FWIW my submission is thoroughly unrepresentative of my taste in music, if I can be said to have a taste in music.
Means you might not finish last this time All-in!
Also, roast away imo. All good fun.
Youâd think, but I donât rock out to too much stuff like 2ManyDjs either. The man asked for popular stuff, these were my best shots. And having donkeyed twice, I wouldnât mind going all the way. Blow either hot or cold, be thou not lukewarm etc.
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Pure 90âs right here:
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Aka the Canada comedy category strategy
Sweden greatest contribution to the 90s after Tomas Brolin
The graph for duets might be the most U-shaped curve ever. Those jazz duets were great, everything in the middle was complete garbage, and then there were some good ones from 90âs onward. Gtfo with these cornball 70s/80s duets though. It sounds like the karoake youâd hear in a hillbilly dive bar. Give me a has-been rapper with J-Loâs ghost singers over that stuff all day every day and twice on Easter Sunday.
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loooooooooooooooool
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That is like the biggest possible slam right there.
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Alright Iâm going to try and do one more listen today and then hopefully write ups either tomorrow or Wednesday. I guess if Iâm extremely bored I might write it up by tonight but wouldnât expect to get to it.
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Gee thanks man! Canât wait for the write ups knowing I have this one wrapped up!
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I canât find the Walrus meta discussion thread, so Iâll post here. @seities, you still up for organizing a grab bag Walrus?
Yup. In the next day or two Iâll bump that meta thread and we can discuss a bit about the format and we can go from there.
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Why do all the rock songs from this era sound exactly alike?
Because of how the music biz has gamed the market (FYP).
Eh I donât quite agree with that. Anyway I have finalized my rankings, thinking of starting the reveal around 1pm EST.
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How would you answer your original question?
Itâs not even debatable that for a while record companies have insisted on a list of characteristics that songs must have to be released as singles. A mate of mine was told that although his was good, it lacked a âlyrical hookâ and therefore wouldnât be released lol, and everyone knows there are song-writing factories churning out identikit hit after hit to established formulae.
This explains the lack of distinctive sounds/character of a lot of modern music, and some of the original talents we take for granted probably wouldnât get signed today because their music doesnât tick enough boxes (though there are other avenues now, they arenât as lucrative or as conducive to good art as a large advance and studio time).
The New Yorker reviews the new album from the Strokes this week, and about their 2001 debut she writes:
But it had been a while since rock and roll had sounded so rangy and bored. In the late nineties, the genre had grown angry and hypermasculine. Bands such as Staind, Creed, and System of a Down, all of which had No. 1 records in 2001, were led by red-faced men who sang with almost unfathomable conviction. Julian Casablancas, the Strokesâ handsome and vaguely bummed-out lead singer, was listless by comparison.
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Hmm weâre probably talking past each other a bit here but I will concede that the 90s were a time where music labels seemed to take being formulaic with popular music to another level with the goal of making mass-appeal hits. Not going to get into an argument with you when Iâve pretty clearly shown my disdain for a lot of music from the era, but fortunately itâs not all bad.
Iâll start the write up in a little bit. Here was my OP: A song from 1996-2000. For a lot of people, their musical tastes are formed during high school. That wasnât really the case with me, and I can hardly remember the music I listened to in high school. I think I may have been into 70âs classic rock but it wasnât like I was going to see those bands in concert. In college, I got into punk/emo music but a lot of that stuff doesnât resonate with me so much anymore, so Iâm a bit rudderless with nostalgic music. Show me something that I missed during my high school years!
Upon listening to the entries in this category, it turned out that I did remember quite a bit of music from the era, but for some reason a lot of it doesnât make me feel anything. I mostly listened to rap music at that time and decided that people who listened to other types of music - the headbangers, as they were called - simply werenât cool. Since then my tastes have changed a lot and I have really not listened to that much hip hop over the last 15 or so years, so my views are skewed that way. Anyway, letâs get to it shortly!
@TheDuker @microbet @JohnnyTruant @eyebooger @Lawnmower_Man @SwankyWilder @CanadaMatt3004 @cassette @Chuckleslovakian @miliboo (I see the other contestants are already here)
Letâs just get rolling. In last place, we have a painful listen and me painfully awarding one point to the always positive and supportive Seities:
Godsmack - Keep Away
Yes, keep away. In fact keep this entire subgenre of like faux-Metallica rock away from me, please. I didnât like it back then and I like it even less now.
Sorry Flynn, no last place three peat.
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