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GD · 08-02-2022, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Queen Boo

I like their first album, I didn't know anyone even gave a sh*t about anything they've done after Antics.

Antics is really one of those albums, huh? where you can just tell immediately "yeah, this band did nothing worthwhile beyond this point". I heard it once and then never bothered with it again or anything that came after it. Haven't regretted it since

Queen Boo · 08-02-2022, 10:50 AM

I haven't actually listened to Antics all the way through, it's got some great singles tho.

Plankton · 08-02-2022, 11:48 AM

Okee dokee smokee.

music_collector · 08-02-2022, 11:51 AM

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Antics is really one of those albums, huh?

Antics is a good album. I like Turn on the bright lights. I don't think the rest of the catalogue is bad. There are some highlights in there.

I don't know Dick Dale. To me, there are too many guitar heroes that belong in the "greatest" category. I don't think I could pick just one.

To each their own though. Personally, I'd rather listen to Nickelback than Nirvana. I wanted to be among the masses who like Nirvana. Since day 1, I just couldn't get into them.

GD · 08-02-2022, 11:58 AM

There's nothing particularly wrong with Antics, it just struck me as remarkably mediocre. By all accounts it was all downhill from there, so I don't consider trawling through Interpol's back catalogue in search of something halfway decent a good use of my time.
I mean IMO even 'Bright Lights drags a bit towards the end but the songs that are good are really damned good, so on balance I think it's a fine album

rubber soul · 08-02-2022, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

SRV is just a very showy blues guitarist

Dick Dale was the King of a genre he helped create, and the King of Volume as he was straight up demolising all the amps that were used at the time to the point where he became an innovator in the technology just so he'd have something that could handle him

Okay, I'll grant you Dick Dale is a great guitarist and all.

But what about Link Wray? Talk about a destroyer of amps. It could be argued he even invented heavy metal though that wasn't a term used in 1958 obviously.

And even before that, you had Les Paul. Of course he wasn't a rock n roll guitarist, but that didn't make him not innovative in his own right. He even has a guitar named after him.

music_collector · 08-02-2022, 12:47 PM

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I mean IMO even 'Bright Lights drags a bit towards the end but the songs that are good are really damned good, so on balance I think it's a fine album

I can agree with that.

Regarding the guitar heroes, Jeff Healey is one I love. The fact he played the way he did, while blind, well he was one of a kind. He could have played any musical style out there, and sound great doing it.

Plankton · 08-02-2022, 01:12 PM

Oh absolutely, Healey was incredible.

Anyone that knows guitar really well will tell you that Jeff Beck is the peak of greatness on the six string. His phrasing, tone, timbre, and everything about his playing. His guitar is his voice and he's not just some catchy riff master.

Trollheart · 08-02-2022, 01:16 PM

Some guy called Plankton is a real contender.

Plankton · 08-02-2022, 01:18 PM

I heard he's a washed up never was.

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