His earlier solo material is really great, his first few albums were still in the prog style, and it probably helped a lot that Robert Fripp and Tony Levin where on those albums, he started going pop in the 80s. And though I do like some of his pop material, I downloaded So and found it to be pretty boring.

Really loved that song he did for Wall-E though.

I also confess to liking Collins era Genesis.

Well I can forgive you for that, when you have such appallingly bad taste I guess there's nothing you can do about it.

The first few albums were good, but they deteriorated thereafter rather quickly. The last hip-hop collaborations that he did fucking BLEW. Basically, I feel that by the time Peter Gabriel lost its touch Genesis had as well (which coincided with the loss of Steve Hackett).

A lot of his 80s pop is pretty unremarkable, but I haven't found it to be horrible either.

Anyway.

Steve Perry.

/Close thread.

There's one I missed out. Great singer, as you say, not such a huge fan of his work though.

One Tree Hill is pure bliss - one of the best songs I've ever heard. It's pretty much a flawless album to be honest (in my opinion of course).

Audioslaves first self titled album was pretty strong in my opinion. Cornell and Morrello did a great job together there, and TM's guitar playing is very psycadelic the entire album.

Finally ONE non U2 hater other than myself, no, two, that's refreshing.

I like Home By the Sea. :shycouch:


Despite being a big fan of S&G, I've not heard much of Garfunkel's solo career - sounds like that's a good thing...

Dusty Springfield was a great vocalist but most of her producers had absolutely no idea what to do with her extraordinary talents. Many of her albums were overproduced and the middle-of-the-road cover songs chosen by her producers were trite and derivative. The brillance of Dusty Springfield was that she managed to transcend the even the most cliched material and deliver heartfelt vocals.

The closest she came to a perfect album was Dusty in Memphis because co-producers Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd were brilliant producers and had the expertise at showcasing uniquely talented R&B singers.

Good call there. I do like Try Me (a song that's pretty unrepresenative of his style), but I can live without the rest of his stuff.


Yes, I've heard the original albums, but for me, REM is one of those bands that's best represented by a decent comp. I only mentioned it because it's the only REM album I own and listen to on any sort of semi-regular basis.


To be honest, I've never really understood what the fuss was about Springfield's voice. She sounds like another generic 60's pop singer to me.

No. I have stated before that I like U2. Some of their stuff is awful but 'The Unforgettable Fire', 'Atchung Baby' and 'The Joshua Tree' (minus the first three tracks) are very good albums.