Tropical Island Music Artist Draft - FINIS
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For my next selection, I will take another all time favorite of mine: the dark horse of Rock'N'Roll themselves:
Badfinger
Badfinger was the first act signed to Apple Records and the complete-life screw-over for Badfinger began. I won't get into details, you can look it up if you want the story, but just an insanely great band destroyed by the greed of their management. If they had gotten a fair shake... love their music, so many great songs... also, they wrote "Without You", the song Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey made into a number 1 hit a couple times.
Watch these videos! Amazing band!
Badfinger
Badfinger was the first act signed to Apple Records and the complete-life screw-over for Badfinger began. I won't get into details, you can look it up if you want the story, but just an insanely great band destroyed by the greed of their management. If they had gotten a fair shake... love their music, so many great songs... also, they wrote "Without You", the song Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey made into a number 1 hit a couple times.
Watch these videos! Amazing band!
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NoBonus, you picked the wrong hair metal band. Skid Row was closer to the right pick, but...
anyway, I digress.
Love Skid Row. Sebastian Bach can belt it like no other, and their music was hard hitting. Tough to put them in "Hair Metal", but there they were.
Poison? They're fun. Their music is fun, and Brett Michaels should have stopped before his reality TV whoring soured my opinion of the band. In full disclosure, I do have every Poison album made, courtesy of Columbia Records "Buy 10 albums for a Penny". I won't tell you what the other bands were, as they have yet to be picked.
anyway, I digress.
Love Skid Row. Sebastian Bach can belt it like no other, and their music was hard hitting. Tough to put them in "Hair Metal", but there they were.
Poison? They're fun. Their music is fun, and Brett Michaels should have stopped before his reality TV whoring soured my opinion of the band. In full disclosure, I do have every Poison album made, courtesy of Columbia Records "Buy 10 albums for a Penny". I won't tell you what the other bands were, as they have yet to be picked.
I learned to loathe Conor Oberst a few years back, when some of my female friends started fawning over everything he did and my "does he do anything else but whine?" criticism earned me nothing but evil eyes. The feeling has subsided, now that I'm not around these girls anymore and I've even warmed up to a few of his songs. Road To Joy, particularly.
I'm still in the "does he do anything else but whine?" stage. I cannot stand that whiny sissy monotone slacker, slightly off pitch indie-rock/pop vocal style. It's probably my least favorite of all vocal styles, actually, (with the possible exception of death/black metal vocals). It just doesn't cut it for me and in a lot of cases it flat out irks me. It's the main reason I shy away from a lot of indie-pop/rock. It doesn't help either that that stuff tends to be fairy pedestrian on the musical end, too.
Stryper! While all you "heathens" were listening to your "devil worship" music, I was listening to them..and the others...lol. I still have the vinyl.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stryper-p2411/biography
"It wasn't until the group changed its name to Stryper (which stood for "Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement, and Righteousness") that things really began taking off for the quartet. Specializing in the melodic Van Halen/Def Leppard style (with heart-wrenching power ballads tossed in), dressed in all black-and-yellow outfits, and spreading their religious message even further by tossing bibles out into the crowd at their shows, Stryper were signed by the Enigma label in 1984."
[video]http://youtu.be/ysCx-rjMIXk[/video]
[video]http://youtu.be/wm6VVGe3MGs[/video]
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stryper-p2411/biography
"It wasn't until the group changed its name to Stryper (which stood for "Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement, and Righteousness") that things really began taking off for the quartet. Specializing in the melodic Van Halen/Def Leppard style (with heart-wrenching power ballads tossed in), dressed in all black-and-yellow outfits, and spreading their religious message even further by tossing bibles out into the crowd at their shows, Stryper were signed by the Enigma label in 1984."
[video]http://youtu.be/ysCx-rjMIXk[/video]
[video]http://youtu.be/wm6VVGe3MGs[/video]
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Now there's a hair metal band. Anytime I listen to Stryper I feel as though I've done my religious duties for the week. I own "To Hell With the Devil", and, sadly, I paid money for their album of Covers. The sound quality wasn't there, even though I thought it had the potential to be pretty good.
