Mr. Sparrow, if you are familiar, a quick comparison with the FAD FI-BA-SS?

Thanks! Kevin

With that out of the way, I continue to be very impressed with these phones. Radiohead is quite possibly the best band we've seen in the last 20 years or so — a bit of an understatement here for there's really been no band that's been remotely close creatively to Radiohead during all this time (a comment that will no doubt piss those of an 'it's got to be obscure/pretty unknown to be good' inclination (shoot the sparrow again, I say!). Paranoid Android and Reckoner are two tracks rendered brilliantly by the Angies.


As of yesterday Grooveshark no longer exists — one of music_4321's music heroes, a certain Mr Robert Fripp, will certainly not be mourning Grooveshark's demise (and no, in case anyone's wondering, the sparrow finds most prog/art rock, including Yes, ELP, Dream Theater & Rush, and even a good chunk of Pink Floyd's music [actually, are Rush prog too?] dead boring). Shoot the sparrow for good.

actually Porcupine Tree > Radiohead (which, imho are quite overrated)

also Rush boring ? you should try their 80s album , bro - the guys are simply amazing

cheers :-)

I understand where the sparrow is coming from. For the ruling elite, Rush is simply too popular and unpretentious to be enjoyable. Heck, if you listen to AC/DC you must have a negative IQ. Where's that music IQ chart? Heck, if you've ever heard Beethoven's 5th (He's off the chart), apparently you transform into Stephen Hawking. Then again, if you listen to Cannibal Corpse, you also literally transform into Stephen Hawking.

Heh, I've never heard a song that's made me want to dig deeper into Rush. Just put 5-6 of their first albums on my playlist. So far, quite boring straight forward rock'n'roll. Am I a dick wannabe elitist for saying that?

I don't know about the chart, but like literature, some music just has more interesting content. I'm not sure if the means is to seek more challenging music, but being open to it let's you enjoy a wider variety of genres. I'm sort of a hypocrite though, since I usually pick the groovy stuff instead for daily enjoyment. Though I liked stuff from Radiohead in my teens, it became boring as the majority of available music in that it seems to only seek originality through soundscapes but not necessarily musically. Similar to how different kind of digital synthesizers and stuff streamlined popular and other music from the end of 70s: producers started nitpicking on sound rather than encouraging musicians to try new stuff.

Whenever I return to something like Grand Wazoo or Waka/Jawaka, I'm just in awe even after listening to those albums for the past 15-20 years. But I see how some people see Zappa as highly pretentious, and as Pekka Pohjola put it when Zappa asked him to join his band: "too much bullshit"

Oops, too much effort into derailing the subject. Thought we were somewhere else.... So, decided to go for UERM regardless of the Sparrow's excellent marketing. Maybe it was the comment about Radiohead that tipped me over to the other side ... Just kidding.

Derailing update:

Fly by Night is more engaging already. Hope the progression through album chronology keeps this way. 

i see you dig the jazzy sruff of zappa , so yeah maybe rush are too 'normal' for you

as for rush , everyone raves about their 70s stuff , but imho the really interesting stuff begins after Moving pictures (1981)

their 80s run (moving pictures-signals-grace under pressure-power windows) is fantastic, if you can click with their seemingly 'cheesy' approach with the use of lots of synths.

i like the 70s stuff (farewell to kings - hemispheres - permanent waves) , but i think moving pictures is where they really become amazing.

cheers