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    watch out for this album in April. I know I will. ;)

    Whitesnake are one of those bands I hate and love at the same time. The constant changes in band line-ups are incredibly frustrating to me.

    Though thanks for pointing out they have a new release coming up.
     
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    It definitely has.

    No I haven't :cry:
    I am going to go listen to it now though I'm sure nothing will be like the old Take That.
    I noticed that.

    And just because I said you were cute doesn't give you the right to ruin my thread with talk about Take That. I know Rab started it but don't encourage him. :D
     
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    Yeah its not the same. Maybe Robbie Williams will come back one of these days and the old Take That will be back :pint:

    I noticed that.

    And just because I said you were cute doesn't give you the right to ruin my thread with talk about Take That. I know Rab started it but don't encourage him. :D
    :lol:

    I couldn't help myself. At least I didn't mention the New Kids on the Block reunion. :p
     

    Snoop

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    Yes fine i like some old bands like pf, beatles etc, but remember i probably started listening to music properly around 2000, when i was about 10-11, so i heard mainly blink etc.

    Just be thankful i wrote Blink182 instead of Britney Spears or The spice girls



    How did you find out???????
    My friend! My dear friend!! you are underestimating me here, I have loads of important connections. ;)


    You my friend are full of it. Though I love Floyd with both Waters and Gilmour, Waters is in the end the one who killed Pink Floyd. And how can you call it FAKE when it features practically 3 out of 4 founding members? Let's forget Syd Barret for a second and his very short tenure with the band and you would end up with Wright, Mason, Gilmour and Waters as the founding members. With Waters gone, how exactly do you figure it's FAKE?

    Have you ever heard The Final Cut album? That's practically like a solo Waters album and it's utter crap. Then listen to Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell after Waters left. Waters was simply full of it, he even called the Final Cut album "A Post War Requiem Dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd" or something like that. Fuck that, he should went on and recorded a solo album instead of ruining the bands repertoair with that piece of shit. He sang all the songs on the album, written all of them and even fired a founding member in Wright. Waters killed Floyd and I'm not too sad about it because Gilmour and the rest of the original line-up brought the band back on track. 2 great albums after Waters and an exceptional Live DVD/CD. If they want to get back together with Waters, I'd be for it but calling it fake or anything is simply wrong. You can prefer Waters to Gilmour but Waters wanted out of the band, no one forced him out so please, don't disrespect Gilmour and the rest.

    I'm really not into Kiss as well so I'll pass on the discussion here.

    As for GNR you're completelly right. I have a soft spot for Axl as well but he's simply fucked up in the head, there's no other way of putting it. He was acting as if he was the heart and soul of the band and wanted everything done his way.

    And what do you mean; "it took them over a decade to release new material after Izzy left"? Izzy left after the Use Your Illusion and they released Spaghetti Incident 3 years after that. After the Spaghetti(which isn't even a true album) the whole band fell apart and they haven't released anything official yet, Chinese Democracy still hasn't been finished or released. They haven't released anything this long because Axl is fucked up, not because Izzy left. And Slash was a much bigger loss than Izzy at the end.

    Queen are amazing, Freddie is the best rock vocalist ever and that's the end of it. But I still haven't listened to Queen's full repertoair so I'm pleased as well with what they left behind. They really haven't "lost" it at any point in time, their last true album Innuendo is amazing and who knows with what else they would treated us in the future.

    But you're way off by saying his death was more influental than Hendrix's or Lennon's. Both were at the end of the day much more influental to Rock history and it's beginnings than Freddie. Hendrix's style of playing directly influenced pretty much every band we so far mentioned, including Queen. Lennon is Lennon, the frontman of probably the biggest band ever, the band that started it all. Mercury was incredibly talented, he had charisma, he was controversial but he pretty much did what he set out to do in his career. Hendrix and Lennon didn't, especially Hendrix who died at the age of 27, only releasing a handfull of albums.
    shud uuuuuuuuuuuuuup!

    Oh glad we got that resolved. I haven't listen to a single minute of any leaked Guns material, it's sort of a protest against Axl. But if the album sees the light of day, I'll probably give it a shot.

