After all, what good is the music (in any genre or form), if it's final mixdown makes it sound like a collision of sound battling to be heard ..??
Sadly, too much falls into that category now - Jazz and contempory x and Blues seems to be the only styles that try to avoid 'collison of sound' mixdowns...
Mind you, some of the self-produced rock and rockabilly revival stuff is far from a collision of sound mixdown.
In short, if it feels and sounds like a bit of quality work was involved (not a 'quick win' or an x of 'borrowed' sounds sampled ripped from other tracks), the it's good quality by my standards (usually, you can hear everything in the well produced stuff, even the subtle bits clearly).
So i guess, there is no 'best' for me, when you restrict the choice to styles and genres :(
Yep, there's good bad and indifferent in all the styles and genres - so tolerence of tastes really does help.
Personally, i got introduced into the roots of rock 'n' roll, at a young age (yep, when reel to reel was cutting edge stuff, and names like BSR and Goldring and Garrard were the mainstream quality inclusions of the turntable world and x decks were relatively uncommon on hifi kit).
So naturally, i have a love for the 50's and 60's 'pop', and the music and styles from the blues and real 'rythmn and blues', and the country influences.. - so naturally, the revival stuff (rockabiliy revivalist, recreated revival of the older blues and r'n'b etc).
But i can just as easily be found, with the virtual cat basket rocking, to the melodic sounds of the orchestral x and much of the melting pot that is Jazz.
Glam Rock, and i guess Bubblegum (not the 'teen pop' revivals of the 90's onward) subgenres, were also quite influential as they were the music of 'now' in my pre-teen years, and naturally the 80's fell slap bang into my teen years, so the 'Electric 80's' era (for better or worse, as that was a melting pot of lousy through superb in an excess of proportions).
Metal, in it's rawest form and it's earliest forms, also kinda ticks my boxes too - but Death Metal and Black Metal is definately not to my taste (tends to remind me of how the world sounds when you had a raging hangover ofter a really beer and spirits fuelled drinkfest.. ) and definately manages to be a no.1 top-grade migrane inducer for me - that said, in a nod of defence to Death and Black Metal..., the stuff that falls into those sub-genres is pretty good for testing the true nature of amps.
God knows, D & B Metal don't half show up 'wannabe' PMPO rated pretender amps, and really shines on decent amps. Sure you need the speakers to go with it, to get the effect, but hell.. it shows that even someone who aint into that style of music still sees a value in it's existence.
Guess that is, in a way, my take on being tolerent in one form.
*cranks up the amp, paws the play button.. and loses himself in Bubblegum heaven.. to the sound of The Rubettes...* :P
I love all kinds of rock, really. But my favorite is x rock, which wasn't listed up there. It's okay. I'm sure the sesame street puppets and string puppets like Fash probably love rock too.
I think this puppet is crazy from being so small and trying to play drums. But why is his name Fash? I also don't get why he's already got two girls that are obssessed with him. They must've been following him around or soemthing. Weird stuff.
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