Your brief opinions on these random musical artists (3)

[pcqgod]

Amy Winehouse
Joe Cocker
Manfred Mann
Tangerine Dream
Yaz
John "Cougar" Mellencamp
Neu
Dolly Parton
Big Black
The Searchers
Golden Earring
Ornette Coleman
Santana
Kate Bush
Alan Parsons Project
Napalm Death
XTC
Boris

[bobzilla77]

Amy Winehouse - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Joe Cocker - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Manfred Mann - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Tangerine Dream - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Yaz - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - don't listen much, may enjoy or loathe in small doses depending on the dosage
Neu- dig the first album a lot, need to explore further
Dolly Parton - don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Big Black - related to them more in youth but still like them
The Searchers- don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Golden Earring- don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Ornette Coleman- a God
Santana- don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Kate Bush - magical, lovely, need to explore further
Alan Parsons Project- don't listen much, enjoy in small doses
Napalm Death- fantastic, brilliant band
XTC - excellent
Boris - don't know them

[Sneelock]

Amy Winehouse * dynamite singer. untimely plucked
Joe Cocker - dynamite singer - nice long run
Manfred Mann - background singer - revved up like a deuce.
Tangerine Dream - music for making model airplanes
Yaz - no
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Budget Springsteen
Neu - yaz
Dolly Parton - we'll always have Dollywood
Big Black - not "pussy"
The Searchers - pussy
Golden Earring - if you're going to be a one hit wonder then make it a good one.
Ornette Coleman - expands your ear-holes!
Santana - as in Carlos
Kate Bush - I love her because she tries too hard.
Alan Parsons Project - very well crafted but wishy washy
Napalm Death - crunchy with bones
XTC - see Kate Bush
Boris - the guy that paints Viking girls with big boobs? that guy is great.

[joklend]

Amy Winehouse -- a fine voice and it's sad that she died so young.
Joe Cocker -- my dad liked him; don't know that much else.
Manfred Mann -- my mam liked them; don't know that much else.
Tangerine Dream -- their '72-'78 period is still some of the most beautiful electronic ever.
Yaz -- you mean Yazoo? some good tunes.
John "Cougar" Mellencamp -- who?
Neu -- a very good band I but haven't listened to them in years.
Dolly Parton -- my mam liked her; don't know that much else.
Big Black -- never bothered with them much.
The Searchers -- my dad liked them; don't know that much else.
Golden Earring -- what?
Ornette Coleman -- godlike.
Santana -- shite.
Kate Bush -- good, occasionally great.
Alan Parsons Project -- never heard.
Napalm Death -- respect them a lot, but again haven't listened to them in years.
XTC -- OK enough.
Boris -- Good but not really my type of thing.

[naughty boy]

great

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OK

Neu
Amy Winehouse
Golden Earring
Ornette Coleman
Kate Bush
Yazoo


couldn't care less

Joe Cocker
Manfred Mann
Tangerine Dream
John "Cougar" Mellencamp
Alan Parsons Project
Napalm Death
XTC
Boris
Dolly Parton
Big Black
The Searchers
Santana

[Sneelock]

wow! you hate more stuff than I like and I like a LOT of stuff!

[naughty boy]

indifference (mostly), not hate!

[toomanyhatz]

Amy Winehouse - Heck of a singer. Would have been interesting to see how she developed as an artist. There was something there, certainly.
Joe Cocker - First couple albums and moments thereafter are good. Mostly meh.
Manfred Mann - I like the Dylan covers best.
Tangerine Dream - Largely unfamiliar, but like some of what I've heard.
Yaz - Moyet can sure sing! Not my thing, but good for what it is.
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Yawn. I guess I feel generous toward some of his earnest Americana stuff, but I hate myself for it.
Neu - Like some of what I've heard. Haven't dug very deeply.
Dolly Parton - An absolute giant of American music. Love her as a person and a songwriter.
Big Black - I don't think they're meant to be "fun," but I enjoy them. They're kind of like that grumpy old uncle you can't help but like.
The Searchers - Really top musicians.
Golden Earring - They were probably average at more different kinds of music and in more eras than almost any other band. I guess that's a compliment.
Ornette Coleman - Seems like a nut job, and his music's impenetrable at its worst, but at his best (for about 5 years at the beginning of his recording career) he made some of the best music ever.
Santana - Love the first three and scattered moments after. A bit of a blowhard.
Kate Bush - Love The Dreaming, glad she exists but am rarely in the mood to listen.
Alan Parsons Project - Dullsville.
Napalm Death - Unfamiliar.
XTC - Possibly the band most underrated by the BCB cognoscenti. Brilliant at their best. Sometimes the mannered vocals are a bit much, but they've rarely let me down musically.
Boris - Who?

[naughty boy]

oh, YAZOO!


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[Brickyard Jack]

Amy Winehouse - few good songs
Joe Cocker - a few good songs
Manfred Mann - a few okay songs
Yaz -one good song
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - a few okay songs
Dolly Parton - a couple great songs, a number of good son
Kate Bush - great

[Charlie O.]

