Artist Highs & Lows game

[ABlairican Pie]

Here is a neat little twist on the Which Do You Prefer? game. I name an artist, band, performer, it can even be a musical scene or album, etc., and mention which is considered a HIGH point of their career (or what I think is personally a high point), followed by what is generally considered a LOW point (or what I consider a low point). I then throw out a name, you give a high point/low point of that band/performer, etc., then give another name for someone to respond to. This should get interesting!

Okay, example:

U2

High: War album - Low: Pop album


next example:

Guns N' Roses

[vashti1999]

Guns N' Roses

High: Appetite For Destruction album
Low: MTV Awards 'comeback' performance


next example:
my man Prince

[Jrnygrl]

Prince:

High point: Purple Rain
Low point: Under the Cherry Moon


Okay I'll go with my group:
Journey

[ABlairican Pie]

High: Escape album
Low: the cheesy "air-guitar" sequence in "Separate Ways" video.

Van Halen

[Shine]

VH

Highs: Fair Warning and 5150
Lows: Do I really have to say it? Gary Cherone anyone?

Elton John

[TJL]

Elton? Hmmm...

High - The 70's. The man could do no wrong. Monster hits galore.

Low - Last year. His profanity laced rants at the press and his trashing of other artists in interviews. Show some decorum, Sir Elton.

The Beach Boys

[Steve M.]

High point - Pet Sounds (1966)
Low point - Still Cruisin' (1989)

Next - the Beatles

[Jrnygrl]

The Beatles:

High Point: All their albums
Low Point: The breakup


Santana

[Steve M.]

High point - early seventies singles
Low point - early eighties singles

Next: the Who

[TJL]

Next: the Who

High - Tommy

Low - Moon and Entwistle dying.

[Jrnygrl]

Cream

[TJL]

Cream

High - White Room

Low - Breaking up too soon.

Pink Floyd

[Dr. Jazz]

Pink Floyd

High - Dark Side of the Moon & The Wall

Low - Animals


Next: Billy Preston :lol:

[Jrnygrl]

High - Dark Side of the Moon & The Wall

Low - Animals


Next: Billy Preston :lol:


High: Playing with the Beatles
Low: Nothing from Nothing


Next:
Diana Ross

[TJL]

Next:
Diana Ross

High - The Supremes

Low - The Wiz

;)

Billy Joel

[Dean Winchester]

High: the string of albums between The Stranger and The Nylon Curtain
Low: River Of Dreams


David Bowie

[Steve M.]

High point - Ziggy Stardust
Low point - Never Let Me Down

Next - Peter, Paul and Mary :lol:

[Jrnygrl]

High point - Ziggy Stardust
Low point - Never Let Me Down

Next - Peter, Paul and Mary :lol:

High point - Blowin' In the Wind
Low point- Puff the Magic Dragon

next: The Eagles

[Dean Winchester]

high: Hotel California
low: Glenn Frey's ABC cop series from 1993 that lasted one whole episode


Fleetwood Mac

[Dr. Jazz]

Fleetwood Mac


High - Rumours

Low - Behind the Mask


Next: DeBarge

[vashti1999]

High: back to back classic 80s R&B albums All This Love and In A Special Way
Low: Death of Bobby DeBarge

Next, how about former DeBarge in-law Janet Jackson's highs and lows

[Belair]

Janet Jackson high: Early in her career,she had great songs like Thats the way love goes,Escapade,and Love Would Never Do.Another high would be the nipple fiasco at the Superbowl!
Janet Jackson low: The Velvet rope,and the 2 earrings in each nostril.Bad,BAD look.

Christina Aguilera

[Jrnygrl]

Christina Aguilera

High point: the song Beautiful
Low point: That video she did where she was half naked, and dyeing her hair black.

Next: Elvis Presley

[Dr. Jazz]

Next: Elvis Presley

High - young hitmaking Elvis

Low - old fat pill-poppin' Elvis


Next: Bobby Brown

[vashti1999]

High: Don't Be Cruel album
Low: everything after Don't Be Cruel album

also for turning his wife into a crackhead, speaking of which:

Whitney Houston

[Dr. Jazz]

High: Don't Be Cruel album
Low: everything after Don't Be Cruel album

also for turning his wife into a crackhead, speaking of which:

Whitney Houston

:lol: Easy one,

High - everything before drugs

Low - everything after drugs


Next: Lionel Richie

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

The Commodores' "Easy Like a Sunday Morning."

Low:

"Say You, Say Me."

Okay. here's one that should be an interesting response:

Black Sabbath

[Dean Winchester]

high: OZZY!!!

low: any lead singer who isn't Ozzy or Dio



Mariah Carey

[Belair]

high: When she dressed classy and sang nice ballads that showed off her amazing voice.
low: when she started wearing less,got nasty breast implants and started dueting with Jay Z.

Justin Timberlake (lol,and try to be nice about this)

[Jrnygrl]

high: When she dressed classy and sang nice ballads that showed off her amazing voice.
low: when she started wearing less,got nasty breast implants and started dueting with Jay Z.

Justin Timberlake (lol,and try to be nice about this)

Okay this is the nicest I can be about Justin Timberlake:

High point: He dumped Brittany Spears
Low Point: He was on the Mickey Mouse club

next: Usher ;)

[Superstar]

Okay this is the nicest I can be about Justin Timberlake:

High point: He dumped Brittany Spears
Low Point: He was on the Mickey Mouse club

next: Usher ;)
High Point: ummm.... His album making number 1 I suppose -_-
Low Point: His movies tanked

Jessica Simpson

[Belair]

High: Marrying Nick Lachey
Low: Being a nitwit

Hilary Duff

[Superstar]

High: Leaving Disney and releasing a hit album
Low: Most of 2004. Losing her Teen Queen Crown to Lindsay Lohan, her last movie flopping and being nominated for a Golden Razzie

Jennifer Lopez

[Pitooey]

High: Leaving Disney and releasing a hit album
Low: Most of 2004. Losing her Teen Queen Crown to Lindsay Lohan, her last movie flopping and being nominated for a Golden Razzie

Jennifer Lopez


High - Being discovered as a Fly girl

Low- Gigli


Paul McCartney........

[ABlairican Pie]

high: OZZY!!!

low: any lead singer who isn't Ozzy or Dio



Mariah Carey"High: Ozzy!!!"Yep, from Sweet Leaf to Snowblind, that was our John Michael Osbourne all the way, back in the day! ;) :crazy: :lol:

Back to: Paul McCartney--

High: being a Beatle!!

Low: having Michael Jackson buy the entire Beatles catalog before he himself could.

Let's try a different thing:

alternative

[Dean Winchester]

High: Seattle Grunge
Low: Silverchair



how about the year 2004?

[TJL]

how about the year 2004?


High - Wilco releases "A Ghost Is Born"

Low - Hillary Duff releases "Hillary Duff"

How about a high and low from Woodstock?

[Dean Winchester]

high: Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner in '69
low: Limp Bizkit deemed good enough to perform in '99


hair metal

[TJL]

hair metal

High - Motley Crue's "Theater Of Pain"
Low - Winger performs on MTV Unplugged.

Simon and Garfunkel

[Shine]

High - Motley Crue's "Theater Of Pain"
Low - Winger performs on MTV Unplugged.

