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This is 100% a matter of taste absolutely for sure totally.
Shooting from the hip here
Julian Lage
Pink Floyd
Avicii
Turlough O'Carolan
edit: Oh. Mike Oldfield. but I don't like his music that much. Got to admire it though.
edit: Prodigy
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11-12-2025 05:19 PM
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strange list... Avicii? Turlough who? Prodigy, hmm i've heard of them.
Originally Posted by emanresu
my weird list:
Bach
The Beatles
Django
AC/DC
Little Richard
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That is rough man lol. Floyd is my favorite classic rock band. But the rest.. yikes!
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As I am a jazz musician, I am not passionate about rock music.
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Prodigy is fun. When not liking such thing, of course, whatever.
But I had liked it all my life and it did sound like a simple thing always....
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I had a different mood one day and actually paid attention to what was happening there -
musical ideas (brilliant ones), so many of them, are packed in there tightly. Hiding behind
the main head-banging stuff.
And you don't have to comment someones awful taste at all.
Rather, please do not do that.
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Heh. About the taste. We had a discussion about Vangelis, that Chariots of fire.
He said that this tune makes him vomit. I said thatI get that, but on the other hand, it is
unique somehow and deserves to exist. He said that nope, this horrific shit should be deleted
from the world, from tapes, cds have to be burned, scores... I agreed that it was awful, but the
same time, it needs to exist.
I have the same thing going with Oldfield.
Anyway, lets ignore tastes.
Someone said AC/DC - here I disagree, I think they have too many filler songs.
Bach DOES always work, so it fits. But the work rate actually is not that big many of the times.
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Bach and Chopin is all I can think of where every single note is perfect. But, it might be unfair because they define what is perfect for me haha
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That was sharp Originally Posted by joe2758
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Well, yeah. Beatles is there for sure. Even if not digging their vibe or whatever, they got many albums filled with good pointy songs.
Hm, Aphex twin. The famous ones are hit-like, yes. But he got soooo many simple, short ideas, all fun in their own way.
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Elliott Smith never wrote a song I didn't like.
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100% of work is too much of an expectation.
However, it applies to some albums for sure.
I have noticed many folks first album quality.
Some need more time reaching those levels.
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Thank you. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Everything is exactly right Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
When I walk around here
Drunk every night
With an open container from 7 eleven
In St ideas heaven
Been out haunting the neighborhood
And everyone can see I'm no good
When I'm walking out between parked cars
With a head full of stars
High on amphetamines
The moon is a light bulb breaking
- Poetry buddy boi.
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Milt and Monk are the jazz musicians where it's impossible for them to do anything I don't like. I know all of Monk's discography more or less, but not Milt yet.
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I love some Chopin, like a fanboy, but he also has a tendency to speak many notes but somehow say less sometimes.
And Bach always comes up. I think he is the one composer that I've thought about the most.
And for last decade, I have mainly thought about it like.. everything works. Whatever was written down from him, just works.
When still teaching in kids music school, Bach made my life so easy - I could just open a collection of transcriptions for guitar,
and didn't ever need to run it through before giving it to sight-read for the student(duos) - we always got something nice out of it
in 3-4 runs.
So yes, absolutely. And yet again - I feel like this is was generic attitude, a baseline mood, that could always find the notes to express it.
Not hits, just the mood, state of mind.
And yeah, he got a pile of massive "hits" too.
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Originally Posted by emanresu
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Love Mozart, it's in my car all the time. Also,
Yes
Genesis
The Dixie Dregs /The Dregs /Steve Morse Band
Rashid Ali Quartet/Quintet
RUSH
The Tragically Hip (Discovered them too late to see them live! And they played in NYC many, many times 
Found them during Covid, but I really love this band.)
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Bach
Beethoven
Anything conducted by karajan
keith jarrett
steely Dan
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Most of the "classical greats" are consistently worth listening to--Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt. I like most of the Stravinsky and Shostakovich I've heard, though admittedly I've not listened to every single recording.
Arvo Paart--probably the greatest living composer who has never written a note that's not exactly as it should be. All of his recordings are exquisite.
Jazz--not much to add to the above. Miles, Coltrane, Jarrett, Pass...I even like Miles later music--have come to appreciate most of it, now that some time has elapsed.
Chick Corea and Stan Getz--mostly killer, some filler.
Now rock and pop I could go on at some length.
Steely Dan--awesome until their first hiatus. Their post-Aja albums don't do it for me.
The Beatles--what can you say? Just the right amount of notes.
Velvet Underground--even their dross was interesting, though the album after Lou Reed left--Squeeze--is really a Doug Yule solo album, and not worthy of the 4 legit Velvet albums.
Peter Gabriel--not so prolific, but so profound. Every album a keeper.
Brian Eno--virtually always worth listening to, though some of his work is repetitive, and that's not a criticism, from his point of view.
Robert Fripp and King Crimson--love every album. Can do no wrong.
Bowie--also can do little wrong, but he had a weak spell for a few years til he got his groove back. His last album Blackstar is as good as anything in his career, and in fact IMO one of the most meaningful and transcendent and experimental rock albums ever recorded.
REM--arguably had one "bad" album, but even that one (Around the Sun) had some great songs--Leaving New York, Electron Blue. They called it quits before they went to seed.
Wilco--they continue to amaze with their inventiveness.
Billy Strings--barely 30 and still growing as an artist. The most exciting artist out there today.
Those are off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll think of others.
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I think the Beatles were quite hit and miss lol. I mean they scale the heights but there’s some absolute garbage on those records too haha.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which.
This seems to be quite a mainstream thread so I’ll just add Joni Mitchell and leave it there.
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Duke Ellington
Red Garland
Kenny Burrell
Red Garland
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Only one I can maybe think of is Meshuggah if you're into that kind of thing. They consistently deliver Meshuggah.
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Reddit informs me that Bleed is mid Originally Posted by BreckerFan
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I have to mention the Art Blakey album buying-without-hearing rule.
If Art Blakey plays drums on it, it's gonna be good. Buy it.
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Bleed is a mid Meshuggah song, but a mid Meshuggah song is a great song. Originally Posted by Christian Miller
When those beams of fire sweep through my head...
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