Catchy opening riff ahead:
Catchy opening riff ahead:
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Stryper... fun for heathens too!
Was torn on Dropkicks, been a fan since the beginning before they even put out an album but can't say enough how much I preferred Mike on vocals. It took them a few albums afterwards to really find their rhythm again and I thought Blackout was fantastic but after that they got a little too one dimensional for me. Still love the guys for standing up for what's right and what they believe in but musically if I go there I'd have to go with Mike's current band. But right now I've got a different current band in mind. We'll see.
Was torn on Dropkicks, been a fan since the beginning before they even put out an album but can't say enough how much I preferred Mike on vocals. It took them a few albums afterwards to really find their rhythm again and I thought Blackout was fantastic but after that they got a little too one dimensional for me. Still love the guys for standing up for what's right and what they believe in but musically if I go there I'd have to go with Mike's current band. But right now I've got a different current band in mind. We'll see.
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Well, I was NEVER into any of the hair bands... just not my thing. So I will not be adding to that run. Instead, I will be adding to my list a guy I stumbled upon on VH1 back in 1999. I loved his music the moment I heard it and love it even more today. IMO, one of the best artists to listen to while driving late night in a big city.
David Gray
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David Gray
[video=youtube;PP-f8TDb2n4&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP-f8TDb2n4&feature=related[/video]
[video=youtube;uqIFYv1_yHI&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqIFYv1_yHI&feature=related[/video]
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These gals have just been sitting around waiting to get picked for a while now, and I can’t let them slip any farther: Heart.
Ann Wilson can belt one out with the best of them. Nancy Wilson is a simply amazing guitarist. And together, they put out a solid string of radio hits between about 1976-1990. Not only that, but every live performance I've ever heard has basically rocked the house - they weren't just a studio-tuned marvel. What more could you ask for in the 13th round?
Years active: 1973-present
Catalog: 13 studio albums (~9h40m), 5 live albums (6h24m)
Landmark songs: Crazy On You, Magic Man, Barracuda, What About Love, These Dreams
Song I keep coming back to:
Ann Wilson can belt one out with the best of them. Nancy Wilson is a simply amazing guitarist. And together, they put out a solid string of radio hits between about 1976-1990. Not only that, but every live performance I've ever heard has basically rocked the house - they weren't just a studio-tuned marvel. What more could you ask for in the 13th round?
Years active: 1973-present
Catalog: 13 studio albums (~9h40m), 5 live albums (6h24m)
Landmark songs: Crazy On You, Magic Man, Barracuda, What About Love, These Dreams
Song I keep coming back to:
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These gals have just been sitting around waiting to get picked for a while now, and I can’t let them slip any farther: Heart.
Ann Wilson can belt one out with the best of them. Nancy Wilson is a simply amazing guitarist. And together, they put out a solid string of radio hits between about 1976-1990. Not only that, but every live performance I've ever heard has basically rocked the house - they weren't just a studio-tuned marvel. What more could you ask for in the 13th round?
Years active: 1973-present
Catalog: 13 studio albums (~9h40m), 5 live albums (6h24m)
Landmark songs: Crazy On You, Magic Man, Barracuda, What About Love, These Dreams
Song I keep coming back to:
Ann Wilson can belt one out with the best of them. Nancy Wilson is a simply amazing guitarist. And together, they put out a solid string of radio hits between about 1976-1990. Not only that, but every live performance I've ever heard has basically rocked the house - they weren't just a studio-tuned marvel. What more could you ask for in the 13th round?
Years active: 1973-present
Catalog: 13 studio albums (~9h40m), 5 live albums (6h24m)
Landmark songs: Crazy On You, Magic Man, Barracuda, What About Love, These Dreams
Song I keep coming back to:
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Well, I was NEVER into any of the hair bands... just not my thing. So I will not be adding to that run. Instead, I will be adding to my list a guy I stumbled upon on VH1 back in 1999. I loved his music the moment I heard it and love it even more today. IMO, one of the best artists to listen to while driving late night in a big city.
David Gray
David Gray
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