Simon and Garfunkel

High: "The Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Low: Pretty much Paul Simon's entire solo career

Def Leppard

[ABlairican Pie]

High: Pyromania

Low: Slang

Rush

[Shine]

High: Pyromania

Low: Slang

Rush

Highs: Power Windows, Test For Echo
Low: Vapor Trails (I'm not really sure if this album truly represents a "low" for
the band, but I haven't been able to get into it.)


The Rolling Stones

[Jrnygrl]

Highs: Power Windows, Test For Echo
Low: Vapor Trails (I'm not really sure if this album truly represents a "low" for
the band, but I haven't been able to get into it.)


The Rolling Stones

High point: The fact that after all this time they are still touring and together as a band.

Low point: Mick's solo efforts and his duet with Bowie

next: British Invasion

[Dean Winchester]

high: The Beatles
low: Michael Phillip Jagger = solo pop singer




Aerosmith

[TJL]

Aerosmith

High - Toys In The Attic
Low - Rock and a Hard Place (or anything the band did when Perry wasn't a member)

[Jrnygrl]

High - Toys In The Attic
Low - Rock and a Hard Place (or anything the band did when Perry wasn't a member)

Isn't it interesting that bands that don't have a Perry in it usual don't do well. ;) :lol: :lol:

You forgot to add the next topic, so I will.

next: Styx

[TJL]

Isn't it interesting that bands that don't have a Perry in it usual don't do well. ;) :lol: :lol:

Good one! ;)

I have nothing to say about Styx, so I'll take a pass on this one.

Styx

[ABlairican Pie]

High: Equinox/Grand Illusion era

Low: Their cheesy cover of the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" they just released.

Now that they're playing Maiden on the radio now, next entry:

Iron Maiden

[Shine]

[QUOTE=BuffySlayer79]
low: Michael Phillip Jagger = solo pop singer

:lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

High: Equinox/Grand Illusion era

Low: Their cheesy cover of the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" they just released.

Now that they're playing Maiden on the radio now, next entry:

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden:

[TJL]

Iron Maiden:

High - The Number Of The Beast
Low - None! Cause Maiden :censored: rules! :rock:

:lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

High - The Number Of The Beast
Low - None! Cause Maiden :censored: rules! :rock:

:lol::rock: THAT'S FER DAMN SURE!!! MAIDEN AT OZZFEST THIS SUMMER!!!! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rock:

Here's another twist:

High and low point of:

Metal

[Jrnygrl]

:rock: THAT'S FER DAMN SURE!!! MAIDEN AT OZZFEST THIS SUMMER!!!! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rock:

Here's another twist:

High and low point of:

Metal

High point: Metallica
Low point: Hardline

next: 70's music

[Shine]

next: 70's music

High Point: The Bee Gees
Low Point: The Village People, K.C. and the Sunshine Band

[ABlairican Pie]

High point: Metallica
Low point: Hardline

next: 70's musicWasn't Hardline the one-time band featuring Neil Schon with the hit "Hot Cherie", something like that, around 1991? I actually kinda liked that song.

[ABlairican Pie]

High Point: The Bee Gees
Low Point: The Village People, K.C. and the Sunshine BandIiiiiiinteresting highs and lows...... :idea: :lol:

[Jrnygrl]

Wasn't Hardline the one-time band featuring Neil Schon with the hit "Hot Cherie", something like that, around 1991? I actually kinda liked that song.


Umm yeah, the guitar god and the Gioeli brothers! If you like that band then you should check out Neal's new effort Soul Sirkus. :rolleyes:

next: Aretha Franklin

[ABlairican Pie]

High: RESPECT

Low: Disrespecting George Michael by saying his singing "I Want Your Sex" as immoral.


Judas Priest

[Steve M.]

HIGH: That song that goes "Take me out ta midnight. . . ."
LOW: The video for "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" that shows a man's head explode! :eek:

Next: 60's music

[ugotitdude]

High: Beatlemania and the British Invasion, Motown

Low: crappy death records like "Last Kiss" and "Honey"

Next: Motley Crue

[Dean Winchester]

HIGH: Dr. Feelgood
LOW: everything since Vince Neil returned to the band (I liked the Corabi album)



Kiss

[TJL]

Next: Motley Crue

High - Theater Of Pain

Low - The album they did without Vince.

How About Sting?

[Dean Winchester]

High - Theater Of Pain

Low - The album they did without Vince.

How About Sting?


High:The Police
Low: having Puffy remix Roxanne


now KISS

[Steve M.]

High point: Uh, did they ever have one? :lol:

Low point: Peter leaving the band, Ace leaving the band, several other dudes leaving the band, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park,, Music From "The Elder,", the day they unmasked on MTV, the day they went back to the makeup, the 1996 reunion tour, and their early days as a children's band named Psychic Tomato (I made that one up - Captain ABlairica will get that joke!) - all tied for first! :p

Next - Jefferson Airplane

[Dean Winchester]

high: White Rabbit
low: Starship pressing on after Grace Slick departed


Paul McCartney

[Jrnygrl]

high: White Rabbit
low: Starship pressing on after Grace Slick departed


Paul McCartney


High point: A member of the Beatles, being part of one of the best song writing teams in the last century, his solo career, the Superbowl, Wings.

Low point: No owning his own cataloge of music.

next: 80's music

[Shine]

80's Music

High Points: Def Leppard and Guns N' Roses
Low Points: Poison, Huey Lewis and the News

[Shine]

Next up:

John Lennon solo

[ABlairican Pie]

80's:

High: Cinderella's Night Songs album, because it represented everything cool about the 80's: the kick-ass rock and roll, the big hair, and the gorgeous scantily-clad chicks in the videos.

Low point: Buckner and Garcia "Pac-Man Fever." Total lameness. :mad:

Oh how empires rise and fall in the time it takes for me to post something. Okay: solo Lennon, now let someone punch me to the beat;

High:

"You Know You Can't Hide When You're Crippled Inside"--his honesty was refreshing in his first albums of the early 70's.

Low:

"Nobody Told Me There Would Be Days Like These", from his posthumous 1983 album "Milk and Honey", which was a reworked version of "Instant Karma." Would this really have been the direction of Lennon had he survived?? :confused:

[ugotitdude]

since there wasn't a 'next' choice listed in the previous post, I'm going to pick
'70s music again and list some highs and lows in my opinion:

Highs: early New Wave like the Police and Elvis Costello and punk rock of
The Ramones

Low: Bread's mushy love songs (sorry, just not my taste in music)

Next: Bon Jovi

[Steve M.]

High point - the day Jon Bon Jovi declared himself a Democrat
Low point - the music

Next - solo Paul McCartney

[Shine]

Next - solo Paul McCartney

High Point: Band on the Run
Low Point: Everything post-Wings (1980 and after)


Bruce Springsteen

[ugotitdude]

High Point: Band on the Run
Low Point: Everything post-Wings (1980 and after)


Bruce Springsteen

High Point: Born in the USA

Low Point: Human Touch and Lucky Town (both albums released at the same time in 1992)

Next: Boy George

[Steve M.]

