Is music (albums) or bands most important for you?

How is it for you?

thank you very much 

If you have an artist who lasts more than a few years, you are very likely always going to get a stinker or two in the discography, or a middling to poor performance at a gig. Completely natural.

Just thinking about three of my favourites, I still don’t care much for:

Marillion Holidays in Eden, a very misplaced attempt to keep the glory years of Fish commercial success going, probably at the behest of EMI. That they then came out with a masterpiece such as Brave is all credit to them.

Yes. Open Your Eyes is a truly awful album, not remotely worthy of a bunch of 6 year old High School performers, let alone this venerated bunch. The Quest is not nearly as bad, but then again it is an album off such mediocrity that it is barely worth even thinking about, just not bad enough to get angry about.

Genesis, self titled. The first side was brilliant, the second poor, with the execrable Illegal Alien the worst culprit.

Not many artists escape this.

Hi,

I think it changes as you get older. When you are young, some things are "better" than others and you take to those real quick. At that time, you do NOT know, and sometimes do not care, for the rest of the albums and the band's output, IF the band was not new.

Speed this up, and 30 years later and that band has 9 albums or 10, and you might like that album, STILL, but you don't care for the rest of the band. This could show a multitude of thoughts about that, from album to music, to many other thoughts.

Change this to the catalog of the band, and things change. When you have 8 albums (let's say) that you rank 6 or 7 (out of 10) and one album that you rank 9 or 10 (out of 10) the average now has dropped to 7 or less. Thus your importance for the band, has been lowered I imagine one could say! Now, you are battling the "music" versus the "band" idea and how you might not want your thoughts of that album you love not be as valuable or important.

In the end, within the history of music, it is not the "album" that matters, but the QUALITY of the work that the composer/artist did, which is far more valuable and telling about that person. One of the best examples might be Mr. Robert Fripp ... regardless of one album that we like, or dislike, no one here can EVER say that the band itself is not the most important thing, and the results and work, have been incredible even if played 50 years later!

To me, MUSIC is MUSIC and in the majority of situations it is not about the "album". I have many things I enjoy listening to and it is the only thing by that artist and band, but it does not make them less valuable to me as a band, or more valuable to me as an album ... there are many other albums that also stand up and out and deserve the same accolades, but our LIMITED view and listening of many of these prevent us from giving anyone a good and proper idea about the band, or the album. It all defaults to "favorite" and "like" and has nothing to do with the band, or its work! This is why I can not post on Eastern this or that, or some nationalities I have not heard enough or properly to be able to say ... I like this or not. The poll itself would suffer, if I can only vote for the three I have heard, and thus, make the poll rather uneducated and stupid. Sort of saying that the rest of the stuff is not good, and THAT'S NOT TRUE!

It could be a tricky question for many here ... but as much as some folks might select one album by JT as the one they enjoy the most, I am pretty sure that those folks also appreciate the band and its work over the years. Thus, we might end up confusing the issue a lot more than help it.

Hi,

Hahahahaha ... dream on baby! I've seen the opposite with a producer intentionally having a girl be there to take care of the musicians' "needs" at any time. We'll have to ask the LZ folks about this, and perhaps get Mrs PdB to grow up and stop trying to be a middle class lollipop icon and tell us a bit more than just the drivel and dribble that did not say anything!   

Most waitresses, though, are just trying their best to augment their income if they can, but in my 25 years of restaurants and bars, I can tell you that most of them were more worried about their boyfriends, than they were about the johns.

And yes, it should be about the music, but tell that to the teenager and other folks playing that rap boom-boom loud in their cars driving right by your ears! It's not even about the band or the music at all ... it's about the boom-boom!

 

It seems right "but the QUALITY of the work" are albums?

Something else, I do somehow find KC done more important in comparison with some other bands than they have deserved - can evaluation like that be done objectively?