Maven (famous)Whats a band/artist who's music all sounds the same?
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HexagonSunThe Ramones.
If it’s been a while, I’ll listen to 5 tracks and be like “Yes, The Ramones!!!”
Then after a couple of tracks more I suddenly really need to put on something else.
God The Ramones are such a weak band. I’ve never understood people’s fanaticism.
That’s how I feel about Michael Jackson. Except he wasn’t a band. He was just 1 person who whispered like a shy little girl & flailed around onstage like a noodle and he kept grabbing his crotch and nobody asked him to grab his crotch.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Hee hee!
^Hee^ Hee!
Mystery solved. The rhinoplasty was the reason MJ couldn’t stop grabbing his own crotch onstage.
You ever start trimming something and one side is longer than the other so, you try to even it up, but you go a little too far, so you have cut the other side some more, and it’s still not quite right, so you just keep cutting until nothing’s left?
Let’s just say Michael got that one on the house.
All your personal issues with the man are yours and not in dispute. I think a big difference here is that MJ was a musical virtuoso, not just a singer and showman.
Was he virtuoso though? I feel like his best work was with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton and without them he was just meh.
Only two and one co-written on Off the Wall and three and one co-written on Thriller (although they are bangers). He did write most of Bad but anything outside of that is imo sub-par. I’m not denying he had a lot of talent but I think he’s far from a virtuoso.
Lol right. Give me a god damned break! You can’t be serious, you’re trolling, or genuinley know nothing of music.
Not trolling. I don’t find his solo work without Quincy Jones that exceptional. Granted the Jones stuff is amazing but Michael wasn’t able to replicate that on his own.
Maybe they’re sedated?
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They were reactionary, trying to destroy the pompousness of 70s stadium and prog rock. Fast and simple the way rock and roll began.
I’m not debating that they bring the hype, people love them and yes they have their influential place in the history of rock.
I’m just saying in this era, I am lost as to why anybody would seek that music out. It had its place and it had its time, but that was like 50+ years ago.
I don’t need to hear these boots are made for walkin’, and I don’t need to hear I wanna be sedated. They’re anthems from an ancient time.
Well, firstly, ‘These Boots are Made for Walkin’’ is a great song that sounds gorgeous compared to most of its contemporaries.
Secondly, there are pretty much no other bands that sound like Ramones. If you want that kind of fast and fun sound once in a while, there’s no other option. Most other punk sounds like punk, but no punk other than Ramones sounds like them.
The only ones sounding similar to Ramones are those making deliberate effort to emulate their sound: Ramonetures, ‘Gabber Gabber Hey!’, Helen Love.
Gabber Gabber Hey - A Loud And Fast Accelerated Tribute To The Ramones
You’re missing my point.
These are dried up, shallow pieces of music that had their place.
There’s actually good music you could spend your time on, which is what I do.
Somehow I’m sure just from your comments that I wouldn’t consider most anything that you listen to ‘good’, and I’ve heard lots of musics in my life.
Jackie's FridgeKrudler is coming at it like music is a zero sum game, which is silly. I love the Ramones. I also love more innovative, complex music, as well as plenty of vapid garbage. I’m happy jumping from Art Pepper to Guatafán. None of it is a waste of time if it’s what I’m in the mood for.
The Ramones were a fresh slap in the face back in the day, and without them punk & new wave wouldn’t be what they are. In the meantime, other artists have built on the Ramones’ foundation. Similarly, Jimi Hendrix revolutionised how people used the electeic guitar as an instrument, but other artists ran with it to the point that his stuff is archaic (I can’t listen to Hendrix for the same reason K dismissed the Ramones, but to each their own).
I guess what I’m saying is that even if you personally don’t like an influential band, you have to acknowledge that they might be exactly what resonates with someone else. That’s why we have so much music in the world. To the original topic though, Ramones music does all sound the same. Why mess with perfection?
In the case of Ramones, it’s kinda especially ironic to talk about other music building and improving on their foundation, seeing as they specifically returned to simple, fast and fun approach of early rock-n-roll. The heyday of punk was remarkably short-lived, post-punk swooping in almost immediately, and new-wave shortly after that. Already by '78, the ‘no wave’ scene did another round by steering away from commercialization of new-wave!
So indeed, Ramones are a document of this early era, but they also had their own particular approach to music, not quite captured by most other bands, as punk didn’t really have a groovy sound to it.
Traces of this can be seen in the fact that there are almost no electronic music that feels like Ramones-style structures, but with electronic instruments: i.e. electronic rock-n-roll. I know of ‘Gabber Gabber Hey’ and Helen Love linked above, and perhaps also Sexy Sushi. This is despite the existence of plenty of electronic punk and post-punk.
Fun fact: since Ramones are pretty much rock-n-roll in punk, their songs actually work well reinterpreted back in rockabilly (it’s impossible to find actual rock-n-roll covers because of their two songs with this word in title).
Marre, Marre, Marre, by Sexy Sushi
12 track album