What modern musicians are as good as Amadeus?
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Chrisbc-1 — 11 years ago(February 09, 2015 08:46 AM)
W. Axl Rose. One the surface he is crazy and eccentric, maybe he really is, but the man can create great music. The Chinese Democracy album is a masterpiece in modern rock that is not touched by anything in the last 25 years. The amount of detail of the music going on is staggering. Axl is a musical genius and it shows when you compare GNR work with Velvet Revolver and Slash's Snakepit. Axl was the mad genius behind GNR's greatest work in both the Slash and post-Slash eras.
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mrkovacs1 — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 06:23 AM)
All joking aside
Phil Collins
The man is a great producer, song writer, drummer, and performer. He can play lengthy, complex prog rock and make sweet, catchy pop masterpieces.
Whether you're a fan or not the man cares about his music, isn't in it for fame or money, and worked his ass off for four decades. -
degree7 — 10 years ago(May 29, 2015 11:39 PM)
Phil Collins is probably one of the greatest rock drummers to have lived. His jazzy, complex drumming on albums like Selling England by the Pound or Foxtrot are nothing short of awe-inspiring. And he's a pretty good singer to boot.
Unfortunately, his pop music was just soulless baloney.
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bbomberr — 10 years ago(May 20, 2015 12:52 PM)
Ennio Morricone without a doubt!
ROCK: Focus (Dutch Band with Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer), Mick & Keith from Rolling Stones, Lennon & Mcartney, Kurt Cobain, Deep Purple, Mark Knopfler, Neil
Young, Jimi Hendrix.
POP: Benny & Bjorn from ABBA, Bjrk, Madonna.
RAP: Dr.Dre (producing), RZA (producing), Marley Marl, DJ Premier, MF Doom.
SOUL: Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Barry White, Isley Brothers.
And also look especially at the ELECTRONIC genre wich is more like classical:
Aphex Twin, Benno De Goeij (from Rank-1), Ferry Corsten, Thomas Bangalter, Liam Howlett, Chemical Brothers.
Producers: Phil Spector, Rick Rubin
these guys were/are all enormously versatile musically skilled musicians in their own right!