    Hmm...it's strange that you would say Page is your all time favourite guitarist, mine too when I take in consideration everything, and I know you like Clapton as well. So not liking Hendrix doesn't fit the "profile". You should listen to some Hendrix, I wasn't a fan not too long ago either, but man, could he play. You need to experience it, there's no other way you can understand his impact on rock music and how much it lost when he died. Freddie's death simply didn't have such an impact because everyone knew him, knew what he did and what he could do. Hendrix died practically as soon as he hit his peak, I can only imagine what he would have recorded had he lived a few more years. And Mercury'd death got a lot more medie exposure because it was the 90's and he was gay and he died of AIDS, etc. Scandals, scandals, scandals whereas Hendrix died at the start of the 70's where his death was known only among rock musicians and fans.

    Let me put it this way; Freddie had little or nothing left to show to RNR, he already done it all, Hendrix had a ton of things in front of him, a genius which we were stripped off too soon. Rock simply lost more with Hendrix then it did with Freddie.

    I wasn't questioning Waters' creative influence, he's a genius, no doubt about it but it's his own decision and his musical direction he wanted to take that got him out of Floyd. That's what frustrates me with Waters fans, they think he was the core of the band when he simply wasn't. I don't know if you're much of a Maiden fan, but Steve Harris is (coincendantallly) the bassist and main songwriter(wrote probably 90% of the songs) of the band whereas everyone knows the band is not half as good without the gentleman in my avatar. It's the same with Waters and Gilmour, neither was more important, songwriting is no less important than singing those songs or playing some of the most amazing guitar solos on them. And in the end Gilmour, with the rest of the band, recorded some great stuff without Waters so..just don't call it fake Pink Floyd and that will be enough. :D
    shuuuuuud uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.



    Seriously, I love them all together, but you are keep telling me that wrong thing! David Gilmour wasn't one of the founders of the Pink Floyd, they were 4, Syd, Roger, Richard and Nick! NO DAVID! Sure the band "David Gilmour and friends" did ok job, and had some great songs, but not as genius as they did before with Rogers, and I don't deny the fact that Gilmour didn't have his impact with his guitar, and I love his voice too, and like Salman said it, Gilmour didn't like the idea that he was one step behind of Waters, and Waters is an asshole and I don't deny that neither, but the son of a bitch was talented like Ibrahimovic (Rab won't like this :D) just admit it, his absence was obvious, the beauty was all gone..

    You still should get that Waters concert I told you, or have that Amuse to death Album, ofcourse it was the same way, not as great as when Gilmour with him and vice versa..
     

    Bozi

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    Probably Blink182, as i used to really like their songs, then they just disappeared from the face of the earth, though i heard that one of them started solo.

    I know its not a legendary band, but its a band i heard when growing up
    lol there is angerls and airwaves from one of them and a group called +44 from the other 2 in it,catchy pop-punk all round people

    Additionaly,id also like to mention Queen here.Freddie's death is the biggest loss to rock music ever IMO.Bigger than Hendrix's death,bigger than Lennon's death,bigger than any rock star's death.Gay shmay..i dont give a rats ass aboout his sexuality.He is without a shadow of the doubt the greatest front man rock music ever saw.The way he could control a crowd with mere flicks of his hands was utterly phenomenal.Ive seen footage of Queen concerts,and i get goosebumps looking at the muscial monster this man was.
    freddie mercury trule was the greatest frontman to ever lift a mic:bow:

    I agree with Vlatko about Guns 'n Roses, they are probably the next band after PINK FLOYD I would to save. Definitely Pink Floyd, and I am not talking about the fake one, which was supposed to be named "David Gilmore and his friend".. I am talking about the Pink Floyd where Roger waters was controlling it. I still think they could give us fans more than we could imagine..
    i do love pink floyd, i do have the live dvd but for me their greatests album was dark side of the moon and its very hard to top such genius

    The Beatles & The Smiths
    seriusly?the smiths were a great band, up tehre with the joy division in the influence that they ahd but morrisey has had an incredibly successful career



    for me there were many great bands mentioned here and i agree witha lot of opinions, for me the best band that split up too early were the stone roses. the early 90's madchester movement produces a lot of excelelnt bands but none came close to the genius of the roses, ian brown and john squires fell apart spectacularly, squires went on a coke-fuelled binge and came out with the successful(but short-lived) seahorses, the smart money was on squires to make it bigger as he was widely believed to be the 'genius' behind the roses and everybody qrote off ian brown

    big mistake,ian brown has gone on to become one of the most influential singers in british music, a total genius, when you look at the swagger of oasis, the style of arctic monkeys and the electronic infusement of kasabian you know theya re all paying homage to a true british legend
     

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