High point - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"
Low point - collaborating with Rosie O'Donnell on a Broadway musical

Next - Ludwig von Beethoven

[Dr. Jazz]

Next - Ludwig von Beethoven

High - Beethoven's 5th

Low - a St. Bernard named Beethoven in two crappy movies :lol:


Next: James Brown

[Jrnygrl]

High - Beethoven's 5th

Low - a St. Bernard named Beethoven in two crappy movies :lol:


Next: James Brown


High point: Being crowned God Father of Soul, enough said.
Low point: All his legal trouble. Isn't he a little old for this? :lol: :crazy:

Next: Queen

[ugotitdude]

High point: Being crowned God Father of Soul, enough said.
Low point: All his legal trouble. Isn't he a little old for this? :lol: :crazy:

Next: Queen

High Points: classic hits such as 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'We are the Champions'

Low Point: Freddie Mercury's death

Next: Duran Duran

[TJL]

Next: Duran Duran

High - Rio

Low - Reuniting again. And Again, and again....

Prince?

[ABlairican Pie]

since there wasn't a 'next' choice listed in the previous post, I'm going to pick
'70s music again and list some highs and lows in my opinion:

Highs: early New Wave like the Police and Elvis Costello and punk rock of
The Ramones

Low: Bread's mushy love songs (sorry, just not my taste in music)

Next: Bon Jovi:doh: Can't believe I forgot to post the next choice!!

Oh well.

Back to: Prince

High:

1999 was a great double-slab of music.

Low:

Converting to Jehovah's Witnesses and vowing never again to sing his more risque music.

Ozzy Osbourne:

[RustyShackleford]

Ozzy Osbourne

High: His reality show
Low: peeing on The Alamo

[Jrnygrl]

Ozzy Osbourne

High: His reality show
Low: peeing on The Alamo

Next: The Clash

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

London Calling album

Low:

Cut the Crap album.

Next--


Yes

[Dean Winchester]

high: Roundabout

low: anything after 1987


Carly Simon

[ugotitdude]

high: Roundabout

low: anything after 1987


Carly Simon

High: You're So Vain

Low: Jesse

next: Reo Speedwagon

[Dean Winchester]

high: the fact they can only play state fairs opening up for Styx these days
low: everything else :lol:



Pat Benatar

[Shine]

Pat Benatar

High point: "Invincibe"
Low Point: Everything else (I'm not a big Pat Benatar fan)

[Shine]

Next up:

Peter Gabriel

[Dean Winchester]

high: Games Without Frontiers
low: The Barry Williams Show



Hall And Oates

[Jrnygrl]

high: Games Without Frontiers
low: The Barry Williams Show



Hall And Oates

High point: the blue eyed soul stuff they did in the late 70's
low point: family man and private eyes. :rolleyes:

Next: Sinatra

[TJL]

Next: Sinatra

High - "It Was A Very Good Year"
Low - Duets

Genesis - the Phil Collins era

:p

[vashti1999]

Genesis - the Phil Collins era




High: the single "Hold On My Heart"
Low: The single "I Can't Dance"


How's about George Michael?

[Jrnygrl]

High: the single "Hold On My Heart"
Low: The single "I Can't Dance"


How's about George Michael?

High points: going solo, his duets with Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige
Low points: getting busted in an L.A. bathroom

next: Phil Collins (solo)

[Cactus Jack]

High : Uhhhh.....Against All Odds
Low : Going solo

Led Zeppelin

[Steve M.]

High - Led Zeppelin IV
Low - John Bonham's death

Deep Purple

[ABlairican Pie]

Gee, I was talking earlier with one of my friends online here who had no idea who they were. Okay...

High: Machine Head

Low: Tommy Bolin's death

Megadeth

[ABlairican Pie]

No takers??

High: Rust in Peace

Low: Dave Mustaine's drug and alcohol addiction in the 80's which was most likely responsible for his crappy attitude.

Here's a good one:

MTV

[TJL]

MTV

High - Madonna's performance of "Like A Virgin" at the first VMA's.

Low - "The Jenny McCarthy Show." Horrible.

Chicago

[Shine]

Chicago

High Points: Chicago 2, Chicago 17
Low Point: Chicago 21

Eric Clapton

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Cream and the "Clapton is God" era.

Low:

His 70's heroin addiction, as well as son's death by falling from a high window.
:(

Hard to believe we haven't touched this one:

Metallica

[Jrnygrl]

High:

Cream and the "Clapton is God" era.

Low:

His 70's heroin addiction, as well as son's death by falling from a high window.
:(

Hard to believe we haven't touched this one:

Metallica

High point: moved from L.A. to Northern California and perfected their sound.
Low point: Lars going after those of use who download (used to) :wave:

next: Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Steve M.]

High point - "Californication," "The Zephyr Song"

Low point - that rap-rock song they recorded

Next -- Nick Drake

[ABlairican Pie]

High: His status as an influential British guitar hero on future artists as REM and the Replacements

Low: His death by overdose in 1975 which was largely ignored by commercial radio at the time. :(

The Scorpions

[Jrnygrl]

High: His status as an influential British guitar hero on future artists as REM and the Replacements

Low: His death by overdose in 1975 which was largely ignored by commercial radio at the time. :(

The Scorpions

High point: Rock You Like a Hurricane
Low point: experimented with some techno in the late 90's

next: Van Hunt

[vashti1999]

Van Hunt high: self-titled debut album
Van Hunt low: none / underexposure

Culture Club

[Shine]

Van Hunt high: self-titled debut album
Van Hunt low: none / underexposure

Culture Club

High:"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
Low:"Karma Chameleon"

AC/DC

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Back in Black

Low:

The fact that they were BOOED when I saw them open for Ted Nugent in Seattle in 1978!!!! :mad: With original lead singer BON SCOTT!!!!

Jane's Addiction

[Steve M.]

Any takers? I'm not very familair with Jane's Addiction. :)

[ABlairican Pie]

Any takers? I'm not very familair with Jane's Addiction. :)I knew that that was a tough call. Jane's Addiction were one of these influential bands you either loved or hated.

Okay:

High--The fact that they were one of the bands which put alternative on the map and paved the way for the 90's.

Low--The fact that they broke up too soon.

Next one:

Nu-metal

[TJL]

Nu-metal

High - Tool

Low - Letting rap get in and muck it up. Yeah Fred Durst, I'm callin' your punk ass out!

Red Hot Chili Peppers

[ugotitdude]

High - the Blood Sugar Sex Magic album

Low - the death of Hillel Slovac early on in their career

next: 80's New Wave

[Shine]

High - the Blood Sugar Sex Magic album

Low - the death of Hillel Slovac early on in their career

next: 80's New Wave

High points: Blondie, The Waitresses, Devo, 'til Tuesday

Low Point: "Putin' on the Ritz" by Taco...that guy looked like something out of Dawn of The Dead.

next: Disco

[Dean Winchester]

high: Donna Summer, Chic

low: Ethel Merman's disco album


Michael Bolton

[USTVFanFromUK]

low: Ethel Merman's disco album



LMAO! I'm sorry, the thought of that made me fall on the floor in laughter.

:rotflmao: :rofl:

[Steve M.]

High point - recording 70's albums under his real name, Michael Bolotin, which got good reviews for his songwriting

Low Point - 1992's Michael Bolton Is Murdering the Classics. . . uh, I mean Timeless (The Classics)

next: the Band

[ABlairican Pie]

High: The Last Waltz

Low:

The death of Rick Danko

Nine Inch Nails

[Steve M.]

I don't know enough about Nine Inch Nails to pass judgment. Anyone else?

[Shine]

I know nothing about Nine Inch Nails except that I saw one of their videos on MTV like eleven years ago and it looked like death.

