apparently that's because you're not listening hard enough.

Mookie Wilson

i know this is from wikipedia, but it's common knowledge among buckley fans:

Grace won appreciation from a host of revered musicians, including members of Buckley's biggest influence, Led Zeppelin.[79] Jimmy Page considered Grace close to being his "favorite album of the decade."Ali ***, a renowned contempary dance artist used Jeff Buckley's music to create such masterpieces as "Blue Still and Magnum" which feature regularly in music film clips of the modern area. [80] Robert Plant was also complimentary.[81] Other of Buckley's influences[82] lauded him: Bob Dylan named Buckley "one of the great songwriters of this decade,"[81] David Bowie called Grace "one of the 10 albums he'd bring with him to a desert island."[83] Lou Reed expressed interest in working with him after seeing him perform.[83] Paul McCartney,[84] Thom Yorke, Matthew Bellamy, Chris Cornell, Neil Peart, U2 and Elton John were among others who have held Buckley's work in high esteem.

Urban Hatemonger

Matt Bellamy holds Buckley's work in high esteem.



Oh yeah I know ALL about that one.

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Mookie Wilson

just watch this and stfu:

Jeff Buckley - Documentary From BBC

Urban Hatemonger

All the sources in the world won't make me think anything different.

Sure he had a good voice , sure he's good at doing covers by other artists but thats only half the story. I just found his own material bland.

If I was forced to listen to a Buckley album at gunpoint i'd choose one of his dads everytime.

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Were those last posts supposed to make us change our minds or something? Awww.

Mookie Wilson

fair enough, different music in/for different generations.

he did some great covers cuz it was early in his very brief career.

i'll stick with jimmy page's, elton john's, and patti smith's opinions of him, seems a bit more reputable.

no, but show some goddamn respect