The Conservative Cave

The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 25, 2014, 08:21:06 PM

Title: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 25, 2014, 08:21:06 PM
They're talented but you're just sick of listening to them.

For me:

Journey

Boston
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Splashdown on February 25, 2014, 08:30:52 PM
The Who.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Chris_ on February 25, 2014, 08:34:12 PM
Bachman Turner Overdrive

Aerosmith
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: FlaGator on February 25, 2014, 08:35:18 PM
How good they really were is debatable but I really don't like listening to Nirvana any more.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Chris_ on February 25, 2014, 08:38:05 PM
The Beatles


*George Harrison and Ringo Starr songs excluded
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Chris_ on February 25, 2014, 08:40:58 PM
How good they really were is debatable but I really don't like listening to Nirvana any more.
I don't like listening to them either.  Cobain's suicide and the money-grubbing fallout between the band and Courtney Love turned me off.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Dori on February 25, 2014, 09:49:00 PM
I couldn't hear a song and tell you which band it came from, except for maybe Alabama (80's) or the Gypsy Kings.



Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: NHSparky on February 26, 2014, 11:34:06 AM
J. Geils Band
Guns N Roses
Green Day
Bon Jovi
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Splashdown on February 26, 2014, 12:15:55 PM
J. Geils Band
Guns N Roses
Green Day
Bon Jovi

Agree with all, though I'll keep the J. Geils Band on if it's their pre-MTV stuff (Must of Got Lost, Whammer Jammer, etc.).
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on February 26, 2014, 12:23:50 PM
Jackson Browne

Bruce Springsteen (except for a couple real oldies of his)

Boston

REO Speedwagon (other than a few select older songs)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: EagleKeeper on February 26, 2014, 12:29:59 PM
Whelp, you all have pretty much listed my entire 8-track tape collection...are you happy now ? :rant:
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on February 26, 2014, 12:33:16 PM
Whelp, you all have pretty much listed my entire 8-track tape collection...are you happy now ? :rant:

IMHO, the ones that I posted are just overplayed.  Sorry, Eaglekeeper.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: IassaFTots on February 26, 2014, 02:11:06 PM
Tom Petty.  But I don't like Tom Petty, so that probably isn't the right answer. 

Metallica.  See Tom Petty reference above. 

AC/DC.  Ok, I like AC/DC, but I only hear like 3-5 of their songs, all the time. 
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: njpines on February 26, 2014, 02:32:31 PM
Genesis -- post Peter Gabriel

R.E.M -- anything after 1991
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Alpha Mare on February 26, 2014, 02:59:29 PM
We have an ongoing bet here. Anyone who can drive from any point A to any point B without hearing AC/DC wins.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Eupher on February 26, 2014, 03:35:52 PM
We have an ongoing bet here. Anyone who can drive from any point A to any point B without hearing AC/DC wins.

Not a problem. I listen to either the George Carlin channel, straight-ahead jazz, or the Sixties. I wouldn't know AC/DC if the battery blew up.  :shucks:
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: thundley4 on February 26, 2014, 03:39:43 PM
Not a problem. I listen to either the George Carlin channel, straight-ahead jazz, or the Sixties. I wouldn't know AC/DC if the battery blew up.  :shucks:

We listen to a fairly new station that plays old country, lots of stuff from the 70's and before with a little from the early 80's.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: seahorse513 on February 26, 2014, 08:18:46 PM
Taylor Swift
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: FlaGator on February 26, 2014, 08:22:12 PM
J. Geils Band
Guns N Roses
Green Day
Bon Jovi

I don't consider Bon Jovi a good band.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: IassaFTots on February 26, 2014, 08:55:01 PM
Not a problem. I listen to either the George Carlin channel, straight-ahead jazz, or the Sixties. I wouldn't know AC/DC if the battery blew up.  :shucks:

Sounding a little bourgeoisie there....you got some of that fancy schmancy satellite radio? :wink:
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: freedumb2003b on February 26, 2014, 09:17:38 PM
Not a problem. I listen to either the George Carlin channel, straight-ahead jazz, or the Sixties. I wouldn't know AC/DC if the battery blew up.  :shucks:

It was a song by the Sweet on their Desolation Boulevard album (most famous for "Fox on the Run" and "Ballroom Blitz").
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: seahorse513 on February 26, 2014, 09:38:34 PM
and Justin Bieber... :-)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: FlaGator on February 26, 2014, 09:47:38 PM
It was a song by the Sweet on their Desolation Boulevard album (most famous for "Fox on the Run" and "Ballroom Blitz").


I loved that album when I was in high school. Liked Sweet's Give Us a Wink album too.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: freedumb2003b on February 26, 2014, 10:02:39 PM
and Justin Bieber... :-)

You listen to stations that play him?