[Dean Winchester]

high: The Downward Spiral
low: Trent's responsibility in Marilyn Manson's getting a recording contract


Def Leppard

[Jrnygrl]

high: The Downward Spiral
low: Trent's responsibility in Marilyn Manson's getting a recording contract


Def Leppard

High: Would have to be the fact that they waited for their drummer after his accident. Pyromania

Low: The MTV movie they did about the band.

next: The Clash

[ABlairican Pie]

High: the fact that their radical punk politics kept their first album from being released in the U.S., thus earning them the title The Only Band That Matters.

Low: Joe Strummer's death


Ronnie James Dio

[Steve M.]

High point - geeting the gig as the original frontman for Blackmore's Rainbow

Low point - his whole career after that, really!

Next - Twisted Sister :D

[ABlairican Pie]

High point - geeting the gig as the original frontman for Blackmore's Rainbow

Low point - his whole career after that, really!

Next - Twisted Sister :D

What, fronting Black Sabbath and Dio weren't enough? :confused: Oh yeaH, he acted like a little Hitler basically with Sabbath. Twice. And whatever happened to Dio after....the Dream Evil album at least...? Of course as your rock and roll historian, I do know...but yeah, his career after that, pretty much a series of low points! ohno: He could have been a dreamer....

Twisted Sister:

High:

"We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" as two of the coolest metal anthems and videos of the 80's.

Low:

Having teen fans write in saying their favorite bands were Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, and TWISTED SISTER in the same sentence. :eek2: :faint: Dee Snider's days as a frontman/woman were numbered, by that point.

Huey Lewis and the News

[Shine]

Huey Lewis and the News

High Point:"Power of Love"
Low Point: Every other song they made


Next:
Ozzy Osbourne (solo)

[Steve M.]

Sorry, Cap'n, I just never liked Dio that much.

Huey Lewis and the News -

High point - "Workin' For a Living," from Pciture This
Low point - "Hip To Be Square," from Fore!

Next - Neil Young

[Steve M.]

Sorry, DAX, I posted a nanosecond after you did.

Ozzy solo -

High point - "Crazy Train"
Low point - the video for "So Tired" showing Ozzy as Abraham Lincoln getting shot at the theater and falling from the balcony (which didn't really happen to Lincoln, of course)

Now - Neil Young! :)

[ABlairican Pie]

Sorry, Cap'n, I just never liked Dio that much.

Huey Lewis and the News -

High point - "Workin' For a Living," from Pciture This
Low point - "Hip To Be Square," from Fore!

Next - Neil YoungNot like Dio??? But he's the most literate songwriter in of all of metal!! "If there is no light where no one sees, then how do I know what the light believes?"

:lol:

But yeah, it's open to interpretation what is considered a high and low point!

He pretty much had quite a few of them after leaving Blackmore's Rainbow!

Okay, Neil Young:

I can't think right now, I just ate pizza... :eat:

[ABlairican Pie]

Neil Young

High point:

So many: "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", being considered the Godfather of Grunge, and having "Rocking in the Free World" being used in Fahrenheit 9/11.

Low point:

Having "This Note's For You" banned from MTV for being too "controversial" over corporate rock; and being criticized on "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd due to his song "Southern Man".

Stone Temple Pilots

[Dean Winchester]

high: Sour Girl video
low: Shangri La-Di-Da

Annie Lennox/Eurythmics

[Steve M.]

High point - her solo career
Low point - everything she did with Dave Stweart (except "Would I Lie To You")

Next - Stephen Stills's solo career (including Manassas in 1972 and 1973)

[Dean Winchester]

High point - her solo career
Low point - everything she did with Dave Stweart (except "Would I Lie To You")

how funny, I am completely the opposite with her. I love everything she did with the Eurythmics, save "We Two Are One" and "Peace" (both were too soft rock for me), yet I find her rather boring as a solo artist.

[Steve M.]

how funny, I am completely the opposite with her. I love everything she did with the Eurythmics, save "We Two Are One" and "Peace" (both were too soft rock for me), yet I find her rather boring as a solo artist.


Yeah, whatever.

Next - Stpehen Stills's solo career

[ugotitdude]

High: Love the One You're With

Low: can't think of any

next: Tears for Fears

[Steve M.]

High - discovering Oleta Adams
Low - "Head Over Heels," or whatever that song was called

Next - Simon and Garfunkel

[Shine]

Next - Simon and Garfunkel

high point: Bridge Over Troubled Water
low point: their solo careers

next-Rush

[Steve M.]

High point - Moving Pictures
Low point - Alex Lifeson getting arrested

Next - the Clash

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Being so radical that their first album was denied release in the U.S. so as not to offend the Styx and Foreigner fans.

Low:

Joe Strummer's death

or

Cut the Crap album.

(Btw, Alex Lifeson's arrest WAS a low point. Thank God they were able to tour and put on an EXCELLENT show!!)

Lesseeeeee.....

Madonna ;)

[Shine]

Madonna

high point: Like A Virgin
low point: everything post 1987

John Lennon (solo)

[Steve M.]

John Lennon (solo)

High point - "Imagine"
Low point - Guesting on "The Pope Smokes Dope" by Elephant's Memory

Lynyrd Skynyrd

[ugotitdude]

High - Free Bird

Low - the plane crash that took several band members' lives

next: Cyndi Lauper

[Shine]

Cyndi Lauper:

High Point: She's So Unusual album
Low Point: the Gonnies theme song

Next:

Robert Plant (solo)

[Dean Winchester]

Madonna

high point: Like A Virgin
low point: everything post 1987

I'm kinda surprised you have 1987 as the cutoff. I know you prefer 80's Madonna but most 80's fans I know of hers at least go up to Like A Prayer and Vogue

[Dean Winchester]

Robert Plant:

high: "Heaven Knows"
low: The Honeydrippers


Devo

[Steve M.]

High point - uhh, you mean they had one?
Low point - a tossup between, "Whip It," their cover of "Satisfaction," their video for "Peekaboo," and those stoo-pid plastic JFK wigs!

Next - the Grateful Dead

[Shine]

I'm kinda surprised you have 1987 as the cutoff. I know you prefer 80's Madonna but most 80's fans I know of hers at least go up to Like A Prayer and Vogue


I once had a copy of Like A Prayer, but I really didn't like much of what was on it, besides for the title track. I know critics really liked Like A Prayer, I must just be weird. :lol:

[Shine]

Devo


:rock:

[Shine]

Robert Plant:

high: "Heaven Knows"
low: The Honeydrippers


I really like The Honeydrippers album. Their cover of "Sea of Love" is amazing. My favorite Robert Plant solo album is a toss up between 1988's Now and Zen and 1993's Fate of Nations.

[ABlairican Pie]

High point - uhh, you mean they had one?
Low point - a tossup between, "Whip It," their cover of "Satisfaction," their video for "Peekaboo," and those stoo-pid plastic JFK wigs!

Next - the Grateful Dead

Speaking of Robert Plant, I would say his low point came while on tour with Led Zeppelin in 1977, his son died.

Grateful Dead:

High:

American Beauty album.

Low:

The death of Jerry Garcia, as well as Pigpen McKernan. Haven't other musicians in the band died as well? (I should know this, I think I remember reading some have.) Another low would have been Shakedown Street, where they attempted to do disco.

Not sure if we've done this one:

Yes

[Steve M.]

High - Fragile
Low - Tales From Topographic Oceans

Next, the Three Stooges - uhh, I mean, Emerson, Lake and Palmer! :lol:

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Brain Salad Surgery

Low:

Love Beach


Lesseeee, how about...

