AllVol said:
Blues, like rap, is too much "same old, same old" for me, and jazz is guys searching for they know not what.
Beats searching for something you know. I don't know why I insist on swimming against the stream, but I'm taking the high road by suggesting that maybe the haters on rap, blues, and jazz just haven't had a chance to listen to the best of what those genres have to offer yet.
Hentai ought to check out some Steve Reich - I recommend
Music for Eighteen Musicians.
For rap/hip-hop, I like Chuck D, Beastie Boys, RATM (don't know where they fit), and pretty much anyone from the first few years of Def Jam. And NWA.
For jazz, I like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Jim Hall, Ed Bickert, Maynard Ferguson, J.J. Johnson, Jack Teagarden, Dina Washington, Mel Torme, and Ella Fitzgerald.
For blues, I like Albert King, Steve Cropper (and Otis Redding - any old-school Stax, although that's more R&B and Soul than Blues. Name a Stax tune between 1960 and 1970, and I've probably transcribed it), and Johnny Winter.
For rock, I like Queen (
'Welcome to the machine' by Pink Floyd WITH headphone , Come on does it get any better?
check out "The Prophet Song," definitely a contender), Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton (prefer Cream days), Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Pink Floyd.
Newer stuff: Radiohead, Tower of Power (old band, I know, but they're still touring! Any of the old records with Lenny Pickett are killer), James Brown (I know he died, but I gotta mention him somewhere!), Sublime, any band/musician where their musicianship trumps any spin MTV-bands could produce.
Old, old school and outside-the-box: Conlon Nancarrow, Milton Babbit, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Debussy, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, J.S. Bach.
Bluegrass: Ricky Skaggs, and that weird kid from
Deliverence.