Just... EWWWW
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: freedumb2003b on February 26, 2014, 10:05:40 PM
I loved that album when I was in high school. Liked Sweet's Give Us a Wink album too.
H5 for recognizing the group and the album!

It was years before people realized they were semi-parody Glam (and probably a big influence on the creation of Spinal Tap).

N.B.: I every now and then use the "whistle" open to FOTR for my cell ringtone :)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: BattleHymn on February 26, 2014, 10:19:58 PM
Sounding a little bourgeoisie there....you got some of that fancy schmancy satellite radio? :wink:

The straight-ahead jazz leads me to believe so.  I doubt there is any station up in Eupher's neck of the woods playing that sub genre on the radio. :-)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: FlaGator on February 26, 2014, 11:42:14 PM
H5 for recognizing the group and the album!

It was years before people realized they were semi-parody Glam (and probably a big influence on the creation of Spinal Tap).

N.B.: I every now and then use the "whistle" open to FOTR for my cell ringtone :)


Little Willie
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHyuIioJYBw[/youtube]
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Wineslob on February 27, 2014, 09:07:44 AM
Wait for it.................

























wait for it....................................





























AIR SUPPLY
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on February 27, 2014, 09:22:02 AM
Little Willie
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHyuIioJYBw[/youtube]

The local classic rock station played a lot of Sweet when I was a kid.  Back in the days when they never identified that band name, they would mostly just play music and no internet to look up what they played.  Always liked them.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Eupher on February 27, 2014, 12:04:31 PM
Sounding a little bourgeoisie there....you got some of that fancy schmancy satellite radio? :wink:

Indeed I do. Doesn't everybody?   :whistling:     :-)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Chris_ on February 27, 2014, 12:06:05 PM
Indeed I do. Doesn't everybody?   :whistling:     :-)
Most of us don't live in the middle of nowhere and have access to broadcast radio. :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Eupher on February 27, 2014, 12:06:11 PM
It was a song by the Sweet on their Desolation Boulevard album (most famous for "Fox on the Run" and "Ballroom Blitz").


Sorry, it just doesn't register. The rock I listen to pretty much taps out at 1972. I stopped paying attention to it after that point.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: IassaFTots on February 28, 2014, 02:07:19 PM
Most of us don't live in the middle of nowhere and have access to broadcast radio. :cheersmate:

Or like paying for extra stuff.   :wink:
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Eupher on March 03, 2014, 01:32:35 PM
Or like paying for extra stuff.   :wink:

Believe me, listening to all those damned commercials is payment I can't stand anymore.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Eupher on March 03, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Or like paying for extra stuff.   :wink:

Oh, you pay for it. The radio you listen to is paid for by those who listen to the commercials -- even if you don't buy the crap they're selling.  :-)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Purple Sage on March 03, 2014, 10:42:13 PM
Oh, you pay for it. The radio you listen to is paid for by those who listen to the commercials -- even if you don't buy the crap they're selling.  :-)

Agreed.  I do satellite and paid for Pandora to avoid commercials at any cost.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: freedumb2003b on March 03, 2014, 10:46:06 PM
Sorry, it just doesn't register. The rock I listen to pretty much taps out at 1972. I stopped paying attention to it after that point.

Desolation Blvd. was 1974.

But I agree with your basic premise -- R & R was pretty much done by 1972.  There were a few exceptions but I have mostly listened to news/talk radio since then.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: njpines on March 04, 2014, 08:41:10 AM
Most of the year, I listen to sports radio
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Gwitness on March 05, 2014, 10:59:31 PM
Queen
Rolling Stones
Steve Miller
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Freeper on March 06, 2014, 02:33:10 PM
Genesis -- post Peter Gabriel

R.E.M -- anything after 1991

I'm going to see Steve Hackett play Genesis songs, next month.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on March 06, 2014, 02:45:04 PM
I'm going to see Steve Hackett play Genesis songs, next month.

I'm shocked!  :-)
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Freeper on March 07, 2014, 09:41:11 AM
I'm shocked!  :-)

I never got to see Genesis so I have to see them one member at a time. lol
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: IassaFTots on March 07, 2014, 09:26:57 PM
I never got to see Genesis so I have to see them one member at a time. lol

Love it!
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Freeper on March 08, 2014, 06:44:22 AM
Love it!

So far I've seen Phil Collins back in 1990, Peter Gabriel in 2012, Steve Hackett next month. Which leaves Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford.
Title: Re: Good bands that make you change the station
Post by: Wineslob on March 11, 2014, 12:49:23 PM
I'm going to see Steve Hackett play Genesis songs, next month.




 :yahoo:

 :cheersmate: