Bands that are Tasteful.

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by MrG

To me, Nirvana has always been one of those bands who was more important as an icon than as musicians. Everyone acknowledges their contribution to the death of hair metal (which I think was a good thing), but no one claims them as a musical influence.

Reading this, makes me want to put The Pixies in the good pile.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by indesertum

If roxy music's latest album came into top 10 contemporary, would they still be tasteful?

I'm only partial to the first 5 albums.

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Reading this, makes me want to put The Pixies in the good pile.

I would without hesitation.

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

Phish, the Dead and the Eagles are in the bad pile.

 

[Station]

Originally Posted by indesertum

If roxy music's latest album came into top 10 contemporary, would they still be tasteful?
I don't quite get the grammar of your question. From the outset, with "Virginia Plain", they nearly always graced the top 10. They were far from a cult band.

And, while I do agree with Label King that the first four albums are essential, and the lounge lizard/lonely aristo act becomes quite tired past those four, to write off the latter four albums is foolish. One loses "Love Is the Drug", "Dance Away", "Over You", "Oh Yeah (On The Radio)", "Take a Chance With Me"... It'd be utter madness.

 

[indesertum]

Originally Posted by Station

I don't quite get the grammar of your question. From the outset, with "Virginia Plain", they nearly always graced the top 10. They were far from a cult band.

And, while I do agree with Label King that the first four albums are essential, and the lounge lizard/lonely aristo act becomes quite tired past those four, to write off the latter four albums is foolish. One loses "Love Is the Drug", "Dance Away", "Over You", "Oh Yeah (On The Radio)", "Take a Chance With Me"... It'd be utter madness.

You understand my grammar quite well. I was responding to this

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Good:

Roxy Music

Bad:


Almost any contemporary Top 10.
and etc.

 

[Station]

Originally Posted by indesertum

You understand my grammar quite well. I was responding to this
Ah, my mistake. Well, I assume, were Roxy's next album and single (which had better materialise bloody soon) to go in at #9, Label King wouldn't hold it against them.

 

[Alter]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Maybe someday. Actually, most of your bands are safe and generally good indicators of taste...for now. http://www.amazon.com/SECOND-WAVE-VA...6852517&sr=1-4 http://www.amazon.com/Up-Down-Turn-A...6852517&sr=1-5
Jeez...that first one captures my teen years perfectly. I feel kinda icky now.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by indesertum

You understand my grammar quite well. I was responding to this

My notion of the Contemporary Top 10 is reduced to things like Hoobastank's latest endeavor or something like that.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Station

I don't quite get the grammar of your question. From the outset, with "Virginia Plain", they nearly always graced the top 10. They were far from a cult band.

And, while I do agree with Label King that the first four albums are essential, and the lounge lizard/lonely aristo act becomes quite tired past those four, to write off the latter four albums is foolish. One loses "Love Is the Drug", "Dance Away", "Over You", "Oh Yeah (On The Radio)", "Take a Chance With Me"... It'd be utter madness.

You don't care for Siren?

 

[dusty]

Originally Posted by javyn

+1 on Bauhaus, a big time plus one.

I'll raise you Afghan Whigs and They Might Be Giants.

Lots of otherwise-tasteless nerds like TMBG.

 

[Dedalus]

For more recent bands:

Hella
Lightning Bolt
Bardo Pond
Arab Strap
Black Dice
The Boredoms

 

[King Francis]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Lightning Bolt
I had Lightning Bolt on my radar for a long time before finally picking up Wonderful Rainbow and giving it a listen. Now I have to give this a big +1.

 

[gravenimages]

Leonard Cohen... (Except for that train wreck he recorded with Phil Spector, which, while it does hold a certain fascination, is mostly unlistenable.)
Everything by Nick Drake
Oscar Peterson
Bill Evans
Rammstein

Who have I left out?

 

[wiru]

^^ I'd say none of those are indicative of good taste (even if most of them are good.) Any jazz more conservative than Ornette Coleman says nothing about taste. Everyone has a copy of Kind of Blue or Time Out or whatever. Though recently I've been thinking that the key to truly good taste is to be able to cultivate an interest in something objectively bad, and to defend that bad taste vigorously. LK's obsession with 70s cowboys is a good example, actually.