@arod, Youtube usually has full albums for most bands. I recently got Spotify, it's pretty sweet. $10 a month to use it on mobile and save songs to your phone, or they have the desktop free version. Pretty much every artist and album ever made except for The Beatles, sadly. (Copyright issues or something) Music streaming services are definitely the future of music listening.

Identifying a song and wanting to listen to it are two different things.

Lawrence Welk anyone!

Yeah I'm just saying it's different these days. You used to buy a cassette then listen to it all the way through, mostly because fast-forwarding and guessing when the next song started sucked. Then CDs came out and suddenly you stuck it in your CD player and still may have listened to the full album but could jump around rather easily from song to song.

Now with iTunes you can buy songs piecemeal (especially if you've already heard each song from that band dozens of times), and with YouTube you can pull up a song from a band you've never heard. You just didn't used to have this access to music.

You used to listen to albums over and over because CDs were expensive and you may have owned like 23 CDs or something. Hearing new music meant you had to stumble upon a single on the radio or you had to borrow music from your friends, who went out of their way to tell you about a new band you needed to hear. With YouTube, I basically own almost every song of any significance. I'm not going to listen to Beatles White if I can hear Grandmaster Flash followed by David Alan Coe, followed by Billy Joel, etc.

I didn't mean to imply listening to a Beatles album straight through was not a worthwhile endeavor.

I'm definitely from the old school. We used to learn a lot about the bands by pouring through album overs and liner notes. I find it interesting how people listen to music.

I listen to music all the time as in several hours per day. I have 800ish albums on my ipod and I just listen to them on a continuous loop for the most part, alphabetized by artist/band name. It takes usually 3 to 4 months give or take to get through a cycle. I will still listen to something specific if the mood strikes me but for the most part I just keep the cycle going.

that's pretty unique method of doing it. it would be interesting to see the list of albums if only to see the albums that you might be missing (ie, if you had Exile on Main Street, Some Girls, Beggars Banquet, but didn't have Sticky Fingers). bet you could get some sweet tips on here

obviously 800 albums is still a massive list

My Stones would be Hot Rocks, Exile on Main Street, Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers. I am a completest on certain artists with only a taste of others but my wheelhouse is mid 60's to mid 70's.

Hahah I just reread my post and saw I left out let it bleed. might be my favorite album. Go figure

Goat's Head Soup is an often forgotten stones album. Has the great Angie and Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker.

I have about 800 or thereabouts actual albums gathering dust. Currently in the market for a turntable. I think 20 of them are Stones albums with Bowie, The Who, or Pink Floyd as runner ups.

Yesterday

i see wat u did there

Me too.

No love for primus?

If you want to some love for Primus, why not make some yourself?

Over Oasis

Under ocean colour scene

Yeah, Beatles-bashing is always just a cry for attention. You can't seriously look at the quantity of hits, and the amount of influence they generated over seven measly years, and say they're overrated. If anything, they're underrated. Being tired of them is a separate and valid point--I don't care if I never hear Hey Jude again, but that doesn't make it, or them, overrated.

The Who otoh, I will go to the mat for being overrated. They were a great pop group through the mid-sixties, and Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy compares favorably with any collection of pop singles, but Pete Townshend crawled up his own rectum circa 1968 and never reemerged. Townshend is a great songwriter, and an underrated guitar player imo, but I think he was just too clever for his own good. There's something precious and self-conscious about stuff like Tommy and a lot of Townshend's material suffers from this habitual need to narrate from some self-appointed "genius critic of a generation" position. His songs insist upon themselves, I guess I'm saying.

Also, Keith Moon, despite being a great showman and one of rock's great personalities, couldn't play his way out of one of John Bonham's socks. And Daltrey sings like the sheet metal worker he was.

Entwistle GOAT tho, or at least the bassline to Won't Get Fooled Again is.

You are so dumb.

Two under- Eddie Cochran -died at like 21 but he wrote some great two minute rock songs (Summertime Blues, C'mon Everybody, Twenty Flight Rock). I think he would have been bigger than Buddy Holly had he lived.

John Hiatt- Not the greatest voice but an amazing songwriter and always brings it in concert. The list of artists who have covered his songs is almost endless.

Crazy to say, but i think The Band is incredibly underrated.

Mainly, i think some people are inherently not interested in a country-ish bend in their music. Also, because they didnt necessarily have the charismatic front man, or sex appeal that a lot of bands had at the time, people overlooked them.

The bottom line is that their music is ****ing awesome and timeless. It's oozing with soul, feel, and honesty. It was also deceptively complex, due to Garth hudson's influence. And thats cool anyway you want to slce it.

I just can't get into The Band (probably is because of the country-ish style), I have no opinion about them good or bad.

Heard Levon Helm talking about Garth Hudson. Hudson was classicaly trained and his family wasn't much on rock and roll. His story when he first started with the band was that he was being paid by them to give them music lessons. His influence is very underrated.

Over The Verve ...
The drugs don't work you say well that's a ****ing shame cos the only way I can listen to this dirge without wanting to kill myself us is to be off my tits

Vision Of Disorder highly under appreciated. They recently put out a new album which is pretty badass, too.



Bouncing Souls also underrated.



And H2O.

The whole album "United By Fate" by Rival Schools is fantastic, but I really dig this song in particular.

Overrated: Motley Crue, Nirvana, Creed.

Underrated: Sixx: A.M., Foo Fighters, Alter Bridge.

Funny thing is that the three bands that i listed underrated as has members in the bands that I have as overrated.

It is just that I found the underrated bands to have a brand of music that I liked over the overrated bands that made household names like Nikki Sixx, Mark Tremonti, and Dave Grohl though I love their other works like the underrated bands I listed.

Funny thing is that after I took a rock music history class as an elective for community college, I've been listening to classic rock bands by listening to whole albums and appreciating the work as well as the members of the band and their history.