The best classic rock album of all time. — Page 5

DominicCobb said:

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

Anyway I am way too young to know rock albums. Even vinyl albums predates me.

 I bet I'm about your age or younger, and I have a somewhat extensive knowledge of classic rock.

 Yeah, same.

You two didn't get the joke here...

And you can both have a gold medal in knowing "classic rock" more than me. I am into Jazz anyway.

Do you know what the word joke means? 

I guess it really didn't classify as a joke but rather as a sophisticated humour. Too sophisticated, judging by your serious reply.

TV's Frink said:

imperialscum said:

TV's Frink said:

You also made an error in your original statement.

I did not.

 You might want to look for a grammatical error and reassess the situation.

Click on the link for an explanation.

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

Anyway I am way too young to know rock albums. Even vinyl albums predates me.

 I bet I'm about your age or younger, and I have a somewhat extensive knowledge of classic rock.

 Yeah, same.

You two didn't get the joke here...

And you can both have a gold medal in knowing "classic rock" more than me. I am into Jazz anyway.

Do you know what the word joke means? 

I guess it really didn't classify as a joke but rather as a sophisticated humour. Too sophisticated, judging by your serious reply.

Sophisticated really should have about twenty quotation marks around it. It wasn't a joke, it wasn't funny, and it wasn't sophisticated. Also, given the things you say with complete seriousness, how were we supposed to know that this comment was an attempt at humor?

moviefreakedmind said:

Also, given the things you say with complete seriousness, how were we supposed to know that this comment was an attempt at humor?

Well it kinda defeats the purpose if you have to specifically state that something is a humour.

DominicCobb said:

 Oh, my bad, you're just an asshole.

You see Frink, this is an example of a personal attack.

Not that it came anywhere near offending me. :)

You guys need to open your eyes, look up to the skies and see...

imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Also, given the things you say with complete seriousness, how were we supposed to know that this comment was an attempt at humor?

Well it kinda defeats the purpose if you have to specifically state that something is a humour.

It is also a failure at comedy when a joke is so terribly unfunny that no one can tell if it was even an attempt at humor.

^ I used to agree but 'Morrison Hotel' has started to inch ahead of it for me. Oh and speaking of LA bands from the Elektra label, this album is genius too...

TV's Frink said:

I've always found the Doors to be massively overrated

The Doors aren't but Jim Morrison is. "Ride the snake, to the lake" yeah, that's right up there with Shakespeare. But set to a 12-minute apocalyptic drone from Manzarek and Co it sounds like totally far out and deep man!

My appreciation for the Doors stems from the fact that while they were "trippy", they put out some really good music, and showed great musicianship. Each member was extremely talented and good at their craft. Even when they'd play some very trippy stuff, and Jim Morrison would be extremely wasted, they still sounded great. Jim is one of the few singers who could make drunk gibberish sound good.

Yeah, they are a little pretentious, but what 60s group wasn't pretentious?

Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore are musicians that people tend to overlook. Jim didn't want to be the focus of the group, but the singer always gets the attention. 

At the risk of indulging in a story with no point...

Jim Morrison went to my university. I had the fortune of taking classes from a Professor who actually taught him! Eighty-something years old and still smart as a whip, with a hell of a sense of humor.

It's actually kind of funny, but Jim fought being the poster boy for the band. The more he shunned that spotlight, the brighter it seemed to shine. He really wanted to be treated as a poet instead of a rockstar. I'm of the mind, that if you don't want to be a rockstar, don't play rock n roll.

There are countless musicians who are like that, who become bigger for not trying to be big. Then you have people who would give anything to be famous, and will do whatever it takes to achieve that. That's why you've got your Lady Gagas and your Miley Cyruses dressing skimpy and causing a bit of controversy to get the masses to look their way. Both, I'm sure are very talented, but their gimmick outshines their talent, to the point where the people that might've appreciated them, have already decided they don't like them. So they focus on selling to that lowest common denominator.