Favourite Artists/Bands
Submitted by platoso on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 12:23
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- My Top 20 Favourite Artists/Bands
- 1. Frank Zappa (after listening to all his early songs and jams again, there is no doubt that Frank Zappa is the greatest artist ever)
- 2. King Crimson
- 3. Pink Floyd
- 4. Captain Beefheart
- 5. Pere Ubu
- 6. Rolling Stones
- 7. Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
- 8. Grateful Dead
- 9. Doors
- 10. Velvet Underground
- 11. Yes
- 12. Neil Young
- 13. Jefferson Airplane
- 14. Soft Machine
- 15. Who
- 16. Van Morrison
- 17. Klaus Schulze
- 18. Residents
- 19. Robert Wyatt
- 20. Faust
Author Comments:
There's a balance between my personal favourites and my favourites as a music fanatic who loves innovative music. If you don't get what I mean: velvet underground should be way higher, as they were more innovative than most of the otehrs on there, whilst Yes, which only fine-tuned the idea of putting Brahms, King Crimson and Beatles together is just behind VU.
Originality is no great virtue in rock'n'roll. Some of the best and most original artists tear the music down to its simplest components and rebuild from that foundation... Beatles in 1963, Ramones in 1976, Nirvana in 1990.
Anyone who has the Rolling Stones over the Beatles needs to get the ears checked.
well that is just your own opinions.
i might as well say that originality is no great virtue in all arts... i.e. chopin is better than beethoven, a random anime artist is better than van goph, and so on. obviously your definition of "best" is not mine.
i also do not like the idea of tearing down music to its simplest components and rebuild from that foundation... music is changing every minute just like this earth. by tearing down music to its simplest components and rebuilding from that foundation, what we humans would be doing is simply recycling ideas. my favourite classical musician is beethoven and guess why: he made huge innovations instead of simply taking bach's music and adding some of his own styles, just as mozart had done (of course i'm not saying that mozart was not original at all, but this is what makes me think that beethoven was better and perhaps best).