Ashlee Simpson

[Steve M.]

High point - living through birth
low point - beginning a recording career

:lol: :rotflmao:

next - the Byrds

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

"To Everything There is a Season (Turn! Turn! Turn!)" and various covers of Dylan's tunes. Songs that spoke to a whole generation.

Low:

Gene Clark's death in 1991.

Okay, been waiting for this one:

Pantera

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Pick one:

Vulgar Display of Power, one of the heaviest albums of all time, or Far Beyond Driven, its 1994 followup that hit #1 on the charts.

Low:

Dimebag Darrell's senseless murder last fall. :(

Next one:

The Thompson Twins

[Steve M.]

High - "Hold Me Now"
Low - their cover of the Beatles's "Revolution"

next - the Eagles

[Shine]

The Eagles:

High Point: Hotel California album
Low Point: Their $300 per ticket reunion tours

Next:

Kylie Minogue

[Dean Winchester]

high: Fever
low: breast cancer


Cher

[Steve M.]

Cher

High: "Believe"
Low- the video for "If Could Turn Back Time"

Next - Judy Collins :D

[Dean Winchester]

high: Both Sides Now
low: posing naked on a record cover that amused me when I was like 6 years old at a record store, especially since she wasn't selling sex.

now here is one where finding a "high" will be intriguing, but I will pose the question.

Late 90's teen pop.

[Shine]

Late 1990's ten pop:

High Point: Jessica Simpson...I know I'll get hell for this. :lol:
Low Point: Britney Spears

Next:

Blondie

[Steve M.]

High - "Heart of Glass" or "One Way Or Another"
Low - The Hunter (their last LP)

Next - Carlos Santana

[ugotitdude]

High - Oye Como Va

Low - I like most of Santana's music, so I can't name any

next: Crowded House

[Dean Winchester]

high: Don't Dream It's Over
low: the drummers recent suicide

Black Sabbath without either Ozzy or Dio

[ABlairican Pie]

Being the resident expert on Black Sabbath, that's an interesting one. Hmmm.
One is tempted to say Ian Gillan, formerly of Deep Purple (who did in fact later rejoin Deep Purple in 1984), but the album with him was a disappointment, which is why he left Sabbath.

So...

High:

Critics generally regard albums such as 1987's Eternal Idol and 1989's Headless Cross as some of their best of the Ozzy-less/Dio-less vocalists. Those two albums actually included vocalist Tony Martin, who lasted almost as long as Ozzy, off and on. Vocalists Glenn Hughes and the late Ray Gillen (no relation to Ian Gillan) were also very good singers, but many Black Sabbath fans felt as it were "still not Sabbath" because of the ever-changing lineups.

Low:

Two to pick from:

Forbidden, from 1995, one of the "invisible" albums that their record company did very little to promote. The album was pretty much standard hard rock/metal on the level of Technical Ecstasy from 1976. Nothng so memorable, but I did happen to see them on that tour which was still very good in spite of the fact that Tony Iommi was the only original member still in the band (but his playing was excellent at that show in Tacoma).

The other, the vocalist of questionable tenure, Jeff Fenholt, who has made a name for himself in Christian circles by claiming he was singer for Black Sabbath in the mid-80's, which the band has disputed (even though he may have been one for 15 minutes). It's interesting that for such an "evil" band he claims to have fronted, the sheer noteriety of it has been a constant cash cow for him.

Let's see....

Oh yeah, while on the topic:

Stryper!! :D

[Steve M.]

High point - offering a religious atlernative - "heavenly metal" - to all the noise from the other hair bands

Low point - becoming just as predictable as the other hair bands

Next - Steve Winwood

[ugotitdude]

High Point - Higher Love and Roll With It

Low Point - Valleri

next: Tom Petty

[Shine]

Tom Petty:

High Point: Though I am not a big Petty fan, I think that both the albums
Damn The Torpedos and Full Moon Fever are really good.

Low Point: I don't know enough about Tom to know what his low point is.

Next:

Soul Asylum

[Dean Winchester]

high: Runaway Train
low: not even being able to crack the top 100 with their 1998 album when their previous record was a top 10


Chicago

[Shine]

Chicago:

High: Chicago 17
Low: Peter Cetera leaving in 1985.

Next:
Journey

[ugotitdude]

High: Feeling that Way/Anytime that You Want Me (my fave Journey tune)
Low: the fact that Steve Perry is no longer with the group

next: The Cars

[Dean Winchester]

high: the debut and Heartbeat City
low: Benjamin Orr's death in 2000

Janis Joplin

[Steve M.]

High - "Piece Of My Heart" with Big Brother and the Holding Company
Low - dying just as Pearl was being completed

Next - Steely Dan

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

So many--the fact that they were such a talented band in the 70's with "Rickie Don't Lose That Number", "Show Biz Kids", "Do It Again", "My Old School", "Bhoddisatva", "Aja", "Reelin' In the Years", etc. They were one of the pure quality bands of the 70's.

Low: The fact that they broke up by the 80's. They did reunite a few years ago for an album and tour.

Lesseeee, okay, got one:

Spinal Tap

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Having been made into a rockumentary which introduced expressions such as "This goes up to 11!!" and "We've got armadillos in our trousers" into the English language. Not to mention the greatest love song in the world, "Big Bottom."

Low:

The non-functioning pod. The miniscule Stonehenge prop. "No, first the puppet show, and THEN Spinal Tap!!' Countless drummers dying under mysterious circumstances.

Next:

Ted Nugent

[Steve M.]

High - "Cat Scratch Fever"

Low - dabbling in right-wing politics

In keeping with Michigan rockers. . . .

Next - Bob Seger

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

So many: Night Moves, Katmandu, Watch Her Strut, I could go on and on, Hollywood Nights, Turn the Page, I'm Not a Number, let's face it, the guy knows how to rock, and he's got a great voice.

Low:

Is it just me, or does that Ford truck commercial or whichever it was just ruin it for me when they do "Like a Rock" all the time??

Next one:

Contemporary Christian music

[Dean Winchester]

high: Amy Grant
low: everyone else


Aretha Franklin

[Steve M.]

high - "Respect"
low - her La Diva disco album

[Steve M.]

Low:

Is it just me, or does that Ford truck commercial or whichever it was just ruin it for me when they do Seger's "Like a Rock" all the time??

It was for Chevrolet trucks, to set the record straight. I don't even think they use it any more.

Next one:

Alice Cooper :D

[ABlairican Pie]

Oh yeah, Chevys. It's been so long.

Alice:

High:

I'm Eighteen and School's Out, for starters. Of course I'm talking about when Alice Cooper was the name of the band. Billion Dollar Babies would IMO be the definitive album. Being a celebrity of such calibre that he was able to contibute funds to help repair the Hollywood sign.

Low:

Alice being blamed for "sacrificing" a chicken to the audience when he tossed it out, thinking it would fly (he led an early sheltered life and was unaccustomed to livestock) and the audience went off on the poor thing.
Not to forget his battle with alcohol in the late 70's. Another low point was the death of guitarist Glen Buxton in 1997 due to years of excessive alcohol abuse.

Pearl Jam

[ugotitdude]

high: their early 90's classics like Evenflow and I'm Still Alive

low: their battles with Ticketmaster and their re-make of that dopey teen tragedy song Last Kiss

next: The Cure

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Just Like Heaven.

