Official Music Thread

[Stebro]

Anyone got any bands/artists to recommend? I like Survivor, Frank Stallone, Robert Tepper etc. Not sure what to call the style really. But I like that "backstreet" music.

That style would be called "The Rocky Soundtrack" haha. 

No seriously, that is called a few different things.  "Melodic Rock", "Arena Rock" or "AOR".  Tons of music from late 70s, and 80s fall into that category. Some contemporaries of Survivor would be Styx, REO Speedwagon, Night Ranger, Foreigner, Journey, Starship, Billy Squier, etc.  Younger bands at the time from that 80s era that also produced very good melodic rock in that vein would be Honeymoon Suite ("The Big Prize" is a CLASSIC from the era),  Bon Jovi (ala "Slippery When Wet") and quite a few other bands.

I would recommend going over to http://melodicrock.com, hitting their Noticeboard and asking the same question there.  Those guys could come up with a million answers for you.

I've listened a lot to AOR actually. But most songs I hear from those musicians are about love, and I don't care about that I like songs about struggle. Songs about people who have lot everything, don't have a job etc. I don't know why I like em. Songs like Eye of the tiger, Burning heart, No easy way out, No rest for the wounded heart, Man against the world, Ever since the world began, Daylight, Hearts on fire. One of the pretty decent musicians I found by just using youtube and searching for AOR was Mark Free. But yes, a lot of the songs could be found in rocky movies, or the karate kid, rambo etc. 

 

[Madferret]

Anyone got any bands/artists to recommend? I like Survivor, Frank Stallone, Robert Tepper etc. Not sure what to call the style really. But I like that "backstreet" music.

That style would be called "The Rocky Soundtrack" haha. 

No seriously, that is called a few different things.  "Melodic Rock", "Arena Rock" or "AOR".  Tons of music from late 70s, and 80s fall into that category. Some contemporaries of Survivor would be Styx, REO Speedwagon, Night Ranger, Foreigner, Journey, Starship, Billy Squier, etc.  Younger bands at the time from that 80s era that also produced very good melodic rock in that vein would be Honeymoon Suite ("The Big Prize" is a CLASSIC from the era),  Bon Jovi (ala "Slippery When Wet") and quite a few other bands.

I would recommend going over to http://melodicrock.com, hitting their Noticeboard and asking the same question there.  Those guys could come up with a million answers for you.

I've listened a lot to AOR actually. But most songs I hear from those musicians are about love, and I don't care about that I like songs about struggle. Songs about people who have lot everything, don't have a job etc. I don't know why I like em. Songs like Eye of the tiger, Burning heart, No easy way out, No rest for the wounded heart, Man against the world, Ever since the world began, Daylight, Hearts on fire. One of the pretty decent musicians I found by just using youtube and searching for AOR was Mark Free. But yes, a lot of the songs could be found in rocky movies, or the karate kid, rambo etc. 

This is / was a classic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FiqF5VlzY

 

[Stebro]

Anyone got any bands/artists to recommend? I like Survivor, Frank Stallone, Robert Tepper etc. Not sure what to call the style really. But I like that "backstreet" music.

That style would be called "The Rocky Soundtrack" haha. 

No seriously, that is called a few different things.  "Melodic Rock", "Arena Rock" or "AOR".  Tons of music from late 70s, and 80s fall into that category. Some contemporaries of Survivor would be Styx, REO Speedwagon, Night Ranger, Foreigner, Journey, Starship, Billy Squier, etc.  Younger bands at the time from that 80s era that also produced very good melodic rock in that vein would be Honeymoon Suite ("The Big Prize" is a CLASSIC from the era),  Bon Jovi (ala "Slippery When Wet") and quite a few other bands.

I would recommend going over to http://melodicrock.com, hitting their Noticeboard and asking the same question there.  Those guys could come up with a million answers for you.

I've listened a lot to AOR actually. But most songs I hear from those musicians are about love, and I don't care about that I like songs about struggle. Songs about people who have lot everything, don't have a job etc. I don't know why I like em. Songs like Eye of the tiger, Burning heart, No easy way out, No rest for the wounded heart, Man against the world, Ever since the world began, Daylight, Hearts on fire. One of the pretty decent musicians I found by just using youtube and searching for AOR was Mark Free. But yes, a lot of the songs could be found in rocky movies, or the karate kid, rambo etc. 

This is / was a classic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FiqF5VlzY

I don't think I've heard that before, but it's in that style, but I can't tell whether it's due to the music or the lyrics. I still don't get why so few listen to Robert Tepper, I swear if I ask 100 people, 99 wont have a clue. 1 might be right or have a decent guess. He's an excellent singer and a pretty good songwriter too.

 

[Madferret]

Anyone got any bands/artists to recommend? I like Survivor, Frank Stallone, Robert Tepper etc. Not sure what to call the style really. But I like that "backstreet" music.

That style would be called "The Rocky Soundtrack" haha. 

No seriously, that is called a few different things.  "Melodic Rock", "Arena Rock" or "AOR".  Tons of music from late 70s, and 80s fall into that category. Some contemporaries of Survivor would be Styx, REO Speedwagon, Night Ranger, Foreigner, Journey, Starship, Billy Squier, etc.  Younger bands at the time from that 80s era that also produced very good melodic rock in that vein would be Honeymoon Suite ("The Big Prize" is a CLASSIC from the era),  Bon Jovi (ala "Slippery When Wet") and quite a few other bands.

I would recommend going over to http://melodicrock.com, hitting their Noticeboard and asking the same question there.  Those guys could come up with a million answers for you.

