PigLick on 14/3/2007 at 08:45
On an interesting Nuno related side note, I once taught at a music store whose owner was sister to Susie DeMarche, the lead singer of an old Australian rock band, who also happens to be Nuno's wife. Less than six degrees of separation!
wait also since we are one of my favorite topics, you cant really overestimate the influence EVH had on guitar playing ( except of course Yngwie Malmsteen)
D'Arcy on 14/3/2007 at 11:25
Interesting site. I made the mistake of listening to Yoko Ono's entry, amongst others. Now I'll have nightmares. It's like listening to someone slowly and painfully strangling a cat.
ToolHead on 14/3/2007 at 12:50
While I generally don't care one bit about HoF-type stuff, it's always nice to see R.E.M. get some recognition. They were the first band that I really caught onto, and to this day they still hold a special place in my heart (and in my record collection...).
Personal order of preference (full albums only):
Automatic for the People
Up
Reveal
Monster
Green
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Out of Time
Murmur
Fables of the Reconstruction
Document
Lifes Rich Pageant
Reckoning
Around the Sun
Dia on 14/3/2007 at 12:58
The lyrics as mean 'don't just tell me you love me; show me'. Incoherent or not, the harmonizing on that song is fantastic. I'm a sucker for that.
(And no, I'm not picking on you. ;) )
fett on 14/3/2007 at 13:05
Quote Posted by Parker'sSire
Yeah.
I knew Cherone's band "The Dream", before they had to change the name to "Extreme", and BN (Before Nuno), and wasn't really too jazzed. Just a taste thing, I guess.
I always felt that "Nuno" is what got that band signed.
Exactly. Even post VH, Cherone formed 'Tribe of Judah' with the other Extreme guys minus Nuno. I cannot express in the English language how terrible this bad is/was. Not that I expected much to begin with...
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Note: I never actually mentioned being an Extreme fan per se. ex:"More Than Words" sounds great, but has to have some of the most incoherent (
http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/lm6.shtml) lyrics I've ever heard.
You can't understand the lyric apart from it's context in the concept album. It's basically saying, "If you love me, you'll fuck me." The album (Pornograffitti) was a concept album dealing with the flippant and shallow attitude Western culture has about sex. So 'More Than Words' is actually a tongue in check commentary on how adults tend to carry casual/horny teenage attitudes about sex into adult relationships. From there on, the songs deal with the personal and societal consequences of that.
Which is why it's so funny that people use it at weddings and such. :laff: :tsktsk:
For all their glam posturing, Cherone and Nuno had some pretty intelligent lyrics (considering the musical climate at the time). They're one of those bands that's *almost* worth listening to if you can take the style of music in stride.
I just listened to Pat Boone doing "Enter Sandman." Why oh why did I choose to bring children into this world?
Matthew on 14/3/2007 at 13:46
I will hear no words spoken against Shatner's version of Mr Tambourine Man.
Stitch on 14/3/2007 at 15:30
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
II've said it before, music is entirely subjective, despite what some music critics would like you to believe - there's just no rhyme or reason to people's tastes.
The second half of your sentence is more or less accurate, the first half less so. There is more to music than whether or not
you like it.Malygris on 14/3/2007 at 15:43
Quote Posted by fett
I just listened to Pat Boone doing "Enter Sandman." Why oh why did I choose to bring children into this world?
Hey man, I bought that motherfucker. It's actually still in the house somewhere.
fett on 14/3/2007 at 17:05
Quote Posted by Malygris
Hey man, I bought that motherfucker. It's actually still in the house somewhere.
Fag. ;)
Quote Posted by Stitch
There is more to music than whether or not you like it.
It's along of the lines of writer's who say, "Fuck convention! There will be no plot, no character development, no setting. I shall write, and the world will acknowledge my creative genius!" Great, but nobody's gonna buy your suck-ass book, because there's nothing familiar to grab onto.
I've heard a lot of music that was very unique, but I can't remember it at all. Write a fucking chorus. There's nothing subjective about that.