Low:

Having their song "Killing an Arab" being misinterpreted as an anti-Semitic slam
and banned by several radio stations when the song was actually based on the book "The Stranger" by Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus, where a young French man murders an Algerian in a pub fight for no real reason. The book was actually dealing with issues of morality in a meaningless universe.

And speaking of existentialist themes:

Spice Girls

[Steve M.]

High - putting Britain back on the pop-music map in 1997, and causing right-wing pundit Cal Thomas to reveal what a misogynistic jerk he is when he claimed that they were encouraging girls to sexually manipulate boys :mad:

Low - the music, not to mention their 1998 movie Spice World

Next - Blood, Sweat and Tears

[ABlairican Pie]

Wow, Cal Thomas. What a chump. :mad: Reminds me of the time when Michael Medved, the Jewish conservative commentator, thought it was so HORRIBLE that his kids actually KNEW the names of all five Spice Girls! :eek:

BS & T:

High:

Spinning Wheel

Low:

The fact we don't hear much from them anymore. Their horn sound was actually pretty cool. There is this one poppy song they do that every once in a while I hear in supermarkets that makes me think of cartoon music, but I can't remember the name of it. The horns start kicking in with a sort of "Shave and a Haircut" sort of line.

Next one:

REO Speedwagon

[Steve M.]

High - Hi Infidelity becoming the bestselling album of 1981, plus organist Neal Doughty's charismatic solo on "Roll With the Changes"

Low - 1987's Life As We Know It, in which our heroes did an original song wrtitten by the same dudes who wrote "Like a Virgin" and "True Colors" (and the album only got up to number 28!!)

Next - Van Morrison

[Jrnygrl]

High - Hi Infidelity becoming the bestselling album of 1981, plus organist Neal Doughty's charismatic solo on "Roll With the Changes"

Low - 1987's Life As We Know It, in which our heroes did an original song wrtitten by the same dudes who wrote "Like a Virgin" and "True Colors" (and the album only got up to number 28!!)

Next - Van Morrison


High - Moondance, Tupelo Honey, Brown Eyed Girl and more

Low - No lows (for me at least). Very underrated artist. One of the best from the late 60's and early 70's.

Next: Robert Palmer

[Dean Winchester]

high: Riptide album (Addicted To Love, I Didn't Mean To Turn You On)
low: tie between his death and Mariah's remake of I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (yes, Cherrelle sang it first, but I associate it with Palmer)


Joan Jett

[Steve M.]

High - Bad Reputation, I Love Rock and Roll
Low - her song "I Hate Myself For Loving You" - not one of her best

Next - Crosby and Nash

[Steve M.]

I'll do this!

High- Wind on the Water LP from 1975

Low - David Crosby stopping a jam at a 1979 Crosby-Nash recording session to pick up the pieces of his broken freebasing pipe (which caused the Crosby-Nash album in progress to be shelved), the beginning of Crosby's decent into coke addiction

Next - Elton John

[Shine]

Elton John

High Points: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
The One


Low Points: The Lion King soundtrack
The Big Picture
How he can't seem to open his mouth these days without
sticking his foot into it.


Next:
Genesis

[Steve M.]

High - The Lamb lies Down On Broadway
Low - Calling All Stations

Next - solo Phil Collins

[Jrnygrl]

High - The Lamb lies Down On Broadway
Low - Calling All Stations

Next - solo Phil Collins


Highs - No Jacket Required, Face Value, ....But Seriously, Hello I Must Be Going, he was in The Beatles movie Hard Days Night, took over lead for Genesis after Peter Gabriel left

Lows - singing sound tracks for Disney movies, dumped his wife for a model.

Next: Audioslave

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Both their albums are big hits, their latest one is doing well, and finally Chris Cornell has found a band that he fits very well in, with former Rage Against the Machine members.

Low:

Haven't been around that long to pull a "low", but if there were anything, I'd say I don't like Tom Morello's guitar solo on that one song, "What You Are".

Roxy Music

[ABlairican Pie]

Okay, no takers on one of the bands that helped form New Wave in the 70's? :confused:

Okay, highs:

Phenomenal cutting edge albums such as Country Life, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Siren, Flesh and Blood, and Avalon which put a clever twist in pop music and prog-rock with their electronic experimentation and diverse musicianship; the hotties which graced their album covers including Jerry Hall on Siren; pretty much all their albums are excellent. They also helped usher in the New Romantics movement of the early 80's. Songs such as "Love Is the Drug", "Out of the Blue", "Editions of You", "Over You", and "More Than This" are some of their best.

Lows:

The fact that their hot album cover for Country Life with the buxom, VERY scantily-clad women was banned and altered; Brian Eno left the band early;
the band never broke in big in the United States; the band broke up after Avalon, one of their best albums.

Okay, simple one:

Motorhead

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Ace of Spades album

Low:

Guitarist Fast Eddie Clark (or whichever one) appearing in a pink tutu at a show with bikers. Lemmy and the others were NOT amused.


Echo and the Bunnymen

[Jrnygrl]

High:

Ace of Spades album

Low:

Guitarist Fast Eddie Clark (or whichever one) appearing in a pink tutu at a show with bikers. Lemmy and the others were NOT amused.


Echo and the Bunnymen

Highs - Lips Like Sugar, Bring on the Dancing Horses.
Lows - Not enough exposure in the U.S.

The Sunday's

[ABlairican Pie]

Highs - Lips Like Sugar, Bring on the Dancing Horses.
Lows - Not enough exposure in the U.S.

The Sunday's

Speaking of Echo and the Bunnymen, a definite low point was when drummer Pete DeFreitas died in 1989 from a car crash. :(

Okay, The Sundays:

[ABlairican Pie]

Highs:

The fact that they rock harder than Metallica, Led Zeppelin, and U2 combined.

Lows:

The fact that they're followed by Mondays.

Sublime

[Dean Winchester]

high: 40 oz. To Freedom
low: the fact that they didn't get popular until after Brad Nowell was dead


Cinderella

[ABlairican Pie]

Highs:

Night Songs album: "Shake Me", "Somebody Save Me", "Nobody's Fool", etc. One of the greatest bands of the 80's who actually ROCKED. :rocked: Long Cold Winter and Heartbreak Station were also great albums.

Lows:

The fact that they were reduced to a three-piece at a time when their music was seen as mere "hair-metal". Record industry execs said they would consider re-signing them if they would only go grunge and cut their hair. BLASPHEMY!!! :mad: Fortunately they've been doing reunion dates with other 80's bands.

Cheap Trick

[ugotitdude]

Highs: The Dream Police album, their late 80's comeback with The Flame and Don't Be Cruel, and they're fellow Midwesterners like me

Low: can't think of a single one

next: early 90's music

[Jrnygrl]

Highs:

The fact that they rock harder than Metallica, Led Zeppelin, and U2 combined.

Lows:

The fact that they're followed by Mondays.

Sublime

The Sunday's: They are a British band that formed in 1989 by Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin. They have 3 albums Reading, Writing and Arithmatic, Blind, and their last album in 1997 was Static and Silence. They have been compared to 10,000 Maniacs, Cocteau Twins and Lush. I would also compare them to Mazzy Starr. They have a great cover of the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses." Other songs include "Summertime" "Here's Where the Story Ends" and "Cry". :wave: :D

Now continue next with: Early 90's music.

[Cactus Jack]

High :
Nirvana, Pearl am, all that cool early 90s rock stuff

Low : The song "MMMBop" is relaesed, and The Backstreet Boys are formed

[ABlairican Pie]

The Sunday's: They are a British band that formed in 1989 by Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin. They have 3 albums Reading, Writing and Arithmatic, Blind, and their last album in 1997 was Static and Silence. They have been compared to 10,000 Maniacs, Cocteau Twins and Lush. I would also compare them to Mazzy Starr. They have a great cover of the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses." Other songs include "Summertime" "Here's Where the Story Ends" and "Cry". :wave: :D

Now continue next with: Early 90's music.NOW I remember that song, "This is Where the Story Ends": "It's that little souvenir, or the gathering near", I was always wondering who did that song. I put them in the same category as Mazzy Star and Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield, etc. So that song I would say is their high point.

The low point: That Captain ABlairica, SO's so-called "music expert", totally forgot about them. ohno: :eek:

So now since Ron Burgundy forgot to add a name at the end of the response, I'll add one:

Primus

[Jrnygrl]

NOW I remember that song, "This is Where the Story Ends": "It's that little souvenir, or the gathering near", I was always wondering who did that song. I put them in the same category as Mazzy Star and Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield, etc. So that song I would say is their high point.

The low point: That Captain ABlairica, SO's so-called "music expert", totally forgot about them. ohno: :eek:

So now since Ron Burgundy forgot to add a name at the end of the response, I'll add one:

Primus

Hey Captain with all the music knowledge you have, it is forgivable that you forgot about The Sunday's. Your still the music knowledge king! :wave:

Now next: Primus

[Steve M.]

Hey Captain with all the music knowledge you have, it is forgivable that you forgot about The Sundays. Your still the music knowledge king! :wave:

Now next: Primus

Primus? Who dat? :confused:

[ABlairican Pie]

Primus? Who dat? :confused:Uhhh, Les Claypool, one of the most prolific bassists in the entire known universe, with Satriani-taught Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim Alexander, the 90's trio known for its twisted Zappa-esque humor and themes on albums such as Sailing the Seas of Cheese and hits such as "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver"? They were one of the big deals of the alternative movement with their bass-playing being more of an upfront instrument than the guitar, and injected a lot of punk-funk into their songs.

high:

aforementioned Seas of Cheese album with "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver."

low:

The fact I am the ONLY person on here who has even heard of only one of the most important bands of the 90'. :rolleyes:

Okay, EASY one:

Voivod

[Steve M.]

Okay, EASY one:

Voivod


Nevah hoid of'em! :stooges:

[ABlairican Pie]

Nevah hoid of'em! :stooges:Trick question! ;) :lol:

Voivod is a prog-thrash band from Quebec whose influences include Rush, Pink Floyd, and Yes and sing about sci-fi topics.

High:

1989's Nothingface album, which features a cool cover of Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine"

Low: The fact that bassistJASON NEWSTED, formerly of Metallica, did not stay with them for very long. As well as the fact that they are little-known in America.

[Jrnygrl]

Trick question! ;) :lol:

Voivod is a prog-thrash band from Quebec whose influences include Rush, Pink Floyd, and Yes and sing about sci-fi topics.

High:

1989's Nothingface album, which features a cool cover of Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine"

Low: The fact that bassistJASON NEWSTED, formerly of Metallica, did not stay with them for very long. As well as the fact that they are little-known in America.

You forgot to give the next one so I will do it for you. :wave:
Next: Pat Benatar

[Steve M.]

You forgot to give the next one so I will do it for you. :wave:
Next: Pat Benatar


High - "We Belong from Tropico (1984)
Low - putting a song called "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" on the same album as the anti-child-abuse song "Hell Is For Children" and calling that album Crimes of Passion

:eek2:

Next - Humble Pie

[ABlairican Pie]

You forgot to give the next one so I will do it for you. :wave:
:doh:

[ABlairican Pie]

Humble Pie:

High:

30 Days in the Hole, one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. :cool:

Low:

Vocalist Steve Marriot dying in a London housefire in 1991. :(

New York Dolls

[Jrnygrl]

Humble Pie:

High:

30 Days in the Hole, one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. :cool:

Low:

Vocalist Steve Marriot dying in a London housefire in 1991. :(

New York Dolls

New York Dolls - Highs: 70's band, responsible for sparking the punk and glitter rock movement. The Sex Pistols wrote a song about them called New York Dolls.

Lows: Only put out a couple of albums before they disband. They weren't really well known outside of NY City.

Next: Romeo Void

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

The songs never say Never Say Never and Girl in Trouble. Bono of U2 even urged people to check them out in 1983. :cool:

Low:

The fact that they aren't around anymore. They broke up in 1985 at the height of their popularity, and BIG, BIG lady Deborah Iyall went solo.

My two brothers actually met them on a flight back from Disneyland in 1983!

Speaking of the New York Dolls, the band's whole career was one giant walking LOW (in spite of inspiring the punk and glitter movements): the band was so drugged out and two members died, including guitarist Johnny Thunders in 1991.

Violent Femmes

[Dean Winchester]

low:

The fact I am the ONLY person on here who has even heard of only one of the most important bands of the 90'. :rolleyes:

you don't know that. Anyone who watches South Park should be at least familiar with Primus

[Dean Winchester]

high: the first album from 1982
low: that they've been milking the first album from 1982 ever since, with none of the followups considered even remotely as good


Erasure

[Steve M.]

High - remaking Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel's "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"

Low - Really, how are they ever going to top that achievement? :D :)

Next - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

[Steve M.]

I'll do this -

High - "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" hitting number one in the U.K. in 1975

Low - the original Cockney Rebel walking out on Steve in 1974 -but he got to number one without those ungrateful bastards! :D

Next - Tina Turner

[Jrnygrl]

I'll do this -

High - "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" hitting number one in the U.K. in 1975

Low - the original Cockney Rebel walking out on Steve in 1974 -but he got to number one without those ungrateful bastards! :D

Next - Tina Turner

High: Leaving Ike, turning her story into a movie. Musically: Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, going to Africa for the Soul to Soul tour, River Deep Mountain High, her remake of Let's Stay Together.

Low: That she is not touring anymore.

Next: Mountain

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Mississippi Queen, claimed by guitarist Leslie West to be the FIRST heavy metal song ever written. Is there a consensus on this?

Low:

The death of bassist Felix Pappalardi.

Al Stewart

[Steve M.]

High - "The Year of the Cat"
Low - the fact you don't hear from him anymore

Next - Don McLean

[Jrnygrl]

High - "The Year of the Cat"
Low - the fact you don't hear from him anymore

Next - Don McLean


Highs: American Pie, Vincent

Lows: That he is not remember more in the music business

Next: Oingo Boingo

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Gray Matter. And the fact that Danny Elfman is one of the biggest composers in all of Hollywood.

Low:

The fact that they broke up at the height of their popularity.

Bad Company

[ABlairican Pie]

What, no one for Bad Co.?? :confused:

Okay, I'll have to do this:

Can't Get Enough, Burnin' Sky, Feel Like Makin' Love, Good Girl Gone Bad, Bad Company, Seagull, Rock and Roll Fantasy, for starters.

Low point:

Paul Rodgers leaving the band.

Okay, here's a good question:

Music, from the beginning of recorded time to now

[Steve M.]

