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I try to listen to every music posted here, when I have time I go back and do the ones I've missed. The one poster's music that I can't seem to click with is Cougar. For some reason I just can't get into what he posts. I know he's passionate about his music so I get the feeling that I'm missing out on something. I like a lot of what kato posts.
 
Matty, I don't even know how to respond to that. I've posted John Coltrane and Oscar Peterson on this board, if not in this thread. I've posted fucking bad brains and the misfits.

I like singing, but I think I have as eclectic a taste in music as anyone here, as practically anyone I know. Singing is not the crux of music for me by any stretch.

If you can't appreciate semi-underground bands and artist like Lucero and Supersuckers....and even Mike Ness's ventures into country and folk... I don't know man. I think the problem is with you.
 
The vocal melody is certainly a major part of a song. The lyrics too, although 99% of all popular music sucks in that respect.

I don't listen to much instrumental music actually, and I prefer when Zappa sings/speaks over his fokked-up shit. But all that shitty soft-rock where the vocals are way higher in the mix than everything else? Horrible.
 
Jello
Matty, I don't even know how to respond to that. I've posted John Coltrane and Oscar Peterson on this board, if not in this thread. I've posted fucking bad brains and the misfits.

I like singing, but I think I have as eclectic a taste in music as anyone here, as practically anyone I know. Singing is not the crux of music for me by any stretch.

If you can't appreciate semi-underground bands and artist like Lucero and Supersuckers....and even Mike Ness's ventures into country and folk... I don't know man. I think the problem is with you.
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Then I may well have overlooked a lot of your selections after trying only a couple of them. I don't remember any of those. Sorry about that.

I do remember that recent video that you claimed contained major songwriting skills and it was some guy bashing chords on an acoustic guitar, singing about his tortured life or some shit. :dunno:
 
From Wiki about this guy:

Rolling Stone said about his songwriting, "There's a new breed of singer-songwriter... Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, and now Cory Branan"[1]. This prompted Billboard to write, "He was recently featured in Rolling Stone's HotList, but don't hold that against him... songwriting prodigy gives John Prine a run for his money"[2]. In 2003 he appeared on both The Late Show with David Letterman and Last Call with Carson Daly.

In March 2006, after almost four years, Branan released his second album 12 Songs, again on Madjack Records. Despite the time to taken to release his second album, Blender noted that "12 Songs justifies the sabbatical"[3]. Also, Playboy declared, "A new voice emerges to run with the greats"[4].

Jello
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I'm trying to turn you guys on to shit you might not have ever heard that's out there and pretty fucking good.

I heard about Branan through a Lucero song that I think I posted previously. It's southern rock, but damn these guys are good:

 
Matty
Then I may well have overlooked a lot of your selections after trying only a couple of them. I don't remember any of those. Sorry about that.

I do remember that recent video that you claimed contained major songwriting skills and it was some guy bashing chords on an acoustic guitar, singing about his tortured life or some shit. :dunno:
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BTW, you're absolutely right about that one song. "bashing chords...tortured life." That guy is actually a really good song writer, but my buzz was driving when I posted that one. And it was just because he was the dude sitting across from Branan in the studio. I fell in love with American Aquarium after this song, and mostly the intro... the dude's hilarious and I completely relate to the story here. It's exactly how I feel about my ex-girlfriend and for the same reasons why. "Seems like I waste....all the pretty ones... on you":


 
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