Bands That Can Do No Wrong

I agree with Harry and Henry Plainview, no such thing to my knowledge...every band has a turkey or at least a below average release.  

"Fanboyism????"

Gimme a break!

I am definitely NOT a Jethro Tull fanboy. I can see a myriad things that are wrong with the band. I don't particularly like the "back to the Middle Ages", "back to the countryside" spirit of some of their best-known albums, I don't enjoy the way John Evan messed up bits of Beethoven live on stage, I find many of Ian Anderson lyrics terribly vapid, while in the 1980s his balladeering grew more and more narcissistic...

I could give you a hundred things that are wrong with the band. But even if I might skip the occasional track, I still enjoy most of their albums from A to Z.

There are, I fear, no artists with immaculate discographies. (The Hatfields and the Health are exceptions because their careers were so short.)

But you can take your bitterness and PUT it somewhere. Makes you feel like real grown-ups, don't it, just accusing others of something stoopid when they're happily explaining what they really enjoy?

fuxi wrote: "Fanboyism????" Gimme a break! I am definitely NOT a Jethro Tull fanboy. I can see a myriad things that are wrong with the band. I don't particularly like the "back to the Middle Ages", "back to the countryside" spirit of some of their best-known albums, I don't enjoy the way John Evan messed up bits of Beethoven live on stage, I find many of Ian Anderson lyrics terribly vapid, while in the 1980s his balladeering grew more and more narcissistic... I could give you a hundred things that are wrong with the band. But even if I might skip the occasional track, I still enjoy most of their albums from A to Z. There are, I fear, no artists with immaculate discographies. (The Hatfields and the Health are exceptions because their careers were so short.) But you can take your bitterness and PUT it somewhere. Makes you feel like real grown-ups, don't it, just accusing others of something stoopid when they're happily explaining what they really enjoy?

That last part seems a bit of an overreaction ? No-ones remotely bitter (not sure where that barb came from ?) and no-one is calling anyone stupid. The only reason some of us have misgivings about some of the responses to date (including yours) is that they are unequivocally an admission that the bands cited can do wrong occasionally. You even make reference to skipping some tracks by JT entirely !
Therefore, it might be an indication that the original post has been misinterpreted ? What any of this has to do with me being considered an adult (I'm 47) is completely lost on me .

Ricochet wrote: Esbjörn Svensson Trio. They scaled up to masterliness with each work (or maybe starting after the early period), nevertheless I can definitely think of them as the spotless of all the bands I love. side-note: there is Esbjorn's Layers Of Night (with Nils Landgren) that's shockingly irregular, but that's not Trio accountable.

agree! I have all their discography and there is no week album at all...and when we are talking about contemporary jazz I have to mention great trumpeter Tomasz Stanko- many different projects, huge discography and I have enjoyed them all!

R U S H
Period!

ExittheLemming wrote: What any of this has to do with me being considered an adult (I'm 47) is completely lost on me .

Two points.

1. I don't want to be accused of "rampant fanboyism" simply because (to my own surprise!) I'll gladly listen to most of a certain band's discography. All I wanted to say is that it sounds immature if people are all too ready to label enthusiastic listeners as "fanboys". (Where does this ugly word come from, actually? I'd never heard or seen it until I bumped into Progarchives. Do British teens use it, or is it mainly American?) I personally listen to a wide variety of artists, in many different genres. And just for the record, I'm 49.

2. You may be right I didn't read the original post carefully enough. Where I differ from vibrationbaby, I guess, is that I tend to use my fast forward button freely... But I mainly wanted to confirm it's strange that, with certain bands, you keep listening to large swathes of their discography and they don't get on your nerves. For me, it's the same kind of experience as with Mozart or Haydn (not that I want to insinuate the music is on the same level): the repertoire is huge, and there's joy in nearly everything the artists have to offer. I thought this in itself was a wonderful idea for a thread! So thank you, vibrationbaby.

Edited by fuxi - December 06 2009 at 11:06

Campo Di Marte (they have only one studio album and one live)

Steely Dan and Donald Fagen for me.  Such perfectionists and it shows!  When I'm working, running, sleeping, etc I just put all their albums together on shuffle and when each track comes on its a pleasant surprise!

Dream Theater, without a doubt. I consider everything I've heard from them (which is just about everything) to be quality music, even the widely-criticized Falling Into Infinity.

RUSH