What, no one for Bad Co.?? :confused:

Okay, I'll have to do this:

Can't Get Enough, Burnin' Sky, Feel Like Makin' Love, Good Girl Gone Bad, Bad Company, Seagull, Rock and Roll Fantasy, for starters.

Low point:

Paul Rodgers leaving the band.

I meant to do it, but I had computer trouble.

High - the 1974 debut album, plus "Run WIth the Pack" and "Silver, Blue and Gold" from Run With the Pack.

Low - the 1982 breakup after no one paid Rough Diamonds any attention. :(



Okay, here's a good question:

Music, from the beginning of recorded time to now

High points - Mozart, Beethoven, Ellington, Armstrong, the Beatles
Low point - the MTV age (1981 to present!) :barf:

[Steve M.]

Next - Stephen Collins Foster :D

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Wrote some of America's biggest folk classics in the 1800's, "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", etc.

Low: Died alcoholic and penniless.

Lou Reed

[Steve M.]

High - his classic Velvet Underground songs, his hit single "Walk On the Wild Side"

Low - Metal Machine Music

Next - the group America :eek:

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

The fact that they don't dominate the charts as they did over 30 years ago.

Low:

Pick one: The messed up grammar in their hit "Horse With No Name": "There ain't no one for to give you now fame"; "The Tropic of Sir Galahad" or WHATEVER that song was; The twangy steel guitar on "Sister Golden Hair", the fact that you would be called a commie pinko rat if you said "you hated America" (the band)!! :eek: :nonono: patriot:

Muddy Waters

[Steve M.]

High - Mannish Boy, his performance in The Last Waltz

Low - the fact that critics wouldn't take Electric Mud seriously, his death in 1983

Next - Howlin' Wolf

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Smokestack Lightning; the fact that he served as an inspiration to generations of countless rock and roll bands.

Low:

The fact that he and his partner guitarist Hubert Sumlin would get into knock-down, drag-out fights where both would lose teeth (Wolf would later apologize at the hospital); his death in 1976.

Peter Frampton ;)

[Dean Winchester]

high: Frampton Comes Alive
low: the fact that he can't catch a break no matter how much 70's nostaglia there is


Ray Parker Jr/Raydio

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Ghostbusters.

Low:

Ghostbusters. He faced legal action when Huey Lewis found that the song was a little too similar to "I Want a New Drug", in his opinion.

Slayer

[phoebe7165]

Uhhh, Les Claypool, one of the most prolific bassists in the entire known universe, with Satriani-taught Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim Alexander, the 90's trio known for its twisted Zappa-esque humor and themes on albums such as Sailing the Seas of Cheese and hits such as "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver"? They were one of the big deals of the alternative movement with their bass-playing being more of an upfront instrument than the guitar, and injected a lot of punk-funk into their songs.

high:

aforementioned Seas of Cheese album with "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver."

low:

The fact I am the ONLY person on here who has even heard of only one of the most important bands of the 90'. :rolleyes:

Um, sorry to bump this up but I just go back into town and catching up here.

Greg, I also have heard of Primus, so you are not alone. Seen them in concert and even met Les back when MTV used to broadcast their spring break from Daytona Beach.

In fact, I think Les auditioned for Metallica after Cliff died, but the guys really didn't like his style of playing.

[ABlairican Pie]

Um, sorry to bump this up but I just go back into town and catching up here.

Greg, I also have heard of Primus, so you are not alone. Seen them in concert and even met Les back when MTV used to broadcast their spring break from Daytona Beach.

In fact, I think Les auditioned for Metallica after Cliff died, but the guys really didn't like his style of playing.Also the fact that the Metallidudes Jaymes Krk 'n' Larz WEREN'T too impressed with his asking if they'd like to jam on some old Isley Brothers tunes! :lol:

Les Claypool did happen to play on Metallica's cover of Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone", and he's been known to play "Master of Puppets" on bass live!

I had a feeling some people knew Primus here!

Back to Slayer:

[ABlairican Pie]

Okay, no takers for Slayer:

Highs:

Being one of the Holy Trinity of Thrash, including Metallica and Megadeth (bonus points for Anthrax); recording some of the heaviest albums ever such as Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, and Seasons in the Abyss.

Lows:

The controversy which ensued over having a song about one of the worst criminals in history, Dr. Josef Mengele of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, when they signed signed to CBS; the ad for their Divine Retribution album which featured a young fan carving a Slayer logo into his arm :eek: ; silly allegations of "Satanism"; and Kerry King's hair loss (thankfully corrected by being completely shaven).

Pearl Jam

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Ten

Low:

Ticketmaster battles over the service charge. And the fact that "Jeremy" is the most overplayed song in the world.

punk

[ugotitdude]

high: The Ramones

low: Sid Vicious

next: Foreigner

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Foreigner, Double Vision, Head Games, 4 were all great albums. "Dirty White Boy" and "Head Games" were excellent songs, among others. And "Hot Blooded", the basic horny anthem in the world (before "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC came along).

Low:

1984's Agent Provocateur album with "I Wanna Know What Love Is", and "That Was Yesterday", one of the most depressing songs in the world, and one they played in this corny Muzak version at Mariners' games at the Kingdome 20 years ago.

Boston (the band, not the city)

[Steve M.]

High - first album

Low - "Amanda"

Next - Buffalo Springfield

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

For What It's Worth

Low:

Bassist Bruce Palmer's departure from the band by being deported back to Canada for marijuana possession in 1968. He died last year.


Dream Theater

[Steve M.]

Who? :confused:

[ABlairican Pie]

Who? :confused:Uhhh, the progressive rock band from Boston featuring guitar virtuoso John Petrucci on guitar, James Labrie on vocals, Mike Portnoy on keyboards, and John Myung on bass, most known for songs such as "Pull Me Under", "Caught in a Web", and "As I Am," with excellent musicianship and dazzling tempo changes. Ring any bells? ;)

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Pull Me Under, their Awake album (highly underrated!!), and their latest song As I Am.

Low:

Their Live In New York album was nearly banned for having an unintentional image of the WTC in flames.

B-52's

[Steve M.]

High - "Love Shack"

Low - those bouffant hairdos! :eek2:

Next - King Crimson

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

Their album Red. They have even been an influence on bands such as Tool.

Low:

Guitarist Robert Fripp's eccentric personality, and the fact that they never really broke through in America.

Jethro Tull

[Steve M.]

High point - Stand Up and Aqualung

Low point - winning the Heavy Metal Grammy

Next - Linda Ronstadt

[ABlairican Pie]

Highs:

Songs such as "You're No Good", "Blue Bayou", and a cover of the Everly Brothers' "When Will I Be Loved" in the 70's, and the fact that she is one of the most gorgeous women in music.

Low:

The fact that not only was she booed offstage for happening to mention the name Michael Moore during a Vegas show, but that she wasn't even allowed to return to her hotel. ohno: You'd think she was playing Crawford, Texas, or some place.

ABBA

[Steve M.]

High - "Waterloo"

Low - "Take a Chance On Me"

next - popular music festivals

[ABlairican Pie]

High:

OZZFEST 2004 AND 2005: CO-HEADLINED BY BOTH BLACK SABBATH, JUDAS PRIEST, AND IRON MAIDEN (respectively). :rock:

Low:

Pretty much any Lollapalooza after 1994. Like Metallica headlining in 1996??!!

Styx

[Steve M.]

High - "Fooling Yourself"

Low - John Pannozo's death in 1996

Next - Warren Zevon