Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

Hon. mention to Tom McRae - Boy With the Bubble Gun. People haven't heard it but they should, he's really excellent.

Asking for more thought on an already settled subject. The answer is yes, they're still considered solo acts.

A solo act that has a backing band is still a solo act.

Yeah, three wild swings, three misses, I'm done wasting time on you. So long weirdo. Try coming up with a single thing to say that isn't taken from someone smarter than you.

Lmao repetitive much? You were right to yawn, you're boring.

Parroting eight grade insults is an effort for you?

I'm sorry.

Lmao you should do the same, your attempt at humor was not remotely new. Also, don't be a dick.

Well, people are dumb, and most Americans are extremely resistant to the idea of learning about anything that happened more than a week earlier.

Edit - downvotes don't change reality. The rest of Western society is far less interested in reacting badly with no historic context for literally any and every thing that comes down the pipe. Try fixing that instead of complaining that a fellow American sees it as the problem it so obviously is.

I tried to pull stuff from all sorts of genres, while limiting myself to ten albums.

I figure if anyone can make the jump from 1 to 2 the rest should be easy lol

There is, again, a big difference between having a strong emotional response to music, and translating that to an emotional response to the person or people who made that music.

And I addressed hate because it's a far more important idea to understand negativity and why it occurs, in my opinion. Actual love (non possessive, freely given, etc) is positive in all forms. But love of a person because of a sound they created is the other side of the coin. I addressed the side that I feel is more important, not hating someone because of a sound they created, as hate isn't healthy in any form.

Edit - and you haven't seen me rant lol. That was a single paragraph.

Sorry, I'm a musician, I grew up in a family of musicians, music is as much a part of my life as breathing, I wouldn't want to do the second if I couldn't do the first. All that being said, it's a huge jump to go from that to hating a band because of their music. I may dislike the music, I may not listen. I damn sure ain't wasting my time on hate, nor am I interested in spreading that hate to others. It's a waste of time and effort that could be better spent finding something one enjoys instead.

Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen

Who You Selling For - The Pretty Reckless

Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

London Calling - The Clash

Judas - Fozzy

Music for People - VAST

Into the Labyrinth - Dead Can Dance

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Should be at least one album you find enjoyable in that mess lol

Most people don't spend their time thinking about a group of musicians enough for emotions like love and hate. Most people have better shit to do with their lives.

Edit - yep, that's what I thought.

Delivery matters, so does tone, so do the specific words used - and yes, you're a jackass, which you just confirmed. "I think you should explore some music that isn't so mainstream" says just about the same thing, without being a jerk.

Saying "no offense" after being pretty deliberately offensive doesn't clear you of being a jackass.

That's kinda funny, so did my 7th grade Social Studies teacher. I learned an awful lot about Mickey Mantle and Jack Kerouac. We broke it down by phrase.

Sure, but then you also have to mention stuff like K.K.s Priest instead of just plain old Judas Priest, and other similar examples. Where does one draw the line?

Sorta? And honestly I think they did the right thing by not using the old name, since it wasn't the same band anymore. At the same time I can understand not wanting to lose name recognition for the work already done. It's an odd and unfortunate question to contemplate.

Most of them? Honestly there's no way to give an exhaustive list. Most bands don't continue after losing or firing a vocalist. There are many that did, there are far far more that did not.

Jimmy Page?

It's funny how you poke holes in your own argument.

Thought of another - Sell Out, by Reel Big Fish

Jackson Browne - The Loadout/Stay

Late Xer here... The thing to remember is that nobody keeps the bad songs in radio play, so by the time a new generation comes along, it seems like the previous few generations were only making good music. I promise, there's a lot of bad music from any generation, and a lot of good music in yours.

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love