Manfred Mann - I love the so-called "Chapter Two" era with Mike d'Abo as lead singer (though not necessarily because he was lead singer), and the Paul Jones era had some great bits. I've still never heard the "Chapter Three" records (I really ought to do something about that). The Earth Band leaves me a bit cold.

John "Cougar" Mellencamp - seems like a swell guy, and not untalented - but he just don't move me. C'est la vie.

Dolly Parton - like most country artists of her generation, she's very prolific - I've only heard a fraction of what she's done. That fraction includes some absolutely brilliant work, and some absolutely gawdawful tripe - and not a whole lot in between, really. (And I confess that even on the best records I find her voice a little hard to take.)

Golden Earring - I downloaded their recent box set. Someday I'll actually listen.

Ornette Coleman - usually enjoy him when I hear him; seldom put his music on of my own accord, but friends and co-workers do that for me now and again.

XTC - unlike Dolly Parton, XTC's bad stuff is rarely truly bad. Like Dolly Parton, their best is excellent. And also like Dolly Parton, Andy Partridge's voice (and perhaps his sensibility in general) can be difficult to put up with in large doses.


Neither love nor hate and indeed can't think of anything I care to say about them:

Amy Winehouse
Joe Cocker
Tangerine Dream
Yaz
Neu
Big Black
The Searchers
Santana
Kate Bush
Alan Parsons Project
Napalm Death
Boris

[Neige]

Amy Winehouse - good voice, tragic figure
Joe Cocker - great voice, I love his first albums and Mad Dogs and Englishmen a lot, after ca. 1980 meh 7
Manfred Mann - good guy in all his incarnations, but lost interest ca. after Earth Band album no. 4
Tangerine Dream - snore
Yaz - you mean Alison Moyet & Vince Clarke? Like!
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - good guy
Neu - hypnotic
Dolly Parton - like her as a person more than as a singer
Big Black - unfamiliar
The Searchers - meh
Golden Earring - like the early stuff more than what came after Radar Love
Ornette Coleman - pioneer, but hard-going
Santana - great at Woodstock, diminishing returns later
Kate Bush - LOVE
Alan Parsons Project - meh
Napalm Death - meh squared
XTC - LOVE
Boris - who?

[Rayge]

Amy Winehouse – Fine voice, not so sure about the material
Joe Cocker - I found him embarrassing to watch and an uninteresting listen
Manfred Mann - A couple of good singles, but a heap of rancid cover versions put me off them, and once Paul Jones left, pah! wretched prog rubbish
Tangerine Dream - I didn't mind them, even saw them play once, but could not imagine bothering with them now
Yaz - That's Alison Moyet and Vince, right? Yazoo over here. I liked them. Great voice, and Vince knew his way around a tune. Fine pop
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - not familiar
Neu - not familiar
Dolly Parton - Fine songwriter, great voice. Not particularly fond of the genre she works in, but she transcends it at times
Big Black - ugly fuckers making ugly noises
The Searchers - As a fan of the Drifters, Orlons, and especially Jackie de Shannon, I disdained them as a shitty covers band.
Golden Earring - only know Radar Love, and that's rubbish
Ornette Coleman - not familiar enough
Santana - Fine in its time, but it was a long time ago. Carlos - what a gurner
Kate Bush - Curate's egg. Love some stuff
Alan Parsons Project - not familiar, largely because I avoided them as assuredly Not My Thing
Napalm Death - a fun combo
XTC - not quite the worse thing to come out of Swindon, but close. Whimsical rubbish
Boris - not familiar

[Deebank]

Amy Winehouse - Tragic and all that. I seem to be the only one on this planet who can't stand her voice - not so much her voice but the laboured, over wrought way she delivers a tune - horrible. And I'm no fan of Mr Ronson's glib productions either.

Joe Cocker - Kind of like Winehouse but 40 years earlier voice-wise. A gurning chimp in a stained vest.

Manfred Mann - They seemed OK. Only heard a couple of tunes (Mighty Quinn?)

Tangerine Dream - Passed me by. I suspect I'd quite like some of their oeuvre.

Yaz - NOT Yazzoo Ray! Wasn't The Only Way Is Up their one hit? Dated. Actually dated by about '92.

John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Nope. What did he do? Jack & Diane? Was that him?

Neu - Great obvs.

Dolly Parton - Not really my thing. She seems like a nice lady.

Big Black - I like bits of Songs... I like his production work. I was startled by Surfer Rosa the first time I heard it and that is mainly thanks to Albini's dry production.

The Searchers - Nope.

Golden Earring - Radar Love? The sort of thing people thought was good before better heavy rock turned up.

Ornette Coleman - My flatmate was a fan back in the day. Never been a jazz bloke.

Santana - I think big bro had Abraxas. Sounded like hippy drivel to me.

Kate Bush - Love lots of her stuff.

Alan Parsons Project - Sneelock got it right: "Very well crafted but wishy washy". Maybe two or three tunes I like.