I've listened a lot to AOR actually. But most songs I hear from those musicians are about love, and I don't care about that I like songs about struggle. Songs about people who have lot everything, don't have a job etc. I don't know why I like em. Songs like Eye of the tiger, Burning heart, No easy way out, No rest for the wounded heart, Man against the world, Ever since the world began, Daylight, Hearts on fire. One of the pretty decent musicians I found by just using youtube and searching for AOR was Mark Free. But yes, a lot of the songs could be found in rocky movies, or the karate kid, rambo etc. 

This is / was a classic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FiqF5VlzY

I don't think I've heard that before, but it's in that style, but I can't tell whether it's due to the music or the lyrics. I still don't get why so few listen to Robert Tepper, I swear if I ask 100 people, 99 wont have a clue. 1 might be right or have a decent guess. He's an excellent singer and a pretty good songwriter too.

Didn't you see The Lost Boys?

 

[ModanoMan]

I've listened a lot to AOR actually. But most songs I hear from those musicians are about love, and I don't care about that I like songs about struggle. Songs about people who have lot everything, don't have a job etc. I don't know why I like em. Songs like Eye of the tiger, Burning heart, No easy way out, No rest for the wounded heart, Man against the world, Ever since the world began, Daylight, Hearts on fire. One of the pretty decent musicians I found by just using youtube and searching for AOR was Mark Free. But yes, a lot of the songs could be found in rocky movies, or the karate kid, rambo etc. 

Sounds like Creed would be right up your alley?  :-X

 

[Madferret]

Creed! That Scott Stapp guy was a model Christian.

 

[iwas11in67]

Saw Roger Waters do 'The Wall' last night.  Mindblowingly good.

Yes!

Saw it last year. I didn't know that my ears could smile.

 

[Madferret]

Saw Roger Waters do 'The Wall' last night.  Mindblowingly good.

Yes!

Saw it last year. I didn't know that my ears could smile.

Yeah it was lights out. The Wall immersion set is next up to be released - lots of chatter that the shows they filmed in '80 are finally going to see the light of day too.

Isn't this where we came in?

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

P - any highlights or favorite parts? What did you think of the band?

Hmm...hard to pick out a highlight, other than it was great to hear 'Comfortably Numb' in that setting.  Think my whole body felt tingly for that entire song, especially the ending solo - although I will say, it was noticeable to me that the solo's lacked a certain Gilmourishness.

I loved all of the parts where Waters is in dictator mode on stage - "In the Flesh" is great both times - the first where it just explodes from the Spartacus intro thing, and the 2nd one where Waters is in psycho mode.

Was also cool when he did a "duet" of 'Goodbye Blue Sky' (I think that's what song it was) with himself from one of the 1980 shows at Earl's Court.

It was all great, though.

 

[Madferret]

P - any highlights or favorite parts? What did you think of the band?

Hmm...hard to pick out a highlight, other than it was great to hear 'Comfortably Numb' in that setting.  Think my whole body felt tingly for that entire song, especially the ending solo - although I will say, it was noticeable to me that the solo's lacked a certain Gilmourishness.

I loved all of the parts where Waters is in dictator mode on stage - "In the Flesh" is great both times - the first where it just explodes from the Spartacus intro thing, and the 2nd one where Waters is in psycho mode.

Was also cool when he did a "duet" of 'Goodbye Blue Sky' (I think that's what song it was) with himself from one of the 1980 shows at Earl's Court.

It was all great, though.

Yeah only Gilmour can really pull off his parts but Kilminster does a good job. Great to hear you enjoyed it - that's one for the bucket list.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Sad news from the music world as Whitney Houston just passed away tonight. RIP 

 

[Manson]

Chris Brown is on the grammys?  Didn't he beat his girlfriend?  No one cares about that anymore?  I guess if you can dance well enough the masses will forgive anything.  Then again, after Michael Jackson, I don't know why I'm surprised.

 

[Kin]

You know, it's funny, despite the fact that the Grammys may be the least credible award in the universe the show may be the most worthwhile awards show there is. I don't care for all of the performers but they're only giving out a handful of awards and having a ton of performances, making the show actually a decent showcase of what they're celebrating as opposed to endless awards for Best Writing in a Miniseries or Best Sound Editing.

 

[maplesyrup]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

 

[Madferret]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

 

[maplesyrup]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

Well, I have to settle for air guitar but yeah.   

 

[Bender]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

Well, I have to settle for air guitar but yeah. 

Their debut is pretty good too!

 

[Madferret]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

Well, I have to settle for air guitar but yeah. 

Their debut is pretty good too!

Their debut it epic - style wise a totally different album though. Actually - learning songs of that album was my introduction to modes as Squire was really into modal playing in that period. Second Coming is mostly blues scale Hendrix / Page licks all over the place.

Modes!!

 

[Madferret]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

Well, I have to settle for air guitar but yeah. 

I meant the guitar playing on the record is great....any standout tracks or have you not listened to it too closely yet?
Air guitar!

 

[maplesyrup]

Sarge this is a good one for you too, The Stone Roses, album is called "Second Coming". Released in 1995.

Ferret - Took a while but I finally gave it a listen. I quite enjoyed it. I found it to be rather contemporary (which isn't a bad thing) and there's a feel there that I really dug... Thanks.

Got a real Zep feel to do it eh. A great record for guitar playing - Squire burns.

Well, I have to settle for air guitar but yeah. 

I meant the guitar playing on the record is great....any standout tracks or have you not listened to it too closely yet?
Air guitar!

Ran through it all once... I'd like to do it again. First time around the opening track kind of stood out to me.