fett on 27/3/2006 at 23:14
Don't guess I've heard Suede or The Sound enough to notice. I keep thinking maybe these bands like Nickelback or Default do them, but it seems they mainly tiptoe around a full-on guitar solo by only going two bars, or popping in a lead during a transition or something.
I'm not sure anything The Darkness does counts for anything though...;)
Paz on 28/3/2006 at 00:34
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I'm not sure anything The Darkness does counts for anything though...;)
Hey, I wasn't necessarily advocating them. They definitely use solos though.
Also, The Sound are from the 80s - sorry for the confusion there.
Trigger Cut on 29/3/2006 at 13:20
Excuse me, but
STEPHEN MALKMUS
for god's sakes people he's performed so many magnificently creatively righteous guitar solos in SO MANY original songs - not just with the Jicks and Pavement but also the Silver Jews, he's the single most consistently great and wonderfully prolific songwriter and rock musician of our generation, yet this same generation keeps ignoring him. Whywhywhywhy?
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fett on 29/3/2006 at 21:05
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Jicks and Pavement but also the Silver Jews
Let me reiterate for clarity. I'm talking about mainstream bands that people have actually heard of. In the 70's that would be Kiss, Aerosmith, Zepplin, etc. In the 80's Van Halen, Dokken, The Cure, etc. in the 90's-00's.....????? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE GUITAR SOLOS?
Headphones on 29/3/2006 at 21:15
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And obviously Stephen Malkmus.
I had it covered Trigger Cut! :cool:
Para?noid on 29/3/2006 at 21:26
Quote Posted by Trigger Cut
Excuse me, but
STEPHEN MALKMUS
for god's sakes people he's performed so many magnificently creatively righteous guitar solos in SO MANY original songs - not just with the Jicks and Pavement but also the Silver Jews, he's the single most consistently great and wonderfully prolific songwriter and rock musician of our generation, yet this same generation keeps ignoring him. Whywhywhywhy?
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Dunno about his solo stuff, but Pavement is some of the most limpwristed, Converse All-Star, dark-rimmed glasses wearing, overrated fluff fawned upon by Pitchfork 'media' readerships the world over. It's like Sonic Youth's worst moments rolled into someone who wags their head from side-to-side too much when listening to shit like The L.A.'s
Headphones on 30/3/2006 at 00:46
I recommend leaving the dismissal of popmusic canon with "oh their fans suck so they must suck" arguments to the NME in future! Your ditzy rhetoric leads us to abandoning the communal internet abortions that are Radiohead/Lovecraft/South Park etc. And I don't want to!
I don't really like Pavement fans either - they are, after all, just Radiohead fans with girlfriends - but your Sonic Youth/Las references make me smell a rat.
Tenuous Pavement/Sonic Youth relatedness would be with Evol/Sister/Daydream Nation/Goo/Dirty and anyone who called that quintet "Sonic Youth's worst moments" is a major asshole.
NICE TRY THOUGH, DAVID QUANTICK.
Aja on 30/3/2006 at 00:57
I didn't understand one word of that but it sure sounded like someone got their ass handed to them on a platter!
Trigger Cut on 30/3/2006 at 01:36
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I had it covered Trigger Cut! :cool:
I know, I know, and I'm sorry - I should have acknowledged. I just wished more people would recognise freaking great guitar solos when they're being generated in an ORIGINAL, CREATIVE WAY by someone from their OWN GENERATION.
For people like Noid to smugly, glibly dismiss Malkmus like that is just so.... wrong. People today just do not realise what they are missing out on.
Keep idolising a few heroes, and a lot more wankers from the seventies and eighties, 20 and 30 somethings, and ignoring what's good from your own era. That's the way.
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