Napalm Death - Great fun back in the day. You wouldn't want to listen to them all the time though.

XTC - Love lots of their stuff.

Boris - I have a friend called Boris who plays saxophone - he's South African - do you mean him? No probably not.

[Rayge]

Yaz - NOT Yazzoo Ray! Wasn't The Only Way Is Up their one hit? Dated. Actually dated by about '92.

Um, wasn't that Yazz (and indeed Yazoo – apologies if you were doing clever wordplay here)?
Floored by a spelling mistake/typo.

[Darkness_Fish]

Amy Winehouse - I guess she did a couple of decent enough pop songs on that last album.
Joe Cocker - Don't really care
Manfred Mann - Did a couple of half-decent pop songs when Paul Jones was their singer.
Tangerine Dream - Zeit is superb, but the other albums I've heard (Phaedra, sumfin' else) didn't really do a lot for me
Yaz - If that's Yazoo, "Nobody's Diary" is one of my favourite 80's synth-pop songs, and the rest are quite good. If it's Yazz, "The Only Way is Up" was quite a decent pop track, and produced by Coldcut for that bit of extra cred. Dated, pah!
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Boring fucker.
Neu - Love 'em
Dolly Parton - Country==hell
Big Black - Vaguely interested, but not enough to go out and buy something.
The Searchers - Did they do "The Carnival is Over"? I hate, hate, hate that song.
Golden Earring - Shit
Ornette Coleman - I like what I do have, but I don't have much
Santana - Tedious shit.
Kate Bush - Great voice, crap material.
Alan Parsons Project - Wanker
Napalm Death - I loved grindcore when I was a kid, and occasionally revisit the classics. I kinda prefer the very first releases by the Americanised version of the band though, "Mass Appeal Madness" and all that.
XTC - Excruciating.
Boris - Pink was an excellent album, but the rest of their stuff is tedious prog.

[Deebank]

Yaz - NOT Yazzoo Ray! Wasn't The Only Way Is Up their one hit? Dated. Actually dated by about '92.

Um, wasn't that Yazz (and indeed Yazoo – apologies if you were doing clever wordplay here)?
Floored by a spelling mistake/typo.

You're right, although striclty speaking It's Yazz & the Plastic Population!

[The Modernist]

Amy Winehouse - She did have a great voice, no hype there. The music felt a little derivative, but I quite like the records.
Joe Cocker - Never bothered with him, too groany.
Manfred Mann - The Chapter III is amazing. Well worth checking out.
Tangerine Dream - Never got round to them. I know what to expect so they'd be no sense of discovery for me and I feel I can get ambient electronic stuff from other artists.
Yaz - Never knew they were called this! It was a good combination on paper, but they should have done more with it. "Situation" is their best.
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Sub Springsteen.
Neu - Love what they did. Limited? Maybe, but when the idea's that good who cares.
Dolly Parton - Never bothered. The KLF record was fun.
Big Black - Of no interest.
The Searchers - Fantastic sound. The records are very variable, but you can find some real nuggets there. At their best, I like them a lot.
Golden Earring - Radar Love is great fun, but I don't know much more.
Ornette Coleman - Great for short blasts of energy, but too much hard work to listen to for any length of time.
Santana - Haven't listened to them in an age, but for five or six years they made some really good stuff. Like the combination of acid rock and funky latin beats.
Kate Bush - Really like some of the singles, but not really been that attracted to the albums. Not sure why I've not investigated her more really.
Alan Parsons Project - The Americans really seemed to go for this lot in the early 80s, but in the UK they meant nothing. Not something I'll be looking to rediscover.
Napalm Death - Not my thing
XTC- Never a fan. I didn't like the vocals or the song constructions.
Boris[ - Johnson? Cunt.

[clive gash]

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black is a front-to-back 21st Century classic. She was wonderful.
Joe Cocker - Northern isn't he? Nah.
Manfred Mann - a handful of treats in every era.
Tangerine Dream - Fine in small, say sub-thirty minute, doses.
Yaz - decent Pop at the time.
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - God knows.
Neu - One good idea stretched over three records. See TD.
Dolly Parton - Corny but heartfelt.
Big Black - sound puny now but we're a decent blast back then. Edgy subject matter gets a shrug from me now.
The Searchers - Proto-McGuinn, just heard one or two tracks, they're ok
Golden Earring - Unsure
Ornette Coleman - Prefer the Golden Circle live records to the Atlantic ones although Free Jazz is fun to get high with.
Santana - I'm sure I'll get round to the original band eventually, need to hear Caravanserai.
Kate Bush - First five are aces, then.....
Alan Parsons Project - ???
Napalm Death - boring old HM. Smelly.
XTC - The acceptable face of New Wave. See Costello.
Boris - Saw them live, one crescendo after another, impressive for a minute, after that tedious.

[Rayge]

The Searchers - Did they do "The Carnival is Over"? I hate, hate, hate that song.

That was the Seekers.
The Searchers were Scousers in Suits who ripped off their entire sound and repertoire from far superior American artistes.