Great bands you somehow dissed...

Oh... you mean dissed and then learned to like... not great bands that you still cannot stand (like the Stones).

Hmmm, cant think of any... bands i did not like then, I like even less today, and bands I somewhat liked back then, I tend to be indifferent to today. I tend to live more in the present than the past.


edit - it occurs to me that I ended the above in a way that could me misunderstood. I meant that I spend more time looking for new music than revisiting old. I do not listen to classic rock or similar stations on the radio (mostly modern indie these days), so my exposure to older music is more or less limited to what I hear elsewhere).

Somehow, I just couldn't get into that falsetto singing, but like JB said they're brilliant songwriters.

Same here Mike. I couldn't listen to them in the 70's because they were so overplayed. I really got back into them  about a year ago. I was taken by the mixing of so many instruments and how they were able to keep it sounding so well. 

I liked some of the BG's pre-disco, pre-falsetto material.  They lost me when they made the change.  
As far as dissing goes.  I wasn't a fan of the Carpenters.  I just wrote them off as typical bubble gum of the time.  I changed my mind a bit when I heard them on a good stereo.  It was amazing how different--and well recorded--they sounded on some good gear.  Up to that point, I was used to hearing them on AM pocket radios.  I didn't run out and buy a bunch of their albums, but I did have more respect for them after that.  

I pretty much dissed the '80's completely and mostly still do but since they passed I bothered to peer beneath the veneer of the commercial surface of appalling acts such as Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and the like, some enduring goodness started to show through.

Bamds like Talk Talk and the Waterboys started finding their way into my good stuff pile post event.

Once dissed by The Bapu, always dissed.
Once blessed liked by The Bapu, always liked.

Bands that is.

Well, this will sound like a broken record and I apologize up front for that but:  When I were a lad and first heard Tom Jones sing "Green Green Grass of Home" I almost threw up in my mouth.  Then, to make matters worse I heard his immediate competition, Englebert Humperdinck sing his dreadful hit.  I was pretty sure the dark times were upon us.  And so very soon after the Beatles and the Stones and the entire British Invasion stuff.  I was one sad little camper.  Then I heard "What's New Pussycat". Hmmmm. What's this then?  Then, soon after, here comes Tom singing the theme to "Thunderball" starring Sean Connery as 007.  Wait a mo...I said to myself...this is a bit different.  This guy's actually got an interesting voice.  I think I quite like this bombastic reading.  It's a bit insane and over the top as well as being musically engaging.  Maybe this guy's some sort of mad genius?

Then...years passed. 

Oh my goodness...what the heck is this Prince guy??  Me likey.  Funky.  Sexy.  Dangerous.  Stupid.  All the qualifications.  And then...wait for it...Tom kicks his ass.

Then my beloved Randy Newman.  Again, Tom delivers an ass whuppin.

Then the crazy Trevor Horn and other up to the minute producers get together and put out "The Lead and How To Swing It" for Tom.  He blows away quite literally everyone.  And every genre he tackles.  And just keeps on doing it.

Then a false note with his collaboration with Jools.

But not to worry...back with his "screw it, my hair's white and I don't give a damn" gospel and blues readings which procuce "Burning Hell".  Still the man.

He's lived it.  Survived it.  And continues to triumph over it.

Rock On, Tom...rock on.

Think I wanna dance now...

paulo


Take the time to watch One Night Only and see if you still feel the same.

Thanks for the link..... now I just need to watch this on a laptop with a HDMI output to the HiDef flat screen with a decent sound system with a sub. 

I find myself writing rhythm guitar riffs that Malcolm Young probably wrote years ago (and didn't use) when I thought AC/DC was Neaderthal Rock.

Mod Bod


I find myself writing rhythm guitar riffs that Malcolm Young probably wrote years ago (and didn't use) when I thought AC/DC was Neaderthal Rock.

Ohhh yeah ... was the group called Hotlegs?
 
And that great single? I'm a neandearthal man and she's a neanderthal woman and we're gonna mae neanderthal love?
 
Now ... THAT is a Bapu song and then some!